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NEW ENGLAND FARxMEK, 



PRB. 2.IS4a. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



AGRICULTURAL. LNPLEMISXTS, 4l 



The Proprietors of the New Kiiyland A^'riciiltural Warv 



ISLKS OF SHOALS. 



Some interesting skelchcs of these islands and 

 their inliabiianlt', liave appeared in llie Newbury- 

 port Herald. Tiie following arc extracts : 



" A story i.s linndcd down by tradition, rcmindinfr 

 U9 of llie voyage ot the Methodist meeting house, 

 (which was carried olfin the spring of }SN by a 

 freshet, from Norwich, Connecticut, and ran foul 

 of the echnuner Fame of Bridgeport, whilst at an- 

 chor in Npw Lon Ion harbor,) recorded, as our rea- 

 ders may romember, in a serio-coiiic fragment, by 

 Brainard, and to be found in Cheevcr's Common 

 Place Book of American Poetry. The story runs 

 thu3 : At an early period after the settlement of 

 the Shoals, a house belonging to one Tucket situ- 

 ated on the rock, near the water on Smutty Nose, 

 was washed, during a violent siorm, from its foun- 

 dation and Carrie. 1 entire to Cape Cod, where it 

 went ashore, and a box of linen and papers, &c. 

 were taken out, by which it was discovered where 

 It hailed from. 'Jlie family had just time to es- 



fishermen at the Shoals. While he ofSciated 



there, he was incensed by some speeches in a si^r- 1 housiTnVd 'scVrl Siore"No.'6r'and'62''N.VrriV¥a^ 



mon of Mr. Larkham's, the minister at Dover, wouUI inlorm tlieircusinmers and the puhlic Lrncrally thr> 



« heroin he inveighed against stu.h hirelings. Mr. | .hoy_have o., hand the n»«^ex,e,,s.v.^ rXll^'uX 



Gibson, in way of retaliation, sent liiiii an open , 5^,,^, Pari ol which arc the following : 



letter, wherein ho scandalized the government of|,Qug Howard's Patent Cast 

 Massachusetts, and opposed their title to those Inm Plouiths 



t • ,, 1 ■ ■ I .1 ...I..,..,* 300 Common do. 00. 



parts ; but being called in qnesticin by them wliose , 200 Cultivators, 

 authority he had contemned at a distance, he sub- ' 100 (Greene's Straw Cutters. 



- • - ' 60 Wilhs' do. do. 

 lOU Common ds. do. 

 100 Willis' Patent Corn 



Siiellcrs. 

 50 Common do do. 

 2,i0 Willis' Seed Sowers. 

 60 " Vegcfjlde Cullers 

 50 Common do. do. 



200 Hand Corn Mills. 

 200 Grain Cradles. 

 100 Ox Vokes. 

 1500 Doz- Smihe Stones. 

 3000 '• Aus'liji's Kiflcs. 

 March 17. 



mitted himself to an acknowledgement of his of- 

 fence, and was discharged, (in regard he was a 

 stranger,) without either fee or fine." — Hubbard's 

 History of J\\w England, pnge 38i. 



Tho following story in regard to an affair of the 

 heart has been handed down. " William Pepper- 

 ell, the father of tho first Sir William, was a na- 

 tive of Cornwall, England. He emigrated to this 

 country about 1(>7(>, and settled at the Isles of 

 Shoals as a fisherman. It is said he was so poor 

 for sometime after his arrival, tJiat the lady to 

 whom he paid his addresses at the Shoals, would 

 not hearken to him. — However, in a few years, by 

 his industry and frugality lie acquired enough lo 

 send out a brig which he loaded to Hull. The 



100 doz. Cast Steel Shovelt.^*'''' 



lOU " CuRirmjQ do. 



too " Spades. 



500 " Grass JSovlhes. 



.10(1 " «ient Sn'ailhs. 



200 " Common do. 



500 " Hay Rakes. 



200 " (iarden do. 



200 " Manure I'orks. 



300 " Hay do. 



600 Pair Trace Chains. 



too " Truck do. 



