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Title: The history of Charlestown, Massachusetts
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Frothingham, Richard, 1812-1880
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Publisher: Boston : C.C. Little and J. Brown
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ayed, and having apiece of match in his pocket, (for he always carried about him match andcompass, and in summer time snake-weed,) he made a good fire near thehouse, and lay down upon some old mats, which he found there, and sospent the night, sometimes walking by the fire, sometimes singingpsalms, and sometimes getting wood, but could not sleep. Tt was (throughGods mercy) a warm night; but a little before dav it began to rain, and,having no cloak, he made shift by a long pole to climb up into the house.In the morning, there came thither an Indian squaw, but perceiving herbefore she had opened the door, he barred her out: yet she stayed therea great while essaying to get in, and at last she went away, and he re-turned safe home, his servants having walked about, and shot off pieces,and halloed in the night, but he heard them not. 1 Winthrop, vol. i. p. 69. This year a fort was built on Corn Hill atBoston ; Winthrop writes May 25, Charlestown men came and wroughtupon the fortification.
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&?* S s 52 I So HISTORY OF CHAK.LESTOWN. 63 lands Prospect, accompanied by a map, which is dated 1635.This was the first map of New England, made after its settlement;the fac-simile of a section of it represents Massachusetts, probably,in 1633. Wood furnishes the following description of Charles-town : — On the North-side of Charles River is Charles Towne, whichis another neck of land, on whose North side runs Misticke-river.This towne for all things, may be well paraleld with her neighbor,Boston, being in the same fashion with her bare necke, and con-strained to borrow conveniences from the Maine, and to providefor themselves farmes in the countrey for their better subsistance.At this towne there is kept a Ferry-boate, to conveigh passengersover Charles River, which betweene the two Townes is a quarterof a mile over, being a very deepe channell. Here may ride fortyships at a time. Vp higher it is a broad Bay, being above twomiles betweene the shores, into which runnes stony-riv

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