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1851. Roswell Cook, John S. Preston.
1852. James Alling, Samuel S. Catlin.
1854.
Addison Webster, Charles H. Barber.
1856.
Augustus Alford, Charles Wilcox.
1857. Charles Wilcox, Roswell Cook.
1858. Sheldon G. Catlin, Lyman Perkins.
1859. Julius Catlin, Charles H. Barber.
REPRESENTATIVES.
1757. Capt. Abijah Catling, Capt. Jacob Hinsdale.
1758. Dea. Jacob Benton,
Capt. Jacob Hinsdale.
1759. Capt. Abijah Catling, Daniel Catling.
1778. John Wilson, Daniel Catlin.
1760. Capt. Abijah Catling, Daniel Catling.
1779. Joseph Cook, Daniel Catlin.
1761. Capt. Jacob Hinsdale, Capt. Abijah Catling.
1780. Josiah Phelps, Joseph Cook.
1762. Capt. Abijah Catling. 1781. Josiah Phelps, Capt. George Catlin.
1763. Daniel Catling.
1764. Abijah Catlin, Daniel Catlin.
1782. George Catlin, Josiah Phelps.
1765. Capt. Daniel Catlin, Joel Catlin.
1783. Josiah Phelps, George Catlin.
1766. Abijah Catlin, George Catlin.
1767. George Catlin.
1768. Abijah Catlin, Daniel Catlin.
1769. Capt. Abijah Catling, John Wilson.
1770. Maj. Abijah Catlin, Daniel Catlin.
Oct. 1770. Maj. Abijah Catlin, Josiah Phelps.
1771. Maj. Abijah Catlin, Josiah Phelps. 1772. Joseph Phelps, Abijah Catlin. 1773. Josiah Phelps, Capt. John Wilson. 1774. Josiah Phelps, Mark Prindle. 1775. Capt. John Wilson, Josiah Phelps.
1784. George Catlin, Josiah Phelps.
1785. Mark Prindle, Joseph Cook. 1786. Mark Prindle, Joseph Cook. 1787. Abner Wilson, Josiah Phelps. 1788. Joseph Cook, Eli Wilson. 1789. Mark Prindle, Josiah Phelps. 1790. Josiah Phelps, Col. Abner Wilson. 1791. Josiah Phelps, Abner Wilson. 1792. Josiah Phelps, Daniel Catlin. 1793. Josiah Phelps, Daniel Catlin.
1776. John Wilson, Josiah Phelps. 1777. Josiah Phelps, Cyprian Webster.
1855.
James Alling, Thomas C. Davis.
1853. Samuel S. Catlin, Joseph Fenn.
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1794. Josiah Phelps, Daniel Catlin, Jr.
1795. Josiah Phelps,
Abner Wilson.
1796. Josiah Phelps,
1825. Urialı Hopkins, John S. Preston.
1797. Daniel Catlin, James Brace.
1826. Marvin Griswold, Roswell Alford.
1798. Daniel Catlin, James Brace.
1827. Phinchas W. Noble, Noah Welton.
1799. Daniel Catlin, James Brace.
1828. Phinehas W. Noble, Noah Welton.
1800. Daniel Catlin, James Brace.
1829. David Wilson, Marvin Griswold.
1801. Daniel Catlin,
1830. David Wilson, Jeremiah Holt.
1802. Daniel Catlin, James Brace.
1831. Jeremiah Holt, Marvin Griswold.
1803. James Brace, Timothy Clark, Jr.
1832. Gaylord Wells, Asahel Hooker.
1804. James Brace,
Timothy Clark, Jr.
1805. James Brace, Benjamin Griswold.
1834. Abijahı Webster, Chester N. Case.
1806. James Brace, Benjamin Griswold.
1835. Augustus S. Johnson, Lyman Perkins.
1807. James Brace, Benjamin Griswold.
1836. Augustus S. Johnson, Andrew Abernethy.
1808. James Brace, Benjamin Griswold.
1809. James Brace,
Benjamin Griswold.
