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Col. Watson has for several years been a director in the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange of New York, and its predecessors, Chairman of its Finance Committee, and one of its Vice-Presidents. Since Jan. 1885, he has been President of the Fairfield County Agricultural Society. He
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is President of a Gas Company, and a Water Company, in Illinois, and of a Gas Co. in New York. He accepted the position of paymaster on the staff of R. B. Fairchild, Colonel of the 4th Reg. Conn. National Guard, and was commissioned Lieutenant in that position, May 28th, 1877. He was pro- moted Aid-de-Camp to Gen. S. R. Smith, commanding the C. N. G., and commissioned Captain, July 6th, 1878. He was promoted to be Brigade Quartermaster with rank of Major, Jan. 30th, 1879, and elected Colonel of the 4th Regiment, C. N. G., which commission bears date April 23d, 1884. He is senior Colonel in the Connecticut National Guard, and was specially active in securing the present fine armory accom- modations in Bridgeport. Col. Watson was tendered the position of Adjutant General of Connecticut by Governor Lounsbury, but declined the honor, preferring his earnest work of maintaining the high standard of excellence in his regiment. In politics he is a republican and has declined nominations to public office on several occasions. He is a member of the Union League and other leading New York Clubs. He lives in his handsome residence at Black Rock, and although having business connections in New York, is thor- oughly identified with Connecticut interests.
Colonel Watson married May 4th, 1874, Alice Cheever Lyon, youngest daughter of the late Hanford Lyon, Esq., of Bridgeport. They have two children, Alice Lyon and Arthur Kent Watson.
Andrew L. Winton was born in Bridgeport, Conn., November 20, 1822, from which place he went to Weston in 1836 and remained on a farm, working summers and attending school at Weston academy winters. At the age of nineteen he taught school and two winter seasons afterwards. When twenty-two he engaged in a store with his brother at Easton and the next spring started a store for himself, on temperance principles, at a place called the " Devil's Den," on account of the intemperance in the place, and succeeded in business, leaving the place at the end of eight years without a grog shop in it, and went to Saugatuck, where, in 1853, he built a store and residence, and after continuing business thirteen
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years sold out and left Saugatuck with about $25,000. While at that place he was induced to take charge of a flouring mill about two miles above Westport, which he run successfully for three years. In 1863 he came to Bridgeport and pur- chased the Berkshire Mills, which were then very much in want of repairs. He at once commenced the work of im- provement and is still at it, with good success in several directions.
A custom grist-mill was built in 1783 by William Pixlee and James French on the east side of the river, and in 1792 secured to them by charter, but that was afterwards bought by a Mr. Penny, who built the present mill on the west side and did a large trade in kiln dried meal for the West Indies. The mill then passed into the hands of General Enoch Foote, who continued the same business for a number of years. Then James Porter bought the property and while he owned it the dam and the east side mill went off in a flood. The dam was rebuilt but not the east side mill. The mill was afterward owned by Anson Ryan, then Wasson and Craft, then Ryan and Wells, and in 1863 passed into the hands of the present owner.
Mr. Winton has been a member of the Congregational church since 1842, and served as deacon at Westport. He has two sons: the eldest, David Terry Winton, is now the editor and publisher of a local newspaper at Hanover, Michi- gan, and Andrew Lincoln Winton, who was graduated at the high school in Bridgeport and at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College in 1884, and at once received an appointment at the State Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven, where he is now engaged, having been promoted.
Nathaniel Sherwood Wordin, son of Thomas C. and Ann (Sherwood) Wordin, was born July 12, 1813, in the house now standing on the corner of State street and West avenue, then the old Wordin homestead. He attended the district school; the house, then an octagonal building, stood where is now the harness manufactory of Wills and French ; the Rev. Asa Bronson being the teacher, and also the pastor of the Stratfield Baptist Church, who drove from his home every morning, bringing a bundle of new whips, which he freely
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used during the day ; and taking his dinner at the " Bull's Head Hotel" across the way from the school house. Though severe in discipline he frequently gave certificates of credit to his pupils. The following is one given to young Wordin :
" The bearer of this humble scroll For good behavior while at schooll Must have that praise which is his due From Parents, friends and Teacher, too.
