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Fulton, Thomas J. Jr., principal, supplied Thomas King, substitute, three years.
Humphries, George C., principal, supplied Charles Schmidt, substi- tute, three years.
Jones, John, principal, supplied John Lelan, substitute, three years.
Jones, Charles, principal, supplied Peter O. Cranes, substitute, three years.
Miller, James H., principal, applied John Kelly, substitute, three years.
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Miller, James V. K., principal, supplied John Griffin, substitute, three years.
Oakley. Lucas, principal, supplied Francis Brown, substitute, three years.
Scott, William F., principal, supplied William Schroeder, substitute, three years.
Smith, Charles, principal, supplied three years.
Terwilliger, Granville C., principal, supplied Isaac Schrompff, sub- stitute, three years.
Van Cleft, Lewis A., principal, supplied John Peters, substitute, three years.
Walsh, John H., principal, supplied Horton Murray, substitute, three years.
Wood, David F., principal, supplied Edward Lee, substitute, three years.
Call of December 19, 1864.
Derbyshire, John, principal, supplied Anton Mayee, substitute, three years.
Upright, Benjamin, principal, supplied James Moffit, substitute, three years.
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
To promote enlistments in 1862, a subscription was raised, amount- ing to $4,620. The subscribers were:
Philip Verplanck $ 500
Franklin Mulliner, Jr. 100
Erastus Ide
250
Alexander Elliott 100
J. DeWitt Walsh
James Shaw IOC
John D. Van Buren 250
E. B. Nicoll 250
100
Mrs. Arietta Nicholl 50
B. Franklin Clark 250
John R. Caldwell 50
Thomas Morton 250
James W. Morrison 25
Peter Roe 100
Francis Wygant 50
George A. Denniston
100
George Arnott 25
Thomas J. Fulton
100
Ezra R. Thompson
Mary E. Miller 100
400
Marie McKnight
200
James Patton
100
William F. Scott
50
Samuel L. Denniston
100
David C. Chandler
John D. Vail
25
Lewis Van Cleft
100
Alfred Denniston IO
William H. Miller 100
Thomas Denniston 25
Joseph B. Burnett 100
John Buchanan 25
Franklin Mulliner .1. . . 100
William Couser
IO
D. C. Brown IO
David Goldsmith 20
Thomas Wiley
20
William Maxwell 20
John Cromwell
100
John B. Kernochan 100
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Selah W. Strong
25
William F. Cooper
50
Joseph Kelly
25
Daniel Moores . 25
G. C. Terwilliger
25
Euclid Mulliner
50
William R. Weed
IO
Daniel A. Shuart
50
Thomas Still
IO
David D. C. Wood
IO
The money was expended through a committee, composed of George A. Denniston, John B. Kernochan, John D. Van Buren and J. DeWitt Walsh, the latter acting as treasurer. The sum of 4.320 was paid for bounties and incidental expenses, and $300 returned to the subscribers.
APPENDIX
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Journal of the Voyage of Charles Clinton from Ireland to America, 1729.
"A Journal of my voyage and Travels from the County of Longford in the Kingdom of Ireland to Pennsylvania, in America, A. D. 1729.
"I took my Journey from The County of Longford, on Friday the 9th day of May; came to Dublin ye 12th ditto. Entered on shipboar l the ship called the George and Ann, ye 18th. Sett sail the 20th.
"Came to anchor at Glanarm on the 24th, where Matthw. McClaughry and his wife and two of his family went on shoar and quit their voyage.
"Set sail from Glenarm on ye 25th and came to anchor at Green Castle, in the Lough of Foyle, the 26th, where we stay'd till ye 29th; then sett sail in company with the John of Dublin, bound for New- castle in the same country.
"Ditto. Came in sight of Loughsuly (Lough Swilly) ye 30th. Sai"'d by Tory (Tory Island) and Horn-head.
"On the 30th, at night, a strong wind arose, ye continued to ye first of June at evening which Loosened our Bowsprit with Hazard of our Masts.
"June 2d we had a fair breeze for our westerly course.
"On the 3d ditto my daughter Catharine and son James fell sick of the measles.
"A strong gale of westerly wind continues to ye Ioth ditto.
