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FIRST SELECTMEN.
1838-40, Lewis Wells; 1841-44, Philo Curtis : 1845-50, Levi Curtis, Jr .; 1851-53, 18Go, John Coc: 1854, Joseph Ufford; 1855, Isaac Wells; 1856, Lewis Wells ; 1857-59, William Booth; 1861-66, Otis Beers; 1867-68, Edward L. Wells; 1869, Jolin Coe ; 1870, Allen Gregory ;
* No list given in Stato records. Abovo procured from Governor Trum- bull's diary in Connecticut Historical Society's rooms.
+ Names obliterated on records,
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1871, V. R. C. Giddings ; 1872, F. J. Beardsley ; 1873, Edward L. Wells; 1874, Charles B. Curtis ; 1875, Lewis Beardsley ; 1876, Charles B. Curtis ; 1877-79, F. J. Beardsley.
The early inhabitants evidently manifested an interest in the care of their records, as the following shows:
" The Town at a lawful meeting ye 24th May 1671 Voted and agreed yt yr shall bee a small chest provided at ye charge of ye Town wth a suffi- cient Lock for ye securing of all Records or other writings yt arc of con- cernment either for ye Town in Gen" or any particular Inhabitant of ye Town.
" Pr JOHN MINOR, " Recorder."
EAR-MARKS.
The following are specimens of the ear-marks used in the early days to distinguish cattle, sheep, etc. :
" Samuel Ilawley of North Stratford his ear mark a slit in ye near ear and a half penny each side the right ear. Recorded Feby 25 1760.
"Capt Robt Fairchilds ear mark for his Creatures is a Swallow fork on ye end of ye Right car & a half penny & a nick on ye upper side of ye Left ye nick Toward ye end of ye ear & Recorded June ye 7th 1758."
BOROUGH OF WEST STRATFORD.
The borough of West Stratford was organized July 3, 1873. According to the charter the first officers held office for sixteen months, and the annual election to take place thereafter the first Monday in December every year. The first officers for 1873 and 1874 were: Warden, W. A. Lewis; Burgesses, Alfred Beers, Jas. Bounds, E. B. Peck, John French, William H. Bun- nell, and Harvey Birdsey; Clerk, Charles H. Hin- man ; Treasurer, H. B. Drew ; Collector, D. C. Wood; Bailiff, H. T. Quire; Registrars of Voters, J. R. Lock- wood and Frank Bacon. Officers for 1875: Warden, W. A. Lewis; Burgesses, Alfred Beers, Harvey Bird- sey, William Meachem, Thomas Lewis, Allen Gregory, and T. V. Boyden ; Clerk, Charles H. Hinman; Treas- urer, H. B. Drew; Collector, Albert Thompson ; Bail- iff, H. T. Quire; Registrars of Voters, William F. Thompson and F. O. Reilly ; Inspectors of Election, J. W. Bradley and William Lord. Officers for 1876: Warden, Alfred Beers; Burgesses, S. H. Danks, Allen Gregory, Charles L. Beach, Wiliam Lord, and H. G. B. Cuzner; Clerk, Charles H. Hinman ; Collector, George Bertine; Treasurer, H. B. Drew; Bailiff, Peter Umstratter; Registrars of Voters, J. R. Lockwood and C. E. Sherwood ; Inspectors of Election, William B. Blake and William A. Mills. Officers for 1877: Warden, E. B. Peck ; Burgesses, William H. Bunnell, Allen Gregory, H. G. B. Cuzner, Leonard Wells, Miles B. Beardsley, and George H. Zink; Clerk, Charles Riddle; Treasurer, H. B. Drew; Bailiff, William B. Youngs; Collector, Lyman S. Catlin; Registrars of Voters, J. W. Bradley and William Lord ; Inspectors of Election, W. F. Thompson and J. R. Lockwood. Officers for 1878 : Warden, H. G. B. Cuzner ; Burgesses, Alfred Beers, S. O. Canfield, George H. Zink, C. H. Huntoon, William Waterhouse, and Burr Jelliff; Clerks, A. C. Ellis (six months), Charles H. Hinman (six months); Treasurer, H. B. Drew; Collector, George Bertine; Bailiff, W. H. Beardsley ; Registrars of Voters, J. R. Lockwood and C. E. Sherwood;
Inspectors of Election, H. O. Lund and Charles Meachem. Officers for 1879: Warden, R. T. Jen- nings; Burgesses, George Lewis, Theodore Quitmeyer, E. Siviter, Burr Jelliff, and D. C. Wood; Clerk, Charles H. Hinman ; Treasurer, H. B. Drew; Bailiff, W. H. Beardsley ; Collector, George Bertine; Registrars of Voters, J. R. Lockwood and C. E. Sherwood ; Inspec- tors of Election, F. B. Coffin and Charles Meachem. Officers for 1880: Warden, George H. Zink, Sr .; Bur- gesses, A. M. Scott, John S. Fray, Wheeler Hawley, James Bounds, William S. Burr, and Harvey Birdsey ; Clerk, Charles H. Hinman; Treasurer, H. B. Drew ; Collector, George Bertine; Bailiff, George Baker ; Inspectors of Election, William F. Thompson and William Lord, Jr .; Registrars of Voters, F. V. D. Bogart and J. R. Hull. V. R. C. Giddings has been the borough attorney since its organization.
