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On August 8, 1918, President Luther made an address at the evening session of the C. D. B. A. and C. S. F. A. At the morning session a paper was read by Deaconess Moody of New York on "School Days in Pomfret and Early Memories of Brooklyn," which unfortunately did not get into print. After service in the "Old Church," Miss Morgan entertained right royally the two societies at Putnam Elms and as they departed a new yell was invented :
"Hooray ! Hooray C. D. P. A. ! " "Hooray ! Hooray C. D. B. A." "Hooray ! Hooray C. S. F. A .! "
to which the guests of the Elms responded with their own shout, "Putnam Elms! Beautiful Elms !"
It would be most interesting and would abundantly enrich this account of "Life on Church Street" if ample quotations could be given from the scholarly and intimate papers which have been mentioned in this outline sketch of the Three Historical Societies, but perhaps a reference to the issues of The Windham County Transcript, where they may be found in full, will be more valuable in the limits imposed on such an article as this for a Modern History of Windham County. They will provide original documents of much value to the future historian.
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On August 9, the C. D. P. A., at their morning session, donated $25 to the Brooklyn Red Cross, and set aside $100 to purchase a Liberty Bond. A paper was read on General Israel Putnam, by George Israel Browne, which was not published in the Transcript, but was read two weeks later at the Danvers Birth- place of "Old Put" before the Israel Putnam Chapter of the D. A. R., the State Regent being present. Mr. Thomas Norfleet Hill of New York was elected Secre- tary of the Association and Rev. George Israel Browne president for the coming term.
In the afternoon a tablet was unveiled across the street from the Green to mark the site of Putnam's second home in Connecticut and his famous ride to Boston.
This ceremony, at which the D. A. R. Chapter at Putnam and the Putnam Phalanx of Hartford were represented, was graced by the presence of Maj. George Haven Putnam of New York, who made a masterly address. He had recently returned from representing America to England. Mr. Henry W. Bigelow presided as president. The Rev. George Israel Browne, who wrote the inscription, presented the tablet, and his young son, Israel Putnam Browne, unveiled it. The help of the Rev. George F. Genung, pastor of the Baptist Church, was invaluable. It was he who secured a suitable boulder, in the name of the town of Brooklyn, so that it could be said on the bronze that it was placed by the town conjointly with the society. The inscription follows :
IN THE FIELD BEHIND THIS STONE
After the close of the French and Indian Wars returning from many expeditions to Ticonderoga, Fort Edward, Quebec, Montreal, Havana, Detroit and New Orleans Lived Colonel Israel Putnam Here with his wife, (2nd) Mrs. Deborah (Avery, Gardiner) Putnam he dispensed a famous hospitality in the General Wolfe Tavern.
Near this spot also, on April 20, 1775, Putnam received tidings of the Battle of Lexington. Leaving his plow in the furrow with his son Daniel, he rode 100 miles in 18 hours, reaching Cambridge the next day. There soon after he planned and on June 17, 1775, commanded at the Battle of Bunker Hill, receiving thereafter from the Continental Congress by hand of General Washington the first commission of Major General- (the only one unanimously voted)-which made him second in rank to his chief.
Placed by the Town of Brooklyn and the Colonel Daniel Putnam Association, Inc. 1918 The 200th Anniversary of his birth. Patriot! Remember the heritages received from your predecessors and forefathers, Protect and perpetuate them for future generations of your countrymen.
The C. D. P. A. unveiled at their meeting, August 1, 1920, a tablet to mark the site of the first home of Putnam in Connecticut. The inscription follows and sufficiently explains itself. The house where he happened to be stricken with his last illness, on a visit to one of his children, was never his home, though the books often so label a cut of it. The exercises were solemn and impressive. The stone used for the tablet was once a doorstep of the home of General Putnam. The tablet was presented by Ernest Ellsworth, chairman of the committee, and
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unveiled by direct descendants of Israel Putnam in the sixth generation. The committee in charge was: Ernest B. Ellsworth, chairman; Mrs. George H. Day, Mrs. Paul P. Wilcox, Maj. George Haven Putnam, William H. Putnam and Rev. George I. Browne. The tablet was accepted by John J. Whitehead Jr. of the Putnam Patriot.
ABOUT 400 FEET EAST OF THIS TABLET WAS THE SITE OF THE FIRST HOME OF ISRAEL PUTNAM
IN THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT.
IN 1739 HE BOUGHT 514 ACRES OF THE ADJACENT LAND FROM GOVERNOR `BELCHER, AT £5 PER ACRE.
