The
of Dogtown.
Sto)'y
Right against
the road.
it,
on one
63 are the
side,
yard foundations of a small building, while in the a with this, enclosed by a wall, are the remains of
The building by the rock was which John Morgan Stanwood spent his
the
laro-er structure.
hut in
Mr. Rich,
days.
the John,
poem, dropped
in his
last
drop while the custom of his contemporaries was to It is a painful but well-authenticated the Stanwood. fact, that
he was
known
to
some, as long as he lived,
"Johnny Morgan." Of course he was not that Johnny who played the organ, nor the estimable as
gentleman
who
caters to the finer taste of the present
generation of Gloucester people. I
find
many precious hours John Morgan Stanwood was
misspent if
hunting
after,
and second, seeking
trying,
first
man
to
I
was
to find out
who
the
Morgan was who lived by the brook. That this was not strange may be understood, when I say that the
a lady
still
school, his
living told
me
that for years she
went
to
and was intimate with " Nabby Morgan,"
daughter, before
name was
person told her that her
the
really Abigail
Morgan Stanwood.
Morgan Stanwood never went to the wars, so those who knew him as Capt. Morgan Stanwood made a mistake ino-
the
if
they thought the
Revolutionary
title
war,
a military one.
or
a
little
Dur-
later,
he