The number of inhabitants of the borough is about two thousand, according to the present census. The school-house in the lower district has four teachers, with about two hundred and ninety scholars, regular attendance, and the school in the upper district, two hundred scholars regular. There have been about thirty new houses added to the borough during the past three years.
The Rogers and Brittin Silver Company, located in this town, has a capital of $50,000, with an author- ized capital of $250,000. F. D. Rogers is President, F. W. Brittin, Vice-President, S. T. Rogers, Secretary, and E. L. Brittin, Treasurer. This company manu- factures the finest quality of nickel silver " flat ware," spoons, forks, ladles, etc., plated and in the metal. It is a new industry for this section, and justly merits its present success.
STRATFORD OF TO-DAY.
"The village has never been stirred by those uneasy activities which overturn other New England towns, or if an impulse so little akin to its habits and traditions has been felt, it was sure to result in dis- integration, and Stratford has cast off its unruly suburbs, with their enterprises and industries and ambitions. Our Stratford has known no bustles, no excitements, no competitions; no coarse stimulus has intruded into its life. The motto of the place and the expression of its repose has been from the beginning, 'Surtout point de zèle.'
" Hence one feels more than one sees in the old town. Its wide grass-bordered streets,-almost lawns in themselves,-its immemorial elms, which arch above the silent walks, its glimpses of the wide ma- jestic river, the harbor and Sound, with the blue shores of Long Island on the far horizon,-all have as many suggestions to the mind and the imagination as to the senses, and the happiness one gains in the place has its roots in the finest perceptions. Main Street, canopied by a leafy dome of elms, runs the entire length of the town; after passing the 'Upper Green' it becomes no longer a village street, but a
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picturesque country road, wending through wooded nooks and along the banks of the Housatonic into the shadows and silence of the forests. Thus on the north Stratford merges its genuine characteristics in New England hill and river scenery, but on the south stretches a lazy length to listen to the murmur of the sea. Below the Neck are the broad salt meadows, scarcely above the sea line, leveling away to the horizons, through which wind creeks, the water level with the banks at high tide, while at the ebb the sides arc left perpendicular, black, and barc. Here grows the salt-grass, dry, stiff, glistening, drowned twice a day by the sea and scorched by the suns, until the farmers cut it and carry it home in great thrifty-looking loads, which creep, a monotonous procession, through the quiet streets under the long shadows toward sunset on September days. Then the meadows, green before, take on mellow antumn tints-warm browns, russet, orange, crimson-and, traversed by wandering shadows on autumn days, these wide monotonous spaces have a beauty and a poetry of their own.
"The chief streets of the village were originally laid out sixteen rods wide. Each generation has en- croached a little on the broad stretches of green- sward, but they still remain of wonderful width, and, played over by the shadows and the sunshine which flickers through the branches of the lofty trees, give an impression of illimitable distances and massive re- pose. Stratford set ont to be a city, and was carefully surveyed and laid out in squares; and it is a melan- choly thought that instead of fulfilling its destiny, a city it might have become except for the lucky acci- dent that its harbor was neither so broad nor so deep as that of Bridgeport, which lies a few miles westward. As a city it might have been surpassed by others, and the distinction of the strange, soft charm which now wins the eye and fixcs the place in the heart would have been lost.
