Chapter I: Front Matter

NOOKS AND CORNERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST.

By SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE,

AUTHOR OF "OLD LANDMARKS OF BOSTON," "HISTORIC FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX," &c.

_WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS._

NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Inscribed by Permission, AND WITH SENTIMENTS OF HIGH RESPECT, TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

NEW ENGLAND OF THE ANCIENTS.

Norumbega River and City.--Early Discoverers, and Maps of New England.--Mode of taking Possession of new Countries.--Cruel Usage of Intruders by the English.--Penobscot Bay.--Character of first Emigrants to New England.--Is Friday unlucky? 17

CHAPTER II.

MOUNT DESERT ISLAND.

About Islands.--Champlain's Discovery.--Mount Desert Range.--Somesville, and the Neighborhood.--Colony of Madame De Guercheville.--Descent of Sir S. Argall.--Treasure-trove.--Shell-heaps.--South-west Harbor.--The natural Sea-wall.--Islands off Somes's Sound 27

CHAPTER III

CHRISTMAS ON MOUNT DESERT.

Excursion to Bar Harbor.--Green Mountain.--Eagle Lake.--Island Nomenclature.--Porcupine Islands.--Short Jaunts by the Shore.--Schooner Head.--Spouting Caves.--Sea Aquaria.--Audubon and Agassiz.--David Wasgatt Clark.--F. E. Church and the Artists.--Great Head.--Baye Francoise.--Mount Desert Rock.--Value of natural Sea-marks.--Newport Mountain, and the Way to Otter Creek.--The Islesmen.--North-east Harbor.--The Ovens.--The Gregoires.--Henrietta d'Orleans.--Yankee Curiosity 40

CHAPTER IV.

CASTINE.

Pentagoet.--A Fog in Penobscot Bay.--Rockland.--The Muscongus Grant.--Colonial Society.--Generals Knox and Lincoln.--Camden Hills.--Belfast and the River Penobscot.--Brigadier's Island.--Disappearance of the Salmon.--Approach to Castine.--Fort George.--Penobscot Expedition.--Sir John Moore.--Capture of General Wadsworth.--His remarkable Escape.--Rochambeau's Proposal.--La Peyrouse 58

CHAPTER V.

CASTINE--_continued._

Old Fort Pentagoet.--Stephen Grindle's Windfall.--Cob-money.--The Pilgrims at Penobscot.--Isaac de Razilly.--D'Aulnay Charnisay.--La Tour.--Descent of Sedgwick and Leverett.--Capture of Pentagoet, and Imprisonment of Chambly.--Colbert.--Baron Castin.--The younger Castin kidnaped.--Capuchins and Jesuits.--Intrigues of De Maintenon and Pere Lachaise.--Burial-ground of Castine.--About the Lobster.--Where is Down East? 73

CHAPTER VI.

PEMAQUID POINT.

New Harbor.--Wayside Manners.--British Repulse at New Harbor.--Porgee Factory.--Process of converting the Fish into Oil.--Habits of the Mackerel.--Weymouth's Visit to Pemaquid.--Champlain again.--Popham Colony.--Cotton Mather on new Settlements.--English _vs._ French Endurance.--L'Ordre de Bon Temps.--Samoset.--Fort Frederick.--Resume of the English Settlement and Forts.--John Nelson.--Capture of Fort William Henry.--D'Iberville, the knowing One.--Colonel Dunbar at Pemaquid.--Shell-heaps of Damariscotta.--Disappearance of the native Oyster in New England 87

CHAPTER VII.

MONHEGAN ISLAND.

Scenes on a Penobscot Steamer.--The Islanders.--Weymouth's Anchorage.--Monhegan described.--Combat between the _Enterprise_ and _Boxer_.--Lieutenant Burrows 102

CHAPTER VIII.

FROM WELLS TO OLD YORK.

Wells.--John Wheelwright.--George Burroughs.--On the Beach.--Shiftings of the Sands.--What they produce.--Ingenuity of the Crow.--The Beach as a High-road.--Popular Superstitions.--Ogunquit.--Bald Head Cliff.--Wreck of the _Isidore_.--Kennebunkport.--Cape Neddock.--The Nubble.--Captains Gosnold and Pring.--Moon-light on the Beach 109

CHAPTER IX.

