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 PEGGY OWEN
 AND LIBERTY

 _BY_ LUCY
 FOSTER
 MADISON

 AUTHOR OF

 "PEGGY OWEN"

 "PEGGY OWEN,
 PATRIOT"

 "PEGGY OWEN
 AT YORKTOWN"

 ETC.

 ILLUSTRATED BY
 H. J. PECK

 The Penn Publishing Company
 PHILADELPHIA  MCMXIII




 COPYRIGHT
 1912 BY
 THE PENN
 PUBLISHING
 COMPANY




[Illustration: "WHY, IT'S FATHER!"]




 "The motto of our father-band
  Circled the world in its embrace:
  'Twas Liberty throughout the land,
  And good to all their brother race.
  Long here--within the pilgrim's bell
  Had lingered--though it often pealed--
  Those treasured tones, that eke should tell
  Where freedom's proudest scroll was sealed!
  Here the dawn of reason broke
  On the trampled rights of man;
  And a moral era woke
  Brightest since the world began."




Introduction


In "Peggy Owen," the first book of this series, is related the story
of a little Quaker maid who lived across from the State House in
Philadelphia, and who, neutral at first on account of her religion,
became at length an active patriot. The vicissitudes and annoyances to
which she and her mother are subjected by one William Owen, an officer
in the English army and a kinsman of her father's, are also given.

"Peggy Owen, Patriot" tells of Peggy's winter at Middlebrook, in
northern New Jersey, where Washington's army is camped, her capture by
the British and enforced journey to the Carolinas,