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The parade was supposed to start at 11: 30 o'clock but it was nearer noon when the cannon, formerly the property of Tammany Hall, was fired. The cannon was loaned for the occasion by F. W. Anderson, of Seminary Street, president of the F. W. Anderson Paper Co., then living on West Road. With 1,000 people in line or
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on floats, the parade was headed by Francis E. Weed, on horseback. Mr. Weed, New Canaan's representative at Hartford, founder of Weed & Kellogg, fore-runners of Weed & Duryea, was grand mar- shall of the parade, with Edward Rutledge, then associated with Mr. E. B. Lawrence at his couch factory on Railroad Avenue. Lester Knapp, a shoemaker in the Benedict Shop, was bugler. In the second division, Admiral Loomis Scofield, one of the few living Civil War veterans in New Canaan, was marshal and Stephen Hoyt, now head of the nursery, was aide. John Davenport, Ponus Ridge farmer, who owned the present Bradford House, and is a brother of Mrs. E. B. Lawrence, was marshall in the third division, while Dewitt C. Ruscoe, merchant, later to be representative, Myron Crawford, then a farmer on West Road, now retired and living on South Avenue, and D. R. Merritt, were aides. The fourth division was headed by Dr. E. G. Cunningham, local dentist now practicing in Stamford who married Miss Bertha Hoyt of this town, with John L. Stevens, of East Avenue, then a contractor, who has since retired, and New Canaan's representative, 1931-33; Frank McKendry, who is now in the New York Life Insurance Company, and William W. Carman, poultry breeder on Oenoke Avenue, as his aides.
HISTORICAL FLOATS
In the first and second divisions were the invited guests riding in carriages. There were historical scenes portrayed, the Puritan Train Band led by Frank Gleacon, members of the O. U. A. M. (Order of United American Mechanics) as soldiers of the Revolution, William B. Simon, the postmaster then in the plumbing business with his brother, R. L. Simon, commanding. John E. Hersam, as Chief Ponus, led the Redmen while visiting tribes from Norwalk, South Norwalk and Stamford were in line. George Lounsbury, who lived in the present Moller house on South Avenue, established the local ice company and now lives in California, was dressed as a doctor of 1801, George Pauley, now a contractor and Fred Bird were post- boys. Mr. Bird worked in Brinckerhoff's market on Main Street which was later bought out by E. J. Brown, now the Town Clerk. Mr. Brown was then working for the other market, Gilbert & Lock- wood's on Railroad Avenue.
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In the same division were a number of old vehicles used at one time or another in New Canaan, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Scofield who had just celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary, riding in one. There was John Kinscella, on horseback as a parson, with Miss Katherine R. Rogers, a member of the invitation committee, riding on the pillion behind him. Mr. Kinscella and William Smallhorn ran a grocery and feed business on Main Street where the Cash and . Carry Store is now. There were floats of the Olive Branch Council, No. 44, of the shoemakers, and "Hayfoot Strawfoot" led by Corporal Herbert Doty, who lived on the site of the present Minor residence on Oenoke Ridge, while a number of citizens dressed as the Train Band were commanded by Captain Thad Johnson, East Avenue painter, who is a frequent visitor in New Canaan today.
The third division was made up of floats, D. R. Merritt advertis- ing his bicycle and jewelry business, located north of Monroe's drug store, with a float directed by Miss Roxie Merritt, and propelled by the crack bicycle riders of the day, Francis Offen, Frank Kelley, William Henry and Steve Ezequelle. Mason Merrill, whose shop was near the present Stamford, Mason Supply Company advertised his rug business. He was a brother of Marvin Merrill, the constable, and of the Miss Merrill who founded the business school in Stamford. W. A. Wheeler and Luther Knapp advertised their respective trades as carpenter and mason. Stephen Hoyt & Son had two floats of trees and shrubs; the Oenoke Tent of the Knights of the Macabees had one of the largest floats, while the Olive Branch Council had a float with William Cunningham, Ponus Ridge farmer as Uncle Sam, Florence Sammis, now Mrs. Leroy Fowler, of West Haven and Mrs. Loomis Scofield as the Goddess of Liberty.
