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" An incident occurred in March, 1774, which might seem to forebode indecision and weakness among the patriots of the town. A special town- meeting had been called to appoint delegates to the convention to be held March 27th in Middletown. After the meeting was opened by the appointment of Col. Abraham Davenport moderator, it was voted ' that the town will appoint a committee to meet at
Middletown on the last Wednesday in March, instant, there to consult proper measures to be pursued to evade the evils which the town apprehend they are in danger of concerning Susquehannah.'
" After this vote, which for aught that appears was unanimous, Capt. Fyler Dibble and Dr. John Wilson were appointed the committee. The meeting ad- journed to meet again on the 11th of the following month to hear the report of the committee. At the appointed time the adjourned meeting was held. The town make an appropriation to cover the expenses of the committee, and vote that the petition recom- inended by the Middletown Convention should be signed by the town clerk, Samuel Jarvis, in the name of the town, and forwarded to the Assembly at its next session.
"This petition was a lengthy argument framed in the interests of the Pennsylvanians against the claims of Connecticut to the territory then held by her citi- zens and subject to her authority. The convention authorizing it was made up of delegates from only twenty-three of the sixty-three towns belonging to the State, and their action received but little sympa- thy from the mass of the people. Their petition was couched in terms indicating an excessive loyalty to the English government and a readiness to abide by almost any decision of the crown. Mr. Ingersoll, of Pennsylvania, was later an avowed Tory. Capt. Dibble and Mr. Jarvis, of Stamford, also enrolled themselves among those loyal still to the king, and it would seem that the Stamford people in mass were by this action committed to the side of the erown against the Revolution, whose beginnings were al- ready felt and seen.
"But a few months will show how erroneous such a conclusion would be. We shall find ample record to show that during that long struggle the great ma- jority of our townsmen were heartily and self-sacri- ficingly for the war. Before the opening of hostilities on the eventful 19th of April, 1775, our citizens had expressed themselves unequivocally for the patriot cause. The insolence of the crown, exhibited in the arbitrary and tyrannical acts which disgraced the rec- ords of the English Parliament from the time Gren- ville, in 1763, aceepted Jenkinson's Stamp Act as the legal process for collecting revenue in America, down to that most odious coercion aet which elosed the port of Boston, had most effectually schooled the great mass of American citizens to an carnest and impas- sioned resistance to any further demands of the Eng- glish government. Henceforth not even the former concessions to the crown would be allowed; and the people of the several colonies needed only a few months of mutual interchange of opinions and pur- pose to be fully prepared for their irrevocable decla- ration of independence. To prepare the way for that declaration the voice of Stamford was not wanting. The Boston Port Bill had been passed, and great suf- fering was the result. Our patriot citizens felt that
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the insult and injury done to Boston was also intended for themselves and all who had ventured to question the right of the British Parliament to issue and en- force such demands; and they would not meauly shrink from an open espousal of the cause which had already brought down the vengeance of the crown upon their suffering brethren. Accordingly, they met on the 7th of October, 1774, in the town-house, which proving too small for the patriot band, they immediately adjourned to the meeting-house, when the following minute was promptly passed :
"' The inhabitants of this town sensibly affected with the distress to which the town of Boston and province of Massachusetts Bay are sub- jected by several unconstitutional acts of the British parliament ; . . . hoping to convince the people of this continent that notwithstanding our long silence wo are by no means unwilling to join with our sister towns to assert our just rights and oppose every design of a corrupt ministry to enslave America, do declare that we acknowledge our subjection to the crown of Great Britain and all the constitutional powers thereto be- longing as established in the illustrions house of Hanover; that it is our earnest desire that the same peaceable connexion should subsist between us and the mother country as had subsisted for a long time before the late unconstitutional measures adopted by the parliament of Great Brit- ain; and we hope that some plan will be found out by the general con- gress to effect the reconciliation we wishi for; yet we are determined by every lawful way to join with our sister colonies resolutely to defend our just rights: ... that we are pleased that a congress of deputies from the colony is now met at Philadelphia, and relying npon the wisdom of that body we declare that we are ready to adopt such reasonable measures as shall by them be judged for the general good of the inhabitants of America.'
