The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-07-26

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Year ohclieni seryAui.
JOHN II. WATSON,
1glY -. isii.
Ia reKafa to lhe Eaoch ATaeu case,
wAlsb ooosrrtd 10 ihis lowa ncar9
years ago, We hsve additional
pArtlenlAFt Mrs. Alkaline Newman, AZ
est Unable lady, now residing 10 Ohio
Summit "a. j, writes ander dale Of lssh
lnstaut ~ used 70 keep memorandum
book when yeang. SOFT 81 scrap book,
sad 10 which I wrote The seeounl my
falher Epbrsim J Pearson gave Of bis
father, EphrkIm Pearson. TIE latter
Married Phebe Cleveland, who was born
10 Canterbury, Coun., jane -, l75s, aud
shey lived 10 Manchester, VI. lie bad =
store there 10 Manchester, and bought
q drove Of hogs and took them 20 Boston,
but dudiog The price Of polk low, and
hearing that be could get better pFice
in NovA sootIa, be put them on board
vessel bouad for halifax, not expecting
20 be vrry long from home. This must
have been 10 December, i7ss, aud be wss
eight months old when his father went
away. Contrary winds drove the vessel
out OF its way The vessel was wrecked
aud The crew taken by Spanish irigate
bound tor Turkey. Gu arrival there my
grandfather aud the rest Sere made
slaves. do not know anything about
the Others, bu. my grandfather, after be-
log slave 10 the cruel Turks nine ears,
was redeemed and brought back 10 the
southern states 10 1896. TIE city Of
10 The state Of Georgia, was
his home afterwards, aud there be car
ried on q meat market, keeping two
Young men 10 his employ. Ny father
learned the strange history from bis uncle
guile 90 syisii, aud immediately, at the
age Of Is, Ia A. ID. 1905, went south TO
look up bis father, but could not fad his
" whereabouts. The following year be went
again, and iouud where be had lived, Ia
Savannah, his former place Of business,
and his account books. lie also found
the two men who had been employed
by his father, and from whom my father
gniued the following Information 1t
seems my grandfather on his return 10
this country again, wrote to brother 10
know how his family were situated, aud
lea ruedoibat bis wife, who had incurred
Tor him 40 dead, had married again. So
he resolved not 10 go home or write TO
her. She never was certain that lie WAS
Alive and Ia this country, until my father
found his signature on an old letter
among bis fathers papers, aud sent II to
bis uncle Ia lie hoy, N. y, 10 identify,
or zee II II was the same AS IN the letter
the uncle had received from the south.
My grandfather bad died Of dropsy, in
1901, two years before bis place of bust.
ness had been found. My father inquired
about his property, as he had spoken OF a
will, and was told that his father had
loaned large sum TO merchant who
had failed, and after settling up every
thing nothing remained My father con-
tinued south few years, and formed a
with man of the name OF
Martin Young, under the style of Pear
son Il Young, and while there married
his first wife, Mrs. Eliza Anderson. The
climate, however, not agreeing with him,
he sold out, and came, with his wife and
her son, William, to Manchester, VT, his
native place. His wife soon became home-
sick, and returning to the south died soon
lie then married Miss
Rhoda Ewers, my mother, who bore him
eight children. five of whom are living"
FACTORY POINT.
One hundred and eleven JOURNALS
arc taken at this post office.
I Parties from this village visit the
Equinox mountain nearly every day.
Mrs. Chas. Smith Of Gambler, Ohio,
of this place and Dorset, is in
town.
Mr.. Albert Pettibone and family OF
are in town visiting relatives
and friends
Miss Florence Warehouse returned
from Boston last week, where she has
been for several months attending the
of Muse.
Mr.. Edward Roberts has greatly i'm
proved the appearance Of the Roberts
by The addition Of $ nice stone
wall snrmonn,ed by marble coping ia
front OF the yard, fine new barn. aud
BY general fixing Up OF the premises.
MANCHESTER DEFor
Who Is TomD?
Who said "a drug store!
--"What n inany eve !"
several men are now empl yCd 1T ".
II. FulIerlou's marble work.
Work in Blackmers brick yprd has
WIN. Bulkley, while assisting ia rails.
ing J y, HOLSTERS new barn, left part
Of finger between two heavy timber.
Ill Trombly, fearful Of getting tam
ned, has . canopy over his bakery wagon.
The nightly rehearsals Of The Oratorio
Queen Esther" At Factory Point, draw
large audiences, 1.-The outside seats being
well taken.
DORSET.