Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-07
G0@h@n. 202.

| team race was won by J. 5 Judas Doe tor and mate. -.'''-' '' -s'----.- | coshen.-mo. 202, At the annual town meeting in Goshen Dec. 12. 1774. our Town passed vote ap- proving the action of the Continental Con- gress, and Lieut.. Asaph Hall was present at the taking of Ticonderoga in 1775. May 31st, 1775. twenty-eight more men started from Goshen for the war in the North, and after the battle of Bunker Hill in the summer, when Gen. Washington sent Arnold with eleven thousand men through the wilderness to attack Quebec, John North, IT,, from Goshen, was among them. As that expedition failed to ac- eomplish its object, c great effort was made here to raise men in the latter part of 1775. and on the morning of the first or second of February, ,l776. twenty-one men, many of them from East Stree, assembled at the house of Daniel Niles in Eask St, -..a ay werv Uu tizcis way so join tho army in the cold regions of the North. T have the names of these soldiers, all of whom returned except one who died of sickness. I have no means of moving whether these men returned in time to help raise the Liberty Pole or not; in- deed, the fact that such pole stood lit- tie south of the house where the twenty one met, would have been unknown but for the following circumstance:
 When Henry Norton was very young. his father, the late Dea. Lewis M. Norton, pointing to little hollow about half way between the travelled road and the west fence. remarked that there was tradition that there stood D Liberty Pole during the Revolutionary War. He watched that spot for fifty years but said nothing about it until. lately. our selsctmen gave their consent that he might set stone there to mark the spot. SO he went to the place last Friday and began to dig. but immedi- diately struck stones. although the ground around is remarkably free from stones. Fearing he had come on to an old well. he kept on throwing out the stones until it was plain that great hole had been dug with smooth sides of hard earth, which had been filled almost entirely with stones. but there was one part where the earth was soft. and the stones appeared wedged in around it Many persons were watching the operation. and one lady thought we should find signs of the wood yet. After good load of stones had been taken out, and depth of four feet had been reached. he began to find rotten wood. which was pronounced by those above to be pine. When the bottom of the old hole was reached five feet seven inches below the surface. it was easy to see the size of the pole by the decayed wood standing in the water. and it was about seventeen inches in diameter. He saved a great many pieces of the wood and bark. three of which show the marks of the axe, the lasgest being foot long. and covered Ta Rns ss SeEs saa .ssaS5Psseasss He also bottle. supposed to have been used at the raising, and broken in accordance with the custom. When high frame was put up, man would stand on the ridge pole, and throw bottle filled with rum as far as possible. The work was soon done, a solid stone foundation was laid from the bottom up. four feet. on which was set the small, square, white marble monu- ment, made ct the marble works of Mir. Gillett in your village. around which the earth was packed firmly foot and half in depth. and the passer by now reads. "Here stood Liberty Pole, ,1776."
 Mir John M. Wadhams, offers to give $50 towards $500 to be raised for the ex- tra expense of preparing and publishing 8 history of Goshen.
 Mrs. Sarah Carey died, ,last week, near Boston, and was buried here. by her for mer husband, Rev. MT. Boughton. She was the daughter of Ebenezer Wing, for. merly of Goshen. .....
 Miss Laura Collins, whose death is recorded this week. was Q daughter of Ambrose Collins who lived and died in the southwest part of the town many years ago. The funeral was attended last Sab. bath at the house of Mir. Christopher P. Wheeler, where she had always lived. The remarks by Rev. Mir. Harrison of Milton were quite interesting. He stated that there were fourteen who united with the church in Milton at one time, forty. nine years ago, and that Miss Collins, her sister Mrs. Wheeler, and another sister, were of the number. ~ i-sI
 It was too cloudy, last Monday, to see the eclipse, but we noticed that it was remarkably dark at sunrise. The Goshen astronomers and star gaxers have been much puzzled about the planet Saturn, lately, having noticed Shat it has turned about in it's motion to the east through the stars, and that 1t is going to the west. It now appears to be leaving the two stars in the tail of Capricorn, and its motion to the weet in twenty-four hours can easily be observed: but they have ascertained that it is only an apparent motion to the west. occaaioned by the motion of the earth, and that it is still on it's thirty years circuit to the east around the heay ems.
 Goshen, Sept. 27th.
 In connection with the remarks sen, you last week about the finding of th. pieces of the rum-bottle by the Libert, Pole, would add that MT. Ludington in
 forms me that when he was boy he at
 tended the raising of large frame in the northeast part of the town. over stream in rocky place. and when the difficult work was accomplished. a very large bot. tic of rum, mixed with lemons, was passed up to the top bands, and that d man afood