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When the supper was ended Primrose went out to the kitchen and dried the teacups, of which Aunt Lois was quite choice, and the silver heirlooms the teaspoons her grandmother had brought from old England. Friend Dunscomb was coming up the path. That meant an evening in the best room with Uncle James and Aunt Lois. There were many agitating subjects to talk about in these days.
Edward Dunscomb, Adjutant Hoogland, and two volunteers were made prisoners by a detachment of British troops at three o'clock a m. on the 27th of August, 1776. They were carried before the generals and interrogated, with threats of hanging. Thence they were led to a house near Flatbush. At 9 a. m. they were led, in the rear of the army, to Bedford.
"Well, the French are just as bad. They are not to be depended upon. You are a mean little foreign girl, and I shall not speak to you again, there now!" Doris looked very sober. Helen Chapman comforted her and said Faith Dunscomb was not worth minding. She told it over to Uncle Win that evening. "I suppose I can never be a real Boston girl," she said sorrowfully.
He had children growing up his marriage to Catherine Dunscomb had taken place in 1801, when he was in his twenty-second year and for the benefit of the young people his was practically open house. Public and private honours were thrust upon him. An assistant alderman from 1824 to 1826, in the latter year he was appointed Mayor.
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