A historical discourse delivered in Norwich, Connecticut, September 7, 1859, at the bi-centennial celebration of the settlement of the town, Part 8

Author: Gilman, Daniel Coit, 1831-1908. dn
Publication date: 1859
Publisher: Boston, G. C. Rand & Avery
Number of Pages: 264


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Hon. Uriah Tracy, M. C., United States Senator 1807


1781 Simeon Breed. 1822


Hon. Simeon Baldwin, Tutor in Yale College, M. C., Judge of Superior Court of Connecticut. 1851


1782 Hon. John Lovett, M. C. 1818


1784 Jabez Huntington 1848


1785 William Hubbard. 1789


Hon. Samuel Huntington, Chief Justice and Governor of


Ohio 1817


Benjamin Perkins 1841


1786 Rev. Jonathan Ellis


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113


Year of grad.


Year of death.


Hon. John Kingsbury, Judge of the County Court, Con- necticut. 1844


William Leffingwell. 1834


Hon. Elias Perkins, M. C., Fellow Yale College 1845 1787 Rev. Azel Backus, D.D., first President of Hamilton College. 1816 Matthew Backus 1807


Gurdon Lathrop 1828


Daniel Lathrop 1825


Elijah Perkins, M. D. 1806


1788 Hon. James Lanman, Mayor of Norwich, United States Senator, Judge of Superior Court, Connecticut.


1841-


Charles Lathrop. Rev. Lynde Huntington 1804


1831


1789 Hon. Uri Tracy, M. C.


1838


1790 Hon. Joseph Kirkland, M. C. 1846


1844


1791 Erastus Huntington


Rev. Elijah Waterman


1825


1794 Benjamin D. Perkins. 1810


1795 Rev. David Smith, D. D., Fellow of Yale College Thomas Tracy 1806


1798 Joseph Williams


1800 Joseph Howland 1827


1801 John W. Perit 1845


1802 Pelatiah Perit, President of the Chamber of Commerce, N. Y.


Rev. Daniel Haskell, President of Vermont University. . 1848


1803 Rev. Eli Hyde. 1856


Rev. John Hyde 1848


1804 Rev. Joshua Huntington


1819


1805 Walter King


1806 Dr. John Hazen 1843


Henry Strong, LL. D., Tutor in Yale College 1852


Hon. Jabez W. Huntington, M. C., Judge of Superior Court, Connecticut, United States Senator 1847


HIon. Phineas L. Tracy, M. C


1807 Rev. Daniel Huntington . 1858


18OS Charles Griswold, Judge of Probate Court


1839


Henry W. Rogers.


1819


John B. Murdock


1815


15


114


Year of grad. Year of death.


1812 Samuel C. Morgan


1813 Charles Perkins. 1856


1814 Charles B. Goddard Jedediah Huntington . Charles J. Lanman, Mayor of Norwich


1815 Rev. Elijah Hartshorn. 1840


1816 Rev. William Nevins, D. D. 1835


1817 Hon. Rufus P. Spalding, Judge of Superior Court, Ohio. . David N. Lord.


1818 Rev. Thomas L. Shipman George Spalding 1858


1819 Rev. James Abel


Joshua Coit. Elijah Bishop, M. D


1820 George C. Goddard


1821 William Lester


1822 William Lathrop. 1825


George B. Ripley, Judge of Probate Court 1858


Benjamin B. Coit, M. D


Andrew M. Fanning 1829


Hon. John A. Rockwell, Judge of the County Court, M.C., Fellow of Yale College


1823 Joseph Ripley


1824 Jolin T. Adams, Judge of Probate Court Rev. Richard F. Cleveland. 1853


1825 Daniel T. Coit, M. D.


Oliver E. Huntington


1827 Alfred J. Perkins


1828 Levi H. Goddard


Peter L. Huntington 1832


Francis Porter 1829


1830 Alfred E. Perkins, M. D 1834


1833 Joshua Smith


1834 Billings P. Learned


1835 Charles A. Gager, Tutor in Yale College 1841


1836 George M. Brown


1837 William Coit.


1839 Charles II. Porter 1841


1840 John Breed Dwight, Tutor in Yale College 1843


81


81


115


Year of grad. Year of death 1841 Donald G. Mitchell, United States Consul, Venice Rev. John C. Downer.


1843 Rev. John Avery .


Rev. Edward W. Gilman, Tutor in Yale College


Gardiner Greene, LL. B.


Rev. Daniel W. Havens


John M. Huntington


Frederick M. Lathrop


George A. Meech.


Rev. Robert P. Stanton


18-45 George C. Hill.


1846 Rev. Joseph W. Backus, Tutor in Yale College Rev. Henry Case


James M. B. Dwight, Tutor in Yale College Archibald Kennedy


1847 Rev. James T. Hyde, Tutor in Yale College.


1848 Rev. William Aitchison, Tutor in Yale College, Missionary in China. 1859


Rev. Elias B. Hillard


David S. Mowry


1848


Nathaniel Shipman


Edwin Tyler


Rev. G. Buckingham Willcox


1849 Rev. Timothy Dwight, Tutor and Professor of Sacred Lit- erature in Yale College John Rockwell, Assistant United States Coast Survey


1850 Daniel E. Willes.


1852 Daniel C. Gilman, Librarian of Yale College


1853. Rev. William Frederick Arms


Henry R. Bond Edward Harland Samuel A. L. L. Post


1854 John W. Hooker, M. D


1855 Calvin G. Child John W. Harmar John H. Piatt. Giles Potter


Alfred P. Rockwell, Phil. B


116


Year of death.


Year of grad.