ASA BRONSON."
It was while young Wordin was at school that the brick structure was taken down, and the wooden building, remem- bered by many, built in its place; and this enlarged school had the dignity of two departments ; that of the boys taught by Rev. Mr. Wilcox, and the girls by Miss Lydia Ward. Mr. Wordin next attended the Easton Academy, taught by the Rev. Nathaniel Freeman, pastor of the Congregational Church. He then, at the age of fifteen, became a clerk in his father's drug store, on State street, which store was used in that business by different parties until 1879, when Mr. F. S. Stevens removed from it to Main street.
At the age of twenty-one Mr. Wordin became partner with his father in the store, and soon after assumed full con- trol of it, the father giving his attention to his farm and his Norwalk flouring mills. On May 29, 1839, he married Fanny Augusta, youngest daughter of Doctor Frederick Leaven- worth of Waterbury. They have had five children, one of whom died at the age of three years.
Mr. Wordin's drug store was the focal point for calls by physicians out of town, and sea-faring men needing medicines. He prepared medicine chests, with a little book, giving the name, dose and purpose of each drug, which earned for the druggist quite a reputation and the title "Doctor." Needing more room he contracted for the erection of a building on Water street, a portion of which is now occupied by Liebrum Brothers for a salesroom, and the upper part of it was used as a ball-room, called Wordin's Hall.
About 1850, he retired from active business, leaving the interests of the store to his brother, Thomas C. Wordin, and since that time has enjoyed the quietness of his home, yet by no means an inactive man.
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He was for a time treasurer and one of the directors of the Bridgeport Mutual Savings Bank and Building Associa- tion ; and also, director in the Farmer's Bank, now the First National, from 1854 to 1859. He was an incorporator and one of the first depositors of the Bridgeport Savings Bank, his deposit book being No. 10. He was also an incorporator of the Farmer's and Mechanics Savings Bank. He held the position of City Treasurer during the years 1841 to 1845, and of Assessor from 1859 to 1862, and from 1867 to 1868. In 1848, he numbered the houses of the city in obedience to the Com- mon Council. In the militia he was commissioned, Septem- ber 6, 1836, Surgeon's Mate in the 4th Regiment Light Artil- lery, by Colonel George Robbins. In music, his talent was largely, and advantageously to the public, exercised in the organization, November 11, 1852, and continuation of the Bridgeport Musical Society, of which he was the secretary.
He had a fine tenor voice, played the flute and violin, and double bass-viol, and was for many years the leader of the choir of the First Congregational Church, and made for their use a choice collection of sacred music, transcribed from the best authors with his own hand. He still holds the fol- lowing :
" Mr. Daniel Sterling, Treasurer of the Stratfield Congregational Society, we hereby recommend that you pay to Mr. Nathaniel S. Wordin the sum of Twenty Dollars out of the money collected by contributions in aid of the Choir, it being for a Balance due him in the purchase of the Double Bass-Viol.
I. SHERMAN, ISAAC M. CONKLIN, Society's Committee."
" Sept. 25, 1839.
He united with the First Congregational Church in 1831, and is the oldest male member now living. He was chosen clerk of the Society in 1834, and filled that office with great faithfulness over fifty years, and in more than fifty meetings during that time he did not fail of being present to call the assembly to order, while his penmanship, in elegance and cor- rectness for that length of time, is probably unequaled in the county. But, having been seriously affected with apoplexy in February, 1885, he resigned this place of benevolent service. Few men are more skillful with the pen and brush than he.
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Drawing with India ink and a crayon was a favorite amuse- ment to him, and the walls of his house are ornamented with oil paintings of his own execution. For one of these paintings he was awarded a prize at the State fair held in this city. The monument which he has erected in Mountain Grove Cemetery was modeled by himself and was one of the first erected there.
Thomas Cook Wordin, son of William, Jr., and . Dorcas (Cook) Wordin, was born in 1787, in a house that stood on the northeast corner of State street and Park avenue ; the whole square running north to Fairfield avenue and east to the eastern boundary of Mr. N. S. Wordin's present residence on State street, being owned by his grand- father, Capt. William Wordin, who was a soldier in the Revo- lution, and which land he purchased in 1772, it being the first he bought in the town of Stratford.