HERE HE CAME FROM SALEM VILLAGE, MASSACHUSETTS, IN 1740, WITH HIS WIFE AND OLDEST CHILD, ISRAEL PUTNAM, WHO AFTERWARDS WENT WITH GENERAL RUFUS PUTNAM TO OHIO.
IN 1741 THE FAMOUS WOLF WAS RUN TO EARTH.
IN 1755 HE BEGAN HIS MILITARY CAREER AT THE BATTLE OF LAKE GEORGE. IN AUGUST HE WAS MADE 2ND LIEUTENANT.
IN 1756 HE WAS A "RANGER" WITH CAPTAIN ROGERS.
IN 1758 HE WAS WITH LORD HOWE WHEN HE WAS KILLED. IN AUGUST HE WAS A PRISONER IN QUEBEC.
IN 1759 AS LIEUTENANT COLONEL, HE WAS AT THE CAPTURE OF TICON- DEROGA AND MONTREAL. IN 1763 AT CUBA.
IN 1764 HE WAS AT DETROIT.
FROM ALL THESE ABSENCES, HERE HE CAME BACK TO THE JOYS OF HOME. HERE HIS CHILDREN GREW UP.
HERE HIS FAITHFUL WIFE, HANNAH POPE PUTNAM, DIED, IN 1765
In 1767, after his second marriage, he moved to his new home, the General Wolfe Tavern, near Brooklyn Green, because the number of his visitors was too great for a private home.
BUT THIS WAS THE SCENE OF MANY JOYOUS REUNIONS OF OLD COMRADES, AFTER THE INDIAN AND COLONIAL WARS, BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.
ERECTED BY THE COLONEL DANIEL PUTNAM ASSOCIATION, INC. 1718 1918 THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH. VIRIS STAT RESPUBLICA.
The same afternoon the C. D. P. A. unveiled a table at the Wolf Den, the inscription for which follows :
PUTNAM AND THE WOLF FOLLOWING HER TRACKS THROUGH ONE DAY AND NIGHT IN THE EARLY SNOW OF DECEMBER 1742, TO THE CONNECTICUT RIVER AND BACK, THE EARLY SETTLERS OF THIS REGION HERE DISCOVERED THE DEN OF THE SHE WOLF THAT HAD FOR YEARS DEVASTATED THEIR FLOCKS AND HAD SO FAR ELUDED ALL ATTEMPTS AT CAPTURE AFTER ALL OTHER METHODS HAD FAILED, WHEN BOTH NEGRO AND DOG HELD BACK, ISRAEL PUTNAM, 70 OF WHOSE SHEEP HAD JUST BEEN SLAUGHTERED,
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AT TEN O'CLOCK AT NIGHT
WITH A ROPE TIED TO HIS FEET, FIRST WITH A TORCH, AGAIN WITH A MUSKET, ENTERED THIS CAVE, AND BY THE LIGHT OF HER ANGRY EYES, SHOT AND KILLED THE MARAUDER AND ENTERING A THIRD TIME DRAGGED FORTH THE BODY OF THE LAST WOLF IN CONNECTICUT
THIS TABLET IS PRESENTED TO THE ELIZABETH PORTER PUTNAM CHAPTER OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY THE COLONEL DANIEL PUTNAM ASSOCIATION, INC., AND THEIR FRIENDS TO PRESERVE THE MEMORY OF AN ACT OF COURAGE AND OF PUBLIC SERVICE BY A YOUNG FARMER, WHO WAS IN LATER YEARS
TO WIN FAME AS A WISE LEADER, A BRAVE FIGHTER AND A NATIONAL HERO. "HE DARED TO LEAD WHERE ANY DARED TO FOLLOW"
COMMITTEE
Major George Haven Putnam
George Palmer Putnam
Mrs. George W. Emerson
Ernest Bradford Ellsworth
Godfrey Malbone Day
Earl B. Putnam
Eben Putnam
Miss Emily Malbone Morgan
George Israel Browne
Henry W. Bigelow
William H. Putnam
Maj. George Haven Putnam, of New York, made the address. This tablet was presented to the Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which owns and cares for the park containing the Den.
Mrs. E. M. Warner, president of the Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, welcomed the gathering at the Wolf Den. Rev. G. I. Browne spoke in appreciation of the work which the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution had done and the tablet was then unveiled by members of the C. D. P. A. and representatives of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The committee in charge of this tablet was as follows: Maj. George Haven Putnam, Earl B. Putnam, George Palmer Putnam, Mrs. George W. Emerson, Ernest B. Ellsworth, Godfrey M. Day, Eben Putnam, Mrs. Emily Malbone Morgan, Henry Waite Bigelow, George Israel Browne, William H. Putnam. Mrs. Warner accepted the tablet on be- half of the Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, which purchased the Wolf Den property.
