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STORY OF DOQTOWN BY
CHARLES
With
Illustrations
E.
MANN
by Catherine M. Follansbee
GLOUCESTER,
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PROCTER BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS I08
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PREFATORY NOTE. These Dogtown Sketches wholly as the result of an
were written ahiiost
effort to satisfy the curiosity
biography and
tra-
ditions of the deserted village, their continuation
and
of the author
as to the history,
publication being encouraged by the general tion they
commanded.
are complete, but
it is
It
is
not claimed
atten-
that they
believed they contain far
more
information than has yet been published concerning their subject.
The
writer desires to express his deep
sense of obligation to those who, before the publication of
the
matter originally prepared,
and
since,
have assisted by furnishing facts and reminiscences.
PREFATORY NOTE.
4
They have made
possible to get together a mass of
it
authentic history, where at
only a few traditions were ion.
Of course nearly
memories
of
a source
of
those of
to
all
seemed
that at best,
be rescued from oblivmaterial
the
Cape Ann's aged people, and unalloyed pleasure to
listen to their discourses
Among
tirst it
an
it
the
has been
by them and
the days of long ago.
memories
of
this year will
hour spent
in
ancient kitchens,
the precious
many
upon
sit
in
is
be
while sweet-faced old ladies, often with sweeter voices, or
men
with whitened locks and time-furrowed
cheeks, recalled the stories told them by the fireside
by other dear old century.
women and
Xo wonder
noble old
men
of a past
Gloucester has developed into
such an admirable and lovable a communitv, there
still
lingers
among
honored progenitors.
her people so
many
when
of their
CHAPTER WHERE
IS
I.
DOGTOWN
Ever since Goldsmith wrote
?
"Deserted Vil-
his
lage" there has been a weird, poetic and sentimental
charm about abandoned erted itself over
pleasure to
make
settlements, that has so ex-
some minds
that
it
has become a
the investigations incident to a cor-
men found
it
convenient or necessary to build habitations which
it
rect understanding of
what manner
afterwards became advisable to desert.
have given lifetimes, almost, the
modes
of
Arch^ologists
to the investigation of
of life of the cliff dwellers of
Arizona and
;
The Story of
6
New
Mexico.
cities in
Doo-fozvn.
few ruined
Tliere are comparatively
America
and even more rare are the
;
in-
stances of deserted villages wliich were once inhabited
hv wliite men. the progenitors of people ing to-dav.
are liv-
been the pleasm^e of the writer
has
It
who
during the past few months
to
acquaint
manv people
with their ancestors, in a figurative sense, for in the heart of
Cape Ann mav be found
was once inhabited by tant progenitors of
To-day the
the grandparents or
many who
affairs of (jloucestcr onl\-
\illage
a
which
more
dis-
are to-day active in the
and Rockport. inhabitants
of
' '
Do2."town "
are
lowing kine, an occasional decrepit horse turned out
woodchucks, crows and
to pasture as a pensioner, or
migrating birds. its
Its
grass-grown
foot-worn door-stones
place by the occasional
may be summer
streets are there,
used for tourist
a resting-
on
a
tramp
across the cape, a curiosity seeking Appalachian, or by the
more numerous berry
in the
midst of such
a
pickers.
The
waste of rocks, as
Dogtown Commons, always
leads
to
cleared land is
the rule in
speculation
eyen more suggesti\e are the walled yards and the
many
cellars,
both of houses and farm Iniildings.
Concerning these old their
cellars novelists
romances, and poets have sung.
century ago
they
excited
the
have woven
Nearly
interest
of
a half-
Richard
The Story of
Henry Dana and Thomas of rare minds they drew
Long
afterwards,
Col.
Dogtozuii.
7
King and
Starr
the circle
Cape Ann with them.
to
Thomas VVentworth Hig-
ginson, in one of those delightful bits of reminiscence scattered through " Oldport Days," described a to
Dogtown Commons from Pigeon Cove
"What
can
walk
:
Hawthorne mean by saying
in
his
English diary that 'an iVmerican would never understand
passage in Bunyan about Christian and
the
Hopeful going astray along by a by-path
into the
grounds of Giant Despair, from there being no
and by-paths of
in our country'
American pedestrianism
instance, the
Gloucester,
whole
is
So much
?
lies in
of
interior
a continuous
of the
the by-paths
stiles
charm For
:
Cape Ann, beyond
woodland, with granite
ledges everywhere cropping out, around which the
high-road winds, following the curving and indented line of the sea,
and dotted here and there with fishing
hamlets.
This whole interior
work
foot-paths,
and
of
rarely
traversed by a net-
passable for
not always for a horse,
destrian to go from
is
a
wagon,
but enabling the pe-
anv one of the villages
other, in a line almost direct,
By
any
and always under an
agreeable
shade.
ways, one
may go from Pigeon Cove
the
to
longest
these hidden
of
to Gloucester,
ten miles, without seeing a public road.
In the
little
8
T^hc Story
inn at
former
tlie
of
some
of these paths,
wliole forest region,^ giving a cliart of
tliis
first
there used to hansf an old
villao-e
map the
of Dogtoivu.
which were
said to date
One
settlement of the country.
was
instance,
Sandy Bay
Woods'; but
road from
'Squam Meeting-House through
to
the road
is
now
to
of them, for
map 'Old
on the
called
back
the
scarcely eyen a l>ridle-
path, and the most faithful worshipper coultl not seek
'Squam meeting-house woods haye been
knew
it
was
some gap
more than wayfarer
"A
in
tlic
;
good
as
Often we stepped from
forest.
into
lately devastated
the region,
tlie
piney
dell
when
but
I first
any German
as
edge of the sea
woods; there seemed hardly
we met some
a rabbit-track, yet presently
who had
These
the family chaise.
in
crossed the
gave some
;
it.
vista of the
were leaving, and an opening another blue sea-line before
Cape by
in
the
broad sea
we
woods displayed
the encountering breezes
interchanged odors of berry bushes and scent of brine penetrating further
upon some
Spenser drew turned
its
path.
Then
1
hangs
This
is
cottage, quaint
little ;
it
was not
built
vine-clad gable the
and sheltered as any on the high-road, and
away from even
the foot-
ground rose and other breezes came
a reference to the "
at the present
time
;
among oaks and walnuts we came
Mason" map
in tlie office
of Cape Ann.
of the citv clerk.
A
copy of
;
it
TJie Story
perhaps
we climbed
of Dogtown.
trees to look for
landmarks, and
Three miles inland,
found only an unseen quarry. I
9
as
remember, we found the hearthstones
of a vanished
swamp
with cardinal
settlement
then
;
we
passed a
flowers; then a cathedral of noble pines, topped with
crows' nests.
If
we would have
we had
not gone astray, by this time
presently emerged on
Dogtown Com-
mon, an elevated tableland, overspread with great boulders as with houses, and encircled with a girdle of
green woods and another girdle of blue
know is
sea.
I
of nothing like that gray, waste of boulders;
a natural Salisbury Plain, of
it
which icebergs and
ocean currents were the Druidic builders
;
in
that
multitude of couchant monsters there seems a sense of
suspended
answer
life
;
you
feel as
if
they must speak and
each other in the silent nights, but by day
to
only the wandering sea-birds seek them, on their
way
across the Cape, and the sweet-bay and green fern
imbed them
goby.
in a softer
This
foot-path
;
is
and deeper setting as the years
the 'height of ground' of that wild
but as you recede farther from the outer
ocean and approach Gloucester, you come
among
still
wilder ledges, unsafe without a guide, and you find in
one place a cluster of deserted houses, too of access to
remove even
difficult
their materials, so that they
are left to moulder alone.
I
used to wander in those
lo
Story of Dogtoivii.
77/("
woods, summer after summer,
till I
chart of their devious tracks, and
my
eyes in this Oldport
hammer and
the soft Italian
I
the veerv's song
and
;
and the
has a
salt sea
res^al
is
manv
and geographical features of the
of the topographical
The
Heart of Cape Ann.
'Squam
He draws
is
what
the
is
Dogtown Commons or
now known
with as
Raccoon
Dogtown
is
ledge,
it
is
life
liness
spot?
natural
also mentions
Whv
exile themselves
in poverty, in this
and dwell
when
it is
protectors
beneath the ocean.
the evil davs either
in
did
from
in lone-
barren and secluded well understood,
the canines kept bv the so-called "
of the place,
and
villasfe
a pathetic, fascinating place.
The name "Dogtown,"
came from
street.
care as the most
He
of the villages so near them,
and often
Revere
difKcult to say which.
more than one hundred families the
from Sandy Bay as
much
old-timer could wish.
particular
Lamb
old road
between Dosftown
line
nec-
blue."
Col. Higginson hints in the above passage at
to
long
I
for those
promontories of granite where the fresh water tar
for
;
hear the tinkle of the
perfumed and breezv pastures, and
for those
close
I
a vScandinavian vigor
the incessant roll of carriages
quarrvman's
now when
midsummer,
on something of
air takes
mvown
had made
came
their
that
widows " saw
their
graves or buried
The Story of Dogtoivn. There are many approaches
to
1
Dogtown.
have
I
quoted Col. Higghison's description oÂŁ the route from
Pigeon Cove, by way of the old road from Sandy Bay to the
'Squam church, which
ing from 'Squam, one
may
is still
passable.
Comwalk
leave the church,
same road, past the Cape Ann
a mile through the
Granite Co.'s quarries, the road passing through the
upper end of one,
house of David Dennison,
to the
an ancient ^ambrel-roofed lean-to, built by Mr. Dennison's first ancestor on Cape Ann, and a fine sample of
the better
class of
here h^ can branch
Jaw, and thence go
the
to the
off
right,
by the Whale's
more probably by
jaws of
a
whale.
