Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12

The people first met for public worship in a
 house near where the furnace now is. Gin Fur mace Village,) consisting of one room, only 20
 feet by l5. This contained all the worship ing congregation in the town. After thls they met at the house of MT. Lee, the first
 settled minister in the town 1; here they con-
 tlnued to worship till meeting house was
 erected, about the year l74S. The place on which 1t stood was given by Col Robert Wal
 ker for meeting house, burylng ground and green, upon the condition that the burying
 yard be lnclosed with decent fence. In the
 house where they worshlped, there were two
 watchtowers made, and sentries placed in them | on the Sabbath, to guard from the Indians So late in the settlement of the town as this | an alarm was made of an Indian invasion On thls alarm, this preparation of defence was made. On the same occasion, & fort was | built on the west side of the Furnace Pond, | and another in the southeast part of the town
 There were two other forts in Weatog, built however, before this these two were built in
 the form of block-house. One was the dwelling house of Mr. Butcher, one of the first
 settlers, built in l726, and was the first framed | house ln the town. The first white person born in the town was Hartman VanDozen
 The tirst buried, by the Congregational meet ing house, was Jehiel Moore. The first buried on Town Hill was MT. Cory, who was killed at the raising of a house, nearly as can be known, at the same instant the town estab-
 llsned that as public burying ground.
 At the time of the first settlement in the | town, there was then an Indian settlement at Weatog, consisting of seventy wigwams, all in | a cluster. They were friendly and hospitable. | especially to the whites, and encouraged their settlement. 1t is unknown how long they had | made & stand at that place. Doubtless, in thelr most savage state, they had encamed in | different places on the river, where they could | hunt and fish. Long before there was any settlement of white people in the town, Col. Whiting, with his regiment, pursued a band of Indians as far as the northeast part of the town, and there, on the banks of the Housa- | toDlc, defeated them with dreadful slaugh- l ter. They lay at their ease, sporting and fish ing, on both sides of the river. He becoming | acquainted with their situation, came upon them unawares, killed some and put the rest | to flight. About seventy Indian graves are
 visible there to this day. In the battle, but Whiting drew near the place of the battle, he l commanded every man to throw away the | prlmlng Tn hls gun, and to prime anew. All,
 except one, obeyed. He boldly declared him. | self willing to venture his life with the plim-
 ing he then had. When they came upon the l Indians he levelled at one, snapped, and his | gun failed to go off. The Indian instantly
 clapped up his piece, and shot him dead Il | The following singular occurrences are said | to have taken place ln this town, near the boundary between Connecticut and Massa- | chusetts, The relation of these circumstances
 was obtained from MT. s. Sage and his family
 who are stll living on the spot, tJune, lS36,)
 and could be corroborated by great numbers of people now living.
 "Ihese occurrences commenced Nov Sth,
 1902, at clothier's shop: A man and two boys were in the shop the boys had retired to rest, It being between 10 and II o'clock at
 night. A block of wood was thrown through the window after that, pieces of hard mor-
 tar, till the man and boys became alarmed,
 and went to the house to call Mir. Sage, who
 arose from bed and went to the shop, and
 could hear the glass break often, but could
 not discover from whence it came, notwith-
 standing the night was very light. He exert
 ed himself to discover the cause without suc-
 cess. It continued constantly till daylight, and then ceased till the next evening at
 o'clock, when it commenced again, and con- | tinued till midnight then ceased till the next evening at dusk, and continued till some time
 in the evening, and then ceased. The next
 day it commenced about an hour before sun.
 down. and continued about an hour and then it left the shop and began at the dwelling house of Mir. Ezekiel Landon, 100 rods north
 in the town of Sheffield. 1t continued several
 hours, and ceased till the next morning wher
 the family we1e at breakfast it began again F and continued two or three hours, and ceased f till evening, when it began again, and contin. ued several hours, and ceased till the next morning, when it began again and continued , all the forenoon, and then ceased altogether The articles thrown into the shop were pieces of wood, charcoal, stone, but principally pieces of hard mortar, such as could not be found il
 the neighborhood. Nothing but stones were thrown into the house of MT. Landon, the first a , were 38 panes of glass broken out of the shop . and IS out of the dwelling house; in two ol three instances persons were hit by the thinga s that were thrown. What was remarkable nothing could be seeh coming till the glas. 2 broke, and whatever passed through, fell di
 rectly down on the window sill as if it hat 2 been put through with persons fingers, ant , many pieces of mortar and coal were thrown through the same hole in the glass in success sion. Many hundreds of people assembled tt 2 witness the scene, among whom were clergy n men and other gentlemen, but none were able e to detect the source of the mischief. The V more credulous readily believed it to be witch craft, but it was generally thought to be some slight of hand, effected by combination O a individuals, as the windows were broken or t different sides of the building nearly at tn, . same time." d The following inscription was copied from o monument in the yard in Salisbury Centre The man is goneI
 f MT. Samuel Moore, the eminent Mathema f tician, died Feb. goth, 1910, E 70. His Tiff, f and Servicesl 1 l these the Monument, thi V V marble but the Tablet. Say then, He liv'd tt I benefit Mankind Sway'd not by Trifes Bu a by Science led, as Land Surveyor. So like il
 .', --'--.- Like correct, This the best image n all IAIA-s,
 of the man.
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