Category: TURN Washington’s Spies

Quote of the Day on the Trapped on the 18th century blog

“The people in this house seemed to be quite savage and rude”

After riding ten miles thro’ woods and marshes, in which we were pestered with mosquitoes, we arrived at eight o’clock at night at one Brewster’s, where we put up for all night, and in this house we could get nothing either to eat or drink, and so were obliged to go to bed fasting or

Quote of the Day on the Trapped on the 18th century blog

John Graves Simcoe’s love letter on Valentine’s Day

”Fairest Maid, where all Is fair, Beauty’s pride and Nature’s care; To you my heart I must resign, O choose me for your Valentine! Love, Mighty God! Thou knows’t full well, where all thy Mother’s graces dwell, Where they inhabit and combine to fix thy power with spells divine; Thou knows’t what powerful magick lies