A Retrospect From the Round Tower of the Pomham Club volume 4
A Retrospect From the Round Tower of the Pomham Club volume 4
Sidney S Sidney Smith Rider
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In those emergencies we found a material helper in gunpowder. As an argument, persuasive in its eftect upon the "untutored savage. " The least in amount properly administered, induced sleep to the patient, and he has slept the sleep of his fathers' ever since. Well, here just to the southward, at the very head of Peebe's Neck, Captain Willett 9 built his house and here he died, and just there, at the head of Bullock's Cove as you now call it, we buried him. Peebe knew it as Popanomscut. There h...ad been trouble with the Dutch at New York, and Captain Willett having been much in Holland, and being well liked by that people, was sent to quiet the quar- rels. In this he succeeded, for he was a sagacious and politique man, and so he became the first mayor of that city in 1665. In 1666, he acted as alderman, probably for the reason that, at that time he was obliged to be more among us here at Wannamoiset, but the following vear, 1667, he was made mayor of New Yoifk ?^gain, thus "twice he did sustain the place, " just as we cut the words on his tombstone, Avhich but for this little hill below, you could see from the tower.
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