The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-02-17

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+ cad of the awful end of this great saw
age, and the doom of his race, without
e motions of sadness.
AS have said King Phillips wife and
little son were sent as slaves to Bermuda
and as they were never heard of more it
will be left for me to exercise my imagi-
nation and speak of them in fiction-of
this mother and son, the last of an il
lustrious race, living under the sunny
skies on that beautiful island in the At
lantic in hapless slavery. The blood of
this little son, who was nine years old
when sent into slavery and who was said
to have been very bright and handsome,
will be traced in our story to Swan Island
and found flowing in the veins of half
breed girl by the name of Jacatague
who it is claimed by tradition once lived
on this island and was known as famous
dusky beauty, being styled the 'Queen
of the Kennebec Tradition also states
that this Franco-Indian maiden was loved
by Aaron Burr as few men ever loved a
woman, and that he married her and took
her along with him to Quebec in IT'S
during General Benedict Arnold's inva-
sion of Canada. Burr was a member of
this Inflated expedition and was then
only 10 years of age, and if his life was
not what it ought to have been, he GER
tainly came of righteous stock. His
father, Rev. Aaron Burr, was the found
err and President of Princeton College,
and his mother was the daughter of the
famous Jonathan Edwards. Unfortu-
nately for Burr he lost his parents in
childhood. Had they lived to have guild
ed his young footsteps, who knows but
what different story might have been
written of his life. Yet he was tender
ly reared and cared for, as we'll as his
sister, by his uncle, the Rev. Timothy
Edwards, and probably at no time in his
life did his character appear in more
beautiful light than those early years
of his boyhood, in the home of his
uncle. Each morning he knelt with them
in solemn prayer and his young voice
mingled with the family in appropriate
songs of Zion, and under the spiritual and
intellectual training Of his pious uncle
his mind and heart were touched by the
glorious faith of Christ But it is sad in
deed to contemplate that after he gradu-
ated at Princeton in 1772 he became a
haywood boy, refusing to embrace the
Christian religion, so dear to the hearts
of his parents, and it is claimed by some
became an infidel. 1t was Sumner, be-
lieve, who once said: ''What we do for
others lives in the grateful hearts of all
who feel or know the benediction;'
to do for ourselves in the way of attain:
ing riches or high Office that makes man.
hood, but it is the pure, moral character
and what we do for others which leaves
its lasting impression on the minds OF
mankind. Burr was somewhat lacking
in moral qualities, aiming as he did for
for wealth and the things Of the world,
rather than for the welfare and happi-
ness of humanity.
However, it is not my purpose in this
book to dwell at length upon the private
character of Aaron Burr, or to make
any attempt to rescue his name and mem.
DRY from the odium which his deeds NAV
have merlted; SO I will pass on and cal
the readers attention again to Swan Is.
land, where my story is laid. had long
desired to visit this historic place, and
embraced the opportunity of doing SC
one day last June. Twas rowed across
the channel from Richmond and landed
on the island, which is some six miles il
length by nearly one mile in width. Il
ls now known as the town of Perkin;
with a population of less than hundred
of intelligent, prosperous farmers, and i
also contains several fine summer homes
l had very pleasant chat with an elder
ly man whom I found hoeing corn neal
the public highway. "Spose you know, ,
said he, as he wiped the sand from hi
hoe, "that Swan Island was the home a
one time of long line of Indian chief
tains and an Indian princess by thu
name of .Jacatague once lived here an
her beauty SO attracted Aaron Burr tina
he fell in love with her and carried he
off with him to Quebec"
i "Oh yes" replied, ''this beautiful is
l land has furnished MUCK of the romanc