Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-26
NORTH HAVEN ANNALS.


NORTH HAVEN ANNALS.
Graceless youths and what Befel
Them-Disclosures Made by Old
Records-School House Building
LfberaIities-The Little Red school
House-How North Haven Roys
Were ssBOund OUT, Years Ago.
The First Syndicate ofNorth Haven
Farmers.
NUMBER 3d.
The country youth in the first quarter
Of this century was good deal more un
tameable than in the last quarter. Not all
the advice of aged saints or the warnings
of grand jurors were always sufficient to
preserve that decorum the graver citizen
delighted in. There were few graceless
youngsters apparently bent more on serv-
ing the devil than learning their cate
chisms. Two eminent in this respect were
lilly Ralph and Solomon Jocobs. The lat
ter was the son of widow. Ralph lived
under the shadow almost of DR.. Trumbulps
church and was occasionally found in it, as
shown in the preceding paper, but never
when it could be avoided. Tradition as
serts that DIR. Joseph Foote, who lived
near, exercised somewhat of a wholesome
restraint over him, inasmuch as when OPP
portunity offered he would march him
bodily to the sanctuary on a Lords day
and deliver him over to the tythingmen
for safe keeping during service. This sum-
mary method of bringing the lad under
gospel influences provoked considerable
friction between the boys father and the
good doctor, to say nothing Of the preju.
dice of the youth himself towards his
mould ho ho nofoafar
In consequence, the doctor suffered
many petty annoyances until one October
Sunday in 1902 Ralph and Jacobs were
discovered shaking and gathering wal
nuts in the swamp by the brickyard. :
Forthwith DR.. Foote made complaint tx
Jesse Bassett and Oliver Todd, CRANE
| jurors, who issued warrant for the boys
arrest. Daniel Pierpont, constable, served
the paper, and the needless youths sudden
ly found themselves facing Esquire Barnel
in his official dignity. They were fnet
| five dollars each. Both were minors an(
moneyless. The family pocketbooks hat
to be produced and Judgment satisfied.
| is related that Mother Jacobs was so in
censed that, big as her son Solomon was
she gave him sound thrashing, for whicl
cause he ran away to sea, only returnin,
| years after his mothers death. Neithe
| justice, his mother or the ocean had mad
Il q man of him in his absence. He settle
down near the present residence of Sole
mon F. Linsley. Ralph became an invei
crate drunkard, married and moved away
See No. AL
1t was favorite pastime for the youn
fellows who were well watched in thei
own community, to occasionally Ego OF
of town for frolic." In 1922 few gidd
Northford youths got out of their pastu1
l nn% 80 ,yol
to North Haven. By chance they encou1
tered three timid maidens of the latte
town ,pensively walking along the highwa
and marked them for their quarry. Tt
result is best told in the language of tn,
day. This is what they did: :.
Nv with d, force and arms an assault made npt
''terrify the said persons and disquiet them
"tumultuous and offensive carriage and by fri
'pistols and other firearms, all of which is again
1.-THE peace, of evil example, and contrary to la
Ward Peck and John Beach, graz
jurors, made presentment of these indi
Greet suitors and hailed them before tt
court at North Haven. Thirteen witness
were summoned. The trial lasted tv
; days. Business was suspended in bo
! towns. The defennants were adiudg,
guilty, and a neat little bill of $44.44 W
presented them for payment. They
not visit North Haven again, at least in
body.
, Burglaries were frequent. Captain Nat
, an Marks kept Clothing shop" in 1872
lInto this, one Amos Abbey, an alien, e
: tered, carrying away goods to the value
, sixty dollars. He was arrested, convict
and lodged in Jail.
In 1923 one Ezra Fox-also an alien-enter
the schoolhouse in the North Hill district a
l thDurQlarlOICly anDrOnriatadff the following
erty:
lEnglish Reader, belonging :. Mercy Pierpo
Testament belonging to Justus Robinson.
4 English Reader, belonging to Mary A
Leete.
Testament belonging to Eli Brockett
English Reader, belonging to Arson Blak
English Reader, belonging to Joshua Barn
English Reader, belonging to Thomas Bro
spelling Book, belonging to Roxina Foot
apron. belonging to Roxina Foot.
Spelling Book, belonging to Julia Ann Rot
These goods were valued at trife oy
four dollars. 1t may not be strictly acc
, rate to say that the criminal had litera
taste which tempted him to this feloI
but the selections certainly show surpl
y of reading matter. Possibly he reflect
. that arithmetic, geography, ETC., could 1
% proftably be studied without teach
and as one was not present to be stol
with the books, he would ignore tn,
branches altogether. He had very Lii
!. enjoyment, however, even with his ties
ments, for Constable Marks unfeelin
7 c1apped the law on him the following d
] and, as result, he was bundled of
jail.
! Referring once more to the North I
district, it will be of interest to the inhs
s. tants thereof to know they can celebr
the centennial of the founding of IL
, school house ON January 25, 1898.
4, The following will be their warrant
SO doing:
1--WE the subscribers agree and promise to
'the Sum or Sums annexed to our names towt
'buiding School House in the North Hill
strict so called; and that the same shall be III
"the Direction of the Committee that we
appoint for that purpose and that the
.'house when it is finished shall belong to
Subscribers in proportion to what they
shave paid when the house is completed, an
1--WE fail of making good the Sum or Sums b
Subscribed by the time agreed upon by
''proprietors, it shall bs in the power OF the {
"a '.mittee to make distress and collect the s
"for the purpose of Completing said SCI
blouse.
Witness our hands this a5th day of Janu
"1793.