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Title: Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times
1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance

Author: Charles Carleton Coffin

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Language: English

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DAUGHTERS OF THE
REVOLUTION AND
THEIR TIMES

1769-1776

A Historical Romance

BY

CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1896

Copyright, 1895,
BY CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.

_All rights reserved._

SIXTH THOUSAND.

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.

[Illustration: ELIZABETH HOOTON WARREN]

INTRODUCTION.

No period in the history of our country surpasses in interest that
immediately preceding and including the beginning of the Revolutionary
War. Many volumes have been written setting forth the patriotism and
heroism of the fathers of the Republic, but the devotion of the
mothers and daughters has received far less attention. _This_ volume
is designed, therefore, to portray in some degree their influence in
the struggle of the Colonies to attain their independence. The
narration of events takes the form of a story--a slight thread of
romance being employed, rather than didactic narrative, to more
vividly picture the scenes and the parts performed by the actors in
the great historic drama. It will not be difficult for the reader to
discern between the facts of history and the imaginative parts of the
story.

Eminent educators have expressed the opinion that history may be more
successfully taught through the medium of fiction than by any other
form of diction. The novels of Sir Walter Scott, notably "Waverley,"
"Ivanhoe," are cited as presenting pictures of the t