Identifier: herethereinnewen00swee (find matches)
Title: Here and there in New England and Canada
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Sweetser, Moses Foster, 1848-1897
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Publisher: Boston, Passenger Dept., Boston (and) Maine Railroad
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Marblehead had no church-members. Her people came here for fish and fight, and their chief luxury was a glass of grog and a pipeful of dog-leg or pig-tail. But they were an honest and fearless tribe,-—sturdy, generous, and warmhearted. Old St. Michaels, the third Episcopal church in Massachusetts (coming after Kings Chapel, Boston, and Queen Annes Chapel, Newbury), was built in 1714, of materials brought from England, and the stanch oak timbers from the mother-land still uphold the edifice, which was refitted in 1888, and provided with a number of beautiful memorial windows of stained glass, one of them presented l)y the Senate of Massachusetts. The chandelier was given by John Elbridge, esq.,of ye city of Bristol, 1732; the reredos in the chancel came also from English benefactors; and some of the trees in the church-yard were brought from Canterbury. The royal arms were torn down from the reredos and destroyed by Marblehead patriots, who also rang the church-bell until it fell to pieces. 29 m-^
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30 It was at Marblehead, in 1810, that the young Methodist preacher, afterwards world-renowned under the title of Father Taylor, came down to save a sinking church, aud found an unexpected reward in tile lovely Deborah Millett, who became his wife, the famous Mother Taylor of tile next fifty years. Looking across one day from the cliffs of Nahant to the gray houses of Marblehead, the great evangelist jubilantly cried out: There I found a jewel. Of all the smaller harbors on the coast, this is the favorite haven of yachtsmen, and on the blue sea outside are the best courses for racing.For the last few years these waters have been visited by the best yachts in the world. Volunteer, Mayflower, Puritan, Priscilla, Genesta, Galatea, lying at anchor in the snug little harbor for days, and then spreading to the breeze vast clouds of snowy canvas, and stretching to

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