History of Middlesex county, Connecticut, with biographical sketches of its prominent men, Part 21

Author: Whittemore, Henry, b. 1833; Beers, J.B. & Company, publishers
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : J. B. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 818

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"December 16, 1723. At the same meeting the town granted to the south farmers the liberty of one acre of land for a burying place where it may be most conveniant between Capt. Win. Harrisis & Jonathan Steads land."

" April 1, 1728. At the same town meeting the town accepted or granted to the widow IIope Haully liberty to let her dwelling house, that part of it which stands on the highway, to stand so long as the same house stands provided she pay as an acknowledgment one indian corn pr year so long as the sd house stands.

" Memorandum of the payment of one indian corn pr year, by the Widow Hope Hawley as obliged by her grant.

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"December 7, 1730, Daniel Hubbard admitted an inhabitant

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27, 1731, Att the same meeting the town by vote doe order that a town house shall be built and voated that the dementions of sd house shall be thirty five feet in length and twenty five feet in breadth and seven feet and a half between joysts between the sill and the plate and Giles Hall Esqr Capt. George Phillips & Leut. Nathll Bacon were chose a comtee to take the case and procure the building sd house and by voate the above named comtee are fully empowered to agree with workmen and finish said house, and it was voated that sd house shall be sett att the center of the town at the ston so called."

" May 2, 1732, Att the same meeting it was voated that the town house shall be setton the place when the last old meeting house stood near to Richard Hubards."

" Middletown December ye 25. 1738. We the select men of Middle- town upon the request of James Markham, do give our liberty to James Markham to set up rope works near the house where his Father dwelt in the highway, not to hinder or block the highway to the damage of his neighbours & to hold sd privilege while the town shall disannul it. As witness our hands the day and year above named.

THOS JOHNSON, JONATHAN COLLENS Selectmen. JOSEPH SOUTHMAYD SETH WETMORE"

BENIAMAN ADKINS

" December 22, 1740. Voted and granted to Jonathan Yemans, to improve the excise money now in his hands (being between fifty shil- lings and three pounds.) in providing colours for the train band to which he belongs."

" December 26, 1758. Voted that whereas there hath been some motions and proposals made in the General Assembly & a vote in the house of Representatives proposed that the town of Middletown shall be the place appointed for the meeting and holding the General Assembly at least once a year, on conditions that Middletown will provide a house convenient to meet in, and whereas this town have ordered the town house to be finished, the chimney removed &c, it is now voted and agreed, that there be added to the town house when the Comce shall pull down the chimneys thereof twelve feet in addition to the present. length of it and finish it as the rest is to be done."

"December 14, 1767. "Mrs. Mary Pelton appointed key keeper."

" Know all men by these Presents, That Eliot Rawson of Middletown in the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut being truly de- sirous to do every thing in my power to releive all those that are suffer- ing for their country, for liberty, or for righcoutness sake, do will & determine that my five Africans or negroes shall be free if they behave well, upon the Selectmens giving a certificate according to law, that Phillis Rawson shall be free, in six months from the first day of next June, that Duchess Rawson, Francis Rawson, Lettice Rawson & Eve Rawson, shall be made free at twenty four years of age. In Witness whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand and seal.

" Middletown June 30, 1780.

" ELIOT RAWSON. [SEAL: ]

"In presence of GILES MILLER,

ISAAC MILLER, HEZEKIAH HALE.

" Middletown June 30, 1780. Then Eliot Rawson personally appeared & acknowledged the within instrument to be his tree act and deed. "CORAM ISAAC MILLER,

" Just. Pacis."

" December 29, 1783. Voted that General Parsons, John Dickinson Esqr., Mr. Benjamin Henshaw, Col. Brown, & Matthew Talcott, Esqr., be a com'ee to prepare instructions in the name of this town to their representatives directing them to use their influence in the next as- seinbly to effect a division of Hartford County, and for establishing Middletown tor the place of holding the the Court, & also to use their influence to procure the mercantile part of the town of Middletown, to be incorporated into a City, with the powers & privileges prayed for by part of the inhabitants of New Haven, in a memorial now depending in the Assembly, and to prepare a memorial for the aforesaid purpose. and to sign & to deliver the instructions to the representatives in behalf of the town."

