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ferent parts of the United States. There were many of them that commenced business for themselves in Philadelphia. There was one who kept a Tavern in Market street, not far from Cooper's dwelling. One evening a journeyman belonging to our shop, asked the apprentices in the shop and myself to take a walk with him.We did so, and in passing by the Tavern of the Hessian he invited us to go in with him saying that he would treat us each to a mug of beer. We went in with him. The Hessian's establishment was pretty well fitted up, he had a large bulk or bow window in front, which was very well stocked with liquors of different kinds. His bar was quite a large one at that early day in this country. When we entered, we found quite a company of Hessians seated in the bar-room drinking and smoking. The journeyman advanced to the bar and called for beer, the Hessian landlord then jumped up in a rage and ordered him out of his house, saying at the same time that he had no beer for him; the journeyman replied, I have come in civilly and what I call for, I will pay you for. The landlord seized the bar of the door and played away at him, and we being few in number, of course retreated into the street, not relishing at all the reception we had met with. I thought that such barefaced tory injustice ought to be rewarded in some shape or other, and as the balance of power was altogether against us, there was no such thing as carrying the fort by storm. His surly, unjust and insulting conduct and wanton assault was too much for those to stand, that had stood in defence of the liberties and laws of the country. Not being able to whip with justice in law and by it, I thought I would try whether I could not take the law into my own hands for a moment or two and whip him in the use of physical strength well applied. So I looked around for a something and got hold of a brick-bat, with which I let "slip" at his bar or bulk window and happening to strike the sash about the middle of the window, I dismantled all the guns of Captain Alcahol and his would be, su preme foreign Commander. The cannons (bottles) that

stood charged and ready at the port-holes, (window) were knocked about so tremendously, bursted and were by my four pound carronade so that their powder and balls (liquor) were knocked out at the muzzles and at other places, and scattered every which way causing great destruction among bottles, glasses, &c. in the fort, and confusion among the Hessian ranks therein. For my own part I took care of number one, and heeled it home like a good fellow. The watchman captured the jur and marched him off to the watch-house where he was retained all night,

The next morning the other apprentices with myself were summoned to appear before a Magistrate. When we arrived at the Magistrate's office we found the Hessian landlord, our Master and the journeyman and a great many more that had collected to hear the trial and enjoy the fun. Said my master to me, "Well Samuel what have you to say for yourself." "What do you know about this matter." I told him I could tell something about it. I was then qualified. I stated that on the evening previous, our journeyman asked us (boys) to take a walk with him and that we had done so. That as we were passing the tavern of this Hessian, (pointing at the same time to the Hessian landlord,) in Market street.At the word Hessian he jumped up in a great rage to strike me, but he had to sit down again. The magistrate told him if he did not sit down and "hush up" he would commit him to jail immediately. When he sat down I proceeded to state that the journeyman had invited us to go into this Hessian's Tavern and drink some beer with him. That when we entered we found a number of Hessians, there. That they were drinking, smoking, &c. and stated that the jur called for a half a gallon of beer but that the Hessian landlord told him to "gleer ouse," and said "I cot no beer vor yooz," upon which the jur had replied that he came in civilly and intended to pay for the beer, and then stated that the Hessian landlord picked up the bar of the door and beat him out of his house, and that I afterwards heard a great rat

tling at the window and among the bottles, &c. over the floor of the bar-room. That I had also heard a great noise and confusion about the Hessian's tavern door, and that I was positive that the jur could not, and did not throw any thing at the house or at his window. If I could state this positively, I state as positively now, that I kept the knowledge as to who did throw the bat, to myself. The other apprentices stated in substance what I had stated.

The Hessian landlord had to pay all costs, mend his window, replenish it with bottles and glasses, and fill them with liquors at his own expense into the bargain.

