Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times: 1769 - 1776 A Historical RomanceCoffin, Charles Carleton
History
Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times: 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance
Coffin, Charles Carleton
Historical fiction; Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction
KING'S CHAPEL 135
TOWN HOUSE 143
GEORGE III. 161
QUEEN SOPHIA CHARLOTTE 166
LORD PERCY 232
PAUL REVERE'S HOUSE 253
REVEREND JONAS CLARK'S HOUSE 258
BUCKMAN'S TAVERN 260
JONATHAN HARRINGTON'S HOUSE 264
ROBERT MUNROE'S HOUSE 266
MAP, ROUTE TO LEXINGTON AND CONCORD 267
REVEREND WILLIAM EMERSON'S HOUSE 268
WRIGHT'S TAVERN 270
NORTH BRIDGE 272
MERRIAM'S CORNER 274
MUNROE TAVERN 276
PROVINCE HOUSE 281
WHERE WASHINGTON ASSUMED COMMAND 308
PLANNING THE ESCAPE 324
WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS 334
THE DINNER-PARTY 381
HOME OF THE EXILES 384
DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION.
I.
ROBERT WALDEN GOES TO MARKET.
Joshua Walden, of Rumford, Province of New Hampshire, was receiving
letters from Samuel Adams and Doctor Joseph Warren in relation to the
course pursued by King George III. and his ministers in collecting
revenue from the Colonies. Mr. Walden had fought the French and
Indians at Ticonderoga and Crown Point in the war with France. The gun
and powder-horn which he carried under Captain John Stark were hanging
over the door in his kitchen. His farm was on the banks of the
Merrimac. The stately forest trees had fallen beneath the sturdy blows
of his axe, and the sun was shining on intervale and upland, meadow
and pasture which he had cleared. His neighbors said he was getting
forehanded. Several times during the year he made a journey to Boston
with his cheeses, beef, pigs, turkeys, geese, chickens, a barrel
of apple-sauce, bags filled with wool, together with webs of
linsey-woolsey spun and woven by his wife and daughter. He never
failed to have a talk with Mr. Adams and Doctor Warren, John Hancock,
and others foremost in resisting the aggressions of the mother
country upon the rights and liberties of the Colonies. When at home he
was up early in the morning, building the fire, feeding the cattle,
and milking the cows. Mrs. Walden, the while, was stirring the corn
meal for a johnny-cake, putting the potatoes in the ashes, placing the
Dutch oven on the coals, hanging the pots and kettles on the hooks and
trammels.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account