Tarry at home travels . d the Common-wealth was foolish enough to send into exile themost intelligent members of that Church inBoston, and left only a few dozen at home topick up the pieces and make Boston out of themas well as they could. So these people, whosenames are Maude, Wheelwright, and Pormort,among others, with a half-dozen more, wentbeyond the Massachusetts line to Exeter andDover and Portsmouth. I may say, in passing,that they pronounced Portsmouth as if it were 72 TAEEY AT HOME TRAVELS Porchmouth; and their true descendants speak soto this day. It was Strawberry Bank then. Well, s
Tarry at home travels . d the Common-wealth was foolish enough to send into exile themost intelligent members of that Church inBoston, and left only a few dozen at home topick up the pieces and make Boston out of themas well as they could. So these people, whosenames are Maude, Wheelwright, and Pormort,among others, with a half-dozen more, wentbeyond the Massachusetts line to Exeter andDover and Portsmouth. I may say, in passing,that they pronounced Portsmouth as if it were 72 TAEEY AT HOME TRAVELS Porchmouth; and their true descendants speak soto this day. It was Strawberry Bank then. Well, sometimes these exiles wanted the strongarm of Massachusetts to help them, and then they alwayshad i t. Anancestor ofmine, CaptainJohn Everett,commandedthe train-bandsof Massachu-setts Bay therefor a genera-tion whenJesuits and Al-gonquins weretoo much forthe , on theother hand, whenever they chose, they had anassembly of their own and did veiy much as theypleased, and I think that is their habit to this Eleazar Wheelock. From a painting in the possession of Dartmouth College. NEW HAMPSHIRE 73 Among other pieces of independence was therevolution in the great Democratic party, bywhich in 1843 and 1844 New Hampshire becamethe first in point of time of American states tomake an anti-slavery platform, while up to thattime, in a spirit of local independence, she hadalways chosen to give a Democratic vote and soto ally herself to the Southern hierarchy. Whenit came to the annexation of Texas, however, theDemocrats of New Hampshire said No! andinstead of voting steadily in the Southern column,they went over and laid the advance for freedom. One of the pioneers, whose name, EleazarWheelock, is hardly remembered, took it intohis head before the American Revolution tofound a college which was to be especially forthe education of Indians for the service ofChrist. Mr. Edwin D. Mead reminds me thatA\Tieelock was educated at New Haven as oneof the scholars who were there sup
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