Riverdale,
main
frost, to
the
same
by
light-
resemble the open
Gee avenue and Stanwood
street,
of Judith
Ryon
Abraham Wharf, and
thence
lead past
(or Rhines), to that of to the
to
a great boulder split
Whale's Jaw,
ning, or
in
The road
to the deserted village.
by Goose Cove, near Riverdale, leads point, the
the cellar
street of the village.
Persons coming from East Gloucester may, are strong on
their feet,
go up Webster
enter the pastures by crossing
^task, for raines in
From
Dogtown homes.
if
they
street
and
Lamb Ledge — no
small
one of the most wonderful terminal moNew England, the boulders being piled one
it is
upon another
in the
most orderly confusion
until they
The Story of Dogtoxvu. reach into a
tlie
Commons from
level of the
13
the deep valley
which some glacier swept them ages ago.
good hour's
the ledge,
stint to cross
It is
and then one
passes by Railcut Hill, the highest point on the outer
Cape,
Rockport road, another picturesque
to the old
and grass-grown highway of olden times, and enters the Pigeon
Jaw
Cove path which continues by the Whale's once occupied by James Witham,
at the clearing
son of
Thomas and grandson
of
Henry, the
first
of the
line in this countrv.
Witham was born in 1693, and built this house at what is known as Stacy's Pines, the location bearing the suggestive
gaged
in
the "parting path."
tending flocks for the
annually, his son
Only
of
title
Low
family, for $300
Thomas succeeding him
the cellar of the house remains.
Pie en-
in his
It
was
work.
in later
years a great resort for young people for mirth and jollity until its
& Maine
of the tides
on
railroad runs, its
to the
sentinel ledges,
'Squam
river,
."Peter's Pulpit," which a pitch-roofed
Dogtown
showing
that once
Good Harbor
and thence
in
of the Bos-
which bears the marks
they flowed through here from
Beach
continues across
which the Gloucester Branch
the valley in
ton
The path
demolition.
the
or
Long
to the big rock,
distance
looks like
house, which stands directly on
road, markins: the end of the
main
the
settle-
H
The Story of Dogioivn.
The following diagram may
nicnt.
idea of the foreo-oing
give a clearer
:
A
The
c
represent the
straight lines in the triangle
A
general direction of three very crooked roads. the point on of
B
Dogtown
road,
Reynard and Cherry meets
what
From
it.
A
beyond the intersection
streets,
the
where the road from
Dogtown road
Riverdale
old residents of
is
call
continues up
"gravel
hill,''
past the Vivian barn, and on to the rock variously called "Peter's Pulpit," -Pulpit
iVndrew's Rock,"
Whale's Jaw.
Day
Stanwood
B
to
C
is
is
street
the
C.
Opposite
B
house.
at
Tt
A
is
the point
meet.
Rock," and "Uncle
then
to
where Gee avenue and
The grass-grown road from
Common
to
road," that
Dogtown.
is,
A
to
is
paradoxically called the " back road," though
is
the
"Dogtown
road," and that from
nearer civilization than either of the others. a prize of
$50
to
be offered a person
it is
That from
A
C
the
the site of the Nathaniel
"Dogtown Common
the road over the
winds on
to
B
it is
Were
who woidd
start
The Story of from A, go
to
Dog-tozvn.
C
B, thence to
15
and back
to
A
without
getthig off the road, he probably never would receive I
it.
many times, and never failed lost for a few moments at least. Perhaps the of Peg Wesson, who did not live in Dogtown,
have been over
to get
spirit
of
Luce George,
was
or of
Judy Rhines,
me
a witch, has bewitched
sacrilege of writing
Practically
roads by the
road
it
is
also
all
if
Judy
for the contemplated
them up.
the old people agree in
names
I
calling the
The Commons
have given.
sometimes called the " walled-in " road, as
the walls occasionally cross
it.
the cellars on the latter road
Old
— of
j^eople
they are on the
"Commons."
ably be incapable
of
drawing
do not
The
in
"Dogtown,"
reader will prob-
so fine a distinction.
There were obvious reasons why people who
Commons
/
call
Morgan Stanwood,
Judy Rhines, Moll Jacobs and others
the
really
road should have chosen to do
lived so.
on
CHAPTER
II.
THE "(^UEEX OF THE WITCHES. The most approach
natural, because
to the village,
is
by
most
the
interesting^
outpost, the cellar
its
of
"Tammy"
Younger, the "queen
at
Fox
She was more often seen bv the pred-
Hill.
Cape Ann, was
ecessors of this generation on
known, and
far
Perhaps the reader
able to judge whether the ations bestowed on
title
he
for
will
may be
It
be better
two or three gener-
Tammy was deserved,
ful perusal of this chapter. it
better
more respected and feared than any
of her confreres.
reading
of the witches,"
is
after a care-
possible that after
disposed to transfer the
her aunt, the redoubtable
"Luce George."
title
to
The Story of Dogtozvn.
Coming from
the
Harbor
village
17
Gloucester,
of
through Maplcvvood avenue, one reaches Poplar
and at
after turning to the left, soon reaches the bridge
Beneath a
Alewife brook.
tle rise
An
street,
of ground,
is
solitary poplar,
the cellar of
Tammy
The
apple orchard stands near.
on
a
lit-
Younger.
cellar has
been
cleared recently of a growth of sumacs which nearly
obscured
Thomazine Younger was born July
it.
28,
and was the daughter of William Younger, sojourner, and Lucy Foster, who were married on 1753,
March
6,
1750, by Rev.
John White, pastor
of the
First Church.
A recent
Was
writer claims that this liouse
in later
years the resort of buccaneers and lawless men.
tune telling,
card
playing
whiled away their time.
Tammy's denied bv members of
cellar
after
For-
other amusements
and
Money was found
in
the
These assertions are
death.
her family
who
still
remain,
and apparently with good reason.
A
friend
the
of
writer was, a
chasino; a
woodchuck, which went
In
for the
dio-o-ingr
animal
lie
few years into
my's, as she
is
as smoker, but
the cellar.
unearthed a handsomelv
ornamented snuff box, the cover bearing tation of a full rigged ship.
since,
It
a represen-
was probably Tam-
said to have been a snuff taker as well it
has been credited to a possible myth-
..uv.-
,j\Y:cg;;T'A
The Story of ical British
captain
sea
Dog'tozv)i.
19
who was wont
to
the
visit
house.
Mr. John
Low
Babson, one of Gloucester's oldest
residents, recalls that in the early twilight of an
nal evening he
home,
his in
town"
was going from Fresh Water Cove and had
village,
"Who
a grave.
through the bury-
to pass
A
man was
that for?" he asked.
is
Younger," the sexton
"We
young Babson's surprised query. often dig graves for test}^
a
good
of the prevalent impressions concerning a reminiscence of his
"Tammy
He was
boyhood.
the cows, past her dwelling,
when
.^"
was
don't very
folks that aint dead,"
Mr. Babson gives
response.
disfofino;
"Is she dead
replied.
to
"up
standing, near the Green in the
still
srround near the brids^e.
\\\si
autum-
was
the
illustration
Tammy,
In
driving
home
came
to the
she
door and accosted him, begging him, with strong expleti\'es,
of
water.
if
he lo\ed
He
got
behind the cabin.
her
it,
No
life,
to
course,
of
get
her
a
pail
from the brook
one ever refused
Tammy.
Mrs. Elizabeth Day, of Wheeler's Point, says that
Tammy
died Feb. 4, 1S39.
years old.
Mrs. Day's father,
a cabinet maker,
who
the railroad track, on
was
a
child of
was therefore 76 John Hodgkins, was
vShe
lived in the house just
Washington
ten years.
street.
above
Elizabeth
For two or three years
The
20
Tammy, who
often
saw
Hill, as she
l:)utter
and carry
was it
had taken
her,
and would often ask her
Fox
of Dogtoivn.
Stoi'v
to
come and
Harbor
ever she passed along other
would to her
live
Tammy
lonely.
to the
a fancy to her,
to
used to
sell,
members
"Here comes Aunt Tam house with her." The little
with her
make
and when-
of the family
to take
say,
at
you up
girl's heart
was
Tamfeelings may
thus constantly terrorized with the thought that
my would some time
capture her, and her
well be imagined wlien on that stormy winter
word came kins must
that
Tammvwas
make her
Old Mrs.
dead and that Mr. Hodg-
a coffin.
Pulcifer,
at a great age,
dav
whose daughter recently died
had attended her
in
her
last sickness,
and Oliver, Tammv's nephew, who was brought up by her,
liad
deferred to Mrs. Pulcifer's advice as to
the funeral arrangements.
He
wanted
said he
to
do
everything that could be done to have things nice, so
when
advised to have as good a coffin as could be
made, with a pure It
was
of course thougfht the thing:
liave "spirit" to
once ordered
silver plate, he at
ii^
it.
those davs to
on funeral occasions, and
in
deference
Mrs. Pulcifer's opinion, he ordered no rum, or
other cheap liquors, but cordials, wines, and other of
the better
remembered
class to
of
bevxrages.
Mrs. Pulcifer
have said afterward
tiiat
her
is
onlv
The Story of Dogtozvn. reoret
was
that she
Tammy,
tolled for
21
had not ordered the church she
as
was
sure
it
bells
would have
been done.
