Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-10

of the founders, son of President Nsphtali class of 1775 and was, presume, e junior | partner in the firm of Elliott & Dsggett, dealers in dry goods, wall paper and gro ceries. Both the Dsggett's were at different times representatives in the general assem- ,Ebenezsr Townsend was one of the prin- eipal ship owners of the place. The diary of his son, Ebsptzsr Townsend, IT,, on board the sealing ship Neptune, Captain Greene, on her famous voyage to the South Pacific and Canton, was published In the fourth volume of the papers of the New Haven Colony Historical society, and gives the best picture we have of the picturesque incidents of such an adventure
 Abraham Bradley was one of the rich men of his day, and built the large houss with high pillars in front on State street, near the corner of Elp, still owned In his family, which has recently been converted into @ row of stores. He alec put up the brick block of two three story houses on Elm street, just east of Church, one for his son, and one for a married daughter. Mir. Bradley was the senior partner in the firm of Ab'm & Jared Bradley. wholesale leaving . fortune of not quIte $80, 900, but probably the largest whicn had then ever been accumulated in New Haven.
 No estate exceeding $l00, 900 in amount was ever settled In our probate district until that of William. Ls fiji 1gwell, fifteen years later. He came here early in this century from New York, where he had been e partner in large shipping house; became president of the Derby bank and was prominent member of this chamber for many years. His res 'dencs was the roomy mansion on the southwest corner of Chapel and Temple block of stores owned by Edward Mslley. When the late Henry Trowbridge, the head of the firm of H. Trowbridge & Sons, was 8 boy, an old man whom he did not know stopped him one day on the corner of the green az Mir. L.fiog we'll was passing by and said: "My boy, look at that man and always remember that you have seen man who puts on clean, washed shirt every day of his life."
 Captain Nathan Beers, who lived to the age of ninety-6ve, is another of the his toric figures of New Haven. He marched to Boston, under Arnold, in 1775, and was afterwards in command of the guard placed over Major Andre on the night before his | execution, during which the i'll fsted l young officer give him @ pen and ink sketch of himself, which MT. Beers afterwards presented to Yale college, in whose collec tion 1t may now be seen.
 | Below his signature Is that of Lieutenant Colonel Hezekish Ssbin, crockery mer chant on State street, who had been ons of his comrades in Arnold's company and later took part in resisting the British in l vasion of New Haven in 1779.
 Captain Beers and Colonel Ssbin wer, | among the original subscribers to the ar N II G l company of Governors Guards upon itl formation December 28, 1774, and so wer, Thsdeus Bsecher, Russell Clark, Elis
 Shipman and Eli ! Austin, four others o
 the founders of the chamber.
 Eias Shipman, Long wharf shipping
 merchant, wss the first president of th, chamber, as we'll as president of the Nev
 Haven Insurance company. He built on,
 of the first of the handsome houses of Nsv
 Haven, constructed after the style of thos
 common in lsrgs cities. It was the thre,
 story mansion, still standing on Chsps
 street between College and Temple, ane
 now known as Traeger's hotel. The cell
 ings on the main floor are over fourseel
 feet high. Here MT. Shipmsn maintained
 generous hospitality for many years
 during which he was always found amoni
 the foremost in any matter tending to pro
 mote the prosperity of New Haven.
 Isaac Beers, brother of Nathan, was
 bookseller and president of the New Havel
 bank. His store and house, large one
 which prior to 1783 he had used as sl
 inn, were where the New Have
 house now stands, and his stock wa
 kept replenished by his own imports
 tions. Htzskish Howe after wards becam
 his partner, and Beers & Howe publishe
 some works of value, which attained a con
 siderable sale.
 Thadeus Beecher, who kept e store ol
 the site of the Exchange building, is bes
 known as the man who planted tn
 "Frsnklin elm," on the southeast corne
 of the green, which quietly celebrated it own centennial on April IF, 1890.
 Deacon Abel Burritt dealt in hard ware
 dryRoods and groceries.
 Each of the four whom have last mer
 tioned served the town, at various times
 as a representative in the general sssem
 ply.
 Colonel Ieaac Tomlinsop, c hardwsr
 and grocery merchant, and president c
 the New Haven Fire Insurance company
 has left bis name upon Tomlinson's bridge
 great public work in Its day, taking th
 place of Lesvenworth's ferry, which fc over a century was the only means of con