The age-herald., 1897-11-07
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BY JOHN vv1TIIERsPooN .DUBosEe

Militia and Tories
Of WaShingfO.

The lb-utenanI con9nbandlnS neSIiHS 1 the wntchman's hafl. ''Who comes r.here2" came out on deck and repeated
 tine hail. Iiha only answer was the dis l charge of a muskeU from one of the 1 roW1boat5 that lad the officer of the v-s- sel low. The vessel was unlcaded, the
 torch applied and she was burned to the
 waters edge, ag1red as she was with
 eight gums and fully manned. Tka
 lsader Gf tihis daring eXpe6i ion was a
 merchant John Brown.
 What Brown did in the Newport har- i fyor had "a great deal to do with preopi- i he took q contract to supply Genera ah 1 Washing ,on's army before Boston With
 four Accordingly he sailed with a car-
 go from Newport to Providence. He was captured on the water by British ann l ed ship, his cargo coE.fi5cated and he 1 wais sent to Boston in irons charged with
 the burning of the Gaspee. True as Hle charge was, no proof could be found
 and the prisoner was released at the 1n- i terposition of his Quaker bothe, David 1 Before tfis had been his good fortune, 1 however, a, number of young men and | some negroes had manned two old sh-
 ing schoonefs, lnolmted on each an old
 cannon, put aboard sc'mc half ibaGrelS 1 of powder and set sail to recNpture the | flour. They were pursued at sea by | tine British, and finally ran into Provi-
 dence after ten days vain search for n | fight.
 l MeICudHL JbuH bTONH Uutu lO
 make money in adventurous ways. He
 had an apprentice, Elkajaih Watson, a. | young man of ability and courage, one
 of the paity who had sailed in the
 schoonerS ito retal1e Ghc flour from the 1 BihiSh man of war. Brown startled Wat
 son one day in tine late sunrnsr of TIT by | requesting him to mount horse with l $50,000 quilted in his vest and take 1t
 across the foreg. to Charleston, s. C.,
 there to be delivered to Browns resi- dnsa% er7ft xT11a. 1trxrt Sa1,-, l South Carolina products and Hing high i'm Europe. The solitary horseman start
 ed made the trip in safety, came back
 over the same line of travel went to | France, set up a mercantile busins SIS
 there and by the time the war ended
 had reaped a large fortune, owned ships
 and was an intimate associate of lead
 ng statesmen of several great countries. | While resting for the night at Fair- | field, Conn.,, the young horseman was l aroused by the excitement of the village preparations to 5repel marauding in- | cursion of tories and British. Proceed 1 ing next day on the road his attention
 was attracted by an aged man pensively
 gazing ga upon the ruins of a stone house;
 There the old man and his wife had | lived peacefully until his tory nephew
 came guiding band of British, who burned the house, captured him, took
 him to Long Island prisoner and now 1 al the age of IS, he was returned penni- l New England into New York,
 the travelsr found that state t, infested with tories and out f laws" At Morristown Watson found | two South Carolinians preparing to go | home in sulkies. He bought sulky and
 abandoned his saddle and his solitude | simultaneously. The three sulkies jour- neyed on, some times swimming un-
 bridged streams. on through the Penn | sylvania Dunkers settlement, where they 1 heard the guns at Germantown, and
 where they found the Marquis de la 1 Fayette being nursed for his wounds at 1 Brandywine.
 They got passports from congre ss, | sitting ab York Into Maryland they passed and encountered there a com-
 munity of wild and desperate men, dan-
 gerous to passersby. They had just cap i tured a traveller and were about to
 hang him. '.I'ry the strength of his eye
 ball strings" they expressed it. They
 released him all the same. Crossing into | Virginia at Lessburg, they dined at a
 highly respectable house." and there
 they were disgusted to find young ne- ] groes, boys and girls, serving at the
 dinner table, utterly nude. Probab ply it i was the, residence of a northern over i seer Watson says he heard along his
 journey that overseers of northern rear /, ing were brutal in their treatment of | negroes. Uncle Toms Cabin illus | trates the same observation. At Will i liamsborough Watson and Captain 1 "Harwood" of South Carolina, probably l Heyward, took up the journey alone ex-
 cept the negro outrider of the Carolini- 1 an. They were warned of tories and run 1 Bdtwsen Georgetown and Char i ieston the travellers met General
 Mcintosh, of Georgia, en route for /, the army in New Jersey There | was shouting and joyful hat tossing be- tween the three in the middle of the | highway when Mcintosh presented to {, the perusa1 of the two young men a printed circular announcing the surren- | der of Burgoyne and the terms. The | travellers went on to the plantation of MT. William Alston. Watson says they arrived toward the close of the. day, | but were received with open arms and l entertained in the most sumptous style. With music and his best medreia we 1 celebrated the great event we had an- | nounced, in high glee, to a late hour" | day or two before, fourteen nude Af- l rican men had come out from a swamp | bordering the road with poles in their hands intimating purpose to attack, but one of the travellers fired his pis- | tol in their direction and they hastily 1 returned to cover. Farther on they | found handsome plantation, belonging | to MT. Townsend, with elevnn hundred | bearing orange trees. On the 20th day ] out, having ridden and driven 1,243 | miles, by his computation, young Wat | son reached Charleston and, under the | prOe lotion Of MT. Russell, began. to mingle in the elegant and gay society of this refined metropolis" as he puts it. Charleston, when the war broke out. had a richer commerce than Boston or New York.
 Soon after the victories of Trenton and i Princeton,l Governor Patrick Henry was
 greatly exercised with the activity of the
 tories in some of the coast counties of Virginia. The governor wrote to Benja-
 min Harrison, speaker of the house of delegates, on May H, 177S, about ''the
 backwardness and even disaffection of the people," MT. Jefferson as head of committee of the house prepared bill calling on tho public to arrest tory leader, Josiah Phillips, and his gang, who took refuge in Dismal swamps, giv- ing any citizen authority to slay any. of the marauders on sight. The bill alleg- ed that these tories were Committing murders, burning houses wasting farms and doing other acts of hostility in the said counties of Princess Anne and Nor Ex.1f