Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-20
REVOLUTIONARY DAYS.

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 REVOLUTIONARY DAYS. Farmington's Company in the War for Independence-Wash in "Farmington-Yalen Sent to
 Farmington for Safety.
 Julius Gay, esq, of Pennington at the recent annual meeting of the Village Lib- rary company of that town read a historical address on Pennington in the War of the Revolution, from which the following in- tsresting extracts are taken:
 WARRINGTON IN TARHINaroN.
 Washington seems to have passed through Pennington six times; on ths 20th and 9sd of September, 17s0, the 4th and 18th of March, 17S1, and the 18th and 24th of May, 17s1. What house had the honor of entertaining his sxcellency is uncertain. An idle tradition one hears oyer and over again tells us that once, being over taken by . sudden storm, Washington took refuge in the newly erected l meeting house, but If there is any one with l any military experience before me, will ! leave him to determine into which the l general would most likely turn his steps, house of God with closed doors, standing there side by side. The means of enter | tainment at that day were ample. As he rode down the mountain slope from the east and frat came in sight of the meeting house spire, the tavern of Samuel North, jr., greeted him on the left. A little farth- CT on, where the Elm Tree Inn now stands, MT. Phineas Lewis would have been happy to entertain the general. He cenld also Seth Lee, where are now the brick | school buildings of Miss Porter. If l he succeeded in passing all these l attractions to the newly erected inn of Mr. Asahel Wadsworth, grand father of the l late Winthrop M. Wadsworth, esq., hung out it's sign, and just as he turned off from the main street into the wilderness toward Litchfeld there was still the we'll known inn of Captain Solomon Cowles to prepare This last tavern was famous in it's day. The weary teamster on his journey with supplies for the army hailed it with de- light. One Joseph Joslin, jr., revolution ary teamster from Killingly, left a racy diary, which ought to please the modern advocates of phonetic spelling. He says:
 "April 21, TIT: We set out again and went 0u, very bad carting indeed I declare, and we stayed at a very good tavern, old Captain Coles,
 The hay mow blythe side of his cattle
 was usually considered good enough for a
 revolutionary teamster. Three days later
 he says:
 T went to Pennington to old Captain Coles ! again.
 But alasl the hopes of man are deceitful
 It was Fast day and all he could get was
 little cold, raw pork.
 TEA DRINKING OFFENDERS
 Captain Solomon Cowles and Martha,
 Seth Bird of Litchfeld and Daniel Sheldon of Woodbu1y to drink India tea at their
 tavern. From the time of the destruction of the tea in Boston harbor nothing SC
 reused the wrath of the patriots as any , dallisnce with this forbidden luxury. Their
 wives, who had periodically abstained from their darling beverage and looked
 with regretful eyes on their unused china, could not endure such intemperance at this. The guilty parties printed their humble apologies in the Connecticut Cour. ant. Seth Bird was exceedingly wroth, and published in the next paper his yer l sion of the affair, this tempest in a,teapot as it seems to us, laying all the blame or the landlady, and accusing her and the 3 committee of making him infamous Il was the old story of the forbidden fruit t | and the ignoble reply, "The woman gave 2 l it me and did eat" He says:
 past called for breakfast:at Captain soIomor @ . l Cowles'. The l.ndady said she would get some r and asked what would suit, and added, says she l 4suppose you don't drink tea answered tha 5 came in, but as 1 feel this morning itwouid no could come at ii, for I had a new cold by riding in the vet the night before and had slept very
 well She supposed she might get me some, ant
 accordingly di went and prepared it, and dranl The committee do not seem to have taker B ! any notice of MT. Birds dierespectful pa
 per. Litchfeld was 8 far country, and
 like the immortal Dogberry, they no doub f thanked God they were we'll rid of one of fender. More serious still were the com t plsints against the Tories. Some one peti
 tioned that Nehemiah Royce, "a persol @ politically accommodated" be prevented s ] from sending his children to the publi, D l school. The committee wisely declined any :, such action, and, moreover, voted that thu a evidence against him Ifs not sufficient tt
 justify the committee in advertising sait
 Royce in the gszstte." Every week ther'
 appeared on the first page of the Courant : in the blackest type MT. Watson possessed j. list of enemies of their country, and con a fes.ions from parties accused appeared from every part of the state.
 FIRST PENNINGTON SOLDIERS. At the opening at the war there stood at thu 8 tsouthwest corner of Main street and MeadoV I l lane, as it was called, shop where Amos ant ! Fsnn Wadsworth advertised to sell drugs, grocer ! les, etc., etc. Amos, tho elder brother, was on a ! of the first soldiers to march to Boston, and i 8 IS from his extensive correspondence, togethe g diary of Deacon Samuel Richards that mo most O o | our knowledge of Pennington men in the war ii @enced it's mar march on the 1siR sipafn' of aas sHy
 1775, being the sixth company of Gen . eers wore Noadiah HooEer, aI; eaptain; ; Pete b ,, GHr1iss and Joseph Byington, lieutenants; EAmo c sergeant They we're eel eight % days % on the o msrcS f resting one rainy day at Thompson. They wer D the seige., They, we're therefore at a distanc' l. from Bunker Hill and took no part in the battl S of June r. Deacon Richards, however, gives
 Sl at - glorious inactivity for want of powder. seldom | returning the fire from the batteries in Boston.
 YALE IN HARRINGTON.
 With New York in possession of the enemy, thu | towns on the coast were exposed to raid by thu f British and Tories. This, with the scarcity O . provisions in New Haven, caused the corpora
 tion of Yale college to send the freshman class t. a Pennington, the sophomore and junior classes t,
 Glastonbury and the seniors to Wethe rsfaeld, t, l meet at these respective places on the 27th C t May, TIT. Again they advertise that the sopho a more class is ordered to meet at Pennington, Oc = tober a, 1777:
 Where provision Is made for their residence Q ! We could wish to have found suitable accommo | dations for the senior class, and have takel great pains to effect it, but hithe;t without 1 cess"
 Here came their tutor, the Rev. John Lewis @ and here in the old cemetery you will find s:on recording the birth and death in this village O his son, John Livy.
 AFTER BURGoYNEs S SURRENDER a U After the surrender of Burgoyne Genera Gates ordered the captured artillery sent to Con u necticut for safety, and memorial to the gen F ! eral assembly states that Colonel Ichabod Nor
 ton grandfather of the late John T. Norton | esq was ordered:-
 To take the command of @ company and pro ! ceed to Albany for the purpose of guarding tn,
 cannon taken from General Burgoyne the las ! campaign, ordered to be removed to said Farm | tngton.
 After the expedition was well under way tn,
 snow disappeared, and the men were fortnigh
 dragging the heavy pieces through the mud
 They were finally stored in the orchard of Joh,
 Mix where they remained 6 considerable time,
 During the remainder of the war the Farmine | tad