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Many of the members of the Continental Congress were ship merchants, or inherited their fortunes from rich shippers, as, for instance, Samuel Adams, Robert Morris, Henry Laurens of Charleston, S. C., John Hancock, whose fortune of $350,000 came from his uncle Thomas, Francis Lewis of New York and Joseph Hewes of North Carolina.
He was dependent upon the income from this estate, having drawn up to that time only £50 from the government, not for pay, but for the expense of enlisting seamen. On his return to port he wrote to Mr. Hewes: "It thus appears that I have no fortune left but my sword, and no prospect except that of getting alongside the enemy."
Then straight from these to "I'm going to marry 'Arry on the Fifth of January." "Oh, I say Harry Lauder," was Captain Hewes' eager comment. "I heard him singing to the chaps in the trenches just before I sailed a little stocky man in a red kilt. He'd laugh, and you'd want to cry."
In 1773 three of her prominent citizens, Joseph Hewes, Samuel Johnston and Edward Vail, were appointed on the Carolina Committee of Correspondence which wrote to the other colonies that North Carolina was ready to join them against the King and Parliament.
"Why shouldn't it come to you?" "Men don't love me that way. They admire and respect and then love. But Jean? She's a moon maiden, luring them to madness." She smiled up at him. "Captain Hewes says you are the supreme type the perfect American." "Yes, but he thinks of me as a type. Some day perhaps he will think of me as a woman." She brought the conversation back to Jean.
The man propped up beside her murmured, "My Captain liked that he used to sing it " "Yes?" She was listening with only half an ear. There were so many Captains. "He was engaged to an American." She listened now. "Your Captain ?" "Captain Hewes." She guided the car steadily. "Dawson Hewes?" "Yes. Do you know him?" "I I am the girl he is going to marry " He froze into silence. She bent towards him.
There was something almost boyish about her as she said it. She had parted her hair on the side, which heightened the effect. "In the old days," she told Captain Hewes, "I should have worn doublet and hose and have gone as your page." "Happy old days ."
"The alert fellows," he said in a letter to Joseph Hewes, "instantly took this hint and began firing as their muzzles rose, by which practice they soon crippled the Drake's spars and rigging, and made her an unmanageable log on the water. I am persuaded that if I had not advised them to this effect, my gunners would have sunk the Drake in an hour!
He made frequent visits to his patriot friends, met, besides Joseph Hewes, whom he had already known, Thomas Jefferson, Philip Livingston, Colonel Washington and the Lees, and was later, if not at this time, in an intimate official relation with Robert and Gouverneur Morris. In Jones's intercourse with these men he showed himself one of the most fiery of Whigs.
Drusilla watched her with more than a tinge of envy. She was aware that her own vivid charm was shadowed and eclipsed by the white flame of Jean's youth and innocence. "And he loves her," she thought with a tug of her heartstrings; "he loves her, and there'll never be anything like it for him again." She sat rather silently between Captain Hewes and Dr. McKenzie. Dr.
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