The Life, Travels, and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy; Including His Journeys to Texas and Mexico, With a Sketch of Contemporary Events, and a Notice of the Revolution in Hayti Page: 13
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LIFE OF BENJAMIN LUNDY. 13
The compiler has generally adopted the use of the
first person in the narrative, in consideration of the fact
that it is principally taken from Lundy's own account,
and nearly in his own words; yet his language has been
varied and corrected, condensed or modified, in a manner
similar to what it may be presumed he would have done
himself, had he revised for publication what had been
hastily composed for the perusal of a friend.
~ CHAPTER II.
Narrative of Lundy to the period of the commencement of his Anti(
3Slavery labours.
My native place (says Lundy) was the county of
SusseXNew Jersey. Both my parents, as also their
ancest and most of their connexions, were members
of the religious Society of Friends. Their families came
originally from England and Wales. My great grandfather
settled at Buckingham, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
at an early period. He was a preacher, and one
of the principal founders of the Friends' meeting at that
place, as he was also of the meeting at Plumstead,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and of that at Handwich,
Sussex county, New Jersey; so that it was said of him,
that he had been mainly instrumental in establishing
three "churches in the wilderness." He had removed
to each place, successively, in the commencement of it
settlement It was at Handwich that my father and
myself were born. The date of my birth was the 4&
of the fi* month, (January,) 1789.
My mother, whose maiden name was Shotwell, died
when I was-about five years of age, leaving me an only
child. About two years after her decease my father
married again.
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Lundy, Benjamin. The Life, Travels, and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy; Including His Journeys to Texas and Mexico, With a Sketch of Contemporary Events, and a Notice of the Revolution in Hayti, book, 1847; Philadelphia. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33004/m1/11/?q=american+indian: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Star of the Republic Museum.