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Their conversation was interrupted by Berinthia, who introduced him to Miss Lucy Flucker , daughter of the secretary of the Province, Miss Dorothy Quincy, Miss Mary Shrimpton, and to Isaac and John Coffin , sons of his majesty's receiver-general. While her father remained loyal to the king, she became an ardent patriot, and married the man of her choice.
Ruth Newville will be here; and Tom's classmate in Harvard College, Roger Stanley, who lives out beyond Lexington, is coming. He's a real nice young man, and I am sure you will like him. Tom's girl will be here, Mary Shrimpton; she is out in the kitchen now. She has been helping us make crumpets, crullers, gingerbread, and cake.
Robert thought her very attractive and pleasing. "I think I will go home now; father and mother will be expecting me, but I will be round to-morrow," said Miss Shrimpton. Tom put on his hat and escorted her. When he returned, and he and Robert were by themselves, he said that she was the best girl in Boston. "Her father," he went on, "is a red-hot Tory.
She heard his retreating footsteps growing fainter. "Oh, if he had only said, 'I love you," the whisper on her lips. "I could die for her; no, I'll live for her," he said to himself, as he walked towards the Brandon home. Abel Shrimpton, loyal to the king, hated Samuel Adams and John Hancock and the Sons of Liberty, holding them responsible for the troubles that had come to the people. In Mr.
"Yes, I think they like to find out what everybody else is doing, and how they do it. Their tongues wag lively when they get to talking about what has happened and what they expect will happen; who was cried the Sunday before, and who probably will be the next Sunday." The ladies smiled at Robert's vivacious conversation. "Does the town clerk cry the proposed marriages?" Miss Shrimpton asked.
The most accomplished Virginian gentleman of his day gave as a positive rule, in 1728, that "Pewter Bright" was the sign of a good housekeeper. The trade of pewterer was a very influential and respectable one in New England as well as Old England. One of Boston's richest merchants, Henry Shrimpton, made large quantities of pewter ware for the Massachusetts colonists.
He lifts the latch. There is a cry of delight, and Mary springs to his arms. "I said I would come, and I am here." "I knew you would, Tom. Ever since a ship arrived bringing the news from Yorktown that Cornwallis had surrendered, I have been expecting you." "How do you do, father?" said Major Tom, holding out his hand to Mr. Shrimpton. "I ain't your father," the surly reply.
The fare upon the table within the cabin is frugal, but there is always a bit of bread or a herring for a wandering exile. When women pine for their old homes, when homesickness becomes a disease, it is Mary Shrimpton who cheers the fainting hearts.
Paul in Covent Garden. His bride soon after married a Captain Shrimpton, who thus became possessed of a large collection of manuscripts. These were sold to a bookseller. They were so full of erasures and interlineations that no printer could decipher them.
From hence he went through Piscataqua and Marblehead to Boston, the capital of New England, and the largest city in America, except two or three on the Spanish continent. One of these, called Nettle’s island, within these few years, was esteemed worth two or three hundred pounds a year to the owner, Colonel Shrimpton.
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