Pembroke Chronicles (American Chronicles) by Proctor, Karen Cross -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Native Americans

Pembroke’s Royal Family Long Live the Queen! King Philip

Part II: Pembroke’s Families

The Browns, a Family of Quakers The Magoun Family The Parris Family The Pearce Family The Tubbs Family and Their Meadow

Part III: Stories Of Our Citizens

Gleason Archer, Blueberry Farmer and Lawyer John Gilbert Bonney’s Drum The Mystery That Was Dr. Charles Boucher Edith’s Hat Elliott Ford Harry Wheatland Litchfield, Local Historian Hiram Randall and the Mail Porter’s Store James West, Quaker Joshua Cushing, an Educated Man Kilborn Whitman Oliver’s Story The Reverend Doctor Gad Hitchcock Josiah Smith, United States Congressman Local Historians and Their Writings Pembroke’s Pioneers Pembroke’s Loyalists What’s in a Name?

Part IV: Holidays And Other Days

An Early Twentieth-Century Fourth of July April 19, 1776 Back to School An Eighteenth-Century Country Wedding From Ladies’ Fair to Old Home Days Dearly Departed

Part V: Sacred Places And Memorials

Briggs Burial Ground The Center Cemetery A Cenotaph for Christopher Smith? The Civil War Monument Epitaphs and the Stories of Pembroke Citizens Sabbaday Orchard

Part VI: Pembroke Places

Bay Path The Brick Kiln Shipyard Burton Homestead The First Parish Sewing Circle The GAR Hall Hosea’s The King’s Highway Mechanics Hall Oldham Farm The Pembroke Alms House The Pembroke Historical Society Pembroke’s Town Forests and Public Lands Pembroke’s Town Common and the Pound The Stores of North Pembroke Water Street and the Two Mile

Part VII: Uniquely Pembroke

The Pembroke Bee The Bryantville Fountain Bryantville News Icing in Pembroke Once a School, Always a…Restaurant? Pembroke’s Very Own Moon Tree Schoosett Phone Company Pembroke’s Trolley

Part VIII: Common Tasks

Who’s Calling? Child’s Play Women’s Work, Twentieth-Century Style

Bibliography About the Author