At the very end of the third division was F. C. Parsons, of Stam- ford, with his steam carriage, the only automobile that day.
FIREMEN ON PARADE
The firemen made up the fourth division, which was the most popular in the parade. Fifty New Canaan firemen were in line, headed by George E. Seeley, foreman, Dr. Ben Keeler, the dentist, first assistant and Carl Schilcher, then running the blacksmith shop
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near the corner of South Avenue and Cherry Street, now employed at the New Canaan High School, as second assistant. The truck and the hose cart were supplemented by the chemical engine from Ridge- field and a steam engine drawn by four horses, a truck, a hose cart and a police patrol wagon. Greenwich also sent up 50 men and there were firemen from Norwalk, South Norwalk, Westport, East Norwalk, Darien, and Ridgefield. It cost New Canaan $150.00 to entertain all the guest firemen while one wonders what would have happened if a fire had started in any of the home towns for it would have taken considerable time for the visitors to drive back home. Edward B. Crane, was president of the fire department. He was a surveyor and lived first in the A. B. Walker house on South Main Street later building the present Walter Stewart house on Church Street.
The parade with its four divisions formed on South Avenue march- ing into Railroad Avenue to Main Street past the two bicycle repair shops and the stationery store of G. B. Smith. George Stevens, now rural mail carrier, was then running one of the bicycle shops on the site of the New Canaan Diner. Next door where Lehotsky's plumb- ing shop is now was Barrett's repair shop for clocks, sewing machines and bicycles. Mr. Barrett had been an engineer on the New York, New Haven and Hartford until his health made it necessary for him to retire. He later ran an automobile repair shop on the same site. Mr. Samuel Raymond, his former partner, is now in the trucking business on Maple Street. The Smith Stationery store, on the site of Breslow Brothers, was owned by the father of Mr. George T. Smith the present First Selectman of New Canaan.
ROUTE OF PARADE
Turning north on Main Street the parade continued past Monroe's, now Cody's drug store, past the post office and repair shop of D. R. Merritt, past Simon's Grocery store, Wolfel and Greenwald, past the Bank to Locust Street. In 1901 Mr. Frank L. Simon was running a grocery store where Franco is now and in the next store was Wolfel and Greenwald, plumbers. Fred Wolfel, now in the artesian well digging business, was a partner in the firm later turning his interest over to his nephew Harry W. Wolfel, the present owner who runs the business today in the same building. The First National Bank
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was located also on the same site as the present structure with Edwin Hoyt, president of the Stephen Hoyt & Son nursery, as president and Gardiner Heath as cashier.
From Locust to Forest, down East Avenue and across to Cemetery Street, as Lakeview Avenue was then called, up the hill to Main Street went the parade. They marched up Main Street past the Library, the site of the future Hoyt's greenhouses, past the Town Hall, standing opposite the Birdsall House and then out Oenoke Avenue. In those days Mr. Bernard Woundy was the only florist in New Canaan. His greenhouses later moved to South Main Street, stood on his property on Prospect Place where his son, I. B. Woundy, now electrical contractor, assisted in the care and selling of flowers.
SITES OF OLD STORES
Countermarching on Oenoke Avenue the parade went back to Park Street as far as Bank Street, there turning up to South Avenue. They walked down South Avenue to Cherry, across Cherry to Park, on to Richmond Hill, to Grove Street, to Railroad Avenue. Coming down Railroad Avenue past the E. B. Lawrence Couch factory and the coal and lumber yards of Irving Lockwood, now the Stamford Mason Supply Company. Mr. Lockwood, then living in the Urban Seymour house on South Main Street, was Second Selectman. There was no Third Selectman. In October, 1901, Mr. Lockwood and Mr. Raymond reversed positions as selectmen and the town went wet for the first time in many years.
The parade disbanded when they reached South Avenue again.
