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Our colonial homes (1894)

Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Lee and Shepard · leaf 71

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nd belonging to the neighboring tribe. Itcarried me straight back to the day when our fathers were beggars fora few poor acres of land ; when all Plymouth was afraid of one solitary,naked Indian, armed only with bow and arrows ; when, in short, theIndian was something more than a symbol for our… … THE MIXOT HOMESTEAD. DORCHESTER. MASS. unfortunately, took fire, and was nearly destroyed. Our picturepresents it in all its antique simplicity. The loss of this house was to be regretted for more reasonsthan one ; it was a most characteristic specimen of the very earliesthouses, of which too few…

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