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Camps and Firesides of the Revolution

  
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INTRODUCTION FOR TEACHERS BY MABEL HILL

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PART I HOME LIFE
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I. Thrifty Quaker Housekeeping BY MISTRESS HANNAH PENN (1700)
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2. A Wig and a Conscience BY SAMUEL SEWALL (1701)
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3. A Poor Man's Possessions BY JOHN SECCOMB (1730)
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4. Israel Putnam and the Wolf BY DAVID HUMPHREYS (ABOUT 1740)
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5. All Kinds of Paper
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6. Making Fun of the Parson BY JOSEPH GREEN (ABOUT 1750)
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7. Social Pleasures in Philadelphia BY JOHN ADAMS (1774)
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8. A Virginia Ball and Virginia Belles BY PHILIP FITHIAN (1774)
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9. Young Yankees A-frolicking BY THOMAS ANBURY (1777)
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10. A Fire in Charleston BY ELKANAH WATSON (1778)
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11. A Witchcraft Trial (1730)
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12. Negro Servants and Slaves BY PETER KALM (1748)
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PART II HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
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13. A Merchant's Voyage and Cargo BY GILES SHELLEY (1699)
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14. The Fashions BY JOSEPH T. BUCKINGHAM (1731)
  
A MAN'S CRITICISM
  
A WOMAN'S CRITICISM
 15. 
15. A Practical Joke BY WILLIAM BLACK (1744)
 16. 
16. Presents from London BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1758)
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17. In the Woods BY ANDREW BURNABY (1760)
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18. All Sorts of Advertisements FROM THE NEWSPAPERS (1740-1751)
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19. A Rousing Whaling Song BY JOHN OSBORN (ABOUT 1750)
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20. Life in Boston BY FRANCIS GOELET (1750)
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21. A Storm at Sea BY PHILIP FRENEAU
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22. Saved from Niagara BY PETER KALM (1750)
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23. A Tornado and a Waterspout BY OLIVER HART (1752)
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PART III THE INDIANS
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24. Indian Children sold as Slaves BY CALEB HEATHCOTE AND WILLIAM JOHNSON (1715)
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25. Indian Hospitality BY JOHN BARTRAM (1743)
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26. Esquimaux and their Children BY WILLIAM DOUGLASS (1749)
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27. On the War Path BY PETER KALM ( 1749)
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28. Wampum BY PETER KALM (1749)
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29. How to Build a Bark Canoe BY PETER KALM (1749)
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30. Indian Speeches BY GEORGE WASHINGTON (1754)
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31. How the Trader Fleeced the Indian BY MRS. ANNE GRANT (ABOUT 1740)
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32. How Mackinac was taken and Detroit was saved BY JONATHAN CARVER (1764)
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33. On the Dark and Bloody Ground BY DANIEL BOONE (1769-1775)
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34. Indian Games BY JONATHAN CARVER (1766)
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35. Defeated by the Indians BY DANIEL BOONE (1782)
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36. A Captive well treated by Indians BY DANIEL BOONE (ABOUT 1780)
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PART IV THE FRENCH AND THE INDIAN WARS
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37. The Casket Girls in Louisiana BY MONSIEUR DUMONT (1719)
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38. The Founding of the City of New Orleans BY MONSIEUR DUMONT (1719-1728)
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39. A Song about Indians (1725)
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40. Captured by the Indians BY JOHN GYLES (1736)
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41. The Ladies in French Canada BY PETER KALM (1749)
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42. The Story of Braddock's Defeat BY WILLIAM LIVINGSTON (1755)
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43. Provincial Regimentals at Court BY WILLIAM SKINNER (1757)
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44. Brave Commanders at Quebec BY JOHN KNOX (1759)
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PART V GETTING READY FOR THE REVOLUTION
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45. A Furious Mob BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON (1765)
