John paul jones brief biography of princess
The life and character of John Paul Jones, a captain in the United States Navy, during the Revolutionary War /
by John Henry Sherburne.
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- New York : Adriance, Sherman & Co., 1851.
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- First edition, Washington, 1825.
A digital reproduction made from a copy held by the University of Michigan is available from the University of Michigan's Making of America Web site. - Physical Description
- 408 p. : facsim., port. ; 22 cm.
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The Women of John Paul Jones by James Bliss J.D
THE WOMEN OF JOHN PAUL JONES
By: James Bliss, J.D.
When Abigail Adams met John Paul Jones in Paris in 1784, she found him to be more novel than she had envisioned. Writing to her sister, Betsy, later that year, she offered;
“Chevalier Jones you have heard much of. He is a most uncommon character. I dare say anyone would be as much disappointed in him as I was. From the intrepid character he justly supported in the American Navy, I expected to have seen a rough stout warlike Roman. Instead of that, I should sooner think of wrapping him up in cotton wool and putting him in my pocket, then sending him to contend with cannon ball.”
Abigail, impressed with his effortless ability to captivate the ladies in the most elite social circles of Paris, and his undying love for America and brave accomplishments against the enemy, would often speak highly of him.
Around that same period, an English gossip columnist named Caroline Edes, found John Paul’s love life of great interest to her readers. On one occasion, she wrote for a London newspaper from France, “He is greatly admired here, especially by the ladies, who are all wild for the love of him.” In a second installment she confessed that she too had fallen victim to the charm and romantic grace of John Paul Jones. One could almost feel the pain in her heart when she admitted, “Since my last, Paul Jones drank tea and supped here. If I am in love with him, for love I may die”.
Whether John Paul had a school sweetheart is both unknown and unlikely given his young age. His education ended when he was 13. His school master in Kirkbean was the Reverend James Hogg, who kept the local parochial school. An alumnus of King’s College, his lessons to John Paul in poetry and writing would turn out to exceed that of John’s Continental colleagues. He had the great ability to express his feelings to the gentler sex and his poetry was well written.
We first learn of a possible lo View HathiTrust MARC record FAR more romantic than the swashbucklering adventures of imaginary heroes told by the light pen of fiction is the plain, unvarnished tale of John Paul Jones, who, from a childhood amid the humblest peasant environment, raised himself to world-wide fame; had the distinction of being decorated by empress and king; became admiral in two navies—and the lover of a princess. A hint of mystery attends his birth, for it is hard to believe him to have been the son of John Paul, gardener to Mr. Craik of Arbigland, in the parish of Kirkbcan, nor is there tangible reason for the assertion that his father was Captain John Maxwell, governor of the Bahamas in 1780, or the Earl of Selkirk. The parish birth records do not solve the problem, but rather the contrary, for they record the births of his three sisters and omit any mention of either young John Paul or his elder brother William. Though the registration of births was not compulsory in those days, why should the Pauls have recorded the girls and not the boys? Nor does it seem likely that the gardener's wife could have been absent from the parish on both occasions when the latter were born. In accordance with the maxim that "it is better to be the wife of a coal-heaver than the mistress of a prince," early Victorian writers wax indignant at any aspersions cast on the fair fame of the gardener's wife. It never seems to have occurred to them that John Paul was the unwanted child of some amorous dame, who had loved beyond discretion, put to nurse at the gardener's; for Jean Macduff had been lady's-maid to Mrs. Craik, and, it is said, in those halcyon days ladies'-maids were discreet—sometimes. Who can tell what happened in that tiny thatched cottage in the middle of the eighteenth century? John Paul, the gardener's father, kept a public- house, or, as it was called with Scotch niceness, a "mail garden" in Leith. His son showed no aptitude for the bu The life of John Paul Jones,
written from original letters and manuscripts in possession of his relatives, and from the collection prepared by John Henry Sherburne. Together with Chevalier Jones' own account of the campaign of the Liman.
Edited and compiled by James Otis [pseud.]Description
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