CONCORD Frank B. Sanborn 243 PLYMOUTH Ellen Watson 299 CAPE COD TOWNS Katharine Lee Bates 345 DEERFIELD George Sheldon 403 NEWPORT Susan Coolidge 443 PROVIDENCE William B. Weeden 475 HARTFORD Mary K. Talcott 507 NEW HAVEN Frederick H. Cogswell 553 [Illustration] ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Plymouth in 1622[1] _Frontispiece_ PORTLAND WHITE HEAD, CUSHING ISLAND 55 DEERING’S WOODS 59 Showing brook which the soldiers had to ford in the fight with the Indians in 1689. FIRST PARISH CHURCH 63 Containing the Mowatt cannon-ball. THE BIRTHPLACE OF LONGFELLOW 67 HENRY W. LONGFELLOW 73 N. P. WILLIS 77 RUTLAND DR. CUTLER’S CHURCH AND PARSONAGE AT IPSWICH HAMLET, 1787[2] 83 VIEW OF RUTLAND STREET[3] 85 MANASSEH CUTLER[4] 91 NATHAN DANE[5] 92 RUFUS PUTNAM[6] 95 SITE OF MARIETTA AND HARMAR, 1788[7] 101 THE “CENTRAL TREE”[8] 103 THE OLD RUTLAND INN[9] 104 VIEW OF RUTLAND CENTRE FROM MUSCHOPAUGE HILL[10] 107 BRITISH BARRACKS[11] 112 THE RUFUS PUTNAM HOUSE[12] 114 SALEM GOVERNOR ENDICOTT’S SUN-DIAL AND SWORD[13] 122 THE FIRST MEETING-HOUSE, 1634-39[14] 123 GOVERNOR SIMON BRADSTREET[15] 125 GOVERNOR JOHN ENDICOTT[16] 126 THE PICKERING FIREBACK[17] 128 OLD CRADLE[18] 131 THE ROGER WILLIAMS’ OR “WITCH HOUSE”[19] 137 WITCH PINS[20] 142 TIMOTHY PICKERING 153 SOME OLD DOORWAYS[21] 155