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Title: Maine in history and romance
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Maine Federation of Women's Clubs
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Publisher: Lewiston, Me. : Lewiston journal company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ll theregion around, made a visit to his native land, hoping, it is said, to winback another fair maiden—his first love, whom he had left in the oldhome. But alas! upon reaching Scotland, he learned, that she had justbecome the bride of another. At this time slaves were held by a few families in Bristol, one beingthe family to which the deceased Mrs. McLain belonged. Upon herwedding day one of her wedding gifts was a slave who was to be herservant in her new home. One cold, cruel winter night, years afterthe wedding day, this same colored girl, poorly clad, was sent out intothe sleet and snow to find and bring home the cows of the farm. Aftersearching a while, she came back into the house saying that she could notfind them. Then her master, the dear parson, very severely ordered herback into the storm commanding her not to return until she had foundthe cows. The next morning the poor girl, with the tears frozen uponher cheeks, was found dead by the side of the fence. To-day, not far
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Excavations Ancient Jamestown, PemaquidOld Fort at Pemaquid Beach Ancient Bristol 225 from the scene of her tragic death, may be seen the grave of that hard-hearted man of the gospel, marked by a headstone bearing these words: Should Auld Forefathers Be Forgot and Days of Auld Lang Syne. Bristol cannot boast of a Paul Revere who at midnight rode Thru every Middlesex village and farmFor the country-folk to be up and to arm, but it can boast a brave commodore—Samuel L. Tucker, who rode overthe high seas and angry billows, ordering the British to pull down theircolors. This command of our daring commodore was so often heededthat it is said he took more prizes during the Revolutionary War thanany other New England captain. During one of Tuckers cruises in the Thorn, he fell in with anEnglish packet of twenty-two guns and one hundred men. As the ves-sels drew together, the two commanders hailed each other in the waycustomary when ships meet at sea; and then the captain of the Englishpack

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