Reminiscences 1780 To 1814 Including Incidents In The War Of 1812 14 Volume 1 Scholars Choice Edition

Author : M. Myers
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ISBN 13 : 9781330618240
Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book Reminiscences, 1780 to 1814, Including Incidents in the War of 1812-14 (Classic Reprint) written by M. Myers and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences, 1780 to 1814, Including Incidents in the War of 1812-14 My Dear Son: - In accordance with your expressed wish, I will give you a condensed outline of the events of my long and varied life, beginning with a short account of family affairs. My father was a Hungarian, and my mother an Austrian, by birth. They sailed from Helvoetsluys, in Holland, and arrived in New York in the year 1750. They soon after removed to Newport, where I was born on the 31st of May, 1776 - two months before the signing of The Declaration of Independence. My father spoke and wrote all the living languages, and, at Newport, he became the friend of the Rev. Dr. Styles, afterwards President of Yale College. In November, 1776, before having reached his fortieth year, my father died, beloved and respected by all who knew him. The British evacuated Newport in 1779, and, in 1780, my mother decided to return to New York. The winter of this year was known long after as the "hard winter." The snow was deeper than it had ever been known to be before on the Continent; and I have seen nothing like it since. The Bay of New York was so firmly frozen over that the British marched troops and removed heavy guns on the ice to Staten Island. We lived quietly in New York until 1783, when Great Britain was compelled, by her own necessities, and by the persevering bravery of the Americans, to acknowledge the American Colonies to be free and independent States. Preparations were being made to withdraw the forces, and the British, in common justice to those Americans who, unfortunately for themselves, had embraced the British cause, offered homes in Nova Scotia to all who would sign Articles of Association. My mother agreed to this, and early in May we left New York in a British ship for our new home. We spent several happy years in Nova Scotia, where a pleasant society was formed. Our nearest neighbors were Captain Richard Lippincott and his wife, a Quaker. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.