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Extracts from Letters by Mary M. Beebe McKay
Extracts from letters written, ca. 1888, to Eliza Mary Hatch Edwards by Mary M. Beebe McKay, recounting incidents told her by her mother, Rosalie Harris Beebe, an early Buffalo settler. Mrs. Beebe recalls Red Jacket, Benjamin Rathbun, Oliver Forward, Peter B. Porter, and others in the village of Buffalo prior to 1832.
The Minute Man
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Cushing
Dismissed from the U.S. Naval Academy in early 1861, William Barker Cushing nonetheless emerged from the Civil War as one of the NavyÆs greatest heroes. Cushing transformed his reputation from a rabblerouser into a living legend, because he embodied the special qualities that the Navy demands of the men in whom it entrusts its most hazardous and secret tasks: a readiness to volunteer for dangerous assignments, an unflagging devotion to duty, and more than a fair share of good fortune. As Robert J. Schneller observes, He was patriotic, aggressive, tough, and recklessly bold. Before embarking on.
The Descendants of Moses and Sarah Kilham Porter of Pawlet, Vermont
Moses Porter, son of Experience Porter and Abigail Safford, was born in 1738 in Mansfield, Connecticut. He married Sarah Kilham (1742-1843), daughter of Phineas Kilham and Thankful Hill and the widow of Joseph Park, in 1765 in Preston, Connnecticut. They had seven children. He died in 1803 in Pawlet, Vermont.
William B. Cushing in the Far East
Fresh from success in sinking the Albermarle in the Civil War, the young Captain Cushing was assigned to command the gunboat USS Maumee in Hong Kong to aid the restoration of America’s naval power in Asia. By linking such aims to British policy, and by courting Chinese and Japanese officials, he succeeded in re-establishing American naval and commercial power in the Far East. In his letters to his fiancée, he brilliantly recorded his travels and observations of people and places (and the difficulties of reconciling his naval career with his devotion to her, whom he married in 1870).
