The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-16
WILL BE A FINE AFFAIR
THE DEDICATION or THE FOOT
 GUARDS' ARMORY.

| An Excerpt From the COmpany's Records
 It's Famous March to Cambridge in April
 1775.
 The Second company, Governors Foot Guard, will dedicate it's new company quarters on Whiting street, which have just been completed, by a reception next Monday evening. The evening selected is especially appropriate, being the 12Oth anniversary of the departure of the company, under command of Captain Benedict Arnold, for Boston in response to the Lexington Alarm" Governor o. V. Coffin and his staff have been dns vited to be present and will accept, The order of exercises is as follows: 7:45 to S:15 o'clock-Concert by Foot Guard Band.
 S:20 o'clock-Battalion Formation. S:25 o'clock Reception of First compa- ny, Governors Foot Guard. S:30 o'clock-Reception of Governor Cof- fin by both companies of guards. S:45 o'clock-Review by the captain general.
 800 o'clock-Battallon movements. 9:20 o'clock-Dress parade.
 This will be followed by band con- cert and an informal inspection of the new quarters by the guests.
 The invitations contain the following sketch from the company's record re- garding the company's famous march to Cambridge in 1775
 FROM THE "RECORD."
 The news of the battle of Lexington reached New Haven on Friday. April 21, 1775, about noon. Captain Arnold immediately called out his company. Some fifty voted to march with him 10 Boston to the assistance of their couu- trymen.
 Being in want of ammunition, Cap tain Arnold requested the town author ities to furnish his company, which they refused to do
 The next day, April 22, immediately before they started, Arnold marched his company to the house where the se- lectmen were sitting and, forming them in front of the building, sent in word that if the keys of the powder house were not delivered up to him in five minutes he would order the company to break it open, and furnish themselves. The keys were delivered up.
 The company was then formed on the lower green, and after being addressed by the Rev. Jonathan Edwards took up the line of march for Cambridge *
 They stopped on the second night at Wethersfield, where the inhabitants vied with each other in attention to the command. Thence they took the mid dle road through Pomfret, at which place they were joined by General Put nam, who accompanied them the rest of their march.
 Upon arrival in Cambridge they took up their quarters at the splendid man. sion of Lieutenant Governor Oliver *
 The company was the only one on the ground complete in uniform and equip ment, and, owing to their soldierly ap- pearance and carriage, were appointed to deliver the body of a British officer who had been taken prisoner, and died in consequence of wounds received in the Lexington affair British officers appointed to receive the body from the guards expressed surprise at seeing an American company appear so well in every in respect, observing that in their military movements and equip ments they were not excelled by any of his majesty's troops" %*
 The service of the company at this time, as shown in the official record, was twenty-eight days. All the officers and most of the men served in other or ganizations during the war, many of them for the whole period of the Revo- lution.
 Members of the Second company, Gov ernor's Foot Guard who marched to Cambridge in April, 1775:
 Captain Benedict Arnold.
 Lieutenant Jesse Leavenworth.
 Ensign Hezel1iah Sabin, jr.
 Hezeltiah Augur Archibald Austin, Elijah Austin, Jonathan Austin, Heze- kiah Bailey, Hanover Barney, Hezekiah Beecher, Thaddeus Beecher, Nathan Beers, jr., Daniel Bishop, Amer Bradley, David Burbank, Isiah Burr, Seabury Champlin, Parsons Clark, Amos Doolit- tle Pierpont Edwards. Nathaniel Fitch, Ezra Ford Amos Gilbert, Samuel Green ough, Roster Griffin, Stephen Herrick, James Hillhouse, Eleakim Hitchcock, Eben Huggins, James Huggins, Daniel Ingall, Timothy Jones, William Jones, William Larman William Lyon, Kier- sted Mansfield, Jonathan Mix, jr, Amos Morrison, Joshua Newhall, William Moves, Nathan Oakes, Eleazer Oswald, Elisha Painter, Jeremiah Parmelee, Jo- seph Peck, Jonas Prentice, James Pres colt, Francis Sage, John Sherman, jr., Gold Sherman, Benoni Shipman, Jabez Smith Elias Stillwell, John Townsend, v,I,F A