1810. Timothy Clark, Joel Bradley.
1839. Abijah Catlin, Sheldon Osborn.
1811. Timothy Clark, Joel Bradley.
1812. Timothy Clark, Benjamin Griswold.
1841. Allen Birge, Moses Beach.
1842. Moses Beach, Asahel N. Barber.
1843. Asahel N. Barber, John Bull.
1844. John Bull, Phinehas W. Noble.
1845. Phinehas W. Noble, Augustus S. Johnson.
1846. Gardner Preston, Augustus S. Johnson.
1847. Gardner Preston, Sheldon G. Catlin.
1819. William C. Abernethy, Enos Frisbie.
1820. Uriah Hopkins,
William C. Abernethy.
1821. Eli Candee,
Marvin Griswold.
1822. Eli Candee, John S. Preston.
1840. Allen Birge, Abijalı Catlin.
1813. James Bracc, Benjamin Griswold.
1814. James Bracc, Cyprian Webster.
1815. Cyprian Webster, Joel Bradley.
1816. Cyprian Webster, William C. Abernethy.
1817. William C. Abernethy, Uriah Hopkins.
1818. William C. Abernethy, Uriah Hopkins.
1848. Jeremiah Holt, Sheldon G. Catlin.
1849. Jeremiah Holt, Philo Hall.
1850. Daniel Hinman, Phinehas W. Noble.
1851. David A. Wilson, Abijah Catlin.
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1837. Abijah Catlin, Andrew Abernethy.
1838. Abijah Catlin, Sheldon Osborn.
1833. Gaylord Wells, Abijalı Webster.
[" No second returned."]
1823. Uriah Hopkins. Marvin Griswold.
1824. Uriah Hopkins, Marvin Griswold.
Daniel Catlin.
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1852. Lewis Catlin, Jr., Samuel S. Catlin.
1853. James Alling,
William Knox.
1854. Charles Wilcox, Hart Barker.
1855. Augustus S. Johnson, Alphonso Candee. 1856. Lewis Catlin, Sen., Thomas R. Candee.
1857. Horace Wilson, Addison Webster. 1858. Wolcott Hinsdale, William Wilson.
1859. Julius Catlin, Charles Hubert Barber.
1860. Charles M. Wilson, George Gridley.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
1859-60. Augustus S. Johnson.
CHIEF JUDGE OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY COURT. 1844-45. Abijah Catlin.
STATE SENATORS.
1838-40, Andrew Abernethy. 1844-45. Abijah Catlin. 1859-60. Sheldon Osborn.
COMMISSIONER OF THE SCHOOL FUND. 1851-52. Abijah Catlin.
COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. 1847-50. Abijalı Catlin.
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY. 1831-33. George S. Catlin.
SECRETARY OF THE STATE. 1735. George Wyllys .*
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. 1858-60. Julius Catlin.+
To the Convention, held at Hartford, January, 1788, by which was ratified the Constitution of the United States, were :
Delegates from Harwinton. Abner Wilson, Mark Prindle.
To the Convention, held at Hartford, August, 1818, by which was formed the Constitution of Connecticut, were :
Delegates from Harwinton. James Brace, Uriah Hopkins.
*Resident subsequently at Hartford, he held the office until 1796.
+Originally of Harwinton, but in very early life of Litchfield, and since of Hart- ford.
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PROBATE COURT OF HARWINTON.
The Probate business of Harwinton was formerly transacted at Litch- field. The Probate District of Litchfield, established 1747, included, with Litchfield and Harwinton, Canaan, Cornwall, Goshen, Kent (of which Warren then was a part), Norfolk, Salisbury, Sharon, Torrington, and " the lands, on the west side of the Housatonic river, between New Fairfield and Sharon."
Harwinton was constituted a Probate District, in 1835. For the Probate District of Harwinton have been:
Judges of Probate.
1835-38. Benajah Haydon.
1847-50. Lewis Smith.
1838-42. Abijah Catlin.
1850-51. Martin Cook, 2d.
1842-44. Benajah Haydon.
1851-52. Lewis Smith.
1844-46. Lewis Smith.
1852-55. Moses Beach.
1846-47. Martin Cook, 2d.
1855-60. Lewis Smith.
HARWINTON MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
Was organized, July, 1856. Its officers have been :
Presidents.
Phinehas W. Noble, Augustus S. Johnson.
Secretaries.
Charles H. Barber.
Addison Webster.
Treasurers.
David A. Wilson.
