Identifier: twogirlsofoldnew00sage (find matches)
Title: Two girls of old New Jersey : a school-girl story of '76
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Sage, Agnes Carr Connah, Douglas John
Subjects: New Jersey--Fiction.
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ioned apology for a piazza, by the midsummer afterglow ofthe setting sun, the worthy vrouw, to whom it was addressed,read aloud the epistle indited by her one time bond-servant. Coitus Neckj Mon7noiith County, State of New Jersey, July /j, 1778. Dear Home Folks : I have writ the above out in full, for, do you know, weare now living in the United States of America and not theAmerican Colonies, as heretofore ? For so it has been decidedby Congress assembled and articles of confederation drawn up. Moreover, Katrina, from where do you think I am writing ?Why, from the home of your old Trenton friend. Captain Huddy,who is a red-hot Whig, — a regular fire-eater, — and has broughta lot of trouble about his ears by his rash chatter. His heart,though, is as great as his hatred of the British and after thebrush at Monmouth Court House — where a rifle ball stung mepretty severely in the left shoulder and where I was so foolish asto collapse from loss of blood — he fetched me here and has
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the astonished lass bushed to her SINNY haik — Pdxe 144 NEWS OF OLD FRIENDS 145 nursed me as if I was his own son. Never, too, is he weary ofrelating how he and his negro w^ench, Lucretia, once defendedthe house against some fifty or sixty Tories, led by a mulattonamed Tye. Lucretia loaded the guns and Huddy fired sorapidly that the besiegers thought there was a whole garrisoninside and took themselves off. Our Acquackanonk company quite prides itself upon havingdone yeoman service in the fight and won the commendation ofthe commander-in-chief by its valor ; and I do not mind mywound, since Private Tuttle is to have the straps of a commis-sioned officer to cover the spot where the bullet went in. Gladenough, though, are we that we were not wath Washington atValley Forge, for the stories the men tell of the hardships theremake shivers run up your back. A rare inspirer of courage is it,however, just to look at the Virginia general and, also, theFrench Marquis who has come over to help

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