. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. daughter in the nextroom, and, after the cere-mony, the venerable dom-inie who officiated, thefather of the bride, andthe bridegroom all climbedout of a back window, andthe mother was none thewiser for some days. About the time the twoVan Rensselaers startedon their unpromising tripto Niagara, the patrooninvited John Lovett, anAlbany lawyer, afterward member of Congress, to become his military secretary. He was a manof genius, charming in conversation, full of anecdote, and an acknowl-edged wit. His letters give graphic pictures of the
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. daughter in the nextroom, and, after the cere-mony, the venerable dom-inie who officiated, thefather of the bride, andthe bridegroom all climbedout of a back window, andthe mother was none thewiser for some days. About the time the twoVan Rensselaers startedon their unpromising tripto Niagara, the patrooninvited John Lovett, anAlbany lawyer, afterward member of Congress, to become his military secretary. He was a manof genius, charming in conversation, full of anecdote, and an acknowl-edged wit. His letters give graphic pictures of the hardships the officerswere obliged to endure as well as the soldiers, in this memorable deciding where to establish his headquarters, the general and his staffrode along the frontier for several days, in the tiresome occupation of pros-pecting in a wild, woody country. They were obliged to seek shelter, onone occasion, in a deserted house, at midnight. Lovett wrote: Weplaced our general on the table, about four and a half feet long, crooked. (S\JfoA/JliuJt^^^r-^ 2S THE VAN RENSSELAER MANOR up his legs, borrowed a thick blanket of a soldier, and covered him upquite comfortably. The colonel then laid down upon two boards, in hisgreat coat. I selected a large Dutch oven, as the thought struck me itwould be the safest retreat from the vermin. But how to get in it I knewnot. I finally took a wide board, placed one end in the mouth of themonstrous oven, laid myself on the board, and bade the sergeant of theguard raise up the other end and push me into the oven ; and in I went,like a pig on a wooden shovel ; and there I staid, and had one of the .e, loveliest nights rest of my life. The exciting incidents of that strug;in which these two Van Rensselaers were conspicuous officers, would beinteresting in any connection. It was a fiery ordeal in more ways thanone. At the storming of Queenstown, Colonel Solomon was carried bleed-ing from the field, and his life was in extreme
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