Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 263
he wiser classbelieved theGovernors object somewhat less atrocious. His pre-decessor under the old charter, Bradstreet, a venerablecompanion of the first settlers, was known to be intown. There were grounds for conjecturing, that SirEdmund Andros intended at once to strike terror by aparade of… … Governor Bradstreet. The Gray Champion 225 While this cry was at the loudest, the people weresurprised by the well-known figure of Governor Brad-street himself, a patriarch of nearly ninety, who ap-peared on the elevated steps of a door, and, with char-acteristic mildness, besought them to submit…
Children's literature
Internet Archive · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.