The C. D. B. A. and C. S. F. A. are planning not only to mark all the pews in the Old Church with the original family names of the occupants, to com- memorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the building, but also to place a bronze tablet on the exterior, to inform the transient visitor some- what of its history. Near by still stands the home of Col. Daniel Putnam, where his illustrious father used often to visit him, and where young men of the name of Grosvenor, Sumner and Brinley came to marry his daughters; and where also came James Brown, the son-in-law, who bought and lived in the old home with which the Old Church was so closely associated. The proposed inscrip- tion is as follows :
TOWN HALL
TOWN HALL, BROOKLYN
OLD TRINITY GLEBE, BROOKLYN
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OLD TRINITY CHURCH
THE OLDEST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, NOW STANDING, IN THE OLDEST DIOCESE IN THE UNITED STATES. In which SAMUEL SEABURY of Connecticut was the first Bishop.
BUILT IN 1771 LARGELY BY COLONEL GODFREY MALBONE (OXON)
HERE IN HIS MANOR OF "KINGSWOOD," AND MODELED AFTER TRINITY CHURCH, NEWPORT, R. I. (UNDER WHICH HIS FATHER WAS BURIED) : AND KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON (IN WHICH, HIS WIFE'S FAMILY, THE BRINLEYS, HAD BEEN AMONG THE EARLIEST WORSHIPPERS), AND WHERE SHRIMPTON HUTCHINSON (WHO MARRIED HIS SISTER) WAS ONE OF THE WARDENS OF THE SAME, AND, IS ALSO BURIED HERE.
The New Church in Brooklyn Village was opened for use in 1866.
AMONG THE NAMES OF THE FAMILIES CONNECTED WITH THIS COLONIAL PARISH WERE :-
ADAMS
CLEVELAND
GALLUP
LUTHER
STAPLE
ALLYN
COLLINS
GEER
MAINE
WALTON
ASHCROFT
COON
GURNETT
MALBONE
WEBB
ATHERTON
DARBE HALE
McBRIDE
WHEELER
BIGELOW
DAY
HOWSON
McCLOUD
WITTER
BRINLEY
DYER
HUBBARD
MOFFITT
WITHEY
BROWN
ELDRIDGE
HUTCHINSON
PALMER
WOODWARD
CADY
FRANKLIN
JEWETT
PUTNAM
CAMP
FOGG
JOHNSON
SABIN
CHAFFEE
FULLER
LOWE
SPALDING
The mortal remains of several Priests lie here
"Awaiting the resurrection morn."
"LORD, I HAVE LOVED THE HABITATION OF THY HOUSE, AND THE PLACE WHERE THINE HONOUR DWELLETH." Psalm xxvi, 8v.
THIS Tablet is placed by the Captain Deliverance Browne Association and the Church Street Friends Auxiliary, to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of its erection. 1921
Lastly, it is the purpose of the C. D. P. A. to join with four other historical societies in Connecticut to place a fitting tablet to mark the birthplace of Israel Putnam at Danvers, Mass., in 1822.
The inscription for this is to be a notable one; several of the societies named have already pledged generous amounts towards its payment, the expense of which will be large. The inscription and the gift itself will be a mark of courtesy from Connecticut to Massachusetts.
IN THIS HOUSE ON JAN. 7, 1718, WAS BORN ISRAEL PUTNAM WHO AFTERWARD PLAYED AN EXTRAORDINARILY VARIED AND SIGNIFICANT PART IN BOTH THE COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY ERAS OF AMERICAN HISTORY. HE WAS THE GREAT GRANDSON OF JOHN AND PRISCILLA PUTNAM WHO CAME TO SALEM IN 1640 FROM WINGRAVE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND. THE FAMILY OF PUTNAM MULTIPLIED IN THIS VICINITY. THERE WERE 175 PUTNAMS IN THE REVOLUTION BESIDES DESCENDANTS OF OTHER NAMES. THERE WAS ANOTHER GENERAL OFFICER OF THE NAME.
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IN 1739 ISRAEL PUTNAM BOUGHT OF GOV. JONATHAN BELCHER (51412 ACRES OF LAND) IN "MORTLAKE MANOR" THEN OF POMFRET NOW OF BROOKLYN TOWNSHIP CONNECTICUT COLONY AT £5 PER ACRE.