1855 Patrick H. Woodward


1856 George P. Barker


1857 Henry S. Huntington. Bela P. Learned


1858 Samuel II. Lee


1859 Edward S. Hinckley Asher H. Wilcox


Total -165.


UNDERGRADUATES NOW IN COLLEGE.


1860 Henry L. Johnson


1861 James N. Hyde.


1862 Charles Woolsey Coit George Coit Ripley


1863 Charles J. Arms


Henry E. Cooley


John H. Peck


Edmund A. Ware


COLUMBIA.


1834 B. S. Huntington


PRINCETON.


1759 Rev. John Huntington. . 1766 1763 Rev. John Lathrop, D. D., Fellow of Harvard College. . 1816 1765 Rev. Samuel Kirkland, Missionary to the Oneidas 1808 1770 Stephen Tracy . 1822


Rev. Nathan Perkins, D. D.


Total -5.


DARTMOUTH.


1779 Ashur Hatch 1826


1783 Henry Huntington 1846


1786 Rev. Asahel Huntington 1813 1785 Rev. Alvan Hyde, D. D., Vice-Pres. of Williams College. 1833 1788 Rev. Oliver Ayers 1832


1854 Hiram B. Crosby.


William C. Robinson


1855 B. Sci. J. Adams Robinson


Total - 8.


MIDDLEBURY.


1809 Bela Edgerton


81


0-0881


117


.


Year of grad.


Year of death. 1819 Rev. Beriah Green, Professor of Sacred Literature in West- ern Reserve College


WILLIAMS.


1813 Rev. Lavius Hyde BROWN.


1823 George D. Prentice


1828 Hon. La Fayette S. Foster, LL. D., Mayor of Norwich, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Connecticut, United States Senator


Total -2.


WESLEYAN.


1834 Rev. Erastus Wentworth, D. D., President of McKendree College and Professor in Dickinson College, now Mis- sionary in China


TRINITY.


1830 Rev. James A. Bolles, D. D.


1831 Rev. Thomas H. Vail, D. D


1836 Rev. Zebadiah H. Mansfield


1858


1841 Hon. Thomas L. Harris, M. C 1858


1845 Rev. John A. Paddock


1848 Rev. Benjamin H. Paddock, elected Professor in Trinity College


1850 Rev. Francis HI. Bushnell Lewis S. Paddock, M. D


1851 George D. Sargeant


1853 E. Winslow Williams


Rev. Alfred L. Brewer


Total -11.


UNDERGRADUATES NOW IN COLLEGE.


C. H. W. Stocking Newton Perkins


AMHERST.


1824 Rev. Beaufort Ladd.


1827 Rev. Stephen Johnson, Missionary in Siam 1828 Thomas Burnham 1845


1829 Rev. William A. Hyde


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·


Avant 0181


Houdt 268 8181


118


Year of grad. Year of death.


1832 Hon. Nathan Belcher, M. C.


18-11


1837 Hon. Andrew C. Lippitt, Mayor of New London


1841 Rev. Alexander Yerrington


1849 Rev. William R. Palmer


1856 Cyrus H. Pendleton


1857 Rev. John E. Elliott


Total - 10.


UNION.


1808 Rev. Samuel Nott


1810 John MeCurdy.


1822 Rev. Stephen T. Nott


1834 Rev. Albert T. Chester, D. D


1838 Samuel HI. Austin


1843 Anson G. Chester


Total -6.


HONORARY GRADUATES NOT INCLUDED IN THE PREVIOUS LIST.


Rev. Isaac Backus, A.M., (Brown, 1797) 1806 Rev. Thomas Baldwin, D. D., (Union, 1804) Fellow Brown University 1825


Thomas Sterry Hunt, A.M., (Harvard, 1854) Doctor of Science, (Quebec, 1858) F. R. S., Lond. ; Professor of Chemistry, Laval Univ., Quebec ; Mineralogist and Chemist to the Geological Survey of Canada; Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, France.


Rev. Elijah B. Huntington, A.M., (Yale, 1851).


Rev. Eliphalet Nott, A. M., (Brown, 1795) D. D., (New Jer- sey, 1805) LL.D. (Brown, 1828) Pres. of Union College. Benjamin Rogers, M. D., (Yale, 1845) 1859


Philemon Tracy, M. D., (Yale, 1817) 1837 Hon. John T. Wait, A. M., (Trinity, 1851).


Hon. Reuben Hyde Walworth, LL. D., (Princeton, 1835 ; Yale, 1839 ; Harvard, 1848.) M. C., Chancellor of the State of New York.


Ashbel Woodward, M. D., (Yale, 1855) Pres. Med. Soc. of Conn. Total - 10.


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MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, NATIVES OF OLD NORWICH.


When in Congress.


From what State.


1776-84


. Connecticut


Samuel Huntington.


1780-84


1787-88


Benjamin Huntington.


1789-91


1793-96.


Uriah Tracy.


1801-03


66


Elias Perkins.


1803-05


Simeon Baldwin.


1803-07 New Hampshire David Hough.


1805-07 New York . Uri Tracy.


1810-11 )


Connecticut


Ebenezer Huntington.


1817-19


1813-14


1815-17 New York John Lovett.


1819. Michigan William Woodbridge.


1819-25 New York Albert H. Tracy.


1821-23


66


Joseph Kirkland.


1821-23. Reuben H. Walworth. 66


1825-29 . Pennsylvania


Charles Miner.


1827-33 New York.


Phineas L. Tracy.


1829-34


. Connecticut.


.Jabez W. Huntington.


1833-37 Pennsylvania


Andrew Beaumont.


1833-37


New York.


Abel Huntington.


1847-49.


