Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1876 — A Patriotic Woman. [ARTICLE]

A Patriotic Woman.

A correspondent of the Canbcu North Star tells an interesting story of a Massachusetts woman who married- a Maine man named Baker and settled on some territory of whicli the possession was in dispute between the English and American Governments. Says this old lady: “He bought some land, and, we being Americans, the next summer I made with my own hands an American flag, and the next Fourth of July, with’ tlie help of Mr. Walter Powers, we raised it. ‘For this act Mr. Baker was indicted for high v treason, carried to Fredericton, tried (alter being imprisoned ten months), condemned, fined S2OO, and then allowed to go free.” Tills was the beginning of theAroostook war, which resulted in the establishing of the northeast boundary line between us' and the British provinces. The raising of the Stars and Stripes was thought to be a very disloyal act by Mr. Baker’s neighbors, and after he had been taken by the provincial authorities and carried off they very naturally concluded that all his property was to be confiscated, and they immediately put themselves in possession of it. When Mrs. Baker saw this, with that true courage and heroism tliat carried her through the wilderness, she armed herself with a broomstick, demanded a return of her cattle and other property to their places, and they obeyed. She commanded them to leave her premises, “ that she was not brought up in the woods to be frightened at owls,” and they left. Although living so long out of her native country her love for it has not grown cold, even at her advanced age. Site has now in her possession a quilt on which she has wrought the American eagle, and when she could not see anything else to remind her of the country she loved she would look on. this quilt.— Woman's Journal.