"Jany. 13, 1784. Voted that the town consents to the prayer of the memorial of the inhabitants of Worthington on condition that the proposed town take & support such part of the poor of Middletown as the list of that part of Worthington lying in Middletown bears to the list of the town, and that express provision be made for the same, in the bill of form & that the parish lines be not altered thereby."

PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL COURT CONCERNING MIDDLETOWN.

The following are miscellaneous extracts from the early records of the proceedings of the General Court concerning Middletown.

"May 1665 .- This Court desires and appoints Mr. Samuell Willis, Mr. James Richards, Lt. Sam'll Wells and Samuell Boreman to issue the present difference between the inhabitants at Middle Town and the In-

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MIDDLETOWN-TOWN RECORDS.

dians dwelling by the said Towne; and also to settle the bounds of what land they shal sec cause in an equitable way to allow to the said Indians at Middle Town. Any three of the aboue said Gent: have power to issue provided Mr. Willys be one.

"October 1667 .- This Court grants Mr. Hamlin liberty to retale wine and ligrs to his neighbors at Midletou.

"October 1668. - This Court orders that Midleton ferryman shall have but fower pence for a horss and man for Magistrates & Deputies.

"This Court grants Captn John Tallcott & Lnt. John Allyn liberty to take up their former grant of land near the south bownds of Midle- ton at or near a place called Coginchauge ;* and if they do not judge it convenient to take up all their grant there, they may take up halfe of their grant elsewhere; and Ens: White and Win. Cheney are appoynted to lay it out to them.

" Captn Clarke hauing moued this Court that he might haue con- firmed to him his grant in the place where he took it up upon Mattabe- sett River, the Court hancing heard what hathe been alledged to the ease by Farmington as allso by Captn Clarke, doe judg that the true and just right in the sayd land belongs to Captain Clarke, provided it be not within Farmington's first grant of five miles.

" May 11th 1671. - This Court appoynts James Steele and Sarg't Hugh Wells to lay out to the Marshall as Capt'n Clarke's agent or assigne, his land according to his grant in the place where he took it up, at Matta- beset River.

"October 1671 .- Midleton hath one barell of powder Windsor stoek is 300 lbs. of powder and 100 lbs. of lead. New Haven certifyed that they had their ammunition for their town, aeeording to lawe. Milford am- munition is sufficient, according to lawe. Guilford ammunition is suthi- eient according to lawe.

"This Court doth impower Capt'n Tallcott to take care to preserve the great Artilery that belongs to the Colony at Saybrooke.

" 1675. - James Wells and John Clarke haueing returned to this Ceurt, under their hands, that they haue layd out to Mr. John Blackleach, of Hartford, his grant of land on the east end of Midleton bownds and abutts on Midleton bownds on the west, and is two hundred rod in length north and south, and on Haddum bownds on the south, and on the commons on the north and east and is one hundred and sixty rods in breadth east and west ; Nov. 9, 1674; the Court saw eause to approue of this return and doe confirm the same to the sayd Mr. John Black- leach.

"1677 .- Midleton house lotts at 35s. pr acre ; improved uplands 20s. pr acre ; one halfe of their meadow at 40s. pr aere, the other halfe at 20s. pr acre.

" Daniell Harris is by this Court approued and confirmed to be Captain of Midleton Traine-band, and Nath: White, Leiutenant, and Wni. Cheeny, Ensigne of the sayd company, and Samuel Stoekin, Sarjt.

" September 1675 .-- The Councill came to an agreement with the Indians of Farmington, Hartford, Wethersfield and Midleton, wherein the In- dians ingaged to continue in friendship with the English and to be ene- mies to their enemies, and to discouer or destroy them &c. And the conneill ingaged to pay unto them the sayd Indians, 2 yards of cloth for euery head of or enemies they shall take, and 4 yards of eloth for cuery person they shall deliuer aliue; as pr the agreement on file, will ap- peare more at large.

