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Descriptive List of Illustrations

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."

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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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