Babson, John. History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann. Gloucester, Massachusetts: Procter Brothers, 1860. Print
In the later years of Dogtown when the buildings were hardly habitable and the people that lived there consisted of people in poverty, widows, drunks, soldiers, witches, and any other types of outcasts. In 1814, Abraham Whart was the last tenant of Dogtown who went into poverty with Dogtown. He ended up taking a razor to his neck and crawling under a rock. In the book I found a very interesting poem that paraphrased of the transition from Common Settlement into Dogtown. “But now the sounds of population fail; No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale; No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread; But all the bloomy flush of life is fled.” This poem to me is the sad truth about what happened to one of the first settlements of Gloucester and its downfall. Just like everything else though whenever there’s something newer and better people move on and that’s what happened here.
Dresser, Thomas. Dogtown: A Village Lost in Time. Oaks Bluffs, Massachusetts: Thomas Dresser, 1995. Print
The Common Settlement was a prospering region full of war heroes, doctors, shepherds, blacksmiths(Joseph Allen, 1st in Gloucester), and many more important people. Little over a centaury after the Revolutionary War ended the Common’s were mostly habituated by widows of lost soldiers. Many of these widows had dogs for companionship and protection(thus the name dog town). Some ideal characters of Dogtown was Thomasine Younger who was know as “Queen of the Witches”. both her and Luce George would stand outside their doors yelling at the passing travelers to throw them food and if they didn’t then they would send spirits after them. A familiar name Abram Wharf, lived in Common Settlement and went into poverty with it. Later he would put a razor to his neck and crawl under a rock. Becky Rich would tell your future from coffee grounds while Judy Rhines, Molly Jacobs, and Liz Tucker were working the streets. People always want the next best thing and so while all the people left the “dogs” were the only ones left to run Common Settlement into the ground.
i have the rough draft things but couldn't put it up on the blog
Babson, John. History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann. Gloucester, Massachusetts: Procter Brothers, 1860. Print
ReplyDeleteIn the later years of Dogtown when the buildings were hardly habitable and the people that lived there consisted of people in poverty, widows, drunks, soldiers, witches, and any other types of outcasts. In 1814, Abraham Whart was the last tenant of Dogtown who went into poverty with Dogtown. He ended up taking a razor to his neck and crawling under a rock. In the book I found a very interesting poem that paraphrased of the transition from Common Settlement into Dogtown.
“But now the sounds of population fail; No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale; No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread; But all the bloomy flush of life is fled.” This poem to me is the sad truth about what happened to one of the first settlements of Gloucester and its downfall. Just like everything else though whenever there’s something newer and better people move on and that’s what happened here.
Dresser, Thomas. Dogtown: A Village Lost in Time. Oaks Bluffs, Massachusetts: Thomas Dresser, 1995. Print
The Common Settlement was a prospering region full of war heroes, doctors, shepherds, blacksmiths(Joseph Allen, 1st in Gloucester), and many more important people. Little over a centaury after the Revolutionary War ended the Common’s were mostly habituated by widows of lost soldiers. Many of these widows had dogs for companionship and protection(thus the name dog town). Some ideal characters of Dogtown was Thomasine Younger who was know as “Queen of the Witches”. both her and Luce George would stand outside their doors yelling at the passing travelers to throw them food and if they didn’t then they would send spirits after them. A familiar name Abram Wharf, lived in Common Settlement and went into poverty with it. Later he would put a razor to his neck and crawl under a rock. Becky Rich would tell your future from coffee grounds while Judy Rhines, Molly Jacobs, and Liz Tucker were working the streets. People always want the next best thing and so while all the people left the “dogs” were the only ones left to run Common Settlement into the ground.
i have the rough draft things but couldn't put it up on the blog