_Browning._ "'Tis an old tale and often told." _Scott._ * * * * * Contents _Page_ Foreword iii The Heir of Swift's Vanessa 11 The Maid of Marblehead 37 An American-Born Baronet 59 Molly Stark's Gentleman-Son 74 A Soldier of Fortune 90 The Message of the Lanterns 104 Hancock's Dorothy Q. 117 Baroness Riedesel and Her Tory Friends 130 Doctor Church: First Traitor to the American Cause 147 A Victim of Two Revolutions 159 The Woman Veteran of the Continental Army 170 The Redeemed Captive 190 New England's First "Club Woman" 210 In the Reign of the Witches 225 Lady Wentworth of the Hall 241 An Historic Tragedy 251 Inventor Morse's Unfulfilled Ambition 264 Where the "Brothers and Sisters" Met 279 The Brook Farmers 293 Margaret Fuller: Marchesa d'Ossoli 307 The Old Manse and Some of Its Mosses 324 Salem's Chinese God 341 The Well-Sweep of a Song 356 Whittier's Lost Love 366 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _Page_ Sir Harry Frankland (_See page 48_) _Frontispiece_ Whitehall, Newport, R. I. 31 Agnes Surriage Pump, Marblehead, Mass. 39 Summer House, Royall Estate, Medford, Mass. 63 Royall House, Medford, Mass.--Pepperell House, Kittery, Maine 66 Stark House, Dunbarton, N. H. 79 General Lee's Headquarters, Somerville, Mass. 94