3,000 FOR LUNCHEON
The route being covered by 3 o'clock, 3,000 people sat down to lunch in the St. John Grove on Park Street between Seminary and St. John Place. Lunch was served in three shifts by a committee headed by Mrs. Edwin Hoyt with her daughter, Mrs. H. B. Rogers as assistant. Stephen Hoyt had rigged up a coffee boiler with a capac- ity of 2,500 cups to supply the paraders. Taking a zinc receptacle with coils running through the inside, he hitched this to the steam roller owned by Joseph F. Silliman, and getting up steam on the roller heated the coffee to the boiling point this way.
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CITIZENS SERENADED
That night a band concert was given before the Birdsall House and with re-inforcements from the cadet corps and fire company a series of serenades was staged before homes of several citizens: Hon. B. P. Mead, Rev. J. Howard Hoyt, Mr. Driggs, C. H. Demeritt, H. B. Rogers, Rep. F. E. Weed, and L. M. Monroe, chairman of the committee on exercises. Mr. Monroe later served refreshments at his drug store to the musicians who drank up one of the three barrels of grape wine Mr. Monroe and his assistant, James J. Cody, now owner of the store, had made in 1889. Russell Hall, the undertaker, was chairman of the general committee, William F. Weed, of the historical division and E. B. Lawrence, of the music committee.
Silas Driggs, who received one of the serenades, lived in the house now owned by Mrs. Richard Jordan on South Avenue (1949, Miss Myra Valentine), was president of the Williamsburg Savings Bank in New York and later owned the first car in New Canaan, an electric runabout. Thomas W. Hall, president of American Hide and Leather Company, who owned the present L. H. Lapham estate on South Avenue, is said to have had the second car, a Stanley Steamer. Other early car owners in New Canaan were D. R. Merritt, Edward B. Crane, who had a buckboard, Lester Messenger, also had a buckboard and Dr. Clarence H. Scoville, a Stanley Steamer. Dr. Scoville, who lived in the present Schweppe house was one of the leading practi- tioners of those days and until he moved to Dade City, Flordia, where he died.
ORATORS SPEAK
Wednesday the celebration ended with a literary and historical program at which the two leading speakers were Anthony Comstock, secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and Mayor Homer Cummings of Stamford. Mr. Cummings, the present Attorney General in the Cabinet, later occupied the Kaufman house on St. John Place (1949, No. 46 St. John Pl.) during the Wilson administra- tion when he was a U. S. Senatorial candidate.
The rest of the program consisted of an historical address by Russell Hall, president of the historical society, Curtis Thompson and Samuel Carter of New York, Professor Edwin Lockwood, of
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Yale, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lockwood who owned the house on Canoe Hill Road belonging to Mrs. H. H. Reuss (1949, Elliott B. Macrae) and poems written for the occasion by Arthur Ketchum, now rector of Christ Church in Bedford Hill and Arthur Crandall, Ponus Ridge farmer, read by Mrs. Daisy Ayres. The cele- bration of the day ended with a banquet at the Congregational Church.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Our chronicle must close with some account of the New Canaan Historical Society, to whose devoted efforts any local historian is immeasurably indebted.
The Society came into being on the fourteenth of September, 1889, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Comstock, with the object primarily of gathering material about New Canaan history preparatory to the centennial anniversary planned for twelve years later. This look ahead and the untiring energy of Mr. and Mrs. Com- stock and their co-workers resulted in the accumulation of a great deal of information which would otherwise have been lost forever.
The first president was Joseph Fitch Silliman, and the second was Russell L. Hall. By 1891 the Society had a home, a room which must have been inadequate indeed in comparison with the present dignified quarters in the Library building, for The Messenger, finding amuse- ment in the "tallow dips" used for lighting, characterized it as a "den of antiquity." This first abiding place served, however, for an open- ing exhibit featuring among its relics the chair upon which Governor Tryon sat at Grumman Hill to watch the burning of Norwalk, also a door from the Congregational Meeting House.
