The Tories or loyalists in America; being slight historical tracings, from the footprints of Sir John Johnson and his cotemporaries in the revolution . HE accompanying waifs, possessing intiiemselves as little intrinsic interest ascontinuity, are a few random footprintsof Sir John Johnsons life of exile, sparedby the tides of a century which haveeffaced many of his once deeper im-pressions on American affairs. Theycasually fell into the writers historicalcollection, mingled with other imported manuscripts, provingat least, that some antiquarian in the old world had consideredthem worthy of pre
The Tories or loyalists in America; being slight historical tracings, from the footprints of Sir John Johnson and his cotemporaries in the revolution . HE accompanying waifs, possessing intiiemselves as little intrinsic interest ascontinuity, are a few random footprintsof Sir John Johnsons life of exile, sparedby the tides of a century which haveeffaced many of his once deeper im-pressions on American affairs. Theycasually fell into the writers historicalcollection, mingled with other imported manuscripts, provingat least, that some antiquarian in the old world had consideredthem worthy of preservation. The knowledge that amongst such fragments have beenfound the key to valuable facts, and the elucidation of pastevents obscured by time, has, as we know, caused a growinginterest in the preservation in public or private collections orin print, of anything of a public character, produced by thebrain and hands of men who made some mark on their timebefore passing away. What seems of little value to one, may become of interestto another, and we know that there are few • things existingwhich have not a place when the problem of supply an
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