I can just remember an old brown-coated man who was the Walton of this stream, who had come over from Newcastle, England, with his son, the latter a stout and hearty man who had lifted an anchor in his day.
1849 December, “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. […]”, in The Massachusetts Quarterly Review, number IX, Boston, Mass.: […] Coolidge & Wiley, […], page 51