Charles M. Wilson,
NOTE R., PAGE 33. One Hundred Years Ago.
Appropriate to the occasion which suggested the 'first series' of the ' historical collections' of Harwinton, would have been the lines which follow. They are scarcely less so to that of the present 'series.' Ex- cept the substitution of 'One Hundred ' for 'Two Hundred,' with one or two other slight changes; they are the same as were sung at the "Celebration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of Middletown," Ct., 13 Nov., 1850.
ODE.
One Hundred Years ago here, the Autumn leaves were falling, And the woods to woods were calling here, One Hundred Years ago; And their roaring sounds, like thunder, made the forest seekers wonder, When stirred by blasts of Autumn winds, One Hundred Years ago.
One Hundred Years ago, there were Indian footsteps roaming O'er the hills ; they heard them coming here, One Hundred Years ago; They were on these 'Western Lands,' they were quaffing at the fountains, And were wending hither homeward here, One Hundred Years ago.
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One Hundred Years ago here, the deer were wildly bounding, And the partridge wing-drum sounding here, One Hundred Years ago; On the tree-tops gaily prancing, was the merry squirrel dancing, At his prey the wolf was glancing here, One Hundred Years ago.
One Hundred Years ago, here there flowed a pleasant river, And its finny tribes were sporting here, One Hundred Years ago; And like God, the glorious giver, this same water faileth never, But is passing now as ever here, One Hundred Years ago.
NOTE S., PAGE 33. Indians in Harwinton.
As mentioned previously (, in Note C., page 99), "the Western lands," what is now Litchfield county, appear, at the time when the English first made settlement in Connecticut, to have been owned and occupied by Indians as simply a territory for hunting and occasional res- idence. As also there appears, the Indians, to whom such ownership and occupancy of these lands pertained, were mainly or wholly of the tribe which was at Farmington, that is, the Tunxis.
The Windsor, Ct., Indians " seem to have gradually removed [first] to Farmington, [then to] Salisbury and Sharon [, in Ct. ], where in 1730 they became united with the remnants of the Simsbury, Farmington, Wethersfield and other Connecticut River tribes ; and finally, in 1763, [these all] were removed to Stockbridge, Ms. About the year 1786, by invitation of the Oneidas they moved to Stockbridge, N. Y. Here, on a tract three miles long by two miles in breadth, granted to them by the hospitable Oneidas, they, together with a number from the Mohegan and other tribes of Connecticut, formed a tribe called the Brothertons. Their first pastor was Sampson Occum, a native of Mohegan, who re- moved to New York State with them, and [who] died there in 1792.
In 1834 they commenced, together with the Stockbridge tribe, to em- igrate to Calumet County, Wisconsin. By 1840, there were 300 of the Brotherton and 230 of the Stockbridge Indians in the County, and [they ] had commenced to build saw [mills] and grist mills. In 1839, the Brothertons obtained the rights of United States citizenship. In 1850 they numbered 400 out of a population of 1746 in Calumet Coun- ty, where they now form a large civilized and prosperous community."* One of the number, Joseph Pitchlynn Folsom, graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1854.
An Indian, who had been at an early age taken into the family of Rev. Joshua Williams, was living here, unmarried, and was apparently about fifty years of age, in 1837. He was called 'a Stockbridge Indian.' Of whatever tribe he was, he seemed of unmixed Indian descent. He was ycleped Adonijah Chops. When by the writer asked to tell his name, he gave utterance to only the latter member of it, which he jerked out in a sort of oral explosion that may be represented by Hceeawpstz uttered in a monosyllable. This surname seems to be an Indian appella.
*Wisconsin Hist. Soc.'s Collec. I. Cited in Hist. of Ancient Windsor.
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tion. Chops is on an Indian deed relating to Derby (, Paugasset), 1665. Chup sold land at New Milford, 1665. Chob and John Chob were In- dians, witnesses to a deed at Woodbury, 1728-9. One of the Tunxis Indians, who by deed conveyed Mattatuc (, Waterbury,) to Farming- ton people, 1674, was (literately) named Aupkt. Aupes or Aups was one of the Tunxis Indians, who by deed conveyed Massaco (, Simsbury), 1680, to certain inhabitants of Windsor.
