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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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n the cod, though the cod hangs tothis day in the State House at Boston as the emblem of its prosperity,while only here and there in the country lingers some dim traditionof the beaver, where an embankment across some secluded meadowsuggests that a dam may once have been there. The Pilgrims, how- 1 Smiths General Historie ; The Landing at Cape Anne, by J. Wingate Thornton.VOL. I, 27 418 THE PILGRIMS AT PLYMOUTH. (Chap. XV. ever, built a large frame house and put up a stage for drying fish asthe nucleus of a settlement. But here the Lyford trouble was tobreak out again and plague them. The first result of the dissolution of the Company in London whichfollowed his exposure was the sending out of a ship by someof the adventurers who had upheld Lyford, upon a voyagewhich could hardly fail to come into competition with theirlate associates. The vessel, under the command of one Hewes, arrivedearly in the season and finding this place at Cape Ann unoccupied, he The fishingstation atCape Ann.
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took possession of thebuilding and fishing-stagewhich the Plymouth peo-ple had built for their ownconvenience. The newsof this proceeding soonreached Plj^mouth, andCaptain Standish was sentwith a company to expelthe intruders. A surrender was demanded; Hewes piled up a barri-cade of hogsheads at the stage-head, and secure behind these with hisship in the rear, as his base of operations, defied the Captain. Highwords passed and might have ended in bloodshed, for as a littlechimney is soon fired, so was the Plymouth captain, a man of verylittle stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper. ^ But the fortifi- 1 Hubbards History of New England. Barricade at Cape Ann. 1624.) THE CAPE ANN COLONY. 419 cation was one not to be easily carried, and an attack from the opencountry could only be made at the greatest disadvantage. There happened to be present, however, Captain William Peirce ina ship from Plymouth, and one Roger Conant of Nantasket, and attheir intercession the anger of Standish was

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