When quite a lad Thomas C. became a clerk in the drug store of Samuel Darling of New Haven, and when twenty-one years of age he commenced the same business in this city occupying during all his active life a store located just west of the post office on State street, Samuel Kirtland's tailor establishment being next door west of him and Jesse Ster- ling's dry goods store the second. Some persons will remem- ber the quaint business sign over the door-a female figure holding the scales, weighing the drugs.
, This store was built by Mr. Wordin about 1816. The entire block, extending to the corner of Main street, was erected by a company, each one of five paying for his own portion. The land was hired from Squire Peet who lived on the site of the present post office. The leases were renewed every ten years, and when the occupant desired no longer to renew, Mr. Peet was, by the terms arranged, obliged to take the building at an appraised value.
In an advertisement in an old Bridgeport " Advertiser," dated October 13, 1808, " notice " is give that "Samuel Dar- ling having entered into partnership with Thomas C. Wordin," the latter would attend to the business in Bridgeport and the former in New York, by which "it is expected they will be able to afford articles in their line much lower than can be
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sold by any other in the place, or in Connecticut;" and that they "are now opening, and offer for sale, a fresh assortment of MEDICINE AND PAINTS." He was successful in business, but always attributed this success to " his strictly upright and honest intentions," yet it is freely reported by those who knew him well that he was one of the most far-sighted and prompt business men of his day. Some very interesting anecdotes are told of him in the purchasing of goods just before the price went up to a high figure. He made no osten- tatious appearance, any more than some of his descendants. Being in Boston at a large sale of opium, when that drug was scarce, the other buyers on consultation agreed to let him bid off the article rather than run it up to a high figure, as he would want-as they supposed from his appearance-only a little of it, and then they would take the greater part of it, to relieve him and so purchase for less money. After the sale one approached " the little country Doctor" with the inquiry, "how much will you take of the drug?" " I will take the whole," said he.
He married Ann, daughter of Philemon Sherwood, in 1812. About the close of the War of 1812-14, he left his wife and infant son for a trip to Boston on the sloop Othello commanded by Capt. Joel Thorp. They were captured by the British, and he had much difficulty in being released and returning home. His money, in notes, which he had concealed in his stockings, was ground into pieces. While he was gone, his wife becom- ing alarmed at the frequent reports that the British had landed to pillage Bridgeport, took her infant son before the morning dawn and walked to her father's house, a distance of nearly three miles. That infant is now Mr. Nathaniel S. Wordin of State street.
Thomas C. Wordin was trained up in, and believed in Puritanical ideas, and his integrity, high personal honor, and unpretending life, were the consequences.
He was the owner of the Norwalk flouring mills, and after some years he remodeled them for grinding spices, and the first ground spices in the market in this vicinity were from his mills. He offered two thousand dollars towards establish- ing a green or public square west of Courtland street, but the
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offer was not acted upon. He died November 20, 1852, aged 65 years. His children were: Nathaniel Sherwood ; Susan, who married Charles Kelsey ; Lucy, who married E. S. Haw- ley; Ann B., who married Deacon John W. Hincks ; Caro- line, who married W. W. Naramore: Thomas C., who married Betsey A. Plumb; Elizabeth; and four that died in child- hood.
Peter W. Wren was born in New York City August 20th, 1847. By trade a printer, he became a resident of Bridgeport in 1870, organizing the firm of McMahon and Wren, wholesale Wine and Whisky Merchants. Starting in a small way and with limited capital, the firm by fair dealing, strict attention to business, and rare business qualifications, has built up a trade second to none in our State. Mr. Wren was elected a member of the Bridgeport Board of Education in 1881, and is still a member of the same body, having served as chairman of the Committee on Schools for several years to the entire satisfaction of the Board and of our citizens. In. 1882 he was elected Representative to the General Assembly, and served with credit on the Finance Committee of the House. In 1885 he was elected President of the Board of Public Works, a new organization taking the place of the former board known as the Road and Bridge Commission, and the work of the new board, for complete- ness, efficiency and economy, merited and received the com- mendations of every citizen. He is a director of the Pequon- nock National Bank. In politics he is a democrat and in religion is a member of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church. In public, as well as private business, Mr. Wren merits the reputation which he has gained of sound judgment, capacity and enlightened public spirit.
