. Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day. as, was unable for some timeeven to visit the children whom he pathetically describes, in apetition to the Governor of Quebec, as his poor motherlessbabes in New England. The sympathies of young James were strongly on the patriotside, and although he did not enlist in the army (probably be-cause of the inconvenience and peril which such a step wouldbring upon his father under these circumstances), after gradu-ating, on visiting his relatives on Cape Cod, where he taught aschool at Barnstable, he drilled a company
. Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day. as, was unable for some timeeven to visit the children whom he pathetically describes, in apetition to the Governor of Quebec, as his poor motherlessbabes in New England. The sympathies of young James were strongly on the patriotside, and although he did not enlist in the army (probably be-cause of the inconvenience and peril which such a step wouldbring upon his father under these circumstances), after gradu-ating, on visiting his relatives on Cape Cod, where he taught aschool at Barnstable, he drilled a company of Cape Cod troopswhich was raised for the Continental army. In the summer of 1 The portions of this chapter desig- Early History of the Unitarian Move- natcd by quotation-marks, witliout refer- nunt in .New , in Ihc Ke- cnce to their souree, aic LDpied from a Iigiinis .Ma;a/.inc antl Monthly Review valuable and instructive ariieid by Mr. (liostun) for June, 1873, 505-531, Foote on James Freeman and Kin,s which see. — , 1782-1787. A chapter in the. JAMES FRKEMAN. THE MINISTRY OF JAMES FREEMyVX. 379 17S0 he sailed for Quebec with his sister and youngest brother,to place them with their father. The vessel in which he cm-barked was fitted out as a cartel ; but not being acknowledgedas such by the Governor of Quebec, on his arrival he was madea piisoner, and put on board a guard-ship. He remained inthis situation till December, when, the severity of the weather110 longer suffering the guard-ship to lie in the river, he was ad-mitted on shore a prisoner on parole. In the sunimer of 17S2he obtained permission of the Governor to go to New York,and embarked in a letter of marque, which, after she had beenout a week, was captured by a privateer from Salem, and hecarried into that port. Immediately on his arrival he began topreach, — first, probably, for Rev. William Bentley, of Salem,his classmate and intimate friend, — not without preparation;for he ha
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