History of Litchfield county, Connecticut, Part 51

Author: J.W. Lewis & Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1532

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Nov. 15, 1859, the bell, weighing two thousand one hundred and ninety pounds, and costing seven hun- dred dollars, was put in position. On the morning of Feb. 10, 1860, by a severe gale, the spire was blown over, carrying the bell with it, and one-third of the roof was crushed in by its fall. Nearly a year was occupied in making repairs and in building the pres- ent spire, at a total cost of about three thousand dol- lars. The chuch was re-entered for worship Jan. 6, IS61.

In July, 1864, Edward R. Beardsley, on behalf of numerous subscribers, reported that two thousand dollars had been raised to purchase an organ, and asked permission of the society to place it in the gal- lery. It was dedicated on the first Sabbath of Janu- ary, 1865. The parsonage was purchased May 23, 1864, for two thousand five hundred dollars.

March 10, 1873, the society voted to make extensive repairs upon the church, chapel, and parsonage, re- sulting in the frescoes and carpet of the former and the comfortable and enlarged accommodations of the latter, at a cost of about four thousand dollars. The whole expense, thus far, of the lots, buildings, and improvements, is not far;from thirty thousand dollars.

Deacons .- Jan. 26, 1854, Elliot Beardsley and John Hinsdale were chosen deacons. The former served until his resignation, March 20, 1856, and on the 3d of April following Thomas Watson was elected, and held the office until Dec. 31, 1874. Dec. 6, 1869, Everett C. Holmes and Aaron T. Case were chosen. Dec. 31, 1874, George M. Carrington was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Watson.

Pastors .- The first pastor, Rev. Charles H. A. Bulk- ley, was installed on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 1854. After a pastorate of four years and four months he was dis- missed, April 5, 1859.

An interval of two years occurred, after which the second pastor, Rev. Hiram Eddy, was installed, on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1861. In June, 1861, he was granted leave of absence for two months to accept the Governor's appointment of chaplain in the Second Connectient Volunteers. He was taken prisoner at Bull Run, suffered severely in rebel prisons at Rich- mond and elsewhere for more than a year, and at length returned to his pulpit, which had been supplied in his absence by the society and neighboring minis- ters for the benefit of his family. His pastorate of four years and cight months was closed by his dis- mission, Oct. 16, 1865. Eight months later the third pastor, Rev. Charles Wetherby, was installed, on the 14th of June, 1866. After a pastorate of five years

and four months he was dismissed, Oct. 18, 1871. For a year and four months following the church was served by Rev. M. B. Angier and others, until the in- stallation of the fourth pastor, Rev. L. H. Hallock, Feb. 13, 1873.

The offerings of the church for benevolent objects, during the twenty-one years of its existence, amount to about thirty thousand dollars.

The present officers, Dec. 31, 1880, are as follows : Pastor, Rev. L. H. Hallock, installed Feb. 13, 1873 ; Deacons, Everett C. Holmes, George M. Carrington, John Hinsdale, Samuel B. Forbes; Secretary and Treasurer, John Hinsdale.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH .*

It is now nearly one hundred years since the first Methodist preachers entered Litchfield County. Litch- field circuit, which embraced a wide extent of terri- tory, first appears in the Conference Minutes in the year 1790. The eloquent Freeborn Garretson was the presiding elder, and the preachers of the circuit were Samuel Wigton and Henry Cristie. The first preach- ing by Methodist preachers in the Winsted valley was probably a few years earlier than 1790, and as no private houses in those days were opened for the itinerants, it is likely that here, as elsewhere in New England, the first sermon was preached in the opeu air. But the seed thus sown bore abundant fruit, and a Methodist Church was organized, and was in active operation several years before the existence of any other church organization in Winsted. In those days the country round about was a wilderness, and the manufacturing wealth of Winsted only included two saw-mills, a forge, a grist-mill, and a factory for turn- ing wooden dishes and bowls. The first store-keeper was Elisha Lewis, and the first hotel was built by a Mr. Wheeler, and kept by him till the year 1800.

