Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 / 2008-09-21 00:00:00
EBOOK, MABEL MARTIN, ETC. ***
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NARRATIVE AND LEGENDARY
POEMS
BY
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
CONTENTS:
MABEL MARTIN: A HARVEST IDYL
PROEM
I. THE RIVER VALLEY
II. THE HUSKING
III. THE WITCH'S DAUGHTER
IV. THE CHAMPION
V. IN THE SHADOW
VI. THE BETROTHAL
THE PROPHECY OF SAMUEL SEWALL
THE RED RIVER VOYAGEUR
THE PREACHER
THE TRUCE OF PISCATAQUA
MY PLAYMATE
COBBLER KEEZAR'S VISION
AMY WENTWORTH
THE COUNTESS
MABEL MARTIN.
A HARVEST IDYL.
Susanna Martin, an aged woman of Amesbury, Mass., was tried and executed
for the alleged crime of witchcraft. Her home was in what is now known
as Pleasant Valley on the Merrimac, a little above the old Ferry way,
where, tradition says, an attempt was made to assassinate Sir Edmund
Andros on his way to Falmouth (afterward Portland) and Pemaquid, which
was frustrated by a warning timely given. Goody Martin was the only
woman hanged on the north side of the Merrimac during the dreadful
delusion.
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