"October 9th 1675 .- Joseph Harris, Rieh'd Hubberd, John Kirbey. John Higbey, Israel Willcox, Nath: White ;- These are to appoynt you forthw'th to repayre to Midleton, and if Mr. Goodall's vessell be there, you are to goc on board her and guard her up to Hartford, unless the guard allready in her from that towne be still on board her, and in such ease yon are to remayne in your towne untill Monday next, and then you are to repayre to Hartford for farther orders.

" Whereas Indians belonging unto Wethersfield and Wongham have shewed their willingness to dwell peaceably in or townes and there to bring their corn for securety, the couneill doe recommend it to the peo- ple at Wethersfield and Midleton upon whose lands the Indians haue planted, that the corn be equally divided upon the land where the corn grew, after they haue husked it, and the English to take care of their part and the Indians of what belongs to them, to get it conveyed into the towne for seeurety.

" May 1676. The constable of Midleton complayncing that he could not rayse their proportion of wheat ordered on their town, it not being to be had there, was by the Councill ordered to rayse what he could upon the inhabitants of Midleton that had wheat, and to grind it and bake into bread and send up to Hartford wth all speed.

" August 1676. The Councill sees eause to declare nnto all such per- son or persons, both English and Indians that Imac or shall pretend to any right or possession there, upon the sayd deserted or vanquished lands in that country, that all such shall make their application to the government of this eolony, for such grants, leave and liberty to take np and possess sneh and so much ns they shall see canse to grant and allowe them; it being both duty to God and or King, and allso is or intent and purpose to have it all so layd and dissposed as may hest advantage reli- gion and the safety of the inhabitants. And whosoever shall presame otherwise to possesse themselves there, may expect to be dealt wth all as intruders and contemners of his matie's authority in or hands.

"September 1676. Cohause being taken by the Indians between Mil- ford and New Haven, was brought before the Councill, and acknowl- edged that he had been in several engagements against the English; and was accused by Menowmet that he had wth another Indian shott Win. Hill; that he wth 4 more kild Kirby of Midleton, between sd Midleton and Wethersfield, upon the rohde; and that he burnd Goodman Coale's house; besides other robberies that they have comitted. The Councill having heard and examined the sd Cohash, find that he is an open and desperate enemie of the English, and that he was taken in open hostilli- ty against us, and so is a child of death, and doe sentance him to suffer the paynes and terrors of death; and that if the Indians see cause to pat him to death, they shall doe it forthwith; if not, he shall be shot to death by some English.

" May 10th 1679 .- This Court orders that if any swine at Midleton be found on the comon, without rings or yoakes, within three miles of Concetientt River they shall be liable to be pounded, according to former laws respecting swine.

· May 12th 1681 .- Henry Wakcly petitioning to this Court to grant hlin some satisfaction for service he did for the colony in or about Mat- tebeseck, and for some damage he received thereby, the Court to issue all complaints and-differences in the matter between him and Midleton and the eolony, doe see cause to grant hint two hundred acres of land pronided he take it up where it may not prejudice any plantation or former grant made by this Court. Captn. Minor and Lnt. Joseph Jnd- son are appoynted to lay it out to him according to his grant.

" May 1684 .- This Court upon the information they have receiued that John Hollybutt hath purchased two parcells of land of Andrew Warner in Midleton, at a place commonly called Wongum, and one parechì by the towne which was sold to pay debts, which he hath re- eciued and recorded to sayd Hollybutt and deeds made but not signed by said Warner, doc order and impower the said administrator of the estate of the sd Andrew Warner to make, signe and acknowledg deeds for the sayd land, that so the sayd land may remayn firme to the sayd Hallebutt his heires and assignes foreuer.

" October 13th 1687 .- This Court grants Mr. Giles Hanilin three hun- dred acres of land for a farme, prouided he take it up where it may not prejudise any former grant to any person or plantation .

" This Court grants Mr. Jeremy Peek, Mr. Samuel Andrews, Mr. James Pearpoynt, Mr. Samuell Russell, Mr. James Bayley, Mr. Moses Noyse, Mr. John James, Mr. Noadiah Russell, Mr. Timothy Woodbridge, Mr. Samuel Mather, Mr. Edward Tompson, Mr. John Fraysor, Mr . Cip- rian Niceols and Ens. Nath. Stanly, two hundred acres of land a piece where they can find it, provided they take it up where it may not pre- judiee any former grant to any perticular person or plantation: and the survayors of the next plantations to any place where either of those gentn, or Mr. Hamlin or Mr. John Goodyear shall see reason to take up their respective grants are hereby appoynted to lay out the same to such of them as shall desire it, they payeing for the same.

