Life and Times of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red-Jacket

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: At the close of the war of the revolution, Major Moncrieffe settled in New York; but amidst all the scenes of dissipation and iniquity which marked her profligate life, Mrs. Coghlan seems to have cherished a strong attachment for her father, from whom, however, she was of course estranged. In December, 1791, she dreamed of witnessing her father's funeral procession, and that a bleeding heart was placed upon the coffin. So strong was the impression upon her mind that the vision was true, that she went into deep mourning on the occasion, although her father was living in America?she living in London. The coincidence will be deemed extraordinary, but it is said to be no less true than strange, that her fatal apprehensions were realized. Major Moncrieffe died in the city of New York, on the 10th of December, 1791, from the bursting of a blood-vessel of the heart. The happy facility, also, with which Mr. Stone entered into the time and circumstances of which he wrote, is illustrated in his account of President Washington's inauguration ball, iu 1789, part of which appears in Griswold's elaborate Republican Court. The sketch, containing the account of the ball, is entitled Setting the Wheels in Motion, and comprises the only faithful historical record, political, festive and fashionable, of the observances in the city of New York on the occasion of the adoption of the federal constitution, the organization of the government, the pageantry attending it, and the demonstrations which followed that important epoch in our national history. The particulars were collected with much care and labor from such printed accounts as could be found in the scattered remnants of the little dingy newspapers of that day, and, also, such facts as were yet dimly floating in the recollections of those fe...

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