"James Wilson's child died ye 5th.
"On the 7th met ye Mary from Pennsylvania from which she sail'd to us in 5 weeks and 5 days.
"On the 8th ditto a child of James McDowel's died and was thrown overboard.
"On the 10th ye wind came to East and be South.
"On ye IIth changed more Easterly and continues fair and season- able.
"On the 12th the wind blew North and be East, a fresh gale by which we sail'd 40 leagues in 20 hours, and found we were in 49 degrees 20 minutes North Latitude by observation.
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"The wind changed on ye 14th to ye South, and so continued to ye 15th, being Sunday morning. One of ye S erv'ts on board belonging to one Gerald Cruise, thew himself over deck and was drowned.
"On ye 15th ditto my daughter Mary, fell sick of ye measles.
"A Serv't of Mr. Cruise's died on ye 17th and was thrown over deck. The wind came to be S. and continued a violent fresh gale to the 18th.
"The 19th and 20th we had a South be West wind; on the 21st being Sunday we had a perfect calm in Latt. 27 degrees, 30 minutes.
"A Serv't of Mr. Cruise's died, on Monday a child of James Thomp- son's died.
"On Tuesday ye 23d child of John Brook's died; we had a fair wind on ye 22d. 23d then another child of James Thompson's died.
"On the 28th a child of James Majore died and one of Robt. Frazer's.
"We now have W: N: W: wind.
"Tuesday ye Ist of July a fair wind.
"July ye 3d a child of John Brooks died. A child, a daughter of Will McCalihan's died. Ditto a child of John Brooks died.
"July ye 5th came in sight of the Islands" of Corvo and Flores (Az- ores) which belongs to the Portugese. They lie in the Lattd. of 40 degrees 09 minutes north and 32:23 West Longitude.
A Child of James McDowel's died ye 7th. Ditto Robert Todd died.
"A Return of the persons that died on board ye George and Ann :
James Wilson's child.
James McDowell's child.
A servant of Mr. Cruise's.
Another servant of his.
A son of Christiana Beatty,s.
Another servant of his.
A child of James Thompson's.
Will Gray.
A child of John Brooks.
A child of James Thompson's.
A child of James Majore's.
'A child of Robert Frazer's.
A child of Thomas Delap's.
Tames Majore's wife.
'A servant of Cruise's.
Thomas Delap's wife.
A child of John Beatty's.
Alexander Mitchell.
A child of lohn Brook's.
A child of James Thompson's.
Walter Davis, his wife.
A child of Alexander Mitchell's.
Widow Hamilton.
A son of James Majore's.
Robert Gray.
A child of Widow Hamilton.
Walter Davis.
Jane Armstrong.
A child of James Majore's.
Another servant of Cruise's.
William Gordon.
A child of Walter Davis. John Darbie. Thomas. Cowan.
John McCay.
A son of Robert Frazer's.
Another son of his.
A brother of Will Hamilton's.
My own daughter, Mary on 2d of August, at night.
A child of James Majore's.
A daughter of Widow Hamilton.
A girl of Robert Frazer's.
Robert Todd.
A son of James McDowel's.
A servant of Cruise's. Another servant of Cruise's.
Isabel McCutchan.
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My son James, on ye 28th of August, 1729. at 7 in ye morning.
A son of James Majore's.
A brother of Andrew McDowell's.
Two daughters of James McDowell's.
A daughter of Walter Davis's.
Robert Frazer.
Patt McCann, servant to 'Tho. Armstrong.
Will Hamilton.
James Greer, servant to Alex. Mitch- ell. Widow Gordon's daughter.
James Mondy died Thursday, 11th of September. A servant of Mr. Cruise's.
A son of James Beatty's.
Fran. Nicholson.
A sister of Andrew McDowell's.
A daughter of John Beatty's. (See John Beatty aboye)
Two of Mr. Cruise's men servants.
Margarey Armstrong, (daughter of Thos. Armstrong.
A servant of Mr. Cruise's.
Two of John Beatty's children. James Thompson's wife.
James Brown.
'A daughter of James McDowell's.
A daughter of Thos. Delap's.