Mr. Hodgkins and Tammy's cofAll that rainy day he toiled upon it, and toward lin. He had a large night it was ready for polishing. But
to return to
kitchen, and
it
was
his
custom when polishing
coffins
bring them into that room, where he had a better chance to work. The children were therefore used to
to
was
this particular night the
But on
such sights.
so severe that he did not care to risk spoiling his
work by taking it back to it down with beeswax he blew out
his candle
comfortable open
warned by
their
fire
it
adjoining room, were
It
to
go
to
bed."
John,
it's
John took
the door, the light of his candle fell on
Tammy
was
was sure she was both whimper, "
Younger's
"Come
was necessary to go through reach the chambers above. Other people might
the shinv coffin in the corner.
to
in the corner,
the
to retire:
the kitchen in order to
not believe
up
children, sitting by the
time for you and Elizabeth
As he opened
stood
The in
mother
a candle, and started.
the shop, so after rubbing
said nothing.
and
Soon bedtime came.
gan
storm
I
a
witch
a witch
won't go
coffin in the
;
on that night John
and a ghost.
to
He
bed with Aunt
house," said he.
As
be-
Tam
he drew
The Storv of Dogtown.
23
back, Elizabeth l^ravely stepped into the breach,
one sight of the
was
coffin
came panicky, and dechiied her
if
was
that coffin
to
enoiigli,
and she
too, \mi-
was no
sleep for
that there
Mother impatiently
remain.
got np, and boldly threw the door wide open.
was never known unnerved her
and
said she
She
be afraid of anvthing-, but a look
to
and she joined with the children
also,
would never ^o
to
bed with that
thins"
In vain the father said the rain would spoil
there.
was three against one.
''Spoil
it;
it
the
good housewife, "I won't stav
it."
Ijut
So "pa" gave
and bore
through the storm
it
Tammy
had
house, with a
a
square
wooden
Tammy
could open
crossing the bridge signal for
Tammy
it
window
would
it
up,
in the rear of her
This was kept shut,
at will.
it,
The sound
bv which of a
team
brook was usuallv
a
swing open the shutter and
boldly communicate with the driver. the bridge
wrapped
attached to
over the to
house with
to the shop.
door.
there being a long string
or not," said
in the
got a quilt,
in,
it
also serve to
A footstep
open the window.
on If
The Story of Dogtozvii.
23
Tammy
asked for a mackerel or any other thing she
saw
the
in
nsuallv got Irer
hand or the team
or the nnhick\' tra\ eller got a piece of
it,
On
mind.
passer-by, she
of a
ing noticed a
one autumn day
Crossing the
the rear of the house.
youth pass-
pumpkins sunning against
of
liig pile
a hickless
lot
to
avoid the
many do to-day, he thoughtlessly pulled The effect was unexout one, low down in the pile. pected, for at once the whole collection coasted down Tammy's window Hew open. the hill into the brook. steep
A
hill,
as
torrent
pyrotechnics
vocal
of
hours of labor that followed, as
pumpkins, and
fished out the
the hill until they
As
is
well
family.
up by
I
that
unhappy boy
back and forth up
were piled up again.
known,
town Commons
toiled
accompanied the
is
good deal of the land on Dog-
a
the
in
hands of
the
Younger
have said that Oliver Younger was brought
his aunt,
and
it
seems that he was unaware of
the fact that the. land belonged to his father to her.
Many
remarking
to
years after his father's death, he was
one of the
care his aunt's land
''Well,
it's all
to you, for
I
and not
was
i\llens, a neighbor,
to
what
a
him, and Allen responded,
yours, anyway.
Your
father willed
it
signed the will as one of the wdtnesses."
This was news
to Oliver,
but acting on the hint given
he waited an opportunity
when Tammy was away,
The Story of
24
DogtovjJi.
and then ransacked the house. of a small table, he
circumstances
was
this
ence,
the
it
first
found the
While tion as a
knowledge anyone had
Tammv woman
min
as
P.
ordinar\-
of
its
exist-
Voiuiger
won
for herself a reputa-
with a very choice vocabulary, she evidently
Kidder of Rockport
remembers her
savs,
well,
as
well
Riggs, but recentlv deceased.
Tammv
was
and
his testimony
lived in the
is
who
bv Mrs. Almira
as
The
truth
seems
to
be
had an aunt, known bv the name of
"Luce (Lucv) George." at the
es-
bad as she has been painted," as Mr. Benja-
confirmed by aged Betsey Elwell of Maiden,
that
as
to probate.
pecially in the line of invective,
"not
Under
will.
would have been outlawed, but
was admitted
it
In the secret drawer
Fox
She
it
Hill House, and
was who
who
originallv
used to stand
door of her cabin and bewitch the oxen so that
25
The Story of Dogtown.
with their tongues run out, but of the corn they could not come up the hill until some Wesson, drew was contributed to her. She, like Peg
they would
is
said to
wood
stand
have had the
that
it
art of so
bewitching a load of
stay on the ox
would not
team
until a
It is said door. portion had been unloaded at her the fishing vessels she would go to the wltarves; when Of course came in, and exact her tribute of fish. for what they are these are traditions, but I give them
worth
to susceptible
Hence
with her aunt.
Tammy
was not
alleged, but short
At one time two rather long upper jaw.
Tammy
minds.
tall
Younger
lived
confusion of the two.
the
and raw-boned,
and inclined
to
in her life, she
as
some have
plumpness. decided to part with
her teeth that decorated each side of
They were
not as long as Black Nell's,
an inch
in
which one old lady
insists
were
length, nor as long as
-Judy
Rhines'," but they were
fully
Stannard" troublesome, so she sent for "Granther to act in the capacity of
dentist.
This must have
convinced that been before the old gentleman became and refused to use them, his legs were made of glass, for he
way."
went over from
Tammy
Stanwood took
his
house on the ''walled-in
seated herself in a chair, and Capt.
a firm hold
a tooth gave way.
Being
with his nippers and soon a
joker, he only
drew
it
The Story of
26 partly
down, where
He
it
Dogtoiv7t.
rested in
plain sight, against
drew down
her under
lip.
exactly the
same length, and immediately afterwards
then
announced, that owdng
to the
he could do no more for her. record
the
torrent
history alleges
obstinacy of the teeth,
The pen
refuses to
language which
picturesque
was poured upon "Johnny Morgan's"
luckless head.
were taken
of
the other to
After worrying her awhile, the teeth
out.
AN ANCIENT MANTLE PIECE
.
-;5^;.s
CHAPTER FRO:\I
III.
FOX HILL OVER THE BxVCK ROAD.
Nothwithstanding the various theories which have peopling ])een brought forward to explain the original of
Dogtown, and
believes
it
may
all
its
mysterious decline, the writer
be traced
to a
circumstance which
no sense mysterious, but on the contrary, just what might have been expected. This circumstance the was the building of the bridge at Riverdale and
is
in
Goose Cove Dam, each making struct the road
it
possible to con-
on the easterly side of the mill pond,
and making what had been the road
to
Annisquam
to
the harbor a ''back road."
The of affairs
reader
when
can
easily
the road
imagine
the
condition
from the Green northerly led
The Story of Dogtoivn.
38
Then
only to Wheeler's Point.
now Poplar street, turn up and wind down to Gravel Hill and
Green through what
the
Fox
over
across the
thence
Hill,
moor
make
he must start from
his
is
to the
vicinity
way over
the
hill
the
of
and
Castle,
by the Riggs house
and around Goose Cove.
town was but road, while a
a
now Riverdale village is quite As old people tell us, it was then
is
it.
"•going up into thecitv" to go to Dogtown. nothing: sinofular at
tions
main
verv short distance from the
what
distance from
was
Dog-
will thus be seen that the central village of
It
that
all
There
under those condi-
Dooftown should have thriven, and that when
the building of the bridge
and dam occurred, and the
whole
this
tide of travel
the other
It
when
was the
home
of
road and went around
way, Dogtown languished and died.
was something perishes
left
like a
boom
city
in
the West,
facts that
have been stated that gave the
Luce George and
Just beyond the cellar of the turn in the road is
Tamm\ Younger
the cellar
Tammy
which brings one of the
first
Here stood
such
it.
Younger,
after
in sight of
Riv-
blacksmith
lying beside the travelled road, but
way.
which
the raihoad goes elsewhere.
importance, for almost everybody had to pass
erdale,
It
still
the shop of Joseph
in
town,
in the road-
Allen,
who
29
The Story of Dogtown.
came tle
to Gloucester In 1674,
being encouraged to
set-
He
had
common right. One of children.
by grants of land and a
two wives and seventeen dren, also
named Joseph, became
home being on Poplar
street,
the chil-
very wealthy, his
near the house occupied
by Mr. Joseph A. Procter. I
have stood by think the blacksmith shop must house, cellar have been that of the
the cellar, and the built
known within the memory Nothe -Noble" house, the
perhaps by Allen, but
of persons
now
living as
numerous Riverdale people.
bles being ancestors of
The white beyond
is
immediately cottage facing up the road
on the
site of
another old mansion which
the back road
was standing before
Aunt Pamelia Allen being
its
became disused,
occupant.
Where
the
opposite, was Tracy greenhouses are now located, When he died it became the home of John Wharf. Polly Boynhis daughter "Poll," or
the property of ton.
Her son
down.
sold
it
to the elder
Mrs. Boynton
later
She was thus the ancestor and Youngers
Tracy,
who
tore
it
married Oliver Younger.
of
many
of the
Boyntons
of to-day.
was the Immediately adjoining the Wharf house by many old Tristram Coffin house, remembered people.
