. Le poets' Nouvelle Angleterre. conduit du sud-ampton en 1638, et se sont installés dans ce qui est aujourd'hui à Ames bury. Plus tard, il déménage à Haverhill, construit et dans lequel thehouse Whittier, près de deux cents yearslater, est né. Il était d'ascendance huguenote, il andthough n'apparaît pas que l'on ait réussi à aQuaker lui-même, il a été l'un de ces braves peoplewhom aime à dépeindre de manière Whittier-un ami de theQuakers. Il était parmi un certain nombre de citoyens qui, en 1652, ont signé une pétition à la cour générale, d'un pardon pourles Robert Pike, dont la tombe-misde meanor est qu'il s'était opposé à une commande pro-hibiting Quakers d'exhor

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. The poets' New England. led from South-ampton in 1638, and settled in what is now Ames-bury. Later he moved to Haverhill, and built thehouse in which Whittier, nearly two hundred yearslater, was born. He was of Huguenot descent, andthough he does not appear ever to have become aQuaker himself, he was one of those brave peoplewhom Whittier so likes to depict—a friend of theQuakers. He was among a number of citizens who, in 1652, signed a petition to the general court, forthe pardon of one Robert Pike, whose grave misde-meanor was that he had objected to an order pro-hibiting Quakers from exhorting on the Lords Dayeven in their own houses. For this he was heavilyfined, while the petitioners in his favor were threat-ened with loss of rights as freemen unless theywithdrew their names. Among the sixteen who re-fused to withdraw their names was another ancestorof the poet, Christopher Hussey, and among the pro-hibited exhorters was another, Joseph Peasley. Thusthe tempering spirit of toleration was a far-back in-. hiW o md ^:s O ea H O THE POETS NEW ENGLAND 303 heritance of the poet. It is not surprising eitherthat this tolerant Thomas Whittier should have heenso good to the Indians of his neighborhood, that dur-ing the border wars when every other inhabitant ofHaverhill was liable to be scalped at any moment, his house and family were safe from molestation. Sosecure did he feel, that it is said he never even boltedhis doors at night. Whittiers inheritance and environment were muchmore closely aflBliated with the romantic aspects ofNew England life than Bryants were, owing to thefact that his ancestors had remained in the seaboardcradle of New England, while Bryants had isolatedthemselves in the wilds of western Massachusetts.Therefore when Nature touched John GreenleafWhittier with its wand of genius, he found close tohis hand a richness of material both, as biefore noted, in the romance and history of the region, as well asin its varied scenery. Circumstances, too, for

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