Autobiography and Reminiscences of William Beebey Lighton, Containing an Interesting and Faithful Account of His Early Life, Enlistment Into the British Army, His Desertion, Capture, and Condemnation to Death, Sufferings, Escape From Prison, Settlement In

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Many of the virtuous and the good, whose lives have been distinguished for usefulness, have contributed to the literature of the world by publishing their biographies; thereby promoting the cause of truth, morality and religion, and perpetuating their memories among the living. Though the writer may shine with far inferior luster, in the scale of intellectual and moral greatness, to many who have written, yet he would meekly present to the public a narrative of his young and eventful career; a career which has been marked with some of the most remarkable occurrences, and which are not less interesting from having been suffered at so early an age. Of the merits of these assertions the impartial reader is left to judge.

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