Becky Rich
foot of gravel hill,
is
lived
now
where the piggery,
at the
She, like
many
located.
TJic Story
30
of Dogtoivn.
others, of the fraternity of Dogtovvn, told fortunes b\-
means
ried, she recalls i^'oing
over to
Aunt Rich's and having
beau "clear across the water."
her
tell
says
Aunt Becky was
of her
reliance
Day was mar-
After Mrs.
of coffee s^rounds.
was placed
a nice old
woman,
hut that
She little
in her forecasts.
Opposite Becky Rich was the house of Nathaniel
He was
Day.
Mary
among them
was
Isaac
up
Eben Day, was born
of
been
in
Revnard
in their
the barn, which filled
is
frigate Constitution,
well as his brother,
street, as
and
all
boyhood.
now
there.
played about the streets It
stood just bevond
The
cellar has long
Plain, half
way over
the
toward the Castle, lived Molly Miller. lived at the
Harbor on Back
recalls seeing her after she
street,
the house of a
At one time ter
of
in
her
Beckv Rich,
back road Later she
where Mr. Dav
had become insane,
tened in her room with a clothes-stick.
was
now
up.
At Brown's
left
His son
man named Liscomb at one side of this old Day house.
in this house,
Dogtown
of
seventeen
of
A
Portsmouth.
one time lived
father
the
three pairs of twins.
gunner on the
a
at
Anthony Day, and married
He became
Davis.
children,
laid
the son of
fas-
Next on the
man named Emmons.
life
Aunt Rachel Smith, daugh-
lived in the Castle.
Later she
3^
The Story of Dogtoum. lived in the liouse a
from Molly
little
It
Miller's.
further on the back road
was up on
cellar remains.
Then with
Dogtown
and
street,
the
hill,
and the
her mother she went to
house. lived in the Easter Carter
house on the hill. Here After that she returned to the killed himself, and Aunt her son. Jack Bishop Smith, Rachel's^sorrow over her loss
make
used to
"Aunt Smith"
is still
vividly recalled. a
"dire drink,"
tops, and other brewed from foxberry leaves, spruce was wont to peddle in botanical specimens, which she
the
ducky, I've come I
know you
of
the
entered a house,
village, saying as she
down
to
"Now,
bring a dire drink, for
feel springish."
this There were never many houses along Between the point where the back road.
Dogtown Commons road and
portion it
met
the Castle stood the
Tucker, whose daughter house of old Uncle Daniel Tucker," as she was called-nursed
Dorcas-" Dark Judith Ryon in her It
more of
last sickness.
has always seemed to
me
that this
back road
moors, as closely resembles the Scottish
we
read
Commons. About them, than any portion of the formerly stood to the Dogtown road
half
way
across
another stood on the three houses in a row, while the These houses were located where opposite side. as it is called. plav ball, "Brown's Plain,"
bovs
now
CHAPTER
IV.
IX DOrrTO\\'X VILLAGE. It is
quite a
little
walk from the house of Becky
Rich, ou the back road, up
This barn
barn.
this point
he
is
is
a
o^ra\el hill, to the
landmark.
When
Vivian
one reaches
quite ready to enjoy the historic spots
that lie before him.
A
few rods beyond the barn the
road makes an al)rupt turn and almost winds back
upon ledge,
itself.
making
the road. since, a
nuity
Just at this turn, on the right, a
break
a split
in the stone wall that outlines
Into this crack in the ledge, a few years
misguided cow wandered.
was
is
No human
capalile of getting her out alive.
inge-
Directlv
The Story of Dogtown. opposite
is
the site of the
The cellar on the so much like a of
home of
rocks in a hollow,
pile of It
man named
a
Clark.
beyond the barn, which looks
left,
Henry Davis.
33
is
that
directly in the road, the yard
is
not being walled.
The barn
road,
which has descended from the Vivian
to this place, here
begins to
rise,
and when
it
reaches a point a few rods further, where a fine view
Newburyport
of Ipswich Bay, the
Gloucester cellar of
hills
and the West
obtainable, the most
is
Dogtown
shore,
is
This
seen.
is
celebrated
the reputed
home
John Morgan Stanwood, who was many years ago made immortal by the muse of Hiram Rich in the
of
pages of the Atlantic.
It
may be
well for one to seat
himself on the moss-covered door-stone and recall the lines
:
"
Morgan Stanwood, patriot Little more is known Nothing of his home is left ;
But the door-step stone.
"Morgan Stanwood, to our thought You return once more :
Once again
the
meadows
lift
Daisies to your door. "
morn is sweet. is down — Hark! what means that sudden clang
Once again
the
Half the hay
From
the distant
:
town
t
;
:
'J^^ic
34 "
Story of Dogtoxvji.
Larum bell and rolling drum Answer sea-borne guns La ni lie 11 and rolling drum :
I'll
Summon "And
the
mower
Crv both '
bell
th'
I
him
thinks to
and drum,
Morgan Stanwood. where Here
"
Freedom's sons
art
thou?
in\aders come."
Morgan Stanwood needs no more Bell and drum beat call
He
one who. hearing once, Answers once for all.
is
" Xe'er the
mower murmured then. grass is mown, Homespun isn't soldier wear. Each may sa\e his own.' Half
''
my
Fallen scythe and aftermath
Lie forgotten
now
:
Winter needs may come and But a barren mow. '•
Down
the musket comes.
•
tind
Good
"
Wife, a quicker flint the face that questions face I
And
1
lath no color in
" 'Wife,
if I
am
't.
late to-night.
Milk the heifer first Ruth, if Fm not home at
Worst has come '
all.
to worst
I
Morgan Stanwood sped along. Not the common road Over wall and hill-top straight. :
Straight for death, he strode:
wife
The Story of Dogtoxvu. Leaving her to hear at night Tread of burdened men, Bv the gate and through the At the door, and then Ever
35
gate,
after that to hear,
When
the grass
is
sweet,
Through the gate and through the night. Slowly coming feet.
Morgan Stanwood's
roof
Here the door-step
One may
gone
;
;
stand and think and think,
For the thought "
is
lies
will rise,
the meadow was, Mowing grass alone. Would we go the way he went, From this vejw stone?
Were we where
"Were we on
the door-step here.
Parting for a day,
Would we
utter
words as though
Parting were for aye? Heart, the hearth Meadow-math is sweet
"Would we?
Parting be as parting may, After all, we meet.
is
dear.
Tlic Sfojy
3^
of Dogtozvn.
John Morgan Stanwood was
the son of Nehcniiah
and Ruth (Morgan) Stanwood.
show
poem
was baptized August
he
that
The
parish records
The
1774.
7,
evidently (Hd not refer to a Revohitionarv expe-
rience.
He
died October 30, 1852, aged
These
']'$).
dates so perplexed me, notwithstanding the tradition that vStanwood
came back from
the further fact that
tlie
a resident of the village,
of the exploits of
Mr. Rich
the
war
a cripple,
and
children of Mrs. Dade, once
had handed down her
"Morgan
Stannard," that
He
poem.
his authorit}- for the
I
stories
asked
candidly
confessed that although he wrote the lines with the full
belief that
^Morgan Stanwood was the hero of
Rowe's Bank, Mr. Babson,
the historian, later con-
Dogtown Commons, man who should ha\e
vinced him that Peter Lurvev, of
and not vStanwood, was the been immortalized. It
is
quite evident, also, that
live in the is
house with the "door-step stone," for
the cellar of
the
memorv
of
John Clark, who resided
men now
most of those remaining century,
Stanwood did not
was
living. in
the
a small structure,
this
there within
This house, like earlv part of
perhaps 1^x35,
the
^^t'^iid-
ing side to the road, with a door in the middle, and
with an ordinarv pitched roof. are generally 15 feet square,
The
cellars,
which
were under only one end
The Story of Dogtoxvu.
The Clark house became
of the houses. that
it
was torn down
to the
The next
His wife and children
Harbor.
cellar
on the
who
of Philip Priestly,
man
the road
left of
remembered
is
of 70, climbing a locust tree to
the Harrison hard cider
ities of
who
Nathaniel Babson, house,
so decrepit
Chirk must have died
in 1820.
a short time before this date.
removed
37
was formerly engaged
as a hearty old
view the
campaign
down
helped tear
house,
I
am
27, 1845,
i)i
was
One
of children.
remembered
who
quite a family
was Philip
Priestly, well
another was Mrs.
Hannah ;
Ann,
Philip's wife
and Jane.
;
Nov.
age of 75.
married Joseph Greenleaf
who married a Smith Naomi Clark.
in this
Priestly died
the father of
in Gloucester,
Curtis; Eliza,
at the
of these
was one
who were born
told, are still living.
Philip Priestly
1S40.
in
in the freighting busi-
vSeveral persons
consumption,
festiv-
the Clark
ness from Gloucester to Boston, and Priestly of his crew.
that
is
was
Opposite John Clark's house, already mentioned,
was the home and Philip
of
William Pulcifer.
Priestly's
are
two
Between Clark's
cellars,
which some
have incorrectly assumed were of farm buildings. If
the house with the doorstone
deny of
it
— one
of
these
is
his.
is
not Clark's
The
other
— some is
Arthur Wharf, son of Abraham, the suicide.
that
The Story of Dogtoivu.
38
A
Here
of the next house.
site
marks the
large yard, enclosed by a stone wall, lived
Joseph Stevens,
one of the most enterprising of the farmers of the village.
I
judge him
from the record of is
to
be the son of another Joseph,
his baptism,
Aug.