In 1836, at Harwinton, there lived in the writers' family a girl, then eleven years old, Lydia Pemberton, and at the same time in a Mr. Dowd's family an older brother to said girl. Of these children, both of indisputably Indian form and features, whose mother was a white woman said to be of Litchfield (South Farms, now Morris), the father, repre- sented as a full-blooded Indian, was called 'a Mohegan or Narragan- set.' His surname, Pemberton, which has a Boston, Ms., sound, inti- mates him, too, to have been a Tunxis; as it suggests that its applica- tion to him might have been in some way a consequent from the con- nection which, in 1731, Benjamin Pemberton of Boston, Ms., had with the copper mines at Simsbury .*
It may be doubted whether any Tunxis Indian survives in this vicin- ity. It was in 1840 stated, at Farmington, that "the only surviving female of that tribe stood trembling by the grave" in which she sawa buried the last male of pure Tunxis blood, 21 Dec., 1820. It should have been on that day, it was on the 22 Dec., 1820, that, at Plymouth, Ms., there was celebrated jubilantly a bicentennial commemoration ; and, as a befitting part of the intellectual festivities to New Englanders, New England's then foremost orator pronounced near 'the rock,' so long hal- lowed, the words, since so celebrated, of his Address on the Landing of the Pilgrims. Decadence and cadences : 'Remarkable coincidence.'
Mr. DeForest (, fit name for his theme), in his History of the Indians of Connecticut, says : " At the present time [, 1850,] they [the Tunxis] have all disappeared from their ancient home. One miserable creature, a man named Mossock, t still lives in Litchfield, perhaps the sole remnant of the tribe." Rev. Joel Grant, in his Centennial Sermon at Avon, Ct., 1851, said: "It is not known that more than one descendant of the [Tunxis] race is now living," "Manasseth, t sentenced for participating in the murder of Barnice White, of Colebrook." "He is in the State's Prison, his sentence of death, for murder, having been commuted to im- prisonment for life." Mr. Grant well added: "This whole matter of ' last descendants' is believed to be very uncertain."-' Indians' who came from the vicinity of Stockbridge, Ms., lived recently in Guilford, Ct. By one of their company, a half-breed, a man 'towards seventy ' years old in 1856, intelligent, surnamed Madison, the statement was made that his father, whom some public business had brought into Wes- tern Massachusetts 'in the revolutionary war,' was a brother of James Madison, President of the United States. As well ludicrous as lugu- brious has become the once tender wail: "Who is there left to mourn for Logan ?"-each 'Logan' being " e pluribus unum."
*History of Simsbury. +These. the same man. can in 1860 quote: 'I yet live.'
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NOTE T., PAGE 33.
Wild Animals.
In our territory, as in that of the Towns in its vicinity, wild animals formerly were abundant. Deer, long after this Town was settled, were common. They were here less numerous, however, than at Simsbury ; where 'venison was for many years a cheaper food than pork, or beef, or mutton ;' they were probably more numerous than at Goshen and Wa- terbury. In the very rigorous winter of 1779-80, many deer perished in Harwinton, from inability of getting at food. Those which were in that winter killed by hunters here, were in so emaciated a condition that their value was solely for their skins. Since that time, no deer have been found here .- The severity of the winter referred to was, twenty years ago, often described by aged men. Snow fell during forty days in succession. It lay four feet deep, even in March, covering fences, and had then become so hard that horses and oxen travelled easily on its sur- face. For weeks, at an earlier period, all travel, except by men using snow-shoes, had been suspended. At Goshen, snow-shoes were that winter in such demand that horses were killed to obtain, from their raw hides, materials for making those then indispensable articles.
Whether wild cats were seen or killed in Harwinton, does not appear. * So late as 1760, a bounty for killing animals of that sort was offered in Waterbury. In 1856, one was killed at North Guilford; one, weighing twenty-three pounds, was caught in a trap, Nov., 1858, at Winchester ; another was caught at Plymouth, 15 Jan., 1859.
A century ago there were wolves in this region. At Goshen, a pre- mium was given for destroying them, and Jacob Beach there destroyed four in one year and received therefor £16. The same man, in another year, there captured, in traps and otherwise, seventeen bears. In 'May, 1783, the town of Harwinton being, of late, greatly infested with wolves, the General Assembly awarded a bounty of forty shillings to Frederick Phelps of said Town, for killing a full-grown wolf.'