100 Draft do. 

 500 Tie up do. 



50 doz. Waller do. 

 loou yards Fence do. 



2j Grind •StonesoD rollei^i 



AFPLb FAUEKS. 



Just rcceive<i at llie New Eneland Agricnliural Ware 

 honse, No 61 and 52 Norlli Market Street, a good supply a 

 Stanla/s Siipen'nr Apple l^arcrs, a very useful article. Will 

 one of these machiiics n hushcl of apples may l-e pared 

 a very short time in the best possiMe manner, and with grei 



cape before the house went to sea. ^^^ -;- l^;^^-^^,^^ ,,e, consent. Af- ?^:>:;'j:;:,r!:' ''TJ^'a,r'^';r,jr;^r';:al:'^'N"ll TI 



Here is another anecdote, it may be well enou 

 to put on our recurd. " When the famous Low 

 and other pirates infested the American coast, they 

 troubled the fishermen at tho Slioals not a little. 

 On one occasion Charles Randall and others were 

 taken by these free-booters. As they had no prop- 

 erty, the pirates gave them a flogging, and then 

 asked, " Do yon know old Dr. (y'otton Mather .'" 

 The prisoners replied, " we have heard of him as 

 a very good man." " Well then," said the cap- 

 tors, " our orders are to make each of you jump up 

 three times, and to say at each jump, " Curse Par- 

 son Mnlhcr," otherwise you shall all be hanged." 

 The fishermen were not made of the stuff out of 

 which martyrs are moulded, and so alas ! they did 

 us they were ordcrcil." 



A friend has pointed out to lis a passage in 

 Hubbard's Hi.story of New England, relating to a 

 curious event that happened at the Shoals. We 

 give the ([notation as sent us, without having time 

 to hunt up the particulars, merely premising that it 

 may throw light upon the subject, to state that in 

 1G4I, the two settlements on the Piscalaqna, 

 Strawberry Bank (now Portsmouth) and Dover, had 

 voluntarily put themselves under the jurisdictioii of 

 Massachusetts. How far the iiihahitants of the 

 Shoals were consulted in this thing dues not ap- 

 pear. Gtbson seems to have been an adventurer as 

 a school-master, and perhaps was not in "orders ;" 

 yet, doubtless an Episcopalian. He seems to have 

 been a sensitive, but not a gedliious or obstinate 

 man, and did not suppose he was heading a rebel- 

 lion. Richmond Island must have been in what 

 was then French, now British America. Was it 

 Rich-mun'H Island .ibout three miles N. of Port- 

 land ? Here is the extract, and any antiquary so 

 disposed may follow up its hints. 



" In the year l'il2, the Isles of Shoals being 

 found to fall within the juiisdictiou of Massachu- 

 setts, and hoving siihmillcd to the government 

 thereof, were provoked to revolt from them by one 

 Mr. Gibson, a scholar, whom they lind entertained 

 in the nature of a niinislcr, and he exercised that 

 function after the manner of the Church of Eng- 

 land, lie had been sent to Richmond Island thot 

 belonged to Mr. Trelany, but not liking to abide 

 there, he removed to Piscataqna, Strawberry Bank, 

 and so at last came lo an employment amon|^ the 



ter his marriage he removed to Kitlery Point, 

 where he became a very wealthy merchant He 

 died in 1734."" 



Tho first meeting house on Hog Island was built 

 of fcn'cJt. On that island, it is said, arc now to be 

 seen more tlKin seventy old cellars. The removal 

 of the iiihubit.iiits from Hog to Star Island, is re- 

 lated to have been on account of the greater ease 

 of landing at the latter with small boats. 



" About the year 1790, some of the people of 

 the baser sort, not having the fear of God before 

 their eyes, pulled down and burned the meeting 

 house, (i. e. the second meeting house on Star Is- 

 land,) which was a neat and convenient building, 

 and had been greatly useful, not only as a place of 

 religious worship, but also as a landmark for sea- 

 men." 