The first meetings of the Methodists were held in private houses of the members ; then the red school- house on Spencer Street was employed, and in 1807 a lot near the school-house was purchased from Merit Bull, on which was erected the first Methodist church in Winsted. The edifice was raised and completed under the direction of Col. Samuel Hoadley as chief builder. That first church, the scene of many spiritual triumphs and a Bethel to many noble men and women, was found sufficient for the wants of the community till 1834, when it was outgrown by the steadily-increasing society, and the present large and commodious church was built on Main Street.

In the early days Methodism was an unwelcome in- truder among the pastures of Congregational ortho- doxy in New England, and Litchfield County was not an exception. The following extract, taken from the church records of the Winsted Methodist Church, not only throws light on the spirit of those times, but also refers to the early connection of the celebrated Coe

* Contributed by Rev. J. Pullman.

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family with Methodism : "The first Methodist meet- ings were held in private houses, and were largely attended by young people, often to the grief and scan- dal of their parents. Jehiel Coe, now in his seven- tieth year, relates that at one of those meetings Jonathan Coe, Jr., was happily converted, but his good mother was offended at his joining the Meth- odists. For her sake, and that the family might be able to hear and judge for themselves, it was planned that the next Methodist service should be held in the house of the young convert. At the meeting Jona- than's grandfather, both aged and blind, sat as a wor- shiper and listened to the sermon. At the close of the sermon the old man rose and said, 'This is a man of God.' The mother was soon after converted and joined her son, and she was followed by other mem- bers of the family. The Coe house from that time became the home of the itinerants, and the family in its rapidly-multiplying branches became firm and active supporters of the rising Methodist Church."

The Winsted Methodist Church has had the ser- vices of many of the most eminent preachers of its de- nomination, among whom the following may be men- tioned : Jesse Lee, Freeborn Garretson, Danicl Os- trander, and Nathan Bangs as presiding elders, and Aaron Hunt, Laban Plark, Charles Sherman, Daniel Smith, Davis W. Clark, Seymour London, and Eben- ezer Washburn as pastors.

The present condition of the church is one of pros- perity. There are two hundred and fifty members and a flourishing Sunday-school, of which Charles J. York is superintendent. The parsonage is a commo- dions and elegant home for its pastors. The church also has a fund which aids in meeting current ex- penses.

Among the prominent members of the church at present are Edward Manchester, C. J. York, L. C. Colt, C. S. Foster, Lucius Griswold, S. A. Granger, A. II. Snow, P. G. Sheldon, Eugene Potter, George White, and J. E. Dean. Rev. Joseph Pullman is the pastor.

ST. JAMES' CHURCUI.

The first stated worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Winsted was begun in 1847, by Rev. II. Frisbie, and some funds were then raised for a church edifice. During the following year arrangements were made for building a church, and a location was agreed on. The present Episcopal church was soon after contracted for, and was completed in October, 1848; and on the 27th day of that month the parish of St. James was legally organized by choice of Rev. Jonathan Coe, Jr., rector ; James R. Coc and Uriel Spencer, Jr., wardens; and Dr. John L. Wakefield, Hon. William S. Holabird, and Alexander Durgin, vestrymen. The church was consecrated the same autumn. Rev. Jonathan Coe, Jr., was succeeded in 1864 by Rev. James W. Coe, who officiated for one year. In 1856, Rev. James R. Coe, brother of the first rector, was chosen rector, and officiated as such

until 1860, when he was succeeded by Rev. David H. Short, who remained about two years, after which the parish was for some time supplied by Rev. J. D. Berry, D.D., of Litchfield. In 1866, Rev. William H. Williams was chosen rector and served two years ; and was succeeded by Rev. William H. Lewis, Jr., who remained until May, 1870, when Rev. D. P. San- ford took charge of the parish. The present rector is Rev. G. M. Stanley.

ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCHI.

