Book/Printed Material Rambles in colonial byways, Volume 2
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Image 1 of Volume 2- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Image 2 of Volume 2- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Image 3 of Volume 2 Rambles in Colonial Byways BY RUFUS ROCKWELL WILSON Illustrated from drawings By William Lincoln Hudson and from photographs Vol. II. LC Philadelphia & London J. B. Lippincott Company 1901- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Image 4 of Volume 2 Copyright, 1900 By J. B. Lippincott Company 80512 Library of Congress TWO COPIES RECEIVED NOV 26 1900 Copyright entry Nov. 26, 1900 a 28934 No. SECOND COPY Delivered to ORDER DIVISION DEC…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 5 of Volume 2 Contents CHAPTER PAGE VIII. Along the Eastern Shore 9 IX. The City of the Friends 42 X. Penn's Manor and Beyond 75 XI. God's Peculiar People 107 XII. Bethlehem and Around There…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 6 of Volume 2- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Image 7 of Volume 2 Illustrations PAGE Old Church, Economy, Pennsylvania Frontispiece Mount Custis, an Eastern Shore Homestead 18 Old Swedes' Church, Philadelphia 44 Old St. David's, Radnor, Pennsylvania 86 Saal and Saron, Ephrata, Pennsylvania 122 Sisters'…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Image 8 of Volume 2- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Image 9 of Volume 2 9 RAMBLES IN COLONIAL BYWAYS CHAPTER VIII ALONG THE EASTERN SHORE It was a wise friend who counselled us to begin our tour of the Eastern Shore at Eastville. By the Eastern…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 10 of Volume 2 10 years in this neglected nook, they cling with affectionate tenacity to the manners and customs, the traditions and modes of life, of their forefathers, so that one finds on the peninsula…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 11 of Volume 2 11 sands,—old families whose ancestors date far back into the seventeenth century as men of importance and power. Beside the inlets and rivers that deeply indent the shores of the peninsula stand…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 12 of Volume 2 12 her own dominions, portly Dinah, with white teeth showing beneath her red turban, reigned supreme. The name of Parker is repeated on every page of the early history of the lower…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 13 of Volume 2 13 is the statement, duly chiselled in the marble, that “the foregoing inscription was placed on this stone by the direction of the deceased.” The father-in-law of Mrs. Washington, if not an…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 14 of Volume 2 14 these dead and gone worthies were their comrades and competitors in the saddle or the dugout. Though they delighted to gossip of Chinese silks, brocades, lutestring, taffeta, sarsenet, ginghams, and camlets,—not…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Image 15 of Volume 2 15 news of fashions and revolutions, battles and brocades, cloaks, cardinals, and convicts, sultana plumes, French falls, and the fate of nations.” The spirit of the age was knightly, and the sword,…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 16 of Volume 2 16 Maryland line. Perhaps the most brilliant exploit of the Revolution was the stand made by four hundred of this regiment, under Lord Stirling, on the fatal day of Long Island. In…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 17 of Volume 2 17 military traditions, the golden age of the Eastern Shore went out with the Revolution. Slipshod and sluttish husbandry, that counted it cheaper to take up new land than to foster and…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 18 of Volume 2 18 pauses to knock at its doors. And so the years, as they wax and wane, find the same population on the same soil,—a population composed, now as of old, of three…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 19 of Volume 2 MOUNT CUSTIS, AN EASTERN SHORE HOMESTEAD.- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 20 of Volume 2- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 21 of Volume 2 19 for youthful enterprises. It has no imperial possibilities, and must ever be a nook. Proof of many of these things was before us as we drove to and from Arlington, and…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 22 of Volume 2 20 southward for more than fifty miles from the mouth of Delaware Bay is a narrow strip of sandy beach, its western side washed by the waters of a landlocked sound and…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 23 of Volume 2 21 earn a living wage during nine months of the year. Winter, however, is the season of greatest activity, and then Chincoteague's fleet of oyster-boats is busy from sunrise to sunset. Early…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 24 of Volume 2 22 their tangled manes. They are about thirteen hands high, nearly all sorrels or bays, and are fine-bodied and neatly limbed. The yearlings, which are never gelded, come through the winter with…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 25 of Volume 2 23 and then purchases enough oyster-shells to raise it above high-water mark. The product of this singular practice is a village which stands, as it were, up to its knees in the…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 26 of Volume 2 24 tins, in which condition they will keep for years. Crisfield and its oyster trade belong to the present. Tangier Island, across the Sound, is part and parcel of the past. Much…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 27 of Volume 2 25 far horizons, of restless gray-green water, of vivid marsh grass, and of sweet salt air. Like Chincoteague, it is the home of a hardy, primitive people, who fear God and find…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 28 of Volume 2 26 square, which faces an ivy-covered court-house, while a little way removed from the business centre stands an old Episcopal church, garbed in living green and surrounded with mouldering gravestones carved with…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 29 of Volume 2 27 numbered William Penn among its worshippers. His followers still meet within its walls on First and Fifth Days. Easton suggests in more ways than one the stately affectations of a bygone…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 30 of Volume 2 28 ships and small craft at the very gates of the enemy's ports, in the British and Irish Channels, off the North Cape, on the coasts of Spain and Portugal, in the…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 31 of Volume 2 29 lantic, there are few American water-ways more lovely than the Wye. Its banks are free from the sombre borders of marsh which fringes most of its sister streams, and its channel,…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 32 of Volume 2 30 with one-storied wings, presenting a façade of two hundred feet, looking out upon a noble, tree-strewn lawn, and over engirdling woods to Wye River and the island beyond. Behind the mansion…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 33 of Volume 2 31 a negro boy who escaped from bondage, and became before middle age the foremost figure of his race. In 1881, Frederick Douglass, white-haired and honored of men, was moved to revisit…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 34 of Volume 2 32 and phrase of a barefoot slave boy. Afterwards Douglass plucked flowers from the graves of the dead Lloyds he had known, and at the table drank to the health of the…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 35 of Volume 2 33 patriot cause in the Revolution. No trace remains of the many-roomed house at the lower end of Wye Island, built by Samuel Chew of material brought from England, and long occupied…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 36 of Volume 2 34 lofty columned porticoes, and stretching away on either side are covered arcades, terminating, the one in the kitchen and offices, the other in the grand parlor or ball-room. This grand parlor…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 37 of Volume 2 35 when Paca was governor, and which were loaned for use when Washington resigned his commission. The career of William Paca has been briefly sketched in another place. His last days were…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 38 of Volume 2 36 one of the steamboats trading to Baltimore, which weekly visit the bays and creeks of the Eastern Shore, and which carried us, during the early hours of a sunny afternoon, down…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 39 of Volume 2 37 of St. Mary's, he disputed their jurisdiction over the Eastern Shore, and carried the question through the colonial and English courts. Defeated at every point, Claiborne resolutely maintained his ground, and…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
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Image 40 of Volume 2 38 reinstated the Calverts, with full power over the whole colony. Then Claiborne, deeming the contest hopeless, withdrew to Virginia. There he founded the county of New Kent, in memory of the…- Contributor: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
- Date: 1901-01-01