flunkeyed

Updated: May 11, 2025

All the province for forty shillings a year rent! Those were pure, economical times, indeed, around the court. So salt-boiler John flunkeyed to Arlington's overseers, named his farm 'Arlington, hunted and informed upon the followers of the Puritan rebel Bacon, then turned and fawned upon King William, too. His grandchildren, all well provided for, spread around this bay.

George Alfred Townsend - The Entailed Hat: Or, Patty Cannon's Times