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- THE PEPPERELL CHILDREN...........Frontispiece
Grandchildren of Sir William Pepperell. The original is in the Longfellow House, Cambridge, Massachusetts. - A COLONIAL KITCHEN... ......................2
The tap-room at the Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Massachusetts; built in 1690. - JOSHUA GREEN'S WIG..........................4
Worn about 1749. - A POOR MAN'S UTENSILS.......................7
Tinder-box, roasting-oven, warming-pan, etc.; were used in Revolutionary times; from Dedham Historical Society. - PUTNAM'S WOLF DEN..........................10
The den near Pomfret, Connecticut, as it now looks. - A FINE OLD COLONIAL HOUSE..................17
The original residence of the Chew family, in Germantown, Pennsylvania; built about 1761. - THE CUSTIS CHILDREN........................21
George Washington's step-children. From a painting by Wollaston in 1761. - JANE BONNER...................... .........25
The nine-year-old daughter of a Boston sea-captain. - AN ARTIST'S FAMILY.........................31
Portraits of John Singleton Copley, the famous painter, with his wife, children, and wife's father; painted about 1780. - A MERCHANT SHIP............................38
A typical vessel of 1792; from an old print. - ABIGAIL BISHOP'S DRESS.....................40
Brocaded dress, first worn about 1780; worn in the picture, by Mary Putnam Hart, lineal descendant of Abigail Bishop. - A WELL-DRESSED GENTLEMAN...................44
Nicholas Boylston, a Boston merchant; painted about 1770. - A TRAVELING COACH..........................49
From an old print. - THE WAYSIDE INN............................55
At Sudbury, Massachusetts; built in 1690, and originally called the Red Horse Tavern. Still used as an inn. - A TAVERN SIGN..............................61
This sign hung before the door of Israel Putnam's house in Brooklyn, Connecticut, in 1768. - AN EARLY PICTURE OF NIAGARA................65
Hennepin's "New Discovery," 1697; much out of drawing. - CHAMPLAIN AND THE INDIANS..................70
From a sketch by the Sieur Champlain, showing how he fought the Iroquois in 1609. - AN INDIAN CHILD............................75
A Seminole boy, nine years old. - AN INDIAN SAMP BOWL........................81
King Philip's bowl for samp, or pounded corn; about 1675. - A BIRCH CANOE..............................87
Made by the Penobscot Indians. The type of canoe used by the New England Indians in colonial days. - AN INDIAN HEAD-DRESS.......................89
Eagle feathers and buffalo horns. - A FUR TRADER'S CAMP........................93
Drawn by an English traveller and painter in 1835. - DANIEL BOONE..............................109
In his coon-skin cap; about 1770. - A FLAT-BOAT...............................118
Such as was used on the Ohio River about 1787 and thereafter. - AN EARLY PICTURE OF NEW ORLEANS...........124
At that time only a French village; drawn about 1785. - A WAR FLAG................................133
Used in the French and Indian War. - COLONIAL REGIMENTALS......................142
A picture of General Horatio Gates. - A FLINT-LOCK MUSKET.......................149
Discharged by a spark made by the hammer falling on a flint. - THE MINUTE MAN............................152
Statue at the scene of the fight at Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts; sculptured by Daniel French. - GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON'S HOUSE...............155
House in Boston which was sacked by a mob in 1765; drawing made in 1836. - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.........................160
Portrait painted by Peale about 1790. - A COLONIAL TEA-SET........................165
The wedding china of a bride of 1800. - LIBERTY BELL..............................173
At Independence Hall, Philadelphia. - OLDTIME CHILDREN..........................182
Twin sons of the editor, in costumes such as little boys wore in the eighteenth century. - YOUNG JOHN QUINCY ADAMS...................188
Aged about twenty-five. - A COLONIAL LADY...........................195
Mrs. Ralph Izard. From a painting by Gainsborough. A PRETTY NEW ENGLAND GIRL.................205
"Dorothy Q.," of whom Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote:"Grandmother's mother; her age, I guess,
Thirteen summers, more or less."
- AN OLD CLOCK..............................215
From Newburyport. - THREE GENERATIONS OF DOLLS................222
The largest of these dolls belonged to Caira Robbins of Lexington in 1810, and the other two belonged to her mother and her grandmother. - A REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER...................228
Israel Putnam; from an engraving made in 1775. - A HESSIAN.................................233
The Hessians were German troops hired by the English to fight against the colonists in the Revolution. - A FRENCH OFFICER..........................245
Marquis de Lafayette; from a painting in the Massachusetts Historical Society. - A REVOLUTIONARY LADY......................251
Mrs. John Hancock; from a painting by Copley. - THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON...................258
From an old print. - GEORGE WASHINGTON.........................262
From the unfinished Stuart portrait; in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. - CANNON FROM THE REVOLUTION................265
These cannon were taken at Ticonderoga in 1775. - MADAME RIEDESEL...........................274
Wife of a Hessian general; from a portrait in her "Memoirs." - A SEA FIGHT...............................281
From a painting by John Singlebach. - JOHN ANDRÉ................................299
From a pen-and-ink sketch made by André during his confinement in 1777. - DEBORAH SAMPSON...........................305
The woman soldier of the Revolution; from a contemporary illustration.
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