Mr. and Mrs. Pierce and their two children then took a trip East with the intention of making Boston their home, but the longing for California was too strong and after an absence of two years, during which time Mrs. Pierce was soprano in the largest Congregational Church of freetown, Mass.
"Sixty Years of California Song"
Margaret Blake-Alverson
John Clarkson, however, brother of Thomas Clarkson, the abolitionist, eventually took the lead, founded freetown, and the colony began its checkered career.
"The Negro"
W.E.B. Du Bois
You have broken the fifth commandment, and closed the trade of freetown to the Black Eagle.
"The Firm of Girdlestone"
Arthur Conan Doyle