When the collector came he would lay down his purse, saying, "I shall not voluntarily pay these taxes; if thee wants to rifle my pocket-book, thee can do so." But he lived to do all in his power to support the Union in its struggle for the abolition of slavery and, although too old to go to the front himself, his two sons enlisted at the very beginning of the war.
Mr.Anthony had the name Hardscrabble changed to Center Falls, and was made postmaster.

Susan and Hannah secured schools, and Daniel R., then not sixteen, went into the mill with his father.

Susan had several schools offered her and finally accepted one at New Rochelle.

She went down the Hudson by the steamboat American Eagle, her father going with her as far as Troy.

She speaks in her journal of several Louisiana slaveholders being on board, the discussion which took place in the evening and her horror at hearing them uphold the institution of slavery.