There
17, 1763.
a large collection of foundation stones at this point,
showing the location leading to
it
from the house, the big shed
He
and the sheep pen. other
man
barn, with a passage
the
of
in
for
wagons,
kept more stock than any
He
the settlement.
more
laid claim to
land than any of his neighbors, and kept a good team,
which was often
in
highly spoken
however, bv those
I
well
am
told
of,
demand.
His character
who
not
is
recall
him.
by old residents of Riverdale that thev
remember when
the children of Joseph Stevens
used to go to school in
tlie
old schoolhouse bv the
mill.
Directly opposite Stevens' house, on a knoll, stootl the house of perhaps the most celebrated character in
was commonly
the village, Esther (or as she
"Easter") Carter. there
No
was none under
cellar It
it.
marks the
was
in
any person now
living.
It
spot, for
the only two-story
Dogtown, within
house standing
called,
the
memory
was clapboarded, and
of
the
boards were fastened on with wooden pegs.
A
who
he kept
helped pull
down
the structure tells
me
man
The Story of Dogtoivn.
39
a nuniber of the pegs as souvenirs for quite a while.
Easter Carter was living in poor, and
was
it
a
common custom
people of Riverdale and sions
to
Annisquam
in
institutions
for
picnic style, of
is
Cape Ann.
the fortunes of the
make
to
excur-
The " cabbage dinner " still
one of the popular
Easter Carter would
tell
young people, doubtless linking
way
accept-
in the
moon-
their lives together in their forecasts in a
able to the romantic.
The walk home
would be something
light
young
the
house, taking their lunches, and getting
her
her to boil cabbage for them.
partaken
She was very
1833.
remember, as those
to
Appalachians who have crossed the w^eird Dogtown pastures by moonlight in later years can testify. staid old citizen recently
been up there with
informed
me
One
he had "often
a parcel of girls."
Easter Carter was poor, but quite respectable, and
undeserving of the distinction which classes her with other
was
a
Dogtown dames of doubtful reputation. She single woman, and though pinched by poverty,
very aristocratic.
She did not
like to
have people
think she, like some of her neighbors, subsisted on berries in the
remarked
to a
summer
time.
"I
eats
suggestion at one time.
Sunday afternoon
the parents
with their small boy, went on
of a
no trash," she
One
bright
David Dennison,
walk
to the pastures,
The Story of
40 tuniino: in
Dogto-^vn.
He remembers
by Easter Carter's house.
that as they passed, she, divining that they
pkick berries as refreshment, remarked,
seem
to
•'
were
The
to
berries
hide this year."
Easter Carter was noted as a nurse.
by the venerable Eli Morgan
It is
thought
of Lanesville that Easter
and her brother William came here from England,
which accounts records of
for the silence of the
William and Annie, I
He
concerning them.
says
Joseph,
a
son
lived a long time in Lanesville.
have said that Easter Carter was perfectly respect-
able, as well as aristocratic, to
town and parish
and
this character
some have seemed incompatible with other
ments. myself.
I
may state-
have been somewhat mvstified about
The
truth
seems
to
be that
it
when Easter
Carter was dead, and the house of Becky Rich on the
back road had become too dilapidated for occupancy, she
was taken
Easter's house.
up, bag and baggage, and installed in
Becky had
a daughter, Rachel,
widow
Thomas Smith, who went with her. It appears that the woman who told fortunes, boiled cabbage, baked Johnny cake, and made life merry for all the youth who visited her, was not Easter Carter, nor of
am very positive now who as youths used
Becky Rich, but Rachel Smith. that there are old to
go up
to
men
Granny
living
Rich's, but
I
who have confused
The her
name with While
house.
Sto)'y
of Dogtown.
that of Easter Carter because of the it is
admitted that
of festivity connected
with
Rich
insisted
know wont
41
lived there,
it
Is
it
many
of the scenes
when Becky by people who must occurred
because they were there, that Easter, too, was to entertain the
young people
in
it.
At one time
a party of yoiing people collected a lot of wall
paper
—each
— and
bringing any pieces they had on hand
went up and papered Easter's premises, the harlequin effect
being quite pleasing
Dogtown people
to her,
apparently.
had, as a rule,
little
use for but
one story of a dwelling, and perhaps that was the reason that the upper floor of Easter's house was occupied by one of the most singular characters of the villap-e.
This was "Old Ruth."
She was
a mulatto,
and doubtless was one of the manumitted slaves that
abounded
in
Gloucester early in the century.
A
WISHBONE" BONNET.
CHAPTER "old The
old
KUTII
hehind of
it
AND GRANNY DAY."
EUery House,
parsonage of the
V.
first
at the
parish
Green, formerlv the
church, which
on the Green, and one of the
finest
stood
samples
provincial or colonial architectiu'e in existence in
New
England,
at
one time had,
to-day, a slave pen luider
grambrel-roofed mansion across the
another.
its
if
it
roof.
does not have In the fine old
owned bv Gustavus Babson.
highway from
the
EUerv house,
To whom "Old Ruth"
belonsfed
there I
is
cannot
The Story of Dogtoxvu. find out.
went by the name
vShe
of
43
"Tie," and
also
"John Woodman." The masculine cognomen fitted her better than the gentle name of Ruth, for until the closing days of her life she was never known to dress in feminine apparel. Perhaps she was the original "new woman." She was known
as
was accustomed in
to
Building stone walls and such
men's clothing.
heavy
toil
doing a man's work, and dressed
say that she worked out of doors
because she had
to
do
it,
when
When
she
to
was young
and that she wore men's
clothing for the same reason, until she it.
She used
were her chief employments.
came
to prefer
was
she was taken to the poor-house, she
obliged to conform to the customs of civilization and
put on
A
skirts.
ledge
beyond Easter Carter's
still
bears the name, " Ruth's Ledge," in her honor.
In a small hut in the same enclosure with Easter Carter's house lived Molly Stevens, old sister.
No
have made
one keeps her life
unless history
and
a
site,
a pair of bars
find in the
opening
big bowlder standing as a sentinel
Annie Carter, wife
liam, Easter Carter's brother, a record of I
She must
green.
is at fault.
in front, is the cellar of
tism
"
very unhappy for the gentle Easter,
Directly beyond this into the yard,
memory
"Joe Stevens'
Fourth Parish, April
r,
of
Wil-
whose bap1776.
This
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44
was
the last house taken
some reason
the phice
down
For
the \illaue.
in
was always known
as Annie's.
After her death, William, with the children, moved
Annie was known
away.
said to have
is
One
been
Annie
or two other cellars
that
Carter's,
may
" Granny Carter," and
woman."
a ''little small
with former occupants,
fied
as
which lie
I
have not identi-
across the road from
and two, together with
deceive the uninitiated,
lie
a potato hole
between
it
and
the cellar, on a rise of ground, formerly under the
house,
it is
alleged, of
Moll Jacobs.
disposed to think that this cellar
good Deacon Winslow, who
of
very near
which we
shall
up her abode speak
in the
either here or
mystify the visitor.
died, Sept. lo, 1S92." a bull, his
Lurvev house,
later.
bowlders, marked, " First Attack,"
by
that of the house
lived
In an enclosure at this point are a
to
am somewhat
Nobody can remember where Molly
it.
lived before taking
of
is
I
One
is
number
of small
etc., that are likely
marked, "James Merrv
Mr. Merry was gored
to
death
dead body being found by the rock
bearing the second inscription.
William A. Hodg-
kins of Riverdale once gave the writer and a party of friends a very graphic description of this tragedy,
The marks were placed by Tarr and D. K. Goodwin, about a week
as they stood at the spot.
Raymond
P.
after the death of
Mr. Merry.
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The
45
"Moley Jakups,
Fifth Parish records say that
daughter of Isack and Molly, was baptized Jan. 31,
Molly and Judy Rhines, with others, seem
1763." to
have done
tation
a great deal to give to
which
also
was
Dogtown
a repu-
undeservedly conferred on
Gloucester as a whole, so that the favored residents of
Rockport were
down
led for a generation to look
No
on a native of the larger place.
traditions, except
those of a rather unsavory reputation, remain of Molly.
Almost opposite the Jacobs the road,
is
a well
marked
on the
cellar,
cellar, said
to
be
remains of the home of Dorcas Foster.
left of
all
that
She was
eight years old at the conuiiencement of the Revolu-
tionary w\ar, having been born at the
Her
Harbor
village.
father left his family in this house for safety from
the British,
whom
town, and went lived with his
he feared might come and sack the
to the
war.
George Wonson, who
grandmother when a boy,
recalls
many
of her stories of life in those troublous times.
Abram Wharf
she always referred to as
"Aunt Wharf."
bor Wharf," and called his wife
The
children used to be sent to the harbor village for
supplies,
a
"Neigh-
pound
portion.
and were accustomed of tea, Little
to
pay one dollar for
and for other necessary things
in pro-
Dorcas naturally feared the British,
sharine: the terror
which
led to the
growth
of
Dog-
The
46
Sto7'y
town, and one day
when
of Dogtoivn.
saw seven
she
started to rnn, without considering
British or Continentals.
who
of them,
whether they were
She was reassined by one be frightened, as they
told her not to
would not hurt
Her experience
her.
the hardships of those
soldiers, she
and even
well illustrates
later davs, suffered
by the brave residents of Cape Ann. Ezekiel VV. Chard times the
women
of
me
that in the
embargo
'Squam would walk
as far as
tells
Ipswich, going across the beach, to get a half bushel of meal, the
days
distance being twelve miles.
was verv
it
In those
rare to get either bread or cake, he
says.