Bears have been much more common, in these parts, than was desira- ble, though probably less so than at Goshen where, within a century, 'an old hunter [, as above noticed, ] would often fall in with one, and where they made havoc in wheat-fields and corn-fields, and sometimes of herds of swine.' About a hundred years ago, a bear showed himself in Harwinton, near the house, now demolished, in which Mr. Nathan Davis then lived, and which Mr. Thomas C. Davis lately owned. The locality was then, even more than recently, secluded. The day being Sabbath, Mrs. Davis was in the house alone. Bruin incautiously sur. . veying the premises, in nearer proximity to them than Mrs. Davis chose to allow, she, though certainly not 'a marksman,' seized her husband's well-loaded trusty musket, and, incontinent, laid the beast dead. Some- what more than sixty years since, a bear was pursued in the wood east of Jacob O. Catlin's, Esq., but the animal escaped. About fifty years since, another bear was seen, near the house in which the late Mr. David Wilson lived. Not far from the same time, one was captured in the gar- den pertaining to a house, then occupied by Mr. Roger Cook who after-
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wards was a taverner at Litchfield, the small brown house east of the blacksmith's shop, in this village. This is not more remarkable than that, in 1766, when bears were ravaging fields and destroying sheep and swine in the Towns near Hartford, one was killed in 'the Main Street ' of that place.
NOTE U., PAGE 37. Mineralogy of Harwinton.
Neither "A. Report on the Geological Survey of Connecticut," nor any similar work that has been consulted, refers specifically to mineral deposits, or even to sporadic chance-found mineral specimens, in Harwin- ton. While we would not, without very great diffidence, venture to in- timate that such omission indicates some degree of remissness in research, on the part of 'exploiters' and savans, we must regret that this, at least an apparent deficiency, imposes on us the necessity of either letting the world remain ignorant of the mineralogical riches of our territory, or making report of them ourselves. The latter course we have (as with- out a choice) chosen; so with becoming modesty. we proceed to the work. As the subject involved is extensive, it will be conveniently set forth in distinct categories.
1. Antimony. A statement was made, about 1812-17, to the effect that there was in Harwinton a 'locality ' of 'antimony,' singularly ' pure,' existing in 'blocks' of massive size. The locality was affirmed to be, in a direction 'north-east of the Meeting-house,' upon land then owned by Lewis Catlin, Sen., Esq. The originator of the statement exhibited large pieces of the mineral kind mentioned, which, as he said, were taken by him from that locality. Some of those pieces he gave to a young gentleman of Harwinton who, at the time, was a member of Yale College. Through this latter person these pieces came into the hands of scientific men, some of whom posted hither, and, with as great success as, by those who well knew the originator of the statement, could have been expected, made search for the mineral in place. It is said that a distinguished Professor of Mineralogy, who not long since de- ceased, inserted some account of Harwinton 'native antimony ' in a text- book which he published; and that another distinguished Professor, yet living, did the like in a scientific Journal by him edited. The writer of this Note has not felt strongly encouraged to verify the accuracy of the saying. The person who set afloat the statement and exhibited the spe- cimens, used to affirm with much decision, that 'he would never disclose the locality,' whence he obtained the specimens, 'so long as a certain person,' in Harwinton then, 'survived.' He made no other explanation, if indeed this was any. He afterwards did, however, vouchsafe to vary his decision so far as, about 1830, to state, significantly, that 'he never had told where the treasure lay, and he now thought it hardly worth the while to tell.' As he died without deigning to make disclosure, no help save that of sheer re-'discovery' will avail towards laying hands or set- ting eyes on 'native antimony' found naturally here.
