Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . nd the ship was won. They sailedher into Boston harbor, and the same court whichcondemned the brigands of the sea presented JohnFillmore with the captains silver-hilted sword andother articles, which are preserved to this day byhis descendants. The sword was inherited by hisson, Nathaniel, and was made good use of in boththe French and Revolutionary wars. Lieut. Fill-mores second son, who also bore the name Na-thaniel, and who was the father of the president,went with his young wife, Phebe Millard, to whatat the close of the past century was the fa
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . nd the ship was won. They sailedher into Boston harbor, and the same court whichcondemned the brigands of the sea presented JohnFillmore with the captains silver-hilted sword andother articles, which are preserved to this day byhis descendants. The sword was inherited by hisson, Nathaniel, and was made good use of in boththe French and Revolutionary wars. Lieut. Fill-mores second son, who also bore the name Na-thaniel, and who was the father of the president,went with his young wife, Phebe Millard, to whatat the close of the past century was the far west,where he and a younger brother built a log cabinin the wilderness, and there his second son, Millard,was born. Nathaniel Fillmore was one of GodAlmightys gentlemen, whose creed was containedin two words, do right, and who lived to see hisson elevated to a position than which there is noneloftier on earth. Of the presidents mother, whodied in 1831, little is known beyond the fact thatshe was a sensible and, in her later years, a sickly. Efig * ty •RTR-TfaTI &. 3Tew~Srk.
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