Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-20
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 here returned on the Fourth of July. Among them were MT. and Mrs. Homer B. Richards, and their daughter from Oregon, Wisconsin; Rev. NIT. Doubleday, wife and daughter, from Vineland. N. J.; and Mrs. John s. Langley, daughter of Lamont Street, of Franklinville. N. J.
 Among the incidents of our Centennial we would mention that one young man, Clarence N. Brewster, was dressed in the costume of one hundred years ago. and several young ladies had enormous combs, with their hair done up as in the days of their great grandmothers. One native of Goshen sad to young lady. "I wint to the cintinnial, yesterday. Did you ever go to one before ?" ''Yes; we have them every day in Hartford"
 don't suppose it was so very great a sight when your Cornwall correspondent, ''D.," and large number of Cornwall people went to Goshen. and gazed with their own eyes upon H. N. Why did not your Harwinton correspondent, ''Little Ghonnie," when H. N. was pointed out to him, make himself known? ''The fair young ladies of Goshen" who were so very kind and attentive to him, for once in their lives entertained an angel ''un- awares."
 We mentioned, last week, that Timothy Gaylord was shot by an Indian in the French and Indian war. His commission. appointing him first Lieutenant of the Twelfth Company, in the Regiment com manded by David Wooster. raised in the Colony of Connecticut ''for invading Can- ada and carrying war into the Heart of the enemies Possessions" is dated at Nor walk, March 31, 1753, and was signed by Thomas Fitch. Captain General and Gov ernor for his Majesty, George Second. It is a very curious relic of the past If you think best to publish them, I will occa- sionally send you short articles in relation to the relics exhibited at our Centennial.
 We were very desirous of seeing one of the guns made by Col. Medad Hills at his shops in the east part of Goshen, N. W. of Whist Pond, and we found two. The older one was from MT. Myron Osborn, of Litchfeld, beautifully engraved, ''1758. August the 26. made by Medad Hills at Goshen. Rev. Sylvenus Osborn Mir. Osborn was the minister at Warren, Con- necticut, and when the Revolution broke out he resigned his charge, enlisted as a private, took this gun to the war, after ward rose to the office of Captain, served through the war, died and was buried at Warren. It has been in the Osborn family 118 years, and is a very long musket. The other was from Alanson Stoddard, marked "18O9. Hills," and ''E. S." for Mir. Stoddard's father. There was also another very long gun from Mrs. Haskell G. Smith, which belonged to her grand father, Timothy Collins of East street; a very ancient cartridge box from Mrs. Sam uel B. Futile, which came from the house of her grandfather. Andrew Norton, Sen., and there Is tradition that it was taken from a British soldier at the surrender of Burgoyne. It was evidently made in Eng land. The same was true of the long sil. ver-mounted pistol exhibited by Henry Norton, marked "London," which he ob- tained at an auction of the goods of an old family, and there was 0 tradition that tt was taken flom one of Burgoyne's staff at his surrender in Saratoga. He also had an old bayonet which he found when he took down the old Chapin house, at East street. twenty-seven years ago, and show ed the long handsome stone found in the chimney at the same time, marked "July ye 2, l754." The Centennial elm now marks the spot where those soldiers gath cred in font of that house that dreary February morning. MT. T. s. Gold, of Cornwall, a native of Goshen, also had q long gun, brought from England by his ancestor, Nathan Gold, 250 years ago. Miss Betsey Cook exhibited an ancient sword from Europe, which belonged to her father, Lieut.. Moses Cook. who went to Danbury in the Revolution, but it is thought he was not an officer so early. She also had an old bayonet, said by the family to have been used on an old French gun (now lost), in the French and Indian War. We had the beautiful sword pre- scented to Geo. Cook by the citizens of New London when he raised a body of soldiers for the war of the Rebellion, and Mrs. Harriett E. Rice sent the sword pre- scented by Capt Gaylord in behalf of the citizens of Goshen to Capt. James Q. Rice (afterwards Major) when he left for the Southern war. From Capt. Gaylord we had Hotchkiss minnie shell, and also the gun used by his father in the Revolu- tion, more than one hundred years old; from Moses Lyman @ sabre bayonet from Bull Run battle field in 1863, and also a shell found on Manasses battlefield from Mrs. Mary Lyman Wells, Q grape shot she found in the interior of Fort Sumpter, in the debris. Mrs. Austin AL lyn, Sen., sent a sword used in the Revo. lution by her grandfather, Elnathau Pat.
 terson; Franklin E. Wadhams. powder
 horn 119 years old, with the date on it. A long sword, marked "L. North," from
 Mrs. Mary Beach, vas also very ancient.
 Henry Clark sent powder horn. ninety.
 nine years old, used by George Clark through the Revolution. Edward NJ. Nor.
 ton sent the military coat worn by his grandfather. Lewis M. Norton, when he
 was adiutant. From L. B. Weeks we had
 the rebel bullet taken from his arm at the
 battle of Winchester. Smith Beach had
 the sword used by Capt. Samuel Buell., oi
 Litchfeld, in the war of 1872. Robert P.
 Pendieton sent curious spear head which
 he found northwest of the old Thomas
 Dickinson house. near the north line oi l Goshen.
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