The Pine-tree coast . erethat the first ferry con-nected the long routealong the seaboard. If we shall turn ourbacks upon this cove,and take one of thepaths leading through the wood skirting the road here, we shall presently come out at the shoreof Massacre Pond, extending between us and the beach, a long, smooth sheetof water. It was here that Captain Hunnewell and eighteen more Scarbor-ough men were slaughtered by the Indians.^ And a little north of this pond thesite of Scottows fort is still distinguishable. Beyond this point the sand-dunes seem to have engulfed what was probably cultivated
The Pine-tree coast . erethat the first ferry con-nected the long routealong the seaboard. If we shall turn ourbacks upon this cove,and take one of thepaths leading through the wood skirting the road here, we shall presently come out at the shoreof Massacre Pond, extending between us and the beach, a long, smooth sheetof water. It was here that Captain Hunnewell and eighteen more Scarbor-ough men were slaughtered by the Indians.^ And a little north of this pond thesite of Scottows fort is still distinguishable. Beyond this point the sand-dunes seem to have engulfed what was probably cultivated land within fiftyyears, as good soil is found on digging away the superincumbent sand. ProutsNeck now elevates itself to a grassy headland appropriated everywhere bysummer hotels and cottages. The Thomas Cammock who was just now referred to, who received a grantof Black Point in 1631, and is therefore considered the founder of Scarborough,is first heard of as an agent for Sir Ferdinando Gorges, at Piscataqua, in this. CLAJI-DIGGER. 134 THE PINE-TREE COAST. same year. It is not certain, however, that he took up his residence at BlackPoint before the year 1636. Cammocks father had made a runaway match withthe Lady Frances, daughter of the Earl of Warwick, the details of which arequite romantic. A few unimportant scraps are all that have heen recoveredconcerning Cammock himself or his stay at Black Point, probably becausethere is so little to be said of him. But Cammock had a bachelor friend who, likehimself, had been in Gorges service, and was whollydevoted to his interest. Exact dates are unattain-able, but we find Henry Josselyn, gentleman,*installed as a member of Cammocks household in1638, at which time the family received a notableaccession. This was no less a person than JohnJosselyn, brother of Henry, w^hose Tavo Voyages and Rarities are so highly prized by anti-quarians. On this account the earliest annals ofScarborough are fuller and more satisfactory thanare those of a
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