Memoir of Rufus Choate, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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An arm of the sea flows pleasantly about it, and a little creek runs up to within twenty rods of the old dwelling, which stands on the hillside, hardly changed from what it was sixty years Since, - of two stories, heavy-timbered, low-roomed, with beams across the ceiling, bare and weather-beaten, but with a cheerful southerly outlook towards the marshes, the sea, and the far-off rocky shore of Cape Ann.

During the War of the Revolution a British frigate hov ered off the shore, and sent boats into the near harbor of Annisquam. When they approached Hog Island, all the people fled to the main land, save the wife of William Choate, grandmother of Rufus, who refused to leave, and remained with two little children, fearless and unharmed. During the War of 1812, British men-of-war were more than once seen near the islands. The boy Rufus gazed with rapt eyes upon the Tenedos and the Shannon, sit ting like swans upon the water.

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