"(Original Document.)
Wm. Hathorne, Affit.
Vera Copia, taken the 25 of May, 1674,
by me, Robert Ford, Cleric."
[156] Relics of Indian occupation have been found in Marblehead at various times. There is a shell heap on the Wyman Farm, on the line of the Eastern Railway, quite near the farm-house.
[157] A bill against piracy was ordered to be brought in March 1st, 1686; March 4th the bill passed.
[158] The first mention of Marblehead in the colony records I have seen is of two men fined there for being drunk, in the year 1633.
[159] "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," 1870, p. 57.
[160] I have seen the date of 1766 assigned for its building.
[161] Think of Copley painting these two canvases, eight feet long by five wide, and in his best manner, for £25!
[162] These portraits are now in possession of Colonel William Raymond Lee, of Boston.
[163] It is not settled who is entitled to the authorship of the word "Gerrymander," for which a number of claimants have appeared. The map of Essex, which gave rise to the caricature, was drawn by Nathan Hale, who edited the Boston Weekly Messenger, in which the political deformity first appeared.
[164] The old frigate Boston was captured at Charleston in 1780 by the British. In 1804 Tom Moore went over to England in her, she being then commanded by Captain J. E. Douglas.