A servant of Mr. Cruise's.
A child of Widow Mitchell's.
John Oliver's wife.
James Majore's eldest daughter.
John Crook, a sailor.
Joseph Stafford.
John McDowell.
John Beatty. Andrew McDowell's sister.
James Wilson's wife.
James McDowell's wife.
Sarah Hamilton, Will Hamilton's
sister. Thos. Armstrong, died Monday ye 29th of September.
John Beatty's wife.
Isabella Johnston.
Edward Norris.
Margaret McClaughry.
Widow Frazer's daughter.
Andrew McDowell's brother.
Joseph McClaughry.
Mattw McClaughry.
A young sister of Andrew McDowel
Thom Delap. and his daughter Cath- erine. James Barkly.
"Discovered land on ye Continent of America ye 4th day of October. 1729.
RECAPITULATION.
Armstrong Captain Thomas-with his wife, Jane, and children, Margery and Jane, and servant, all of whom died on the voyage ex- cept Mrs. Jane Armstrong, who died at Little Britain in 1762.
Armstrong, William-Settled in Warwick, where he died in 1805. He was but a boy when he came to America.
Beatty, Christiana, widow Charles C. Beatty. Her son became a noted preacher.
Beatty, John-himself, wife and five children died.
Barkly, James-died. Family presumed to have settled in Mont- gomery or Crawford.
Brooks, John-Two children of, died. (John Brooks settled in Little Britain. - now Hamptonburgh.
Brown, James-died. Cowan, Thomas-died.
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Clinton, Charles-with his wife, Elizabeth, and children, Catharine, James and Mary. The two latter died. Clinton settled at Little Brit- ain in 1730, where he became the father of General James, Governor George, Doctor Alexander and Doctor Charles-of whom General James was the father of DeWitt.
Denniston, Alexander and wife-the latter a daughter of George Little, a passenger on the sanie ship. Settled at Little Britain in 1730; ancestor of Hons. Robert and Goldsmith Denniston.
Davis, Walter-himself, wife and two children died on the voyage.
Darby, John-died.
Dunlap, Thomas-himself, wife and three children died on the voy- age.
Frazer, Robert-himself and five children, died.
Gordon, William-himself and daughter, died.
Gray, William and Robert, died.
Greer, James, died.
Hamilton, William-himself, his sister Sarah and a brother, died. The brother (whose name is not given) left a wife and child who sub- sequently died.
Johnston, Isabel-died.
Little, George
Majores, James-himself, wife and five children-died.
Mondday, James-died.
Mitchell, Alexander-himself and two of his children.
McCalihan, William-child, died.
McCann, Patrick-died.
McClaughry-Joseph, Matthew and Margaret, died on the voyage. A widow, Mary McClanghry, widow of William, with her children, set- tled in Little Britain in 1731. The Journal states that "Matthew McI Claughry, his wife and two of his family, went on shore at Glenarm, May 24th, and quit their voyage." Possibly he was the father and grandfather.
McCay, John-died. (Alex. McCay member Ellison's militia, 1738). Mccutcheon, Isabel-died.
McDowell, Andrew-two brothers and three sisters, died. He set- tled in Little Britain, where he was a member of Ellison's militia in 1738.
McDowell, James-wife and five children, died on the voyage.
McDowell, John-died.
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Nicholson, Francis-died. Family settled in Little Britain. Col. John Nicholson, of Montgomery, who served in the campaign against Canada, 1775-'6, was of this stock.
Norris, Edward-died.
Oliver, John-wife of, died. Settled at Little Britain. David Oli- ver was a member of Ellison's militia company in 1738.
Stafford, Joseph-died.
Thompson, James-wife and three children, died on the voyage.
Todd, Robert-died.
Wilson, James-wifeand child of, died on the voyage.
Young, John-Settled at Little Britain.
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A Genealogical and Biographical Sketch
Written by Joseph Young, at the request of his niece, Barbara Hartell, uho wished to gain some knowledge of her progenitors and collateral kindred, as recollected in memory. Written in June, 1807.
