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(1896) in The Heart of Cape Ann: or The Story of Dogtown (Volume 1)
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OR THE
STORY OF DOQTOWN
BY
CHARLES E. MANN
GLOUCESTER, :mass. :
honored progenitors.
CHAPTER I.
WHERE IS DOGTOWN ?
foot-path ;
but as you recede farther from the outer
ocean and approach Gloucester, you come among still
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The straight lines in the triangle represent the
general direction of three very crooked roads. A is
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CHAPTER II.
First Church.
cellar Tammy's
after death. These assertions are
denied bv members of her family who still remain,
house.
Mr. John Low Babson, one of Gloucester's oldest
residents, recalls that in the early twilight of an autum-
nal evening he was going from Fresh Water Cove to
and would often ask her to come and live with her at
reoret was that she had not ordered the church bells
lin. All that rainy day he toiled upon it, and toward
night it was ready for polishing. He had a large
kitchen, and it was his custom when polishing coffins
one sight of the coffin was enoiigli, and she too, \mi-
out one, low down in the pile. The effect was unex-
pected, for at once the whole collection coasted down
the hill into the brook. Tammy's window Hew open.
A torrent of vocal pyrotechnics accompanied the
hours of labor that followed, as that unhappy boy
fished out the pumpkins, and toiled back and forth up
the hill until they were piled up again.
As is well known, a good deal of the land on Dog-
town Commons is in the hands of the Younger
family. I have said that Oliver Younger was brought
up by his aunt, and it seems that he was unaware of
the fact that the. land belonged to his father and not
to her. Many years after his father's death, he was
remarking to one of the i\llens, a neighbor, what a
CHAPTER III.
It was the facts that have been stated that gave the
home of Luce George and Tamm\ Younger such
importance, for almost everybody had to pass it.
opposite, was
Tracy greenhouses are now located,
the home of John Wharf.
When he died it became
his daughter "Poll," or
Polly Boyn-
the property of
Her son sold it to the elder Tracy, who tore it
ton.
IX DOrrTO\\'X VILLAGE.
that lie before him. A few rods beyond the barn the
road makes an al)rupt turn and almost winds back
upon itself. Just at this turn, on the right, is a split
baked Johnny cake, and made life merry for all the
youth who visited her, was not Easter Carter, nor
Becky Rich, but Rachel Smith. am very positive
I
that there are old men living now who as youths used
to go up to Granny Rich's, but who have confused
The Sto)'y of Dogtown. 41
CHAPTER V.
say that she worked out of doors when she was young
because she had to do it, and that she wore men's
clothing for the same reason, until she came to prefer
Her father left his family in this house for safety from
town, and one day when she saw seven soldiers, she
says.
Dade
"Isaac Dade, while a school boy in or near Lon-
don, England, was impressed on board an English
man-of-war. During the Revolution his vessel was
anchored off Gloucester, and it became his duty to
CHAPTER VI.
executioner of hogs.
He was closely acquainted both with Judy Rhines
and Molly Jacobs. He was firmly persuaded that
"I shan't tell you where I hid the keerds. I hid them
the next house toward the Castle on the same side the
tact.
children livinsr.
CONCLUSION,
Jaw.
Soon after passing Whale's Jaw, the road, almost
obliterated by time and changes of ownership in the
sidered.
fail,
No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale,
No bus3' steps the grass-grown footwav tread,
F'or all the blooming flush of life is fled."