" This action testifies to the heartiness with which our townsmen entered upon the great struggle against the encroachments of the mother-country. Before the opening of the war the people had been prepared for it. And when the news of the first battle at Lex- ington and Concord reached the town it was found ready with a prompt response. New York, then rap- idly advancing iu importance, was thought to be in especial danger from an invasion of the enemy. Jo- seph Hoyt, of Stamford, who had now for about twenty years been in military life, enlisted imme- diately a company of thirty men and started for the city. As no immediate danger was apprehended to the city, the company returned to Stamford and re- ported only eight days' service.
"The bill of service thus rendered would in these days be deemed a model for economy. I append it n full :
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" The Ezra Lockwood here reported as lieutenant is enrolled on the company list as a private. All of the names are found in our alphabetical list.
" But not thus easily were our townsmen to meet their obligations to the patriot cause. On returning, Capt. Hoyt commenced raising another company for the Continental service wherever needed. By the 6th
of July he had organized a company of seventy-five men, who were reported ready for duty. The names would indicate that nearly all of them were Stamford men. This second company continued in the service until Dec. 24, 1775, and the entire cost of the service rendered by them was reported as one thousand one hundred and thirty-nine and a half pounds sterling.
"A third company was raised here early in the spring of 1776. In one of the pay-rolls of this com- pany it is called the 'Company of Col. David Water- bury, in the regiment of forces of the United colonies under command of Col. David Waterbury.' On the list David Waterbury is enrolled as colonel and cap- tain, and Sylvanus Brown as captain and lieutenant. The number of days' service is appended to the names, and this will indicate the company in the alphabeti- cal list at the end of this chapter.
"In the summer of 1776 we were also represented in the service by a part, at least, of another company under Capt. Webb, who were stationed in New York City. How many other companies or parts of com- panies were raised in Stamford, we have no means of knowing. Our catalogue of Revolutionary men at the end of this chapter, will doubtless fail to report many who honored Stamford in the war. Every rec- ord, it is believed, which our town and State can now furnish has been carefully examined to complete it; and every local record has been sought for the pur- pose of reporting fully all engagements and skir- mishes and every form of military movement here during the struggle.
LIST OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS.
The following is a list of those who served in the war of the Revolution from this town : Jeremiah Andreas, Charles S. Austin, - Barnes,1 Stephen Betts, Seth Baker, Thaddeus Bates, Abijah Beers, Daniel Beers, Francis Bell, Capt. Isaac Bell, Abra- liam Bell, Jesse Bell, Jonathan Bell, John Bell, Ste- phen Bell, Thaddeus Bell, Benjamin Bennet, John Besse, Peleg Besse, Stephen Betts, John Birchard, Hezekiah Bishop, Jonathan Bishop, Stephen Bishop, Jacob Bishop, Jacob Blanchard, Jesse Blatchley, Capt. Daniel Bouton, Isaac Briggs, Bazalell Brown, Isaac Brown, Nathan Brown, Roger Brown, Jonathan Brown, Stephen Brown, William Brown, Sylvanus Brown, Joseph Brothswell, John Buxton, John Brown, Samuel Bush, John Clock, Natlianiel Clason, Isaac Clason, Samuel Clason, Stephen Clason, Ma- thew Clerk, Jonathan Clock, David Coggins, William Coleman, Daniel Coley, Thomas Couch, Timothy Curtiss, Jr., Jeremy Curtiss, Nathan Dan, Squire Dan, Capt. William Daskam,2 Lieut. Hezekiah Davenport,3 James Davenport, John Davenport,4 Reuben Defreere, Abraham Davis, David Davis,
