The History of New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts: Including a History of the Old Township of Dartmouth and the Present Townships of Westport, Dartmouth, and Fairhaven, from Their Settlement to the Present Time |
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Acushnet River appears Bartholomew Gosnold Bedford Bedford and Fairhaven Benjamin born Boston Bowdoin brig British built Buzzard's Bay called Capt Captain Clark's Point Court Cuttyhunk Delano died Dec died Jan died March early Ebenezer Elisha Elizabeth Islands England Ephraim Fairhaven father George Gosnold Hathaway Howland hundred Indian inhabitants islet James Jenne Jireh John Cooke John Russell Jonathan Joseph Rotch Joseph Russell Kempton land late Martha's Vineyard meeting-house merchants miles Nantucket Naushon old township Perry Plymouth Plymouth Colony port present probably proprietors purchase records residence road Russell's Mills sailed Samuel Rodman Samuel West Samuel Willis Sept Seth Pope settlers SHEARMAN ship shore sloop Society of Friends sperm spermaceti Taber Tallman Thomas tion Tobey town township of Dartmouth TRIPP troops vessels village voyage Westport whale whale-fishery wharf whole share widow wife William Rotch woods
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Page 53 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place...
Page 54 - We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this...
Page 178 - Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought, His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men.
Page 178 - Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Page 267 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 51 - Whoever supposes that shouts and hosannas will terminate the trials of this day entertains a childish fancy. He must be grossly ignorant of the importance and value of the prize for which we contend; we must be equally ignorant of the power of those who have combined against us; we must be blind to that malice, inveteracy, and insatiable revenge which actuate our enemies, public and private, abroad and in our bosoms, to hope that we shall end this controversy without the sharpest conflicts — to...
Page 53 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Page 177 - Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; 10 Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete!
Page 68 - ... gently blows. Bold, hardy men, with blooming age, Our sandy shores produce ; With monstrous fish they dare engage, And dangerous callings choose. Now towards the early dawning east We speed our course away, With eager minds and joyful hearts To meet the rising day. Then, as we turn our wondering eyes, We view one constant show ; Above, around, the circling skies, The rolling seas below. When eastward, clear of Newfoundland, We stem the frozen pole, We see the icy islands stand, The northern billows...
Page 68 - Cape Cod, our dearest, native land, We leave astern, and lose Its sinking cliffs and lessening sands, While Zephyr gently blows. Bold, hardy men, with blooming age, Our sandy shores produce ; With monstrous fish they dare engage, And dangerous callings choose. Now towards the early dawning cast We speed our course away, With eager minds, and joyful hearts, To meet the rising day.