Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne: A Pensioner of the Navy of the RevolutionH.H. Brown, 1831 - 312 pages |
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... wife of Capt . Joseph Green , and Elizabeth , married to Capt . William White . These gentlemen were commanders of vessels which sailed from Portsmouth . My grandmother , Mrs. Knight , married Mr. Shadrach Weymouth , whose sons I shall ...
... wife of Capt . Joseph Green , and Elizabeth , married to Capt . William White . These gentlemen were commanders of vessels which sailed from Portsmouth . My grandmother , Mrs. Knight , married Mr. Shadrach Weymouth , whose sons I shall ...
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... wife was my father's youngest sister . I lived more than 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 ...
... wife was my father's youngest sister . I lived more than 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 ...
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... wife of Mr. David Ingalls , of Baldwin , in Maine , and is my youngest and only surviving sister . I had the satis faction to find the family well . My eldest brother had recently returned from a successful voyage in a mer- chantman ...
... wife of Mr. David Ingalls , of Baldwin , in Maine , and is my youngest and only surviving sister . I had the satis faction to find the family well . My eldest brother had recently returned from a successful voyage in a mer- chantman ...
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... wife of Mr. Edmund Davis , of Ports- mouth . Little did I expect to have found such changes in the family in one year . The reader will judge of my feelings under such circumstances . Dr. A. R. Cutter , one of the most celebrated ...
... wife of Mr. Edmund Davis , of Ports- mouth . Little did I expect to have found such changes in the family in one year . The reader will judge of my feelings under such circumstances . Dr. A. R. Cutter , one of the most celebrated ...
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... wife and children . They lived within half a mile of my mother , yet I had but little acquaintance with them or with Captain Arnold himself , until within six or eight weeks . He considered himself as my guardian , ( as did the worthy ...
... wife and children . They lived within half a mile of my mother , yet I had but little acquaintance with them or with Captain Arnold himself , until within six or eight weeks . He considered himself as my guardian , ( as did the worthy ...
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