[60] Revolutionary Anecdotes, First Series
[61] May twelfth, 1781.
[62] In the autumn of 1792, while the war with the Creeks and Cherokees was raging in the Cumberland valley.
[63] This heroic woman died at Buchanan's Station, on the twenty-third of November, 1831. She sleeps on the site of the old fort that witnessed her bravery; and Carcas, queen of Carcassone, who defended that city with such courage and resolution, when it was besieged by Charlemagne, that the Emperor permitted her to retain the sovereignty of the place, has scarcely higher claims to historical commemoration.
Author.
[64] Rev. M. B. Cox and Rev. O. S. Wright and wife.
[65] Rev. Mr. Spaulding and lady.
[66] Memoirs of Aaron Burr, by Matthew L. Davis, vol. 2, p. 432.
[67] He was imprisoned in Richmond, Virginia.—Author.
[68] Mrs. Roper accompanied her father, Sir Thomas More, to prison, and after he was executed and his head had lain fourteen days on London Bridge, she purchased it, and thus saved it from being thrown into the Thames. For this intrepidity, by the king's orders she was cast into prison—though she was soon permitted to escape.