Truro--Cape Cod, or, Land marks and sea marks . ld have borne his ownname ; another instance of his delicacy of feeling and far-see-ing sagacity, discriminating between the influence of a privateand a public name. In carefull)- amassing, guarding anddirecting this great work, it is not impossible he left someChristian claims unmet. Rich was rather under the usual size : symmetrical,graceful, and of rare personal beauty. He dressed witli greatcare, neatness and taste. We have stated that he was bornin WellOeet, but through business, was well-known toeverybody in Truro, where his wile,
Truro--Cape Cod, or, Land marks and sea marks . ld have borne his ownname ; another instance of his delicacy of feeling and far-see-ing sagacity, discriminating between the influence of a privateand a public name. In carefull)- amassing, guarding anddirecting this great work, it is not impossible he left someChristian claims unmet. Rich was rather under the usual size : symmetrical,graceful, and of rare personal beauty. He dressed witli greatcare, neatness and taste. We have stated that he was bornin WellOeet, but through business, was well-known toeverybody in Truro, where his wile, Sarah Andrews, knownin her youth as Sally Andrews, was born, in 1S03. There areseveral men and women now living who were her associates atschool and church and remember incidents in her early Andrews, her father, sold his house in about iS20or2i, toNehemiah Rich, and moved to Boston, where she was shortlyafterwards married. They had a large family, all of whomdied comparatively young; one daughter only was married,who died I \>:-, :. -J^w, V/^--s 1 \ ,;;|; \,/. %? //. ::^-^ t MATTHIAS RICH. \- TtSi-- SEAFARIXG AXD LAXDFARIXG. MATTHIAS RICH. The men who make cities, come from diverging paths inlife, each having in themselves much of interest by fifty vears ago fifty men from the would be safeto say, Till ten. in summer — a barefoot boy, tough, wideawake —hoes, clams, fisiies, swims, goes to the red school-house taught by the village schoolmarm. After ten, on boarda fishing vessel cooking for nine or ten men; at thirteen ahand; goes to the same schoolhouse three months or lessevery winter till seventeen or eighteen ; graduates. At twenty-one, marries ; goes skipper ; twenty-five buys a vessel andbuilds a house, or has been looking around in the worhl tomake a change Whatever may be the experiences of afterlife, the early history of Cape Cod boys could be summeu sub-stantially as stated. ^latthias Rich, whose name heads this
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