. Connecticut


John A. Rockwell.


1849-58.


Illinois


Thomas L. Harris.


1853-55


. Connecticut


Nathan Belcher.


1857-59 New York


Erastus Corning.


Total - 22.


UNITED STATES SENATORS, NATIVES OF OLD NORWICH.


When Senator. From what State.


1796-97


Connecticut.


Uriah Tracy.


1819-25


. James Lanman.


1840-47


Jabez W. Huntington.


1841-47 Michigan. William Woodbridge.


1855 Connecticut .La Fayette S. Foster.


Total - 5.


66


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NOTE R.


NORWICH GENEALOGIES.


Chancellor Walworth has for some three or four years been engaged in preparing a very extended genealogical history of the descendants, in the female as well as in the male lines, of the first William Hyde of Norwich ; embracing very extensive branches of the Post, Abell, Hough. Rudd, Lord, Griswold, Huntington, Lee, Sill, Jewett, Hubbard, Ely, Elliott, Denison, Rogers, Hillhouse, Tracy, Manwaring, Edgerton, Raymond, Collins, Richards, Wait, Metcalf, Selden, Waterman, Marvin, Mather, Sterling, Baldwin, Gifford, Woodbridge, Parsons, Wadhams, Backus, Griffin, Pierpont, Dorr, and other families of Connecticut, whose de- scendants are now scattered and intermingled with other families through- out the United States.


Mr. F. P. Tracy, now of San Francisco, has in preparation a genealogy of the descendants of Lieutenant Thomas Tracy. Before the plan for the recent celebration was announced, he had proposed that a meeting of the Tracy family should be held in Norwich at some time during the present year. Rev. E. B. Huntington, of Stamford, Conn., is compiling a genealogy of the Huntingtons, to which will be added a report of the late meeting of that family, in Norwich. Rev. A. Steele, of Washington, has published a life of Elder Brewster, the ancestor of the Norwich family, . which was called forth by a meeting of the Brewster family in Norwich, and was published under the patronage of James Brewster, Esq., of New Haven. Other Norwich genealogies are in progress, of which I am not authorized to speak.


Dr. Ashbel Woodward, of Franklin, President of the Connecticut Medical Society, has been investigating the history of the medical profes- sion in New London county. The early publication of his researches is greatly to be desired.


NOTE S.


THE FREE ACADEMY.


The Norwich Free Academy was incorporated in May, 1854, having been endowed to the amount of about $100,000, by the gifts of a few generous citizens of Norwich, three of whose subscriptions were for $12,500 each. Of the whole amount raised, $50,000 was reserved as a


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fund for the maintenance of the school, and with the remainder a lot was secured, and a noble school edifice erected. The academy offers free instruction in the higher branches of study, to all the youth of Norwich, who are disposed to avail themselves of its advantages. The original donors and incorporators of the institution were the following : - R. Hub- bard, W. P. Greene, W. A. Buckingham, W. Williams, H. B. Norton, J. Breed, C. B. Rogers, W. W. Coit, J. L. Greene, D. Tyler, S. C. Morgan, I. M. Buckingham, L. F. S. Foster, D. Smith, J. F. Slater, C. Osgood, E. Williams, L. Blackstone, J. A. Rockwell, L. Ballou, C. J. Stedman, J. P. Gulliver, C. N. Farnam, E. O. Abbott, C. Tracy, A. H. Almy, L. W. Carroll, J. Spalding, S. W. Meech, J. S. Webb, H. Thomas, C. C. Brand, C. Johnson, E. Learned, E. Edwards, A. J. Currier. Joseph Otis, the founder of " the Otis library," was an original donor to the academy, but died before the incorporation. The donors since the incorporation are as follows : - C. A. Converse, A. W. Prentice, T. P. Norton, W. M. Converse, H. Bill, G. Perkins, J. M. Huntington, J. H. Adams, J. N. Perkins.


A fund of $5,000, besides other gifts to the amount of $2.000, has been set apart by Mrs. Harriet Peck Williams, for the establishment of the Peck library.


On the day of the bi-centennial celebration, Mrs. W. P. Greene pre- sented to the academy a lot of land and a house (valued at $8,000) for the residence of the principal of the institution.


The foundation of the academy is due to the suggestion, as well as to the persevering efforts of Rev. John P. Gulliver, whose privilege it was to inaugurate the institution, (Oct. 21, 1856,) by an address, in which. according to a vote of the trustees, a history was given of schools and education in Norwich, and the designs of the founders of the academy were set forth for the information of the public, and the guidance of those who shall be entrusted with its future management. This address, and other papers pertaining to the Free Academy, may be found in Barnard's Journal of Education, vol. 2, p. 665, 1856, and vol. 3, p. 191, 1857. The whole number of pupils from 1856 to 1859 has been 153, 68 boys and 85 girls. Mr. Elbridge Smith has been Principal since the opening.


The establishment of this institution is one of the most honorable events in the history of the town, whether we regard the munificence of the donors, or the wisdom of their plans, or the successful administra- tion of such an important trust.


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NOTE T.


NATHAN TISDALE.


