The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-12-26
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11HAN LIZ oSA1A
NN I Pemberton came to Mas
" " sachusetts to fight In
dians and to enable his
descendants to become Danes and
Daughters and Sons Of ali manner Of
things, it was in way that little be-
tokened such future glory. 1t is sad
to record such things OF an ancestor,
but as matter Of fact he was fairly
smuggled in from Virginia, where a
political difference with Governor
Berkeley had led to his enforced re-
tirement; and so little was his pres
ence desired in the Puritan colony
that only because of his splendid mill
tary ability was he allowed to remain.
For he, being by all accounts spirit
ed party, gave the blue laws no more
attention than if they did not exist,
and in faceof indignant public opinion
insisted on keeping Christmas after
the fashion of their common mother
country.
But with King Philip and the Mar
ragansetts wasing war it was impos-
sible to spare one who was both a
fearless and skillful warrior; and be-
sides $50 say the ancient annals) his
sins brought their own punishment;
so terrible a one that the most ortho-
dox stood aghast, for his eldest son
his heir and his pride-married a red
headed witch, the daughter Of Dutch
emigrant, who had died just as his
vessel touched port. There was no
doubt about the witchc-aft. She wore
gay garments of a strange cut, she
sang, in an unknown tongue, songs
of an unearthly sweetness that held
passers-by spellbound near her tiny
cabin; she had wondrous skill in herbs
3 and simpies; and, lastly, to clinch the
matter, there was the red head. But
the younger John, who had Travelled,
only laughed at the tales when he
took her for his wife in defiance Of
the world, and of his father to boot,
who, in spite of his own contumacy,
desired no dealings with sorcery, and
who cut off his son with q shilling.
But one thing more went with it
namely, the old mans sword; for the
son, though unlimited, came to the
funeral and took it down from its hook
on the wall, declaring that Of all the
sons he alone, as eldest, had the right
to wear it. And later, when ne, too'
was dead, his daughter, being frivol-
GUS, as became her parentage, melted
ND the gold hit and ran it into beads,
and this deed added fame to the fam.-
" feud, which did not die out, as DO
most feuds, but burned on for TWO
long centuries. For in each generation
the head Of the one branch Of the Pemr
bertons made a formal demand for the
beads as a lawful and just right, and
the representative Of the witch Penn
bertons, as they are called, as the eld-
est line, scornfully refused; so that
the quarrel was constantly renewed,
and would have probably have -four
ished indefinitely but that, through IN
advertance, the eldest sob Of either side
was entered the same year at the same
college, and both of them being strong
and athletic, they were thrown much
together and wrestled themselves
into a mutual respect which gradu-
ally ripened into friendship.
And thus it came about that the
one introduced the other to his sister,
Damaris Pemberton, who had come
up for commencement week. Now, Da-
maris was sight to see. By strange
run of fate every girl in that line is
born with a red head, but in Damarls,
when the sun shone upon it, it was
halo of glory. And her complexion
was dazzling, and her blue eyes were
,,,o,+ ctare and har fimples came and