J. M. SILLIMAN, HISTORIAN
Justus Mitchell Silliman was unanimously chosen historian. Profes- sor Silliman was somewhat distant from New Canaan, being head of the Engineering Department of Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., but the members of the Society undertook to gather all available material to send to him to prepare and complete.
The seal of the New Canaan Historical Society designed by W. F. Weed, presents, in a circle above a half furled flag, the motto, "Deus
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et Patria," and three little sketches labelled: "Old Meeting House," "Ells Place," and "Lone Tree." The meeting house is the second home of the Congregational Church and the early home of town meetings, that plain structure which, damaged by lightning, was removed when the present Congregational Church was built in 1843. The "Ells Place," our oldest house, is the typical Colonial "mansion house" erected by John Benedict on Carter Street and occupied for many years by the first minister of the Congregational Church - "Priest Ells." The "Lone Tree" shown on the seal stands on the site of an old time beacon light on the present estate of Mr. A. Victor Barnes at the top of Canoe Hill.
MARINERS' BEACON
Just a hundred years ago the United States Coast Survey set up on the old-time "Benedict's Ridge," just where once had stood the homestead of an early settler of that name, a lofty beacon for the guidance of mariners on the Sound. This height was known as a commanding position, having been used in Revolutionary times as an especially good vantage-point for watching the movements of enemy ships. The signal now installed, "a huge brass ball as large as a kettle supported by a mammoth mast," reflected the sun's gleams for a decade for the guidance of sailors - not, however, without mishap. Some intrepid New Canaan boys once laid it level with the earth, not realizing how seriously their "prank" might be regarded by the United States Government. Fortunately for them "Justice stood with her bandaged eyes toward the young miscreants" and the Beacon Light was quietly restored. After a decade of usefulness the Beacon was again felled to the earth but this time by a heavy wind. Upon this site was planted Lone Tree, a sugar maple which had to be transplated to make room for a barn on Solomon Lockwood's lot, so it is said.
With the past of New Canaan in mind, the symbolism of the seal of the Historical Society, preserver of the past, seems well chosen. Their motto: "God and the Fatherland"; the church, the first center of religious and civic life; the substantial mansion, center of family life; and standing alone, the straight trunk of that tree firmly rooted in the soil of home but with a suggestion of a far look over sea and land-and into a future that shall be not unworthy of a cherished past.
INDEX
Abbott, Rev. B. T., 28; Rev. Charles R., 42, 43, 59; Enoch, 168; Jacob, 204; Jonathan, 42,47, 52, 53, 58, 59, 61, 63; Mrs. Jonathan, (Jemima Ruscoe) 42; Jonathan Jr., 55; Mrs. Jonathan Jr., (Polly Olmstead), 56, 61
