Identifier: townsnewengland02stat (find matches)
Title: Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland ... connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England, Ireland and Scotland; containing narratives, descriptions, and many views, some done from old prints; also much matter pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic;
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955
Subjects: Cities and towns Cities and towns Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Publisher: Boston, Mass.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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its attractiveness to Americansand Englishmen. The Earl of Warwick was Governor-in-Chief of Foreign Plan-tations and chairman of the Commission that granted the charter to the RhodeIsland town and affirmed Gortons right to Shawomet. It was out of gratitude tohim that the old name of Shawomet was changed to Warwick in the year 1647.Thousands of Americans each year visit the old residential seat of the Earls ofWarwick, Warwick Castle, now leased to Henry W. Marsh, Esq., of New York, of ffi P !? t» O 7* Cu^ f^ ro r:n -I • IT ^ i_( rn, S-. •-t <; c/i c/3 _-r^ r^ P rec* ^ ni c 1-1 -T- O ^ ^^P —. a o 2 r+o n> <^ ^ o g:-^ a ■ ::;^ re O 5. i-j p re r^ -r S 3 ^^ o l-^ p ^ OP 3 < r^ ^ ^^ re re • £i 3 ■_, re ^ ■I <^ 2. ,„• re -=£ 3 ^ g S- ^ CD P p-5-^ 3 5;^ o re 5* P-ire Hf 8 re g«3 5.^0
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200 WARWICK, MASSACHUSETTS and RHODE ISLAND the Harvard Class of 85, who was Assistant Manager of the Harvard Surgical Unitwhich did such splendid work during the war that it was commended in a letterwritten by King George V. The Unit began service on July 17, 1915, at the 22ndGeneral Hospital in France, where it carried on till the end of the war, caringfor a tenth of the British casualties on the Western Front. On its return toBoston, the weather-stained Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack which hadflown over the hospital during the years of strife were presented at a mass meetingat the Harvard Club of Boston to President Lowell, who turned them over to theHarvard Medical School. The members of this Unit were entertained at the Castleon their way through England and while there had an opportunity to see the wonder-ful paintings by Van Dyck, Velasquez, Reynolds, Rubens, Holbein and others,also the peacocks for which the Castle has long been famous, and the attractivegrounds. One of

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