James Clinton, Esquire, who lived near Belfast, in the north of Ireland had a sister named Margaret; and one son named Charles, and two daughters, viz: Christina and Mary. Margaret, the sister of James, was married to my great-grandfather, John Parks, and had a son named John (who was the grandfather of Arthur Parks), and two daughters, Jane and Barbara. About the year 1700, the whole connexion removed to the County of Longford, and lived nearly contiguous to each other near Edgeworthstown, where Jane Parks was married to my grand- father, John Young, and had a son named John, and a daughter, Mary ; and my grand-aunt Barbara Parks (sister to Jane and daughter of Mar- garet Clinton), was married to John Crawford,* and has three sons, viz : Matthew, Alexander and Joseph, and a daughter named Mary. After my grandfather John Young died, his widow (Jane) was married to Thomas Armstrong .** They lived in this vicinity (Edgeworthstown), un- til sometime in the year 1727 or 1728 the whole connexion growing more and more dissatisfied with the government, resolved to emigrate to the ithen colony of New York; and as if bound together by the indissoluble ties of consanguinity and friendship, the greatest number of those who had emigrated from the north, with some additional members, engaged a ship at Dublin, commanded by a Captain Rymer, and all paid their passage money there, and had the ship bound to them for the faithful performance of their agreement. They laid in a sufficient stock of pro- visions for an ordinary passage, but instead of a common passage he kept them at sea twenty-one weeks and three days. During the passage
*John Crawford purchased lands in New Windsor in 1738. He is presumed to have been son of James Crawford, and brother of James, 2d.
** Jane, wife of Thomas Armstrong, died at Little Britain, February 5th, 1761, aged 84 years. (Monument in Clinton burial grounds.) Thomas Armstrong, who was her second husband, died on the voyage to America.
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they one morning came in full sight of the coast of Virginia, which the boatswain, who was an old seaman, affirmed he knew perfectly well, as he had frequently been on that coast before; but the captain called him a lying, skulking dog, and immediately ordered to put the ship about and put off to sea ; in consequence of this unequivocal disclosure of the Cap- tain's intention to famish them all to death at sea, William Armstrong (my father's half-brother) would have put him to death, had he not been forcibly restrained. Colonel Charles Clinton, who by his age and superior abilities, appears to have been the head or chief of the con- nexion, who had a better knowledge of the laws than the others, told them that unless the other officers belonging to the ship would join them, their rising forcibly against the captain would, upon trial, be ad- judged piracy. But the spirits of the officers were so completely sub- dued by the tyrannical conduct of the captain, who had killed a man on board by striking him on the head with a pipe-stave, that they dare not join the passengers against him. In this shocking dilemma the cap- tain exorted from them a very considerable sum of money, as a bribe for landing them on any part of the coast. Soon after this agreement he landed them at Cape Cod.
For several days previous to their landing, their allowance had been a half biscuit and half a pint of water for twenty-four hours. In conse- quence of this cruel treatment many of the passengers died, and amongst this number who perished with famine, was Thos. Armstrong. He was a very valuable man. His son William and his daughter Margery, shared the same fate. They arrived at Cape Cod in the fall and remained there until spring, and then sailed for New Windsor in Ulster County, where Colonel Charles Clinton, Alexander Denniston and my father, John Young, bought three farms adjoining each other and lived in the greatest friendship and harmony; and called their neighborhood Little Britain.
