The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-07-04
THE PIONEERS.

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cd with some variety in character and
nations. in introducing themost impor-
tant personages Of this legend to their
notice but, in order TO establish the
fidelity Of our narrative, we viii brief
IL attempt TO explain the ''why and
wherefore" of SO motley a dramatis
persona. -,
Among the crowds who, during the
French Revolution, fed from France
was the gentleman whom we have al
ready mentioned as Monsieur lie tluol.
From certain hints that had escaped
him, Monsieur lie Quot was suspected
of having been a West-lndia planter
oreat numbers of whom had fled from
st. Domingo, and were now living IN
the Union, in a state Of comparative
poyerty. and some i'm absolute want.
The latter, was not, however, the lot
of Monsieur lie Quot. lie had but
little. he acknowledged, but that little
was enough to furnish, in the language
of the country, an assortment for a
store.
The gentleness and suavity of his
manners rendered him extremely pop
ular; besides this, the women soon
discovered that he had a taste,
Through these conjoint means, the at-
fairs of Monsieur lie Quot were in a
prosperous condition, and he was
looked up to by the settlers as the
second best man on the Patent"
Major Hartmann was the descend
ant of a man, who, IN company with
number of his countrymen, had mi
grated, with their families, from the
banks of the Rhine, to those Of the
Mohawk.
Fritz, or Frederick Hartmann, was
an epitome ofall the vices and virtues
foibles and excellencies Of his race
lie was passionate, though silent, OBJ
stinate, and a good deal suspicious o.
strangers, of immoveable courage, in
flexible honesty, and undertaking IL
Ills friendships. He had early in theil
acquaintance, formed an attachment
for Marmaduke Temple, who was the
only man, that could not talk Higl
Dutch, that ever gained his entire con
fidence. -Four times in each year, a
periods equidistant, he left his low
stone dwelling, on the banks of tho
Mohawk, and travelled the thirty
miles, through the hills, to the door o
the mansion-house in Templeton.
In explaining the character and sit
nation of Mr.. Grant, it will be neces
sa,1 g rccur to an Incident in th'
brief history Of the settlement.
Religion was quality but little cul
tiyated amid the stumps Of Temples
Patent, for the first few years Of it
settlement; but, as most Of its in
habitants were from the moral state
of Connecticut and Massachusetts,
when the wants Of nature were salts
fed, they began seriously to turn thei
attention to the introduction Of thos
customs aud observances, which hat
been the principal care Of their fore
fathers.
Soon aftert the village had been form
ally laid out into the streets and block
that resembled city, meeting of it
inhabitants had been convened, to tax
into consideration the propriety of es
tablishing an institution of learning
This measure originated with Richard
who, in truth, was much disposed t
have the institution designated q Uni
versity, or at least a College. Meet
ing after meeting was held, for thi
purpose, year after year, and finall
there appeared in the village long
narrow house, Of wood, painted white
more than half windows and dubbe
the academy.
For short time after the charter {
the regents was received, the trustee
of this institution employed a gradu
ate of one Of the eastern colleges, t
instruct such youth as aspired t
knowledge, within the walls of th
edifice which we have described. Th
sounds Of ''nominative, pennda ger
tive, pe,any," were soon heard to issu
from the windows Of the room, to til
great delight and manifest edifcatio
Of the passeer-by.
Only one laborer in this temple {
Minerva, however, was known to g
30 far as to attempt a translation (
Virgil. He, indeed, appeared at IL
annual exhibition, to the prodigior
exultation Of all his relatives, and II
peated the whole of the first eclogr
from memory. The sounds, as the
proceeded from his mouth, of
'Titty-ree too patty.lee rec-coo-bans"-
were the last that had been heard
that building, as probably they we
the first that had ever been heard,
the same language, there or any whe
else.
From this time, until the date
our incidents, the Academy was q col
mon country school; and the gre
room Of the building was used
Sundays, as a place of public We
ship.
When an itinerant priest, of t
persuasion Of the Methodists, Baptist
Universalists, or Of the more numt
Gus sect of the Presbyterians, was {
'cidentally in the neighborhood, he W
ordinarialy invited to ofiiciate, a
was commonly rewarded for his S,
vices by collection in hat, beft
the congregation separated. VIII
no such regular minister offered,
kind of colGquial prayer Or two W
made by some of the more gifted me
bers, and sermon was usually re;
by Mr.. Richard Jones. Richard, he