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Title: The Only Woman in the Town
And Other Tales of the American Revolution

Author: Sarah J. Prichard

Release Date: August 3, 2010 [EBook #33334]

Language: English

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The Only Woman in the Town

And Other Tales of the American Revolution

BY
SARAH J. PRICHARD

Author of the History of Waterbury, 1674-1783

PUBLISHED BY
MELICENT PORTER CHAPTER
Daughters of the American Revolution
Waterbury, Conn.
1898

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1898
By the MELICENT PORTER CHAPTER
Daughters of the American Revolution,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington

[Illustration: THE OLD PORTER HOUSE. In it were sheltered and cared for
many soldiers in the War of the Revolution]

PREFACE

The celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the United States at
the city of Philadelphia in 1876, and the exhibit there made of that
nation's wonderful growth and progress, gave a new and remarkable
impulse to the germs of patriotism in American life. The following
tales of the American Revolution--with the exception of the last--were
written twenty-two years ago, and are the outcome of an interest then
awakened. They all appeared in magazines and other publications of
that period, from which they have been gathered into this volume, in
the hope that thereby patriotism may grow stronger in the children of
to-day.

CONTENTS

PAGE
The Only Woman in the Town 9
A Windham Lamb in Boston Town 38
How One Boy Helped the British Troops Out of Boston in 1776 47
Pussy Dean's Beacon Fire 67
David Bushnell and His Ame