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Photograph, Seraph Amanda Comstock Thomas Morgan (1838-1919).
The daughter of Hiram J. Thomas and his wife Emily Rice, Seraph Amanda Comstock Thomas Morgan was born in 1838 at a time of great anxiety in her family as well as the community. Her father was affiliated with the Patriote cause of Louis Joseph Papineau in the 1830s and was co-editor of the pro-Patriote newspaper, The Missisquoi Post, which was situated in Stanbridge East.
The Post was considered by some to be the "organ of the Radicals and Rebels" and, in 1838, British troops were called in to quell its voice by destroying the office of the newspaper and throwing the press into the millpond next to the Cornell Mill. To avoid arrest, Hiram Thomas slipped across the border into Vermont leaving behind his ailing wife and newborn daughter, Seraph. Thomas returned briefly to his wife's bedside, but to avoid being captured, he escaped dressed as a woman and once again crossed the line. Emily died shortly after and Seraph was adopted by an aun
The daughter of Hiram J. Thomas and his wife Emily Rice, Seraph Amanda Comstock Thomas Morgan was born in 1838 at a time of great anxiety in her family as well as the community. Her father was affiliated with the Patriote cause of Louis Joseph Papineau in the 1830s and was co-editor of the pro-Patriote newspaper, The Missisquoi Post, which was situated in Stanbridge East.
The Post was considered by some to be the "organ of the Radicals and Rebels" and, in 1838, British troops were called in to quell its voice by destroying the office of the newspaper and throwing the press into the millpond next to the Cornell Mill. To avoid arrest, Hiram Thomas slipped across the border into Vermont leaving behind his ailing wife and newborn daughter, Seraph. Thomas returned briefly to his wife's bedside, but to avoid being captured, he escaped dressed as a woman and once again crossed the line. Emily died shortly after and Seraph was adopted by an aun