. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. their greeting by the local gentry. Asthe Puritans fled in dismay before theribald gaiety of the throng, the sceneconcluded with an old English Morrisdance. Separated only by a dancinginterlude, there floated into view asmall flotilla of boats containing the earlyPuritan settlers, who landed and offeredup their thanks to the Being that hadenabled them to survive the perils oftheir treacherous journey. The nextscene was more purely local in character,]3ortraying the purc
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. their greeting by the local gentry. Asthe Puritans fled in dismay before theribald gaiety of the throng, the sceneconcluded with an old English Morrisdance. Separated only by a dancinginterlude, there floated into view asmall flotilla of boats containing the earlyPuritan settlers, who landed and offeredup their thanks to the Being that hadenabled them to survive the perils oftheir treacherous journey. The nextscene was more purely local in character,]3ortraying the purchase of the land ofTaunton from Massasoit by ElizabethPole, whose descendants still reside inthe vicinity, and the erection of the firstshelter, a primitive log cabin. Theepisode ended with the death of theIndian chieftain and his burial by thetribe. After another interlude, the sceneagain was laid in England where, at theCourt of George the Third, BenjaminFranklin was shown trying to bring theking and his consort to understand thetemper and situation of the scene ended with the departure of146 rVTRIOTISiM. THE LIBERTY AND T XION II General Gage and the British soldiersand the dancing of a Court remainder of this episode was againparticularly concerned with local Tory Leonard, despite his supportby English Grenadiers, was driven tohis coach by the patriots. The raisingin 1774 of the first flag bearing the wordsLiberty and Union is believed tohave taken place in the vicinity ofTaunton, and this, with the appearanceof the first sloop Johanna, that broughta cargo of slaves to be sold in the locality,was also depicted in this scene, includingthe Taunton Tea Party, which fol-lowed soon after the better knownBoston Tea Party, the placing of theliberty pole; the entrance of RobertTreat Paine, after signing the Declara-tion of Independence, and the flepartureof the minute men on the signal of thecall to arms. Here ended the historicaldevelopment of t
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