The New England magazine . •o6 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE. The Mills homestead among the pioneers was read to him hecried, I knew them well. I saw themfighting the battles of their country atRhode Island, Brandywine, Yorktown,and on many other fields; they were thebravest of the brave; better men neverlived. The presence of General Lafayette re-called to the minds of the oldest inhabitantsthe visit of another distinguished French-man whom they remembered as the Dukeof Orleans. In the spring of 1797 that gayyoung cavalier, who was travelling incog-nito through the United States, passedthrough Mariett
The New England magazine . •o6 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE. The Mills homestead among the pioneers was read to him hecried, I knew them well. I saw themfighting the battles of their country atRhode Island, Brandywine, Yorktown,and on many other fields; they were thebravest of the brave; better men neverlived. The presence of General Lafayette re-called to the minds of the oldest inhabitantsthe visit of another distinguished French-man whom they remembered as the Dukeof Orleans. In the spring of 1797 that gayyoung cavalier, who was travelling incog-nito through the United States, passedthrough Marietta on his way to there was a Parisian baker intown, he visited Monsieur Thierrys shopat the Point, and delighted that little bakerby declaring that he had not tasted breadso good since he had left his native pride was great when he learnedthat he had entertained unawares the Dukeof Orleans in his humble shop. How muchgreater would it have been had he foreseenthat his noble guest was to be known to theworld in later yea
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