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Plymouth memories of an octogenarian

INDEX

Reading edition

Adams, George, 148

Adams, George, family, 149

Adams, Thomas, 148

Adams, John Quincy, 294

Adams and Liberty, 475

Adulterations, 487

Alderman and Gooding, 152

Alexander, Wm. B., 408

Allen & S. D. Ballard, 195

Alleys, 441

Allyne, Joseph, 113

Allyne house, 112

Anasthesia, 274

Ancient legend, 270

Ancient papers, 262

Andrew, John A., 389

Annapolis, 393

Antietam, 410

Anti-masons, 263

Anti-slavery, 241

Anti-slavery rooms, 180

Anti-slavery Society, 332

Apples, 486, 493

Appointments to office, 407

Aqueduct, 182

Aqueduct water, 114

Arctic (steamship), 285

Armories, 453

Articles of food, 485

Artillery Company, 453

Ashore on Hog Island, 398

Atwood, Anthony, 32

Atwood, Wm., 54

Author’s house, 281

Author’s trip to Washington, 398

Avery, Joseph, 181

Bachelder, John, 312

Back bay land, 444

Baked beans, 19

Balm of Gilead, 511

Bananas, 509

Bancroft, Elizabeth, 133

Bank robbery, 232

Banks, 404

Baptist Church, 124, 127

Barbers, 515

Barbers’ pole, 516

Barbers’ shops, 149

Bark Charles Bartlett, 96

Bark Espindola, 41

Bark Fortune, 61

Bark Griffin, 40

Bark Truman, 40

Bark Iconium, 42

Bark Mary and Martha, 63

Bark Triton, 63

Barks in Plymouth, 44

Barnes, John C., 57

Barnes, Levi, 34

Barnes, Southworth, 18, 179

Barnes’ wharf, 34

Baron of beef, 364

Barrett, John, 62

Barrett, Wm., 62

Barron, James, 405

Bartlett, Andrew, 296

Bartlett, Elkanah, 33

Bartlett, Isaac, 140

Bartlett, James, 22, 32, 65, 116, 121

Bartlett, James, Jr., 60, 64

Bartlett, John, 155, 199, 200

Bartlett, Joseph, 199

Bartlett, Robert, 140, 342

Bartlett, Truman family, 295

Bartlett, Wm., 101, 197, 199

Bartlett, Wm. S., 148

Bartlett, Zacheus family, 181

Bates, Clement, 143, 260

Bates, John Blaney, 16

Bates, Ozen, 62

Baths, 487

Battle of Fredericksburg, 416

Baxter, Geo. L., 344

Beards, 515

Bedsteads, 514

Beech tree, 512

Bees of various kinds, 489

Bell ringing, 448

Bells, 339

Bennett, John C., 312

Big Bethel, 401

Billings, Hammatt, 27

Binding twine, 240

Birch, 513

Birth place of author, 16, 281

Bishop Cheverus, 433

Bishop, Wm., 178

Bishop, Eastburn, 451

Blacksmiths, 52

Black walnut, 471

Black and White Club, 187

Blagden, George W., 361

Blair, Frank P., Jr., 375

Bliss, Alexander, 134

Bliss, Leonard, 341

Blockmakers, 52

Boat harbor, 110

Bonnets, 522

Bootblacks, 449

Boots, 144, 521

Boston, 440, 454

Boston bridges, 443

Boston common, 510

Boston harbor, 463

Boston marine, 462

Boston Neck, 443

Boston shipping, 464

Boston ships, 462

Boston streets, 442

Boston theatres, 455

Boston wharves, 462

Bouncing betts, 282

Boutelle, Ann, 172

Bowling, 206

Boys’ dress, 520

Boys’ Military Company, 152

Bradford, George P., 147

Bradford, John H., 124

Bradford, Lemuel, 234

Bradford’s tavern, 124

Bramhall, Charles, 35

Bramhall, Wm., 35

Breckinridge, W. C. P., 383

Brewer, Francis B., 311

Brewster, Elder, 325

Brewster, Isaac, 32

Brewster, Wm. W., 65

Brig Emerald, 297

Brig George Little, 224

Brig Hannah, 140

Brig Hope, 82

Brig James Monroe, 64

Brig John R. Rhodes, 222

Brig Regulator, 220

Brig Sally Ann, 219

Brig Yeoman, 63

Brigs in Plymouth, 44

