A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=42862 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Thge Pennsylvania Packet Article Date: July 13 1778 Article Description: Sussex County Baptism of Louis Gates Waples Article Text: Lewes - July 13, 1778: Yesterday, at the Presbyterian church at Indian River, NATANIEL WAPLES, Esq., one of Sussex county Lieutenants, had a son baptised and named LOUIS GATES WAPLES, in greatful memorial of the disinterested, unmerrited, and unexampled generousity and greatness of soul displayed by the present Grand Monarch of France in entering a Treaty with the Grand Confederacy of America, to guaranty and secure our independance, liberty, free trade and happiness; taking no advantage of our infant state of weakness and necessity; asking no reward for his great and generous services; freely bestowing us also great territory; giving us free trade to all the world; and even permitting us to make separate peace with Britain, our barbarous oppressor, tho he should be involved in a most epensive war on our account; and now at this time sending a fleet to beat off the English harpies who have committed such savage and wanton cruelness along our Atlantic coast. GATES is also part of the childs name, in memory of the great victory obtained by that general over General BURGOYNE under the superior command of the great and amiable American General WASHINGTON whose illustrious name shall live as long as the annals of America as the first of generals and best of true patriots, and after whom the same gentleman had named a son before, thus by the smiles of the Great God of Justice on our rightious cause we are now safe with the alliance of the great French Nation, who, notwithstanding the prejudices the English had instilled into us, will be found from all impartial history, the most wise, polite, active, lively and enterprizing nation in Europe, the most obedient to good rules and laws and who can best support under difficulties, being only rendered more alert by struggling under them; to who the Americans will show the character of the ancient Greeks, which in many things we have long imitated. " A Generous Friendship No Cold Medium Knows, But With Love, With One, Resentment Glows". ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com