THE OLD PORTER HOUSE
In it were sheltered and cared for many soldiers in the War of the Revolution
PREFACE
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.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Only Woman in the Town | [9] |
| A Windham Lamb in Boston Town | [38] |
| How One Boy Helped the British Troops Out of Boston in 1776 | [47] |
| Pussy Dean’s Beacon Fire | [67] |
| David Bushnell and His American Turtle | [75] |
| The Birthday of Our Nation | [117] |
| The Overthrow of the Statue of King George | [127] |
| Sleet and Snow | [135] |
| Patty Rutter: The Quaker Doll who slept in Independence Hall | [151] |
| Becca Blackstone’s Turkeys at Valley Forge | [159] |
| How Two Little Stockings Saved Fort Safety | [169] |
| A Day and a Night in the Old Porter House | [181] |