Adams, Rev. Charles Lawrence, 70 Akenside, Mark, 174
Alden, John, 93
Alexander, Capt. John, 41; Mrs. L. Dade, 267
Allen, Reuben, 47, 49, 52
Amelia, (Shop), 239
Anderson, F. W., 274
Andre, Major, 76, 77
Andrews, Abner (Slave), 189
Andros, Sir Edmond, 117
Anne, (Queen), 133
Arnold, Clarence, 274; Isaac W., 222 Austin, Hanford, 48
Ayers (Ayres), Amos, 170, 180, 181, 188, 189, 214; Edward, 181; Mrs. Edward, (Daisy Fitzhugh), 273, 280; Edward F., 217; Mrs. Edward F. (Harriet Ewart), 212, 273; Freder- ick, 158, 181; Hezron, 180; Jared, 181, 219; Lucretia, 69; Minot, 170; Misses, 52; William H., 181
Badger, Rev. Dr. Milton, 32, 172 Bailey, James H., 210, 261
Ball, Mary, (Mrs. Augustine Wash- ington), 134 Barnes, A. Victor, 281
Barrett, William H., 277
Bartholomew, (Saloon keeper), 248
Barton, Rev. Michael R., 70 Bartow, P. S., 216
Bartram, Stanley C. (B), 274
Bascom, Rev. Dr. Flavel, 32 Belden, L. M., 174; Samuel W., 32, 43
Bell, Ebenezer, 169; Rev. Edward, 271; Jonathan, 168
Benedict, Caleb, 198; Caleb (II) (Boss), 131, 179, 182, 183, 214, 220, 247; Caleb St. John, 214, 247, 248; Charles S., 212, 215; Daniel (Capt.), 148; Elijah, 168; Emma (Mrs. Geo. F. Lockwood); Esther, 169; Ezra (Col.), 160, 171; Hannah (Mrs. John Carter); Henry G., 203, 205, 222, 227, 234, 236, 249, 266; Isaac, 148; James B. (? ) , 152, 214; J. & J. (Shoes), 249; John Jr. (II), 127, 128, 131; John (III), 127, 128, 131, 138, 281; Mrs. John (Dinah Bou- ton), 128, 131; John (IV), First Male Child born in Canaan Parish, 128, 148, 159; John (Son Caleb II), 178, 181, 214, 266; Roswell, 213, 215, 260; Siley (Mrs. Stephen Hoyt); Theodore W., 214; Theodore W., Jr., 10; Thomas (Capt.), 136; Trowbridge, 160, 171, 215, 216
Benger, Frederick C., 273 Bennett, J., 196
Bensen, Albert V., Jr., 214, 268 Besson, Mr., 264
Betts, Esther (Mrs. Lewis Raymond); Harriet (Mrs. Elisha Silliman) ; Jesse 55. 58; Stephen, 26, 43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 64, 165, 197; Mrs. Stephen (Ruth Church), 58
Bird, Fred, 275
Bisbee, Mrs. Philip (Margaret Henry), 274
Bleecker, Rev. Lyman, 59
Bliss, Francis M., 240, 244; John F., 52, 273 Block, Adriaen, 92, 109 Bolt, Samuel, 48; William, 47, 50 Bond, William E., 258; Mrs. W. E. (Ellen McIlvaine), 69 Bonney, Rev. William, 26, 126, 167, 176, 186, 197, 198, 199, 264
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Bossa, Norbert, 243 Bostwick, Daniel, 58
Bouton, David, 47; Deacon, 167; Dinah (Mrs. John Benedict III); Emily St. John, 240; Hetty, 153, 185, 186; John, 22, 130, 131; Mrs. John (Mary), 131; John, 131; Mrs. John (Mercy), 131; Nathaniel, 131; Mrs. Nathaniel
(Hannah), 131; Samuel, 151, 203; Stephen, 48
Bowden, Rev. Dr., 43
Bradley, Bradley & Hall (Shoes), 214; Edson, 214, 215; Mr., 262
Breslow, Breslow Bros. (Stationers),
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Brewster, Francis, 111, 114; Mrs. Fran- cis (Lucy), III; Jonathan, 101, 103; Rev. Nathaniel, 111; Mrs. Nathaniel (Sarah Ludlow), 111; Elder William, 93
Bridgman, Mr., 268
Bright, Katherine, 64; Osborn E., 240 .