Briggs, George W., 318

Brigham, Antipas, 139

Brigham, Peter B., 457

Brighton, Artillery, 460

Brook farm, 307

Brown, Joseph P., 299

Brown, Lemuel, 299

Brown, Wm., 145

Bryant, Danville, 13, 158

Bryant’s tavern, 13

Buckingham, Jos. T., 465

Buckingham, Wm. A., 374

Buggies, 206, 437

Bunch of Grapes, 181

Burglar alarms, 231

Burgoyne, General, 122

Burial Hill, 324

Burlingame, Anson, 374

Burton, Charles, 344

Busks, 160

Butler, B. F., 399

Button pears, 186

Buttonwood, 511

Cabbage, 524

Cabs, 437

California emigration, 102

Call to arms, 390

Calls for men, 417

Cambria ashore, 463

Camp Hospitals, 412

Canal trip, 467

Candles, 481

Canopy, 27

Capen, Robert, 310

Captains, 50

Carlyle, Thomas, 135

Carriage fares, 440

Carriages, 436

Carriole, 437

Carver’s wharf, 33

Casco yacht, 108

Catholic church, 433

Celebration, 1820, 357, 359

Celebration of 1824, 360

Celebration, July 4, 1825, 385

Celebration, July 4, 1826, 385

Celebration, July 4, 1828, 385

Celebration of 1829, 361

Celebration of 1835, 362

Celebration of 1841, 363

Celebration of 1845, 364

Celebration of 1853, 365

Celebration, 1855, 370

Celebration, 1859, 372

Celebration, July 9, 1865, 385, 386

Celebration, 1870, 375

Celebration of 1880, 380

Celebration of 1885, 380

Celebration, 1889, 380

Celebration, 1895, 384

Celebrations, 356

Central House, 195

Centre of population, 234

Chaise, 206, 437

Chaise house, 206

Chandler, Joseph R., 363

Change of Shire, 308

Channel, 77

Charles River, 444

Chase, Salmon P., 374

Chess player, 457

Chewing, 517

Choate, Rufus, 441

Choir of church, 118

Chowder, 18

Christmas, 491

Churchill, Charles O., 284

Churchill, George, 144

Churchill, John, 27, 185

Churchill, John D., 33

Churchill, Lemuel B., 34

Churchill, Otis, 32

Churchill, Solomon, 151

Churchill, Wm., 31

Church street, 66

Cigars, 519

Circus, 157

Civil War, 389

Clark, Joseph S., 315

Cloak, 520

Coach, 438

Coal barges, 463

Cobb, Howell, 396

Cobb, Isaac Eames, 298

Codfish, 18, 486

Cod fishery, 86

Coffee, 486

Cold Spring, 12

Cole, James, 121

Cole’s Hill, 16, 31, 112, 320

College education, 345

College professors, 345

College punishments, 347

Collier, Ezra, 148

Collingwood family, 22

Collingwood, Joseph W., 407, 415

Collingwood, George, 62

Collins, James, 38

Columbia steamer, 22

Common house, 322

Concert Hall, 457

Condition of Gov. Finances, 396

Conflagration of Moscow, 457

Confederate plan, 397

Constables, 7, 447

Contribution of Plymouth Bank, 391

Cooking, 485

Coopers, 57

Cooper’s Alley, 65

Cooper, James, 65

Cornerstone of canopy, 372

Cornerstone of Monument, 372

Cotton, Charles, 30, 258

Cotton house, 258

Cotton, John, 117

Cotton, Rossiter, 258

Cotton, Rowland Edwin, 259

Countings out, 207

Country teams, 458

Country trade, 458

Court Square, 199

Court street, 10

Covington, Jacob, 14, 62

Covington, Jacob family, 264

Cows, 55

Cox, James, 303

Cox, Wm. R., 303

Cranberry, 509

Crocker and Warren, 171

Cults, 492

Cunard line, 462

Curfew, 448

Currency, 189

Currier, John, Jr., 48

Cushing, Joshua, 216

Cushing school, 133

Cushman, Charlotte, 197

Cushman, Joseph, 151

Cushman, Susan, 198

Custom House, 136

Customs, 447

Daisies, 472

Damsons, 510

Dancing schools, 160

