The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1888-01-15
GOOD OLD NEW HAVEN.
Some Notes About . Town which will be
s Years OF Ago Come A prli.

OF New Haven'5 settlement. A recent town
meeting. In appropriating n small amount Of
money for the observance OF the day. April 25,
specified that 1t should be of a civic rather
than a military character" Experience has
taught thrifty tax payers that when military
men get on committees for public celebrations
Of anything the expenses are greatly increased
over what they would be were there no uni
formed parades. no distinguished Generals.
and no collations in urmories. So tho numer-
GUS descendants OF the English planters, to-
Gether with such other OF the town born as can
DO got together. will duly celebrate with the
gravity becoming to precious memories Of
Puritan ancestry. The 20 will be an ovation by
the Rev. Newman Smyth the Rev. DR.. Leonard
Bacon's successor to the pastorate Of " the first
Church OF Christ" tho central house Of worship
on New Ravens Green. originally denominated
81 market place" and there will be devotional
schools. If procession there be it will be made
up Of different civic societies.
Timothy Dwight. President of Yale College,
wrote a statistical account in 1911 Of the mat
ters which will be brought prominently to
mind when. next April. the people are to cele-
hrats; From his account it appears that New
North Haven. tho principal part OF the town
ships Of Wallingiord and Cheshire. and OF the
parish Is Of Eorthfords forming n 2 tract about
nipiack;, Nov: a. 1898. and partly "a Of Montowsse.
KoV. John, Davenport, and ,Theophiius Eaton,
ESD, IN behalf OF the first planters of New Ha-
ern side OF the Quinnipiack for planting and the
right to Of hunting iowiing' and hshiRE through,
e cher SI speo aHa't Twelve katchs sts'T twelve eEs'' loss y.
two dozen knives. twelve parrincers; and four
President Dwight further wrote; The prin-
ssipaI settlers we're TheophiiIs Eaton; ESQ:
Gilbert. MIR. Nathaniel, Turner. Nj. Thomas
GGeeaiI!; Mr. and TrA M4. Jo Sfs%aaHH tw Ms; s's T +
Settlements in New England" wv
Leonard Bacon preached the historical SER
mon. There was q long procession, people
What New Haven has enjoyed since then will,
Of course SO, be s, properly de rshsarsed by Dr.; Smith
badges will probably form Q body by them
selves at tho coming celebration. Those badges
sermon after the landing Of the company. Tic
place where this sermon was delivered was
under a tree on George street, near a creek, up
which the COMPANY had sailed; but where sHb.
eisasla ru S9 \ 01 into tss np Ea sfsad' has ans d fn,lFe
peared. and this part OF New Haven is thickly
The centre church on the Green is the third
building erected by the First Church. Its prin-
ehipal gl9pryis its crypt in the cellar, where stand
set when that part Of the Green on which the
church building stands was q town cemetery.
iirss WIFE hs t a Io gsmsi eirl 01 who sen piSsd on Ar %ates
treason in her gentle breast. There, too lies
difficulty persuaded to give up his commission
and sell no more stamped paper. There is also
Connecticut school fund. and there are many
memorials ofable persons who were influential
the Church are mural NJ II tablets 1I 3 Of Af brass os'I and
marble concentrating the founders Of New
Haven and the pastors who followed in the
New Haven could be found a copy Of some one
book. the New England Primer, which contain
ed MI: Gotton's =p%zzling Theological catschism,
generations past, and which TO this day il re-
spocted on account OF the rather gloomy tine
tnrs Mh IiftIs s5 bm, daySrs stS Gld i ia aSshhiI%n1,GG I'd f E%oliEi on
pious soul reads this:
GOd, out OF Ills mere good pleasure, from all eternity
elected some to everlasting lie.
To our believing ancestry there was comfort
in this statement, for as the founders Of New
dEiid p were ,;rs OF OIL tt tso sS ci,iTsn 1t ~, was ,oe easy nSo for my
Il he wore 4 rufded shirt. was quite certain TO
be Of the elect.
BILE tailor named Samuel I. Davis, a deacon In
one of our Congregations churches, who in
some way became possessed Of the notion that
he had com the unpardonQUle sin. He
had from 9oyhood beer, an honest, prayerful
person. ri and anal dI H}i,.d az Of Pure heart; His dis,
of deacon who, tossing about In mental an
guish on his bed OF death. got no relief from
hymns or other consolation. His good wife
Why are you so troubled2 You have always
b been a good mar; ZOO to the Poor, constant .
then worry about death ,..w.u.
AS can be read In blaek. letters on q white
oulnniplsck was chosen Tor settlement A., i.
1857. and named New Haven A. d. 1910. Other
inscriptions read as follows:
4 4: Ssss s% 3 SSs.s q IEnfiIi:s Sss!.'isss ,ssSsSy
san q P 81. eiYsI h ras t tSsia s.Tiss a- house " q .~ sss fS1 wa.
on COD q Hosts, look down from Heaven and behold
The FRA Church; beginning with worship in tho open
e. Tsti to ss 81. r Sss ia Of COD saT h S * .as 6 Gss's 81. i sts d'a'
Many Of the descendants Of the supposed
sbSutt The city every day; What they are thought
them nobody knows. Mother does anybody
know what the Hungarians and othors think OF
tho statement In the primer mentioned;
They that are eGse,ualiy called do in this life psrtake
OF ig.iiaea!iGn' ,i sSdoPP'iion, and sanctinSa,io,s and the
or how from Ihen,
The average Chapel street dry. goods mer-
chant is EXPECTED w Gt course T. enjoy tIhs semi
who have been generally successful in busl-
nessTin fact, more so than the descen iants OF
citizen the other day In the presence Of ok
Gov. Henry B.. Harrison. that possibly. the
written, and that some OF the planters were a
seampish folk, To this he would not assent,
men was as good as any in the world,
Tho original Quinnipiacks have long been
extinct; Where lhey punted the smoke Of
rises constantly, and only an occasional arrow
head, picked up in East Haven. serves for .
sachsm OF the tribe. and died about 1880. frozen
70 death near q spring one mile north Of the