Brinckerhoff (Market), 275
Brinley, D. Putnam, 265
Brooks, Dr. M. J., 222
Brower, Almandurus, 213; Annie (Mrs. Lester Scofield), 274
Brown, Ernest J., 275; Horace Seeley, 212; Rev. Miss Olympia, 248; Mrs. Seeley (Sophia Raymond), 69 Brownall, Thomas Church (Bishop), 41, 59, 60 Bryans, Mrs. William (Helen Dayton), 274
Buddington, Dr., 206
Bull, William L., 254; Mrs. Wm., 254 Burdett, Edward A., 271, 273
Burnett, Mrs., 240
Burns, Cornelius, 197 Burtis, Burtis & Mead, 227; James W., 235; Mrs. James W. (Miss Meade), 235; Solomon, 47; Woolsey, 158 Bushrod, Mr., 95 Butler, Ben, 206 Butts, Mr., 194 Byrne, Rev. Father, 271
Cabell, Mr., 170 Cabot, John, 92 Camp, Isaac, 47 Cannon, Dr. A. Benson, 59 Carman, William W., 275 Carroll, Rev. J. M., 28
Carter, Cornelia (Mrs. Albert S. Com- stock); Ebenezer, 127, 128, 131, 135, 138, 139, 142, 260, 268; Mrs. Ebenezer (Hannah St. John); Ebenezer (Capt.), 138, 215; 147, 149, 158, 202, 219; Mrs. Ebenezer (Rhoda Weed), 142, 202; Ebenezer, 268; Elizabeth (Mrs. Levi Hanford); Hannah (Mrs. William St. John) ; John (Capt.), 139, 142, 143, 148, 149; Mrs. John (Hannah Bene- dict), 58, 139, 149, 268; Polly (Mrs. Stephen Hoyt); Samuel (New York), 279; Samuel, 127, 128, 138, 139; Thomas, 199, 268; William C., 199 Catto & Thomas, 182
Cezar (Slave), 154
Charles 1 (King), III
Chase, Bishop, 67
Chester, Bishop of, 110 Chevalier, Maurice, 222
Child, Mrs. Lewis P., 253
Church, Ruth (Mrs. Stephen Betts), 58 Clark, Harold B., 52, 61; Rev. Jacob L. (B), 26, 70; John McLane, 74, 123 Clarke, Rev. Merrill F., 9
Cody, James J., 231, 279; Sadie, 272, 274 Coe, Robert, 119, 120
Coffin, Mrs. Sturgis, 69
Coggshall, Dunlap, 26, 44, 47, 48, 49, 53 Collins, Rev. William F., 28
Colum, Padriac, 222
Colver, Rev. Nathaniel, 223
Comstock, Aaron 21, 47, 54, 163; Abijah, 47, 154; Abijah II, 52; Albert S., 214, 215, 239, 241, 268, 280; Mrs. A. S. (Cornelia Carter), 241, 252, 255, 268; Comstock & Davis, 175; Comstock & Rogers, 216, 244; Anthony, 83, 179, 203, 210, 262, 273, 279; Charles, 252; Frank L., 272; Moses, 21, 139, 154; Phoebe, 75, 149, 154; Samuel, 262; Seymour, 180, 189, 213, 268; Thomas, 75; Watts, 34, 196,241 Conant (Pres. Harvard), 94; Roger, 94, 95, 96 Conklin, William, 272
Cook, Rev. Cornelius, 27; Rev. William, 27, 70 Cotton, John, 102, 107, 110 Craddock, Matthew, 95, 96 Craft, Stephen, 47, 52, 160 Crandall, Arthur, 280; Charles, 253, 254; Prudence, 190
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Crane, Edward B., 277, 279
Crawford, Rev. John, 27, 28; Joseph, 48, 50; Myron E., 275 Crissey, Abraham, 47, 215; Mary (Mrs. Wheeler); Nathaniel, 47; Nathaniel, Jr., 47; Samuel, 47 Crofut, Capt., 27, 166, 193; Homer, 50 Cromwell, Oliver, 108, III
Cummings, Homer S., 83, 203, 279 Cunningham, Dr. Edw. G., 275; Mrs. E. G. (Bertha Hoyt), 275; Wiliam, 276 Curtis, Eliza Parkinson (Mrs. William St. John); Henry F. (S), 66, 271
Daggett, Rev. Herman, 32, 171 Daniel, Pliney, 183