"The Housatonic River widens at its outlet and makes a beautiful bay, which is called 'the harbor.' The river deserves more than a passing word. Until its waters near the sca they flow through a picturesque, mountainous region, which contains some of the most charming scenery of New England. But by the time it begins to feel the languid pulse of the tide it spreads its waters, washing banks rich in all pastorial beauties, and seeming no longer a river, but an arm of the sea. The apparent breadth of the bay is diminished by the low-lying sedgy banks of Well's Island, and to the east Milford Beach runs down its long white taper fingers, fringed with glistening shoals. Then open the far horizons of the Sound, spreading into distances of deep pure color except in the farthest verges, where Long Island shows, or the illimitable waste merges into pale, misty opal tints.
" Whatever commerce once came into Stratford harbor has almost passed away, and except for a few sloops and schooners discharging cargoes of coal, and
an occasional obstreperous steam-tog, it is now less devoted to the larger maritime enterprises than to pleasure-parties and amateur fishermen. Yachts and sail-boats, clean-cut sharpeys, and catamarans sug- gesting phantoms of a wreck, chase each other up and down the bay on a summer's day, cross and re- cross, tacking, jibing, careening from morning till night. Then in the oyster-season a brisk traffic is carried on, and the waters are covered with a flotilla of odd-looking craft buying up loads of baby oysters for bedding."-Mrs. Kirk.
MILITARY RECORD. FIRST REGIMENT. Company L.
Louis Thomas, enl. Jan. 5, 1864.
John Coburn, enl. April 28, 1864; must. out July 8, 1865.
William Harvey, enl. March 31, 1864.
Charles Pearl, enl. Jan, 2, 1864.
Keron Sweeney, enl. April 1, 1864.
George Wilson, enl. Jan. 2, 1864.
SECOND LIGIIT BATTERY.
William M. Barnum, enl. July 31, 1862; disch. March 24, 1863. Burr W. Cosier, enl. Aug. 5, 1862; disel. March 3, 1863.
Anson W. Dart, enl. March 6, 1862; died March 30, 1863.
George W. Hazard, enl. Ang. 1, 1862; must, out Aug. 9, 1865.
Jolin C. Newton, enl. Aug. 6, 1862; died Dec. 20, 1864.
James A. Peck, enl. Aug. 6, 1862 ; died April 24, 1863. Charles F. Roberts, enl. Aug. 2, 1862; must. ont Aug. 9, 1865. Henry Roberts, enf. Aug. 12, 1862; must. out Aug. 9, 1865. George II. Spall, enl. Ang. 6, 1862; must. ont Aug. 9, 1865. William B. Sniffin, enl. July 31, 1862 ; must. out Aug. 9, 1865. Edmund Thompson, enl. July 8, 1862; must. out Aug. 9, 1865.
William B. Wilcoxon, enl. Aug. 6, 1862; must. out May 23, 1865. Samuel Blair, enl. Jan. 4, 1864.
ARTILLERY. Company B.
Dewitt F. Clinton, enl. May 22, 1861.
Company F.
William Murphey, enl. May 23; wounded May, 1864; disch. May 22, 1864.
Company M.
Frederick E. Bassett, enl. Feb. 4, 1862 ; re-enl. Feb. 5, 1864.
John B. Beardsley, enl. Feb. 4, 1862; disch. Feb. 4, 1865.
Charles E. Beers, enl. Feb. 4, 1862; re-enl. Feb. 5, 1864; must. out Sept. 25,1865.
Charles E. Curtis, enl. March 5, 1862 ; re-enl. Feb. 5, 1864; must. out Sept. 25,1865.
Stiles J. Peck, enl. Feb. 7, 1862; re-enl. Fch. 5, 1864; must. out Sept. 25, 1865.
Francis O. Wheeler, enl. Feb. 18, 1862 ; re-enl. Feb. 5, 1864; must. out Sept. 25, 1865.