1 Was shot but a short distance east from the store on High Ridge. 2 Servod uuder Lafayette.
3 Shot at Ridgefield, April 27, 1777, after the burning of Danbury.
4 A commissary with major's commission.
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Ebenezer Dean, Samuel Dean, John Dibble, An- drew Dogherty, William Duneomb, William El- dridge, Peter Ferris," Jonathan Ferris, Ransford A. Ferris, Daniel Finney, - Fitch,6 Thomas Forster, Thomas Fulton, James Finch, Samuel Garnsey, Jolm Gibbs, Taleot Gould, Asabel Green, Elias Gregory, William Griffet, Benoni Gregory, Theophilus Han- ford, Thomas Hawley, James Hay, Bethel Heaeock, Ebenezer Heacoek, Morris Heacoek, Zadoe Hedden, Jared Hine, Enoch Hinman, Thomas Hobby,7 Abra- ham Holly, Ebenezer Holly, Jr., Isaac Holly, Nathan Holly, Stephen Holly, John Hohnes,8 Nathan How, Nathaniel How," Bates Hoyt, Ebenezer Hoyt, Elijah Hoyt, Lieut. Jesse Hoyt, Jonathan Hoyt, John Hoyt, Joseph Hoyt,1º Josiah Hoyt, Nathaniel Hoyt, Neazer Hoyt, Samuel Hoyt, Samuel Hoyt,11 Sylvanus Hoyt, Warren Hoyt, William Hoyt, Capt. Thaddeus Hoyt, Silas Hoyt, Salmon Hubbel, Williston Hurd, Nathaniel Husted, Thaddeus Husted, Samuel Hut- ton, Nathan P. Jackson, William Jackson, Justus Jennings, Jonathan Jervis, William Johnson, Capt. Ebenezer Jones, Ephraim Jones, Reuben June, Silas June, Thomas June,12 Israel June, Benjamin Inger- sol,13 Samuel Ingersol, Isaae Keeler, Lockwood Kee- ler, Thaddeus Keeler, Asahel Kellogg, John Kenney, Bouton Knapp, Hezekiah Knapp, John Knapp, Syl- vanus Knapp,14 Usual Knapp, Timothy Knapp, Wil- liam Knapp,15 Jacob Knapp, Seth Lee, James Lind- say, Holly Lines, John Little, Clement Lloyd, Jaeob Loder, David Loekwood, Ezra Loekwood, Isaae Loekwood,16 Noah Loekwood, Reuben Loekwood, Titus Loekwood,17 Timothy Loekwood, Charles Loek- wood, Samuel Loekwood,18 David Lounsbury, Jacob Lounsbury, Daniel McCurtiss, John Mason, Samuel Mather, Joseph Mather, Peter Mead, Theophilus Mead, Reuben Mead, Ebenezer Meeker, George Mills,19 John Mills, John Mills, Jr., John Niehols, Daniel Nichols, Abel Nichols, Joseph Nichols, Ca- maliel Northrup,20 James Niehols, Rufus Newman, John Odell, Roger Olmstead, David Olmstead, Rieh- ard Pangburn, David Parrot, James Parsons, Elijah
5 In both the French and Revolutionary wars.
G Captain here in 1781.
7 Captain third company, Fifth Regiment, April, 1775, and was ap- peinted majer.
8 Iu the Danbury fight.
9 Lientenant in 1782, and at the elese ef the war eaptain.
10 Lieutenant-colonel of the Eighth Connecticut Regiment, regular army. He had been captain in 1775.
11 Enlisted July 6, 1775, and served ene hundred and fifty-eight days in 1776 as ensign. He was afterwards a lientenant.
12 Shot as he was returning frem hoeing in the field and his twe sens were taken prisoners.
18 Died in the service.
14 Captain of the town guards.
15 Born in 1756; a pensioner. Ile served under Putnam, and was with him at Greenwich at the time of his famous plunge en herseback down the steps.
16 Captain of the town guard in 1781.
17 Enlisted July 6, 1775, and after the murder of his brother by the cew- beys, he was the inexorable avenger ef every injured patriot.
18 Second lieutenant in 1775, in Col. Waterbury's regiment.
1º Captain.
