AUTHOR’S PREFACE

GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR.

PART I. 1620-1692.

CHAPTER I. GRANDFATHER AND THE CHILDREN AND THE CHAIR.

CHAPTER II. THE PURITANS AND THE LADY ARBELLA.

CHAPTER III. A RAINY DAY.

CHAPTER IV. TROUBLOUS TIMES.

CHAPTER V. THE GOVERNMENT OF NEW ENGLAND.

CHAPTER VI. THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS.

CHAPTER VII. THE QUAKERS AND THE INDIANS.

CHAPTER VIII. THE INDIAN BIBLE.

CHAPTER IX. ENGLAND AND NEW ENGLAND.

CHAPTER X. THE SUNKEN TREASURE.

CHAPTER XI. WHAT THE CHAIR HAD KNOWN.

APPENDIX TO PART I.

PART II. 1692-1763.

CHAPTER I. THE CHAIR IN THE FIRELIGHT.

CHAPTER II. THE SALEM WITCHES.

CHAPTER III. THE OLD-FASHIONED SCHOOL.

CHAPTER IV. COTTON MATHER

CHAPTER V. THE REJECTED BLESSING.

CHAPTER VI. POMPS AND VANITIES.

CHAPTER VII. THE PROVINCIAL MUSTER.

CHAPTER VIII. THE OLD FRENCH WAR AND THE ACADIAN EXILES

CHAPTER IX. THE END OF THE WAR.

CHAPTER X. THOMAS HUTCHINSON.

APPENDIX TO PART II.

PART III. 1763-1803.

CHAPTER I. A NEW-YEAR’S DAY.

CHAPTER II. THE STAMP ACT.

CHAPTER III. THE HUTCHINSON MOB.

CHAPTER IV. THE BRITISH TROOPS IN BOSTON.

CHAPTER V. THE BOSTON MASSACRE.

CHAPTER VI. A COLLECTION OF PORTRAITS.

CHAPTER VII. THE TEA PARTY AND LEXINGTON.

CHAPTER VIII. THE SIEGE OF BOSTON.

CHAPTER IX. THE TORY’S FAREWELL.

CHAPTER X. THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE.

CHAPTER XI. GRANDFATHER’S DREAM.

APPENDIX TO PART III.