Danforth, Allen, 167, 168

Davie, Ezra J., 233

Davie, Johnson, 233

Davis Building, 188

Davis, John, 28

Davis, John R., 193

Davis house, 131, 136

Davis, Nathaniel M., 136

Davis wharf, 33, 52

Davis, Wm., 33, 313, 314

Davis, Wm. family, 131

Davis & Russell, 153

Dawes, James H., 219

Debating Societies, 331

Decatur, Stephen, 405

Dermer, Thomas, 6

Dewey, Laura, 53

Diaz, Abigail, 307

Dipping, 517

Division of the town, 308

Doten, Charles C., 408

Doten, Samuel, 80, 222, 224, 227

Doten, Samuel H., 395

Double trucks, 465

Draft, 416

Dress coat, 520

Dress of a lady, 521

Drew, Atwood L., 34

Drew, Benjamin, 230, 291

Drew, Charles H., 408, 410

Drew, David, 57, 59

Drew, Deborah, 21

Drew, Ebenezer, 21

Drew, Edward Bangs, 293

Drew, George, 137, 230

Drew, Malachi, 21

Drew, Thomas, 230, 343

Drew, Wm. R., 146

Drury Lane theatre, 134

Duel, 405

Duke of Cambridge, 135

Duke of Wellington, 135

Dunfish, 10

Dunham, Robert, 17, 120

Duxbury ship building, 47

Dyer, Gustavus G., 257

Ear rings, 522

Earthquake, 11

East Boston, 446

East Boston ship building, 48

Edes, Oliver, 174, 282

Education, 307

Eighteenth Regiment, 407, 422

Eldridge, John, 41

Election Day, 33

Ellis, Bartlett, 156, 185

Ellis, Nathaniel, 352

Elm trees, 512

Embargo, 49, 79

Embargo, avoidance of, 81

Emergency fund, 391

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 25

Engine House, 162

English trees, 512

Enlistment, 406

Entertainments, 330

Episcopacy, 491

Escape from quarantine, 260

Europa steamer, 96

Evarts, Wm. M., 313, 374

Everett, Edward, 360, 364

Express, 68

Expresses, 155

Family names, 302

Family traits, 57

Farms, 436

Farris, Jeremiah, 174

Fashions in dress, 519

Faunce, Daniel W., 319

Faunce, John, 402

Faunce, Wm., 318

Fernside, 14

Fifth Massachusetts, 403

Finney, Ezra, 295

Finney, Ezra family, 295

Fire Department, 477, 478

Fire Department Celebration, 384

Fire Engines, 474, 476

Fire engine steam, 478

Fire pans, 483

Fire place, 484

Fire in School Street, 138

Fire Insurance, 475

Fires, 473, 492

Fires in Plymouth, 475

First coal grate, 282

First Meeting House, 322

Fish, 514

Fish duties, 88

Fishing, 436

Fishing bounty, 87

Fishing ledges, 18

Fishing vessels, 88, 95

Fishing vessels lost, 91

Flagg stones, 441

Flowers, 508

Floyd, John B., 396

Football, 205

Foot stoves, 483

Foreign trade, 49

Forests, 471

Fornenst, 525

Fortress Monroe, 396, 398, 399

Fort Andrew, 414, 417

Fort Hill, 442

Fort McHenry, 404

Fort Standish, 417

Forts in Plymouth harbor, 414

Forster, Wm. E., 236

Fox, Gustavus V., 406

Fragment Society, 334

Francis, Ebenezer, 163

Franklin street, 441

Frederick, 411

Freeman, Frederick, 14, 265

Freeman, Frederick family, 266

Frigate Constitution, 393

Frost, Daniel, 36

Fruits, 508

Fuel, 482

Fuller, Hiram, 146, 369

Fuller house, 116

Fuller, Josiah C., 408

Funeral customs, 479

Funerals, 479

Gab, 525

Gages, 510

Galoshe, 522

Gaiters, 161

Gale, Daniel, 150, 180

Gale’s cabbage, 180

Games, 204

Gaylord, John Flavel, 312

Germans, 435

Gilbert, Gustavus, 164

Gingko tree, 442

Girard college, 55

Girard, Stephen, 55

Glass, Mr., 14

Gleason, James G., 157

Gloves of ministers, 118

Goddard, Daniel, 27, 54

Goddard, Daniel F., 319

Goddard, Grace H., 166

