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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 6 0 Browse Search
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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Old portraits and modern Sketches (search)
ough the eyes of John Roberts and his worthy son, Daniel, yeomen, of Siddington, near Cirencester. The Memoirs of John Roberts, alias Haywood, by his son, Daniel Roberts, (the second edition, printed verbatim from the original one, with its picturesque array of italics and capital letters,) is to be found only in a few of our old Quaker libraries. It opens with some account of the family. The father of the elder Roberts lived reputably, on a little estate of his own, and it is mentioned as noteworthy that he married a sister of a gentleman in the Commission of the Peace. Coming of age about the beginning of the civil wars, John and one of his young nluntly told his bleeding patient that if he had met him in the street he would have killed him himself, but now he was willing to cure him. On his recovery, young Roberts again entered the army, and continued in it until the overthrow of the Monarchy. On his return, he married Lydia Tindall, of the denomination of Puritans. A maj
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], War matters. (search)
was at St. Johns, Porto Rico, July 20th, took in wood and water, and proceeded to sea the next day, where she lays on and off the island, supposed to be waiting for a bark expected from the United States with a cargo of provisions. The authorities of the island sent to her and ordered her off--Capt. Day, of the British brig J. W. Johnson, arrived at New York on Wednesday from A. roye, Porto Rico, reported seeing a vessel Crooked Island passage which he is pretty certain was her. Captain Roberts, of the Cordella, at New York, also reports that while at St. Thomas intelligence was received there from Port Spain, Trinidad, to the effect that the privateer Sumter had put into that port to coal, and also to land the captain of the bark Joseph Maxwell, of Philadelphia, which vessel was taken as a prize by the Sumter off Porto Cabello. The U. S. steamer Hoystone State, Scott, commander, sailed from St. Thomas on the 8th instant in search of privateers. Mr. Henry Knowles, ma
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], One of the Western Obituary notices. (search)
he evidence, and furthermore he was a British subject. Washington matters, The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun has the following items in relation to affairs transpiring in that city: The President has pardoned Arthur O'Bryan, who was sentenced on the 2d day of August, 1860, to four years imprisonment in the county jail. Mr. John Hollohan, recently arrested by the U. S. troops, has been released from one today on taking the oath of allegiances. Private Daniel Roberts, of company F. 26th regiment Pennsylvania volunteers, now confined in this city by the civil authorities under a charge of murder, has been dishonorably discharged the service of the United States by order of Gen. Mansfield. Mr. W. G. Metzerott, of this city, sailed from New York last Saturday, by the Fulton, for a brief European trip, designing to visit France, Germany, and other portions of the continent during his absence. Startling Intelligencer from Harper's Ferryand