Boyd, in his "Annals of Winchester," states that Roman Catholic worship was instituted in Winsted in 1851 by Rev. James Lynch, who resided at Bir- mingham, in New Haven County, and occasionally visited Winsted. Mass was celebrated in the school- house of the west district. Such was the inaugural step of what is now an extensive observation of Catholic rites over a large portion of Litchfield County, with Winsted as a centre. In 1852 land for the site of a church was seenred (the spot now occu- pied by St. Joseph's Church), the most prominent site in the borough of Winsted (eastern portion). In the same year (1852) Rev. Thomas Quinn, a native of Nova Scotia, and then a recent graduate of the Roman Catholic theological seminary at Fordham, N. Y., entered upon pastoral duties at Winsted, and com- menced the erection of St. Joseph's Church. Father Quinn was a man of fine gifts as a preacher and orator, and soon made himself felt in the community, and pushed on the work of church building rapidly, enlisting more or less aid from Protestant parties. Being appointed in 1853 to a more important field, he was succeeded in that year by Rev. Philip Guillick, a man of great resolution and of unusually fine talents as a persuasive preacher, who had already, through his remarkable successes, won the distinguishing so- briquet of "the great church-builder" among the priesthood far and wide. Father Guillick completed the building of the church under great difficulties, soliciting funds for it in various parts of the diocese of Hartford (which then included Connecticut and Rhode Island), and in New York.

Rev. Thomas Hendrickson, now bishop of Provi- dence, succeeded Father Guillick in 1854, but was transferred in 1855 to Waterbury, whereupon Rev. Richard O'Gorman succeeded him in the pastorate of St. Joseph's. In 1856, Rev. Lawrence Mangan suc- ceeded Father O'Gorman, and the former was suc- ceeded in 1860 by Rev. Daniel Mullen, who on the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion was trans- ferred to the chaplaincy of the Ninth Regiment Con- neetieut Volunteers. In 1861, Rev. Philip Riordan was appointed to the pastorate of the church, and re- mained in charge till 1864, when Rev. Father Leo da Saracena, of the order of St. Francis d'Assisi (and who had succeeded the Rev. Mullen as chaplain of the Ninth Regiment), was appointed to the pastorate by Bishop McFarland.

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HISTORY OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT.

During the various pastorates above mentioned, the Catholics of the towns of Litchfield, Goshen, Torring- ton (Wolcottville), Norfolk, Colebrook's River, in Connecticut, and New Boston, Mass., had been more or less frequently, and finally regularly, served from St. Joseph's. On the advent of Father Leo a some- what new order of things was established, and, while the towns mentioned continued to receive the same service from Winsted, St. Joseph's was still more thoroughly administered. Father Leo began at once to distinguish his administration by greater labors for his parish than had been bestowed upon it before. He purchased additional lands, adjoining the site of St. Joseph's, with buildings thereon, which were con- verted into a school-house and residence for the sisters of the third order of St. Francis, by whom a school was organized, a large number of children being in attend- ance. In 1866, after further purchase of land for his order, the erection of a large brick building was com- meneed for the St. Francis Literary and Theological Seminary, the church itself being conveyed to the order by Bishop McFarland in November, 1866. In the same year lands to the north of the church, known as "the Grove," a beautiful wooded spot, was pur- chased, in order to erect thereon the now comely and artistic brick structure known as the Convent of St. Margaret of Cortona, in which an academy for fe- males is now conducted by the Franciscan sisters. The convent, monastery, and church occupy a com- manding position, and are seen from all portions of the town. The Rev. Fathers now (1881) in charge of the theological seminary and the church are Very Rev. Father Leo da Saracena, late Provincial Su- perior of the Franciscan order in the United States, and President of St. Bonaventure's College, in Alle- gany, N. Y. ; Rev. Father Edward Agoudi, O.S.F., of the Roman States, Italy ; and the Rev. Bernadine McCabe, O.S.F.

Since the advent to Winsted of the Franciscan order of Friars, a handsome Gothic church has been erected and a fine cemetery laid out in Litchfield; in Goshen a new church has been built, and the church in Norfolk rebuilt and enlarged ; in Wolcottville the church has been enlarged and a parochial residence bought, and a cemetery laid out; in the same a new parish established. The mission work at Colebrook and elsewhere is still vigorously prosecuted.

THE WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION

is a praiseworthy organization of leading ladies of Winsted, devoted to the temperance cause. Its pres- ent officers are as follows: President, Mrs. S. B. Forbes ; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Heury Gay, Mrs. Abel Snow, Mrs. Clarke Strong; Secretary, Miss Mary L. Catlin ; Treasurer, Mrs. M. A. Abbott.

CHAPTER XIX.

WINCHESTER (Continued).

Incorporation of the Town-First Town-Meeting-Officers Elected- Documentary Ilistory-List of Senators-Representatives-Judges of Probate-Town Clerks-Selectmen-Military Record.

INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN.

THE town of Winchester, consisting of the societies of Winchester* and Winsted, was incorporated in May, 1771, and July 22, 1771, the first town-meeting was held, when the following officers were elected : War- ham Gibbs, moderator; Eliphaz Alvord, town clerk ; Jonathan Alvord, Seth Hills, and Samuel Wetmore, Jr., townsmen ; Robert Mackune, treasurer ; Warham Gibbs, constable; Abram Filley, grand juryman ; Oliver Coe, Noah Gleason, and David Goff, surveyors of highways; Josiah Averit and Joseph Hoskin, fence-viewers ; Beriah Hills, David Austin, and Jona- than Coe, listers; Robert Mackune, leather-sealer; Adam Mott and Benoni Hills, tything-men.

" Voted, That David Austin's cow-yard be a pound for the present.

Voted, That a Maple-tree near the Meeting-House shall be a sign-post. David Austin chesen Key-keeper."

Names of settlers not a few appear on the land records who, after a short buffeting with hardships and discouragements, retired from the forbidding field, and large numbers of others fled to the rich lands of Western New York as soon as they became accessible. Among those who participated in the organization of the town, as far as it is possible to ascertain, were the following: Jonathan Alvord, Eli- phaz Alvord, David Austin, Josiah Avered, Benjamin Benedict, John Bradley, Oliver Coe, Jonathan Coe, Aaron Cook, Nathaniel Dutton, Abram Filley, Noah Gleason, Warham Gibbs, David Goff, Thomas Hos- mer, Jr., Seth Hills, Beriah Hills, Benoni Hills, Joseph Hoskin, John Hill, Simeon Loomis, Robert MCEwen, Adam Mott, Adam Mott, Jr., Ebenezer Preston, Enoch Palmer, Daniel Platt, Lemuel Stan- nard, Reuben Tucker, Samuel Wetmore, Jr., John Wright, Jr., Jesse Wilkinson, Lewis Wilkinson.

DOCUMENTARY HISTORY.

In 1774, " It was put to vote whether Lent Mott should be ao inhab- itant of this town, and it was veted in the negative."

" It was put to vote whether Widow Sarah Preston should be an io- habitant of this town, and it was veted in the negative."

" It was put to vote whether Benjamin Preston should bean inhabitant of this town, and it was veted in the negative."

"Winchester, October 9th, 1786. This may certify that Ihave received from the Society's Committee in full all that was due me from the So- ciety, from the beginning of the world to the year 1782.

" Witness my hand, JOSHUA KNAPP."

1791 TO 1801.

" Voted, That the selectmen be directed to take charge of Remembrance Filley, and conduct with him as they shall think most for his comfert, and will be least expensive to the town, whilst he remains in his present state of delirium, either to set him up at vendue to the person who will keep him the cheapest, or dispose of him in any other way which may appear to the selectmen more convenient, and for such time as they may think reasonable, and on the cost of the town."

* Winchester Society was incorporated io 1768, and Winsted Society in February, 1778.

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The record then states that "Ensign Bronson bid off Remembrance Filley at eight shillings per week, for two weeks, and at ten shillings for two weeks after," and "Samuel Wetmore (second) bid him off to keep him two weeks, at ten shillings per week." In this case the step may have been necessary and justi- fiable, by reason of the want of lunatic asylums at that early day. Another vote of the same meeting shows that the auctioning of paupers had not yet been fully adopted. It was voted

" That Daniel Loomis take the oversight of building the house of Ben- jamin l'reston, and inspect the labor done, and the stuff provided for said house, and make return to the selectmen."

As a specimen of the economical spirit of the town we extract the following :

" Voted, To sell the two Congress Laws and Kirby's Reports. Ensign Coe bid off one Congress Law, at ten shillings. Samuel Wetmore (second) bid off second Congress Law, at six and pinepence. Hewitt Hills bid off Kirby's Reports, at thirteen shillings."

" Toled, That not any person whatever, who shall de any service for the town the present year, shall be allowed to receive any reward there- for until he shall exhibit his account before the next annual town- meeting, and bave his acconot allowed by said meeting."

Another,

"To examine into the debts due to and from the town, and make out an exact statement of accounts respecting the town's debts and credite, and lay the same before the next town-meeting."

