Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-22
SOCIETY or COLONIAL WARS.

The Meeting of the state Branch Here
Next Saturday to Celebrate the Fall
OF the Pequot Fort.
The Connecticut branch of the Society
Of Colonial Wars will celebrate its arst
festival day on May 20, It being the 257th
anniversary of the destruction of the Pc
quot forts near Mystic by Captain John
Mason Of the Colonial forces. A business
meeting of the society will take place at
| the Quinnipiac club In the forenoon of May
26, and at O'Clock the society will go to
the Ansantawae club house ct West Haven
where dinner will be served. The dinner
| will be presided over by Prof. Daniel O.
Eaton of this city.
The society has membership of about
sevsnty-f and 1t is expected that all of
the members will be present on this COCA
sion, the first of the kind the society has
ever had. It IL alsoexpected that delega.
lions from branch societies in other states
will be present.
The official call lie in colonial style and Is
as followe:
Society of Colonial Wars, in the State Of Con.
necticut, general court and first festival day on
the two hHndrea and srs Mv.tc
A general court of the societie will be held al
| 10 O'Clock In the forenoon, on Saturday, May the
2eth, 1894, at the Wigwsm Of the Quinnipiacks
This frft Feftival Day of ye societie will Occur
| on the two hundred and fifty seventh anniversary
| OF the Destruction of the Pequot Fort, neal
Miftick, by Captain John Mafon and the Colonia
| forces under his command.
on the S Wet ss shSse a.
In the afternoon, in charge Of the following com
George Hare Ford. Chairman, New Haven.
Charles Hotchkiss Trowbridge, New Haven.
Charles Samuel Ward, Bridgeport.
Nathan Gillette Pond, Milford.
John Edward Heaton, Now Haven.
Amsng s,ms of the more prominsn
members of the society are Robert Colt o.
New London, Morgan q. Bulkeley o.
| Hartford, F. J. Kingsbury of Waterbury
: Colonel Charles D. Parkhurst, U. g.. A.
Professor Edward E. Salisbury of New
J Haven. General W. B. franklin of Hart
ford, DR.. W. q. Daggett of New Haven
Francis R. Cooley of Hartford, Rev
Samuel Hart of Hartford, Judge VIII
lam Hamerslsy of Hartford, Professo
7 Frank A. Gooch of New Haven, Judge A
J | Heaton Robertson of New Haven, RICH
3 Rev. John Williams of Middletown, Rev
, DR.. George L. Walker of Hartford. DR.
3 Henry Putnam Stevens of Hartford, Judg
| Nathaniel Shipman of Hartford, Morris w
Q Seymour of Bridgeport, Charles d. Trow
d bridge and Nathan G. Pond of Milford ,Johl
Edward Hsaton of New Haven, Professo
Theodore 8. Woolsey of New Haven, Ly
man E. Brewster of Danbury, Hon. Lynd
Q Harrison of New Haven, Walter Learne
4 of Middletown, DR.. Evelyn E. Biasell O
New Haven, Horatio N. Reynolds of Ney
o Haven, Luoius E. Robinson of Hartford
William E. Downes of New Haven an
Abijah Catlin of Hartford.
@ The society of Connecticut was organ
Q ICED in May, 1878, the officers being at tn
e present time as follows: Governor, Pre-
lessor D. Cady Eaton of New Haver
: deputy governor, Colonel George Bills
Sanford, U. 8. A.; Lieutenant governor
g James J. Goodw Of Hartford; secretary
g | Nathan G.. Pond of Milford; treasurer
4 Charles n. Trowbridgs; registrar, Henri
n | Walter Vessels of Litchfield.