The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-25
Lively Ideal of Old Nan
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here, and has to be "edited" a mite.
Rev. Robert Collyer when here
some years since was so impressed
with the foregoing article that he sent
it to the Leeds England Mercury, and
in its Republication there drew forth
the following letter from correspon-
dent of that paper.
the "IdvlT' from Nantucket in last
weeks Mercury will have caused many
readers to feel grateful to their fell
low Yorkshireman the Rev Robert
Collyer. 1t overtiows with those
touches of nature of which one Suf1lcea
to make the whole world kin. For
myself | confess that the feeling Of
kinship was stirred to more than ordt-
nary depth.
The family of Starbuck once o.
Nantucket has been closely related to
my own from the early years OF this
century, and in sending the "1dyll
from Nantucket" TO the bright-spirited
lady who now holds the position Of
seniority in its small English branch,
| have asked her if any family tradi-
| lions of New England have been kept
| from fading.
In reply, my cousin sends me what
| think may, by contrast of its shade.
| throw into even brighter relief the
| Idyll already published.
Only the lifetime of a short gener-
alton has passed from the date of the
! Idyll O745) to that defiance of law
when Bostonians threw the chests OF
| tea into their harbor (1773). Then
came for the colonies eight years of
war, eliminating in the surrender of
| CORVALLIS (1IoI). 1t was of thiS
| time that | have just read in the let
| ter of a scientist lately attending td2
| British association meeting at Mon
| treal. in his description of visit TO
Ns.,rr NlsRso.
| is the room in which the Declaration
| of independence was signed-which is
| kept-chairs, tables, and the rest-eN-
| actIy as it was left when the deed was
| done which made of England two ma
| tions-When one of the signcrS turned
| to Franklin and said: Now. we must
all hang together" and Franklin re
piled. eff we don't we shall all hang
| separately" But to resume. My
| cousin writes: MY grandfather, Dan
| iel Starbuck, loyal throughout to the
| good old king and the old country, was
| robbed by the Americans and lis
| Quaker principles prevented his taking
up arms for the right; he suffered also
| at English hands; and when the war
! was over next to nothing was left for
| him and his family.
| In Acknowledgement of the sacri-
fees he had made, the English gov
| eminent invited him to establish the
whale fishery at Milford Haven. which
| he did One circumstance | have
| often heard in my younger days
| There was barely a weeks supply of
| bread-corn in the Island of Nantucket
| Grandpa was daily expecting vessel
| laden with wheat. On the usual day
| for Quaker weekday meeting, and
before going to meeting, he went out
| on the roof of his house with spy
glass to look for her. He saw his yes
| sci, and he also saw an American
| privateer that had been hidden be-
| hind a headland come around and
| carry her off Grandmama was too
| much cast down to go With him to
| worship; but he went alone and took
| his troubles to God.
| This little narrative does not lose in
| interest from its having the old flavor
| of the Loyalists perceptibly running
| through it. -
r. r., Cliff Lodge, Leeds, Sept. 25'h.