Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-03-07

whose name was Margaret Brown
had no means to pay for her passage,
and 1t was necessary that some one
should pay for her, or she would
have to be indentured-sold to ser
vice for sufficient time to reimburse
the person who should advance the
passage money. This was according
to law existing and needful in
those times; and through most of
our colonial period there were many,
both of black and white, held in tenn
porary bondage. 1t was, of course,
to be expected that the young gen
tleman who had been so much enter
tained by the girl during the passage
should wish to relieve her in this
difficulty, and there was none else
able or disposed to render such aid.
But the young man was no better off
than the girl; both were penniless.
Both were therefore indentured to
service to reimburse Mr.. NOVEL;, the
master of the vessel; the young
man John being, if we must trust to
tradition, bound out to the town of
Hampton, in New Hampshire to
teach school.
Finding this situation Improbable
or unpleasant, he applied to Rev.
Samuel Moody, of New York, for
aid, in a letter, written, tradition
says, in seven different languages.
Why, he might have taken profes-
sorship in Harvard College, only for
this reason-he had been brought up
Roman Catholic. In reply he had
received from Mr.. Moody a loan suf-
fcient to set him free from the re-
mainder OF his indenture, and enable
him to open a school at Berwick.
Not long after he redeemed Mar
garet from service; and he seemed
from this time to have adopted the
girl as his child The proceeding
was not considered at~all improper,
as she was now only ten, while he
was thirty-two years of age.
For eleven years this relation was
continued, Margery living in the
same house with her foster-father,
while he strove to kindle in her mind
the love of learning, but without
any great success. He must have
had stormy life of it, for Margery
was early and long distinguished for
her 'Eebullitions of temper"
Thus their lives went on, until a
nicely dressed young gentleman,
passing by, near the house, observed
the young lady drawing water from
the schoolmaster'S well. Admiring
her beauty, he stopped and engaged
her in conversation; and such pas
sion was at once developed in his
breast that he then and there pro-
posed marriage. Probably she re
ferred him to her foster-father; for
the young man Immediately proceed
ed to interview the schoolmaster
about a wedding in the family. Very
likely the young lady had firted
mischievously with the young gal
lant-a performance to which we
may believe her fully equal-from
this description of her from an au=
thentic source: s'She was somewhat
below the middle height, remarkable
in her younger days for beauty and
vanity, at all periods of her life for
talents and energy" Yet it was
very proper for her to be thinking
about the selection of a beau, for
she was now twenty-one years old.
aSchoolmaster John, after hearing
the plea of Margery's suitor, sought
his foster-daughter in the kitchen. l
am inclined to the belief that she
made some strangely exhilarating
confessions to the pedagogue; for he
went back to the waiting gallant
in high spirits, and showed the over
hasty lover out of the door, with an
intimation that further prosecution
of his suit would be suitably resent
ed.
Yet there was really wedding in
that house shortly after, to which
the handsome Margery and the
young pedagogue were the chief par
ties. .
a"Young pedagoguer' exclaims the
reader, with emphasis.
J Aye, yonng, l reply; for John Sui
livan lived over sixty-one years after
this happy event. Here is a descrip-
ton of his appearance at a much Ia
ter date:
ga tall, slender, but athletic man,
six feet in height, with dark hair,
black eyes, and a forid complexion,
very erect, and well proportioned."
He lived in possession of his facul-
ties and his physical strength to
remarkable degree, till he had reach
ed his hundred and fifth year. 1t
is. recorded that he spoke and wrote
both Latin and French fuently when
even a hundred, and this Irishman
never drank spurious liquors. Was
not schoolmaster Sullivan husband
worth having?
All their children were of more
than usual abiIity-one of them being
General John Sullivan, of Revolu-
tionary fame, and afterwards Gov
ernor of New Hampshire; and an
other, James Sullivan, the able law
yer of Woolwich, and later of Bed
ford, who was twice elected Governor
of Massachusetts,, then including
Maine, having previously occupied
several other honorable positions.
So, little Irish MargerY was, all un-
known to herself, a real prophecies
when on the sea-she uttered these
strange words to man in the prime
of life, whose worldly prospects
seemed to himself to be utterly de-
stroyed.
A HORSE WITH A LONG MEMORY.
Many years ago, Mr.. Abram
Dodge, of the town of Ipswich, own
I'D q baautifu1 horse which NvoC tho