The Pine-tree coast . chanted matin and vesper service while on the march home,as those worthy fathers had strictly charged them not to omit the sacred officesof religion even while cutting the throats of the innocent and the helpless. A boy four years old, called Jeremiah Moulton, who escaped the massacre,afterwards grew up to lead an avenging band against this same Kennebec tribeand mission, and exterminated both. York Harbor may be said to have succumbed to the devastating hand of 56 THE PINE-TREE COAST. improvement. All these modern cottages in the places where the old ones hadstood for so
The Pine-tree coast . chanted matin and vesper service while on the march home,as those worthy fathers had strictly charged them not to omit the sacred officesof religion even while cutting the throats of the innocent and the helpless. A boy four years old, called Jeremiah Moulton, who escaped the massacre,afterwards grew up to lead an avenging band against this same Kennebec tribeand mission, and exterminated both. York Harbor may be said to have succumbed to the devastating hand of 56 THE PINE-TREE COAST. improvement. All these modern cottages in the places where the old ones hadstood for so many years, reminded one of the tracts of woodland, also under myeye, where the original forest is being rejjlaced by a second growth, yet of adifferent genus, according tothe law of natural by the rivers bank,and reached through a grassylane that slips away from thehigh road almost unnoticed atyour right, — a lane wheredaisies and buttercups peepamong the grass tufts, andwhere larkspur, and sweet-peas bloom besidethe houses, — there is ashady and sequestered is about the most pictur-esque bit of Old York Icould discover remaining. The neighborhood to whichI allude might Avith truth becalled the last stronghold ofOld York. But it is evidentthat when the outworks havefallen the citadel cannot longhold out. Of course there is a group of old houses here, huddled together as iffor mutual protection. One of them is the Barrell homestead, said to have beenbuilt by Jonathan Sayward, in 1713, who, as captain of a transport, broughthome some of the spoil of Louisburg in the shape of rare old china and oldbrasses. The others are typical New England farmhouses, belonging to an ()i:iv iiAUijoH.
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