SECOND ARTILLERY. Company B.
Isaac Beardsley, enl. Jan. 5, 1864.
Company K.
Charles A. Johnson, enl. Jan. 1, 1864; died Oct. 20, 1864.
William Lee, enf. Feb. 8, 1864.
James Shay, enl. Feb. 8, 1864.
Frederick J. Booth, enl. July 22, 1861 ; disch. July 22, 1864.
Otis G. Lewis, enl. July 22, 1861 ; disch. July 22, 1864.
Abram T. Peck, enl. July 22, 1861; re-eul. Dec. 21, 1863; must. out July 19, 1865.
William H. Wheaton, enl. July 22, 1861 ; disch. for disability Oct. 1, 1861.
SIXTH REGIMENT INFANTRY.
Company B.
Dexter W. Ingalls, enl. Jan. 30, 1862; died June 23, 1864.
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Company E.
James F. King, enl. Nov. 15, 1864; must. out Aug. 21, 1865. Thomas Quigley, eul. Nov. 17, 1864 ; must. out Aug. 21, 1865. George Kotbe, enl. Dec. 2, 1864.
Company I.
Roderick S. Beers, enl. Sept. 5, 1861 ; must. out Sept. 11, 1864. William H. Binton, enl. Sept. 5, 1861; must. out Sept. 11, 1864. Robert C. Peck, enl. Aug. 26, 1862; died July 20, 1863. John Raygan, enl. Nov. 17, 1864; must. out Aug. 21, 1865. John Smith, enl. Feb. 6, 1864; must. out May 24, 1865.
EIGHTH REGIMENT. Company E.
Edwin W. Bassett, enl. Sept. 25, 1861 ; re-enl. Dec. 24, 1863. John Clark, enl. Nov. 19, 1864 ; must. out Dec. 12, 1865.
Unossigned Recruits.
Thomas Fitzgerald, enl. Feb. 9, 1864.
NINTII REGIMENT.
Company I.
Charles S. Palmer, first lieutenant; com. Oct. 30, 1861; pro. to captain; res. May 17, 1863.
Pierce D. Colburn, corporal ; enl. Oct. 1, 1861 ; re-enl. Jan. 6, 1864; trans. to Co. D ; must. out Aug. 3, 1865.
George F. Cooke, enl. Oct. 1, 1861; re-enl. Feb. 28, 1864; trans. to Co. D; must. out Aug. 3, 1865.
Company K.
David A. Slawson, enl. March 26, 1862; died July 22, 1862.
ELEVENTH REGIMENT.
Company A.
Henry Snow, enl. Dec. 15, 1864 ; must. out Dec. 21, 1865.
Company B.
Frank Terry, enl. Nov. 17, 1864.
Compony H.
Charles Joncs, enl. Nov. 26, 1864.
Compony K.
John W. Hale, enl. Feb. 16, 1864.
James Lorman, enl. Nov. 28, 1864.
TWELFTH REGIMENT. Company B.
George H. Nash, enl. Nov. 20, 1861; re-enl. Jan. 1, 1864; killed Oct. 19, I864.
Compony C.
Augustine Gray, enl. Dec. 19, 1861 ; re-enlisted; pro. to first lieutenant; must. out Aug. 12, 1865.
Frederick W. Judson, enl. Jan. 15, 1862; killed Oct. 27, 1862.
FOURTEENTH REGIMENT. Company A.
Oscar R. Beers, enl. Aug. 1, 1862; disch. April 20, 1863. James H. Bartram, enl. Aug. 12, 1862; died in hospital (must. out roll). Hanford Curtis, enl. July 26, 1862; died Dec. 15, 1862. Benjamiu Curtis, eul. July 26, 1862; died June 9, 1863.
Francis R. Curtis, enl. July 31, 1862; disch. March 10, 1863.
Albert DeForrest, enl. July 26, 1862; pro. to second lieutenant; must. out May 31, 1865.
SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT.
Robert C. McEwen, first assistant surgeon ; com. Aug. 16, 1862; res. Sept. 30, 1863.
Compony C.
Thomas O'Brien, enl. Feb. 9, 1864; must. out July 19, 1865.
