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Wessagusset and Weymouth by Charles Francis Adams Jr. explores history.
Wessagusset and Weymouth is a work by Charles Francis Adams Jr.. Its subjects include History.
From the opening pages: “Full in sight of the spot where we are now gathered,--almost at the foot of King-Oak Hill,--stands that portion of the ancient town of Weymouth, known from time immemorial as the village of Old Spain. When or why it was first so called is wholly unknown,--scarcely a tradition even remains to suggest to us an origin of the name. None the less Old Spain well deserved a portion at least of that familiar title, for, next to the town of Plymouth, it is the oldest settlement in Massachusetts. And when we speak of the oldest settlements in Massachusetts, we speak of communities which may fairly lay claim to a very respectable degree of antiquity; not of the greatest, it is true, for all antiquity is relative, and that of America scarcely deserves the name by the side of what England has to show; but what is the antiquity of England compared with that of Rome?--and Rome, again, seems young and crude when we speak of Greece; while even those…”
