Graham's magazine . JSr&RAVED BT J-. SURTAX*? /vcd expressly for Grafami? 2£zgtzzz v. //y igrai . e i .r GRAHAMS MAGAZINE. PHILADELPHIA: OCTOBER, 1842. Vol. XXI. No. 4. RICHARD SOMERS. BY J. FENIMOBE COOPER, AUTHOR OF THE SPY, THE PIONEERS, ETC. Few men in this country have left names as distin-gui>hed as that of Somers, around whose personalhistory there remains so much doubt. Had he notgiven up his life in the service of his country, hewould most probably have now been living, in agreen old age. While many of his friends and ship-mates still survive to bear testimony to his braveryand his
Graham's magazine . JSr&RAVED BT J-. SURTAX*? /vcd expressly for Grafami? 2£zgtzzz v. //y igrai . e i .r GRAHAMS MAGAZINE. PHILADELPHIA: OCTOBER, 1842. Vol. XXI. No. 4. RICHARD SOMERS. BY J. FENIMOBE COOPER, AUTHOR OF THE SPY, THE PIONEERS, ETC. Few men in this country have left names as distin-gui>hed as that of Somers, around whose personalhistory there remains so much doubt. Had he notgiven up his life in the service of his country, hewould most probably have now been living, in agreen old age. While many of his friends and ship-mates still survive to bear testimony to his braveryand his virtues, yet no one seems to possess the pre-cise information that is necessary to a full and accu-rate biographical sketch of more than his public ser-vices. The same mystery that has so long clothedthe incidents of his death, appears to have gatheredabout those of his early life, veiling the beginningand the end equally in a sad and uncertain interest. The family of Somers emigrated from England toAmerica in the early part of the eighteenth century,establishing itself at Great
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