Chapter XXV Newport Cemeteries
Rhode Island Cemetery.—Curious Inscriptions.—William Ellery.—Oliver Hazard Perry.—The Quakers.—George Fox.—Quaker Persecution.—Other Grave-yards.—Lee and the Rhode Island Tories.—Coddington and Gorton.—John Coggeshall.—Trinity Church-yard.—Dr. Samuel Hopkins.—Gilbert Stuart.
Chapter XXVI To Mount Hope, and Beyond
Walk up the Island.—“Tonomy” Hill.—The Malbones.—Capture of General Prescott.—Talbot’s Exploit.—Ancient Stages.—Windmills.—About Fish.—Lawton’s Valley.—Battle of 1778.—Island History.—Mount Hope.—Philip’s Death.—Dighton Rock.—Indian Antiquities.
Chapter XXVII
New London and Norwich
Entrance to the Thames.—Fisher’s Island.—Block Island.—New London.—Light-ships and Light-houses.—Hempstead House.—Bishop Seabury.—Old Burial-ground.—New London Harbor.—The little Ship-destroyer.—Groton and Monument.—Arnold.—British Attack on Groton.—Fort Griswold.—The Pequots.—John Mason.—Silas Deane.—Beaumarchais.—John Ledyard.—Decatur and Hardy.—Norwich City.—The Yantic picturesque.—Uncas, the Mohegan Chieftain.—Norwich Town.—Fine old Trees.—The Huntingtons.
Chapter XXVIII
Saybrook
Old Saybrook.—Disappearance of the Yankee.—Old Girls.—Isaac Hull.—The Harts.—Connecticut River.—Old Fortress.—Dutch Courage.—The Pilgrims’ Experiences.—Cromwell, Hampden, and Pym.—Lady Fenwick.—George Fenwick.—Lion Gardiner.—Old Burial-ground.—Yale College.—The Shore, and the End.