A Minisink Double Wedding

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Digital Antiquaria, 2006 - 115 sivua

by Charles E. Stickney,
Republished from the original 1902 edition - (PDF 5.7Mb, 115pp, illustrated)

This rarely-seen work was originally published by "The Wantage Recorder," a local newspaper serving the upper reaches of northwest New Jersey. Subtitled "A Story of an Old Minisink Village Between the Minisink Indian War of 1754-8, and the French and Indian War of 1763-5," this love story revolves around the courtship of Freme and Bethune Courtright, two sisters who live on a typical frontier farm a few miles south of what is now Port. Their suitors are local boys Mark VanTuyle, Lem VanZandt, but Bethune falls for a curious Frenchman named Antoine Dutot. The action mostly takes place along the Old Mine Road, and on several occasions, Tom Quick, "The Avenger of the Delaware," makes an auspicious appearance.

As the original edition is among the most sought-after of published Jerseyana, this masterfully-published eBook edition finally makes it possible for everyone to enjoy a fine tale from New Jersey's colonial frontier.

The Digital Edition (Adobe PDF 1.5) is published in portrait orientation; extensive footnotes appear on the pages in which they are referenced; fully-searchable, fully-printable.

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Chapter 1
11
Chapter 2
21
Chapter 3
31
Chapter 4
37
Chapter 5
45
Chapter 6
53
Chapter 7
59
Chapter 8
69
Chapter 9
75
Chapter 10
85
Chapter 11
89
Chapter 12
97
Chapter 13
103
Chapter 14
109
Chapter 15
113

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Sivu 18 - Tell me, ye jovial sailors, tell me true, If my sweet William sails among the crew ?" William, who high upon the yard Rocked with the billow to and fro, Soon as her well-known voice he heard, He sighed, and cast his eyes below : The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands And, quick as lightning...
Sivu 85 - And lead him near to little, but his last; But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth, The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth ; Flowers in the valley, splendour in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream. Immortal man ! behold her glories shine, And cry, exulting inly,
Sivu 117 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Sivu 31 - Indulge, my native land, indulge the tear That steals, impassioned, o'er a nation's doom. To me, each twig from Adam's stock is near, And sorrows fall upon an Indian's tomb.
Sivu 85 - Immortal man, behold her glories shine, and cry, exulting inly, they are thine! gaze on, while yet thy gladdened eye may see; a morrow comes, when they are not for thee : and grieve what may above thy senseless bier, nor earth nor sky will yield a single tear-; nor cloud shall gather more, nor leaf shall fall...
Sivu 89 - Satan, whose fall from Heaven, a deadlier bruise, Disabled not to give thee thy death's wound ; Which he who comes thy Saviour shall recure, Not by destroying Satan, but his works In thee and in thy seed.

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