We left Newport yesterday at 11 o'clock A.m. and arrived
here (Naushon)1 at 6 p.m. Fremont's
proclamation is of great importance as a sentence of death is passed among
all men found armed against the United States and it frees all the negroes
belonging to the Rebels. This morning we had a bath and after dinner took a
splendid ride. Our party consisted of Misses Webster, Watson, Ward and Shaw,
and Messrs. Grey, Ware and Winter.
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1 An island off Martha's Vineyard, where John M.
Forbes had his country home.
SOURCE: William Rhinelander Stewart, The
Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, p. 18
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