The society this year voted a tax of threepence on the pound, to enable the meeting-house committee to procure glass and nails ; to be paid in beef, cattle, or pork, or flaxseed, or one-quarter of it in butter or cheese, at the current market price, or in eash at a deduction of ten per cent.

The tax-list shows that there were four licensed taverns in the town in 1795, to wit : Samuel Hurlbut, in the house that stood at the Centre, on the site now occupied by the house of Samuel Hurlbut ; John Miner, in the house, between Winsted and Winches- ter, lately owned by Mrs. Almira Coe; Zerah Doo- little, in the old Pease house, that stood where North Main Street now runs, nearly in front of the house of Isaac B. Woodruff, in Winsted ; and Freedom Wright, in the Kelsey house, lately burned down, near the small pond on the old North country road.

The assessments of trades and professions this year (1797) were: Josiah Everitt and Joseph B. Elmore, physicians ; Fyler & Marshall and Holmes & Riley, traders ; Samuel Hurlbut, tavern-keeper; Lloyd An- drews and John Mc Alpine, joiners; Roger Barber, blacksmith ; Amasa Wade and Daniel Wells, tanners and shoemakers,-in old society. Isaac Wheeler and Freedom Wright, taverners; Hine Clemmons and Wait Ilills, blacksmiths; Jenkins & Loyd, scythe- makers; Asher Loomis, tanner, John Sweet and Chauncey Mills, millers,-in Winsted.

" V'oted, That every goose found in the highway, If any person shall fake up such goose and drive the same to the owner, or to pound, shall be entitled to receive two cents for each goose or gauder."

" l'oted, That nune that shall do business for the town, In the lown the year onsuing, shall have any wages therefor, except one meul of viet- uuls a day."

SENATORS.

Elliot Beardsley, 1853; James Beebe, 1836-37 ; John Boyd, 1854; Lucius Clarke, 1846; Samuel W. Coe, 1850; George Dudley, 1863; Gideon Ilall, Jr., 1847; Harry B. Steele.

REPRESENTATIVES .*

Name. First.

Last.

No.

Adams, Matthew.

1818

1831

Adams, Normand

1851

Alvord, Charles 1861

Alvord, Eliphaz. 1787

1811 11

Andrews, Daniel 1833

Andrews, Harvey

1858

Batcheller, Wheelock F.

1863

Beebe, James

1819

1826

Beecher, Rollin L

1846

1864

Benedict, Benjamin.

1787

1817

Bidwell, John W

1855

Bird, David

1852

Birdsall, James

1859

Bills, Henry A.

1874

Blake, Jonathan,

1851

1819

Boyd, John.

1830

1835

Bronson, Isaac.

1823

1832

Brouson, Isaac A

1866

7 1

Brown, Francis.

1867

Bull, Merrit.

1817

Camp, John ...

1844

1 1

Chase, Dudley

1857

Cleveland, George B.

1867

1 1

Coe, Jonathan, Jr.

18:22

1828

1839

Coe, Roger.

1814

1815

Coe, Willlam G

1859

1865

Cummings, J. T

1809

Drake, Inius.

1836

1837

Indley, George.

1881

Dutton, Mortimer E

1875

Fanning, John J

Ford, Nelson D ..

1878

Fyler, Florintond D ..

1872

Gaylord, Nathaniel B

1×16

1818

Gay, Henry ..

1875

Gay, Henry

1-77

Guy, Henry 1879

Gilbert, Alvin

1851

Gilbert, Willlum ]

1848

1869

Gilman, Elias E ..

1800

Greer, Samuel

1876

Hall, Gideon, Jr. 1838

1860

Hatch, Washington

Higley, Hornee.

1799

1806

ililla, luet.

1792

lillls, Seth.

1781

170.$

Hinsdale, Ilovea.

1821

linsdule, Theodore.

1:37

Holmes, Joseph

1814

Hubbard, Stoplion .A

1855

1810

Hurlant, Samuel

1×35

Hurlbut, Stephen.

Hunt, Orlow D> ...

1873

Jenkins, Benjamin. 18013

1804

loomis, Oliver ..

1834

Marsh, Joseph M.

1871

MeCune, Pavil

1791

McCuno, Robert

1781

1707

Millor, Joseph ..

