Wessagusset and Weymouth

Full in sight of the spot where we are now gathered,--almost at the foot of King-Oak Hill,--stands that portion of the ancient town of Weymouth, known from time immemorial as th...

“And this had like to have prooved their finall sentence, and being there confirmed by Act of Parliament, to after ages for a President: But that one with a ravenus voyce, begun...

“All ore that maine the vernant trees abound, Where cedar, cypres, spruce and beech are found. Ash, oake and wal-nut, pines and junipere; The hasel, palme and hundred more are t...

“First that no inhabitant within this plantation shall presume to take into his house as an inmate, or servant, any person or persons, unless he shall give sufficient bonds, to...

I do not know if it indeed was so, but to me the very nature of the New England world seems to have been less cheerful in those earlier days than now. Not only was life less joy...

To the Weymouth of that day these eighteen men were the equivalent of about one hundred and thirty now; and they were raised to take part in the unfortunate Canada campaign unde...

The discovery, in 1870, of the names of those who came out with Mr. Hull, in 1635, is very important in the genealogy of Weymouth. It is singular to study in the several lists o...

The very general assumption that there was no permanent settlement in Weymouth, (using the name by which the town has since been known), previous to the arrival of the Hull comp...

“Mr. Hull,” says Savage, “came over in the Episcopal interest,” and his sympathies appear to have leaned in that direction, although while in America he was professedly a non-co...

But, in the first place, I crave indulgence while I say a single word personal to myself. I want to explain why I meant to be here last April, and why I am here now. Towards Wey...

When that work of mine to which I have already referred,--the “Three Episodes of Massachusetts History,”--appeared, now ten years ago, the introductory part was entitled “The Fi...

Now, in 1638, the church of Boston, after an interlude of direst stress and storm, was at peace within itself; but the peace was that of a sternly enforced conformity,--a peace...

“We are always accustomed to regard the past as a better and purer time than the present; there is a vague, traditional simplicity and innocence hanging about it, almost Arcadia...

=Weymouth=, Action on Stamp Act, 71, 72. Action on tax on tea, 72, 73. Allowed a deputy to the Gen’l Court, 45, 111. Arrival of Weston’s party 8. their character, 11, 12. Attack...