The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-03-06

over to AmericA -
''Do? why, raise governors for them,"
was the instant, laughing answer.
What could have induced the girl to
have left home and friends with no better
defined purpose than indicated by this re-
ply was mystery. She did not have the
enthusiasm for the new country needful to
set even an adventurous boy upon so wild
an enterprise as crossing the thousands
OF miles of sea to reach cold climate and
an uncultured shore. Subsequent years,
however, furnished possible explanation
of the mystery. During the remainder of
tho voyage there was a growing intimacy
between the young man and the light
hearted girl whose beauty attracted and
wit amused him, winning his mind from
brooding so daIkly over his woes. The
/ vessel, from design or stress of weather,
made port at York, in Maine. Here other
strange facts were developed. The girl
| whose name was Margaret Brown-had
no means to pay for her passage. and it
was necessary that some one should pay
for her, or she would have to be inden-
, tured--sold to service for a sufficient time
to reimburse the person who should adj
vance the passage money. This was ac-
cording TO a law existing and needful in
those times and through most of our col
Onial period there were many, both of
black and white, held in temporary bond
age. 1t was, of course, to be expected
that tho young gentleman who had been
so much entertained 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
tradition, bound out to the town of Hamp-
ton, in New Hampshire, to teach school.
Finding the situation unpleasant or uu-
profitable, he applied to Rev. Sam'l Moody,
of York, for aid in letter written, tradi-
ton SAYS, in seven different languages.
Why, he might have taken a professorship
at Harvard College. only for the reason
that he had been brought up a Roman
Catholic. In reply, he received from Mr.
Moody loan sufficient to set him free
from the remainder Of his indcnture, and
enabled him to open school at Berwick.
Not long after. he redeemed Margaret
from service; and he seemed from This
time to have adopted the child. The pro-
ceeding was not considered at all improper,
as she was only ten, while lie was thirty
two years of age.
For eleven years this relation was con-
tinued. Margery living in tho house Of her
foster father, while he strove to kindle in
her mind the love Of learning, but without
any great success. He must have had 4
stormy lie OF it, for Margery was early and
long distinguished for her ''ebullitions of
temper"
Thus their lives went on. until a nicely
dressed young gentleman, passing by, near
the house, observed the young lady draw
ing water from the school masters well.
Admiring her beauty, he stopped and en-
gagged her in conversation and such a
passion was at once developed in his breast
that he then and there proposed marriage.
Probably she referred him 20 her foster
father; for the young man Immediately
proceeded to interview the school master
about n wedding in the family. Very like
ly the young lady had hirted mischievous
! ly with the young gallant performance
to which we may believe her fully equal
from this description of her from an au-
thentic source ''She was somewhat be-
low the middle height, remarkable in her
Younger days for beauty and vanity, at all
periods of her life fo- talents and energy"
Yet it was very proper for her to be think
ing about the selection of beau, for she
was now twenty-one years old.
School master John, after hearing the
plea of Margery's suitor, sought his foster
;, daughter in the kitchen. | am inclined to
the belief that she made some strangely
exhilerating confession 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 resented.
Yet there was really Il wedding in that
house shortly after, in which the hand
some Margery and the young pedagogue
were the chief parties.
''Young pedagogue ~ exclaims the read
er, with emphasis.
Aye, young, reply for John Sullivan
lived over sixty-one years after this happy
event. Here is a description of his appear
ance at a much later date
"a tall, slender, but athletic man, six
feet in height, with dark hair, black eyes
and a forid complexion, very erect and
/ ,.e1l rronoy-iioued -
He lived in possession of his faculties
and his physical strength to "a remarkable
degree till he had reached his hundred
and fifth year. 1t is recorded thai he spoke
and wrote both Latin and French f1uently
when even a hundred, aud never drank
spirituous liquors. Was not school-master
Sullivan husband worth having?
All their children were of more than