Year: 1864

A COMPANION PIECE TO THE STORY OF "sUP-


PRESSED PRINCESS"


A writer in the Canton (Illinois) Week
ly Register, referring to the article in Har-
per's Magazine, entitled "a Suppressed
Princess makes the following curious
statement:


"The reader of the Suppressed Prin-
cess will be able to form some idea of the
care taken by royalty and its immediate
adherents to keep such matters from the
ears ofthe vulgar multitude; the extreme
vigilance that would be exercised in the
Gaze now under consideration, and conse-
quent difficulty of securing really relia-
bic history in such cases, and especially
of this one, which was undoubtedly
guarded with the utmost care and jeal-
ousy. Nevertheless, the writer of this
has good reason for believing that he can
give an account of what became of Han
nah Lightfoot and her children. At any
rate, it is the only one he has ever been
able to learn of, often considerable in
quiry and correspondence in both Eng
land and America.


George III, well knew the storm of
indignation that would be poured upon
him by the nobility of England-and that
it might even deprive him of the throne
should he attempt to make Hannah
Lightfoot his Queen, and her oldest son
his heir; consequently he divorced her or
put her away. In order the more COM
pletely to rid himself and successors from
all trouble from that source, he sent his
oldest son, whose name was also George.
to Pennsylvania, in company with o fami
~ who came there to settle, with whom
he grew up aud settled in the western
part of the State. His oldest son, James,
Is now a resident of this county Fulton,
Ill., and is something over sixty years of
age. He Is quiet, Industrious farmer,
and his features bear so strong resem-
blance to those of his royal grandfather
as stamped on English pennies-that
the one has often reminded the writer of
this or the other He is comfortably well
O. and possesses to an eminent degree
the prominent characteristics of George
III-that of q shreWd money getter.-
We may also add that he is a most un-
hinching Union man, and has no more
affection for royalty than any other Amer
lean sovereign


"The exact date when George Shearer
was sent to this country we have never
been able to ascertain; but about a year
subsequent to that event Hannah Light
foot and her other children were sent to
Richmond, Virginia, in the neighborhood
of which the King gave them large
grant of land, and were she subsequently
married again and raised another family.
Mr.. James Shearer says he well remem-
bers his father going from Pennsylvania
to visit his mother, two or three times
He (James) has lost all trace of that
branch of the family; but the writer here
of believes that he had found one portion
of it, by correspondence, when the war
broke out and put an end to all further
search at present.


"This is no new story to us; we have
been acquainted with the circumstances,
as here stated, for a number of years, and
for the accomplishment of certain pur-
poses not necessary to state in this con-
nection, have been endeavoring to secure
all the information possible in reference
thereto. Although we have not been
able to secure anything that would be
considered prima fcie evidence, yet every
circumstance yet attained only goes to
confirm its truth and should opportuni-
ty ever offer, we intend to make some fur
ther inquiries at Richmond and vicinity.
We shall also watch with interest the de-
nouncsment in the case of the Suppress
ed Princess" if that case is ever brought
before Parliament more especially as it
may throw some further light upon the
circumstances we have related"