. The Spirit of '76 : devoted to the principles, incidents, and men of '76 and colonial times . ittle later we rindanother member of the family, Lieutenant Richard Somers, anintimate friend of gallant Stephen Decatur, distinguishing him-self. He lost his iife in Tripoli, on the African coast of theMediterranean, with two other officers and ten seamen. Amonument is erected to Ids memory at the United States NavalAcademy in Annapolis, M, and the new torpedo boat recentlypurchased from England by our government has been re-christened the Somers in his honor. Mrs. Henry Wright andMrs. M. A. Devine
. The Spirit of '76 : devoted to the principles, incidents, and men of '76 and colonial times . ittle later we rindanother member of the family, Lieutenant Richard Somers, anintimate friend of gallant Stephen Decatur, distinguishing him-self. He lost his iife in Tripoli, on the African coast of theMediterranean, with two other officers and ten seamen. Amonument is erected to Ids memory at the United States NavalAcademy in Annapolis, M, and the new torpedo boat recentlypurchased from England by our government has been re-christened the Somers in his honor. Mrs. Henry Wright andMrs. M. A. Devine are descendants of these heroes. Even the staid old Quaker blood was roused by our wrongsand Englands injustice, and it is recorded of Matthew Dennis,a good old Friend, and the ancestor of Mrs. Josie Ballert. thathe was reproved and threatened with that terrible punishment toFriends, being turned out of meeting for housing and caringfor prisoners of war, and that he willingly gave his two sons tofight for the cause of liberty, and one of them was confined inone of the English prison Mi<S. MART S. CORDERY.(Aged 9-) An original daughter ofthe Daughters of the American Revo-lution. Member of Gen. LafnjetteChapter, D. A. K., Ailant ct-ity, N. J. 3* THE SPIRIT OF 76. October, 1898 Another prominent family in this part of the State is theScull You will find them in every rank of life, doingtheir duty nobly, earnestly, eheertully, wherever that duty will rind one of them currying the news of the Gospel tothe western wilds of far distant Ohio, and losing his life m theeffort. Another testifying his patriotism by converting his greatwealth into Continental currency, which through the drains ofwar became valueless, and at the close of the Revolution he wasa poor instead of wealthy man. One dying in one of the Britishprison ships in New York harbor, which ships were the horrorsof the Revolution, as Libby and Andersonville were of the Re-bellion. And another,
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