This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... AUTOBIOGKAPHY OF GEOEGE EASTON. In laying before my numerous friends, at the request of a few of them, a brief account of my life in connection 'wit
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... AUTOBIOGKAPHY OF GEOEGE EASTON. In laying before my numerous friends, at the request of a few of them, a brief account of my life in connection 'with the Temperance Movement, I do not feel that any apology is necessary; as it is chiefly for the purpose of having an opportunity of defending the principles upon which the movement is based, and of illustrating the benefits it is fitted to confer, that I have undertaken the task. Indeed, apart from the temperance movement, there is nothing in my history of deeper interest than may be found in that of the great majority of mankind. Like most other men born in humble life, I can say very little of my progenitors. In these circumstances the reflection is somewhat consoling, that I am certainly descended from the great progenitors of the race, and can therefore claim connection with as ancient a family as any king, lord, or duke on the face of the earth. Had there been, over and above the ordinary ties of nature, a substantial chain of the precious metal, ornamented with costly diamonds, binding my forefathers to one another, it is more than probable I would have been able to trace them back many generations; but B 2 BIRTH. the fact that I cannot go back more than two is a very satisfactory proof that no such chain ever existed. Well, be it so, -- " A man's a man for a' that." But to my narrative. My grandfather and mother, on my father's side, were natives of Selkirkshire. Neither of these had I ever the pleasure of seeing. My respected father, James Easton,"the eldest of a family of seven, was engaged about 1790 by Sir Charles Malcolm, Burnfoot, parish of Westerkirk, as his body servant. After leaving Sir Charles he served for some time with the Rev. John Little, of the same parish, and in 1795...
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