IN 1740 HE MOVED THITHER WITH HIS WIFE AND OLDEST CHILD, ISRAEL JR., WHO AFTERWARDS WENT WITH GEN. RUFUS PUTNAM TO THE SETTLE- MENT OF OHIO.
IN 1741 HE SHOT THE FAMOUS WOLF IN HER DEN, THE FIRST OF MANY DEEDS OF DARING.
IN 1755 HE WAS A SOLDIER AT CROWN POINT UNDER SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON; IN AUGUST HE WAS MADE SECOND LIEUTENANT.
IN 1756 HE FOUGHT AS A RANGER WITH CAPTAIN ROGERS AT TICONDEROGA. IN 1757 HE WAS AT FORTS EDWARD AND WILLIAM HENRY. HE WAS THE FIRST ON THE SCENE AFTER THE MASSACRE AT THE LATTER FORT.
IN 1758 HE WAS CAPTURED BY THE INDIANS, TIED TO A STAKE TO BE BURNT, RESCUED, CARRIED TO QUEBEC AND EXCHANGED.
IN 1759-1761 HE ENGAGED IN THREE MORE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST THE FRENCH, BECAME A PERSONAL FRIEND OF GENERAL GAGE, AND FOUGHT WITH AMHERST AT LAKE ONTARIO, HELPING FINALLY IN THE CAPTURE OF CANADA AND MONTREAL.
IN 1762 HE COMMANDED A CONNECTICUT REGIMENT AT THE CAPTURE OF HAVANA, AFTER SHIP-WRECK OFF THE COAST OF CUBA.
IN 1763 IN PONTIAC'S WAR HE MARCHED TO DETROIT IN COMMAND OF 400 MEN.
(A long and exhausting military career before the Revolutionary Period)
IN 1775 HE WAS INFLUENTIAL IN ROUSING CONNECTICUT IN THE CAUSE OF INDEPENDENCE.
ON APRIL 20, AT NEWS OF LEXINGTON, HE LEFT HIS PLOW IN THE FURROW AT BROOKLYN TO RIDE 100 MILES IN 18 HOURS TO CAMBRIDGE, CONCORD AND BOSTON. A WEEK AFTERWARD HE WAS MADE BRIGADIER GENERAL BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT HARTFORD. IT WAS HE, WHO AT THE AGE OF 57, PLANNED AND ALONE INSISTED ON FIGHTING THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, JUNE 17.
IT WAS HE WHO GAVE COMMAND, "DO NOT FIRE TILL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES."
JULY 4, 1775, HE WAS GIVEN THE FIRST COMMISSION OF MAJOR GENERAL IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY, MAKING HIM SECOND IN RANK TO WASHINGTON. 1776-1779 ON LONG ISLAND, IN NEW JERSEY, AT PHILADELPHIA, PRINCETON, AND ON THE HUDSON, HE WAS IN COMMAND DURING THE FIRST GLOOMY HOURS OF OUR STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY.
HE CHOSE WEST POINT AS A MILITARY STRONGHOLD; HE ESCAPED THE BRITISH AT GREENWICH, RIDING DOWN THE STEPS WHERE THE DRAGOONS DARED NOT FOLLOW. DURING THE WINTER OF VALLEY FORGE, HE COM- MANDED THE CAMP AT REDDING, CONN., 1779, MIDWAY BETWEEN THE HUD- SON AND THE SOUND.
BEFORE THE FRENCH HELP CAME TO RAISE OUR HOPES AND TURN THE TIDE TOWARDS VICTORY, HE SUFFERED A STROKE OF PARALYSIS IN 1779, DYING IN 1790, AND IS BURIED AT BROOKLYN, CONNECTICUT, UNDER AN EQUESTRIAN STATUE.
HE WAS THE SUBJECT OF THE FIRST AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, WRITTEN AT MT. VERNON. .
WASHINGTON IRVING CALLS HIS "ONE OF THE TALISMANIC NAMES OF THE REVOLUTION."
AS "OLD PUT" HE WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN.
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CONNECTICUT ACKNOWLEDGES THE GIFT OF HER ILLUSTRIOUS SON FROM MASSACHUSETTS, WHO MAY JUSTLY BE CLAIMED BY BOTH. Placed. . By
Presented to the Israel Putnam Chapter of the D. A. R., Danvers, Mass., by
The Deborah Avery Putnam Chapter of the D. A. R. of Plainfield, Conn. The Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter of the D. A. R. of Putnam, Conn.
