"Then, if he were my brother's. My brother might not claim him; nor your father, Being none of his, refuse him: This concludes-- My mother's son did get your father's heir; Your father's heir must have your father's land." The events we are about to relate, occurred near the middle of the last century, previously even to that struggle, which it is the fashion of America to call "the old French War." The opening scene of our tale, however, must be sought in the other hemisphere, and on the coast of the mother country. In the middle of the eighteenth century, the American colonies were models of loyalty; the very war, to which there has just been allusion, causing the great expenditure that i…
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