his dwelling. Accordingly she left St. John's, and in
company with her husband returned to her father. I was
then about a year and a half old, but I have so often
heard these facts related by my father and grandfather,
they are indelibly impressed on my mind, and will never
be erased from my memory.

My mother now thought her trouble at an end, that in
future she should enjoy the happiness she once anticipated.
But, alas for all human prospects! Ere one short month
had passed, difficulties arose in consequence of the
difference in their religious opinions. Capt. Willard
was a firm Protestant, while my father was quite as firm
in his belief of the principles of the Roman Catholics.
"Can two walk together except they be agreed?" They parted
in anger, and my father again became a wanderer, leaving
his wife and child with his father-in-law. But my mother
was a faithful, devoted wife. Her husband was her heart's
chosen idol whom she loved too well to think of being
separated from. She therefore left her father's house,
with all its luxuries and enjoyments, to follow the
fortunes of one, who was certainly unworthy of the pure
affection thus lavished upon him. As her health had been
delicate for the last two years, she concluded to leave
me with her father for a short time, intending to send
for me, as soon as she was in a situation to take care
of me. But this was not to be. Death called her away,
and I saw my mother no more till her corpse was brought
back, and buried in her father's garden.