Stories From Marthas Vineyard - 23 stories, myths and legends from Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island and Cape Cod E-Book

Compiled By John Halsted

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

VINLAND, Claudia and Cabo de la Arenas have been but a few of the names given previously to Cape Cod. As far back as 985AD the Cape had been visited by the likes of Leif Eiriksson, although this is disputed, Giovanni da Verrazzano (1524AD), Estêvão Gomes (1525AD), Samuel de Champlain (1606AD), Bartholomew Gosnold (1602AD), Henry Hudson (1609AD) and Captain John Smith (1614AD). It was Gosnold who had the honor and privilege of being the final arbiter of the Cape’s name in 1602AD. With such a long history it is therefore not surprising that much has been written and said about Cape Cod. Herein readers will find 23 such stories, collected from various sources, with origins in Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, Cape Cod and Block Island. Stories like The Headless Skeleton of Swamptown, The Crow And Cat Of Hopkinshill, The Old Stone Mill, The Windam Frogs, Moodus Noises and many more. Appropriately, the book is commenced with a facsimile of The Mayflower Compact and ends with the Story of King Philip, Grand Sachem and Chief of the Wampanoag Tribe. MARTHA'S VINEYARD, called "Noepe" by the Native Americans, which in their picturesque language means "In the Midst of the Sea," is the largest island on the south-eastern coast of Massachusetts. However, there are those who correctly point out that there is no such place as Martha's Vineyard, except in geography and common speech. That it’s correct name is Martin Wyngaard's Island, so was named by Skipper Block, an Albany Dutchman. Sea fog is not uncommon in the area. When a fog started rising the Native Americans would say, "Here comes old Maushope's smoke"—but you will have to read the book to find out just why they say this.

Leseprobe

Legends & Stories

from

Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket

&

Block Island

Compiled by

John Halsted

With excerpts from

Myths and Legends of Our Own Land

by Charles M. Skinner [1896]

and from

MARTHA'S VINEYARD

by Henry Franklin Norton [1923]

as well as other sources.

Legends & Stories From Martha's Vineyard

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2014

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Abela Publishing

London

United Kingdom

2014

ISBN-13: 978-1-909302-90-7

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Frontispiece

The Edgartown Lighthouse

CONTENTS

The May-Flower Compact

Martha's Vineyard And Nantucket

Introduction

Love And Treason

The Headless Skeleton Of Swamptown

The Crow And Cat Of Hopkinshill

The Old Stone Mill

The Origin Of A Name

Micah Rood Apples

A Dinner And Its Consequences

The New Haven Storm Ship

The Windam Frogs

The Lamb Of Sacrifice

Moodus Noises

Haddam Enchantments

Block Island

Introduction

The Buccaneer

Robert Lockwood's Fate

Love And Rum

The Whole History Of Grandfather's Chair

Chapter I

Chapter II

The Lady Arbella

Chapter III

The Red Cross

Chapter IV

Chapter V

The Loyalists Of Massachusetts

Punishment For Wearing Long Hair In New

England

School Discipline In The State Of

Massachusetts

The Schoolmaster's Soliloquy

The Story Of King Philip

I. Philip's People

II. Philip's Childhood Home

III. Massasoit And His Two Sons

IV. Philip Hears Of The English

V. Philip Meets The English

VI. Philip's Education

VII. Philip's Daily Life

VIII. Philip's Relations With The English

IX. Philip Becomes Grand Sachem

X. Philip's Troubles With The Whites

XI. Philip And The Indian Councils

XII. King Philip's War

XIII. The Last Days Of Philip

A Facsimile Of The Treaty Made At

Taunton

THE MAY-FLOWER COMPACT

In ye name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwriten, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord, King James, by ye grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc, & Ireland king, defender of ye faith, &c., haveing under taken, for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith, and honour of our king & countrie, a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of another, covenant & combine our selves together into a civill body politick, for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid: and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, actes, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall good of ye Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witnes wherof we have here under subscribed our names at Cape-Codd ye 11. of November, in ye year of ye raigne of our soveraigne lord, King James, of England, France, & Ireland ye eighteenth, and of Scotland ye fiftie fourth. Ano. Dom. 1620.

MARTHA'S VINEYARD

AND

NANTUCKET

Introduction

An excerpt from

MARTHA'S VINEYARD by Henry Franklin Norton, 1923.

MARTHA'S VINEYARD, called "Noepe" by the Indians, which means in their picturesque language "In the Midst of the Sea," is the largest island on the southeastern coast of Massachusetts. It is twenty miles long and nine miles wide and but a few feet above the sea level in the eastern part, which is known as the Plains, one of the largest tracts of level ground in New England. However, the land gradually rises to an elevation of over three hundred feet above the sea level at Peaked Hill in Chilmark, not Indian Hill as believed by many summer visitors.