. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. one of the children, out ofa family of fifteen, lives in the state ; yet the farm their father settledon, in 1782, is still owned by them. This meeting, after so long a separation, was happy and interesting,calculated not only to strengthen the bonds of fraternal kindness, butto honor their deceased parents. They marched together to the oldmeeting-house and grave-yard, In the way their fathers trod. They separated, resolved to meet semi-annually hereafter, at the oldmansion. They
. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. one of the children, out ofa family of fifteen, lives in the state ; yet the farm their father settledon, in 1782, is still owned by them. This meeting, after so long a separation, was happy and interesting,calculated not only to strengthen the bonds of fraternal kindness, butto honor their deceased parents. They marched together to the oldmeeting-house and grave-yard, In the way their fathers trod. They separated, resolved to meet semi-annually hereafter, at the oldmansion. They all came together in less than three days travel by thesteam-cars and boat; whereas, twenty-eight years ago, the one thefurthest o& \y^?> forty-six days making the same journey. We hope the absent sons and daughters of Vermont, scattered overthe world, will imitate the foregoing example, and return often to thesalubrious air and mountain scenery of their native land, in honor of thememory of their pioneer fathers, who gave them constitutions andhabits to compete for the honors of our wide-spread
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