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Title: Cape Cod and the Old colony
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Brigham, Albert Perry, 1855-1932
Subjects: Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Cape Cod (Mass.)
Publisher: New York and London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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ddrivers, surveyors of Itimber, public weighersand a committee for the care of public wells.One from west of the Berkshires has to havesome of these enigmas solved for him, but hecan well imagine all sorts of arbitrations andadjudications of neighborly or unneighborlydifferences of opinion. This list of a hundred and thirty names inFalmouth does not include a single name thatstrikes one as foreign, and they are nearly allof British origin. Only one or two have dis-tinctly Biblical names. This would be differ-ent if we were to follow the records back.Even in 1872 the list has a Meltiah, a Job, aZaccheus, an Ezekiel, a Jabez and a Joshua. The legislation of the town meetings showsa survival of old ways and thoughts in theofficial life. Among the articles in the reportof the town meeting of 1917 is this—To seeif the town will vote to restrain horses, neatcattle and swine from rtinning at large withinthe limits of the town the year ensuing; votedthat they be so restrained. To see if the
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Three Centuries of Population 249 town will vote to sell the herrings from oneor more of its rivers, etc. Then follow thevarious regulations of the herring catch thatwere voted. If there can be such a thing as a cheerful bur-ial place it is the modem cemetery of Falmouthvillage. Seen in an August Simday morning,it joined in perfect blending the loveliness ofnature with simple art and gentle memory.It is a natural forest, oaks and a few pines,open to the sun which floods the silky green ofthe turf, the brilliancy gently toned by theshadows of the trees. The lots are in lowterraces, and the monuments and headstonesare modest and simple. The names on these stones taken at randomare a perfect record of Americanism, or if youplease, of the Anglo-Saxon blood. Here arethe names—Swift, Bourne, Baker, Pierce,Clark, Lawrence, Walker, Davis, Thayer,Phinney, WilHams, Spencer, Turner, Waters,Gifford, Jenkins, Hatch, Nye, Fish, Crosby,Robinson, Wright, Hamblin, Sanford. Thesenames in their silenc

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