Many of the Norwich boys, at the close of the last century, went to school to Master Tisdale in Lebanon. The following sketch of his life has been prepared by Mr. Daniel Hebard : -


Nathan Tisdale, born at Lebanon, Conn., on the 19th of September, A. D. 1732, was the son of Ebenezer Tisdale, who was the fifth in descent from John Tisdale of Duxbury, Mass., afterwards of Taunton, who was the progenitor of all of the name in New England. His father was a blacksmith - a skillful artisan and a sterling patriot, as is evinced by his having been a friend of and counselor with Gov. J. Trumbull. Of his mother, unfortunately we have no record. At the age of sixteen, in common with many of the young men of his native town, Nathan entered Harvard College, and graduated there the following year, 1749, at the early age of seventeen. Among his classmates and acquaintance were Robert Treat Paine and John Adams, by the latter of whom he is said to have been called a better scholar than himself He took a position in his eighteenth year at the head of the school in the " Old Brick School-house " at Lebanon, established mainly through the efforts of the venerable Dr. Williams, and destined under his charge to send forth many of the brightest ornaments to the state, the pulpit, and the bar. There he commenced the training of such men as Hon. Jere- miah Mason, Col. John Trumbull, the " Young Governor Trumbull," Dr. Wheelock, second president of Dartmouth College, Rev. Dr. Lyman of Hatfield, Judge Baldwin, Gen. Eb. Huntington, etc., - by whom he was held in affectionate remembrance. So celebrated was this school that pupils came from the West Indies, and if tradition may be believed, from nine out of thirteen colonies at one time. In certain cases his certificate of fitness was accepted in lieu of an examination for adniis- sion to Yale College. Mr. Tisdale was a strict and severe disciplinarian, allowing nothing to interfere with the business of the school, yet gained the reverence and respect of his pupils, amounting often to warm affec- tion. He was known by the honorable title of " Master." Quite late in life he married the widow of Capt. John Porter, who had four children, and yet continued in charge of the school until the fall or winter of 1786, when broken health, the wants of his family, and pecuniary embarrass- ments, induced him at once to petition the proprietors of the school for relief, and to resign his charge. Scorning under other circumstances to


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have solicited aid, he refers with glowing pride, which half commands the favor he sues for, to his long and meritorious services, in these words :


" In this business, gentlemen, I have continued nearly the space of forty years, with almost uninterrupted application to the duties of my charge. . I have educated a large number of youth who have done an honor to this school, who have gone forth into the world and have become bright ornaments to society. I have now spent the prime of life, the flower of my days, in this service ; but I have acquired no fortune - and perhaps I may say that I have been more profitable to the community than to myself."


The sum asked was £26 18s., the balance due from him to the pro- prietors, on account of rents collected on children of non-proprietors, but " by a small majority vote," it was determined to defer the disposition of the sum " until another meeting." Thus, in lack of health, the want of means pressing heavily upon him, this good, this great man - whose learning had enriched, whose wisdom guided, whose virtue had been a model for youth during more than a third of a century .- sadly yielded his post of honor, and with the closing year passed away from his labors to his reward. He died on January 5th, A. D. 1787, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and lies in the ancient burying-ground at Lebanon.


CONCLUDING NOTE.


An account of the " Bi-Centennial celebration" in Norwich, Sept. 7 and S, 1859, has been compiled and published by Mr. John W. Stedman, in a vol- ume entitled " The Norwich Jubilee," (300 pp. 8vo, Norwich, 1859.) The discourses delivered upon that occasion by Rt. Rev. A. Lee, Bishop of Del- aware, Hon. J. A. Rockwell, of Norwich, and Donald G. Mitchell, Esq., of New Haven, the poem of A. G. Chester, Esq., of Rochester, and also the address, which is here re-printed, will be found in that work.


In this second edition of the Historical Discourse (intended for private dis- tribution), the notes have been expanded so as to include some original doc- uments which had never previously seen the light.


In addition to the acknowledgments which have been made in the preced- ing pages, I desire to express the thanks which I owe to J. Hammond Trum- bull, Esq., of Hartford, the learned editor of the Colonial Records of Con- necticut, for the aid which he has generously rendered in the preparation and revision of the foregoing address, and to Edward C. Herrick, Esq., Treas- urer of Yale College, for his frequent and valuable suggestions.


I cannot refrain from saying that the interest which I feel in the history of Norwich is inherited. While it is pleasant for me to trace, on my mother's side, a descent from several of the original settlers of the town, my father's enthusiasm in historical inquiries is associated with my earliest recollections, and has constantly assisted my recent investigations.


D. C. G.


YALE COLLEGE LIBRARY, December, 1859.


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INDEX.


Abbott, E. O., 121.


Abel, Elijah, 112 ; - James, 114; other reference, 120.


Adams, Jolm, 122 ; - J. H., 121 ; - John F., 114 ; - Samuel, reply to the Norwich Proposal of aid to Boston, 67; the let- ter itself given, 103 'et seq.


Adgate, Thomas, 19, 25, 90.


, Aitchison, Wm., 115.


Allen, Col. Ethan, commission of, from Edward Mott, 56.


Allyn, Robert, 19, 25, 82, 90.


Almy, A. H., 121.


Ames, Dr., 91.


Arms, Charles J., 116; - Wm. Fred., 115. Attawanhood, 81, 82.


Arms, Rev. H. P., 38.


Austin, Samuel H., 118.


Avery, Rev. John, 115.


Awakening, the great, 36.


Ayers, Oliver, 116.


Backus, name mentioned, 19, 25, 38, 64, 72,


76, 90, 97, 111, 112, 115, 118, 120 ; - Azel, 112 ; - Charles, 112; - Elijah, 64, 112 ; - Elizabeth, 38 ; - Isaac, 38, 97 ; - Isaac, 118; - Joseph W., 115; - Joseph, 111 ; - Mathew, 112; - Samuel, 38; - Si- mon, 112 ; - Simon, 111 ;- Stephen, 19, 90 ; - William, 19, 90.


Bacon's list. Disc., 97.


Balding, Nathan, 107.


