My Grandfather Issachar’s War
"Part II: The Midnight Ride" We continue reading the Shaker Museum Library’s pamphlet excerpt of the “Sketch of the Life and Experience of Issachar Bates,” published in 1960. The misspellings and grammar errors are in the original. Firstly, I am now in the 75 year of my age; I was but a boy in those times, so that I may justly suppose that the greater part of those who were eye witnesses of these things which took place in New England “have gone the way of all the earth” and perhaps have left no account of these wonders behind them— Secondly; I am so well acquainted with the spirit of man that I am forced to be jealous over him that even those who still survive have so little feeling to acquaint themselves with God and his wonderful works, that they either thot light of them at the time, or thro’ neggligence let the whole matter fly off with time from their minds into forgetfulness and oblivion so as to be forever hid from the knowledge of future ages— Thirdly, because my sou...
