. The Frost family in England and America with special reference to Edmund Frost and some of his descendants. > o oco ^ too H o. IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA 153 the youthful Ebenezer, aged 13, rebelled against thetyranny of an older brother and started out to earn hisown living, and although employed in the vicinity of homehe never after drew any financial support therefrom. Hewatched bush fires for his board for a season, helped onfarms, and later was apprentice to a blacksmith in trade learned, he crossed Lake Champlain at Ticonde-roga, and in the War of 1812, at the age of 22, he w
. The Frost family in England and America with special reference to Edmund Frost and some of his descendants. > o oco ^ too H o. IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA 153 the youthful Ebenezer, aged 13, rebelled against thetyranny of an older brother and started out to earn hisown living, and although employed in the vicinity of homehe never after drew any financial support therefrom. Hewatched bush fires for his board for a season, helped onfarms, and later was apprentice to a blacksmith in trade learned, he crossed Lake Champlain at Ticonde-roga, and in the War of 1812, at the age of 22, he wasattached to a cavalry regiment as horseshoer, and waspresent at the battle of Plattsburg, September 11, 1814. Atthe close of the war he made his way on foot through theAdirondack forests as far as Hopkinton Village, where hesettled and at once proceeded to build a trip-hammer shop,the power for which he obtained from a brook traversingthe village. A few pieces of old dam, and a large boulderv^fith a square hole in the top used in the shop, still remain,according to a genealogical history of Hopkinton from whichthese notes a
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