Ralph Earl Prime
Published: 2015-07-11
Total Pages: 54
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Excerpt from George Clinton Some of His, Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Services The following address, by invitation of the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands, was delivered by Ralph Earl Prime, D.C.L., LL.D., at a meeting of that Society at Newburgh, March 24th, 1903. Mr. Prime spent his boyhood days in Newburgh, and introducing his address referring to that fact said: "As we stand here to-day in this hillside City and look down upon, and over the beautiful bay, which lies at the end of the hill-slope, and at those grand hills over yonder, clad in green in the sunlight, and in deep blue in the shade; a very rock fortress and defence to the middle and upper Hudson River; many are the personal memories that come to some of us. Among the earliest of my recollections is this scene. Across there, in the little Presbyterian parsonage at Mattewan, east of Fishkill Landing, I was born. Wonder that it has not long since passed away, as so many of our landmarks go. Brought across the Hudson in arms, here in Newburgh I spent my early boyhood days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.