Author: Emilia Francis Strong Dilke

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-10

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780428761899

Excerpt from The Book of the Spiritual Life The violent feeling which was evoked by the refusal of Georgia to send representatives to the Congress of 1774 marked out the Strongs for the hostility of the Whigs, and Captain Strong's uncle was tarred and feathered for his loyalty to the British Crown. Lady Dilke, with an acute remembrance of her father's accounts of his father, with an elder sister living who remembered the grandfather himself, and with the portraits of the hunted Loyalists of 1774 hanging by her side, seemed to revive in living force the story of the War of Independence. Captain Strong had heard from his father how he had been allowed to return and dis ose of a portion of his lands. To his daughter, Eady Dilke's aunt, Nancy Strong, on her marriage With one of his own way of thinking, Samuel Strong gave his remaining pro erty at Augusta. From that point the history 0 the Americans sprung from Nancy Strong has been told by her descendant, Colonel Barrett, a veteran of the Confederate Army. Lady Dilke had with her to the last some leaves, in a paper cover marked by her From the old home at Augusta, Georgia, and these she carried along with the most valued pictures of those she loved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.