. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe. , both in English and Keim was one of its most ar-dent patrons. A RELIC OF COLONIAL FASHIONS A BUSK BOARD CARVED BY BENJAMIN SUMNER, A PRISONER IN THE TOWER OF LONDON FTEE the surrender of Fort Ti-conderoga to Ethan Allen inMay, 1775, an expedition laterin the same summer, which marched byway of Lake Cham]Jain under , captured St. Johns andMontreal on the march and effected ajunction before Quebec with BenedictArnold, who had advanced by the Ken-nebec Kiver. In the ill-advised attempt to takethat Gibraltar of C
. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe. , both in English and Keim was one of its most ar-dent patrons. A RELIC OF COLONIAL FASHIONS A BUSK BOARD CARVED BY BENJAMIN SUMNER, A PRISONER IN THE TOWER OF LONDON FTEE the surrender of Fort Ti-conderoga to Ethan Allen inMay, 1775, an expedition laterin the same summer, which marched byway of Lake Cham]Jain under , captured St. Johns andMontreal on the march and effected ajunction before Quebec with BenedictArnold, who had advanced by the Ken-nebec Kiver. In the ill-advised attempt to takethat Gibraltar of Canada and the St. Lawrence with less than a thousandmen, in the midst of a mid-winterstorm Montomery was killed. Arnoldwas wounded, and Morgan hemmed inon all sides was forced to surrender. Among the men who fell into thehands of the British were Ethan Allen,the hero of Tieonrleroga. and Benja-min Sumner, of Tolland county, aConnecticut volunteer. These men were sent to England andincarcerated in the Tower of London THE KEIM AND ALLIED FAMILIES. 923. A Revolutionary Busk Hoard carved in the Tower of London. sis hostages for a British officer held bythe Continentals. At this time Benjamin Sumner wasnineteen years of age. During the year he passed in theTower as a prisoner and hostage, hislife hanging by a thread, having ob-tained a piece of English oak, with a penknife he whittled away thehours of his captivity carving a buskboard for his American sweetheart,Ruth Palmer, whom lie married a fewyears after the close of the Revolution-ary War. The busk board, a stiffening bone orplate fastened in the front of the cor-set to keep it in shape around thewaist, was in vogue among the ladies offashion during colonial, continentaland later days down to the middle ofthe present century, the latest stylesbefore going out of vogue being ofwhalebone, steel or brass. The oak board carved by BenjaminSumner is an exquisite piece of workwith so simple an implement as a pen-knife. The illustratio
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