An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . ADMINISTRATION OF DANIEL WBBSTEB ance in the French and Indian wars. He followed Sir Jeffrey Am-herst in the invasion of Canada, gained the good will of his superiorofficers by his fidelity and bravery, and was advanced to the rank ofcaptain before the termination of the war. After the close of thecontest, Colonel Stevens, with some of his neighbours, procured ofBenning
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . ADMINISTRATION OF DANIEL WBBSTEB ance in the French and Indian wars. He followed Sir Jeffrey Am-herst in the invasion of Canada, gained the good will of his superiorofficers by his fidelity and bravery, and was advanced to the rank ofcaptain before the termination of the war. After the close of thecontest, Colonel Stevens, with some of his neighbours, procured ofBenning Wentworth, the royal governor of New Hampshire, a grantof the town of Salisbury. Captain Webster was one of the settlersof the newly-granted township, and received an allotment in its northem portion. Soon after his settlement in Salisbury, he marriedAbigail Eastman, his second wife, and the mother of Ezekiel andDaniel Webster, the only sons by his second marriage. He built aframe house near the log cabin which, it seems, he had previouslyinhabited. In this house, Daniel Webster was born on the 18th ofJanuary, 1782. In the Revolutionary War, not yet fully terminated,Captain Webster had served with distinction. He was at the battleof Whi
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