Interesting but not conclusive. A fourth (a member of our association and therefore entitled to credence) said that Caesar built a cabin not far from the site of the Island Pond house, married a light colored woman, and had children, one of whom was a daughter named Ginger. Now Ginger is said to have been at work in a family in that part of the chestnut country known as Londonderry, where nothing was known against her character except that she was a Methodist, but as she regularly attended the Presbyterian meeting, that was overlooked. On warm summer days, the doors of the meeting-house stood wide open, and while the preacher did his best to keep his congregation awake, the dogs who had accompanied their owners from home occasionally came in, up one aisle, around in front of the pulpit, and out at the door by the other. Ginger declared this sacrilege, and failing to make the elders take heed to her remonstrance, provided herself with a long supple sprout from the wood nearby, which she deposited unobserved at the end of her seat, a modest plank reserved for colored sisters. In due time the canine procession entered. As it passed Ginger she laid her stick over the backs of the intruders with a resounding whack. The yelping that followed thoroughly awakened the congregation. The preacher, who from his coigne of vantage observed the whole affair, paused for a moment "while ceased the dreadful din," and then went calmly on with his sixthly.

Now this seems on the face of it satisfactory, but a fourth appears on the scene more extraordinary still. Caesar Harvey escaped from Capt. John Smith, presumably at the Isles of Shoals, as this is the nearest point that venturous navigator ever approached these shores, and he is certainly not reported to have ventured on the turbulent waves of the Massabesic. I am told that this view of the origin of Caesar Harvey was supported by many plausible arguments. Now if this theory be true, Caesar Harvey at the time of his advent here must have been lively and living in 1614, so that by the time