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Martha's Vineyard   /mˈɑrθəz vˈɪnjərd/   Listen
Martha's Vineyard

noun
1.
An island summer resort off of Cape Cod.






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"Martha's Vineyard" Quotes from Famous Books



... considerable quantity of military and naval stores, provisions, and merchandise. He landed at six in the evening, and so rapid were his movements that the work of destruction was accomplished and the troops re-embarked before noon the next day. He then proceeded to the island called Martha's Vineyard, a resort of privateers, where he took or burned several vessels, destroyed the salt works, compelled the inhabitants to surrender their arms, and levied from them a contribution of 1,000 sheep and ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing

... region until 1606, when new interest in American colonization had been aroused in England. The credit for awakening this interest is given to Bartholomew Gosnold, an English navigator who, in 1602, sailed directly west and in May reached Cape Cod. Then, coasting along New England, he found and named Martha's Vineyard, and in July ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1-20 • Various

... days of atlases and "the use of the globes," been made aware of the fact, that off the southern shore of Massachusetts lies a long and narrow island, called Martha's Vineyard, one of the many defences thrown out by the beleaguered New England coast against ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various



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