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Title: The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees

Author: Mary Caroline Crawford

Release Date: May 30, 2007 [EBook #21645]

Language: English

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Little Pilgrimages

The Romance of
Old New England
Rooftrees

By

Mary C. Crawford

Illustrated

[Illustration]

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
Mdcccciii

_Copyright, 1902_
_by_
_L. C. Page & Company_
(_Incorporated_)

_All rights reserved_

_Published, September, 1902_

Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

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[Illustration: SIR HARRY FRANKLAND. (_See page 48_)]

FOREWORD

These little sketches have been written to supply what seemed to the
author a real need,--a volume which should give clearly, compactly, and
with a fair degree of readableness, the stories connected with the
surviving old houses of New England. That delightful writer, Mr. Samuel
Adams Drake, has in his many works on the historic mansions of colonial
times, provided all necessary data for the serious student, and to him
the deep indebtedness of this work is fully and frankly acknowledged.
Yet there was no volume which gave entire the tales of chief interest to
the majority of readers. It is, therefore, to such searchers after the
romantic in New England's history that the present book is offered.

It but remains to mention with gratitude the many kind friends far and
near who have helped in the preparation of the material, and especially
to thank Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., publishers of the works of
Hawthorne, Whittier, Longfellow, and Higginson, by permission of and
special arrangement with whom the selections of the authors named, are
used; the Macmillan Co., for permission to use the extracts from Lindsay
Swift's "Brook Farm"; G