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| 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] |
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| Sir Harry Frankland. | [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] |
| Christ Church—Paul Revere House, Boston, Mass. | [104] |
| Robert Newman House, Boston, Mass. | [110] |
| Clark House, Lexington, Mass. | [118] |
| Dorothy Q. House, Quincy, Mass. | [123] |
| Riedesel House, Cambridge, Mass. | [145] |
| House Where Doctor Church Was Confined, Cambridge, Mass. | [149] |
| Swan House, Dorchester, Mass. | [164] |
| Deborah Sampson Gannett | [170] |
| Gannett House, Sharon, Mass. | [188] |
| Williams House, Deerfield, Mass. | [193] |
| Reverend Stephen Williams | [204] |
| Old Corner Bookstore, Site of the Hutchinson House, Boston, Mass. | [214] |
| Old Witch House, Salem, Mass. | [225] |
| Rebecca Nourse House, Danvers, Mass. | [229] |
| Red Horse Tavern, Sudbury, Mass. | [242] |
| Governor Wentworth House, Portsmouth, N. H. | [246] |
| Fairbanks House, Dedham, Mass. | [260] |
| Edes House, Birthplace of Professor Morse, Charlestown, Mass. | [264] |
| Oval Parlour, Fay House, Cambridge, Mass. | [286] |
| Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Mass. | [296] |
| Fuller House, Cambridgeport, Mass. | [312] |
| Old Manse, Concord, Mass. | [324] |
| Townsend House, Salem, Mass. | [342] |
| Old Oaken Bucket House, Scituate, Mass. | [359] |
| Whittier's Birthplace, East Haverhill, Mass. | [380] |