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46. What our Ancestors did for Us BY THE TOWN MEETING OF CAMBRIDGE (1765)
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47. Do not Tax the Colonies BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1766)
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48. The Boston Tea Party FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS GAZETTE (1773)
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49. Another Account of the Tea Party BY JOHN ANDREWS (1773)
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50. Free America BY JOSEPH WARREN (1774)
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51. Inside the Continental Congress BY JOHN ADAMS (1774)
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52. Yankee Doodle
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53. Birth of Independence BY JOHN ADAMS (1776)
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54. A Ballad on Taxation BY PETER ST. JOHN (1778)
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PART VI REVOLUTIONARY FIRESIDES
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55. A Philadelphia Boy's Sports BY ALEXANDER GRAYDON (ABOUT 1765)
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56. A Little Letter from a Future President BY JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1774)
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57. An American Belle at Court BY MARGARET HUTCHINSON (1774)
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58. A Woman at the War BY MRS. ABIGAIL ADAMS (1775)
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59. With the Ladies BY TENCH TILGHMAN (1775)
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60. Crossing New England BY GEORGE PAUSCH (1777)
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61. Pretty Girls in New England BY A GERMAN OFFICER (1777)
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62. A Child of the Revolution BY SAMUEL BRECK (1771-1782)
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63. A Conscientious Traitor BY TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1778)
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64. A Hard Winter BY THOMAS JONES (1779)
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65. High Prices in Paper Money BY MR. PATTON (1780)
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66. The Frenchmen and the Frogs BY SAMUEL BRECK (1779)
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67. Royal Personages BY SAMUEL CURWEN (1781-1782)
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PART VII IN CAMP
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68. Kentucky Riflemen FROM THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE (1775)
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69. Winter Amusements in Canada BY A GERMAN OFFICER (1777)
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70. Queer Cavalry BY ALEXANDER GRAYDON (ABOUT 1778)
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71. The Amenities of Camp Life BY SURGEON JAMES THACHER (1779)
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72. New Hampshire Men BY MARQUIS DE CHASTELLUX (1780)
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73. At Washington's Headquarters BY MARQUIS DE CHASTELLUX ( 1780)
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74. Close Quarters for Washington BY MARQUIS DE CHASTELLUX (1782)
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75. Camp Fare BY GEORGE WASHINGTON (1779)
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76. A View of American Troops BY A GERMAN OFFICER (1777)
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PART VIII IN THE FIELD
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77. Battle of Lexington BY JONAS CLARK (1775)
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78. The Capture of Boston BY GEORGE WASHINGTON (1776)
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79. A Soldier's Song (1776)
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80. The Death of Nathan Hale (1776)
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81. A Brisk Little Fight BY TENCH TILGHMAN (1776)
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82. A German Lady's Campaign BY MADAME RIEDESEL (1777)
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83. A Lady in Battle BY MADAME RIEDESEL (1777)
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84. Cruise of the Fair American (1777)
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85. Capture of Stony Point BY HENRY LEE (1779)
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86. Capture of the Serapis BY ROBERT DALE (1779)
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87. The Execution of André BY WILLIAM HEATH (1780)
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88. A Surprise BY TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1781)
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89. An Escape from Prison BY TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1781)
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90. Difficulties of Ocean Travel BY JOHN TRUMBULL (1780-1781)
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91. The Siege of Yorktown BY A CHAPLAIN (1781)

