Of A Place...
  • Home
  • About
  • Glossary
  • Resources
  • Contact
  • Gallery
  • Ancestor Portraits
  • Bookstore
  • Home
  • About
  • Glossary
  • Resources
  • Contact
  • Gallery
  • Ancestor Portraits
  • Bookstore

Tales of My Home

Stories about the Lower Merrimack Valley region of Massachusetts

A Quote by the “other side” (the French moving down from New France in Quebec and Arcadia)

12/30/2017

0 Comments

 
“The Indians tell us of a beautiful River lying far to the south, which they call Merrimack."

^Sieur de Monts^, Relations of the jesuits, 1604.”

Excerpted From
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
By Henry David Thoreau

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.


    ​About Me

    New York City based lawyer, born 1971 in Methuen, Mass.. Avid amateur genealogist and historian.

    Archives

    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017

    Categories

    All
    1854 Lawrence Riot
    1875 Orangemen Riot
    1912 Bread And Roses Strike
    1919 Lawrence Textile Strike
    1984 Lawrence Riot
    #52Ancestors
    African-Americans
    American Woolen Company
    Amesbury
    Andover
    Augustinians
    Billerica
    Book Review
    Catholic
    Charlestown
    Concord
    Danish
    Dover
    Essex Company
    Family History
    Frederick Ayer
    French Canadian
    Hampton Beach
    Hampton Beach Riot Of 1964
    Harvard
    Haverhill
    Hispanic
    Holy Rosary
    Indian Wars
    Irish
    Italian
    Jewish History
    Latino
    Lawrence
    Long Reads
    Lovecraft
    Lowell
    Lynn
    Maine
    Marists
    Mass.
    Merrimack College
    Merrymount Colony
    Methuen
    Native Americans
    Newburyport
    New Hampshire
    N.H.
    North Andover
    Oblates
    Old Norfolk
    Orangemen
    Pennacooks
    Phillips Academy
    Polartec
    Popham Colony
    Praying Towns
    Quotes
    Rioting
    Riots
    Robert Frost
    Salisbury Beach
    Saugus
    Shantytown
    Slaves
    Swedish
    Syrians
    Tewksbury
    Textiles
    Thoreau
    Trivia
    Tyngsboro
    Unitarian
    Uplands
    Vermont
    Wamesit
    Witch-trials

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly