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Title New England legends and folklore / based on writings by Samuel Adams Drake and others, and illustrated with photos., by Samuel Chamberlain. Edited, with a foreword, by Harry Hansen.

Publication Info. New York : Hastings House [1967]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  974 CHAMBERLAIN    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  398.20974 H198    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  398.23 NEW    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  398.23 NEW    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  398.2097 DRAKE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  398.23 N    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  974 NEW    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  398 HAN    Check Shelf
Description 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note "Adapted, with additions, from A book of New England legends and folk lore, by Samuel Adams Drake ... 1884."
Contents Legends of Salem --- Salem witchcraft tragedy -- Escape of Philip English -- Robert Calef, the man who defied witchcraft and Cotton Mather -- Mary Dyer, a Quaker among Puritans -- Boston's judgment on Ann Hibbins -- King Charles II intercedes for the persecuted Quakers -- Cape Ann: Spectre Leaguers of Cape Ann; Old Meg, the Witch of Gloucester -- Ipswich legends -- Marblehead one hundred years ago: Skipper Ireson's ride; Marblehead love story -- Swampscott -- Newburyport legends: Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport -- Moll Pitcher, fortune teller of Lynn -- Pirates off the New England coast -- Legends of old Portsmouth: Royal governor and his lady -- Old literary circles of Nahant -- Cape Cod towns -- Peter Rugg, the eternal wanderer of New England -- Nantucket legends: Thomas Macy, the exile of Nantucket -- Tragedy at Block Island -- Ancient relics in New England.
Subject Legends -- New England.
Added Author Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 Book of New England legends and folk lore in prose and poetry.
Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-1975, illustrator.
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977, editor.
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