Baldwin, 25, 90, 112, 119, 118, 120, 122; - Ebenezer, 112; - John, 25, 90; - Simeon, 112, 119, 122; - Thomas, 118. Ballou, L., 121.


Bancroft, Geo., 31.


Barker, Jolm, 112 ; - George P., 116.


Barnard's Journal of Education, 121.


Beaumont, Andrew, 119.


Belcher, Nathan, 118, 119.


Bellamy, Dr., 60.


Bill, 74 ; - H., 121.


Bingham, Thomas, 19, 25, 90.


Birchard, Eliaphalet, 111 ; - Jolin, 20, 25, 90.


Bishop, 101 ; - Elijah, 114.


Bissell, Israel, 107.


Blackstone, L., 121.


Bliss, Thomas, 19, 25, 90.


Bolles, James A., 117.


Bond, Henry R., 115 ; - William, 111.


Bozrah, formed from Norwich, 10.


Bowers, Morgan, 19, 25, 90.


Bradford, Jolm, 19, 90 ; - Gov., 26. Brand, C. C., 121.


Breed, 74, 112, 121; - J., 121; - John M'Clarren, 112 ; - Simeon, 112 ; - Shu- bael, 112.


Brevoort, J. C., 12, 87.


Brewer, Alfred L., 117.


Brewster, Capt. Benjamin, & ; - Elder, 21, 20, 120 ; - Elijah, 102; - James, 120. Brinley, George, 28, 93.


" Brother Jonathan," 42.


Brown, George M., 114 ; - Nicholas, sends muskets to Col. Christopher Leffing- well, 54, 74.


Buckingham, I. M., 121 ;- Gov. W. A., 23, 61, 78, 87, 121.


Burnham, T., 117.


BusImell, 26 ; - Benajah, 111; - Francis HI., 117.


Byles, Mather, 28.


Call, 104.


Calking, James, 111.


Calkins, Hugh, " Separate " meeting held at house of, 38 ; See Caulkins.


Carpenter, 74.


Carrol, 1 .. W., 121.


Case, Henry, 115.


Caulking, Miss F. M., historian of Nor- wich, 6, 35, 39, 20, 75, 82, 84, 88, 89, 97; John, 25, 90 ; - Hugh, 19, 90.


Chelsea, 40).


Cheny, Abiel, 112.


Chester, A. T., 118 ; - Anson G., 118, 124; John. 47.


Child, Calvin G., 115.


Church, Dr. 72.


Church, earliest records of, 28 ; early cov- enant, 28, 91 et seq. ; great awakening in the, 36; See Fitch, Ministers, &c. Clement, Peabody, 112.


Cleveland, Richard F., 114.


Coddington, &5.


Coit, 26, 33, 74, 114, 116, 121 ; - Benjamin B., 114 ; - Charles, 116; - Daniel T., 114 ; - Joseph, 33 ; - Joshua, 114 ; - Chas. W., 121.


College graduates from Norwich, List of, 111 et seq. ; Officers of, 76.


Collins, 120.


Congregationalism, spirit of, 33 et seq.


"Confederacy " ship, 63.


Congress, members of from Norwich, 119. Converse, C. A., 121 ; - W. M., 121.


Cooley, Henry E., 116.


Corning, Erastus, 119.


Covenant, Church, solemnly renewed, 28 et seq., 94; ' Half Way,' 56.


Crosby, Hiram B., 116.


Currier, A. J., 121. Davenport, Rev. JJ., 24, 79.


DeForest, J. W., 87.


Deming, H. E., &7.


Denison, 120; - Rev. F., 97.


Dewitt, 74.


Dorr. 120.


Downer, John C., 115.


Dunham, 74.


Durkee, 64, 69.


Dwight, James M. B., 115 ;- John Breed, 114 ; - Pres. Timothy, 51 ; - Prof. Tim- othy, 115.


Dyer, 45. Eaton, Gov., 7, 24, 79.


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Edgerton, Bela, 116 ; - Richard, 19, 25, 90; general reference to, 120.


Edwards, E., 121; - Rev. Jonathan, 36. Eels, 74.


Elderkin, 26.


Eliot, John, 91.


Elliott, 120 ; - John E., 118.


Ellis, Jonathan, 112 ; - Rev. Geo. E., Life of J. Mason, 89.


Emery, 33.


Fanning, Andrew M., 114; general refer- ence to, 61.


Farnam, C. N., 121.


Fast day, mentioned, 29.


Fitch, Ebenezer, 76, 112 ; - Elisha, 102; - Rev. Jabez, 33, 111; - Maj. James, gift to Yale College from, 77 et seq. ; - Rev. James, Biographical notice of, 90; Epitaph, 92 ; Sermons and letters printed, 93; Character of, 19, 20; Con- gregationalism of, 34; Interest in In- dians, 28; Uneas's promise to, 12, 13; Allusions to, 12, 13, 19, 20, 25, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 74, 26, 77, 79, 83, 90, et seq. Flint, 26.


Flynt, Henry, invited to succeed Rev. James Fitch, 33.


Foster, Col., 107; L. F. S., 76, 87; Speech in behalf of R. Niles, 99; Place of grad- uation of, 117, 119, 121.


Franklin formed from Norwich, 4.


Free Academy, foundation of, 76, 120.


Gage, 65, 103.


Gager, Charles A., 114 ; - John, 19, 25, 90 ; William, 111.


Gay, B. M., 87.


Genealogies of Norwich Families, 120.


Gifford, Stephen, 90; mentioned, 120.


Gilman, D. C., 115; - Edward W., 115 ; - Wm. C., 85, 101, 124.


Goddard, Charles B., 114; - George C., 114 ; - Levi HI., 114.


Gookin, Rev. Daniel, 27, 93.