Goddard, John, 166

Gold discovery, 102

Gooding family, 183

Gooding, John, 183

Gooding, John, family, 183

Goodwin, Ezra S., 317

Goodwin, Hersey B., 317

Goodwin, Isaac, 315

Goodwin, Nathaniel, 121, 122, 257

Goodwin, Nathaniel, family, 257

Goodwin, Timothy, 188

Goodwin, Wm., 256

Gordon, Solomon J., 269

Gordon, Timothy, 269

Gorges, 7

Government treasury, 396

Grand Banks, 95

Gravestones, 324

Grave yards, 320

Great western steamship, 465

Greenwood, Wm. Pitt, 182

Grog time, 448

Guests, 1820, 358

Gurnard, 514

Guzzle, 74

Habits and Customs, 433

Hacks, 437

Hale, John P., 369

Hall, John, 18

Hall, Robert B., 246, 363

Hall, Samuel, 216

Hannah, vessel, 81

Hanover street, 12

Harlow, Bradford, 302

Harlow, David, family, 404

Harlow, Ephraim, family, 303

Harlow family, 302

Harlow, George, family, 404

Harlow, Jesse, 404

Harlow, Nathaniel E., 33

Harper’s Ferry, 413

Harriet Lane, 402

Harrison, Peter, 203

Hart, Jason, 154, 239

Hathaway, B. A., 15

Hathaway, Benj., 17, 174, 176

Hayward, Beza, 115

Hayward House, 162, 164

Hayward, Jedediah K., 315

Hayward, John S., 154

Hayward, Nathan, 162

Hearses, 480

Heating, 483

Hedge, Barnabas, 119

Hedge House, 119

Hedge, Isaac L., 113

Hedge, I. L. & T., 32, 60

Hedge, Nathaniel L., 62

Hedge’s wharf, 31, 74

Herring story, 300

Hibernia steamer, 22

Hicks, Robert, 113

High duties, 30

High School, 338, 340

High street, 145

Highways, 10

Hillard, George S., 379

Hobart, John Sloss, 193

Hobart, Noah, 192

Hodge, James Thacher, family, 280, 281

Hodgkins, Jos. W., 154

Hogreeves, 187

Hogs, 187

Hollis, Abigail, 125

Holmes, Amasa, 459

Holmes, Charles T., 145

Holmes, Doctor, 26

Holmes, Edward, 219

Holmes, John Calderwood, 144

Holmes, Joseph, 40, 216, 218

Holmes, Lewis, 318

Holmes, Peter, 235

Holmes, Richard, 27, 32

Holmes, Richard W., 32

Holmes, Sylvester, 318

Holmes, Wm., family, 114

Holmes and Scudder, 27

Holmes and Brewster, 27

Home, 482

Home customs, 481

Home Guard, 395

Hornbeam, 511

Horse hire, 206

Horse races, 347

Horse thieves, 332

Hospitals, 413

Hotels, 458

Hotel prices, 460

Howard, Oliver O., 378

Howland, Henry, 14

Howland street, 12

Hubbard, Benjamin, 153, 312

Hubbard, Levi, 180

Hunt, James L., 311

Hunt, Thomas Sterry, 378

Husking, 489

Hymns, 499

Immigrants, 434

Irish, 433

Irish famine, 134

India rubber shoes, 156

Indian burial ground, 321

Indian games, 207

Inscriptions, 325

Inspection, 450

Iron and coal duties, 299

Jackson, Abraham, 343

Jackson, Alexander, 187

Jackson, Alexander, family, 267

Jackson, Andrew, 294

Jackson apples, 186

Jackson brothers, 36

Jackson, Charles, 25

Jackson, Charles, family, 273

Jackson, Daniel, 36, 267

Jackson, Daniel L., 41

Jackson, D. and A., 37

Jackson, Henry, 52

Jackson, Henry F., 52

Jackson, Isaac C., 36

Jackson, Isaac M., 15

Jackson, Louisa S., 54

Jackson, Mercy B., 310

Jackson, Salisbury, 120, 173

Jackson, Thomas, 185

Jackson vessels, 38

Jackson, Wm., 185

Jackson, Wm., family, 186

Jenkins, Osmore, 144

Jews rafts, 48

Jones, Joseph D., 141

Judson, Abigail B., 305

Judson, Adoniram, family, 305

June eatings, 186

Kendall, James, 117

Kendall, James A., 317

Kent, Edward, 374

King street, 13

Kingston captains, 219

Kissing bridge, 11

