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If a love of retirement and a pure air had its influence in determining the selection of the burgher of Manhattan, he could not have made a better choice. The adjoining lands had been occupied early in the previous century, by a respectable family of the name of Hartshorne, which continues seated at the place, to the present hour.
Ancient Metrical Tales, edited by Rev. C.H. Hartshorne. 8vo London, 1829. The Right Hon. William Dundas, born 1762, died 1845; appointed Lord Clerk Register in 1821. Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Act I. Sc. 4. For notices of this gigantic cannon see ante, vol. i. p. 43, and post, pp. 247-8; also Life, vol. vii. pp. 86-87.
The wife of Thomas Hartshorne, after her husband and three sons had fallen, took her younger children into the cellar, leaving an infant on a bed in the garret, fearful that its cries would betray her place of concealment if she took it with her. The Indians entered the garret and tossed the child out of the window upon a pile of clapboards, where it was afterwards found stunned and insensible.
It was between eight and nine o'clock one evening, two or three days later, when Mr. Rollo was informed that some one wanted to speak to him. It was Reo Hartshorne. 'Very glad to see you home, sir, said Reo earnestly; he was a man of few words. 'I beg pardon but are you going to the Governor's to-night, Mr. Rollo? 'Powder? No.
This matter of the ownership of the plums afterwards became a source of considerable trouble, and was settled by Hartshorne paying to the chief of the neighboring tribe the sum of thirteen shillings, by which he acquired the entire right to the plums and all the other things on his land. The Indians had also a grievance of a different kind.
There were two ferries in operation at Yuma when our company arrived there, one of them run by the peaceable Yuma Indians and the other by a company headed by Don Diego Jaeger and Hartshorne.
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