Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-05-12
MISCELLANEOUS.
A more interesting account of the adven-
lures OF two females and their eight chill
dren, thanthe following, we never met with.

A more interesting account of the adven-
lures OF two females and their eight chill
dren,thanthe following we never met with.
FROM THE ALBANY DAILY Adv. MARCH 97.
MEssRs. EDIroRs,-The following
highly interesting and we think admira-
ply well told tale, from the Johnstown
Republican, you will oblige us by insert
ing in your columns. Some further por-
tons of this +" strange evenful history" we
shall subioin, although apprehensve our
feeble pen will fail in doing justice to the
sequel.
80 woman in ordinary cases so mere
mortal, how. in the great and rare e.
vents Of life, dost thou swell into the an
gel !"-exclaims late popular writer.
The opinion has been expressed by many
before him, and history bears on its page
some splendid PROFITS justice. Romance
also has often adopted and gilded for the
theme of its tale the heroick Endurance
or achievement Or generosity of woman,
and the Roman Tor Grecian) daughter,
Elizabeth in the Exile of Siberia, and
the heroine Of The Heart of Mid Lothi-
an are but the portraits which commem-
crate some scene of real life. Numerous,
however, as are the recorded proofs Of
woman capability of greatness, they bear
but small portion to its thousand exer-
tons, which have passed unnoticed to OBJ
livion, and perhaps the finest and truest
displays Of female heroism have been in
humble or in private life, when the heart
made its effort its sacrifice unprompted
by the hope of eclat and unsustained by
the certainty of fame.
A case came under my observation last
week, which for its display Of patient for
titude, un:iring perseverance, and deep
and cruel suffering, as well as the melan-
choly interest which it has excited, has
few or no parallels. The tale is not long,
and if you choose, Mr.. Editor, you may
tell it all-the subjects Off well deserve
such praise as we can give them.
Two brothers, whose wives also were
sisters, residing near Glasgow, in Scot
land, on the fruits of their industry, in
their lucrative and respectable occupation,
(they were calico printers) supported
their families in comfort and ease, and
were enabled to give their eight children
all the advantages of mental and relig-
ious instruction for which the better class
Of tradesmen particularly are SO distin-
guished in that country. The distress,
however, which for years has pervaded
the manufacturing districts Of Great Brit
ain extended at last to them, and contin-
ued its visitations until their prospects
were destroyed, and their perseverance
exhausted. Denied all hopes of better
times, they resolved in despair to abandon
an occupation which no longer repaid
their toll, and in June last they embarked
with their families for Canada, with the
purpose of purchasing and cultivating
land. They settled in the town of Ramsay,
200 miles above Montreal, and there soon
found in the task of building their log hut,
and clearing their heavily timbered new
land, that they were entirely untitled for.
and unequal to, the duties and labours Of
their new vocation. Provisions were dear
and scarce, the climate severe, and their
fund of money almost exhausted hard
winter was before them, and looking on
their wives and children, who had thus far
endured their privations patiently, if not
cheerfully-they resolved with the advice
oftheir few neighbours, to cross into the
States" and seek employment in some of
the new manufactures. They started on
the 18th November, expecting TO send in
short time for the families which they
were leaving but slenderly provided. 1t
was not, however, until the 10th Of Feb.
that a letter reached its anxious expec-
tants, stating that they had at length
found employmentat Fall River. in Mas
sachusetts, and would send for their fam
lies so soon as they had earned the
means.
But for this their families could not.
wait they were sinking under the pres
sure of evils among which the hope
DELAYED" counted as trifling. The sum
of money which the husbands had been
able to leave them was but small, and the
scarcity of provisions prevailing in the in
cipient settlement was shared by them
even to extremity--to absolute hunger.
The crevices and seams of their log hut
were but partially closed and admitted the
snow at every blast Of the winter wind.