The Colonel's two sisters, Christina and Mary, lived some years con- tiguous to their brother and then removed to New York. Sometime in the year 1729 or '30 my father married his cousin, Mary Crawford, daughter of Barbara and sister to James Parks. By this means the descendants of John Young have derived a double portion of Clinton blood, from their grandmothers, which they prize much more than to have been related to the assuming family of Livingston. My father had four sons, to wit: Thomas, Joseph, John and Isaac, and three daugh . ters, viz: Jane, Mary and Barbara. Thomas was born the 19th of Feb- ruary, 1731. He exhibited very early signs of a fertile genius, and sur-
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prising memory. Our grandmother, Jane, was a good English scholar and learned us to read, and by the time Thomas was six years old he could read any English book correctly and fluently. As there were but few children in their new settlement, they had no schoolmaster. But my father, who was a tolerable arithmetician, undertook to teach him with the assistance of Cocker's Arithmetic. My father found little more nec- essary than to explain the reasons of each operation, in the first questions in each of the first rules, when he took up the business himself and went through the book without any further instructions. This uncommon rapid progress in the acquisition of useful knowledge, by a person so young, excited the admiration of many. Sometime after Mr. John Wil- son, a famous mathematician, opened a school about four miles distant. to which the young self-taught student was sent. The neighbors who kut w the strength of his genius, told the master that he would acquire great credit by teaching him; but it appears that the genius of our young student was not confined to one track-he was extremely sprightly and playful and his invention quite equal to his other talents, which he did not fail to exercise in a pretty full school, by diverting the attention of the scholars from their studies. The master called at the house of one who had said so much in praise Tommy's great genius, who asked him how 'Tommy improved? The master replied, "I have as yet suspended my judgment concerning him, but if his other talents are equal to his inven- tion of means to excite laughter and merriment, he is surely a most sur- prising lad."
Tommy went on in his thoughtless career, until he one day chanced to displease a pompous young man, who had made considerable progress in figures, who insultingly told him, "since Providence has denied you the capacity or talents to acquire any useful knowledge, you should not interrupt those who have both the inclination and capacity to learn ; be- sides, I shall have a great estate to manage, which will require all the knowledge I can gain to manage it, and support my rank. But if you can gain a knowledge of pounds, shillings and pence, it is all you will ever have occasion for." Tommy, viewing him with the most sovereign contempt, replied, "Sir, you talk very exultingly of your talents and ca- pacity ; but I will convince you before the end of six weeks I will be qua !- tified to teach you, and from that period as long as you and I shall live." From that hour he quit his wild pranks and commenced the attentive student, and fairly verified his promise to the satisfaction and gratifica- tion of the whole school. Mr. Wilson's fame as a mathematical teacher soon procured him an invitation to open a school in New York, where he removed.
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Thomas had from infancy an invincible propensity to the study of physic, and often declared to me, when we were very young, that if it should be proposed by those who possessed the power to confer it, to make him Emperor of the whole earth, on condition that he would re- linguish the study of physic, he would spurn the proposal. But as lie knew, a knowledge of the Languages would be a necessary acquirement, he now turned all his attention to effect this purpose. But as there was no Latin master in the place at that time, he resolved to learn it from1 books. He accordingly borrowed a Vocabulary and a Concordi from Col. Clinton, who observed that he would find it much more difficult to learn Latin without the help of a master, than to go through Cocker without assistance. He returned the books in about six weeks. The Colonel naturally concluded that Thomas had been convinced of the im- practicability of his design; he, however, examined him to find out what progress he had made, and soon discovered that every word of both books were perfectly imprinted in the memory of his student. The Colonel laid by the books and told Tommy that he wished to see his father on business. Our father soon waited on the Colonel, who told him that it would be almost criminal to let such a promising genius sini: in obscurity for want of an education that could be so easily acquired, and added : "I am going to New York and if you wish to give him the means of improvement, in any degree adequate to the merit of his uncommon diligence and surprising talents, if you will give me the money I will bring him a set of the Classics; and after he has perused them suffic- ientlv, I am confident that, by the assistance of a good tutor, for a few months, will give him a good knowledge of the Latin language." The plan was executed and when the young student got his books he retired every fair day to a pleasant arbor, composed of young trees interwoven with grape vines so as to render it impervious to the rays of the sun, and was rarely seen except at meal time. But the effect of such intense ap- plication became so visible in his conduct that his parents were alarmed with apprehension, that if he could not be immediately diverted from hi; studies, his mental faculties might be much injured. Matters were s) arranged that one of the Colonel's sons called and coaxed him to go home with him, where they would have a variety of books to read; but matters were so contrived that the key of the Colonel's library was mis- laid and could not be found. He remained in this friendly asylum until he resumed his cheerful sprightly humor. This happened in the golden age, when friendship was a reality and not an empty name. He assumed his studies again with more prudence and much better success, for now
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everything which he learned was indelibly impressed in his memory, and from this period I do candidly believe that he never forgot anything, unless past the power of recollection, that was worth retaining. Afte- he had obtained a very considerable knowledge of his grammar and other Latin authors, there fortunately came a minister to the parish, who was a good linguist, under whom he completed his Latin education. And I have reason to believe that although he was not a complete Grecian scholar, he knew the radical meaning of every technical term in the arts and sciences that has been borrowed from that language. He had gained a tolerable knowledge of the High Dutch language, by reading their books, which he completed during his medical apprenticeship with Doctor John Kitterman. He could read and understand the French language, but never attempted to converse in it, as he was unacquainted with its pronunciation. But as the study of physic was always his darl- ing pursuit, his books on that favorite subject still made one of the se lected number. He was indefatigable in the study of Botany, and at a very early period in life, he was acquainted with almost all the indigenous plants in our part of the country and their virtues.