Dorcas Foster was three times married, her
husband being an Oakes, the second
first
and
a Stevens,
who commanded a privateer in the war of 181 2. George Wonson is a son She has many of Louisa Smith, their daughter.
the last Capt. Joseph Smith,
descendants in Gloucester.
Most
of
her
was
life
spent in the ancient house which until lately stood on the rock at the corner of Prospect and
where the home
Not
cellar
It is
M. H. Perkins
bevond the Foster
far
of the road,
rocks.
of
is
cellar,
now
tomb
on the same side
to disturb
of several horses,
streets,
located.
one which has been recently
would be unwise
the
is
Warner
filled
with
them, for
which have
tlie
l)een
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47
shot as a matter of mercy, after having been turned
This
out in the pastures to die. of
home
the
Capt.
of
Dade.
Isaac
that
all
is
He,
remains has
too,
descendants both in Gloucester and Rockport.
Mrs. H. G. Wetherbee, nishes
me
granddaughter, fur-
his
the following particulars of the
life
of Isaac
Dade "Isaac Dade, while a school boy
in or near
Lon-
don, England, was impressed on board an English
During
man-of-war.
the Revolution his vessel
Gloucester, and
anchored
off
row one
of the officers ashore.
it
became
the vessel.
was landed he
She was bound
When
of fish.
lost
duty to
While doing
noticed a fishing vessel ready to the officer
his
sail.
was
so he
As soon
as
no time getting aboard
to
Virginia with a cargo
he reached there he joined the Conti-
nental army, and
was
later in three
memorable engage-
He was at Yorktown when Lord Cornwallis He was wounded in battle, receiving surrendered. ments.
a sabre cut across the
pled him for
back of
his neck,
which
crip-
life.
"After the w^ar he married a Southern lady by the
name
of
Her
Fanny Brundle.
plantation
father's
adjoined that of the mother of Washington.
on intimate terms with the Washingtons. dren were born
to
them
in
Virginia.
She was
Two
chil-
His health
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48
began
to
fail,
and he remembered Gloucester, and
went there hoping beneficial
He
He
market
was paid
mentioned the
to his
preferred
Dur-
in.
to.
when
his
home.
came
fact that in 1775
in the
— the
vessels
I
Isaac
Dade decided
to
have already indicated
Dogtown
the probable site of his
— two
the visit of the Falcon, later
connection with Peter Lurvev's bravery,
in
make America
attack
women
widow."
probable time
ory that he
Glouces-
in
he received no pension, but after his death
life
This story points
to
fish
from the boats as they came
to get the fish
as
kept a
under great disadvantages, as the
ing his
would be
life
did not, however, but spent the rest
of his life there.
it
change of
— intending to return to Virginia the follow-
ing autumn.
ter
that the
Falcon
The
domicile.
strengfthened
is
same year
the-
l>v
the
of Capt. Lindsay's
were dispatched from Gloucester
Virginia for supplies, owing to the poverty of the
people on Cape Ann. It
must have been
high-spirited
maiden
a o-reat deal of a chansre to this to
begin
her
a region so barren, so lonely, as
married
Dogtown
for her
husband must have sweetened the
for she
was never heard
to
for
in
but love
bitterness,
complain.
Directly beyond this cellar on the
which has
;
life
many decades been
left is a
swamp,
a slough of despond
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49
for cattle
and horses.
of one or
more unfortunates, which have got
could never get out.
Her
cellar
She was
is
It
This
is
is
always the repository in but
"Granny Day's swamp."
covered by water at the corner of
a school teacher,
and one of her pupils was
Nathaniel Day, the patriarch.
Near here
is
Whet-
stone Rock, a natural curiosity, so hollowed out that
Some
served the purpose indicated. split
it
off
and carried
it
it.
away
a
it
curiosity seeker
few years
since.
COUNCIL OF THE CROWS.
CHAPTER
VI.
PETER I.URVEY AND "BLACK NEIL."
The
only resident of Dog^town mentioned in Bab-
son's History of Gloucester,
who
lived in a large gambrel-roofed house near the
junction of the two a mile to
was Abraham Wharf,
the
roads of the village, not
over
from the "Whale's Jaw," and who according historian, lonely
and weary, crawled under
At
a rock near by and committed suicide, in 1814. that time there w^ere at least six other houses in
town occupied.
was
a
colored
The man
Cornelius Finson
last
called
— who
from Gee avenue
in
inhabitant of the
"Neil"
lived
He was
a
man
village
name was
on the road leading
Riverdale to Dogtown,
house of Judith Ryon, called by Rhines."
— his
Dog-
all
old-timers,
in
the
"Judy
of intelligence, evidently,
The Sfoty of for Ezekiel
Dogtozv7t.
51
W. Chard remembers him
as a clerk for
boat fishers of 'Squam.
the
Others recall him as
more prosaic
calling of an
closely acquainted both with
Judy Rhines
principally engaged in the
executioner of hogs.
He was
He was
and Molly Jacobs.
when Molly Jacobs her cellar, and
away from
it
died she
was with
firmly persuaded that left
buried treasure in
difiiculty
he could be kept
Long
the quite uninhabitable hole.
after
Judy Rhines was dead he lingered around her house, until
walls
its
cellar.
From
in,
fell
when he sought
refuge in the
this, cold, dirty, half-starved,
and shak-
ing with the combined infirmity of old age and fright,
he was taken on a bitter day in winter, 1S30, by Constable William Tucker of Riverdale
—the
of that village having
complained of the case
Overseers of the Poor
—and
As
house.
on Washington
and Neil was taken
in for a half
street,
hour
Mr. Babson gave him some tobacco. gone, I'll
iie
Mark
to the
carried off to the alms-
they passed the store of John
son, near the Poles
people
Low
Bab-
they stopped
to get
warm.
After Neil had
Allen, sitting in the store, said, "There,
bet he'll be so comfortable at the poor-house that
won't
live a
week."
He was
right.
Within seven
days Neil was dead. If the
reader will
now
start at either
Gee avenue
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52
Stanwood
or tlie
Langsford house and
street past the old
" Castle," over the
Commons
Morgan
road to the
brook, just beyond the " Castle," and thence follow the road along until, to
if
It is
comes
another brook crossing the road on higher ground,
he will soon notice at the
tiie
top of which
is
is
On
a cellar.
as in the case of
This
is
famous
Near
many
the houses.
of Peter Lurvey.
in the pasture,
it is
I
hero of the episode
a lilac
cellars, all
a
from
from
bush and
also,
gooseberry bush.
together,
First of
as
Annisquam
this hill, quite a distance
the site of what, taken of
is
known
is
obtained a fine view of
and Ipswich Bay. the road,
what
left
A high hill
" Beech Pasture."
in
the wet season, he
all it
the
is
was
the
most
home
have already said that he was the
commemorated by Hiram Rich
"Morgan Stanwood."
Babson says
father,
his
Peter Lurvey, removed from Ipswich to Gloucester in 1707.
In 17 10 he married Rachel Elwell, and our
Peter was one of eight sons, the elder ancestor of
all
Peter
being
the Lurveys in Gloucester.
Peter Lurvey, the Revolutionary patriot, married a sister of
Abraham Wharf, who
house beyond.
On August
lived
Bunker
Hill, chased a
ester harbor,
the next
8, i775? the British sloop-
of-war Falcon, which had assisted of
in
Salem schooner
where she grounded on the
capture
the
in
into
flats
Glouc-
between
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Pound
Pearce's wharf and Five
Island.
53 Capt. Lind-
say of the Falcon attempted to board her with several
The people
barge loads of marines.
of Gloucester,
an alarm having been given, hauled two swivel guns to a point opposite
of
Vincent's Cove, and with the aid
Then Lindsay,
muskets prevented a capture.
full
cannonaded the town (one shot hitting the First Parish Church, where it is now suspended in of wrath,
the vestry) village.
and landed men
The
firing party
the boarding party
were
instantly killed
The above
also captured
is
now
Rowe was
the story substantially as told It
is
by
one side of the picture.
give the other, as handed dow^n by his wife
and daughter, and related
On
by the intrepid
and Peter Lurvey mortally wounded.
Babson and Pringle. will
to fire the
were made prisoners, and
In the engagement Benjamin
villagers.
I
Fort Point
at
that fatal
to
me by
morning Lurvey,
his
his descendants. w^ife
and
Mary Millett— afterwards Mary Riggs— were Pearce's Island huckleberrying.
little
over on
Hearing the alarm,
Peter Lurvey bade his wife good-by, hurriedly rowed across to the other shore, ran up to the house, and got his o-un, thence across the fields
Harbor Village, where he met
and pastures
his death.
quite unexplainable reason his face ao-ain
by
his wife
and children.
It
to the
For some
was never seen
was never known
54
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what became
of
pecLiHar about such
used to
tell
My
things.
were returninof from
as the British
Lexington on April
His body was imme-
19, 1775.
Jason Russell and ten
diately buried, in a grave with
others
— now
great-grandmother
her grandfather, killed at the battle
of
Menotomv,
of
Our progenitors were
body.
his
in the
Arlington cemetery
was
children ever saw^ again
his
old
—and
all his
farmer's hat,
reserved for identification.
Mrs. Lurvev lived
remembered by people her as a sister to
was
mitted
suicide
1S14.
Wharf
yet living.
with him
no person can sat
I
have referred
Abraham Wharf.
who was
the sister
104 vears old, and
be
to
by the
fire
you
heaven?"
"God
forbid,"
out.
was
in
sharpening his razor.
don't
who commit
know;
i)ut I
hope
was
his
solemn response.
the razor into his shoe, unobserved,
Soon he slipped and went
It
do such a thing, brother," was her
will never
answer.
