. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . few miles fur-ther north isGroton, whereold Monocosband destroyedeverything ex-cept the block-houses. Thissame sachemboasted to thebesieged thathe was march-ing on Concordand Boston, todestroy thosetowns. Withina year he wasindeed in Bos-ton, but as acaptive, ledthrough the streets with a rope round his neck, and afterwards hung on theCommon. Pepperell is a dear old fashioned town, distinguishedas the home of the Prescotts, whose antiquated mansion-hous
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . few miles fur-ther north isGroton, whereold Monocosband destroyedeverything ex-cept the block-houses. Thissame sachemboasted to thebesieged thathe was march-ing on Concordand Boston, todestroy thosetowns. Withina year he wasindeed in Bos-ton, but as acaptive, ledthrough the streets with a rope round his neck, and afterwards hung on theCommon. Pepperell is a dear old fashioned town, distinguishedas the home of the Prescotts, whose antiquated mansion-house. ■f*^^Hf. AROUND LANCASTER, MASS. 14 is near the village. Here Wm. Hickling Prescott, the father ofthe present owner, wrote many of his splendid histories. His fatherwas a circuit judge; and his grandfather that hero of Bunker Hill —Col. Wm. Prescott, who led the Cambridge Minute-men. These settlements, and Dunstable (now Nashua) at the mouth ofthe Nashua river, were on the extreme frontier at that time, and re-mained so through many years, always harassed bj- Indian raids, ofwhich every town can tell its traditions, and give a heros name. Noname, however, is so notorious as that of John Lovewell, of Dunstable,who, after the uprisings of 1724, raised a company of Indian fightersunder an offer of the government to pay £10 for every scalp. Love-well was a hunter and Indian scout, and the son of one of Cromwellsold Roundheads. His band were men of the same stamp and } trailed the redskins to their retreats, around and beyond Winni-pesaukee, and fought them in darkness a
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