20 Enlisted July 6, 1775, and was a lieutenant.
Patchin, Israel Patchin, James Peat, Ephraim Peck, Andrew Powers, Thomas Provost, Daniel Provost, Samuel Provost, David Purdy, Isaac Quintard, Da- vid Raymond, Elias Reed, Ketchiel Reed, Silas Reed, William Richards, Abraham St. John, Justin St. John, John M. Saunders, Abram Scofield, Benjamin Scofield, Ebenezer Scofield,21 Elisha Scofield, Ezra Scofield, Lieut. Gershom Seofield, Gideon Scofield, Gilbert Scofield, Hait Scofield,22 Israel Scofield, Jacob Scofield, Jared Seofield, Josiah Seofield (4th), Josiah W. Scofield, Joseph Scofield, Peter Scofield, Pettit Sco- field, Reuben Scofield, Thaddeus Scofield, Seth Sco- field, Enos Seofield, Sylvanus Scofield, William Scott, John Seeley, Darling Selleek, David Selleck, Ebe- uezer Selleck, Joseph Selleck, Simeon Selleck, Dan- iel Share, William Selleck, Daniel Sherwood, Thomas Skelding, Ebenezer Slason, Henry Slason,23 Na- thaniel Slason,2' William Shelp, Austin Smith, Jr., Azariah Smith, Capt. Amos Smith, Charles Smith, 25 Charles Smith, Jr., David Smith (3d), Daniel Smith, Ezra Smith (3d), Ebenezer Smith, Isaac Smith, Isaae Smith, Jabez Smith, Jabez Smith, Jr., Job Smith, Joseph Smith, Joshua Smith, Lieut. Josiah Smitlı,26 Levi Smith, Nathaniel Smith, Peter Smith,27 Capt. William Smith, Reuben Sniffin, Daniel Stevens, David Stevens,28 Ezra Stevens,29 Jacob Stevens, Obidiah Stevens, Jr., Reuben Stevens, Sylvanus Stevens, Thomas Stevens, Charles Stewart, Franeis D. Swords, William Thompson, John Todd, Samuel Tryon, Isaac Wardwell, Jacob Wardwell, William Wardwell, Ben- jamin Waring, Joseph Waring, James Waring, Serj't John Waring, Jonathan Waring,30 Simeon Waring, Thaddeus Waring, Elisha Waters, John Waters, Daniel Waterbury, David Waterbury,31 David Water- bury, David Waterbury (3d), Enos Waterbury, Gideon Waterbury, Ensign John Waterbury, John Water- bury (5th), Joseph Waterbury, Peter Waterbury, Epenetus and David Waterbury, William Waterbury, William Waterbury, Benjamin Webb,32 Col. Charles Webb, Charles Webb, Jr.,33 David Webb, Ebenezer Webb, Gilbert Webb, Joseph Webb, Jr., IIezekiah Webb, Samuel Webb, Capt. Nathaniel Webb, Charles Weed, James Weed, Abishai Weed, Abijah Weed,34
21 First lieutenant in the service.
22 Died here July 16, 1840.
23 Captain here in 1776.
24 Captain of the home guard in 1781, and was pensioned.
25 Captain ef State gnards between the lines in 1781.
26 Had one thumb struck off by a ball, and was badly ent in both arms
and the face while warding off the strokes of a British officer.
27 Reported two hundred and thirty-eight days' service in 1776. He was shot at the Neroten.
28 Shet at Ridgefield.
2º Served ene hundred and fifty-one days in 1776.
30 Captain in 1779.
31 In pursuit of the British retreating from Danbury. He saw Wooster shot and Arnold as he left his fallen horse, taking his pistols with him. $ Had been in the French war.
33 Lieutenant in 1775, served as adjutant fifty-two days in 1776, and was still later in his father's regiment. He was a prisoner in New York. He was killed on a gunboat in the Sound.
34 In the eld French and Indian war; early entered the Revolutionary service.
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Asahel Weed, Benjamin Weed, Annanias Weed, Daniel Weed, Hezekiah Wced, Elnathan Weed, Ezra Weed, Gideon Weed,35 Henry Weed, Jabez Weed, Jared Weed, Joel Weed, John Weed, Jonas Weed, Jonathan Weed, Hezekiah Weed (4tlı), Lieut. Seth Weed, Silas Weed, Stephen Wced, Jacob White, 2d Lieut. Jonathan Whiting, Gilbert Woolsey, Henry Weeks, Samuel Wheaton, Samuel Young.
STAMFORD LOYALISTS.
The following is a list of Stamford loyalists : John Bates, Walter Bates, William Bates, Samuel Beck, Stephen Briggs, Samuel Crissy, Nathaniel Dan, Fred- erick Fyler, Walter and William Dibble, Anthony Demill, Joseph Ferris, R. Freeze, Thos. Hemford, James Howe, Increase, Ebenezer, Elnathan, John William, and Samuel Holly, David, James, Samuel (3d), Stephen, and Jonah Hoyt, Prince Howes, Sam- uel Munson, and John Jarvis, Casey and Gideon Leeds, Jonathan Lewis, Jacob Loder, Gideon Lowns- bury, Shuel Merritt, Jesse Mills, Joshua Newman, David Picket, F. Rogers, Isaac Quintard, James Sco- field, Jr., Josiah Scofield (3d), Ezra Scofield, Daniel Selleck, John Selleck, Obadiah Seeley, Seth Seeley, Joseph Smith, J. Slascn, Win. Stone, Admer Stevens, Hethi Stevens, Henry Stevens, Solomon Tucker, Ed- ward Thorpe, David Waterbury, John Waterbury, Sylvanus Whitney, and Abijah Weed.