The Colonel Daniel Putnam Association, Inc., of Brooklyn, Conn.
1718-1818
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Already the younger cousins are beginning to show a steadfast interest, in the life of the "Three Societies," and to the last one many of the residents of the town are being admitted. Funds are accumulating from the payment of dues ; the original society being incorporated, is prepared to hold and administer property, and has in mind the planting of trees and other plans for keeping up the beauty in the home scenes of our ancestors. It is hoped to arouse a sense of fellowship and cooperation with all the residents and citizens who have taken their places so that the future may hold much mutual delight and joy for those who come after us.
It is a patriotic privilege, it is an ancestral obligation, it is a duty towards the future!
CHURCH STREET
By George Israel Browne
The prophet Haggai is bidden to ask of the Governor of Judah and the High Priest and the residue of the people this question: "Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory?" We might ask that question of various periods of the life of Church Street, Brooklyn, Windham County. It was a fit setting for an ample life with an outlook and view always uplifting and giving a sense of calm and peace. Running northward towards Pomfret from the railroad between Danielson and Brooklyn Village on a gentle swell that sloped both ways, it gave wide views of the horizon especially towards the east, where it looked down into the basin of the Quinebaug and Blackwells' Brook, across another slope, beyond which the spires and buildings of Daniel- son could be seen, and still beyond toward the higher hills which lay near the Rhode Island border. To the west also, it gently sloped, but only toward a slight depression, soon rising to higher ground which corresponded to the other lip and edge of the amphitheatre, as seen in the far rising ground to the east. It seemed to those who lived there the shadiest, prettiest, and noblest spot in all that region. Some one, years ago, had planted elm trees on one side of the street and ash trees on the other. Forty years ago they were in all the glory of their full maturity. Rising and falling, the road was only level for short spaces and through the branches which arched over head, and between the huge trunks could be caught varying glimpses of the landscape far and near as the perspective changed. It is no wonder that it was a favorite drive for those who drove for pleasure. The act of wisdom and foresight shown in the original planting of those trees has given endless comfort and satisfaction to many lives through many years. It is an act which ought to be reduplicated and perpetuated here and elsewhere. Trees grow slowly. New ones should be placed before the old ones reach their final decay.
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There are still a few who will recall Church Street and its inhabitants as it was thirty or forty years ago. At the head of the street lived Col. Albert Day on his well-kept farm-(his son is Gen. Albert Day of Hartford and is now president of the Riverside Trust Co.). Just under the hill lived his brother, "Uncle Willard Day," as so many loved to call him, whose wife was a daughter of James Brown, and they were the parents of the Hon. Frank Day, state senator, who stayed at home, and of George, who went away and became vice president of the Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford. It was called the "Interval Farm" because of the well-fertilized land on the shores of the Quinebaug River. The wives and mothers of each of these families were gracious and much-loved women. For many summers the cousins came back to grow healthy in the country air. Frank Day's daughter Helen married Ernest Bradford Ellsworth of Hartford; his daughter Emily married the late Willis I. Twitchell, principal of the West Middle District School of Hartford. A little further south down the street was the Fogg farm, where lived a remarkable family of strong characters. The Rev. Thomas Brinley Fogg, a man of keen wit and a graduate of Trinity and Berkeley Divinity School, after having had several parishes in the state, lived there in retirement for many years, with a well- selected library. They were descendants of the first rector of the "Old Church" and had cousins prominent and wealthy in the State of Tennessee. In their attic were precious and ancient treasures, among them pine-tree shillings, and many Malbone and Brinley heirlooms.
