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  Little Pilgrimages

  The Romance of
  Old New England
  Rooftrees

  By

  Mary C. Crawford

  Illustrated

  [Illustration]

  Boston
  L. C. Page & Company
  Mdcccciii




  _Copyright, 1902_
  _by_
  _L. C. Page & Company_
  (_Incorporated_)

  _All rights reserved_

  _Published, September, 1902_

  Colonial Press
  Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
  Boston, Mass., U.S.A.


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[Illustration: SIR HARRY FRANKLAND. (_See page 48_)]




FOREWORD


These little sketches have been written to supply what seemed to the
author a real need,--a volume which should give clearly, compactly, and
with a fair degree of readableness, the stories connected with the
surviving old houses of New England. That delightful writer, Mr. Samuel
Adams Drake, has in his many works on the historic mansions of colonia