The Only Woman in the Town, and Other Tales of the American Revolution

And Other Tales of the American Revolution
BY SARAH J. PRICHARD
Author of the History of Waterbury, 1674-1783
PUBLISHED BY MELICENT PORTER CHAPTER Daughters of the American Revolution Waterbury, Conn. 1898
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1898 By the Melicent Porter Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington

THE OLD PORTER HOUSE In it were sheltered and cared for many soldiers in the War of the Revolution

The celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the United States at the city of Philadelphia in 1876, and the exhibit there made of that nation’s wonderful growth and progress, gave a new and remarkable impulse to the germs of patriotism in American life. The following tales of the American Revolution—with the exception of the last—were written twenty-two years ago, and are the outcome of an interest then awakened. They all appeared in magazines and other publications of that period, from which they have been gathered into this volume, in the hope that thereby patriotism may grow stronger in the children of to-day.