New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-19
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
ANCIENT BOSTON.

In
The Memorial History of Boston, OF when 'ne
xrs, volume is announced to appear on the ISL OF
O.,ohcr was projected by Mr.. Clarence + Jewet''
,,rtlv as n commeruoration of the 2oOth anniVer-
sory of the founding of the city. The plan OF 'he
work is novel 1t is to embrace all the Il''c'p''
h,or;ca nbases of the life and development oil the
town and its neighborhoud; the story OF It's set'e
mcnt and growth the great politicai drama %
which il was the theatre sketches OF the people,
their character and customs; literary ana o,he'
.n,;ouities and the natural history of the locality.
The various sections of this extensive enterprise are
assigned TO different writers specially qnalihed 10
go, then, The cooperation of a number of dis
.,,r,;shed ncrsons has been secured: each chaptef
,o,rs the name of is author; and in the general
EDITORIAL snpervision Mr.. Wnsor is assisted Ivy the
pev. T. f. Hale. ID. d., Samuel \. Green, NJ d. ana
Charles peane IL. II. The work is TO be coplouSiy
illustrated and dressed in Ill possible luxury Vi
fine raper and handsome type. The first volume con
tains over 600 broad pages, with ABOUT huhorcu
helio.ype illustrations and wcod-cuts, large anu
.n.ll hcs,Jes n great many fac-siuilcs of auto
e,.,lhs The remaining volumes are to bc ready III
,,c conrse of the year 1881. Certainly the promises
of botb editor and publisher are amply fulfilled IN
the initial instalment: and we congratulate them
u,on tie erection of q noble monument not alone
10 the City Of Boston, but to the whole Nation.
An idea of the scope of the history may he OBJ
famed from a brief survey of the contents OF the
first volume. The Introductory matter includes
pa,er hv Mr.. Winsor on The Sources OF Bostons
History" and II poem. The Kings Missive. 1861"
hy John G.. Whittier. The Natural History ~
treated bv Professor y. :. Shaler geology Joel ~
Allen fanna). and Professor Asa GRAY luoral. The
ra,.y History comprises chapter on Early
ru~oneau Voyages in Massachusetts, Bay" by Mr..
t,eorge Dexter Recording Secretary OF the MasSa-
chns-tts Hist )rcal Society; one on The Earliest
Maps of Massachusett Bay and Boston Harbor,' by
Nr WiuSor. and one on The Earliest ENplora-
lions and Settlement Of Boston ilarbor' 10y Charles
Francis Adams ir. The Colonial Period. which oc-
cunics he rest of the volume, is Invaded INTO twenty
oh,ntcrs. among the writers of which arc the Hon.
Robert c. Winthrop. the Rev George T.. Eliis,
u. u. Colonel r. W. Higgnson. the Rev. +. L.
Hale. j. Hammond Trumbull, Horace l.. Scudder,
and Francis :. Drake. As 4 fair specimen OF the
method of the work, we may cite the graphic de-
scription by Mr.. Adams of the first recorded eX-
ployation of Boston larbor:
On the afternoon of Wednesday, the 29tb of Sep
te,nber 1921. large open saiboat. or shallop, as
II was then called. entered Boston larhor coming
mn along the shore from the direction OF Fly
month"; in il were thirteen men-tcn Europeans
wifi three saVages acting as their guides. / he
nhnlc Marry was under the immcd ate command of
Cantain Miles Standish and their purpose was to
cxplore the country II and about MASSACHUSETTS,
Bay. as lioston ilarbor was then called. ana 10
,tauts They had started from Plymouth on the
ehb tide shortly before the previous midnight, eX-
Meeting TO reach their destination the next morn
ing: but the wind was light and the distance
greater than they supposed, 81 that the day was
already OLD when they made the harbors mouth.
