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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Berkeley, Sir William, (search)
e for freedom. Feeling strong, Berkeley pursued the adherents of Bacon with malignant severity until twenty-two of them were hanged. The first martyr was Thomas Hanford, a gallant young native of Virginia. Standing before the governor, he boldly avowed his republicanism: and when sentenced to be hanged, he said, I ask no favor but that I may be shot like a soldier, and not hanged like a dong. At the gallows he said. Take notice that I die a loyal subject and a lover of my country. Edmund Cheeseman, when arraigned before the governor, was asked why he engaged in the wicked rebellion, and before he could answer his young wife stepped forward and said, My provocations made my husband join in the cause for which Bacon contended; but for me, he had never done what he has done. Since what is done, she said, as she knelt before the governor, with her bowed head covered with her hands, was done by my means. I am most guilty; let me bear the punishment; let me be hanged; let my husband
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Quebec. (search)
blinding snow was falling fast. He pressed forward, and after passing a deserted barrier approached the blockhouse. All was silent there. Believing the garrison not to be on the alert, Montgomery shouted to the companies of Captains Mott and Cheeseman near him, Men of New York, you will not fear to follow where your general leads; push on, my brave boys, and Quebec is ours! Through the thick snow-veil forty men in the block-house watched for the appearance of the invaders just at dawn. Montgomery's shout was answered by a deadly storm of grape-shot from the masked cannon, and Montgomery, his aid (Captain McPherson), Captain Cheeseman, and ten others were slain. The remainder fell back under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell. Meanwhile, Arnold was making his way through the snow-drifts on the other side of the town, in which there was great uproar—bells ringing and drums beating. The storm was raging violently, and Arnold's troops were compelled to march in single f