THE WAR OF 1812.
Although the war of 1812 was fought principally on the great lakes and on Lake Champlain, and ex- cited no particular local interest in this section, still companies were organized and held in readiness to any call which might be made for their services. The following are lists of those who composed these companies. The first list is found on a " mus- ter-roll of a company of infantry under the com- mand of David Waterbury, captain in the Thirty-sev- enth Regiment of the United States, commanded by Lieut .- Col. Aaron Benjamin, from 31st October, when last mustered, to the 31st December, 1813." On tlie back of the muster-roll is written, " Don't give up the ship," " Lawrence," "David Waterbury": David Waterbury, captain ; John Brown, first lieutenant ; Henry Hoyt, second lieutenant ; Samuel Keeler, third lieutenant ; Samuel Keeler, Jr., ensign; Alanson Holly, sergeant; Nehemiah Rose, sergeant; Lewis Jones, corporal; William Jones, corporal ; James Sanford, drummer; Nathan Champlain, drummer ; David Brown, William H. Buel, Joseph Clock, Elisha Crab, Ebenezer Dennis, John Dcan, John A. Dick- ens, James Forbes, Elisha Fish, Shadrack Fer- ris, Lysander Fancher, George A. Fox, Charles French, Charles Gill, Warren Huchins, Joel Hoyt,
Daniel Johnson, Reuben Knapp, John Larkin, Moses Mountcalın, Benjamin Odle, Harry Provost, Isaiah Rogers, Charles Rowlson, Amos Stickland, William Stevens, J. W. Shallenberg, Selleck Scofield, Oliver J. Smith, David Tucker, Samuel K. Weeks, Isaac Wilmoth.
The following is the roll of Captain Elijah Reed's Company in the Thirty-fourth Regiment, commanded by Nehemiah Lockwood, and bearing date Sept. 8-13, 1813 .* It bears the following minute of the captain : Elijalı Reed, captain ; James Clock, lieu- tenant; Ralplı Hoyt, ensign ; Selleck Weed, first sergeant; John Street, second sergeant; Abraham Tibbet, third sergeant ; David Camp, fourth sergeant; Holly Bell, first corporal; Roswell Reed, second cor- poral; Jacob Wardell, third corporal ; Isaac Bishop, fourth corporal; George Weed, Isaac Warren, Seely Slason, Isaac Bouton, Charles Brown, Lewis Water- bury, Scudder Weed, Charles Weed, Lyman Seely, Henry Smith, John M. Nash, Raymond Mather, Fred. Shith, David Scofield, Nathan Nash, Samuel Street, Leander Hoyt, Ezra Hoyt, David How, James B. Weed, .Walter B. Hoyt, Marza Scribner, David Wced, Joseph Wood, Jacob Little, Chatman Smith, Andrew Bixbee, Samuel Holden, Benjamin Little, Jonas Weed, David Holly, Joseph Scofield, absent; Peter Stevens, Alvah Schofield, not called on ; Isaac Weed, Henry Weed, John L. Webb, Hervey Waterbury, Samucl Waterbury, lived remote ; Thomas Robertson, not called on ; John A. Scofield, not called on.
The folowing list is that of a company commanded by Capt. Peter Smith, then lieutenant. It is headed with these words : "Co. 3, commanded by Peter Smith, lieutenant, Col. Samuel Dean's regiment, Sep- tember 8-12, 1813."
The company was called out on the appearance of a hostile fleet, and was stationed for four days on Ship- pan Point. They were allowed twenty cents a day by the government-the lieutenant commanding re- ceived sixty cents a day. Isaac Knapp, sergt .; Jas. Webb, sergt .; John Selleck, sergt .; Luther Knapp, sergt. ; Charles S. Gaylor, corp .; Andrew Webb, corp. ; Elisha Hawley, corp; Darius Lockwood, drummer ; Lewis Lockwood, fifer; Isaac Ferris, Sol- omon Garnsey, John Andrews, Moses W. Smith, Smith Knapp, Benjamin Hoyt, Jr., Thomas Weeks, Isaac Nichols, William Waterbury (6th), Jolın Han- chaw, William W. Scofield, James Hoyt, Jr., Jo- siah Austen, Alanson Provost, Epenetus Scofield, Annanias Hoyt, William Scofield, Jr., Eber Smith, Drake Studwell, James Smith, Jr., Elisha Scofield, Gilbert E. Waterbury.
