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Show MOTHERS OF AMERICAN PATRIOTS Though only the daughter of a small farmer In the parish of New Abney. I Scotland. Jean Macduff had the blood of heroes In her veins. The history of I her fsther's family trails back In Scot-! Scot-! tlsh annals to before the days of Sir William Wallace and Robert Bruce. Jean was atlll In her teens when she became the wife of John Paul, head ! asr.iener of Mr. frslk of Arhleland. In th neighboring psrlsh of Klrkbenn The gardener's cottaee nt Arblrland was nenr the shore of the Solwsy. In one of the moat picturesque and beautiful beau-tiful point on th firth. Here on the eixth of July. 1747. waa born the j fifth child and aecond aon of John and j Jean l'nul. j Af hi chrlatenlng a few dava later , the baby wan given hi father" nAme. j .lohn-'aul. We of today know him a j the hero of a hundred urn battle and I the founder of the navy o.f the United 1 Htatea. Job" Paul Jone. 1 ThoiiKh we actually know vrry few fuel about thi mother of an American Ameri-can out riot, thone few .ttand out clear and distinct. She waa of pureat Scotch 1 anceatrv: atood well In her church and ' oomrmtnit v; men and women of much jh'wher rank In life wlltinlv not them-! them-! aelvea out to erve her. and that when I' well pt her prime be undertook the care of t o omhaned granddaughter. Hecauae of the hoy' early game we conclude that hia mother, like others of her race, waa fond of nature and IoHeHed a poetic appreciation of romantic ro-mantic adventure. Again. had hi (father choaen a profeaaton for hia boy he would tloubtle have been hi own nitnt tn the garden of Arblpland. Innteml, we know that John Pan! Jone- waa apprenticed at 12 yeara of aire to a re,ectable merchant In the American Ameri-can trade. One year later, in the in-I in-I tret of hi employer, he maua hi firt trip to America. , Aa for Jmr I'aul a lover for and ten-Idar ten-Idar care of ber wm we can only lurite , by ht lifelong devotion and hi fatth-I fatth-I fulneaa in providing for her enpnort land comfort to the. day of her death. |