The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-11-13
THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. NOVEMBER 49, 1877.

receptacle, but we may well be persuad-
that on this occasion certain portion
was duly reserved for q different pur-
pose than satisfying their voraclous APP
petites.
Previous to the Revolution, In their
younger and better days, the Doanes
were accustomed to attend parties, ,frolics,
and the frequent merry makings then
common in that vincinity, wherein the
isolated lives of our ancestors were
frightened, and at which they were
wont to meet in the bonds of friendship
and formed social ties that were not for
gotten in later life. Among their neigh
bors were the Keppeler family, with
daughter of which they were well ac-
quainted. Years passed away, years
fraught with great and momentuous
events, that had oftentlmes separated
companions and friends widely apart
perhaps made bitter enemies of those
who had played side by side in happy
childhood. Meanwhile Elizabeth KEEP
peler had become the wife of John Seese,
and the story is told that one dark night,
when left alone, tall man of magnifi-
cent proportions opened the door of her
house. At first, only half recognizing
the stranger, she started back with
alright, and woman-like, covered to
the farther corner of the room ut the
sight of the sword and pistols with
which he was armed; and it was rather
calculated to increase her alarm than
otherwise to perceive that il was Moses
Doane, from the terror which his deeds
inspired. But he took an earnest gaze
at the affrighted woman, waved his
hand reassuringly, and addressing her
by the old familiar name, said: "Don't
be afraid of me, Liz Keppeler; 1 will do
you no harm, we have been to too many
parties together for that"
They had once met as neighbors on q
common plain of respectability, amid
scenes of enjoyment and pleasure. But
their lives had grown widely apart since
then, and how great was the contrast
between the innocent woman that stood
before him and the stalwart man, whose
years of sin, of violence and crime, had
fixed a great gulf between them, across
whose impossible barriers he could
never come again, or walk once more
the ways of peace and honor. Some
thoughts like these seemed to flash
through the outlaws mind, for he short
ly afterwards departed, and was seen by
| her no more.
There came time when her husband
was called upon by his neighbors to
assist in the capture or Staying of the
Doanes in their places of retreat on the
Tohickon. He had served the patriot
cause as a teamster, making weary
| journeys *" nine months, crossing
mountain and flood between Valley
| Forge and Ticonderoga, had courageous
| ly faced danger andsleath on the battle
| fields of Trenton, Germantown and
Brandywine, and other conflicts of the
| Continental armies; but we may be sure
that he was rather glad than otherwise
| that temporary convenient ailment of
| his wife prevented him from taking
| part in that transaction. John Seese,
Jr., the son of Elizabeth Seese, an aged
man of 85, now living at North Wales,
who often had related to him these and
other tales of her youth by his mother,
| is the parsonage of whom the writer OBJ
tanned these particulars.