" May 1690. - This Court upon the request of Captain Harris of Midle- ton doc release him from his commission of Captain, and grant the traine band priuiledg and liberty to choose a new captain for the s'd company.

"October 1690. - Captain White is confirmed Capt'n of Midleton traine band, and is to be eommissionated accordingly, and by reason of some disgust or various apprehensions about the choys of a leintenant, this Court grant them liberty to goe to a new choyse of a I'nt, wherein all freedom is to be attended.

" May 1691 .- Francis Whitmore is chosen and appoynted L'nt of Midleton train band, and is to be commissioned accordingly.

" May 1696 .- Capt. Nathan'll White informing this Court that the souldiers of Midletown had chosen Serg't John HIall to be Ensign of their company, this Court confirmed their choiee.

" May 1699 .- Upon the motion of the Representative of Midletown, liberty is granted to the trainband in the said town to divide into two companies, upon an equall division.

BRIDGES.

"October 1696 .- This Court grants the one halfe of the countrey rate that shall be levied in Midletown this year to the inhabitants of the said town to be levied and expended forthwith for the promotion and further carrying on the work of building ye bridge over their ferrye river.

" May 1697 .- Upon the petition of Ensign Cheenie, this t'ourt did de- clare that their true intent in granting the one halte of the coantrey rate to the town of Midletown for the carrying on of the worke of the bridge over the ferry river, was that the said one halfe of the said rate should be delivered to Mr. Francis Whitmore for his incouragement and to be improved by him for the further carrying on the said worke. for the publiek use; and this t'ourt doth hereby impower the s'd Francis Whitmore to nske, sue for, require, recover and receive the same of the constable or constables of the said town or other officers that have any part thereof, or ought to collect the same.

"October 1698. It is ordered by this tourt and the authority thereof, that from and after the last day of this present instant, October, he the sald Francis Whitmore, his heirs, exceut'rs or nssigns, shut und my have and hold the suid bridge by him built. nt Middletown as nforesnid,

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HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY.

and shall have and receive the fare of two penee money for each time for horse and man and load, and one pennie a time a single person, un- lesse where persons shall otherwise aggree, forever, of and from all and every person using and passing over the said bridge from and after the said last day of this instant October aforesaid (except the magis- trates and ministers of this Colonie, representatives of the General As- sembly, posts and souldiers in the Colonie service), the said Francis Whitinore reimbursing those p'rticular persons that have freely con- tributed towards the building of the bridge, and allowing them free passage till the money given by them for that use be repaid, and keep- ing a sufficient ferrye furnisht with a good boat for the transporting passengers when the waters are so high that there is no passing over the said bridge ; the said Francis Whitmore ingnaging to finish the bridge aforesaid within the space of one year after the last of this in- stant, unlesse by some inevitable providence prevented, and keeping the same always in good repair for safe and comfortable passage.

" May 1697 .- Liberty is granted by this Court to any one of the in- habitants of Midletown to purchase of the Indians there inhabiting, claiming propriety of land in Wongunek Meddowe, about one aere of grasse land in the said meddowe.

" May 1698 .- This Court grants liberty to the Sunesquaws in Midletown to sell halfe an acre of her land in the said town to some inhabitant there.

May 1711 .- Upon consideration of the petition or request of Caus- chawet, Indian man, and his squaw, and of the Indian squaw, or widow of Mussecuppe, late a sachem deceased, now living or residing at Mid- dleton or Glassenbury, praying for liberty to be granted to them to sell one eertain piece or pareel of land to them belonging, of about two acres, lying in Wongung Meadow in Middleton, unto Joseph Hollister of Glassenbury, for the paying a debt which they owe to him; which said piece of land is bounded with Wongung Brook on the north, with George Stockings land on the south, with Capt. Nathanael Whites land on the west, and with Samuell Cornwalls land. on the east: This As- sembly do grant liberty to the said Indians to sell the said land to the said Joseph Hollister, and also liberty to the said Joseph Hollister to buy the same; provided it may be done with the consent of the inhabi- tants of the said town of Middletown.