AGAMENTICUS, THE ANCIENT CITY.

Mount Agamenticus.--Basque Fishermen.--Sassafras.--The Long Sands.--Sea-weed and Shell-fish.--Foot-prints.--Old York Annals.--Sir Ferdinando Gorges.--York Meeting-house.--Handkerchief Moody.--Parson Moody.--David Sewall.--Old Jail.--Garrison Houses, Scotland Parish 123

CHAPTER X.

AT KITTERY POINT, MAINE.

York Bridge.--Poor Sally Cutts.--Fort M'Clary.--Sir William Pepperell.--Louisburg and Fontenoy.--Gerrish's Island.--Francis Champernowne.--Islands belonging to Kittery.--John Langdon.--Jacob Sheaffe.--Washington at Kittery 141

CHAPTER XI.

THE ISLES OF SHOALS.

De Monts sees them.--Smith's and Levett's Account.--Cod-fishery in the sixteenth Century.--Sail down the Piscataqua.--The Isles.--Derivation of the Name.--Jeffrey's Ledge.--Star Island.--Little Meeting-house.--Character of the Islesmen.--Island Grave-yards.--Betty Moody's Hole.--Natural Gorges.--Under the Cliffs.--Death of Miss Underhill.--Story of her Life.--Boon Island.--Wreck of the _Nottingham_.--Fish and Fishermen 153

CHAPTER XII.

THE ISLES OF SHOALS--_continued._

Excursion to Smutty Nose.--Piracy in New England Waters.--Blackbeard.--Thomas Morton's Banishment.--Religious Liberty _vs._ License.--Custom of the May-pole.--Samuel Haley.--Spanish Wreck on Smutty Nose.--Graves of the Unknown.--Terrible Tragedy on the Island.--Appledore.--Its ancient Settlement.--Smith's Cairn.--Duck Island.--Londoner's.--Thomas B. Laighton.--Mrs. Thaxter.--Light-houses in 1793.--White Island.--Story of a Wreck. 175

CHAPTER XIII.

NEWCASTLE AND NEIGHBORHOOD.

The Way to the Island.--The Pool.--Ancient Ships.--Old House.--Town Charter and Records.--Influence of the Navy-yard.--Fort Constitution.--Little Harbor.--Captain John Mason.--The Wentworth House.--The Portraits.--The Governors Wentworth and their Wives.--Baron Steuben 196

CHAPTER XIV.

SALEM VILLAGE, AND '92.

The Witch-ground.--Antiquity of Witchcraft.--First Case in New England.--Curiosities of Witchcraft.--Rebecca Nurse.--Beginning of Terrorism at Salem Village.--Humors of the Apparitions.--General Putnam's Birthplace.--What may be seen in Danvers 208

CHAPTER XV.

A WALK TO WITCH HILL.

Salem in 1692.--Birthplace of Hawthorne.--Old Witch House.--William Stoughton, Governor.--Witch Hill.--A Leaf from History 220

CHAPTER XVI.

MARBLEHEAD.

The Rock of Marblehead.--The Harbor and Neck.--Chat with the Light-keeper.--Decline of the Fisheries.--Fishery in the olden Time.--Early Annals of Marblehead.--Walks about the Town.--Crooked Lanes and antique Houses.--The Water-side.--The Fishermen.--How the Town looked in the Past.--Plain-spoken Clergymen and lawless Parishioners.--Anecdotes.--Jeremiah Lee and his Mansion.--The Town-house.--Chief-justice Story.--St. Michael's Church.--Elbridge Gerry.--The old Ironsides of the Sea.--General John Glover.--Flood Ireson's, Oakum Bay.--Fort Sewall.--Escape of the _Constitution_ Frigate.--Duel of the _Chesapeake_ and _Shannon_.--Old Burial-ground.--The Grave-digger.--Perils of the Fishery 228