Source:Fleming-brackenridge

George T. Fleming. "Bits of biography—the boyhood of Henry Marie Brackenridge: Pathetic story of infancy and rescue from want by a noble woman—boy taken to country home of step-father-in-law, tells of barring out of a rural schoolmaster in Washington County: On acquiring vernacularly the German tongue on return from farm, the boy is sent, at the age of 7, to Louisiana Territory, now Missouri, to learn French in a similar manner—grief of 'Joe,' erstwhile nurse and first protector of the future author and jurist: Bon voyage as boat shoves away from the Monongahela's muddy banks in 1793: Autobiography up to twenty-fourth year replete with history of early Pittsburgh: Author's characterization of his distinguished father noted and commented on: Young Brackenridge a prodigy, learning to read when two years old—notes of his 'recollections' and some contemporary history—phases of an eventful life." Pittsburgh Gazette Times, Oct. 26, 1919, sec. 2, pp. 8–9. Newspapers.com 85670580, 85670581.