1829

Moore, Ralph 11

1871

Moore, It. 11

1870

Munsill, Murens

1847

Noah, Alva .

1820

1830

Nellis, Edward A

188]

l'ettibone, Ira W

1NGH

PPhelpe, Paulel ..

1×18

1828

Phelps, Warren ...

IN12

l'Intt, Sylvester ..

1880

Itoberts, Harvey L

1871

('larke, Thon. MI

Rockwell, Alpha

1807

. Prevlous to the adoption of the constitution of 1818, two acsslona of the Legislature wore hell In each year,-In May and October.

Bronson, Theron ..

Bronson, William B

1857

Brownsoli, Ozins

1783

1784

Camp, Moses.

1865

Case, Lyman.

1854

Cleveland, James C

3834

Coe, Jumes It.

1845

Coe, Norris. 1838

Dudley, George

1847

Clarke, Thomas M.

1839

Boyd, James.

1804

1849

Hinsdale, Hissell

1815

Hoadley, Samuel

1808

Iurlbut, Samuel

1791

1856

Miner, Phineas.

1800

1810

Beardsley, Elliot.

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HISTORY OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT.

Namo.

First.

Last.

No.

Rockwell, John T.

1869

Rockwell, Solomon

1820

Rowley, Artemas.

IS53

Russell, Giles. ISIO

1816

Russell, Nathaniel

1801

Sheldon, Philo G.

1850

Smith, Asaliel

1827

1831

Smith, Elisha ..

1856

Smith, Heman

1795

1800

Smith, Zebina

1798

1802

Spencer, Grinnell.

1824

Strong, David.

1872

Steele, Harvey B.

1873

Steele, Harvey B

1879

Taylor, George ..

1853

Thayer, Wheelock

1833

Tolles, Amos

1812

Waters, Alexander.

1878

Watson, Thomas.

1864

Welch, James,

1852

Wetmore, Abel S.

1848

Wetmore, John G.

1802

Wetinore, Seth.

1799

ISO2

Wheelock, Daniel B.

1849

White, George.

1861

Whiting, Riley

1818

1832

Wilder, Seth L.

185S

Wilson, Abijalı.

1798

Woodruff, Frederick.

1870

York, Chas. J

1869

York, Chas. J

1880

COLLEGE GRADUATES.

Rev. Noble Everett, Ynle, 1795; Abel MeEwen, D.D., Yale. 1804; George Baldwin, Yale, 1811 ; John Boyd, Yule, 1821; Theodore Hinsdale, Yale, 1821; Edward Rockwell, Yale, 1821; Rev. Samuel Rockwell, Yale, 1825; Ira W. Pettibone, Yule, 1854 ; Edward R. Beardsley, Yale, 1859; Rev. John B. Doolittle, Yale, 1863; Rev. John W. Alvord, Oberlin ; Rev. Harmon E. Burr, Oberliu: Rev. Orrin W. White, Oberlin; Hiram Wilson, Wesleyan University ; Jolin C. Ilolabird, Wealeyan University; Rev. Jonathan Coe, Wesleyan University; Seth Church, Wesleyan University; Charles F. Wetmore, Trinity ; James B. Wakefield, Trinity; Rev. Leummas II. Pease, Williama, 1835; Rev. Ilenry B. Blake, Williams, 1841 ; George M. Carrington, Williams, 1861; Benjamin W. l'ettibone, Amherst, 1860.

MILITARY RECORD, 1861-65.

The first person who enlisted in this town under President Lincoln's first call for troops during the late Rebellion was Samuel B. Horne. This is also said to have been the first regular enlistment in the State of Connecticut. He served out his three months' term, and in October of the same year en- listed as a private in Company E, Eleventh Infantry Volunteers; was chosen a sergeant, and rose by pro- motion to first lieutenant and captain ; was in twenty-five battles and skirmishes, and was three times wounded, and at the end of his three years' term served as provost-marshal of the Eighteenth Army Corps to the end of the war.

The following other Winchester recruits enrolled themselves in the squad that formed the nucleus of Infantry Company B, first organized in this town :

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History of Litchfield county, Connecticut, Part 51

Author: J.W. Lewis & Company (Philadelphia, Pa.) Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1532

Author: J.W. Lewis & Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1532