Governors of Connecticut, from Norwich, 23.


Grant, Donald, 109.


Green, Beriah, 112.


Greene, J. L., 121 ; - Gardiner, 115; - W. P., 121.


Griffin, 120.


Griswold, Charles, 113 ; - deacon, return to the Church, 39 ; - Francis, 20, 25, 39, 50, 74, 90 ; - Mathew, 50.


Grover House, 10.


Gulliver, Rev. J. P., 121.


Halsey, T., 87.


Hancock, John, 53.


Harding, Capt., 64.


Harland, Edward, 115.


Harmar, John W., 115.


Harris, Thomas L., 117, 119.


Hart, John, 112.


Hartshorn, Elijah, 114.


Haskell, D., 76, 113.


Hatch, Ashur, 116.


Havens, Daniel W., 115.


Haynes, Gov., 79. Hazen. John, 113.


Hebard, Daniel, 122.


Hendys, Richard, 90.


Higginson, Rev. John, 91.


Hill, George C., 115. Hillard, Elias B., 115.


Hillhouse, James, 55, 120.


Hinckley, Edward S., 116.


Hoadly, C. J., 111.


Home lots of early settlers, 25.


Hooker, John W., 115 ; - Rev. Thomas, 20, 23, 30, 79, 91.


Hopkins, Samuel, 43.


Hosmer, Titus, 54.


Hough, David, 119, 120.


Hovey, T. A., St.


Howard, Thomas, 20, 90.


Howland, J., 113 ; family mentioned, 74.


Hubbard, Capt. Wm., 67, 74, 103, 106, 112, 120; - R., 121.


Hunt, Thomas Sterry, 118.


Huntington, 17, 19, 25, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 50, 53, 58, 62, 63, 66, 67, 70, 72, 74, 76, 79, 90, 102, 103, 104, 107, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120; - Abel, 119 ; - An- drew, 47, 63 ; - Asahel, 116 ; - Barna- bas, 102 ; - Benjamin, 47 et seq., 102. 112, 119 ; - B. S., 116; - Christopher, 19, 25, 90 ; - Daniel, 111 ; - Daniel, 113 ; - Ebenezer, 47, 63, 112, 119, 122; - Rev. Elijah B., 90, 111, 118, 120; - Erastus, 113 ; - Gurdon, 112; - Henry S., 116 ; Henry, 116 ; - Hezekiah, 44, 111 ; - Ja- bez, 112 ; - Gen. Jabez, birth and pa- rentage of, 43 ; general account of, 47, 48, 58, 59, 63 ; gives up his fortune to the colonial canse, 70, 102, 109, 111 ; -- Jabez W., 119, 113 ; - Jedediah, 47, 53, 58, 62, 62, 102, 103, 104, 107, 111, 114 ; - John, 116 ; - John M., 115, 121; - Joshua, 43, 47, 63, 72, 113, 122 ; - Lynde, 113 ; - Oliver E., 114; - Peter L., 114; - Sam- uel, 25 ; appointed one of a committee to " draw up some sentiments proper to the present crisis," 102 ; signs the Dec- laration of Independence, 48, 49 ; elected Governor, 50; death, 50, 66, 112, 119; - Simon ordained deacon, 19, 25. 43, 90, 111; - Thomas, 112 ; - Mrs. Woleott, 62; services of the family in the revo- lution, 43.


Hyde, Alvan, 116; - Eli, 113 ; - Good- man, 19 ; - James N., 116; - JJames T., 115 ; - John, 113; - Lavins, 117 ; - Richard, note to Rev. Benj. Trum- bull, with account of battle between Uncas and Miantonomah, 82 et seq. ; - Samuel, 90 ; - Simeon, 112 ; - William, 90, 111, 120; - William A., 117.


Indian History, Early, 2-14, 82 et seq.


Indians' deed of Norwich, 81 et seq. ; - Fitch's labors among, 27-28; - Whee- lock's school for, 41.


Jewett, 120.


Johnson, Dr., 109; - Col. Obadiah, 108 ; - Stephen, 117 ; H. L., 116.


Kennedy, Archibald, 115.


King, Rev. Walter, Pastor in Chelsea, 74 ; biographical account of, 109, 110. 113.


Kingsbury, John, 113 ; - Jonathan, 112 ;


Sanford, 112; other reference to the name, 64.


Kingsley, Prof. J. F., 84


Kinne, Aaron, 112; general reference, 74.


Kirkland, Joseph, 113, 119 ; - Samuel, 116. Knight, 26.


Ladd, Beanfort, 117.


Lafayette, 73.


Land, divisions of, 24-26.


Lanman, Charles JJ., 114 ; - James, 113, 119 ; general reference, 26.


Lathrop, Charles, 113 ; - Dr. Daniel, do- nations of, 78, 111; - Daniel, 113; - Elijah, 60, 111 ; - Frederick M., 115 : - Gordon, 113; - Joseph, 111 ; - Joshua, 111 ; - John, 116 ; - William, 114 ; gen -. eral reference, 60, 74, 78. See Lothrop.


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Learned, Bela P., 116; -- Billings P., 114 ; - E., 121 ; - Rev. R. C., article on " Sep- aratists," 97.


Lee, Alfred, 111, 124 ; - Samuel H., 116 ; other general reference, 120.


Leffingwell, 10, 19, 25, 43, 51, 52, 55, 67, 68, 74, 102, 103, 104, 113 ; - Christopher, 51, 55, 67, 68, 102, 103 ; reply to Adam's let- ter, 104 et seq. ; - Thomas, 10, 19, 25, 52, 83,90 ; - William, 113.


