Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-04-12
Harvey, who loved young patriot sol


and the course Of love would not run
smooth. The disappointed young soldier
plunged into the war, determined to win
distinction and q bride. He fought in
many battles, and at last, on the field Of
Brandywine, commanded a company al
most in signt Of the Gaiden's house.
After the battle, ! went to her house,
found her parents ready to welcome him,
and the n arriage at once took place.
During the festivities some British SOL
diers rushed up and attempted to capture
the patriot. A fierce struggle followed,
and the beautiful bride was killed by
ayonetthrust-married and murdered ON
the same day
The famous abduction Of Chauncy Judd
from Naugatuck, Conn, was the result of
courtship. Although SO young, the lad
had spent the evening in winning maid
ems heart, and on returning home late at
night was seized by band of Tories and
carried off. 1t was only after suffering
strange captivity and cruel abuse that he
was restored to his family.
Ethan Allen was the last man we
should expect
To sport with Amaryllis In the shade,
Or with the tsngles OF Neera's hair"
and, in truth, his courtship was peculiar
and characteristic. The fame of Aliens
wild deeds had filed the New England
country, and had interested, among 9TH
ers, Miss Fanny Brush, the young daugh-
ter of a British officer who had seVed
CALAMITY under the great Duke of Mari
borough, and against the French in
America. She heard the story of his
transportation to England, bound down
like wild beast by bar of iron eight
feet long; she heard of his biting off
tenpenny nail while prisoner in the
tower OF London; and one evening, in
mixed assembly, she said:
81 should like, above all things, to see
this MIR. Allen, Of whom we hear such in
credible things
The doughty Colonel had just returned
from captivity, and, on hearing of this
remark, he went to the house and was in
troduced to the young lady.
He found her very fair and enjoyable,
and when, very late in the evening, he
rose to go, he drew himself up to his
commanding height and, looking down
into her blushing face, said:
"And now, Miss Brush, allow me to
ask, loo do you like this Mr.. Allens"
We are not told what she said, bat ac-
tons speak louder than words" and they
were soon married. 1t was good deal
like the way he took Ticonderoga.
Another gallant soldier won his wife in
the warriors rough and ready manner.
Timothy Murphy, the man who killed
General Fraser at Saratoga, and the most
noted of Morgan's famous rifemen, had
gaiLed the love of young girl of sixteen,
named Margaret Flcck, of Schoharie
County. Her parents refused their con.
sent and frowned sternly upon the young
soldier. But Margaret was worthy of Just
such daring spirit. She sent word to her
lover that she would meet him on the
bank of the river, to join her life with
him, and follow him through all the
world"
When the appointed evening came, she
pretended to seek u COW which had
strayed from home, and went through the
woods, barefooted, to the uysting place.
Murphy was not there. Nothing daunted,
the maiden fOrded the stream, determined
to go TO the fort and join her lover. On
the other side she found his arms out.
stretched for her, and, she leaping upon
the horse behind him, they dashed into
the fort amid the jubilant cheers of the
garrison. Here the women made her a
wedding outfit, and soon the lovers had
crossed the Rubicon-the die was cast
and no parents could recall it.
The year ITO was fruitful in love as in
strife. Early in the spring Mrs. Jay, in a
letter, announces flour approaching mar
riages in Cousin Livingston's family"
showing that the flames of Hymen burned
brightly amid The darkness OF war. This
Livingston family was itself a rich crosse
bud garden Of girls" one Of great attrac-
tiveness to men of the highest rank and
accomplishments in the civil and military
service of both America and France. Mrs
Jay, daughter of the Governor, was re-
markable for loneliness of person and of
soul, and all hearts bowed to her in two
hemispheres.
1t was IN the early part of this year, in
the depth Of winter, that the dashing
young Col. Aaron Burr was winning, in a
marvellous manner the woman who was To
he the mother of Theodosia Two years
before this Burr had led captive the
heart of Margaret Moncrieffe, as she 80
ardently declares in her 4" Memoirs"
Burr, then but twenty years of age. was
on the staff OF PuMam-''my good old
General" as the young aide always called
him. Margaret Montcrietfe, the daugh
ter OF British officer, was An inmate Of
Gen. Putnam's family, suspected of being
a spy, and held in q sort Of mild impris-
Onment.
Though but fourteen, she was yet
woman in growth and feeling, and her
heart seems to have been all fire. She was
exceedingly beautiful and vivacious; she
had the faculty of enslaving all the
young American officers, and probably
h.4 head was turned by the rapidity and
ease of her conquests. For, although she
states in the most glowing language that
the young aide-d e-camp returned her vio
lent passion and sought permission from
Putnam to marry her, we find no corrob-