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    Descriptive List of Illustrations

  • THE PEPPERELL CHILDREN...........Frontispiece
    Grandchildren of Sir William Pepperell. The original is in the Longfellow House, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • A COLONIAL KITCHEN... ......................2
    The tap-room at the Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Massachusetts; built in 1690.
  • JOSHUA GREEN'S WIG..........................4
    Worn about 1749.
  • A POOR MAN'S UTENSILS.......................7
    Tinder-box, roasting-oven, warming-pan, etc.; were used in Revolutionary times; from Dedham Historical Society.
  • PUTNAM'S WOLF DEN..........................10
    The den near Pomfret, Connecticut, as it now looks.
  • A FINE OLD COLONIAL HOUSE..................17
    The original residence of the Chew family, in Germantown, Pennsylvania; built about 1761.
  • THE CUSTIS CHILDREN........................21
    George Washington's step-children. From a painting by Wollaston in 1761.
  • JANE BONNER...................... .........25
    The nine-year-old daughter of a Boston sea-captain.
  • AN ARTIST'S FAMILY.........................31
    Portraits of John Singleton Copley, the famous painter, with his wife, children, and wife's father; painted about 1780.
  • A MERCHANT SHIP............................38
    A typical vessel of 1792; from an old print.
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  • ABIGAIL BISHOP'S DRESS.....................40
    Brocaded dress, first worn about 1780; worn in the picture, by Mary Putnam Hart, lineal descendant of Abigail Bishop.
  • A WELL-DRESSED GENTLEMAN...................44
    Nicholas Boylston, a Boston merchant; painted about 1770.
  • A TRAVELING COACH..........................49
    From an old print.
  • THE WAYSIDE INN............................55
    At Sudbury, Massachusetts; built in 1690, and originally called the Red Horse Tavern. Still used as an inn.
  • A TAVERN SIGN..............................61
    This sign hung before the door of Israel Putnam's house in Brooklyn, Connecticut, in 1768.
  • AN EARLY PICTURE OF NIAGARA................65
    Hennepin's "New Discovery," 1697; much out of drawing.
  • CHAMPLAIN AND THE INDIANS..................70
    From a sketch by the Sieur Champlain, showing how he fought the Iroquois in 1609.
  • AN INDIAN CHILD............................75
    A Seminole boy, nine years old.
  • AN INDIAN SAMP BOWL........................81
    King Philip's bowl for samp, or pounded corn; about 1675.
  • A BIRCH CANOE..............................87
    Made by the Penobscot Indians. The type of canoe used by the New England Indians in colonial days.
  • AN INDIAN HEAD-DRESS.......................89
    Eagle feathers and buffalo horns.
  • A FUR TRADER'S CAMP........................93
    Drawn by an English traveller and painter in 1835.
  • DANIEL BOONE..............................109
    In his coon-skin cap; about 1770.
  • A FLAT-BOAT...............................118
    Such as was used on the Ohio River about 1787 and thereafter.
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  • AN EARLY PICTURE OF NEW ORLEANS...........124
    At that time only a French village; drawn about 1785.
  • A WAR FLAG................................133
    Used in the French and Indian War.
  • COLONIAL REGIMENTALS......................142
    A picture of General Horatio Gates.
  • A FLINT-LOCK MUSKET.......................149
    Discharged by a spark made by the hammer falling on a flint.
  • THE MINUTE MAN............................152
    Statue at the scene of the fight at Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts; sculptured by Daniel French.
  • GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON'S HOUSE...............155
    House in Boston which was sacked by a mob in 1765; drawing made in 1836.
  • BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.........................160
    Portrait painted by Peale about 1790.
  • A COLONIAL TEA-SET........................165
    The wedding china of a bride of 1800.
  • LIBERTY BELL..............................173
    At Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
  • OLDTIME CHILDREN..........................182
    Twin sons of the editor, in costumes such as little boys wore in the eighteenth century.
  • YOUNG JOHN QUINCY ADAMS...................188
    Aged about twenty-five.
  • A COLONIAL LADY...........................195
    Mrs. Ralph Izard. From a painting by Gainsborough.

  • A PRETTY NEW ENGLAND GIRL.................205
    "Dorothy Q.," of whom Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote:

    "Grandmother's mother; her age, I guess,
    Thirteen summers, more or less."
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  • AN OLD CLOCK..............................215
    From Newburyport.
  • THREE GENERATIONS OF DOLLS................222
    The largest of these dolls belonged to Caira Robbins of Lexington in 1810, and the other two belonged to her mother and her grandmother.
  • A REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER...................228
    Israel Putnam; from an engraving made in 1775.
  • A HESSIAN.................................233
    The Hessians were German troops hired by the English to fight against the colonists in the Revolution.
  • A FRENCH OFFICER..........................245
    Marquis de Lafayette; from a painting in the Massachusetts Historical Society.
  • A REVOLUTIONARY LADY......................251
    Mrs. John Hancock; from a painting by Copley.
  • THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON...................258
    From an old print.
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON.........................262
    From the unfinished Stuart portrait; in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
  • CANNON FROM THE REVOLUTION................265
    These cannon were taken at Ticonderoga in 1775.
  • MADAME RIEDESEL...........................274
    Wife of a Hessian general; from a portrait in her "Memoirs."
  • A SEA FIGHT...............................281
    From a painting by John Singlebach.
  • JOHN ANDRÉ................................299
    From a pen-and-ink sketch made by André during his confinement in 1777.
  • DEBORAH SAMPSON...........................305
    The woman soldier of the Revolution; from a contemporary illustration.
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