Boon Island - Kenneth Roberts [145]
Well, who could tell? God, if we're fortunate, is good to us. How many of us have our Boon Islands? And how many have our Langmans? But doesn't each one of us have an inner America on which in youth his heart is set; and ifbecause of age, or greed, or weakness of will, or circumstances beyond his poor controlit escapes him, his life, to my way of thinking, has been wasted.
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Postscript
In 1745 Captain Moses Butler of Kittery served under Lieutenant General William Pepperrell in the attack on the French fortress of Louisburg on Cape Breton. He led the 7th Company, and fought with distinction at the taking of the Royal Battery, the Island Battery, and in scouting attacks on the French and Indians in the wilderness to the westward. The fortress surrendered on June 17th, 1745, and there was great rejoicing in Kittery, York, Berwick, Wells, Arundel, Biddeford, Falmouth and places farther to the eastward. General William Pepperrell was knighted. Captain Butler married Mercy Wentworth. His daughter Sarah married Joshua Nason of Arundel.
Captain John Dean so successfully defended himself against Langman's attacks that he was made His Majesty's Consul for the Ports of Flanders, residing at Ostend, and held his post for many years.
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In the writing of Boon Island the author had generous assistance from
Marjorie Mosser, Kennebunkport, Maine
Major A. Hamilton Gibbs, Middleboro, Massachusetts
Clara Claasen, New York City
David Leggatt, Librarian, Central Library, London
Professor J. G. Bullocke, Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Sybil Rosenfeld, Society for Theatre Research, London
Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Hanover, New Hampshire
Robert C. Gooch, Library of Congress
Henry J. Dubester, Library of Congress
Legare H. B. Obear, Library of Congress
Margaret Franklin, London
John J. Connolly, Boston Public Library
Dorothy M. Vaughan, Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Public Library
Dr. Dean Fisher, State House, Augusta, Maine
Dr. Angus M. Griffin, George Washington School of Medicine
Harold B. Scales, Portland (Maine) Water District
W. A. R. Collins, London
Walter M. Whitehill, Boston Athenaeum
Herbert Davis, St. John's College, Oxford
George A. McKenney, Kennehunkport, Maine
And the Editorial Staff of Doubleday & CompanyKen McCormick, LeBaron R. Barker, Jr., George Shively.
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