PREFACE THOSE who read this romance for the sake of what history it may contain will find the histories from which I have helped myself more profitable. Those antiquarians who hunt their hobbies through books had best drop the trail of this book at the preface, for they will draw but a Llanlr covert in these pages. Better for the antiquarian that he seek the mansion of Sir William Johnson, which is still standing in Johnstown, NCW York, and see with his own eyes the hatchetscars in the solid mahogany banisters where Thnyendanegea hacked out polished chips. It would doubtless prove more profitable for the antiquarian to thumb those hatchet-marks than these pages. But there be some simple folk who read romance for its own useless sake.....
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ON the 1st of May, 1774, the anchor-ice, which for so many months had silver-plated the river's bed with frosted crusts, was ripped off and dashed into a million gushing flakes by the amber outrush of the springtide flood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sir William, Silver Heels, Lord Dunmore, Sir John, Jack Mount, Miss Warren, Walter Butler, Captain Butler, Fort Pitt, Colonel Cresap, Mistress Molly, Six Nations, Governor Tryon, Cade Renard, Sir Timerson, New York, Michael Cardigan, Minute Men, Tryon County, Johnson Hall, Governor of Virginia, Long House, Aunt Molly, Queen Street, Sir Peter Warren New!
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ON the 1st of May, 1774, the anchor-ice, which for so many months had silver-plated the river's bed with frosted crusts, was ripped off and dashed into a million gushing flakes by the amber outrush of the springtide flood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sir William, Silver Heels, Lord Dunmore, Sir John, Jack Mount, Miss Warren, Walter Butler, Captain Butler, Fort Pitt, Colonel Cresap, Mistress Molly, Six Nations, Governor Tryon, Cade Renard, Sir Timerson, New York, Michael Cardigan, Minute Men, Tryon County, Johnson Hall, Governor of Virginia, Long House, Aunt Molly, Queen Street, Sir Peter Warren New!
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- Sir John Johnson, loyalist baronet by Earle Thomas on page 349
- Paul Revere (Discovery Biographies) by Charles Parlin Graves on page 377
- The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories (Dover Mystery, Detective, & Other Fiction) by Robert W. Chambers in Front Matter
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