The Washington herald., 1913-02-23

and the First Parish Church of Con.
| cord. within whose walls the first Pro-
rincial Congress was held, the Deborah
Wheelock House of UXbridge. dating back
to 116s, the British man-o'-war Somerset
wrecked of Cape Cod in 1I7s. the Long
fellow elm. the Washington elm, the Han.
cock tavern. Boston. which dates back
TO 1854. Nor has the Holmes House ir
Cambridge withheld its token--that house
which was the headquarters of Gen. Arte-
mus Ward in T05. nor Massachusetts
Hall at Harvard, built in 1119 and used
as barracks In 1715, nor the apple tree
on the homestead of Mary Draper OF
Roxbury. nor the Peck House of Attle-
horo. dating back to 100. There is a fine
bit from the Jonathan Edwards elm al
Northampton, from a clock case-a very
rare spccimen-which dates back to I19:
and was made In England. from the Paul
Revere House. from the house of Abiall
Folger Franklin OF Nantucket-she who
was the mother OF Benjamin Franklin
from the houses where Deborah Sampson
and Chief Justice Cushing were born,
from the frigate Constitution.
Relic of Prudence Wright.
There is also a bit from the dover
chest of Prudence Wright. which dates
back to IT'S. Prudence Wright lived in
Pepperell, and one day when all the men
except one very aged and feeble gentle
man had gone to war she learned that a
troop of British were preparing to take
an important message to Gen. Gage. I'VE
girls must do what the men would do"
she said, and persuaded her companions
to don their brothers clothes. march
with her to a turn in the road, arm
themselves with long sticks that looked
sufficiently like muskets, intercept the
Tories-one Of whom was the brother of
Mistress Prudence-scare the enemy out
of their wits, capture the message and
ride with 1t across country to Gen. WASH
ington at Cambridge.
There is a piece of wood from the
"Claremont" and the Half Moon"
which took part in the Hudson-Fulton
celebration: from the First Meeting
House in Hingham-which was the first
public house of worship in New Eng
land. its dates being 1664-15S1; from the
Gen. Benjamin Lincoln house In Hing
ham. dated 1850: from the famous Char
ter Oak; from the tree to which Mother
Anne Lee hitched her horse In l75s while
she preached to the Shakers Mother
Lee lived in Shirley, Mass. and was one
Of the brave women who took supplies
to the Americans at great risk to her
self There Is a bit Of wood also from
the Eames Garrison House, dated 1883
Games was one of the children who es-
capped the Indian massacre at Fort May
ten in Framingham, 1675-76
From the Abraham Lincoln house in
Springfield, ILL.,, there is a piece, from
the old elm on Boston Common, there
is another, from the Endicott pear tree.
planted In Danvers in 1880 and still bear
ing, there Is another. and from Parson
Paris's witch house In Danvers. which
dates back to 1852, there Is still another.
There is piece from JefYerson's desk,
the wood having been taken from the
spot where his arm rested when he was
writing. There is a bit of the magnolia
planted at Mount Vernon by Lafayette
and OF magnolia planted at Mount Ver-
non by Washington. There is q piece of
the platform on which President Nc
Kinley was inaugurated, from the live
oak under which John Wesley preached
in Georgia. from the lower panel of the
south door Of the John Hancock house in
Boston-a bit of wood which was doubt
less brushed by the dress of Dorothy
O.. from the House of Seven Gables in
Salem. from the Dean Winthrop house
I'm Winthrop. from Kings Chapel, Bos-
ton. from the old belfry in Lexington
from which the alarm was rung to call
the Minute Men to Lexington Green on