Lester, William, 114.


Lexington, announcement of the battle of, 107.


Lippitt, Andrew C., 118.


Lisbon, formed from Norwich, 40.


Livingstone, Gov., B.


Lord, Rev. Benjamin, succeeds Rev. John Woodward, 35 et seq. ; biographie ae- count of, 96 et seq., 109 ; - David N., 114 ; - Joseph, 111.


Lothrop, Rev. John, 26.


Lovett, John, 112, 119.


Lyman, Rev. Dr., 122.


Manning, Dyer, 61.


Mansfield, Żebadiah II., 112.


Manwaring, 120.


Marvin, 74, 120.


Mather, Cotton, 11, 32; - Increase, 28; name mentioned, 120.


Mason, Maj. John, 8, 11, 13, 15, 23, 79, 82, 83, 89, 90, 92, 122 ; - Samnel. 13.


MeCurdy, John, 118; name mentioned, 69. McFarling, 108.


Meech, Geo. A., 115 ; -- S. W., 121.


Merchants, first spoken of, 27.


Metcalf, 120.


Miantonomoh, battle between Uncas and, 9; fuller account of, $2 et seq .; or- thography of the name : site of capture, &c., 84 et seq.


Miner, Charles, 119.


Ministers, See Fitch, Woodward, Lord, King, Mitchell, Strong, Tyler, &c.


Mitchell, Rev. A., biographie account 'of, 109 ;- Donald G., 109, 115, 124 ; - Stephen M., 109.


Mohegans originally Pequots, 7; address to, 13; present condition of, S7. See Uncas.


Morgan, 33, 59 ; -- Samnel C., 114, 121.


Mott, Maj., Edward, diary of expedition to Ticonderoga, 55, 56, 64; - Samuel, 64, 100.


Mowry, David S., 115.


Mumford, 74.


Murdock, John B., 113.


Narragansetts, S et seq. ; 82 et seq.


Nevins, David, 64, 108; - William, 114. " New Lights and Old Lights," 37. Nianties, S.


Niles, Nathaniel, ode by, alluded to, 60 ; quoted, 9%; other references to, 61, 62; - Robert, 64; Mr. Foster's speech in the Senate in behalf of, 99 et seq.


Norton, H. B., 121 ; -- F. P., 121.


Norwich, survey of, 6; earliest records of, 14 ; reasons for the name, 17, st et seq. ; first boy born in, 19; recognized by general conrt, 22; guarded, 2% ; history of settlement terminates, 32-33 ; action upon the " Separatists," Bs et seq. ; pat- riotism of citizens of, in American Roy- olution, 4 et seq. ; action in regard to Port Bill, 6-os ; action on hearing of massacre at Boston, 65; account of snp- plies for soldiers, 20-72; recovery of trade after the war, 73-74; the last lifty years, 25 ; founding of Free Academy,


76, 120 et seq. ; list of gradates from, 76 et 111 et seq .; colleges founded by men of, 77 ; history of original proprietors, $9; genealogies, 120; Norwich ( Eng.), >>.


Nott, Eliphalet, 118; - Sammel, 35, 26, 118; - Stephen T., 118.


Oceum, Samson, mission to England, 40, 97. Olinstead, John, 20, 25, 90.


Oneas, see U'ncas.


Original Proprietors, sec Settlers.


Osgood, C., 121.


Otis, Joseph, 121.


Owaneko, 2.


Paddock, John A., 117; - Benjamin H., 117 ; - Lewis S., 117.


Paine, R. T., 122.


Parsons, Gen., 53, 120.


Palmer, J., annonnees battle of Lexing- ton, 107 ; - Wm. R., 118.


Pease, John, 20, 25, 90.


Peek, John H., 116.


Pendleton, Cyrus H., 11S.


Pequots, ?, et seq.


Perkins, 26, 69, 74, 78, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 119 ; - Dr. Alfred E., 7, 114 ; - Benjamin, 112; - Benjamin D., 113 ; - Charles, 114 ; - Elias, 113, 119 ; - Charles, 119; - Elijah, 113; - Elipbaz, 112; - George, 121 ; - J. N., 121 ; - Dr. Joseph, 111; - Nathan, 116; - Newton, 112.


Perit, John W., 113 ; - Pelatiah, 113.


Peters, 64 ; - Thomas, 91.


Phillips, Wm., 104, 105.


Piatt, John H., 115.


Pierpont, 120.


Porter, Charles H., 114 : - Ebenezer, 109 ; -- Francis, 114 ; - John, 12%.


Post, John, 25, 90; - Sammel A. L. L., 115; - Thomas, 19, 25, 90 ; - general refer- enee to, 120.


Potter, Giles, 113.


Prentice, A. W., 121 ; - George D., 11 ..


President of Colleges from Norwich, Mr.


Proprietors, original. See Settlers.


Puritans, spirit of, 31.


Putnam, Col. Israel, 65, 69.


Raymond, 120.


Read, Josiah, 20, 90.


Revolution, American, in Norwich. 42 it seq. ; doenments concerning, 101 et .. q. Reynolds, John, 20, 25, 90.


Ripley, George Coit, 116; - George B,, 114 ;- Joseph, 114; - family mentioned, 74.


Richards, 120. Roath, 26.


Robinson, John, 17; - J. Adams, 116 ; - Wm. C., 116.


Rockwell, Alfred P., 115; - JJoh. 15 ; John A., 15, 80, 114, 119, 121; - Hale mentioned, 15, 19, 26.


" Rogerenes." 25.


Rogers, Benjamin, 118; - C. B., 121 : -- Henry W., 113 ; - John. ; - Nr. Theophilus, 67, 103, 104 ; - Zabdich, 10: - name mentioned, :1. RA.


