15 AUGUST 1908, Page 18

A LINK WITH THE PAST.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATOR.”] SIR,—I cut the enclosed from a local paper last October. In connexion with the present celebrations in Quebec it may interest those of your readers who care for "links with the

"A REAL DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION.

Associated Press Special Leased Wire.

Ellsworth, Me., October 17, 1907.—Mrs. Charity C. Royal, a real Daughter of the American Revolution, and daughter of a soldier in the French and Indian wars, is dead at the age of 90 years. Her father was John Murch, who was 76 years of age when she was born. He fought at the battle of Quebec Heights in 1759. She had brothers and sisters who died more than a century ago."