Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne |
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Author:
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ISBN: | 978-0-217-01817-3 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $10.10 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MEMOIRS ANDREW SHERBURNE. CHAPTER I. Author's birth and parentage?at the age of seven yean left his father's house?Londonderry?Mrs. Bell, an Irish Presbyterian lady?her piety?the Author's first religious impressions through her instructions?public excitement at the commencement of the revolution?the...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MEMOIRS ANDREW SHERBURNE. CHAPTER I. Author's birth and parentage?at the age of seven yean left his father's house?Londonderry?Mrs. Bell, an Irish Presbyterian lady?her piety?the Author's first religious impressions through her instructions?public excitement at the commencement of the revolution?the Author's first cruise on board the Ranger, at the age of thirteen. Mr ancestors, both on my father's and mother's side, -were from England. My father could trace hi spedigree back to one of the earliest settlers of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Within my remembrance many persons of the name of Sherburne, were inhabitants of Portsmouth, and especially of the plain, called Sherburne's plain. The only family, however, now on the plain, is that of Capt. Joseph Sherburne, my uncle's son. He is of the sixth or seventh generation of that name who have held the same farm in succession. My father, Andrew Sherburne, was the son of Deacon John Sherburne, of Portsmouth. My mother was Susannah Knight, the eldest daughter of George Knight, of Kittery, Maine. He died at Cape Breton, in Sir William Pepperell's expedition, in the year 1745, leaving three infant daughters, Susannah, my mother, Mary, who became the 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 sous 1 shall have occasion to mention hereailer. I was born in the town of Rye, once a part of Ports mouth, N. H. September 30th, 1765, within one hum re rods of the Atlantic ocean. I was the second son an fourth child of my parents. My brothers were Thomai older than myself, Samuel, George and John; the las died in infancy. My sisters were Martha, ElizabetF Mary, Susan, ..