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Title: The reminiscences of David Hayfield Conyngham, 1750-1834, a hero of the revolution, and the head of the revolutionary house of Conynngham and Nesbitt, Philadelphia, Pa., with an introductions, biographical sketches, and annotations
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Conyngham, David Hayfield, 1750-1834 Hayden, Horace Edwin, 1837- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Printed for the society
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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uscript ofthe amanuensis becoming much worn by use, was copiedfor the family, and having no further use for it as a manu-script, it was destroyed. The Reminiscences are published now for the first time.As they were written at an advanced age and with no at-tempt at chronological exactness or arrangement, the editorhas made but little effort to change their sequence. In thecopy prepared by the amanuensis they begin with the au-thors visit to Kentucky, 1807, which is here placed at theend, and where it is possible the exact date of an incidenthas been inserted. Mr. Conyngham had five sons and five daughters. He was the father of Hon. Redmond Conyngham ofLancaster, Pa., and of Hon. John Nesbitt Conyngham, LL.D., the eminent President Judge of Luzerne county from1839 to 1870, a distinguished and beloved citizen of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and President of the Wyoming Historical andGeological Society, of which Society his son, Col. John But-ler Conyngham, U. S. V., was one of the Founders, 1858.
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CONYNGHAM REMINISCENCES, 23 REMINISCENCES. REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD. This should be the first of my Reminiscenses, althoughbegan after my entering my 83d year, and if I am able tostate circumstances aright, it might be called the Chapterof Accidents. I shall start from leaving school (Philadel-phia) in the first class of the Latin School (Mr. Beveridgeour master)/^ and sailing with my father and family, in theship Hayfield, Captain Mackey, for Londonderry,^^ Ire-land, May 26, 1766, as a boy. I was delighted and pleased with our voyage. Whalesbeing then plenty on our coast, saw several schooners em-ployed in killing and saving them, also a thrasher, and, astold by the sailors, a sword-fish fighting one; also a largeisland of ice, remembers its appearance. Arrived) in theharbour of Lough Foyle on the 24th of June, when a beau- 11. John Beveridgk, M. A., Professor of Languages and Chief Master in the Latinand Greek Schools, Philadelphia Academy, 1751-1767. (v. notices of him in Gray-dons Mem

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