Book/Printed Material Rambles in colonial byways, Volume 1
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Image 2 of Volume 1- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Image 4 of Volume 1- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 5 of Volume 1 Rambles in Colonial Byways BY RUFUS ROCKWELL WILSON Illustrated from drawings By William Lincoln Hudson and from photographs Vol. I. LC Philadelphia & London J. B. Lippincott Company 1901- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 6 of Volume 1 Copyright, 1900 By J. B. Lippincott Company 80510 Library of Congress TWO COPIES RECEIVED NOV 26 1900 Copyright entry Nov. 26 1900 a 28933 No. SECOND COPY Delivered to ORDER DIVISION DEC…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 8 of Volume 1- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 9 of Volume 1 7 Author's Note Interest in the colonial and Revolutionary periods grows and widens with each passing year. Should the present record of the writer's rambles in nooks and byways, rich in memories…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 10 of Volume 1 8 I desire to express my thanks to my longtime friend, Augustus S. Hooker, for suggestions and information which have been of the greatest value in the preparation of these volumes, and…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 11 of Volume 1 Contents CHAPTER PAGE I. Two Atlantic Islands 13 II. Some Colonial Nooks 45 III. Rambles in Old New York 76 IV. In The Wake of the Patroons 109 V. The Albany Post…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 12 of Volume 1- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 13 of Volume 1 Illustrations PAGE Sunnyside, Home of Washington Irving Frontispiece Manor House, Gardiner's Island, New York PAGE 24 Cedarmere, Home of William Cullen Bryant 72 Jumel Mansion, Washington Heights, New York 86 Castle Philipse,…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 14 of Volume 1- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 15 of Volume 1 13 RAMBLES IN COLONIAL BYWAYS CHAPTER I TWO ATLANTIC ISLANDS It is only a short hour's sail from Greenport on the mainland to the sea-girt domain of Gardiner's Island, set down, like…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 16 of Volume 1 14 and the hotel, where one is as completely severed from the rush and clamor of the thing men call civilization as one would be in mid-ocean, while wood and field and…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 17 of Volume 1 15 works of fortification in the legions of the Prince of Orange, in the Low Countries.” Gardiner might have lived out his days in Holland, but being a friend of the Puritans…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 18 of Volume 1 16 Gardiner dwelt as commander for four years, years of ceaseless labor, of constant anxiety, of ever-present danger, and of active warfare with the Pequots,—Gardiner himself was severely wounded in one close…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 19 of Volume 1 17 he knew how to foster and maintain peaceful relations with the red men. Before going to his island he won the good will of Wyandance, later chief of the Montauks, and…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 20 of Volume 1 18 beneficent one was this friendship between the white man and the red. They acted in concert with entire mutual trust, keeping the Long Island tribes on peaceful terms with the English…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 21 of Volume 1 19 of a man. Under this rude memorial, it has been surmised, rests the body of Lion Gardiner. When the time comes to rear a monument to the ideal First Settler here…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 22 of Volume 1 20 “without giving any account thereof to any one whomsoever;” and David Gardiner, although he duly and formally acknowledged his submission to New York, received from Governor Nicholls a renewal of these…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 23 of Volume 1 21 they believed he had concealed somewhere about the manor. Then for a long time Gardiner's Island was a country without a history, but in the first year of the Revolution it…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 24 of Volume 1 22 clams, and lobsters as may supply the daily needs of the inhabitants. Seen from the sea, the island, seven miles long, from one to two wide, and enclosing three thousand good…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 25 of Volume 1 23 is an ancient windmill that supplies the inhabitants with flour, and a little farther back from the sea is the roomy manor-house, built in 1774 and with moss-covered dormer roof, behind…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 26 of Volume 1 24 order, and contentment hold benignant sway from one year's end to another. There is not even a watch-dog on the place, and one is not surprised to learn that the turbulent…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 27 of Volume 1 MANOR HOUSE, GARDINER'S ISLAND, NEW YORK.- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 28 of Volume 1- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 29 of Volume 1 25 making any sign, Lord John Gardiner put off in a boat to board her and inquire what she was. Captain Kidd, whom he had never met before, received Lord John politely,…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 30 of Volume 1 26 to fetch Gardiner, commanded the latter to take and keep for him or order a chest and a box of gold, a bundle of quilts, and four bales of goods. The…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 31 of Volume 1 27 silver, gold bars and silver bars, and sixty-nine precious stones “by tale.” However, the only profit derived by Lord John—history, let it be said in passing, tells us that “he had…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 32 of Volume 1 28 Lord John kept the chaplain; the chaplain ran away with and married the daughter; and the daughter kept the diamond. From this union of maid and parson sprang the famous Gardiner-Gard…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 33 of Volume 1 29 leave of Lord John Gardiner's sea-girt domain he headed his course for Block Island, twenty miles to the eastward. We followed in his trail one cloud-free, wind-swept summer morning, and an…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 34 of Volume 1 30 of anything in the shape of trees, save a few pinched and starveling poplars set out around some of the dwellings as a protection from the winds. Ponds are everywhere, several…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 35 of Volume 1 31 Within the great lantern, which rises two hundred and four feet from the sea, four or five people can stand together, its light on a clear night being visible for twenty-one…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 36 of Volume 1 32 Block Island—the Indian name was Manisees, meaning Little God's Island—antedates Plymouth Rock in point of history by nearly a century, it having been first brought to Old World notice in 1524…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 37 of Volume 1 33 island, was a direct descendant in the sixth generation from one of these original settlers. Once settled, the island throve apace, and during the wars between France and England its fertile…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 38 of Volume 1 34 were thoroughly sacked by their mother colony, and then left to the tender mercies of hostile British ships, while to make their plight still worse, they were forbidden by an enactment…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 39 of Volume 1 35 both ends, so that a landsman is never quite sure which is stern and which bow, and with a tall mast stepped almost in the middle of the keel. It is…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 40 of Volume 1 36 sight-seeing in the Cuban city, then provisioned his craft anew, and set sail for the American republic—at large. Unfortunately, in the hurricane he had lost his compass overboard, and most of…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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