Compony D.
William H. Keeler, corporal; enl. July 25, 1862; must. out July 19, 1865.
John R. Booth, enl. Aug. 7, 1862; killed July 1, 1863.
Selab G. Blakeman, enl. July 29, 1862; must. out July 19, 1865.
Henry J. Blakeman, enl. May 29, 1862 ; must. out July 19, 1865. Charles H. Clark, enl. July 29, 1862; disch. April 10, 1863.
Stephen C. Crofut, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; killed July 1, 1863. George H. Gregory, enl. Aug. 8, 1862; must. out July 19, 1865. George W. Keeler, enl. July 23, 1862; must. out July 19, 1865. Jobn N. Munger, enl. July 29, 1862 ; died Feb. 13, 1863.
Company G. Wilson French, first lieutenant; com. Aug. 11, 1862; pro .. to captain ; disch. May 15, 1865.
TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT. Company I. Edwin L. Woodin, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 ; disch. Aug. 31, 1863.
TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT. Compony H.
John L. Williams, enl. Dec. 30, 1863. George Williams, enl. Dec. 30, 1863 ; must. out Oct. 24, 1865.
Company I.
Edwin Freeman, musician; enl. Jan. 2, 1864 ; must. out Oct. 24, 1865. Boston White, enl. Jan. 4, 1864 ; must. out Oct. 24, 1865.
THIRTIETH REGIMENT. Company C.
John Banks, enl. Feb. 4, 1864 ; must. out Nov. 7, 1865. John Steddler, enl. Feb. 8. 1864; must. out Nov. 7, 1865. Lame Suttles, enl. Feb. 8, 1864 ; killed July 30, 1864.
THIRTY-FIRST REGIMENT. Compony F.
John McIntosh, enl. March 31, 1864.
CHAPTER LXXIX.
TRUMBULL.
Geographical-Topographical-List of Pioneers-Early Physicians-First Marriages-First Births-Schools-The Revolution-War of 1812- The Revolution of 1809-The Whipping-Post-Post-offices-The Birth- place of Professor Benjamin Sillhuan.
THE town of Trumbull is located in the southeast- ern part of the county, and is bounded as follows : On the north by Mouroe; on the east by Huntington and Stratford ; on the south by Stratford and Bridge- port ; and on the west by Easton.
The surface of this town is diversified with hills and valleys, and the soil is generally fertile and pro- ductive.
As will be seen by reference to a following chapter in the history of this town, Trumbull originally com- prised a portion of the old town of Stratford, and the first settlements were doubtless made soon after the settlement of the mother-town.
THE PIONEERS.
The following is a list of early settlers who were here as early as 1731 : Nathan Hawley, David Booth, Thos. Peet, Elijah Nickolls, David Calhoun, William Hawley, Ephraim Booth, Daniel Beach, Josiah Beach, Thos. White, Oliver Hawley, Stephen Mallory, Amos Elmer, Abraham Nickolls, Thios. Lake, John Fair- child, Edward Lake, David Lake, John Nickolls, James Peet, John Sunderland, John Sherwood, Daniel Sherwood, Israel Beach, and Ebenezer Hurd.
Other early settlers were James Beech, A. Salmon, Elijah Turncy, Isaac Harris, Samuel B. Edwards,
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Michael Seeley, Joseph Wheeler, Salmon Mallett, Minor Higby, Eli Nichols, Robt. Mallett, Stephen A. Gregory, John Giles, Thaddeus Bennett, Eli Plumb, John Nichols, Jr., Benj. Reech, Jonathan Nichols, Philo Peet, Silas Harris, Elijah E. Curtis, James Beardslee, Jr.," Reuben P. Seeley, Solomon Peet, David Fairchild, Z. Thorp, Gurdon Sterling, Thomas Stratton, Samuel Clark, Elijah Harris, Josiah North- rop, John B. Hons.
At an election for members of Congress, held in April, 1800, one hundred and sixty-seven votes were cast.
