A Sketch of the Life and Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley, R. a (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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All who write at the present time 011 subjects like the one before us should and do receive family traditions with extreme caution, although it is often useful to record them.

The story current in the Copley family is, that Mr. Richard Copley, although endowed with a good name and a handsome person, was not rich. Squire Singleton perhaps could not, and certainly did not, so largely endow his daughter, as to allow her husband and herself to continue to reside in county Clare, 1n the style to which she at least had been accustomed.

The young peo,ple therefore, very wisely determined to seek a new home in America, where they could permit themselves more freedom from family influences and restraint.

The result was, that they not only sought, but found, in this country, a very fair amount of worldly prosperity, which has been continued in a remarkable manner to their numerous descendants.

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