Kitchen, 484

Know Nothings, 54

Kossuth celebration, 386

Lafayette steamboat, 75

LaGrange, 276

Lamps, 482

Lap tea, 330

Lawrence, Abbott, 23

LeBaron’s alley, 65, 112, 116

LeBaron, Francis, 124

LeBaron, Isaac, 172, 311

LeBaron, Lazarus, 116, 124

Lectures, 331

Legal votes, 355

Leo, privateer, 224

Leonard, James E., 137

Letters, 190

Letter writing, 190

Letters of marque, 223

Leyden Hall, 151

Leyden street, 110

Light Guard of New York, 119

Lightning struck, 55

Linden tree, 15, 513

Lindsy-woolsy, 521

Livery, 437

Lobsters, 75

Locomotives, 464

Long, John D., 380, 382

Long, Thomas, 17

Long wharf, 73, 77

Lord, Arthur, 384

Lord Surrey, 126

Lord, Wm. H., 230, 259, 342

Lothrop estate, 261

Lothrop, Isaac, 192

Lothrop, Nathaniel, 262, 310

Loud, Jacob H., 115

Lovell, Leander, 35

Loyalists, 9

Lucas, Joseph, 298

Mackie, Andrew, 311

Macomber, John, 140

Madan Society, 331

Main street, 12, 146

Mansion house, 157, 260

Marcy House, 115, 264

Market, 350

Market street, 137

Marine Insurance, 475

Marriage, 496

Marriage laws, 496

Marston, John, 401

Mason, Albert, 174

Mason, Jeremiah, 438

Masonic building, 161

Massachusetts Fire Society, 474

Massachusetts in the War, 389, 397

Massachusetts troops at front, 396

Masters of vessels, 30

Matches, 492

Mayflower Lodge, 54

Mayflower relics, 496

Maynard, Francis L., 176

Maynard, Mrs., school, 177

McKay, Donald, 48

McKay, Nathaniel White, 48

McKay’s ships, 447

McPherson, James B., 415

Medford ship building, 48

Meeting houses, 118, 322, 445

Merrimac ship building, 48

Merritt, Samuel, 106, 161, 185

Middle street, 13

Migration to Nova Scotia, 303

Militia, 450, 452

Militia law, 450

Milk carts, 55

Mill dam, 443

Milman, Henry H., 134

Moderator, 352

Modes of travel, 437

Monteth, 507

Morey, Wm., family, 144

Morse, Anthony, 156, 272

Morton, Ichabod, family, 307

Morton, James, 304

Morton, Nathaniel, 6

Moustaches, 516

Musters, 451

Mysterious stranger, 126

Nancy and Eliza, 139

Nantasket Steamboat Co., 78

Natural History Society, 187

Naverino bonnets, 120

Navy, 429

Navy enlistments, 418

Nelson, Wm., 297

Nelson, Wm., family, 298

Nelson, Wm. H., 301

New Guinea, 130

Newport News, 401

New streets, Boston, 444

Nicolson, Samuel, 58

Nicolson, Thomas, 82

Nine months’ men, 409

North River ship building, 47

North street, 14, 17, 26, 264

Notes for prayers, 479

Nye, Wm., 33

O’Connell, Daniel, 135

Odd Fellows’ building, 173

Odd Fellows’ Hall, 178

Oehme, F. G., 310

Officers and sailors, total, 418

Old Bank house, 257

Old Colony Bank, 168, 257

Old Colony Club, 264

Old Colony Democrat, 156

Old Colony Hall, 146

Old Colony Hotel, 199

Old Colony House, 234

Old Colony Insurance Co., 154, 168

Old Colony Memorial, 149, 179, 292

Old Colony National Bank, 187

Old Colony Railroad, 239, 468, 470

Old tenor, 349

Olney, Zaben, 137

Omnibus, 439, 440

Optimists, 289

Oranges, 108

Oregon steamer, 24

Orphicleide, 175

Osgood, Samuel, 369

Otis Place, 441

Ovens, 484

Overcoats, 521

Ox-eyed Juno, 290

Packets, 67, 70

Paine, John S., 53

Paine’s Hall, 53

Painters, 53

Pall bearers, 480

Palmer, Wm., 323

Parker, Dr., 311

Parker, Ebenezer G., 15

Paper, wood, 471

Parties, 331

Passing bell, 480

Patchwork, 487

