Papers and Records of the Wentworth Historical Society, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Papers and Records of the Wentworth Historical Society, Vol. 7 When the Colonies rebelled against England in 1775, Robert Land owned a farm at Coeheeton, in N. Y on the banks of the Delaware River. He was a wood-turner by trade and had conic with his bother William from England some 25 or 30 years before to the new world to make his fortune; had succeeded to some extent; had married Phoebe Scott (an aunt of Genl. W. Scott), and had settled down on the farm a contented subject of the King. On the breaking out of the war, he took, of course, the Loyalist side, and volunteered his services, but there is no record of the corps he was attached to. His family at that time consisted of his wife, five boys, John. Abel. William, Ephriam and Robert, the oldest 19. the youngest S, and two girls, Kate and Phoebe, the former about 16, the latter about 4. As soon as he declared himself and took service, the rebels began to persecute the family. John was seized and imprisoned, the farm was raided from time to time, and he was a marked man. He seems to have had an intimate knowledge of the country, as he was most of the time employed in carrying despatches and gathering information for the Loyalists. The feeling against him and other loyal subjects grew more and more bitter until it seems to have been determined to rid the country of them entirely. root and branch, old and young, for a raid was planned by a band of "Indians" (rebels disguised as such; there were some Indians among them) on this particular settlement in the early fall of 1778. Land´s family were to be killed, and the house and buildings of a neighbor across the river, named Kane, were to be burned and all the crops destroyed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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