"•!
time he com-
tell.
" Sister," said he, do vou think people suicide go to
to
Whether she
at the
now
is
A
little later
he was found with his
throat cut, dead.
The explanation of Mr. Rich's confusing Lurvey and Morgan Stanvvood is that John Morgan Stanwood married Lurvey's daughter.
Lurvev died thev seemed
to
Until the time that Mrs.
have lived with her
in this
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55
Later they moved to the house by the
house.
brook, where
Morgan
think Ruth Morgan, his mother, and
I
probably Morgan Stanwood himself, were born.
more
of this later.
Stanwoods
After the
But the
left
house, which was by this time getting old and weatherbeaten, Molly Jacobs, with her friends Sarah Phipps
— more often than not called Stanley
left
—and Mrs. living — per-
Sally Jacobs
had been
the house they
in
haps that already indicated on the Dogtown road
and came here, by the invitation nard."
"Grandther Stan-
of
The latter women's grandson, "Sammy
ley," liv^ed with
Almira Riggs
them and took care
of Riverdale, a
gan Stanwood,
told
as a child used to
me
Stan-
Mrs.
of them.
granddaughter of Mor-
before her death that she of ten
go up
to this
Lurvey house
in
winter
with food for the old people, and would find them in bed, the coverlet white with
had
through
sifted
snow where
the
wind
After a time the
in the night.
trio
poor house, where
of old ladies
were taken
they died.
Molly Jacobs was smarter than Sarah
Phipps.
Sarah would get
"I shan't
tell
you where
behind the old chest, but
"Sammy He was
to the
off
I I
mad
at
Molly, and say
hid the keerds. shan't
Stanley's" real
tell
I
hid them
you."
name was Sam Maskey.
always brought up by his grandmother
housework.
He went
:
to
do
about with a handkerchief tied
6
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5
over his head and did woman's work in preference to
any other.
In fact, though he wore men's clothes he
had been brought up a
was taken
After his aged relative
girl.
hands, he moved to Rockport, where
off his
he went out washing for a livelihood, and laid up
money, so
when he
that
died he
was
c^uite a
stock-
holder in the cotton mills.
The
history of the
Just before
Lurvey house
MoUie Jacobs went
nearly finishetl.
is
almshouse,
the
to
"Black Neil" Finson, coming from some other house he had inhabited, moved here.
The
could well stay in was the cellar,
water tight by boarding over the
which he made
first
already said he thought there was the course of time, his friend
onlv place he
money
Tudv Rhines
the next house toward the Castle on the
Common
return for a
or rides
I
through
coming from
have
there. livins:
same
road, took pity on him. and in\ ited
occupy the empty part
To
floor.
In in
side the
him
to
of her dwelling.
moment
to
Lurvey.
Washington
street
As one walks in
the harbor, just after he
Riverdale, crosses the
bridge, he notices on the right, the second house from
Reynard
street,
roof,
in
still
a two-story
structure
with pitched
excellent repair, and looking like anv-
thing but a historic mansion. structed to be sure,
Yet
this house, recon-
was successively the home
of Peter
The Stojy of Dogtown. Lurvey and
Morgan Stanwood, Molly
family,
his
57
Jacobs and her two inifortunate companions, lived in
company with Black Neil and Sammy
in
it
In some
Stanley, as already related.
became
the property of a
in the vicinity,
and
it
who
sold
was found
that the
way
or other
man named Whipple when
it
it
was but
They had
and Reuben Day.
to Isaac
who
it
it*
living
a skeleton,
taken down,
oak frame was perfectly
in-
tact.
The Day
brothers therefore had the material taken
and the house was
to the present site,
rebuilt,
There
the old
frame being used
in
monument
hero and martyr of the Falcon
and there least, for
to the
seems
it
it is
its
entirety.
it
stands,
fight,
remain another centurv
likely to
perfectly sound.
I
a
at
have these facts on
the authority of several of Isaac Day's descendants, as
well as of take l)uilt
it
James Thurston
down, and was one
of the
Mr. Eben Day
it.
of
several days cleaning bricks it
was demolished, he It
tells
who helped mechanics who re-
of Ri\erdale,
Reynard
from
its
street
chimneys when
me.
seems rather mysterious that Black Neil,
lived in
it
who
when Molly and Sarah and Mrs. Stanley
were taken at that
spent
to the
almshouse, was not taken too, for
time the roof had caved in and was in a
wretched condition.
Old people
in
Riverdale have
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58
had
it
pointed out to them for nearly two generations
as the liouse
those
who
identity
house.
where Black Neil once
furnished
me
were surprised
to
the
lived,
information
know
that
it
but even as
to
its
wastheLurvey
CHAPTER
VII.
"jUDY RHINES" AND " JOHNNY MORGAN."
its
The Judy Rhines house, too, was caved in as to roof, it seems, when Black Neil removed thither
from
his
former dwelling.
probably explains
former occupant,
And
this
why "Liz" Tucker, left
circumstance its
owner and
the society of her niece Judy,
and sought a home near the harbor where she died.
The house where she died stood exactly where the entrance to Oak Grove cemetery is now located. Judy's house was a double one.
It
will be noticed
the visitor to the spot that there are
two
cellars.
by It
seems that Lizzie (or "Liz") Tucker, was Judith
Ryon's aunt, and therefore must have been a
sister to
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6o
either her father Patrick
mother, lived in at the
a dauo^hter of
Ryon, an Irishman, or
William
to
Liz Tucker
Rioters,
one part of the house, but was dead,
doul^tless,
time Judy extended the hospitalities of the place
to Neil
Finson.
How unable
long the two were tenants of the place
The house was one
to say.
of
l)oth
li\ed
woman, who had
the favorite
nearer.
to stand
a
tall,
at the
rawl:)oned
If
she told a person
still,
they would not
great courage.
approaching her house
move anv
Judy was
there.
am
I
haunts of young- people on holidays, and was so time
her
She had manv
friends.
One
of
Benjamin Rowe
the places she visited, according to
Kidder of Rockport, was " Uncle Miah" Knowlton's,
whom
for
Aunt Knowlton used
he worked.
her up with fish and tea.
day refuse
to
The voung people
admit that she was
or so considered.
in
any sense
to
load
of that a witch,
After Judy died, as before related,
Neil lived in the house until the only place he could
was
He was
a big
powerful negro,
with very prominent protruding teeth.
At the time he
stay
in the cellar.
was taken from fidl of ice,
and
the cellar to the poor house,
his toes
"Judy Rhines," Dec. 30, 1771?
was
'it
the
were some
as she
is
of
it
was
them frozen.
called,
was baptized
Sandy Bay parish church.
She
living in 1S30, nine years before the death of her
The Story of Dogtown.
friends Mollie Jacobs, Easter
rious living, like her
and
Tammy
telling fortunes,
and
Younger, by picking
into
some
groceries.
store at the Poles,
on the old United States bank. " only one Mr. Babson had ever seen.
want
this,"
she replied;
"I took
He
Whipple."
"It
he said.
it
finally
at the
Gloucester
was on
a
just
is
for
took
as
pasture
in
Bank found
the
I
bill,
$5
was
the
don't think
good rent
as any,"
from Mr.
and on presentation
it,
she
branch of the bank for the
Years ago,
a
It
a note
I
she
and bought
payment
vShe tendered in
berries,
One day
other ways.
in
Mr. Babson's
went
a preca-
She gained
colored frleiul '^Neil" Finson.
Carter
6i
was
right.
state of
It
Georgia.
Gloucester Telegraphy some
antiquarian told a story of what might have been his
own
the poultry erty, stole
were
He
experience.
and
said
two boys who considered
chattels of a
"witch" public prop-
from Judith Ryon a couple of geese.
safely
away,
as they thought,
Judy coming brandishing
a
hoe,
when
They
they heard
and screeching.
TJic Story
62
"Now, was
of Dogtoivn.
ye hell birds, I've got ye
plump
a goose,
in
The response
I"
her face, and the asseveration,
"No
you haint."
Prostrated by the
Judy
lay
while
senseless,
the
foul assault,
boys again securing
their prey, vanished.
As we seem to have turned back toward the Castle, we may as well continue, and more particularly
examine the
territory
or the "Slough," as
is
it
more
men
used
their
homes being between
go over
in his
to
the Castle
site side of
brook, I
the road
can find
little
couraging place
lots of
about him. to cross.
on the
right,
is
On
the oppo-
just
"Jim" White.
Morgan's brook If
by the
is
a dis-
one confines himself
left,
to
going toward Ri\-er-
proceeding the other way,
can be crossed without stranger
them.
from Judy Rhines',
the stepping stones on the dale, or
many sheep Abraham Wharf,
the cellar of the dwelling of
is
and Dogtown.
either side,
graze a century ago.
palmy days, kept
twenty
sixteen or
road to general training,
this
Over these pastures, on were wont
In the
often called.
some
early days of this century, to
around Morgan's brook,
wetting one's
feet.
likely to attempt the other side,
it
The
and come
to grief.
After crossing the brook, on the same side as
Judy Rhines'
cellar,
one sees a big bowlder, beside
The
of Dogtown.