Patent windlass, 58

Pattens, 522

Payne, John Howard, 455

Peace, 333

Peace Society, 332

Peel, Sir Robert, 135

Pemberton Square, 442

Pens, 494

Perkins, John, 230, 231

Perry, N. M., 234

Pessimists, 289

Peterson, Reuben, 176

Pianos, 330

Pierce, Ebenezer W., 402

Pierce, Ignatius, 19

Pin in throat, 320

Pilgrim bones, 29

Pilgrim burials, 325

Pilgrim epidemic, 8

Pilgrim Hall, 17

Pilgrim House, 158, 161

Pilgrim name, 28

Pilgrim plates, etc., 153

Pilgrim Society, 16, 26, 27, 334, 357

Pilgrim wharf, 78

Pinkies in Plymouth, 45

Pipe smoking, 519

Plagiarisms, 504

Plague in Constantinople, 273

Plymouth Band, 175

Plymouth bounds, 7

Plymouth boys, 399

Plymouth Cordage Co., 239, 240, 241

Plymouth County loan, 163

Plymouth Hotel, 156

Plymouth incorporated, 7

Plymouth Rock, 27, 29

Plymouth Rock House, 15

Plymouth Rock Guards, 395

Plymouth Institution for Savings, 167, 263

Plymouth Savings Bank, 167, 168, 187

Plymouth Tavern, 188, 194

Plums, 510

Police, 447

Political parties, 293

Pompey, slave, 123

Pope, Richard, 67

Popular aid, 396

Porringers, 506

Porter, Eliphalet, 360

Portuguese, 435

Postage, 189

Post carriage, 439

Post office, 145, 188

Postmaster, 191

Post route, 188

Potomac River, 403

Potter, Richard, 457

Potter ventriloquist, 25

Powder house, 454

Practical jokes, 149

Preston, Amariah, 183, 184

Preston, Hervey, N. 176

Prince Albert, 135

Privateers, 58, 223

Professor Channing, 346

Professor Lovering, 347

Professor Pierce, 346

Provincetown, 435

Public schools, 345

Puddings, 484

Pudding before meat, 264, 497

Puget Sound ice, 108

Puget Sound piles, 108

Purchased recruits, 418, 426

Queen apples, 186

Queen Victoria, 135

Queen’s ware, 507

Quilting, 487

Quincy, Josiah, 347

Quota, 408

Railroad cars, 464

Railroad, Old Colony, 468

Railroads, 464, 466

Railroad ties, 470

Railroads in England, 467

Railroads in France, 467

Rainbow, schooner, 71

Raisings, 36, 489

Randall, Wm., 137

Rations, 399

Razors, 515

Rebel invasion, 231

Recruits, 416, 417

Reed, Nathan, 138

Relay House, 403

Reservoirs, 477

Rickard land, 112

Riggers, 57

Ripley, Wm. P., 17

Road at Eel River, 10

Roasting Jack, 506

Robbins, Chandler, 117

Robbins, Henry Howard, 175

Robbins, Josiah, 35, 265

Robbins, Leavitt Taylor, 244

Robbins lumber yard, 244

Robbins, Samuel, 145

Robbins, Thomas, 363

Roberts, Robert, 120

Robinson Iron Co., 263

Rodman, Wm. L., 409

Rogers, William, 15

Rope Walk lane, 136, 267

Rulings, 353

Russell, Bridgham, 143

Russell House, 199, 200, 203

Russell, John, family, 271

Russell, John, house, 270

Russell, John, J., 271

Russell, John J., family, 272

Russell, LeBaron, 342

Russell, Nathaniel, 201

Russell, Nathaniel, family, 202, 262

Russell, N. & Co., 263

Russell packet, 69

Russell, Thomas, 123, 287

Russell, Thomas, family, 123

Russell, Wm. G., 154, 287

Russell, Wm. S., 165

Sabbath, 488

Sail makers, 54

Sale of liquors, 307

Saltpetre, 171

Samoset House, 238, 469

Sampson, Schuyler, 294

Sampson, Simeon, 46

Sampson, Zabdiel, 293

Scallop, 28

Scarlet fever, 259

School bell, 339

School house, 338

School, school street, 230

Schools, 338

School teachers, 147, 243

Schooner Daniel Webster, 222

Schooner Exchange, 64

Schooner Maracaibo, 64

