Excerpt: ...filled with shillings at one end, and fifteen golden guineas at the other; they rolled out through the decayed filigree, rusted, probably, by the rain percolating through the chimney, and the purse crumbled to iron-mould in his hand. "'The Lord is my shepherd, '" said the sailor, reverently; "'I shall not want. He leadeth me by the still waters.' How beautiful Ellenory says it. Look thar at the waters of the Nanticoke, beautiful as silver. Lord, make 'em pure waters an' free, to every pore creatur!" "To who! to ...
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Excerpt: ...filled with shillings at one end, and fifteen golden guineas at the other; they rolled out through the decayed filigree, rusted, probably, by the rain percolating through the chimney, and the purse crumbled to iron-mould in his hand. "'The Lord is my shepherd, '" said the sailor, reverently; "'I shall not want. He leadeth me by the still waters.' How beautiful Ellenory says it. Look thar at the waters of the Nanticoke, beautiful as silver. Lord, make 'em pure waters an' free, to every pore creatur!" "To who! to who!" screamed a voice out of the hollow chimney. "Well," answered Jimmy, hardly excited, "I ain't partickler. Ha! I thought I knew you, Barney," he contin Pg 289 ued, as an owl fluttered out and hopped up a ruined stairway. "Now, British money ain't coined by Uncle Sam; what is the date? I can make figgers out easy: Eighteen hundred and fifteen!' I was about to do Ebenezer Johnson the onjustice of saying that he'd sold his country out to ole Admiral Cockburn, but the war was done when this money was coined. Whose was it?" He removed more carefully some of the bricks, to put his hand in the hollow depository left there, and, feeling around and higher up, brought out the bronze hilt of a sword, on which was a name. "Who would have thought this was a house of learnin'?" Jimmy said, dubiously. "I can't read it. By smoke! maybe they've murdered somebody yer. I reckon he was British. Ellenory kin read it, if I live to see her agin." There was nothing more, and, as he left the rotting old house, a crash and a cloud of smoke rose up behind him, and the chimney fell into the middle of the floor. With the crane's sharp wrought-iron point and long leverage the pungy captain succeeded, after tedious efforts, in breaking the links of the chain and also in removing the linked cannon-ball from the woman's foot, but he could not remove the iron band and link around her ankle. "God bless you!" exclaimed the woman. "It's a sin to say so, but I feel as if I...
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Add this copy of Entailed Hat to cart. $25.72, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1955 by Tidewater Publishers.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (US history, african american studies, black history, slavery) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Add this copy of The Entailed Hat to cart. $26.71, very good condition, Sold by Jan Pumphrey's Treasures rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Severna Park, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1955 by Tidewater Publishers.
Add this copy of The Entailed Hat Or Patty Cannon's Times. a Romance to cart. $27.00, very good condition, Sold by Carnegie Hill Books, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Tidewater Publishers.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Third printing of new illustrated edition (1955). Octavo. xvii, 565 pp; 14 b/w illustrations. Map on endpapers. Blue cloth with gilt image of man wearing hat on cover and spine, gilt lettered-spine, in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket-spine faded, corners & spine ends lightly chipped, folds lightly rubbed. This is the fictionalized tale of Martha "Patty" Cannon (circa 1760-1829), the leader of a gang in the early 19th century that kidnapped slaves and free blacks from the Delmarva Peninsula and transported and sold them to plantation owners located further south.
Add this copy of Entailed Hat to cart. $33.96, very good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1955 by Tidewater Publishers.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Add this copy of Entailed Hat to cart. $48.90, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Cornell Maritime Pr.
Add this copy of The Entailed Hat to cart. $54.65, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Nanticoke Books.
Add this copy of The Entailed Hat: Or Patty Cannon S Times to cart. $56.08, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by BiblioBazaar.
Add this copy of The Entailed Hat: Or Patty Cannon S Times to cart. $62.20, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by BiblioBazaar.
Add this copy of The Entailed Hat to cart. $65.28, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2018 by Outlook Verlag.
Add this copy of The Entailed Hat to cart. $72.13, new condition, Sold by Books2anywhere rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fairford, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2018 by Outlook Verlag.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
This is an old book that describes life and daily relationships in Delaware and Maryland from early times through the slave era, The fictional story gives a sense of the lives of our ancestors. An especially exciting section describes the activities and cruelty of the men and women who recaptured slaves and free blacks and sold them as slaves. I had not read much on this eldewhere. People interested in genealogy might enjoy the book.
