PEGGY OWEN
AND LIBERTY
BY LUCY
FOSTER
MADISON
AUTHOR OF
“PEGGY OWEN”
“PEGGY OWEN,
PATRIOT”
“PEGGY OWEN
AT YORKTOWN”
ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY
H. J. PECK
The Penn Publishing Company
PHILADELPHIA MCMXIII
COPYRIGHT
1912 BY
THE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY
“WHY, IT’S FATHER!”“The motto of our father-band
Circled the world in its embrace:
’Twas Liberty throughout the land,
And good to all their brother race.
Long here—within the pilgrim’s bell
Had lingered—though it often pealed—
Those treasured tones, that eke should tell
Where freedom’s proudest scroll was sealed!
Here the dawn of reason broke
On the trampled rights of man;
And a moral era woke
Brightest since the world began.”
Introduction
In “Peggy Owen,” the first book of this series, is related the storyof a little Quaker maid who lived across from the State House inPhiladelphia, and who, neutral at first on account of her religion,became at length an active patriot. The vicissitudes and annoyances towhich she and her mother are subjected by one William Owen, an officerin the English army and a kinsman of her father’s, are also given.
“Peggy Owen, Patriot” tells of Peggy’s winter at Middlebrook, innorthern New Jersey, where Washington’s army is camped, her capture bythe British and enforced journey to the Carolinas, and final returnhome.
“Peggy Owen at Yorktown” details how Peggy goes to Virginia to nurse acousin, who is wounded and a prisoner. The town is captured by theBritish under Benedict Arnold, the traitor, and Peggy is led tobelieve that he has induced the desertion of her friend, JohnDrayton. Drayton’s rescue from execution as a spy and the siege ofYorktown follow.
In the present volume Peggy’s friends rally about her when her CousinClifford is in danger of capture. The exciting events of the storyshow the unsettled state of the country after the surrender ofCornwallis.