Charles Francis Adams Jr.’s Fourth of July address of 1874 tells the story of Wessagusset, the short-lived settlement founded near Plymouth that grew into the town of Weymouth. Further papers by Charles Francis Adams the younger and Gilbert Nash follow the town through its first twenty years and a generation later, drawing on town records and family papers.
Careful local history of early Massachusetts, for readers interested in the Pilgrim era. Download the free EPUB.