The Treasure Ship by Hezekiah Butterworth (Hardcover, 1899) First Edition

Description: The Treasure Ship by Hezekiah Butterworth (Hardcover, 1899) First Edition. BY HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH. Uniform Edition. Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.50. The Story of Magellan. A Tale of the Discovery of the Philippines. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill and Others. The Treasure Ship. A Story of Sir William Phipps and the Inter-Charter Period in Massachusetts. Illus- trated by B. West Clinedinst and Others. The Pilot of the Mayflower. Illustrated by H. Winthrop Peirce and Others. True to his Home. A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin. Illustrated by H. Winthrop Peirce. The Wampum Belt; or, The Fairest Page of History. A Tale of William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. With 6 fu'l-page Illustrations. The Knight of Liberty. A Tale of the Fortunes of Lafayette. With 6 full-page Illustrations. The Patriot Schoolmaster. A Tale of the Minute- men and the Sons of Liberty. With 6 full-page Illustrations by H. Winthrop Peirce. In the Boyhood of Lincoln. A Story of the Black Hawk War and the Tunker Schoolmaster. With 12 Illustrations and colored Frontispiece. The Boys of Greenway Court. Early Years of Washington. Illustrations. A Story of the With 10 full-page The Log School-House on the Columbia. With 13 full-page Illustrations by J. Carter Beard, E. J. Austen, and Others. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. ----------- 2 ----------- THE TREASURE SHIP A Tale of Sir William Phipps, The Regicides, and the Inter-Charter Period in Massachusetts BY HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH AUTHOR OF THE PILOT OF THE MAYFLOWER, TRUE TO HIS HOME, THE WAMPUM BELT, IN THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN, ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY B. WEST CLINEDINST AND OTHERS NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1899 ----------- 4 ----------- COPYRIGHT, 1899, By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. ----------- 4 ----------- PREFACE. THE history of Sir William Phipps, which was an old New England wonder tale, is very remarkable beyond the facts that a poor boy found a treasure ship and was knighted for honesty, restored to the colonies their char- tered rights, and became a governor of New England under the new charter. Wealth and fame, even when honestly won, are not the greatest of successes in life. Character is everything, and character building is the greatest of all things. In Sir William Phipps we have a hero who struggled not only against poverty in youth, but against evil tendencies in his own nature in mature years to make his surprising wealth as a fortune finder, and his high position at court, a means of building a true and noble private character for the public good, which was more than to find a ship of gold. We have chosen this fortune finder for the hero of this book, which is the ninth of the series of the "Creators of Liberty" books, because it represents both character building and pictures the Intercharter period of colonial V ----------- 6 ----------- vi THE TREASURE SHIP. history, in which period appeared for the first time a little republic in America; for then, after the colonies had proclaimed liberty, and imprisoned Randolph and An- dros, their council became for a brief period a congress, and the venerable Simon Bradstreet, the president of that council, was, in a representative sense, the first president of a republic in America. The history of this Intercharter period is one of re- markable American stories. It includes the Charter Oak, the hidden judges, witchcraft, and heroic deeds for lib- erty. The struggle for the charter was the first Ameri- can revolution in America for independent rights. This The period brings to view, in Simon Bradstreet, one of the most beautiful characters in colonial history. man, who was governor of the colony when nearly ninety years of age, and a member of the colonial council when more than ninety years of age, and in whose family American literature began in the work of Anne Bradstreet, the poetess called in England the "Tenth Muse," possessed a great, true heart and a clear political vision. He op- posed the Indian war, and persecutions for witchcraft, and he was the prophetic patriarch of his times. One loves to write of such a gracious leader. It has been said that Samuel Adams " organized the Revolu- tion." It may be said that Simon Bradstreet saw the vision of American liberty which Samuel Adams brought into form. ----------- 6 ----------- PREFACE. vii The book is fiction, but aims to be true to the spirit of history; it puts facts into picture. Sir William Phipps, the fortune finder and character builder, and Simon Bradstreet, the lover of justice and mercy, and the prophet of the republic, were both " crea- tors of liberty," and the book as an interpretation stands between The Pilot of the Mayflower and The Patriot Schoolmaster. Stories of witchcraft do not properly belong to young peoples' historical fiction, but no true picture of the times of Bradstreet and Phipps could be drawn without them. The hero of the broad-axe not only secured for New Eng- land her new charter, but stopped the great delusion of the period when he saw it as a delusion. June, 1899. The author is grateful to the public, and especially to schools, that this series of books has been so kindly and generously received. He has sought to make this a char- acter-building book, and to picture, through facts in the form of fiction, a memorable period of history. He would call the attention of young lovers of history to the not at the end of the volume. The one taken from Sparks's American Biography is a notable page of history. HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH. ----------- 7 ----------- CHAPTER CONTENTS. I.- ALL THINGS POSSIBLE" II.-BURIED TREASURES III. THE SHIPYARD IV. IN BOSTON TOWN-DR. INCREASE MATHER'S WONDER TALE V.-THE AFFRIGHTED SETTLERS. VI. CAPTAIN MOSELEY AND HIS WIG. VII. LITTLE JOE CONE VIII.-A STRANGE SOUND IN THE AIR IX.-A HUNTED MAN.-A QUEER DUEL X.-JOE CONE XI.-IN THE JUDGE'S CAVE.-A CATAMOUNT XII. WHO WAS THE MAN WHO HAD LIVED IN THE CAVE?. XIII-A PROCLAMATION . XIV.-RANDOLPH, THE Fox XV.-OAKUM PICKING. XVI-GOVERNOR LEVERETT'S STRANGE FAMILY STORY. XVII.-THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CHARTER . . . . . . . XVIII.-TREASURE SHIPS. XIX. THE CHARTER OAK XX. LITTLE JOE AS A FOREST GUIDE. XXI.-THE FIGURE THAT DISAPPEARED. XXII. THE CHAMBER IN THE CHIMNEY XXIII.-JOE XXIV. THE ROSE ALGIER ix . . . PAGE X CHAPTER THE TREASURE SHIP. XXV.-THE SHIP OF GOLD XXVI.-" RISE UP, SIR WILLIAM!". XXVII.-JOE'S WORK IN LIFE ENDED. XXVIII.-POOR JANE CONE. XXIX. THE CARPENTERS' DINNER APPENDIX LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. What a sight was that ! . Telling of the wonders of the world A remarkable duel. A royal ship brings a proclamation The "Angel of Deliverance". The disappearance of the Charter . The baronet calls upon Jane Cone. FACING PAGE Frontispiece

Price: 50 USD

Location: Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

End Time: 2025-01-13T00:10:58.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD