[238] Probably the four-gun battery mentioned in the account of the Battle
of the Plains. We also find in a diary of the siege operations on the same
day, "A mortar and some l8-pounders were carried to Samos, three quarters
of a league from the town. Batteries were erected there, which fired
before night on the man-of-war that had come to anchor opposite, L'Ance
du Foulon, which was forced to sheer off."
[239] "Who can visit the sylvan abode, sacred to the repose of the
departed without noticing one tomb in particular in the enclosure of Wm.
Price, Esq. we allude to that of Sir Edmund Head's gifted son? The
troubled waters of the St. Maurice and the quiet grave at Sillery recall
as in a vision, not only the generous open-hearted boy, who perished in
one and sleeps in the other, but they tell us also of the direct line of a
good old family cut off - a good name passing away, or if preserved at all,
preserved only on a tombstone." - Notman's British Americans.
[240] The late Bishop is the author of a collection of poems known as the
Songs of the Wilderness, many of the subjects therein having been
furnished in the course of his apostolic labours in the Red River
settlement.
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[236] Judge Adam Mabane died in 1792.
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