The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-10
[From the Boston JourHal.l
"reminiscences Of Cavendish.
CAvENDisH, Vt. May ., 10

CAvENDIsiI, Vt. May ., 1876.
My communication Of April 10 has
called out an answer very much appreciat-
cd here, conveying much information re-
VINO were taken from Chsrlestown, N. H.,
-"No. 4'-in August, 1854, by the In
dams, and carried to Canada. The first
night of their weary way having been spent
within the limits of this town, the little
monument alluded to in my former letter
was very appropriate erection for the
time. | am now Informed by the Hon.
WIN. NJ. Pingry, of Perkinsville, who re-
sides some five miles below the spot, that
the stone was placed in its present position
some iifty-four years ago by Col. George
Kimball himself, the husband Of Captive"
johnson, the infant whose advent into
Vermont life seemed SO inauspicous.
Judge Pingry, then a resident of New
Hampshire, at about ~ years of age, dis
tinclly remembers the occasion. | spoke
of the monument as in the singular num-
Der, but really there are two slabs of stone,
the one considerable larger than the other.
Aside from the inscription historical
named, the figure of an Indian with bow
and arrow, rudely engraved at the top of
one, tells of the savage times of more than
century and half ago.
The first settlers of Cavcndsh mostly
came from Massachusetts. Josiah Fletcher
was the first town clerk. He was an an
cestral relative of the late Richard Fletcher,
whose sign as n Boston lawyer FOR many
years was seen on Washington street, and
who represented Boston in congress in
| 1887, and was more recently judge of the
Massachusetts, supreme court.
Our town has furnished fair quota of
| the "solid men of Boston," Hon. Il. F.
White, within year or two deceased in
your city, was tor long time an extensive
| importer in the China tea trade. This ia
his native town-and dying, he remember
ed his boyhood home by giving several
thousand dollars tor the benefit of common
schools here His relatives are yet among
| US, Hon, A. A. RanneY, now one Of your
| prominent business men and successful
lawyers, found his better half here.
Franklin Rice and Freeman Rice-hit''
now deceased, recenty-with Edwin i..oe
yet alive, successful grocery dea.e5 .l.
State street under the firm of +. & L. L.,
& Co., were former residents here.
Lyman Mason, another Boston lawyer,
still in practice believe, was native Of
Cavendsh. And how many more honored
sons of Vermont have gone out from among
US and pitched their tents and tabernaelee
IN your goodly, glorious city know not.
| | think that Geo. 4. Angel, the president
| of the Massachusetts society for the pre-
| yention OF cruelty TO animals-the Bergh
| OF the Bay state-once made 1t his home
here. BY the way, in this connection il is
| proper to give an authentic anecdote of
| Capt. Coffein (who was the first settler in
| Cavendsh) and his large, faithful dog. In
the township of Plymouth, northwest of
us, at that early day were several ponds OF
water, then and now the heads of Black
river, on whose banks we resde--the gut
tural Kaskatchanuc of the red man.
In the month of March, 1771, Coffcin,
accompanied by his dog, was returning
from a trip to the present village of Rut.
land--or the valley of the Otter creek
over the Green mountains. Like the late
SHOWS of this centennial year in the mount
aims, that beautiful element was deep and
the hardy pioneer was obliged to travel on
snow shoes. Flooding his way across one
Of the above named ponds the treacherous
ice broke and let him into the water. In
vain he struggled, encountered as he
was with snow shoes, great coat and
extricate himself, until in despair
he was on the point of yield
ing to his fate and watery grave. 1t was
then the noble mastff, comprehend
ing the situation, came to the rescue. lie
/ seized the cuff Of his masters coat, and
aided by the feeble efforts ofthe exhausted
captain, succeeded in! dragging him from
4 the water to place of safety. This Incl
dent is improved by ID. p. Thompson, one
of Vermonts most pleasing writers OF
] story, in his Screen Mountain Boys" tc
introduce most capital illustration of the
i fidelity and sagacity of the dog and Mr.
\ Angel may well illustrate his favorlte
81 theory from this incident in the next issue
n of "Our Dumb Animals" @.