Gathered Sketches from the Early History of New Hampshire and Vermont: Containing Vivid and Interesting Account of a Great Variety of the Adventures of Our Forefathers, and of Other Incidents of Olden Times ; Original and SelectedFrancis Chase |
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Page 198 - Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
Page 38 - Ah, many a wife shall rend her hair, And many a child cry, " Woe is me ! " When messengers the news shall bear, Of Lovewell's dear-bought victory. With footsteps slow shall travellers go, Where Lovewell's Pond shines clear and bright, And mark the place w^here those are laid Who fell In Lovewell's bloody fight. Old men shall shake their heads, and say, " Sad was the hour and terrible When Lovewell brave 'gainst Paugus went, With fifty men from Dunstable.
Page 33 - Then did the crimson streams, that flowed, Seem like the waters of the brook, That brightly shine, that loudly dash Far down the cliffs of Agiochook.
Page 138 - Canadians, which were included in the treaty aforesaid. It cut me to the heart to see the Canadians in so hard a case, in consequence of their having been true to me; they were wringing their hands, saying their prayers, as I concluded, and expected immediate death. I therefore stepped between the executioners and the Canadians, opened my clothes, and told Gen. Prescott to thrust his baynets into my breast, for I was the sole cause of the Canadians taking up arms.
Page 34 - ... lived, A marksman he, of courage true, Shot the first Indian whom they saw, Sheer through his heart the bullet flew. The savage had been seeking game: Two guns and eke a knife he bore; And two black ducks were in his hand, He shrieked and fell, to rise no more.
Page 156 - ... prisoner, and all his men, except a few who had escaped into the woods, were either killed or taken prisoners. Having completed the business by taking the whole party, the militia began to disperse and look out for plunder. But in a few minutes Stark received information that a large reinforcement was on their march, and within two miles of him. Fortunately at that moment Colonel Warner came up with his regiment from Manchester. This brave and experienced officer commanded a regiment of continental...
Page 128 - Bay, from whence you will march and attack the enemy's settlements on the south side of the river St. Lawrence, in such a manner as you shall judge most effectual to disgrace the enemy, and for the success and honour of his Majesty's arms.
Page 26 - Near thirty persons were slain, and more than fifty were led into what the reader will by and by call the worst captivity in the world.
Page 78 - In this posture we sailed in our open, tottering canoes almost the whole of that dreary night. The morning, indeed, had not yet begun to dawn, when we all went ashore ; and, having collected a heap of sand and gravel for a pillow, I laid myself down, with my tender infant by my side, not knowing where any of my other children were, or what & miserable condition they might be in.
Page 165 - Stark, who was encamped about two miles distant from the enemy, rode forward with Warner, colonel of the Vermont regiment, to reconnoitre the position of his opponents. As they stopped to make observations, the report of a cannon was heard, and a heavy ball plunged past, ploughing the earth as it went. Stark looked at it coolly, and then exclaimed, " Those rascals know I am an officer ; don't you see they honor me with a salute from a big gun ? " Nothing could be more characteristic of Stark than...