In 1869 he married Hannah M. Carey, of New Haven Conn., and they have five children : Marion, George, Fred- erick, Sarah and Peter W. His residence is 322 State street.
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Col. Samuel B. Sumner is a native of Great Barring- ton, Mass. His father was Increase Sumner, for a long time a leading lawyer in Western Massachusetts, for many years District Attorney for the District comprising the four western counties, several times a member of the Legislature in both branches, and once the Democratic candidate for Congress. At his decease he was Judge of the District Court for South- ern Berkshire.
Col. Sumner's maternal grandfather was Hon. Samuel Barstow, M.D., a prominent physician in Great Barrington, after whom he was named.
After preparatory studies at Great Barrington and Lenox Academies, he entered Williams College where he was grad- uated in 1849, and in 1852 he was admitted to the bar in Berk- shire County, where he commenced law practice in company with his father.
He was Postmaster at Great Barrington during the Pierce and Buchanan administrations, and in 1860 was State Senator from the South Berkshire District, comprising the seventeen towns south of Pittsfield.
In 1862 he enlisted in the 49th Regiment, Mass. Volun- teers; was Captain of a company and afterwards promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Regiment. He was wounded by a bullet in the shoulder at the assault on Port Hudson, La., on May 27, 1863.
Returning from the war he removed to Bridgeport where he had married his wife, and resumed practice of the law. He has been several times City Attorney, once City Judge, and for four years Judge of Probate. For six years he was law-partner of Judge Sidney B. Beardsley, the firm being Beardsley & Sumner.
He was appointed Clerk of the Courts, Supreme and Superior, for Fairfield County in 1884, which office he now holds.
Col. Sumner is widely known as a poetic orator on pub- lic occasions, and in conjunction with his brother, Ex-Con- gressman Charles A. Sumner, of California, published a vol- ume of poems in 1877, which has, since that time, passed
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He is a member of the Elias Howe, Jr. Post of the Grand Army, and honorary member of the Society of the Army of Potomac, before which he delivered the poem at the Annual Re-union at Hartford in 1881. He has been Noble Grand of Arcanum Lodge, I. O. O. F., and has been W. M. of Cincin- natus Lodge of the F. and A. M. of Great Barrington three years, and three years Eminent Commander of Hamilton Commandery of the Knights Templars.
Col. Sumner married in 1855, Georgiana Davis of Bridge- port, recently deceased. He has a son, Edward Stewart Sumner, a lawyer, and three daughters, one the wife of C. C. Godfrey, M.D., and all are residents of Bridgeport.
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Old Militia Records, 1817 to 1847.
From the Orderly Book for the Fifth Company, First Regiment, Light Artillery, Bridgeport, Conn., in possession of the Fairfield County Historical Society, we extract the following muster roll for September 1, 1817 :
John Fayerweather, Captain.
Alanson F. Lewis, Ist Corpl.
Stephen Hawley, Ist Lieut.
Solomon Curtis, Jr., 2d .4
Vacant,
2d
Starr Peck
.3d
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Charles Foote, .. Ist Sergt.
Peter C. Pixley, 4th
Albert E. Sherwood, 2d
Arnold Hurd,
Fifer.
James French Jr., .3d
David Hubbell, Drummer.
Philip P. Porter, .4th
Privates.
Ephraim French, Jr.
Josiah M. Nichols.
Samuel Peet.
Lewis W. Hubbell.
Henry Judson.
Plumb Nichols.
Wakeman Hull.
David Judson.
Burton Gray.
Mitchel C. Peet.
Philo Nichols.
Joseph Silliman.
Sterling Hull.
Anson Beardslee.
Daniel Bulkley.
Lemuel Hubbell.
Morriss Platt.
Levi Turney.
Joel Mitchel.
