Doctor Church: First Traitor to the American Cause 147
The Woman Veteran of the Continental Army 170
Inventor Morse's Unfulfilled Ambition 264
Sir Harry Frankland (_See page 48_) _Frontispiece_
Agnes Surriage Pump, Marblehead, Mass. 39
Summer House, Royall Estate, Medford, Mass. 63
Royall House, Medford, Mass.--Pepperell House, Kittery, Maine 66
General Lee's Headquarters, Somerville, Mass. 94
Christ Church--Paul Revere House, Boston, Mass. 104
House Where Doctor Church Was Confined, Cambridge, Mass. 149
Old Corner Bookstore, Site of the Hutchinson House, Boston, Mass. 214
Governor Wentworth House, Portsmouth, N. H. 246
Edes House, Birthplace of Professor Morse, Charlestown, Mass. 264
Oval Parlour, Fay House, Cambridge, Mass. 286
Old Oaken Bucket House, Scituate, Mass. 359
Whittier's Birthplace, East Haverhill, Mass. 380
Nowhere in the annals of our history is recorded an odder phase of curious fortune than that by which Bishop Berkeley, of Cloyne, was enabled early in the eighteenth century to sail o'erseas to Newport, Rhode Island, there to build (in 1729) the beautiful old place, Whitehall, which is still standing. Hundreds of interested visitors drive every summer to the old house, to take a cup of tea, to muse on the strange story with which the ancient dwelling is connected, and to pay the meed of respectful memory to the eminent philosopher who there lived and wrote.
The poet Pope once assigned to this bishop "every virtue under heaven," and this high reputation a study of the man's character faithfully confirms. As a student at Dublin University, George Berkeley won many friends, because of his handsome face and lovable nature, and many honours by reason of his brilliancy in mathematics. Later he became a fellow of Trinity College, and made the acquaintance of Swift, Steele, and the other members of that brilliant Old World literary circle, by all of whom he seems to have been sincerely beloved.
A large part of Berkeley's early life was passed as a travelling tutor, but soon after Pope had introduced him to the Earl of Burlington, he was made dean of Derry, through the good offices of that gentleman, and of his friend, the Duke of Grafton, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Berkeley, however, never cared for personal aggrandisement, and he had long been cherishing a project which he soon announced to his friends as a "scheme for converting the savage Americans to Christianity by a college to be erected in the Summer Islands, otherwise called the Isles of Bermuda."