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' 2. Black Lead. One of the earliest visitors to Connecticut River carried back to Massachusetts, in 1633, "some black lead, whereof the Indians told him there was a whole rock."* The General Court of Mas- sachusetts, granted to John Winthrop, Jr., in 1644, "the hill at Tantousq [, Sturbridge, Ms.], about sixty miles westward from Boston, in which the black lead mine is." In company with Mr. Winthrop, "Mr. Wil- liam Payne and Capt. Thomas Clarke, of Boston, employed men to work [there] at the black lead mine, in 1657, 1658, and 1659," &c. In the records of Windsor, Ct., is noticed in the 17th century, "a path near the mountains leading to the [black ?] lead mines."} It was just at this time, as hereinabove (, p. 100,) noticed, that the Indians sold to white men so much at least of our territory as contains "the hill from whence John Standley and John Andrews brought the black lead." Now Stur- bridge, Ms., is farther from Hartford, and from Farmington, than Har- winton is; and it is, as compared with Harwinton, in about an opposite geographical direction from those places ; yet the sequel of this Note will probably show some connexion of the above recited facts with the ‘min- eralogy ' and with the history of Harwinton.
John Winthrop, Jr, in 1657 Governor of Connecticut as well as worker of the Sturbridge, Ms., "black lead mine," was an eminently scientific man whose influence was at that time felt in stirring up a spirit- of research for mineral discoveries within the territory whose chief mag- istrate he was. The Indians, who employed black lead to paint their faces, knew that it had with the English a higher value than it had with themselves. The same motive that led Wahquimacut, a Connecticut River Sachem, to hold forth to the people of Massachusetts and Ply- mouth, in 1631, the value to them of Connecticut River lands as supplying maize and furs ; probably led Kepaquamp, Querrimus, and Mataneage, Indian possessors of " Matetacoke [Mattatuc]," to represent to the Far- mington people the value to them of "Matetacoke " as able to furnish to them " black lead." Those three 'speculators in wild lands' doubtless made there all 'the deposit' of that mineral which this locality ever con- tained. From such an artificial, not from any natural, stores of the min- eral there, were Messrs. Standley and Andrews supplied on their visiting " ye hill." The language respecting them, as concerned with the "black lead," is: "They brought the black lead." It is not said that they 'dug' the article. It is not said that they even 'got' it, indeed. They might " dig and carry away "-as much as they could find there. This was the right which the Indians sold and which the Farmington people bought of the Indians. Of whom was obtained the 'specimen lot,' does not appear. Alack, alack, too late is it now to make farther inquiry who sold or who gave to the Farmington people that 'black lead.' By some wondrous 'alchymy,' was it transmuted into blue lead ? or did it not rather (?) become
3. Block Lead. Whether it was by 'projection ' operating such a
*Winthrop's Journal, I.
+N. E. His. Gen. Reg., Ap., 1856.
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substitution, or from the more facile change of A into o, cannot with certainty be said ; but after the thought of black lead being native here had been relinquished, there was indulged, in minds strong enough for such a mental feat, a more than supposition that block lead existed witlı- in our boundaries. Lead-mine Brook, which flows through the valley just west of our village, was so denominated as early as Oct., 1732. The "West Harwinton " records, in that year, designate it by that name. Traditions which, traced back to nearly that time, had, no doubt, a much earlier origin, asserted that, in the high lands situated in the eastern and southern portions of the township, that is within the territory lying north of Northbury (, Plymouth, ) and between the head waters of the Pequa- buck River, viz., the land somewhat north-east of the mouth of Lead- mine Brook, there existed a vast aggregation of lead in a natural condi- tion so pure as to be malleable without previous fusion. Some persons, among the first settlers here, are said to have stated that the Indians gave to them accounts of this mass of block lead; and others, that " they had seen it," rock-like and huge in form, "with their own eyes." Mr. Joseph Merriman, whose general veracity was unquestioned, did, report says, "cut off and bring home " large solid ingots of this petri- form treasure. These he molded into "bullets, which he found excel- lent " for purposes of musketry. This circumstance led him, some time afterwards, to resolve,-as naturally as, regarding another matter, did the man whom a chapter in the Proverbs describes as one "that lieth upon the top of a mast,"-" I will seek it yet again." Relative to his putting his resolve into execution, report farther depones that though, on return- ing from his first visit, he had, " soon after he had left the spot," taken the precaution,-a forethought which, it seems, certainly came after- wards,-of "lopping off bushes " with a view to being able without dif- ficulty to find "the spot " again; yet "the lead-rock " was somehow missing, and "he never could find it more." This annoyance was a vex- atious one, no doubt, because lead was a 'precious metal ' then ; the un- successful attempt to find the great treasure having been made a century ago, in 'the times of the old French war,' when 'that article' was in great requisition.
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