Dann, Abraham, 47; (Blacksmith), 222; Charles S., 221; Phoebe Jane, 222 Davenport, A. B., 127; Clarissa, 213; Hanford, 183, 266; Rev. John, 19, 38, 80, 81, 84, 108, 109, 110, III, 112, 114, 117, 119, 127, 131; John Jr., 38, 127; John III, 117; John, 275; Pierre, 252; Silas, 32, 206; William Y., 52
Davids, James (Alias Dixwell), 112; Mrs. James, 112
Dayton, Helen (Mrs. William Bryans) DeForest, Mary Abbott, 54, 55, 56, 57
Demeritt, Charles H., 184, 267, 279; Mrs. Charles H. (Emma Law), 209, 215, 235, 241, 267 Denton, Rev. Richard, 119, 120 Depew, Chauncey Mitchell, 145, 170
Desbrisay, Rev. William, 27, 49, 50, 63, 65, 70 Dibble, Rev. Ebenezer, 39, 40, 43, 52, 53 Dickinson, Rev. Moses, 131
Dixwell (Alias Davids-q.v.) (James) John (Regicide), 111, 112; Mrs. John, 111, 112
Doremus, Abram M., 271
Doty, Herbert (Hubert) ), 276
Downey, John R., 277 Driggs, Silas, 279 Drummond, Mary (Mrs. Thomas Tun- ney); Rev. William, 25, 80, 145; Mrs. George (Sarah Hoyt), 210 Dudley, Thomas, 100
Eaton, Theophilus, 108, 109, 110, 112, 114, 117; Mrs. Theophilus (Anne), IIO, III Eberman, Edwin, 51, 122, 230
Eells (Ells), Amanda, 170; James Trow- bridge, 170; Rev. John, 23, 123, 134, 136, 137, 138, 139, 142, 148, 167, 219; Mrs. John (Anna Beard), 139; (Abi- gail Comstock-2d), 139; J. B. (g-g- son), 198, 199; Moses Comstock, 154; Mrs. Moses Comstock; Abigail, 154;
Trowbridge, 220; William, 183
Elliott, Rev. H. B., 202 Ells, M., 246
Ely, Nathan, 103, 107
Endecott (Endicott), John, 95, 96
Esty, William C., 50
Everett, Rev. William, 27, 70
Ewart, Harriet (Mrs. E. F. Ayres)
Ewing, Frederic, 189, 268
Ezequelle, Steve, 276
Fairley, Mrs. Samuel (Charlotte Chase), 6, 74, 123, 157
Fancher, Fancher Bros. (Factory), 218; Reuben, 48; Mrs. Rumsey I., 181 Fayerweather, Hannah Richards (Mrs. Julian Sturtevant); Richard, 26, 57, 58, 158, 171, 174, 189, 198
Ferguson, Rev. A. H., 28
Ferrera, (Shop), 231, 239 Ferris, Deacon, 266
Finch, John, 131; Timothy, 48; Titus, 47 Fischer, Benedict, 63
Fitch, Abijah, 170; Benjamin (Slave), 219; Bushnal, 47; Bushnell, 219; John, 129, 131, 218; Mrs. John (Lydia), 131; Joseph, 168; Stephen, 219; Mrs. Stephen, 219; Theophilus, 167; Thomas, 20; Thomas (Gov.), 81, 83; William, 188; William, 219
Fitzhugh, Daisy (Mrs.Edward Ayres) Fladd, Mr., 50
Fogg, Rev. Thomas B., 70
Foote, George, 267
Ford, Rev. C. B., 28
Fothergill, Rev. M. M., 70
Fowler, Mrs. Leroy (Florence Sam- mis), 276 Fox, Mrs., 213, 215
Francis, Rev. Abram S., 27
Franco, (Grocer), 238 Freeman, Caesar (Slave), 189, 190
Frost, Capt., 30 Frothingham, Lawrence P., 258, 271 Fuller, Rev. Clark, 28
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Fulton, Robert, 192
Gano, Rev. John, 28 George, King George II, 133, 134 Gilbert, Gilbert & Lockwood, 275; Mrs. William H., 223 Gilder, Rev. J. L., 28, 32, 208, 209, 235; Richard Watson, 208
Gillespie, Gillespie Bros., 226; William W., 226
Gleason, Frank, 271, 275 Goff, (Regicide), 111, 112 Good, Mrs. Wm. H., 50 Gorges, Sir Ferdinado, 93, 94, 96 Gough, John B., 230
Grace, (Slave) Grace Richards Grant, President U.S., 15, 73, 227 Graves, Rev. Miss, 196
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