This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...and carried away the furniture stored there, a few days before Christmas, "That from date of entry of the rebels, in the said house--that is from the end of November, 1775, to the beginning of May last, (1776), they took the live stock, house furniture, grain, hay and other objects belonging to the said Mr. Duchesnay." ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...and carried away the furniture stored there, a few days before Christmas, "That from date of entry of the rebels, in the said house--that is from the end of November, 1775, to the beginning of May last, (1776), they took the live stock, house furniture, grain, hay and other objects belonging to the said Mr. Duchesnay." This old record very clearly discloses the worth, in 1775, of numerous house utensils, cattle and farm produce, some of which have not apparently increased much in value after a hundred years. Hay does not, each fall, fetch more than 8, per hundred bundles, at Beauport; horses seem higher in value. Turkeys and geese are a trifle more in price. The 15 couple of domestic pigeons "lifted" by Jeremiah Duggan's pals, from the manor, recall by their presence the old feudal privilege of the seigneur, to keep pigeons--le dreit de colombier--as Lord of the Manor; in this case might have been added, Sic vos, non vobis The Beauport andirons may 7et, possibly, be doing duty in some antique New England home, with the picture of the "Mayflower" over the mantlepiece. Jeremiah and his hungry band of raiders, bent on having their fat goose for Christmas, 1775, with great foresight inspected, and with success, the seigniorial larder, also carrying away the kitchen utensils, a roasting apparatus, a skewer, a gridiron (without even asking for "the loan" of. it) and a goodly supply of cedar pickets, to do the cooking and broil the steak. On the 6th May following, the English frigate "Lowestoff," rounding Pointe Levi, was the signal for the hasty departure of the hungry Sons of Iudependanee, and the occasion for loud English cheers, when the standard of Britain was run up the flagstaff on Cape Diamond. Hurrah...
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