An Essay On the Life of the Honorable Major General Israel Putnam Addressed to
An Essay On the Life of the Honorable Major General Israel Putnam Addressed to
David Humphreys
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She was ranfomed by an el- derly French officer for four hundred livres. Qf no avail were the cries of this tender mo- ther — a mother defolated by the lofs of her children^ who were thus torn from her fond embraces and removed many hundred miles from each other^ into the utm. Ofl: recefles of Canada. With them (could they have been kept together) fhe would mod willingly have wandered to the extremities of the worlds and accepted as a defirable portion the cruel lot of flavery for life. But Ihe... was precluded from the fweet hope of ever beholding them again. The infufferable pang of parting and the idea of eternal feparation planted the ar- rows of defpair deep in her foul. Though all the world was no better than a deferr, and all its inhabitants were then indifi'erent to her ( 77 ) — yet the lovellnefs of her appearance In for- row had awakened affections, which, in the aggravation of her troubles, were to become a new fource of afHiclions. The oliicer, who bought her of the In- vdlans, had a fon who alfo held a commilTioa "'and refided with his father.
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