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meat Intact Paice & ¥ d E \& - vitba \@. thgmmm OC quent, mid Haitian Kwik evidentiy‘xi .. and ~ zaodro soriong corre mage in. mm Poe 1 Gf no mwmtyf {16mm [ W ~plirce, ind odco or twice they had paid a visic to Mrs. B- who xasided a short distance from the village. The Intter lady had reached an ndvaneed age, and her recollections of the sottloment of the place were yet dis- 'tinck She loved to dwell upon the thowrentrof tinits, and ro- _counted with garrulous minutenegs the hardships and dnngers tho ploneers of the wilderness emcuuntored. |_ |, With the utrmbost eagerness Florence listened 'to her recital, but his interest was raoro particularly exeited when she spoke of the family of Philip Skeene, all of whom she well remembered. He was the original proprictor of the township; which hid been grantdd him by tho King of England, and lived among his tenantry sas 'lord of the manor. His house she described as a stone edifice, constructed more with A view to defense than ~convenifence, situated ina small clearing on the east mde of Wood Creek, now & populous portion of the village. In those early timés the solitary set- ter, far from aid, wag compoled to rely upon \ ‘3118 ownmesourcéfi against the at- mos of wandering mmes, and not unusual was it, to find here and there, - mills new country, such fortified abodes. Bufi‘tfie house of Skeene wasg remankalble farms strength, and many, tmngaa‘Bout i¥indicastell that the otfus, pant wasn 1mm aocnstymed to socisty more luxurious than 'the few scattered' inhobitants pround fim. In the rem;y surrounded W3 maifgite wall was a gar? den stretching k to the base 6F the mountam. i it wound gram eled walks,\ mt}: rarest flowers?! ~known | her 'excellent well.' For all sho was so. exhibiting the miest taste. - All arouild. . and beyond i€ the solitude of flit? have ffin'i‘ t's she rammed above ground. But she filed sotfie years 'before he went Away. { He did not burry her, but put her into. y A* A tofin and kept it in a Sly plhacain the . | ) filfi beer '} 18 atran y ware. M13 5113 ¢ lybolfio- for a hunter of the Mid bad sid, that. hebeheld whils and that her voice singing in an un- gno was sweoltbr than the melody the birds. ~* Nor was it singular, the old Indy re- marked to Florence, that one who had seen tho daughtor of Phillip Skeene tending the garden which her care bad brought to such perfection should re- Or- sho was vory beautifal, and all the poor people on her father's domains loved proud, and bors herself so loftily, her hand was ever opon to the needy, and when she followed her father to the war, Joining the ladies in the train of Gener- al Burgoyne, there was sorrow and mourning in Skeenesborough. But Skeene never returned,\ she con- tinued. 'He fought on the King's side, and aftef the battle of Saratoga went to England with his fumily. All his lands were forfeited and the garden andabuild- ings went to decay, He white horse at the battle of Remington, I've heard your father siy,' addressing her- self to Warner, 'and it was the #azoo one that his daughter galloped past our door many. and many a time. Col. Seth, your father, hatéd him bitterly, and he never had reason .to thank him that he got oft, of the country alive. Ho directed his men to shoog him, and it-igyn < miracle that; he escaped.‘ * id you; never hear the story about hm ‘wxfé 7 she ehqnfled of Florencé. :Bé- fng answered in the negative, and xe- gmwuomm it, sh'é. proceeded :-* h ‘Weu, you sen,\. aha began, ghe was a. ohdr lady, whom ho» mauled in 018 gould Rot it wo arrangéc‘l Ix! . oellar and so every year he would get ~ of hiamen tomake oath p tions that ho heard from the lips of theso aged people in the obscure firm-houses of a strange land, the narrative of the adventures of hisancestry, with the out- lino of which, the vague memory of his boyhood averflowed. - What feelings thronged upon him as had passed the childhood of one, whose kind maternal face had beamed upon him through all his wandering life !- whatever hitherto might have been his faults and irregulnrities, he never cenas» ed to revers his mother's memory, and when old Mrs. B- spoke so kindly of her youth, and how well sho was still remombered and beloved, little dreaming who it was to whom she spake, it touch» ed him with a thrillmg though sacred pleasure. The tnir daughter of Phillip Skeenes, after her return to. England married the. Tatler of Richard'Florance. Sho had Been reared in the midst of affluence and , Tnzxuries. . Although young at the pencil of her depnthnmshahmimayemhmmn- ing portxons of her time at Albany and vision of the most competent and cole. brated mstmctors, and moving the lngheat ~-gixeles of society. 'This posi- tion was in part attributable to her fa- ther's standing he being on terms of B. , the day, and perhaps the moat mfl'nen— tzal man in the northern conntxss Be- mdes it was generally undergtood that she was to sqgcegd to a large amp) A, ve i* Elbow; her property that Skeene was to ”infirm ¥iyear only while: «% drama & + 1h England, through celg‘ % and which - was the p prin paling; ' Skeone received the, anni ’ and. -which for ream took a 33qu and is: w mama. math: 'most ms “Wm yee Mymmfl: dod p bastening ‘myreu‘nnt‘m. F ' Ang of swrages st the on mu» gust rivgr, w ; mum“ & former chapter 'wa S rendor's fancy, he marched with them...- to Saratoga. tre qisod upon the scones, among which | his -viatorivus on tages whxe‘h She colony afforded spend- |. New York, under the charge and super- |. lays“ Britain, Franco and féland, b . > an y So obnoxious had helbscoms to £1194 patriots that afftor the defeat of the Brit. ish and surrender of Burgoyne, ho foar- od to return home, evan if he hnd been allowed, and was consequently compeli- ed to his extensive property to N OW- ever, taken the precaution to searching treasures and most valuablo papors be- fore joining the army, in order that they might be securs from any bard of wan- dering marauders who should viklt his premises during the short absence ho contemplated. The result of the battle of Suratoga, was, therefore, most disastrous to him personally. 1% stripped him «% once of all his possessions, consisting of slaves and groat quantities of chattels of other ~descriptions. | Butit was the loss of his vast renal oslate that fell most hoawily ipon him, because he had long Indulg« ed the ambitious hope, that favored by his royal master, the timeskonld come when he mxgh}. bear baronial etwiy. It had been granted him fn the year 1765, for services performed during the etpe- 1111110115 to Martinique and Haevainahi, Géorge the Third, thel \King of the grace of God; and while his '\frusty 'and\ well bhloved Caitwalader Oolden' 'roled in 'his province, named in Honor of ifie Duke of York, and the ism-160mm rhiliarity with the leading characters :% depending thereon. Tt included : twenfiyaflws {fifins‘fiawes f lying on both sides of wien Grok} I$0 ' bh fordver thereafiér Kno’wnaé that? in- ip of Skeenesborough, and to' win £ . afterwitdo was Saded thnle whland - s grandfniher on, tile 3 a “be? more, mam to bd fI I' the * rofiz ,&‘~ Muff” kg
