Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1841, In the Clerk's office of the District Court of Rhode Island. B. Cranston & Co., Printers. Turtle 44037 DEDICATION. To the Hon. JOHN FAIRFIELD, late Governor of Maine, this work is most respectfully dedicated by his grateful friend, the Author, not only as a tribute of esteem for his public and private virtues, but a small acknowledgment of his politeness in facilitating her inquiries into the history of the interesting people of whom it treats. The Author indulges the hope, that the deep sympathy in their wrongs and unmerited afflictions, domestic as well as national, expressed to her by one who is an enemy to oppression in every form, and an example in all the endearing relations of social life, will not be lessened by the perusal of the story in which she has attempted to embody their history. |