With these preparatory qualifications he commenced his apprentice . ship, probably about the age of 17, and remained about two years, but before the expiration of that time, many of the patients reposed more confidence in the skill of the apprentice, than in that of the tutor (Dr. Kitterman). During this period he gained a facility of conversing in both High and Low Dutch. He then took lodgings at the house of Cap- tain - - Winogar, in Sharon, Conn., and soon acquired fame and ct very extensive practice, being frequently called to remote parts in Con- necticut, Massachusetts and New York. * As his practice in the country was very extensive and fatiguing, I urged him to remove to some popular city, where the toil would be less and the profits greater. He at length consented and resolved to remove to Abany, as he and a number of wealthy men were agreeing with Colonel John Henry Lydius. of the city of Albany for several townships of land of six miles square, which lie in the now State of Vermont. But the great land-jobbers in New York, by endeavoring to defeat Lydius' title, that they might share in the profits, retarded the settlement of the country, and by their eager- ness to grasp the shadow (they lost the substance).
We removed to Albany in October, 1764. Doctor Young displayed the strength and power of his mind to very great advantage in combating the great lawyers, in defense of Colonel Lydius' title, but as the history would be too lengthly I must omit it. But when the Stamp Act was
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passed he exerted himself strenuously to oppose it, and when the Stamps arrived, he was one of a small number who visited the Stamp Officer and caused him to resign. In the fall of 1766 he resolved to remove to Boston, where the energies of numbers of American patriots were in full operation. When he arrived, he soon became an active member of the patriotic band, and was honored by the Tories and British by being classed by them among the number of the anti-rebels, to wit: John Han- cock, Samuel Adams, the great and truly excellent Doctor Warren, etc., etc. Doctor Young, by his great activity and strenuous exertions to counteract the nefarious designs of the British, had excited their indig- nation to such a degree that two of their officers attacked him one night in the street. They knocked him down and probably supposing they had killed him, ran off. He was carried home to his family all bloody. When he recovered he said he should certainly have been killed, but as he had seen the blow coming he had moved his head to one side; the weapon in consequence had brushed down his temple, and spent its chief force on his soulder. But this atrocious attempt to assassinate him had alarmed his wife to such a degree that when he went out at night she frequently cried until he returned. His friends, in consequence, advised him to remove to Newport, Rhode Island, until some favorable change took place. He accordingly removed there, and remained until the British concerted their design to seize those who they called the ring- leaders of the rebellion and send them in irons to England. But as it would be necessary to seize them all at one time, a particular day was appointed and Wallace of the Rose man-of-war, was deputed to go to Newport and seize Doctor Young, but lest he should have a long pass- age, I think they allowed him three or four days. He, however, had a very short passage and had time to concert plans with the Tories an .! watch the Doctor until the arrival of the appointed day. Intelligence of the intent against his liberty was gained by Doctor Young by mean: of a sewing girl, who had frequentely been employed in his family, but was now employed in a Tory family. She overheard them whispering and learned that the Doctor was to be taken prisoner that night. She hid her thread to make an errand to go out to get more. She went di- rectly to a merchant, who she knew to be a great friend of the Doctor, and told him what she had heard. He set off to go the Doctor, but met him by the way, and told him if he was not off the Island before midnight he would be a prisoner on board of the Rose man-of-war. The Doctor replied, "What will become of my family?" The generous mer- chant told him not to concern himself about his family. "You must go
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