The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees

part I find little to justify this belief, for I have no difficulty

whatever in accounting for his soldierly vagaries on the score of his temperament, and the peculiar conditions of his early life. A man who, while still a youth, was adopted by the Mohawk Indians,--who who bestowed upon him the significant name of Boiling Water,--who was at one time aid-de-camp and intimate friend o...