Roswell S. Nichols.
Abijah Morehouse.
Judson Curtis, Jr.
Eli Curtis.
Alvin Curtis.
Johnson Tuttle.
Ezra Wheeler.
Oliver L. Beardslee.
Joseph E. Mallet.
David Fayerweather.
Elijah Peet, Jr.
David Mallet, 3d.
Bill W. Peet.
Daniel O. Wheeler.
Asa French.
Charles Sherwood.
From the same record under date of May 5, 1823, we find the following roll ot officers and men :
Charles Foote, Captain.
Isaac E. Beach, 3d Sergt.
Albert E. Sherwood, Ist Lieut.
William B. Thomas, 4th "
Philip P. Porter, 2d =
Beard Blackman, Fifer.
Peter C. Pixley, Ist Sergt.
Elias Hodge, Drummer.
James A. Clifford, 2d
Nathaniel B. Booth,
Privates.
Alpha Carrier.
David I. Hawley.
John Lyon. John W. Beardsley.
Alfred Turney. Asa French.
Elijah Peet.
Josiah Hubbell.
Alvin Curtis.
Epraim Middlebrook.
Lewis Turney.
Anson Hawley.
Epraim French, Jr.
Lewis W. Hubbell.
Ezra Wheeler.
Lewis Fitch (removed).
Agur Pixlee. Bill W. Peet.
Ezra Morehouse.
Moses Platt.
Charles Sherwood.
Fitch Taylor.
Monson Seeley.
Charles Wakley.
Gideon Thompson.
Mitchel C. Peet.
Charles L. Nichols.
Roswell Seeley.
Charles Hubbell.
Stephen Hull, Jr.
Charles Crocker. Chauncey Lum.
Halpin Blake. Ira Curtis.
Lemuel Hubbell ) Rem. to
David Mallett, 3d .. David C. Booth.
David Hubbell other
Daniel O. Wheeler.
George W. Lewis. Henry Judson. Hanford Lyon.
Wakeman Hull.
Wm. H. Youngs (removed).
Ira Bliss. Joel Mitchel.
Sterling Hull comp'y.
Ezra Peet.
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With September 17, 1825, the Orderly Book for the Fifth Company, First Regiment, Light Artillery, ceases, and that of the Second Company, Fourth Regiment, Light Artillery, Bridgeport, commences.
The first entries are May 24, 1826, and Peter C. Pixley is Captain, Daniel B. Oviatt, Ist Lieutenant, and Elias A. Hall, 2d Lieutenant.
In 1830, September II, we find the following full muster roll of Second Com- pany, Fourth Regiment :
Nelson Burroughs, Captain.
Divine Chatfield, .2d Corpl.
George Robbins, Ist Lieut.
Bard Blakeman, Fifer.
Shelton B. Stratton, 2d
William Thompson,
Henry W. Stillman, Ist Sergt.
Frederick W. Parrott, Drummer.
Ira Bartram, 2d
Frederick Lathrop,
Harry Bray -3d
David Beach, Bass drummer.
Charles A. Turney, -4th .6
Madison A. Treat,
John Tucker, Ist Corpl.
Privates.
Asa French.
Harpin Blake.
Monson Smith.
Anson Hawley.
John W. Beardsley.
Robert Turney.
Alfred Hawley.
John Hall.
Sidney N. Lewis.
Benjamin Lewis.
James H. Winton.
Seth L. Stratton.
Charles W. Lewis.
Justus Allen.
William E. Ells.
Caleb Tomlinson.
John Hayes.
George Crawford.
Charles H. Wakley.
James Downs.
Elbert Hawley. Burton Gray.
David Meeker.
John Barton.
Charles H. Peck.
Ezra Peet.
Lewis Turney.
Elam Nichols.
Elijah Peet.
Lewis Burr.
William M. Dunning.
Ezra Wheeler.
Lorrin Nichols.
John E. Chatfield.
Ezra D. Smith.
Absentees.
Roswell Seeley. | Munson Seeley. [ William Ward.
Ten years later, September 7, 1840, we find the following muster roll of the Second Company, Fourth Regiment, Light Artillery, of Bridgeport :
Officers and Men.
