Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 25, Vincennes, Knox County, 20 July 1822 — Page 4
.SM.KOTKII PUKTUY. ll--rr "'' 44 HAPPINESS. If shd happiness we prize, Within our breast the jewel lie And they are fools thnt ro mi; Viu world has nothing to bestow ; Troui ourselves our jo .-, must iIg a', And peace begin? ut home. We'll therefore relish with content, Wh-ite'erkind Providence has sent. Nor ai n bevond our power; And if oar store of wealth i)e small, With thankful hearts enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.
woosmn of "Sew TTnmnMre Whern frontier wa aneneo! to Captain in Col. Pater-no's reW
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be rec;n'd when ills betide,
nt -In n f tvers are denied.
a y V; .sed with fivers given ; T v i the wis. the irtunus p rtt T th 't incense of the htart, . v'hosc fra'r re ohes heav n. GEVEU L STARK.
'I h- folio win r bicgrap.iic al sk u a is extracted 'r'vn t!ic Nc-Hamp-sliirc Patriot of
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Stu,lc during the whole of this engLment, evinced the most consummate bravery and intrepid zeal for his country, and his name and heroism will live forever in the annals of that eventful period. The night after this hat tie. the works on Winter Tlill were commenced, and so zealous uvrc the soldiery that on the morrow thev presented a hold and
commanding front that kept the
B Wish in awe and prevented further depredations.
After the British evacuation of
Boston. Siark went to the nor thern posts to assist the retrea
ting army from Quebec. On the arrival of the armv at Tieonde rao. the important point of Mount Independence was assign el to his command, and the ar-
his command wiih a feeble force; mmt of continental troops, v as still his old friends, the militia twice wounded and taken pris- nprompt at his call presented such er by the Indians The intrppian attitude as secured the frontier dityof Capt. M -Kintry. as a j arfrom a-sault. In '79 he was at tizan officer to which we hat c alRhode Island, and principally em- luded above, bad rendered him aployed with Gen Gates in stir- ; like the object of their fears, aiul veyingthe country from 'Tiverton ! of their unforgiving resentment.
to point Judith to guard Jigaimt ! The Bitih olli -crs were too attack Late in the season, how- much in dread ol their savage a!-
John star:; was born at Lon
donderry. N. II Aug 2S. 1728
o' l stvle, correp ii'hng with duous task of fortifving that Pen Anril 17. X. S. His father w. is ins i)a After the British quit the
a ;unve oi c.h iano. aim w, eu ii'vired at the LhiiverMtv of E ien ImrjM mar:ied in Ireland 6c emiii.Mtcd to America at the beginning of the last century. lie znade his first settlement at L mdonderrv but soon after removed to Derry field (now Manchester.) aid settled on the east bank of the Me-rimaek. "ear nvwlceai: fahs. On the breaking out of the 7 vears war. J hn .ta-k, then
21 vears old. his brother William Am s Eitman of tills town, anil John Stinson of Londonderry. wni!e ont on a hunting excur frion on the upper branches of this river were surprised by the In diaos: Stinson was killed on the Spot Eitminand Job?) Stark were taei piisooers. and Wil lia n Sta k escaped. Stark was conducted bv the In 'Van to T v ois. and from thence to II mfeal. where, after rem lining fin, months in capt'niiy, e wa p nvhaed by Mr Wneel right of B ston, and returned home bv wav of Albany Soon after he enzied in a company of Rao j;ci. of whom he was first com missioned lieutenant, and after v a? ds captain. 11- re hr found a fi' ld suited to his daring and ad venturous stfirit he remained in tis service until the close of that war. doring which he retained the confidence and friendship of the Brhish general, Lord II owe. until the death of that nobleman vh was killed whi'e storming the French Uno - in that -anguij-arv a id doubtful contest Staik was always found caotious on a mavh; vigilant in ramp and un daunted in battle; and it was pro
bablv owing to the experience he here acquired, that invariable suc
cess attended, so far as he was
concerned his battles of the sub
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eqoent revolution w'frh sr-pera
ted these States from Britain
At the clcse .f t- e Fjcne!i w ar.
lakes, he wined General ' Wash
ington in Pennsylvania, prepara tory to the battle of Trenton. And here it may be important to notice an event which was related on the day of his funeral bv a venerable companion m arms then present, and in whose veracity the most implicit reliance mav be placed It is well known that in?t previous to tnis impor
tant action, the American army
was on the point of being broken un by suffering desertion and expiration of the term f enlistment of a gre it portion of the troops
A few davs previous, the term of
the New-Hampshire troops exphed. Stark was the first to pronose a re engagement for six weeks he, for the mommt, left his station as com naoder, and
engaged as recruiting ofii -er: and
it is ad Jed that not a man failed
to re. engage. He led the van ot
that attack and the event is well known Seven davs a'ter he was with gen Washington at
JVento l when Loid Cornwallis
with 12 000 men nearly hemmed
them in: by eonsumate address
the iP!)ending Uite of the Americans was avoided Washington fell on the enemy's rear at Prmceton, and so broke up the British platis. that the enfeebled Ameri
can army was enabled in turn to hem up tlie "British in the envi
rons of New York
In 1777 the overwhelming
force of B irgoyne drove the A
mericaos from their strong post at Ticonderoga universal zdarm
prevailed in the North. at the rapid approach of the British. Stat k
was found retdy to meet and con querthem. He voluntarily march
ed to Vermont and at the head
of undisciplined. but ardent troops
ever, he joined Washington with
the northern armv. who, was en abled to make good his winter quarters In the year 'SO he was with Washington at ftlorristown and in the battle of Springfield;
that season terminated with Gen
Lincoln's disaster at Charleston
and the treason of Arnold. Io
'81 he again had charge of the
northern department and kept the
enemy in close quarters with a
small body of mdma : the sur
render of Cornwallis this year closed the war.
