To the Editor of the Democrat, Goshen, Orange County, [N.Y.] from "A Private of the Revolution"
1834
MSS L2019F63 MB
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Title
To the Editor of the Democrat, Goshen, Orange County, [N.Y.] from "A Private of the Revolution"
Published
[S.l. ca. 1834-1837]
Description
[3] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 33 cm.
Call Number
MSS L2019F63 MB
Note
Probably written out for him by someone else, though the signature (“A Private of the Revolution”) and his corrections in the text appears to be in the handwriting of an elderly person.
The letter offers reminiscences of the narrator's experiences during the revolutionary war. He recounts an event in the spring of 1782 when Washington, with an entourage including Hamilton and Lafayette, had to ford a swollen, icy stream near Newburgh, aided by a local strongman who served as the "pilot." As the pilot carried Lafayette on his back, he "plunged him under and it was not without a violent struggle that the Hero of two continents extricated himself from the giant grasp of the Hibernian Hercules ..."
The wirter also noted that when Lafayette returned to Newburgh during his 1824-25 tour of the United States he was asked about the incident and said he did not remember it. The writer attributes this to the character of "the Noble hearted Frenchman [who] was as generous as he was brave…," but Lafayette was not in America at the time this event was supposed to have taken place.
The letter offers reminiscences of the narrator's experiences during the revolutionary war. He recounts an event in the spring of 1782 when Washington, with an entourage including Hamilton and Lafayette, had to ford a swollen, icy stream near Newburgh, aided by a local strongman who served as the "pilot." As the pilot carried Lafayette on his back, he "plunged him under and it was not without a violent struggle that the Hero of two continents extricated himself from the giant grasp of the Hibernian Hercules ..."
The wirter also noted that when Lafayette returned to Newburgh during his 1824-25 tour of the United States he was asked about the incident and said he did not remember it. The writer attributes this to the character of "the Noble hearted Frenchman [who] was as generous as he was brave…," but Lafayette was not in America at the time this event was supposed to have taken place.
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