Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Addresses Delivered Before the California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: Biographical Sketches
Left an orphan while yet in his swaddling clothes, the manager of a mercantile establishment before attaining his thirteenth year, migrating to America, and mingling the duties of a student with an active interest in the rights of the people, he never participated in the sports of youth or knew any childhood.
Perhaps his providential advent in America may be attributed to a West Indian hurricane, hurling a giant brain to these shores and dropping it into a whirlpool of British soldiers, New York Tories and Colonial patriots.
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