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قراءة كتاب Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences
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Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences
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TWO CENTURIES OF
N E W M I L F O R D
C O N N E C T I C U T
AN ACCOUNT OF THE BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
OF THE FOUNDING OF THE TOWN HELD JUNE
15, 16, 17 AND 18, 1907, WITH A NUMBER
OF HISTORICAL ARTICLES AND
REMINISCENCES
PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE HISTORICAL COMMITTEE BY VARIOUS CITIZENS OF NEW MILFORD AND BY THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT OF THE GRAFTON PRESS
THE GRAFTON PRESS
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Copyright, 1907
By THE GRAFTON PRESS
CONTENTS
| PART I THE PAST AND PRESENT |
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| INTRODUCTION. By Minot S. Giddings | 3 |
| The first settlers of New Milford. Zachariah Ferriss sued for trespass. John Reed and his career. Organizing a township. Organizing a church and calling a minister. The sturdy character of the Fathers. Noted men. Roger Sherman. The splendid heritage of New Milford. | |
| GLIMPSES OF OLD NEW MILFORD HISTORY. By Charlotte Baldwin Bennett | 8 |
| The site of New Milford two hundred years ago. The character and career of John Noble. The Boardman well. The first minister and the first meetinghouse. The union of town and church. “Seating and dignifying the meetinghouse.” People called to church by a drum. The tithing-man. The Sabbath-day house. Importance of the minister. The first Episcopal services. The Separatists. The Baptists. The Methodists. The Quakers. The different church edifices. Church music. The schools. The singing schools. The early wars. A romance of the Revolution. Illustrious visitors. Social life after the war. Anecdote of Parson Taylor. Transportation. Main street nearly a century ago. Beautifying “The Green.” The village doctor. Slavery. The “Underground Railroad.” The Civil War. The fire of 1902. | |
| THE OWNERS OF NEW MILFORD. By Gen. Henry Stuart Turrill | 22 |
| Proprietors to the amount of £1, 4s. Proprietors to the amount of 12s. | |
| TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO. (Poem). By Sarah Sanford Black | 24 |
| THE TWO ABIGAILS. By Gen. Henry Stuart Turrill | 26 |
| Caleb Terrill settles in New Milford. Major Turrill. Marriage of Caleb Terrill and Abigail Bassett in Stratford. Caleb and Abigail visit Caleb’s family at Milford. They mount the “Great River.” Halt at “the Cove.” The home on Second Hill. The wonderful life of Abigail. The career of Abigail Ufford. | |
| NEW MILFORD IN THE WARS. By Gen. Henry Stuart Turrill | 31 |
| Military inactivity of the first fifty years. The first company in New Milford. Arduousness of the train-band service. The Second Company. Tenth Company of Col. David Wooster’s Third Regiment of Connecticut Levy. Other Companies. The Eleventh Company of the Fourth Regiment. The Tenth Company of the Second Regiment. Captain Joseph Canfield’s Company. The good understanding with the Indians. The most prominent names in military affairs. The first company mentioned in connection with the Revolution. Its history indefinite. Captain Isaac Bostwick’s Company. The Nineteenth Regiment of Connecticut Line. Part played in the movements about New York. At Spuyten Duyvil Creek. Tradition of a sergeant’s guard under the command of David Buell. The capture of Fort Washington. New Milford men made prisoners of war. Confined in a barn. The Old Sugar House Prison. Prison hardships. Roger Blaisdell’s pork barrel. The prison-ship Dutton. Arrival of the surviving prisoners in New Milford. Captain Bostwick’s company about Philadelphia. The Danbury alarm. Captain Daniel Pendleton’s company. The stay-at-homes. The leading families in the Revolution. Engagements in which New Milford men participated. New Milford soldiers refreshed by Deacon Gaylord. New Milford men at Stony Point. The old age of David Buell. Reunions of old soldiers at the home of John Turrill. The adventures of Stephen Turrill. | |
| The Colonial Wars | 45 |
| New Milford men in the Colonial Wars as given in the Connecticut Historical Society rolls. | |
| The Revolution | 49 |
| Muster roll of a company said to have been raised in New Milford and to have formed a part of Colonel Andrew Ward’s Regiment of Connecticut Militia. Roll of Captain Isaac Bostwick’s company, Seventh Company, Sixth Regiment, of Connecticut Line. Men who crossed the Delaware with Captain Isaac Bostwick and were in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. Officers and men from New Milford who served in the Sixth Company of the Fourth Regiment of Connecticut Line. New Milford men who served in Lieutenant-Colonel Josiah Starr’s Regiment, Connecticut Line. New Milford men who were in Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Canfield’s Regiment of Connecticut Militia at West Point in 1781. New Milford men who served in Connecticut Regiment of Pioneers. New Milford men who served in Col. Moses Hazen’s Regiment, Connecticut Militia. New Milford men who served in the Fifth Troop, Shelden’s Dragoons. New Milford men who served in Second Regiment, Connecticut Line. Company of forty volunteers. New Milford men in Captain Charles Smith’s company. General David Waterbury’s State | |