The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.: Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic TupperBrock, Isaac, Sir
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The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.: Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper
With my kindest love to the Tuppers, tell them that I often
see Colonel Glegg, who was Sir Isaac Brock's aide-de-camp: he
is now Lord Aylmer's civil secretary, and we meet very often.
He speaks affectionately of his old patron, and has made many
inquiries relative to the family: the tears come into his eyes
when he talks to me of old times. He and George
(Lieut.-Colonel Eliot) were a great deal together during the
war in the Upper Province. The other day, at dinner at the
château, he told me that he had had a visit from Sir Isaac's
old housekeeper, who is still living here in a similar
situation to the House of Assembly, and gets £50 a year
salary. He knew her directly, and seemed quite affected when
telling me that she had brought her credentials with her in
case he had not recognized her, as many years had elapsed
since they met; and she opened a pocket book carefully, which
she had in her hand, and took a piece of a shirt with the
initials of General Brock's name, which she said she had cut
off when the body was brought in to be buried at Fort George,
and preserved it as a relic of her dear master. This little,
trifling, affectionate remembrance of the old creature, shews
her real attachment. Colonel Glegg gave her a new snuff box,
filled with snuff from Paris, and told her to come again to
see him. Perhaps the Tuppers will be pleased to hear this
little anecdote.
[Mrs. Eliot, whose maiden name was Jane M'Crea, is the daughter of an
American loyalist and a gallant field officer, now deceased, and the
niece and namesake of the unfortunate Jane M'Crea, whose tragical fate
in the American revolutionary war excited so much commiseration, and
gave rise to a correspondence between the American general. Gates, and
General Burgoyne. The former wrote: "Miss M'Crea, a young lady, lovely
to the sight, of virtuous character and amiable disposition, engaged to
an officer of your army, was, with other women and children, taken out
of a house near Fort Edward, carried into the woods, and there scalped
and mangled in a most shocking manner.... The miserable fate of Miss
M'Crea was particularly aggravated by being dressed to receive her
promised husband, but met her murderer employed by you." The latter, in
his reply, stated, that "two chiefs, who had brought her off for the
purpose of security, not of violence to her person, disputed which
should be her guard, and in a fit of savage passion in one, from whose
hands she was snatched, the unhappy woman became the victim."]
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