GROWTH OF THE TOWN.

The population increased steadily, and in 1703 what was from the first known as the Upper Houses (now Cromwell) was set off as a separate parish or society ..

Middlefield began to be settled about 1700, and was incorporated as a parish in the autumn of 1744.

The settlement of Westfield commenced about 1720, and in 1766 it became a parish.

The portion of the town that was on the east side of the river did not begin to be settled till about 1700, but in 1714, 31 petitioners were incorporated as the parish of East Middletown.

In 1710 a settlement in Middle Haddam began, and in 1749 a parish was incorporated there.

The increase of the population in Middletown during more than a century after the first settlement was slow. There was then nothing here to invite a rapid immigra- tion. The country was rough, and the labor of subduing the forest and bringing even small portions of the soil under cultivation was great. Markets for that which was produced here were distant and difficult to reach. Imports were small, and were mostly limited to articles of necessity; for the luxuries of the present day were hardly known here two centuries since. The people were self-reliant. Not only was their food the product of their own industry, but the materials for their clothing were produced on their farms, and they were clad in rai- ment of domestic manufacture. Their implements of husbandry were made by themselves, or by the few me- chanics who settled among them, and though simple in their construction, they were well adapted to their uses. In short, every comfort by which they were surrounded

was the product of their own industry, and the little wealth which some of them were able to accumulate was the result of their own frugality. Their strong religious convictions had prompted them to seek these then inhos- pitable forests, and their rigid intolerance of any infrac- tion of their moral code, or system of faith, preserved among them for many generations a simplicity of life which is less prominent in the present cosmopolitan age, and an enforced assent and obedience to the prescribed dogmas of their church which have come to be regarded almost as historical curiosities.

In 1680 one vessel of 70 tons was owned here, and the town had but few merchants .* Fifty years later, or in 1730, the place could boast of only two vessels, having a sum of 105 tons, and but few more mercantile establish- ments.

During the 50 years that preceded the Revolution, Mid- dletown became gradually more and more prosperous. An increasing trade, especially with the West Indies, stimulated agriculture and domestic manufactures, and though the increase of the population was still slow it was more rapid than it had formerly been. Increasing commerce necessitated the building of ships, and this in- dustry was carried on more largely than before at Mid- dletown, as well as at other points on the Connecticut River.

Grist mills had long before banished the primitive wooden mortars and pestles for grinding grain, saw mills had early sprung into existence to furnish lumber in place of the original " split plank and puncheons," and, later, fulling mills, for dressing the home manufactured cloth, had been erected. Carpenters, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, shoemakers, etc., that the pioneers took care to bring with them, had multiplied to meet the requirements of the gradually increasing population ; but manufactories had not then come into existence here. During more than a century the people had pursued the even tenor of their way, and their industry and frugality had been re- warded by a prosperity which had supplied their reason- able wants and gratified their moderate ambition.

The Pequot war occurred before the settlement of Middletown, and that of King Philip when there were only about fifty families here. In Queen Anne's war, at the beginning of the last century, Middletown bore its part, and Nathaniel Gilbert, Benjamin Cornwell, John Allen, Samuel Doolittle, Nathaniel Hobart, Jonathan Gilbert, Waite Cornwell, Edward Bow, John Lane, Charles Butler, Jacob Conte, Thomas Stevens, Jacob Doude, and Jeremiah Leman were volunteers from this place.

In the French wars of 1744 and 1755, which continued for a longer period, it is known that Connecticut fur- nished a larger proportion of men than any of the other colonies. In the present state of the records the names and number of those from Middletown who were in these wars cannot be ascertained. It is said that many who went never returned, and this is positively asserted of those from Upper Middletown.

*See plan in Barber's Hist. Coll., p. 508.

MIDDLETOWN-MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE.

CENSUS OF 1776.