Sto)'y
Right against
the road.
it,
on one
63 are the
side,
yard foundations of a small building, while in the a with this, enclosed by a wall, are the remains of
The building by the rock was which John Morgan Stanwood spent his
the
laro-er structure.
hut in
Mr. Rich,
days.
the John,
poem, dropped
in his
last
drop while the custom of his contemporaries was to It is a painful but well-authenticated the Stanwood. fact, that
he was
known
to
some, as long as he lived,
"Johnny Morgan." Of course he was not that Johnny who played the organ, nor the estimable as
gentleman
who
caters to the finer taste of the present
generation of Gloucester people. I
find
many precious hours John Morgan Stanwood was
misspent if
hunting
after,
and second, seeking
trying,
first
man
to
I
was
to find out
who
the
Morgan was who lived by the brook. That this was not strange may be understood, when I say that the
a lady
still
school, his
living told
me
that for years she
went
to
and was intimate with " Nabby Morgan,"
daughter, before
name was
person told her that her
the
really Abigail
Morgan Stanwood.
Morgan Stanwood never went to the wars, so those who knew him as Capt. Morgan Stanwood made a mistake ino-
the
if
they thought the
Revolutionary
title
war,
a military one.
or
a
little
Dur-
later,
he
The Story of Dogtozvn,
64
went on foreign voyages.
He
and had many children.
"Granther Stannard," or
"Johnny
married Mary Lurvey,
Morgan,'-' as you will, seems thoroughly to
have enjoved
on Dogtown
life
a
addition to his house, which
little
spent
This work he did
his later years cobbling shoes. first in
He
Common.
and has ever since borne the name
at
was then
'"The Boo."
of
After his wife died, and his children grew up, the
many in the house, and the fact that many callers among their young acquaint-
confusion of so they had so
ances, so disturbed his mind, that he sought relief by
Many
building the hut under the rock. this cosy corner,
for the
where he peacefully cobbled shoes
On
remainder of his days.
corner he kept a book
in
the interesting matters
a
came
that
chased after such a journal of
found never existed
the existence
of
this,
since gone to decay.
children
Lest
;
but
though
it
I
a record of
his notice.
to
in
life
For
I
a year I
Dogtown,
that
have no doubt of probably has long
Stanwood has
several grand-
livinsr. I
forget
it,
let
me
say here that
wood's old "boo"
—
covered with
Mrs. Rachel
ing
shelf in the
which he made
should like to get hold of that book.
I finally
living recall
when
turf,
the
war
it
of
was
Morgan Stan-
a booth, built of slabs
Day
says
and
— was stand-
the Rebellion begun, but old
u.
The Story of Dogtozvn.
66 soldiers
who
left
it
when
they marched, found
gone
it
on their return.
The
'"Castle"
now owned
is
bv^
Riggs, a sprightly old lady of So,
main road seem
to
came
to
Some
in Riverdale.
have lived
in
whom
it
used
from the old Riggs house from
off
house
near the
is
quite
road near Goose Cove. of
which
it
is
1
66 1.
Ri2!"2"s
The "old
though on another
supposed
that part
tliat
the
built
undoubtedlv the oldest
is
the progenitor of
Mrs.
RiofSfs,
go
Judy
Millett.
to is
to school to
a restored
gambrel
roof,
remain for another century as class of
Dogtown
but of this
I
would
It is
good
in this
like further proof.
sibly she lived in the village.
a
and
dwellings.
seems probable that Hetty Balch lived
\icinity,
]:Âť\-
familv of Gloucester.
castle"
likely to
It
Thomas was
sample of the better It
Castle,
The Riggs
land.
His grandson, George Riggs,
mentioned above, used
seems
own
his
school master and town clerk,
first
house on the Cape. the
Sam.
Riverdale to Rockport
in
It is
gambrel roof portion.
all
lather, Capt.
It
constructed of square logs was built
Thos. Riggs, the in
Lufkin familv
be said that he could walk
to
without getting
on the
lives
earlv history.
its
Mrs. Riggs through her
Riggs, of
who
of the
during;
it
Mrs. Marv A.
but
five
Pos-
minutes
walk from "Johnny Morgan's Boo," and the Castle to the electrics in Riverdale.
CHAPTER
VIII.
CONCLUSION, If
it
hap2)ens that one has not turned off from the
main Dogtown road, will
at
Granny Day's swamp, he
keep on over a slight elevation, past the crossing
of the
Pigeon Cove path, which
distance in the road,
until
really
is
for
some
he reaches the Whale's
Jaw.
Soon
obliterated
by time and changes of ownership
pastures, reaches
Revere
road already referred a
little
Whale's Jaw, the road, almost
after passing
distance
to.
the old
Sandy Bay
the Pigeon
Cove path,
street,
On
in the
beyond the Whale's Jaw, are the
graves of old Mr. Blance and wife, marked by rude
head and foot stones picked out from the rocks which bestrew the Hill,
Jaw.
Commons.
Their
cellar
on the path from Pigeon Cove It
was known
as
"Blance's"
is
near Pigeon
to the
to
Whale's
two genera-
6S
77/6'
The
tions.
Story of Dogtowii.
made
cleared land
go from Lanes ville and
of fifty years since to
l)oy.s
Pigeon Cove on Fast Day
to plav ball.
In Dogtovvn, almost or
rather near
ridge toward Alewife brook, in
a fine place for the
is
the cellar of the house
which Col. William Pearce, one
men
of the wealthiest
of old Gloucester, sous"ht refu""e
ing expeditions in war times.
He
from maraud-
kept great num-
Mr. Chard, almost
sheep.
bers of
over the
it,
centenarian,
a
picturesquely describes a scene of his boyhood, dur-
ing the war of 1S12.
summoned
into the
of Lobster Cove,
Secured
lives. still
to
war
vessel
Annisquam.
boats
a
which he was born, and rock
directly
still
across the co\e,
be seen, were several British barges, belong-
ing to a of
one morning and was
garden of the house on the banks in
to
He woke
was
anchored bv the bar
Coming down
a negro, bearing
on
in the
harbor
the hill towards the his
back
booty
his
in
the shape of one of Col. Pearce's black sheep. I
have speculated somewhat concerning the reason
for Babson's reticence in his history concerning
town and years ago.
its
people.
The
His historv was published forty
village degenerated as
the Dosftown familiar to
him
less
it
grew
in his youn^'er
not a place to inspire great enthusiasm.
wrote
Dog-
old,
and
days was
At the time he
than twenty years had passed since "Black
The Story of Dogtown. Nell," Molly Jacobs,
Many
died.
and
Annie Carter and others had were
of their connections
still
living,
speak as freely as one can to-day of the village
to
would have caused more
Dogtown
cluded the story of history,
or
strife.
less
Had my
had more time, he might have
friend Pringle
nial
69
in-
in his interesting centen-
was
but the omission
wlien the mao:nitude of the task he
quite excusable
set
himself
is
con-
sidered. I
find that
from
have omitted the story of Peg Wesson
I
though her name has been men-
this narrative,
tioned.
She
Prospect
street,
lived
opposite Dale avenue.
She
on Maplewood avenue. of
Cape Ann
"Garrison House" on
the
in
of
whom
is
now
stands
the only reputed witch
can be alleged, with history
it
to endorse the allegation, that she stick.
It
rode on a broomfor the siege
departing
Shortly before
of
Louisburg, Babson says, several of Capt. Byles' com-
and
visited Peg,
pany
threatened
to visit
so exasperated her that
them
in
wrath
at
While camping before Louisburg, the
Gloucester
men was
performances of
-them.
it
crow which
Several unsuccessful
shoot the bird of that
a
attracted
ill
omen.
Cape Breton.
the attention of
by the peculiar
circled just
efforts
she
al:>ove
were made
to
Finally a soldier suggested
must be Peg supernaturally transformed
into a
The Story of Dogtown.
70
crow.
from
If
it
was
\
puncture her.
On
bullet
and
was rammed
silver sleeve button
with a hurt leg.
fired, the bird falling
were
their return to Gloucester, the soldiers
ested to learn that at the precise time the
wounded. Peg
wound, extracted
from.
Much more
leg,
and the doctor, on dressing
the identical silver button there-
tale.
of a descriptive nature
might be writ-
ten concerning the old, deserted village.
more extant
which can be found
the writer has identified
in
it.
he can express
at
that has been
awakened by
the
made two
if
a person
tubs, they called
much foundation
witches of Dogtown.
sawed
him
these
He
is
more
the general interest first
As aged Mr. Thurston
old times
Of
than he believed
the work.
gratified than
these notes.
Dogtown.
many more
was possible wdien he began
be as
to find
best authorities claim that there are at present
41 cellars
to
If there is
an historical nature, the writer has
of
been unable, by persistent searching,
"In
crow was
jMany of the inhabitants of Gloucester of those
days believed this
The
inter-
course from her broomstick),
fell (of
with a fracture of her the
cast
gold would be sufficiently potent to
silver or
into a gun,
the witch, nothing but a
publication of
quaintly remarks,
a barrel in
a witch."
as there
is
in
two and
This seems
many
of the
Gloucester should cherish this
The
Sto)'y
ancient spot for what
it
of Dogtown. has been.
the only ruined city in America.
sketches better
I
take
\x\\
is
practically
cannot close these
by following the example of
than
Babson, and quoting Goldsmith " Here, as
I
It
71
:
solitary rounds.
Amidst thy tangled walks and ruined grounds, And, many a year elapsed, return to view Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorne grew.
Remembrance wakes, with
my
all her busv and turns the past
train,
*******){.
Swells at
breast,
But now the sounds of population
No No
cheerful
murmurs
bus3' steps the
F'or all the
fail,
fluctuate in the gale,
grass-grown footwav tread,
blooming
[Copyright 1S96 by
to pain.
flush of life
is
Procter Brothers,
fled."
Gloucester, Mass.]
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