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9781150809293: Stories of Pennsylvania, or, school readings from Pennsylvania history
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...army and told Mary that he was going to take her and little Sister and go to William Penn's land in America. In that country men were not forced to live in the army, but could be with their families and work. Corinnius could not pay the himself and his daughters. They sold themselves to work it out after they reached Pennsylvania. A man in Lancaster bought Mary for three years. She was glad to give Selling Redemptioners. passage money for three years for her father's liberty. Her master and mistress were kind and good, and Mary soon grew happy again. She sang in the mornings like a bird. Work was easy. Her father was free, and her sister lived not far away. One day when Mary Michael was singing at her work, she looked up and saw Terrence Quinn stop his oxen in the street and look at her. Mary blushed, but Terrence, with the ox stick in his hand, came to the gate and asked her name. "That song would make my cabin a palace," he said. "Come, sing for me, my bonnie bird. I need a wife in my forest home." "Oh! I can't," said Mary; "I know you not, and, besides, my time is sold for nearly three years." "I'll buy thy time," said Terrence, quickly. He started at once to find her master, who drove a good bargain with the ardent lover. Six months later, Mary Michael became Mary Quinn and went with her husband to live in Buffalo valley, in what is now Union County. Here Mary would have been happy, were it not for her constant fear of the Indians, who were on the warpath most of the time during the Revolutionary War. She once saw a neighbor's house burned while the two little girls and their grandfather were hid in the straw at the barn. Every moment they expected that the Indians would set fire to the barn, but the sav...

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  • Erscheinungsdatum2012
  • ISBN 10 1150809299
  • ISBN 13 9781150809293
  • EinbandRústica
  • Anzahl der Seiten70

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