Aaron B. B. Downs, Ist Lieut.
Sheldon Beach, 3d Sergt.
Ira W. Peet, 2d
Moses O. Banks, Ist Corpl.
Fenelon Hubbell, Ist Sergt.
John J. Stillman, 2d =
Thomas Stillman, 2d
Bryant Parrott, Drummer.
Privates.
Elbert Hawley.
Sherwood Stratton.
Henry Hurd.
Johnson Hayes.
Roswell Whiting.
George B. Smith. William G. Nichols. Abija L. Peet.
Matthew Lord. Payton R. Bishop. William Blake. James Robertson.
David Middlebrooks.
Jeduthan Thompson.
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Passing down to 1843, on May Ist we find the following roll of officers and men who "appeared at the usual place of parade and were inspected :"
Fenelon Hubbell, Captain. William B. Johnson 3d Sergt.
Thomas U. Stillman, Ist Lieut.
John F. Bartlett,
.4th
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George B. Smith, 2d
George Goulden, Ist Corpl.
Privates.
Matthew Lord.
Hezakiah Lockwood.
Peyton R. Bishop.
Bryant Parrott.
Curtis Ritch. Thomas Lewis. Fred. G. Schutz.
Abraham Couch.
On May 5, 1845, the following is the entry for the parade of that date :
Fenelon Hubbell,
Captain.
Frederick Stillman 2d Sergt.
Thomas U. Stellman, Ist Lieut.
John F. Bartlett, -3d
G. B. Smith, 2d
Privates.
Hezekiah Lockwood.
Abraham Couch.
Thomas Lewis.
Rodney N. Burrett.
Burritt W. Humiston.
Andrew Holste. William E. Johnson. Edgar Blake. Levi Silliman.
Levi H. Hubbell.
Barzila Banks. Wheeler Beers.
Abraham Hendrickson. William N. Bartrom. George Goulden.
Gunners.
Wilson Beardsley. Elias N. Plumb.
Clark Seeley.
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Lewis M. Seeley.
Curtis Ritch.
James Parkerton. Frederick G. Schultz.
Absentees. Lemuel B. Sherman. -
Wakeman W. Wells. Bryant Parrott (drummer).
Abijah Taylor
(not warned). Sheldon H. Nichols "
Stephen S. Sterling "
George M. Benjamin "
Morris Crawford
Chauncey Keeler
John Parrott
Frederick N. Hurd "
Wm. M. Dunning
William Squires
Benjamin Lewis (sick).
Sillick Nichols
Sidney N. Lewis (fined).
Benjamin Stillman (not warned).
Nathan B. Abbott
Ephraim C. Young (fined).
James H. Winton
John W. Beardsley(fined 35)
James Downs(not warned). Jarvis Polly
Alanson Beardsley
John Stevenson Edward Jones "
Charles W. Lewis
Charles N. Olmstead (not warned).
Absentees.
Benjamin W. Ward (not warned).
Robert J. Mills (not warned).
John G. Taylor
Christopher Beardsley " William L. Wheeler "
David Middlebrook “
John Stevenson. William G. Nichols.
William Seeley.
Musicians.
| Henry B. Seeley. | Peyton R. Bishop.
Lemuel Wilkins. Henry Kimball.
Military Rolls.
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The last muster roll is in 1847, under date of October 19th, and is as follows
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Silas D. Baldwin, Captain. Wakeman W. Wells, Ist Sergt.
John F. Bartlett, Ist Lieut.
Lyman B. Munson .2d
Levi G. Silliman, 2d =
Theodore Skidmore, 3d
Wheeler Beers, 3d
Samuel W. Reemer, 4th
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Privates.
Barzila Banks. Henry Kimball. Abraham Couch. Thomas Lewis.
William Seeley. Elias N. Plumb.
Levi H. Hubbell.
Clark Seeley.
George N. Morehouse.
Henry Hubbell. Lewis N. Seeley.
William Bartram.
Wilson Beardsley.
We cannot leave this very valuable old military relic and interesting historical record without transcribing from the last page the following, which tells the story of its rescue and preservation :
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