Front matter
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WRITTEN BY ALICE MORSE EARLE
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS CAMBRIDGE
Copyright, 1895, By ALICE MORSE EARLE.
All rights reserved.
TO THE MEMORY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES Whose blood runs in my veins Whose spirit lives in my work Elizabeth Morse, Joanna Hoar, Esther Mason, Deborah Atherton, Sarah Wyeth, Anne Adams, Elizabeth Browne, Hannah Phillips, Mary Clary, Silence Heard, Judith Thurston, Patience Foster, Martha Bullard, Barbara Sheppard, Seaborn Wilson