Schooner Mercury, 64

Schooners in Plymouth, 45

Schooner Welcome Return, 220

Schooner Vesper, 64

Scudder, Alonzo D., 32, 34

Second Brook, 11

Second Boston Church, 197

Sectarianism, 66

Selectmen, 352

Sever, Charles, 238

Sewage, 46

Sewall, Samuel, 6, 121

Seward, Wm. H., 370

Sexton, 260, 448

Seymour, Webster, 54

Sharpsburg, 413

Shaving, 515

Shaw’s Brook, 11

Shaw, Ichabod, 52

Shaw, Southworth, 52

Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 9

Sherley, James, 7

Sherman block, 179

Sherman, E. C., 173

Sherman, Edward L., 315

Sherman, Samuel, 143

Ship Arbella, 62

Ship builders, 446

Ship fever, 8

Ship heeling, 63

Ship Great Republic, 49

Ship Iconium, 42

Ship Levant, 63

Ship Massasoit, 46

Ship Mayflower, 61

Ship Ocean Monarch, 285

Ship Royal George, 63

Ships in Plymouth, 44

Ship yards, 46

Shipwrights, 57

Shoe business, 257, 258

Shooting Star schooner, 222

Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., 379

Shurtleff tavern, 139

Shurtleff, Wm., 137

Simeon, Sampson, 46

Simmons, Beulah, 55

Simmons, George, 56, 68

Simmons, Lemuel, 54, 235

Simmons, Wm. D., 33

Simmons, Wm. H., 53

Singing school, 54

Sirius steamship, 465

Skippers, 94

Slang phrases, 525

Slave return, 130

Slavery, 128

Slave story, 130

Slaves, 127

Slaves in Plymouth, 128, 129

Slave trade, 127, 359

Sleds, 206

Sliding, 205

Sloops in Plymouth, 45

Small clothes, 119

Smith, John, 6

Smoking, 517

Smoking laws, 518

Smoot, Wm. H., 156

Snake heads, 466

Snare drum, 176

Snuff, 517

Soil, 510

Soldiers, 427

Soldiers killed, 430

Soldiers total, 418

Soldiers wounded, 431

Sound of bells, 340

South Boston, 443

South Mountain, 410

Spear, Wm. F., 315

Spear, Wm. H., 315

Speedwell, steamer, 286

Spinning wheels, 521

Spooner, Allen Crocker, 284

Spooner, Bourne, 239

Spooner, James, 31

Spooner, James and Ephraim, 146

Spooner, Thomas, 242

Spooner, Wm., 33, 200

Sprague, Peleg, 362

Spring Hill, 143

Stables, 437

Stage drivers, 159

Stages, 76, 158, 438

Standish Guards, 143, 387, 390, 391, 407, 409, 418, 450

Standish, Joshua, 52

Stanton, E. M., 414

Star Spangled banner, 393

Steamboats, 72, 76, 498

Steamer Cambridge, 398

Steam navigation, 465

Steamer Savannah, 498

Steamer Vanderbilt, 401

Stephens, Lemuel, 55, 289

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 108

Stickney, J. Henry, 27

Stoddard, Isaac N., 259, 340

Stones, 510

Strap rails, 464, 466

Street lamps, 448

Streets, 454

Striped pig, 452

Strong, Benjamin O., 152

Sturtevant house, 267

Sturtevant, Wm., 267

Suffolk Bank system, 296

Sugar baker’s molasses, 172

Sullivan, Wm., 360

Summer street, Boston, 440

Sumner, Charles, 369

Sumner, George, 375

Sunday bell, 339

Sunflower, 508

Surplus revenue, 436

Talbot, Samuel, 144

Taylor Brothers, 17

Taylor, Edward, 16

Teachers’ marriages, 268

Telegraph, 274

Telegraph office, 185

Tellers, 354

Temperance Society, 36, 146

Thacher, James, 238, 276

Thacher, James, family, 279

Theatre alley, 441

Theft of peaches, 269

The old lilac tree, 282

Third Regiment, 395, 409, 419, 425

Thirty-eighth Regiment, 408, 424

Thirty-second Regiment, 408, 423

Thomas Gamaliel, 171

Thomas house, 13

Thomas, John, 32, 238

Thomas, Joshua, 194

Thomas, Joshua, family, 194

