eerfield, Mass. 193
Reverend Stephen Williams 204
Old Corner Bookstore, Site of the
Hutchinson House, Boston, Mass. 214
Old Witch House, Salem, Mass. 225
Rebecca Nourse House, Danvers,
Mass. 229
Red Horse Tavern, Sudbury, Mass. 242
Governor Wentworth House, Portsmouth,
N. H. 246
Fairbanks House, Dedham, Mass. 260
Edes House, Birthplace of Professor
Morse, Charlestown, Mass. 264
Oval Parlour, Fay House, Cambridge,
Mass. 286
Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Mass. 296
Fuller House, Cambridgeport, Mass. 312
Old Manse, Concord, Mass. 324
Townsend House, Salem, Mass. 342
Old Oaken Bucket House, Scituate,
Mass. 359
Whittier's Birthplace, East Haverhill,
Mass. 380
THE ROMANCE OF OLD NEW ENGLAND ROOFTREES
THE HEIR OF SWIFT'S VANESSA
Nowhere in the annals of our history is recorded an odder phase of
curious fortune than that by which Bishop Berkeley, of Cloyne, was
enabled early in the eighteenth century to sail o'erseas to Newport,
Rhode Island, there to build (in 1729) the beautiful old place,
Whitehall, which is still standing. Hundreds of interested visitors
drive every summer to the old house, to take a cup of tea, to muse on
the strange story with which the ancient dwelling is connected, and to
pay the meed of respectful memory to the eminent philosopher who there
lived and wrote.
The poet Pope once assigned to this bishop "every virtue under heaven,"
and this high reputation a study of the man's character faithfully
confirms. As a student at Dublin University, George Berkeley won many
friends, because of his handsome face and lovable nature, and many
honours by reason of his brilliancy in mathematics. Later he became a
fellow of Trinity C
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