An enumeration of the inhabitants of Middletown, taken September Ist 1776, gives the total population as 5,037. Of these, 4,836 were whites and 201 blacks. There were males under 10 years, 736; females under 10 years, 763; males between 10 and 20, 576, all unmarried; · females between ro and 20, II married and 600 single; males between 20 and 70, 679 married and 268 single; females between 20 and 70, 706 married and 390 single; males above 70, 38 married and 7 single; females above 70, 23 married and 39 single. There were 588 officers and soldiers in militia rolls; 104 able-bodied men be- tween 16 and 45, not in militia rolls; 202 men in Con- tinental Army; and 5 men "raised for defence of the Colony and now in the Colony." Of the negroes, 47 were males under 20, 49 females under 20, 62 males above 20, and 43 females above 20.

CIVIL LIST.

· Representatives .- The town of Middletown has been represented in General Court and General Assembly by the following-named persons. The abbreviations M. and 'O. are used to indicate the May and October sessions, 'respectively :

William Smith, Sept. 1652 to Sept. 1653, 1655 M , 1655 O .; John Hall jr., 1653 M .; William Cornwell, 1654 M., 1664 O .; Thomas Wetmore, Sept. 1654; Robert Webster, Sept. 1653 to May 1655, 1656 M., 1656 O., 1657 O., 1658 O., 1659 M .; Thomas Allen, 1656 M .; George Graves, 1657 O .- 1658 O .; Samuel Stocking, 1658 M., 1659 M., 1659 O., 1665 M., 1665 O., 1669 M., 1669 O., 1674 O., 1677 O., 1681 O .; Nathaniel White, 1659 O., 1661 M .- 1664 M., 1665 M., 1666 M .- 1667 M., 1668 M .- 1672 M., 1673 M., 1674 M .- 1678 M., 1679 M .- 1684 M., 1685 O .- 1687 M., 1689 M .- 1694 M., 1695 M .- 1696 M., 1697 M .- 1710 M .; William Cheney, 1660 M., 1660 O., .1662 M., 1663 O., 1664 O., 1667 O., 1670 M., 1672 M., 1672 O., 1673 O., 1675 O., 1676 M., 1677 M., 1678 O .- 1679 M., 1684 O .- 1686 M., 1687 O., 1690 M., 1695 M., 1695 O., 1696 O .; Robert Warner, 1660 M .- 1661 O., 1662 O., 1663 M., 1664 M., 1665 O., 1686 O., 1687 M .; Giles Hamlin, 1666 M .- 1668 O., 1670 O .- 1671 O., 1673 M .- 1674 M., 1675 M., 1678 M., 1679 O .- 1681 M., 1682 M .- 1684 M .; Samuel Collins, 1672 O .; John Grave, 1676 O .; Daniel Harris, 1678 O., 1684 O .; William Harris, 1687 O .; William Ward, 1689 O., 1711 M., 1712 O .- 1713 O .; John Hamlin, 1690 O .- 1693 O .; Nathaniel Bidwell, 1696 M .; John Hall, 1696 O., 1699 M., 1700 M .- 1701 M., 1704 O., 1705 M., 1707 0 .- 1710 O., 1711 O .; Samuel Stow, 1697 M .; Samuel Bidwell, 1697 O .- 1698 O., 1703 O., 1705 O .; William Sumner, 1701 O .- 1703 M .; Thomas Ward, 1706 M .- 1707 M., 1711 O., 1712 M .; Edward Shep- ard, 1710 O., 1711 M .; John Warner, 1712 M .; Joseph Rockwell, 1712 O .- 1717 M., 1719 M., 1719 O .; William Harris, 1714 M .- 1715 M., 1720 M .- 1721 M., 1722 O., 1728 O .; William Savage, 1715 O .- 1716 O., 1718 M .- 1721 M., 1722 O .- 1725 O., 1726 O .; Samuel Hall, 1717 M .; Izrahiah Wetmore, 1717 O .- 1718 O., 1721 O., 1722 . M., 1723 M .- 1726 O., 1728 M .; John Sage, 1717 O., 1721|

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History of Middlesex county, Connecticut, with biographical sketches of its prominent men, Part 21

Author: Whittemore, Henry, b. 1833; Beers, J.B. & Company, publishers Publication date: 1884 Publisher: New York : J. B. Beers & co. Number of Pages: 818

Author: Whittemore, Henry, b. 1833; Beers, J.B. & Company, publishers
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : J. B. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 818