Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-01
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the dining chair. Courses of food were unknown. Salt pork, salt beef, fish, game, corn, were stock commodities.
 The bayberry bush furnished their candles, the thorn tree their pins, the maple tree their sugar.
 Of crockery there was little and of glass ware still less. Pewter metal and the native gourd furnished most of their domestic utensils. The former was ex
 pensive but durable, the latter hung it's
 ready made cups and jars on vines at their
 doors.
 Literature found little place among
 them. When they came to exchange real estate large per cent 'made their mark. !" THEIR SOCIAL SURROUNDINGS were alike narrow and restrained. Small dwellings and large families curtailed op- portunity and disposition among theis wom- en to effect such organizations as at the present day lead us to philanthropy and ereat-heartedness. Such things could not be at the beginning, and though only few miles from the city practically they were buried in the wilderness, facing hardship and fighting the battle of life alone; and vet, with most sublime faith q count it a
 miracle) s'they subdued kingdoms, wrought
 righteousness, obtained promises, out of weakness were maQe SGrOuS.
 How barren such an existence seems to us; but they were born for the seventeenth century, we for the present, We could not have lived then; they could not live now.
 To show how they gradually emerged from these environments, how rye, wheat, buckwheat, broomcorn, fruit trees, flax and vines became cultivated, how sheep came to range on the hills, cattle in the meadows and geese in the streets, how mills grew on the streams, fences around the farms, bricks from the ground, would | be pleasant to relate, but such is not with
 founders, ," not the founded, ," we have in view.
 UP TO 1716, OR FOR NEARLY FIFTY YEARS, They and their descendants were as much | citizens of New Haven as those who dwelt
 within the more thickly settled portion. Says the Historian Trumbull of them: The settlement was very slow and it seems that
 attended public worship and buried their dead at New Haven. The women usually went on foot | to New Haven on the Lords day, attended two l long exercises and returned. In some instances | they did this with child in their arms: The tra dition is that Mrs. Blakeslee (wife Ebeuezer) would take her child in her arms on Sabbath day morning, travel to New Haven and hear MT. Pier
 inc inc same is repeated concerning Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Thorp. The people who settled this town were brought up in the strict Puritanic re l ligion of those excellent men, MT. Davenport and MT. Pierpont, and were, numbers of them truly of the excellent in the earth.
 From such men and women, so devoted
 to the love of God and the hearing of his
 word, we may be certain Christian race l of children would be born, and there was l With increasing numbers and prosperity came that feeling of independence notably l characteristic of all who breathe American
 air. In 1716 these settlers then felt them
 selves strong enough to assume ecclesiasti cal relations.
 ECCLESIASTICAL RELATIONS.
 They first asked permission of the towr
 at meeting in 1715 to petition the gene
 ral assembly. This being granted, they
 applied at the may session, 1716, for fiber | ty to found parish by themselves. The 1 petition was referred to the October ses
 sion and then granted, with the additiona
 allowance of twelve families from Mount
 Carmel. At this time the population ot
 the parish, according to President Ezrf
 Stiles, comprised forty households. Witt | singular exactness he has set down in hii | itinerary the names of the male heads o1 l the same as he received them of his father Rev. Isaac Stiles. Prominent among then
 are the families already named, together with the Sanfords, Eatons, Coopers, Todds
 Clarks, Bradleys and others. All told, th'
 population was between two hundred ant | three hundred.
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