Passing by Point Allcrton they LAID their conrse Tor
what ippeared to them TO he the bottom OF the bay,
and finding good shelter there, came 10 anchor on
what is now known as Ihomsons Island 1iere
they lay during the night, which they passed on
lnarl their boat; though il would seem that
Standlsh and others landed and explored the httle
island even naming il IIevore after one OF Their
mimi er. William TrCvore. an English sailor.
Early on the morning OF the next day the party
made ready to extend their eXporat ons 70 the
mainland As they had come to establish relations
wifi hal renamed of the once powerful tribe of
The Massachusetts, their Indian guides seem to
have brought them to that point on the shore of
tine bay which was most convenient for access to
the broad plain then aud long subsequently, known
rs tn =" Massachusetts Fields, from its 6eingnsed
as tho central gathering place of the tribe. This
plain Law in the northern part OF what is now the
town of Quincy, and almost surrounded by the
swamps and marshes bordering on the bay and the
Ncnonset River was connected with the Squantum
headland opposite 10 which the party had anchored
their boat by "A low neck of mingled marsh and
beach. Crossing the narrow chann.l which divides
Tbonson's Island from this headland, Standsh
landed at the loot of the bold rocky clh which is
still 80 striking and exceptional feature OF the
shore-a miniature Nahant deep within the re-
ccsScs of thr harbOr.
Either the party had set out but slendcrly pro-
yiled or they bad not yet breakiastcd; Tor, md
ing number of Holsters ON the shore, collected
there by tine savages, they appropriated Them and
Standish. having posted two men as sentlnels be-
hind the cliff on the landward side. to secure the
other men with Squauto as a guide and went i'll
search of the inhabitants They had not gone far
when thry met % woman coming Tor the Holsters
They had found on landing. They told her that
they had taken them and gave her something i'll
conlpens ,ton. and she III return explained to them
where her people were. Her sachems name she
gave as Obbat ewat. There is 10 record, other
Than this either of HIM or Of the place where he
usually lived. He prolesscd alleeiance to Massa-
spit though then in the territory OF the Massa-
ohusetts, and at this particular tlGe was III such
terror of the dreaded Tarrcntines that he did not
dare remain long III any settled place 1t would
seem probable that he and his people were II en-
tlrrvIng somewhere on the shores north OF the
Ncpssrt. perhaps al Sayn Hill or near Dor
chester heights; for, while Sqqanto went thithcr
returned to the sh1liop and followed them by
water, which they, would scarcely have done had
their destination been any point further to the
south and accessible by land
R,ioin,mg S,luant0 and the Indian woman at the
place she had indicated, StandIsh there found
Obbatinewat. ana: taking advantage OF the terror
in which he lived both of the Squaw-Sachcm of
the Massachusetts. the widow of Nanepashemet
and of the Talrentines, he easily. By means OF a
promised protection. induced him to profess ale
Glance to King James. ObbatIncwat then under
took to guide the party to the Squaw- Sachem
Who lived somewhere on the Mystic, in the neigh
borilood i. is supposed, OF the WachuStt. Gong
therefore, presently on board their boat, they
eros ,ed the bay. and, as they did so, they noted
with admiration Its broad cxpanse and the nuner-
Gus islands dottng It's surface. which, though then
deserted by their inhabitants were covered with
frees and the remains of those sarage plantations
which Captain Smith had observed upon thcI:
seven wears before. 1t night before the
por rs reached the month of the Mystic and landed
The savages. who however. found no one. 1t being
too late TO 20 further that day they anchored their
slia op and again passed the nlgnt ON board.
The next morning they landed, and. leaving two
men 10 protect the boat, pushed forward up the
country in the direction of MedfOrd and WIN
chester IL was the frs; of October, of the present
style. ami bright clear autumnai day. with the
wind. what little there was oi II, from the vest
Though encountered by their arms, the explorers
marched bIiskly on. following their Indian guides
until having gone some three miles they came to
an abandoned village; another mile brought them
to the place where the SAche;n Nancpl sbemet had
lived His wigwam they found still standing,
fhouoh Al. serted. Ii was situated on the top of "a