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Show H LOOKING 1'OU A IIUOTUKlt Viho vtat Monrofil t Ucid bal ulio Bff It huff huppuifj to He LUIuir in tlie Well or Soutli. H Wlim lbs war broke out, William Iti'i, than a boy of leventeeu, ran away from hli iiarentt'homeln Nyack and JulueJ company A, Heveoteenlh HI' Haw Votk volunteeri. iletnp; undtr BC age lie in tent homo t lilt parents' ml reque.t. Twice again be eolliteJ and B 1 bo ws twice returned to lilt family, -i-j The fourth time lio ran away lie waa f allowed to follow hit own wielies Bud j remain In the army. Until 1802 lie wrote frequently to lilt family. In M i Heptemtier of tbat year a letter wt y recelTed Willi lilt name, hut In a m ttramtsliandwrltluE. Ulrica that tlmo B j no other uewt ot him hat come to lilt f family, beyond tho report of liM death 'J at the accond battle of Hull Kun. A f comrade of bis wrote that Irra had I beeoabot In that eoganeruerit while .; etojplng to pick upatlieli. Wncellien , all the niember. ol hi. family havo B died eicepllm; one brother, ruoiaai, B who It employed at the Kraucl.cau M monastery In Thompeon tlreet, INuw V York, lie refu.ee to believe that hit K brother William It dead and baa begun 5 cow to advertlte after thirty yeara for t newt of him. lle.aja that he It lin-v lin-v treated with the belief thai hit brother Hd lives and hat probably tattled 111 soma K touUielii or wretern town. )ll bto.h-H bto.h-H er'a alienee for to many yeara bolt HB unable loezplaln. |