Peter Parley's Own Story. Samuel G. Goodrich
Читать онлайн.| Название | Peter Parley's Own Story |
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| Автор произведения | Samuel G. Goodrich |
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| isbn | 4064066203221 |
Samuel G. Goodrich
Peter Parley's Own Story
From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley")
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066203221
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| AUNT DELIGHT | (Frontispiece) |
| MAKING MAPLE SUGAR | 37 |
| DEACON OLMSTEAD | 82 |
| FIRST ADVENTURE ON THE SEA | 119 |
| THE COLD FRIDAY | 124 |
| WHITTLING | 167 |
PETER PARLEY'S OWN STORY.
CHAPTER I.
BIRTH AND PARENTAGE—THE OLD HOUSE—RIDGEFIELD—THE MEETING-HOUSE—PARSON MEAD—KEELER'S TAVERN—THE CANNON-BALL—LIEUTENANT SMITH.
In the western part of the State of Connecticut is a small town named Ridgefield. This title is descriptive, and indicates the general form and position of the place. It is, in fact, a collection of hills, rolled into one general and commanding elevation. On the west is a ridge of mountains, forming the boundary between the States of Connecticut and New York; to the south the land spreads out in wooded undulations to Long Island Sound; east and north, a succession of hills, some rising up against the sky and others fading away in the distance, bound the horizon. In this town, in an antiquated and rather dilapidated house of shingles and clapboards, I was born on the 19th of August, 1793.
My father, Samuel Goodrich, was minister of the Congregational Church of that place, and there was no other religious society and no other clergyman in the town. He was the son of Elizur Goodrich, a distinguished minister of the same persuasion at Durham, Connecticut. Two of his brothers were men of eminence—the late Chauncey Goodrich of Hartford, and Elizur Goodrich of New Haven. My mother was a daughter of John Ely, a physician of Saybrook, whose name figures, not unworthily, in the annals of the revolutionary war.
I was the sixth child of a family of ten children, two of whom died in infancy, and eight of whom lived to be married and settled in life. My father's annual salary for the first twenty-five years, and during his ministry at Ridgefield, averaged four hundred dollars a-year: the last twenty-five years, during which he was settled at Berlin, near Hartford, his stipend was about five hundred dollars a-year. He was wholly without patrimony, and owing to peculiar circumstances, which will be hereafter explained, my mother had not even the ordinary outfit when they began their married life. Yet they