The following were also in the service: John Bil- lings, who is still living on Longridge, was at New London; John Dan and Jonathan Dan were also at
35 Enlisted July 6, 1775. He was the youngest member of Capt. How's company, and during the absence of the captain he was appointed to take his place on the sudden appearance of a gang of Torles. He drew up the company near the school-house in Darien, and was himself shot down as he stood between two of liis brothers, Hezekiah and Jonas.
* The enemy appearing hostile in the Sound by the verbal order of Nehemiah Lockwood, Esq., lieutenant-colonel commandant, I called the company into service on the 8th of September, 1813, and on the 13th, by his verbal order dismissed them.
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New London ; Renben Dibble, son of John, was for twenty-three months a prisoner in the famons Dart- moor Prison ; Stephen Haight, of North Stamford, then living in New York, was in regular service; Alanson Holly, enlisted and served ; Amasa Louns- bury was in the navy; William W. Lounsbury was taken prisoner at New Orleans, in 1812; Tyler Mead was in service at Saratoga ; Squire Palmer was ser- geant at New London; Samuel Provost was pen- sioned for service ; Harvey Scofield at New London, in 1812; Samuel Sherwood, at New London; John Sherwood, son of Mathew, was in Canada; John Burgess, Elisha Leeds, Noah Loekwood, Solomon Seofield, Ezad Stevens, Lewis Waterbury, Sylvanus Meed, James Sniffin, James Weed, Seudder Weed, Henry Sniffin, Silas Weed, Rufus Weed.
" Among the natives of Stamford who rendered good service during this war was also NATHANIEL WEED, EsQ. At the opening of the war he had just become well established in business; but at the eall of the government he consented to accept a eap- tainey in the army. At the elose of the war he had reached the rank of colonel, and won a good name for his uniform promptness and effieieney at every post. Harvey Weed, brother of Nathaniel, was also in serviee in this war. He was a lieutenant and was appointed paymaster."
"CAPTAIN WILLIAM SKIDDY was an active par- tieipant in the naval struggles of the war. At its open- ing, he was before the mast. He was midshipman on board the 'Hornet,' Captain Nicholas Biddle, in the successful fight with the 'Penguin.'"
CHAPTER LXX.
STAMFORD (Continued).
The Indians-Early Rules and Regulations-Freeholders of 1701-Stam- ford in 1700-Stamford in 1800-Troubles of the Settlers under the New Ilaven Jurisdiction -The Greenwich Troubles-Ecclesiastical Troubles-The First Heretical Outbreak-The Enraged Quakers.
INDIANS.
ALTHOUGH Stamford was not the seene of any de- vastating Indian wars, it must not be supposed that the pioneers lived in perfeet peace, with no fears dis- traeting them of trouble from the red brother.
A humane policy was pursued with the Indians, and everything done that wise forethought and just judgment eould suggest to enltivate their friendship, but, notwithstanding all their endeavors, the settle- ment was for a long time in an almost constant state of alarm from threatened attaeks by roving marauders. Several murders were committed by the exasperated savages, who witnessed with intense hatred and feel- ings of revenge the encroachiment of the pale-faee upon their hunting-grounds, but no concentrated war was made upon the settlement.
In 1675, when Philip, the proud chief of the Wam-
panoags, sounded the war-whoop through the beautiful valley of the Connecticut, and Brookfield, Deerfield, Springfield, and other towns were successively plun- dered and destroyed by the enraged savages, the cit- izens of Stamford were alarmed lest, without warning, they too might meet the same fate. Under date of Dec. 29, 1678, the following letter was written from Stamford to the General Court convened at Boston :
" Wherefore, in expectation of the armies coming against this open declared enemy we have been hitherto silent, but by the long retard and no intelligence upon any prosecution, upon that account we are afraid (it) is laid aside, whereby we shall be much endangered if not ruined, if your houors do not by some speedy meaus relieve us, for we are frontiers and most likely assaulted in the first place."
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