There are "scrapes" in which men are sometimes caught, the results of which are often regretted very much afterwards, but this I have to regret yet. I have voluntarily engaged in every emergency in which my country has been thrown, and when its peace has been jeopardized, either by a foreign or domestic foe, I have raised my voice to assert her rights and the supremacy of the laws, and have always backed that voice by my presence and actions upon duty in the field. To be thus treated by a set of men, who had came as hirelings to fight against and butcher the inhabitants of my country at the hands of a set of desperadoes, assassins and murderers, who, when they infested and marched through the Jerseys, (headed by their ignoble and inhuman coadjutors, king George's satellites* and demoniac tories) acted more cruel than the wild savages of the forests, murdering men, women and children in an indiscrimi nate and unprovoked manner, for they paid no regard to age, sex or condition. They frequently picked up sucking infants upon their bayonet's points, and carried them

*"Perhaps some of my readers may think that the writer of this volume is rather severe at times. To all such censurers he would observe, take superinhuman cruelty home to yourselves, as manifested towards his own by the British. He lost an uncle, who volunteered and perished during the late war in that modern and long to be remembered Hell of infernal inhumanity, Dartmoor Prison, in England. He shall be among the last then to wink at her hellish and hell-hound modes of warfare, and the last to believe that she possesses a tenth of the national honor she boasts of possessing." Hanna's Glory of Columbia. ~/

about, dashing them headlong to the ground, as hunters would the wild vermin of the wilderness. I have passed through Jersey, and have laid (during the Revolution) near to where these horrid scenes were acted, and then they were but too fresh in the recollections of the people, and particularly of fond weeping mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, relatives and acquaintances. Despera does, whose inglorious hands were stained with the blood of the innocent, and their heads were covered with crimes of the deepest die. Murderers, who would claim in their state of alienship all the privileges due to the freenative born and naturalized citizens of my country, and beyond this, to bear down, and rule, and ride rough-shod over all, especially over those (myself included) who had stood cherishing and supporting their country from the first dawnings of liberty to its full fruition of Republican Glory and Independence in her glorious establishment of herself as a supreme, independent nation of freemen. Yes! By sacrifices that will scarcely gain for themselves a belief.

Descendants of many of those cruel hearted and bloody beasts I know very well. Some of them, in the language of the day, "are great men" in the country. It would be hard, it is true, at this late day to stigmatize the descendants of such by a personal identification, and by bestowing a knowledge of their close alliance by blood to such, especially if good republican friends to the institutions of my country. It would certainly be unjust to offer to saddle upon these the horrid crimes of their mean and despicable, bloody and blood-thirsty forefathers.

I staid with my master (Cooper) until he lost his health, and was forced to relinquish his business of skindressing. When he did so, he gave to me my indentures. I then went and bound myself to a boot and shoe maker, and continued to work constantly at the business for the space of years. When I became free, I went up the country to my old neighborhood, within three miles of Reading, and worked at boot and shoe making for some time.

There's a tear that falls when we part

From a friend whose loss we shall mourn;

There's a tear that flows from the half-broken heart,
When we think he may never return-oh! never.

"Tis hard to be parted from those

With whom we forever could dwell,

But, bitter, indeed, is the sorrow that flows
When, perhaps, we are saying farewell-forever.

There's a tear that brightens the eye

Of the friend, when absence is o'er ;

"There's a tear that flows not for sorrow, but joy,
When we meet to be parted no more,-ne never.

Then all that in absence we dread

Is past, and forgotten our pain;

For sweet is the tear, we at such moments shed,

When we behold the lov'd object again-forever."

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I must have returned to Poplar Neck from Philadelphia sometime during the summer of 1785. The people of that neighborhood, believing that I was a kind of a no-scare fellow, and not afraid to stay by myself any where, earnestly solicited me to go out to ley, (away beyond the broad mountain,) with a drove of hogs, and remain with them until they should fatten upon the chestnuts and acorns, with which the woods of that region of country abounded. I at length consented to go upon certain conditions, to which they all agreed. The neighbors then began to gather up all their hogs to one place, as a drover would preparatory to his starting with his drove of hogs to seek a market. Some owned five, some eight, others ten, others twelve, and some fifteen each. In all about seventy. Each man put a small bell on one of his hogs. They provided me with a good rifle-gun, and all other necessaries for this hog expedition and campaign.

All things being in readiness for the move, we started and several of the owners accompanied me for the purpose of assisting me to drive the hogs to the valley, and to

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