In the early history of the towu it was ordered that whoever desired to become a resident must subscribe the freeman's oath, as it was called, and under date of April 2, 1792, " the following gentlemen were ad- mitted freemen by taking the oath: Abijah Curtis, Sherman Edwards, Elijah Beech, Peter Summers, Andrew Lewis, Eli Edwards, Nehemiah K. Edwards, Abijah Edwards, Abijah Uffoot, David Mallett, Jr., Jos. Mallett, Jr., David Edwards, Jr., Thos. Ward, Abraham Middlehawk, Seth Mallett, Elijah Beecli, Jr., Amos Osborn, Zachariah Mallett, Lewis Edwards, Joseph Gregory, and Abijah l'eet. Recorded by Eliakim Beech, Clerk."
In the following September the following gentle- men were admitted freemen by taking the freeman's oath : Z. Fairweather, Robt. Middlebook, Nathaniel Beech, Jr., Andrew Curtis, Jos. Hawley, Hezekiah Curtis, Jr., Nathan N. Peet, Elnathan Turney, John Peter, John Cogeshall, Ephraim Peter, David Sher- man, Nathaniel Beech (3d), John R. Gregory, Z. Mallett, Jr.
In 1799 the following were admitted as free- men : John Nichols, Wooster Hurnston, Elijah Booth, Samuel Haine, Eli Burton, Benjamin Turney, Joseph Hamblin, Joseph Burton, Jr., David Peet, Thomas Hawley, Abijah Hawley, David Middle- brook, Gideon Peet, Jr., Ephraim Middlebrook, Daniel Hawley, Thaddeus Jinnings, Joseph Sterling, Lewis Fairchild, Jr., Daniel Waklee, Alford Beech, Sillie Summers, Nehemialı Fairchild, Levi Summers, David Sherwood, Robert Dashum, Jonathan Tongue, Jr., Eli Starr, Ira Summers, Daniel Barel, Silas Beardslee, Isaac Palichar, Daniel Turney, Joseph Wetmore, Eli Tongue, Eben Beach, Philo Beers, Thomas Daskam, F. Sherwood, James Downs, Silas Beach, Burr Silliman, Abel S. Beach, Hezekiah Nichols, Thomas Peet, Nathan N. Walker, Joseph E. Mallett, and Abraham Brinsmade.
EARLY PHYSICIANS.
One of the earliest physicians, and probably the first in the town, was Stephen Middlebrook, father of Dr. Elijah Middlebrook. The latter, famous as the publisher of " Middlebrook Almanac," was in active practice here about half a century.
* Ileretofore spelled in the records Bardsle ...
Among other physicians are mentioned the names of Daniel Beard, Isaac Jennings, Daniel Ufford, and George Dyer. There is but one physician now resi- dent of the town, Dr. Seth Hill, at Tashua.
FIRST MARRIAGES.
The following is a list of a few of the first mar- riages, as kept by Rev. Mr. Miner, who was pastor of the church in 1731 : Jeremiah Johnson and Zipporah Mallory, Ebenezer Hurd and Abigail Hubbell, Jos. Lake and Deborah Jackson, James Phippenne and Hannah Smith, Isaac Jackson and Rachel Niekolls, Samuel Shelton and Abigail Nickolls, John Middle- brook and Eunice Bostwick, Israel Munger and May Brinsmead, Andrew Booth and Saralı Patterson.
FIRST BIRTHS.
The following is a record of the first births in this town, and in 1731: Lois Hawley, Esther Miner, Ann Booth, Nathan Peet, Jonathan Nickolls, James Cal- houn, Charity Booth, Elijah Beach, Ann Beach, Sarah White, Ichabod Hawley, Ogden Mallory, Ann Elmer, Abram Nickolls, and Lucy Lake.
The old parish record of North Stratford (Trum- bull) shows that "Peggy, negro servant of Ensign William Peet, was baptized June 27, 1731."
SCHOOLS.
The first merchant in town was Stephen Middle- brook, who kept where John Beardsley now lives. Eliakim Beach kept a store at Trumbull, and Robert Nichols was in trade at Nichol's Farms.
THE REVOLUTION.
The following is a copy of an interesting Revolu- tionary doenment now in the possession of L. N. Middlebrook, Esq., of Bridgeport :
" North Stratford,f Marel 11th, 1778.
