Identifier: danielricketsonh00rick (find matches)
Title: Daniel Ricketson and his friends; letters, poems, sketches, etc.
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Ricketson, Anna Ricketson, Walton, b. 1839 Ricketson, Daniel, 1813-1898 Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
Subjects: Ricketson, Daniel, 1813-1898
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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influence of the Gulf Stream, which was only sixtymiles from Nantucket at the nearest or 120 milesfrom them. In mid-winter when the wind was S. E.or even S. W. they frequently had days as warm anddebilitatinof as in summer. There is a difference ofa degree in latitude, between Concord and New Bed-ford, but far more in climate. The American hollyis quite common there, with its red berries still hold-ing on, and is now their Christmas evergreen. Iheard the lark sing, strong and sweet, and sawrobins. R. lives in that part of New Bedford, threemiles out of the town, called the Head of the River,i, e, the Acushnet River. There is a Quaker meet-ing-house there. Such an ugly shed without a treeor bush about it, which they call their meeting-house (without steeple of course), is altogether repul-sive to me, lilie a powder-house or grave. And eventhe quietness and perhaps unworldliness of an agedQuaker has something ghostly and saddening aboutit — as it were a mere preparation for the grave.
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EXTRACTS FROM THOREAUS JOURNAL 337 R. said that pheasants from England (where theyare not indigenous) had been imported to Naushon,and were killed there. Sept. 29th, 1855. Go to Daniel Ricketsons, New Bedford. Got outat Tarkiln Hill or Head of the Eiver Station, threemiles this side of New Bedford. Recognized an oldDutch barn. R.s sons, Arthur and Walton, werejust returning from tautog fishing in Buzzards Bay,and I tasted one at supper, — singularly curved fromsnout to tail. Sept. 30th, 1855. Sunday. Rode with R. to Sassacowens Pond, inthe north part of New Bedford on the Tauntonroad. Called also Tobeys Pond, from JonathanTobey, who lives close by, who has a famous law-suit, all about a road he built to Taunton years ago,which he has not got paid for. In which suit hetold us he had spent $30,000; employed Webster.Tobey said the pond was called from the last of theIndians who lived here 100 or 150 years ago, andthat you can still see his cellar-hole, etc., on thewest side of the pond

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