Thomas, Priscilla, 191

Thomas, Wm., 194

Thompson, Cephas G., 145

Thompson, Joseph P., 378

Thrasher, Joshua, 352

Tinder box, 493

Tinker’s Rock, 11

Three months men, 419

Thurber, James, 166

Thurber, James D., 425

Tobacco, 517

Tobey, Edward, S., 377

Toll bridges, 443

Tomato, 278, 508

Tomlinson, Russell, 318

Tontine block, 442

Toothpicks, 519

Torrey, Henry W., 288

Toucey, Isaac, 397

Town affairs, 351

Town bell, 448

Town house, 349, 350

Town meetings, 322, 349, 352, 417

Townsend, Samuel R., 340

Town Square trees, 513

Town trees, 513

Trees, 12, 508

Tremont theatre, 456

Tribble, Isaac, 53

Tribble, John, 53

Trombone, 176

Troops at Fortress Munroe, 400

Troops at Newport News, 401

Troops in Washington, 393, 394

Trousers, 521

Trousers, tight, 161

Trundle bed, 514

Tug boats, 463

Tulips, 508

Tureens, 506

Turner, David, 52, 166

Turner, E. S., 38

Turner, Madam Marie, 334

Turner, Misses, 54

Turner’s Hall, 53

Turnpikes, 439

Twenty-fourth, unattached, 427

Twenty-ninth Regiment, 420, 421

Twenty-third Regiment, 408, 422

Uncles, 235

Union building, 161

Universalist Society, 114

Upham, Charles W., 369

Varioloid, 260

Vaughn, Oliver C., 33

Vaults, 460

Velma Bark, 221

Ventilation, 461

Vessels of Edward Holmes, 219

Vessels of Ezra Weston & Sons, 214

Vessels of Joseph Holmes, 216

Voting restrictions, 356

Voyage in the Hibernia, 276

Waffles, 485

Wagons, 206, 437

Waite, Return, 116

Walker, John, 248

Walking-sides, 455

War appropriations, 395

War meeting, 392, 394

War of 1812, 223, 333

War preparation, 390

War ship Roanoke, 401

Warren, Charles H., 364

Warren, Henry, family, 169

Warren House, 169

Warren, Pelham W., 232

Warren, Winslow, 169

Washburn, John, 146

Washington, 392, 403, 413

Washington, celebration, 385

Washington street, 443

Washington treaty, 88

Watchmakers, 183, 184

Watchmen, 448

Water pipes, 233

Watering Place, 11

Water street, 26, 29, 30, 31, 52

Watson, Benjamin M., 291

Watson, Benjamin Marston, 196

Watson, Benjamin Marston, family, 196

Watson, Edward W., 235

Watson, Edward W., poem, 237

Watson, George, 15

Watson, Harriet L., 290

Watson, John, 191

Watson, Wm., 191

Watson, Winslow M., 290

Web fingers, 14

Webster celebration, 1849, 387

Webster, Daniel, 357

Webster, Ervin, 185, 310

Webster’s oration, 127

Wells, 114

Wells, Horace, 275

Wells, Phineas, 34, 35

Whale fishery associates, 60, 61

Wheeler, Charles S., 346

White Elizabeth C., 140

White, Gideon, 9

Whiting, Elisha, 33

Whiting, Wm., 147

Whitman, Wm. H., 314

Whitworth, Miles, 9

Whiskers, 515

Weston, Benjamin, 58

Weston, Coomer, family, 234

Weston, Ezra, 216

Weston, Ezra and Sons, 214

Weston, Lewis, 58

Weston, Patty, school, 9

Weston, Thomas, 317

Wilson, Henry, 379, 305

Wine, 66

Winslow, Edward, 7, 24

Winslow house, 25

Winslow, Joanna, 163

Winslow, Pelham, 163

Winslow street, 15, 273

Winter vegetables, 486

Winthrop Place, 441

Winthrop Place, Boston, 16

Winthrop, Robert C., 377

Winthrop, Theodore, 399

Whale fishery, 59

Wolff, Erick, 414, 425

Wood, Charles James, 312

Wood fuel, 470

Wood’s lane, 238

Wood, Nathaniel, 282

Word derivations, 523

Words and phrases, 523

Wrecks, 93, 219

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