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To all my entreaties to be dressed as the other boys of my age were, like Matthew Wormuth or Walter Butler instead of like a Dutch infant, she was accustomed to retort that young Peter Hansenius, the son of the dominie at Schenectady, had worn aprons until he was twelve.
Both he and the Groats, the Nellises, the Cosselmans, young Wormuth in fact, all the boys of good families I knew in the Valley derided education, and preferred instead to go into the woods with a negro, and hunt squirrels while he chopped, or to play with their traps.
We had late dinner, I remember, at the house of stout old Peter Wormuth, near the Palatine church. Both he and his son Matthew a friend of mine from boyhood, who was to survive Oriskany only to be shot down near Cherry Valley next year by Joseph Brant had of course gone forward with the Palatine militia.
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