For the materials of this hasty sketch our obligations are due to Major Caleb N'ark, bis eldel
son, who participated with his il
lustrious father in manv of the perils of the revolution.
At the conclusion of the war. Gen. Stark like the Roman Cin
einnatus, retired to the pursuits ol
domestic life, mingling with the industrious and hardv yeomanry of New England and aspiring to
none of t le honors or emoluments 1 mind his obligation to support of public office, but reaping, in , him in the time of peril ISis utcommon with his countrymen, ; mo-t endeavors were accordingly the truits of that immmtal strug j used, and the were happilv sue gle, which made us a free people, jcest-ful. in obtaining for him an F or the last few years of life he immediate respite, and an ctentenjoyed a pecuniary bounty from ual ransom.
government a free-will ottering After the settlement of r:
lies, on account of their vast tnu periority of numbers, to risk an interposition of their authority to prevent the horrid sacrifice they saw preparing ' Already .had the victim heen bound to the tree, and surrounded bv the fagots intersded for his immolation; hope had fled; and in the agon v of despair he had uttered that nivstic apud wlfu-h the brctbciliood ol masons never disregard: when, as if Heaven had interposed for his preservation, the warrior Brandt understood him and sav ed him B andt had been educated in Europe; and had there liccn initiated into the mysteries of feemasonry. Tv advantages ( education and his ralive drengih of mind, gave him an ascendency over the' uncultured sons ofih'j forest, that few other chiefs possessed. Situated as he was, the impending danger of a brother must have forcibly brought to
of the nation to one of its most distinguished defenders. Such was gen. Stark the last surviving general officer of the re volution the first and most intrepid hero of our state, of whom she may justly boast as unsurpassed in cool and determined bravery, lie has gone the way of all the living. I lis character in private life was unblemished. His manners were ft auk and artless, though tinged with eccentricity peculiar to his family rJone. To
sum up all, he was that "no-b!ecf. work of God," an honest ma;. ANOTHER REVOLUTION. iV; P TRU) T GONE ! Col. John mckinsttiy, aged 80, died in the town f Livingston, in the state of New York, on Sunday last. At the first call of his country (says the Hudson Whig) he engaged in her service: and from the memorable battle of Bunker's Hill, with whiclijier sanguinary trials began, down to tSie
he retired to the cultivation of his farm in tlie vicinity of this city. sustaining an unbiemilitd repotation, and enjoying the reward of his toils and bufferings in tlie respect which was accorded, as well to the rectitude of his private life, as to the patriotic services he had rendered his country.
incd has taken the abovo y mciit for the purpose of V
he immortalised bis name bv surrender oi Cornwallis at York
planning and consummating the attack at Bennington tlie most extraordinary and least expected event of the whole revolution in which two different corps of British. Ucsian and Tulian "irivinci bles'' wese attacked and beaten in
lie returned to his father's hon.e was soon aftirwa-(K married, arid rcfnained in the enjoyment of do
nicotic life, until the rep -rt nf thei
ba'tle of Lexington spread like an rapid succession, the first in their electric shock through the conn ! re douhis. and the second while
try. When this report reach.ed coming on to the relief of the oStark. he wa at work in '.is saw- J ther. This victory . from a state mill at Amoskeag taIN; he stop loft e lowet depression. in?:?ired ped his nidi, went immediately A met icaos with tlie Idghest conto ow house tnok bis m-'sket. and tiilence: .stark, with myriads of wit'" a b ind of her-'C procccfled i otler volmiteers, joined General to Cambridge The m nniog af ! Gates at Kaiatoga. and by his ex ter tns ar rix al. he recefveil a col-! eptions aided in tbe overthrow of nivd's eommwsmn anil in less B irgoyne. He was of the con
than tw" iuus .r mlimrd eight i vention which negociated the Bri
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We ITth d Juoe. at Brer V Mill, the I, iiish sohlierx li.st iVlt ta detuuetive iiaiid of tlie back-
town, with which they gloriously ended, b.is zealoiis and efficient support was given to the cause of frre.!o:-o had l?een repeat - cd'y a: 1 -evercly wounded; and s.om- of M e ( r.emv's balls he has borr.e' with him to the tomb in which his remains are deposited As a pirtizan officer he was particularly distinguished; and in manv instances he showed, that to a daring spirit of gallantry. ( which was, perhaps, his most peculiar characteristic) lie added the skill and conduct so seldom attained, and yet so indispensable to the formation of that charade. One incident, in the life of this veteran, is too remarkable to be
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Tiie following year the nor- rencoj Col. McKuistry, then a
AS just received fiorn Philadelphia, and no'.v opcr.i: ; at his new
store on Ma:kct Street Yirccr.r.cs, an client aiul general asortir.e;.! ui
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