The Sexagenary, or Reminiscences of the American Revolution
1833
L2020F21 1833 [vault]
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Title
The Sexagenary, or Reminiscences of the American Revolution
Variant Title
Reminiscences of the American Revolution|Albany Daily Advertiser
Edition
[1st ed.]
Published
Albany, [N.Y.] : Published by W.C. Little and O. Steele : Printed by R. Martin, 1833.
Description
203 p. ; 18 cm.
Call Number
L2020F21 1833 [vault]
System Control No.
(OCoLC)15200447
Note
Originally published in the Albany Daily Advertiser.
Edited by S. DeWitt Bloodgood.
The author, a farmer from the Saratoga area, was just shy of his seventieth birthday when this book was published at the urging of Governor DeWitt Clinton. He described learning that "blood had been shed at Lexington" and seeking more information from Gen. Philip Schuyler, who "expressed his belief that an important crisis had arrived which must sever us forever from the parent country." Among the incidents Becker witnessed was Gen. John Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777: "Burgoyne was a large and stoutly formed man, his countenance was rough and hard, and somewhat marked with scars ... but he had a handsome and noble air. Gates was a smaller man with much less of manner, and destitute of that air which distinguished Burgoyne."
Includes index.
Bound in original cloth with paper label on spine.
Edited by S. DeWitt Bloodgood.
The author, a farmer from the Saratoga area, was just shy of his seventieth birthday when this book was published at the urging of Governor DeWitt Clinton. He described learning that "blood had been shed at Lexington" and seeking more information from Gen. Philip Schuyler, who "expressed his belief that an important crisis had arrived which must sever us forever from the parent country." Among the incidents Becker witnessed was Gen. John Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in 1777: "Burgoyne was a large and stoutly formed man, his countenance was rough and hard, and somewhat marked with scars ... but he had a handsome and noble air. Gates was a smaller man with much less of manner, and destitute of that air which distinguished Burgoyne."
Includes index.
Bound in original cloth with paper label on spine.
Indexed In
Sabin 5985
Howes, W., U.S.iana (2nd ed.) B545
Howes, W., U.S.iana (2nd ed.) B545
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