"The following is an exact account of the donations of the parish . of North Stratford for the Continental soldiers in the southern army, Valley Ford, belonging to this place sent down by Lient. Beebe, being fifteen in number, to be divided equally between them, viz. the following persons: John Downs, Jeames Downs, Abraham Hawley, Truman French, William Dascomb, Daniel Evis, Nathan Hawley, Renben Beach, Joel Mosher, John Craford, Samuel Henman, Daniel Sherwood, Toney Turney, Cæsar Edwards, and Nero Hawley.
" Tho following persons were the donors :
£ s. d.
Daniel Beers
0 1 10
Jonathan Beers
0 3 0
Nathaniel Mosour.
0
0
David Stratton.
0 3 0
Hawkins Nichols.
0 3 0
Daniel Turney.
3
0
David Turney
0
Elnathan Turney ........
0 2
0
John Turney.
19
0
Robert Turney
0 5
Gideon Port.
0
9
John Hains.
0
3
Thaddens Barsley
0
3
David French.
0
4
0
John Burton ..
0
6
0
Ichabod Ilawley
0) 5
0
Eliakim Beech
0 6
Daniel Beech
0
3
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David Barsley.
1
9
James Bardsley
9
3
0
Samnel French
5
0
David Edwards, Jr.
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£ 8. d.
Thomas Edward's wife.
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Joshua Henman ...
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John Beech ..
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Ruben Sherwood ..
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6
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Enoch Henman
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Josiah Henman
6
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Samuel Turney.
0
3
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Joseph Burroughs
0
5
0
Samuel Edwards.
0
3
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Edmon Curtis.
0
3
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Gashom Turney
0
3
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Ephraim Sterling
0 12 0
Peter Beers
0) 1 0
Stephen Middlebrook
0
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" The subscribers that gave cheese :
fbs.
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Daniel Salmon
5
4
Jabez Beech.
3 12
Mrs. Starling.
4
4
Mrs. Beech
4
12
Joseph Burton.
7
4
Benjamin Burton
G
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John French
6
8
John Wealer.
6
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Josiah Henman.
5
0
John Edwards, 3d.
G
0
David Edwards, 3d.
6
0
John Edwards, 4th
5
0
Abigal Mosour.
4
2
70
10
Eliakim Walker.
5
4
" Subscribers for gammon :
Andrew Beech.
1
8
Abel Beech
4 0
William Burrit.
neat tongue
Mrs. Hinman
2
8
Josiah Hinman ..
4
8
John Hinman.
4
12
Ruben Sherwood.
5
8
John Turney
4
0
Agur Becch
4
4
31
0
"Small packs sent :
Ibs.
OZ.
By Elnathan Seeley
15
4
" Daniel Hawley
6
0
" Andrew Hawley.
8
8
" Peter Lewis' pack
4
8
" North Stratford, 12th March, 1778.
"Then received of Mr. Stephen Middlebrook, the sum of seven pounds three shillings and ten pence, lawful money, for the purpose of paying the expense of transporting a donation in provisions, from the parish of North Stratford, to the Continental soldiers of that Parish, Gen. Wash- ington's Headquarters.
" Pr. JAMES BEEBEE,
"Captain."
WAR OF 1812.
Although none of the citizens of this town were en- gaged in the battles of the war of 1812, still they held themselves ready to respond to their country's call, and many whose names we are unable now to obtain joined a military organization then stationed at New London.
At the close of the war, when the treaty of Ghent was announced, it created a wild enthusiasm in this vicinity. A very enthusiastic celebration was held at Trumbull church, and a pole was raised amid the re- joicing of the people. Old inhabitants still refer to this celebration with patriotic pride. It is evident that the people of Trumbull were alive to the issucs of the day, for under date March 15, 1809, they ex- press themselves in the following trenchant manner concerning the "measures pursued by the general government." David Beardslee was chairman of the meeting, and Abijah Uffort and Noah Plumb reported the following resolutions :
" At the present momentous and alarming crisis,
when the black clouds of invasion and insurrection darken our political horizon, it becomes the indispu- table duty of every good citizen to rally round the altar of Freedom reared by the valor of our fathers and defend it against the savage insolence of foreign despots and the nefarious cabals of domestic traitors.
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