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Updated: May 12, 2025
There was old Moses Waldron, the first settler, an out-and-out backwoodsman; smart with an axe, sure with a gun, free with a bowl of metheglin, open in hospitality, and an enemy only to owls, and blackbirds, wolves, thieves, tories and the British. He chased the tories and redcoats in his dreams, and talked to himself while walking alone awake. The owls annoyed him sorely.
"Plague take 'em!" growled Sukey, "why do they follow us so persistently?" "May be they think to get us when we go ashore; but, bad luck to thim, they'll find it tough if they come afther us." "Fernando, I wish we had our rifles," growled Sukey. "Wouldn't we make it unprofitable for the redcoats!" Fernando was rather non-communicative, and sat in the bow of the boat lost in painful meditation.
"'Fore de Lord, madam, I done suspect de redcoats is comin'; d'ye heah 'em from de woods ober dar?" pointing with trembling hand in the direction of a sound which rang out on the frosty air at first indistinctly, and then resolved itself into a song. "Under the trees in sunny weather, Just try a cup of ale together. And if in tempest or in storm, A couple then, to make you warm,"
The Highlands were as bad. They were full of angry Jacobites, who could never forgive the redcoats for defeating Prince Charlie. Yet Wolfe was not against the Scots as a whole; and we must never forget that he was the first to recommend the raising of those Highland regiments which have fought so nobly in every British war since the mighty one in which he fell.
People still lived who regretted the unhappy separation from the mother island. . . The hooks were to be seen from which swung the hammocks of Burgoyne's captive redcoats. If memory does not deceive me, women still washed clothes in the town spring, clear as that of Bandusia.
"Why, he set up a still on his property an' you know Adam owns the whole townland, jist as Bryan M'Mahon does Ahadarra an' afther three or four runnin she gets a bloody scoundrel to inform upon Adam, as if it was him an' not himself that had the still. Clinton the gauger may the devil break his neck at any rate! an' the redcoats came and found all right, Still, Head, and Worm."
So long as Count de Frontenac and his successors were sending their Indians southward and eastward to burn New England villages, it was very comforting to think that the mother country would send armies of redcoats to conquer the savages and defeat the French.
They generally did duty near Whitehall and Saint James's Palace. As there were then no barracks, and as, by the Petition of Right, it had been declared unlawful to quarter soldiers on private families, the redcoats filled all the alehouses of Westminster and the Strand. There were five other regiments of foot.
Soon after dark, a strange vessel, dropping quietly down the river, anchored within musket shot. Some of the redcoats thought it best to stir up the stranger, and so fired several times at her. Suddenly a hoarse voice was heard, "Now give it to them, boys, for the honor of America!" It was the Carolina, an American war schooner.
"There may be such prevention that they shall not be able to make any great progress in such mischiefs. And the country and clime not agreeing with their constitutions, great mortality will happen amongst them...." "You see, sir, ... all the principal men in the country dislike your manner of proceedings. They, you may be sure, will join with the redcoats."
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