Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne: A Pensioner of the Navy of the RevolutionH.H. Brown, 1831 - 312 pages |
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Page 14
... four years in this family , without having seen any member of my father's family . Here I began to feel the sorrows of life . I frequently mourned deeply over my separation from my father , mother , brothers and sisters . I had no ...
... four years in this family , without having seen any member of my father's family . Here I began to feel the sorrows of life . I frequently mourned deeply over my separation from my father , mother , brothers and sisters . I had no ...
Page 17
... four following lines of a dirge , commemorative of the deaths of Warren and Mc'Leary , and their companions . " My trembling hands and aching heart , O how it throbs this day ; Their loss is felt in every part Of North America . " He ...
... four following lines of a dirge , commemorative of the deaths of Warren and Mc'Leary , and their companions . " My trembling hands and aching heart , O how it throbs this day ; Their loss is felt in every part Of North America . " He ...
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... four sons and seven daughters around their table in health and prosperity . " In the day of prosperity be joyful , but in the day of adversity , consider . God also hath set one over against the other , to the end that man should find ...
... four sons and seven daughters around their table in health and prosperity . " In the day of prosperity be joyful , but in the day of adversity , consider . God also hath set one over against the other , to the end that man should find ...
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... four or five large British ships of war to lee- ward of us , the land being in sight to windward , the en- emy gave us chase . We beat up to Charleston Bar , came to anchor , and waited a little while for the tide to rise , and then ran ...
... four or five large British ships of war to lee- ward of us , the land being in sight to windward , the en- emy gave us chase . We beat up to Charleston Bar , came to anchor , and waited a little while for the tide to rise , and then ran ...
Page 35
... four pounders and was of about sixty tons burden . A Capt . Arnold , ( of whom I shall have occasion to speak more particularly hereafter ) was the only person who was going on board the Greyhound from Portsmouth . He was first prize ...
... four pounders and was of about sixty tons burden . A Capt . Arnold , ( of whom I shall have occasion to speak more particularly hereafter ) was the only person who was going on board the Greyhound from Portsmouth . He was first prize ...
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