Thompson, Charles O. F. Sketches of old Bristol Providence: Roger Williams Press, 1942, 428 pgs. Simeon Potter, 1720-1806 Sammy Usher, 1755-1833 D'Wolf, 1764-1837 The old D'Wolf Family Bible Gen. George D'Wolf's failure in 1825 Hon. John D'Wolf and the "farm" Daddy" Bullock, 1769-1876 Rev. Henry Wight, D.D., 1752-1837 Excerpts from diary of "Parson" Wight, 1787 The old graveyard on the southeast corner of the common Hon. James Diman, 1795-1877 Hon. Byron Diman, 1795-1865 John Howe, 1783-1864 Robert Rogers, 1792-1870 Hon. Joseph M. Blake, 1810-1879 Doctor Jabez Holmes, 1791-1851 Major Jacob Babbitt W. Church, 1803-1881 Peter Gladding, 1805-1883 Col. William R. Taylor, 1811-1890 Rt. Rev. Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, 1808-1895 James DeWolf Perry, 1815-1876 Hon. Jonathan Russell Bullock, 1815-1899 Burning of the Empire State Marmaduke Mason, 1818-1910 Edward Isaac Thompson, 1821-1905 Col. Charles A. Greene, 1822-1899 Charles H. Spooner, 1827-1905 Hon. Isaac F. Williams, 1833-1892 George W. Easterbrooks, 1827-1899 "Scotty" Dixon, 1844-1896 Herbert Franklin Bennett, 1845-1908 Rev. George Lyman Locke, D.D., 1835-1919 Hon. William T. C. Wardwell, 1835-1907 Hon. Augustus Osborn Bourn, 1834-1925 Parmenas Skinner, Jr., 1837-1920 George Ulric Arnold, 1843-1924 The old burying-grounds The old Bristol Ferry The great September Gale of 1815 The hurricane, 1938 An incident concerning Governor William Bradford in 1775 The Governor Bradford farm Burial of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in 1826 Bristol police force, 1904 Hon. Ezra Dixon, 1849-1936 Rev. William Ramsay Trotter, 1856-1914 John Post Reynolds, 1850-1915 Orrin Luther Bosworth, 1849-1922 Charles Bristed Rockwell, 1848-1929 William Frederick Williams, M.D., 1859-1931 Philo V. Cady, 1856-1933 Alfred M. Merriman, M.D., 1868-1939 The old Herreshoff Family Interesting facts of the past