Next in line was the George Brown farm. George Brown married the daughter of the Rev. Riverius Camp, S. T. D. As he was the oldest son, so he first sought a home away from the family roof-tree. Their three oldest sons were drowned in a near-by pond while using their skates, a Christmas present from their grandfather, for the first time, and are buried together in one grave beside the "Old Church." One daughter was a missionary in the Bontoc Mountains, P. I., for several years, and another served with a Boston Base Hospital Unit in France as a part of American Expeditionary Forces during the great war. The one remaining son graduated at Trinity and Berk- eley and held several parishes in the Diocese of Harrisburg, one in the capitol city of the state. With Miss Elizabeth Brinley Bigelow he was largely instru- mental in founding the three societies. Almost across the road from this home was the most famous house on Church Street, which was built originally by some members of the Brinley family. It became the home of Col. Daniel Put- nam, and afterwards of his son-in-law, James Brown, then of his son John, with his three daughters now living in Naugatuck. This house is now in pos- session of that remarkable woman, Emily Malbone Morgan, writer, philanthro- pist, founder and head of the society of "The Companions of the Holy Cross," whose property at South Byfield, Mass., is the gathering place of some of the most significant women of our generation. She has made Putnam Elms a place of new meanings. So to each generation it has become the welcoming "Mother Home" of a wide group of people. Much has been written of the Old Mansion, much more could be told. James Brown, a brother of the Rev. John Brown, graduate of Dartmouth and Andover, was at one time pastor of the Pine Street Church, Boston, dying as pastor of the church at Old Hadley. James Brown's daughters married Willard Day and Asa R. Bigelow; their descendants are scattered, active and successful; much could be said of them. He had one son who became a clergyman, being the beloved rector at Naugatuck and New Mil-
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ford; he married an own cousin of Pierpont Morgan. Two other sons, Putnam and James, went west and became respected lawyers at Terre Haute, Ind. Down the street towards the "Old Church" came next the school, once crowded with scholars, now silent, empty and a ruin. Then follows the home of Mr. Burdick, a respected neighbor but never an adherent of the "Old Church," though his descendants, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blake and his family of the vil- lage, are among the most loyal ones.
Beyond the "Old Church" still stands the old "Glebe" property, long the home of the Rev. Riverius Camp, S. T. D., a graduate of Trinity and a descend- ant of some of the earliest Episcopal families of West Connecticut. His wife was a niece of Isaac Toucey, governor of Connecticut, United States senator and secretary of the navy. The place is now the property of Mrs. Cole of Washington, D. C., who makes it her summer home. After Doctor Camp moved to the village on the completion of the new church, it became the home of Doctor Spaulding. Just at the entrance of the street, stands the house formerly the home of Asa R. Bigelow, afterwards of Colchester, who married Anne, daughter of James and Emily Browne; their two sons, one a prominent business man of Terre Haute, Ind., the other a civil engineer of Boston, and a senior warden of a Boston church. The two daughters have been among the most active in the development of the three societies.
This running commentary leaves much untold. It will suggest a great deal to those who know and remember, and even if more names were mentioned, it . would mean little to those who care only for the record of what former con- ditions really were in a nearly abandoned part of our old state. Newer families are taking their places, perhaps they too will create traditions and memories and tie them firm and fast to all that came before. At any rate, many will always love it and come back to it as to a Well-Beloved Home.
BROOKLYN IN PUBLIC LIFE
The Town of Brooklyn has borne an active and influential part in the life of the state through many of its leading citizens.
Albert Day was chosen state senator from the old thirteenth district in 1873; Thomas S. Marlor in 1875; Frank Day served two terms (1899-1900) for the seventeenth district.
Following are the names of representatives in the General Assembly from 1859 to date: 1859, Jasper Martin; 1860, John R. Allerton; 1861, Benjamin Brown; 1862, Havilah Taylor; 1863, Charles Clark; 1864, Isaac A. Stetson ; 1865, Edward L. Cundall; 1866, James P. Whitcomb; 1867, Henry M. Cleve- land; 1868, Albert Day; 1869, William Woodbridge; 1870-71, Willard Day; 1872, John Gallup; 1873-74, Thomas S. Marlor; 1875, Frank E. Baker; 1876, James B. Whitcomb; 1877, Henry M. Cleveland; 1878, Frank E. Baker; 1879, William H. Putnam; 1880, Joseph B. Stetson; 1881, Theodore D. Pond; 1882, Henry M. Cleveland; 1883, Edward L. Cundall; 1884, George Brown; 1885, Haschal F. Cox; 1886, George W. Brewster; 1887-88, Vine R. Franklin; 1889- 90, Frank Day; 1891-94, Charles S. L. Marlor; 1895-96, Frank Day; 1897-98, John G. Potter ; 1899-00, John C. Williams; 1901-02, John C. Williams; 1903-04, Henry M. Evans; 1905-06, James Lowry; 1907-08, William Ingalls; 1909-10, James Lowry ; 1911-12, Albert B. Webb; 1912-14, John M. Bessette; 1915-16, Oscar F. Atwood; 1917-18, Oscar F. Atwood; 1919-20, Vine R. Franklin.
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Edward L. Cundall became clerk of the County Court; Henry M. Cleve- land was deputy bank commissioner, associated with Hon. Edwin A. Buck of Windham.
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