Note 7, page 35.
This incident of the Crusade of Richard Cœur de Lion is given in the "Chronicles of the Cistercians."
Note 8, page 56.
Written for the commemoration of the Bi-Centennial Settlement of the State of New Hampshire by the New Hampshire Historical Society, May 22, 1873. "Captain Smith " was Jobn Smith of Pocahontas fame, who sailed along the New England coast in 1614, and discovered the Isles of Shoals. A poor monument to his memory stands upon the highest point of Star Island, one of the group.
Note 9, page 70.
Kearsarge, the mountain which gave its name to the vessel that sunk the Alabama, off Cherbourg, June 19, 1864, is a noble granite peak in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, the twin of Monadnoe, rising alone, three thousand feet above the sea. A lofty mountain in Carroll County, N. H., has also been known as Kearsarge; but the name belonged, from the earliest times, to the Merrimack County peak, and the other is more properly called Pequawket.
Note 10, page 75.
Sacred to captives' woes and wiles."
Duston's Island, at the mouth of the Contoocook, just below the village of Penacook in Concord, New Hampshire. This island is some two acres in area, and its name comes from Hannah Duston, who on March 15, 1697, was, with her nurse, carried away by the Indians from Haverhill, Mass., and brought to this island, which was their abode. Here, one midnight, with the help of
