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In winter time the boys of Bordentown came to skate upon his ponds; and at such times he nearly always offered them refreshments, which consisted of quantities of chestnuts, which he scattered on the ice so that the youngsters might scramble for them.
He has detached six hundred of the Pennsylvania militia, however, under Colonel Griffin, to advance toward Bordentown." "'T is well, sir. Do you remain to participate in our attack?" "Yes, sir, I belong to General St. Clair's brigade." "You will find it over there; it has not yet crossed. Now, gentlemen, let us get aboard."
To be sure, there is nothing in this for the people of a republican State to be proud of; but New Jersey may be allowed to say that there never was a royal person who was of less injury to the people among whom he dwelt than her ex-king at Bordentown, and she may add that there have been very few of his class who have been of as much advantage to his neighbors.
As a matter of fact, the crossing movement from above Bordentown was a feint in which not more than 8,000 Germans were engaged, their main army being gathered twenty miles to the north, near Lambertville, for the real crossing. And only the prompt heroic action of three young Americans, two boys and a girl, saved our forces from immediate disaster.
JAMES GIBBONS, ESQ., Vice President, F.B. 333 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. THOMAS LAVAN, ESQ., 13 Superior Street, Cleveland, Ohio. T.J. QUINN, ESQ., Albany, N.Y. MILES D. SWEENEY, ESQ., San Francisco. Cal. JOHN CARLETON, ESQ., Bordentown, N.J. F.B. GALLAGHER, ESQ., Buffalo, N.Y. P.W. DUNNE, ESQ., Peoria. Ill. EDWARD L. CAREY, ESQ., New York City.
Below Easton the river again takes a Southeasterly course, and flowing past Trenton, Bristol, Bordentown, Burlington, Philadelphia, Camden, Newcastle, and Delaware City, empties its waters into Delaware Bay about forty miles below Philadelphia. This river has about the same length as the Hudson three hundred miles.
The old citizens of Bordentown hold in grateful remembrance the favors showered upon them by Joseph Bonaparte and his family, who seem to have lived a democratic life in the grand old park. The Count returned to France in 1838, and never visited the United States again.
He was not doomed to wait their return undisturbed the indistinct sound, as of many feet, was heard advancing along the road to Bordentown. "'It's them Hessians, said Anne. But Nathan thought not it was not the tread of regular troops, but the confused rush of a multitude. He hastened to an upper window to reconnoitre.
General Lafayette, also, when he came to this country, was received with great state by the Count de Survilliers, the title under which Joseph Bonaparte lived at Bordentown.
Then, too, it was Bordentown that sheltered a Prince Murat, the relative of Joseph Bonaparte. If it was he who conveyed our mirror to these shores, a very different, but as highly romantic a tale might unfold! For fear the precious ancient glass should be broken or the frame destroyed, we bribed a Pullman-car porter to let us bring its six by four feet of antiquity with us, in the train!
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