In 1813, January I4th, the ship Conception, a 

 Spanish vessel, was wrecked on Smutty Nose, and 

 all iiands were lost. Fourteen bodies were found 

 and decently buried on the Island, side by side.'' 



It may not be generally known that Mr. White, 

 who was murdered some years since at Salem, was 

 a native of the Slioals. 



We remarked at the commencement of these 

 sketches, that the liistory of the Isles of Shoals 

 besides being i.nteresting in itself, had an excellent 

 moral. Wlnit that moral is, tho reader cannot fail 

 at once to perceive. Hero is a community, which, 

 almost in the memory of man, has gone down from 

 quite a high state of civilization, to a condition 

 even worse than the savage, and now is rising 

 again towards its formcT piospcrity. And what is 

 the cause ? Is it not inninly tlie destruction and 

 renewal of the institutions of religion and educa- 

 tion. The whole history of these Islands furnish 

 a practical argument for the necessity of churches 

 and schools to the temporal well-being of socicly. 

 And, although it may never be that we shall sink 

 to the degradation they have seen, it is well lor us 

 to remember the lesson their experience teaches, 

 that it is only as wo provide well for tho moral and 

 inlelloctunl nature of man, and so give to that na- 

 ture iU nghfiil stipreinacy and authority, that "C 

 can either preserve onr present enlightened condi- 

 tion or advance to higher and yet higher degrees 

 of prosperity. 



WILLIS'. No 45 North Market Street, SCUDOKK, CUlU 

 DIS& CO.. and HOSMliR&. TAPPAN, Milk iSircei. 

 Sept. 1 6w JOSKPH BRECK & CO. 



GUKE9i',S PATENT STRAW CUTTKR. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. Rl fhcNcw England Agrtctil- ' 

 •tural Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 51 anriW North Mar- ' 

 kcl Street, have for sale, Green's Patent Strjw, Hay rnj 

 Stalk Cutler, operating on a niechaniccl principle not helnr*' 

 applied to any implement ibr this )iur|iose. The most prom- 

 iuenl cflTecis of Ihis application, and some of the couscqucol 

 peculiarities of the machine are : 



1. So great a redaction of the qimntuin o( power reqni9it*< 

 to use it, that the strength of u hall grown hoy is sulhcical 

 to work it clliciently. 



2. With even I his moderate power, it easily cuts two hash-- 

 els a minute, whi< h is full twice as last us hiis lieen i-laimeii 

 hy any other machine even when worked by horse or steaat4 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in which they • 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those ol any oilitr 

 straw culler. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, made and ptiK 

 together very strongly. It 19 therefore not so liahic n^ '.h* 

 coinplicalcd machines in general use to get out of ord. r 



UIIINDSTO.VKS, ON FRICTION ROI.LEKS. 



GrindMunes ofdiHorenl sizcji hung on friction rollers aiiAl 

 moved with a loot (reader, is louiiri to he a great iinprov«»« 

 n:ent on the present mode of hanging grindstones. Th»« 

 ease with which they move upon the rollers, renders then.. 

 VI ry easy to turn with the loot, hy which the lalor of on»« 

 njaii is saved, and the person in the net ol giinding. caB. 

 govera the stone more to his mind Ity 'having the complet** 

 control ot his work. Ston^-s' hoi.g in this munner are he-- 

 coming daily more in nse, and wherever iiscif, give univcr* 

 sal satislaclion. The rollers ciu he otlgched to stolKS huD 

 in the comuiim wav. 



For sale ny JOSEPH BRECK &. CO., Nos. 61 and »»• 

 Nortti Market Doston. Jul; M 



NEW E NtiLANI) KARMKR. 



k WKKKLV PAPRIl. 



Terms, $2 per year //i atfrtince, or $2. 3.) ifnstpnid 

 within thirty days. 



N. U. — Posliiiaslirrs are prrniitled hy law In frank nil 

 •.ihscripliuna (Hid riMiiiltancta for newtpapcrs, wi''i ' 1 

 ex)i«ns« to 8ubseriberfi. 



TUTTLE AND DKHKETT, PKINTF.RS. 