Royce, Jonathan, 25, 25, 9.


Rudd, 26, 120. Saltonstall, 45, 69.


Sargeant, George D., 117.


Sassaeus. S. Savage. Hon. James, Nf, wi.


Saybrook, parent of the Norwich culent, 16-is ; - Platform how received it for wich. 34. Selden, 120. Senators, U. S. from Norwich, :0, 119.


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" Separates," 35 et seq. ; - refuse to pay church rates, 37; " half way covenant," one of their stumbling blocks, 38; re- turn to church, 39 ; result of the move- ment, 39-40 ; reference to accounts of, 95. Settlers, original, character of, 16; re- moval to Norwich, 18; number of, 19; home lots of, 25 ; names of, $9 et seq. Shaw, 69.


Sherman, 45, 49, 29.


Shipman, Nathaniel, 115 ; - Thomas L., 114.


Shippen, Dr., 58.


Sigourney, Mrs. L. H., 110.


Sill, 120.


Silliman, Gold S., 45, 79.


Slater, J. F., 121.


Slaves, manumission of, alluded to, 40.


Smith, D., 121; - David, 113; - Elbridge, 121; - Joshma, 114 ; -. Nehemiah, 20, 90. Spalding, 74 ;- J., 121 ; - George, 114 ; - Rufus P., 114.


Spragne, Rev. Dr., 96, 97, 108, 110.


Standish, Miles, advent of son of to Nor- wich colony, 26.


Stanton, John, 86 ; -- Robert P., 115; -- Thomas, 13.


Stead, A., 7.


Stedman, C. J., 121.


Steele, A., 120.


Sterling, 120.


Stiles, Pres., 85.


Stocking, C. HI. W., 112.


Stone, Samuel, 23, 30, 91; - Win. L., S6. Street, Mrs. A. R., 52, 103, 105, et seq.


Strong, Joseph, 47, 50, 24, 109 ; - Mrs.


Henry, 62 ; - Henry, 113; - Nathan, 109. Stuart. I. W., Life of Trumbull, 44, 97. Tallcott, John, 13.


Thirty years before the Revolution, 97.


Thomas, HI., 121 ; - general reference, 74. Tisdale, Ebenezer, 122; - Jolm, 122; - Nathan, biographie notice of, 122 et seq. Tracy, 19, 25, 57, 64, 26, 90, 102, 112, 113, 116, 118, 119, 120 ; - Albert H. 119 ; - C .. 121; - Dr. Elisha, 57 ; - 111 ; - Elisha Winslow, 111 : - F. P., 120 ; - Daniel, 112 ; - Isaac, 102 ; - John, 90 ; - Phile- mon, 118; - Phineas L., 113, 119 : -- Samuel, 111; - Samuel, 102; - Simon Jr., 102; - Stephen, 116 ; - Thomas, 113 ; - Thomas, 19, 25, >2, 90, 120 ; - Uri, 113, 119 ; - Uriah, 112, 119; general reference to, 120.


Trumbull, Gov., 45, 53, 54, 62, 64, 67, 69, 74,


79, 84, 100, 102, 103, 122 ; - John, 64, 122; Joseph, 53, 64, 67, 102; letter to Boston committee, about aid, 103; J. Hammond, 22, 23, 29, 34, 56, 85, 93 ; Dr. Benjamin, 35, 39, 82, St.


Turner, Dr. Philip, surgeon general, 57.


Tyler, D., 121; - Daniel, 102 et seq. ; - Edwin, 115 ; - Rev. J., 24; biographic account of, 109 et seq.


Uncas, 82 et seq. ; binds himself to attend christian worship, 12 ; - cannibalism of, 83; chair of, 10; character of, 11; mon- ument to, S6 et seq. ; signature to deed of Norwich; 82.


Vail, Thos. H., 117.


Wade, Robert, 25, 90.


Waddington, Dr. J., 87.


Wadhams, 120.


Wadsworth, 44, 45.


Wait, John T., 26, 118, 120.


Wallis, Richard, 90.


Walworth, R. II., 26, 75, 111, 118, 119, 120. Ware, Edmund A., 116.


Warren Joseph, letter from, acknowledg- ing sheep from Norwich, Gs. 105.


Waterman, Elijah, 113 ; - general ref- erence to, 120; - Thomas, 19, 25, 90. Webb, JJ. S., 121.


Wentworth, Erastus, 117 ; - general ref- erenee to, 76.


Wheelock, Dr. Indian school of, 41, 97, 122.


Whitefield, George, 30 ; - Henry, 92. Whitaker, 41.


Wilcox, Asher HI., 116; - Willcox, G. Buckingham, 115.


Willes, D. E., 115.


Willet Francis, 85,


Williams, 8, 25, 49, 64, 69, 74, 79, 83, 86, 108, 113, 117, 121 ; - E., 121 ; - E. Winslow, 117 ; - Ebenezer, 108 ; - Harriet Peck, 121 : - Joseph, 113; - Roger, 8, >5, 86 ; -- William, 49, 69; - Gen. Win., 87, 121. Winthrop, 23, 79.


Winslow, Gov., 26.


Wolcott, Oliver, 45 ; - Roger, 59.


Woodbridge, Imeretia, 109; - Nathaniel S., 109; - William, 119; - general ref- erence to, 120.


Woodward, Dr. Ashbel, 111, 118. 120; - Rev. John, successor to Rev. James Fitch, 34; resignation of, 35; biographie account of, 96 ; - Patrick HI., 116.


Wooster, General, death of, 45.


Yerrington, Alexander, 118.


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