New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-02

bullets of the soldiers. Before daYbreak what had
been Indian village OF seven hundred souls had
become a mound Of ashes, and only eight OF the
Indians had escaped alive. Captain Underhill the
next day marched back to the shore with every
alive and only fifteen wounded. a few days
afterward, upon his return to NeT-Amsterdam
Thanksgiving was celebrated.
Among the interesting relics preserved by
old Greenwich family is strong oaken chest with
carved panels. which could tell romantic tale
could It speak. According to tradition il was sent
to this country in 1880 wedding gift. Within
its depths were stored many fine silk gowns and
half bushel of guineas
One of the twenty-seven original proprietors Of
Greenwich Lieutenant Gershom Lockwood
He was named after the of Moses. because
the selection of the name by Moses seemed TO fit
his case. For" said Moses. Il have been
stranger in a strange land" He lieutenant
in the train band. and the principal carpenter
and builder in the town
Some time between 1868 and 1856 an officer in the
British army. whose name has not been left
posterity. came to one Of the English settlements
in America business for the government. He
brought with him the heart Of Lady Ann Milling
lost at sea before reaching The SHOES Of Amer
Know or Ia nse a by me no 'e WI EYER
sailing of vessel for the colonies and It's return
destination 5Tbere caroo hack no n'essag5a fro,o
the new land 20 Lady Mington in her English
came time when she could wait no longer. and
Whittier her lover had zone. Fer father naIiv
consented. and engaged passage for her in a ship
sailing In due time the vessel reached the Viz
Ee ven Sns and M IL
mcnts where she pursued her quest Of her lover.
she 622%Sd 9 seRRsd do~n in one of the
81 & o Snd "a. at of ne her %
in tea teaeR I'm the5 children oal.oo ,tso,o
man. whose father had just died, went to Water
town Mas on business g While there he net
was in 1853 That winter there went in one of
hr aBsr 70 sayng hat she won rG be red led" tho
next fall after the harvest to Gershom lockwood,
the hold Of the English ship that dropped anchor
chest, which On inscription upon it indicated was
for Lady Ann from her parents Lady Ann was
the strange land and now known as. as Greenwich; i,
mile or more east Of the centre Of Greenwich,
near the Post Road, Is the Jagged stump of an oak
tree. several feet in circumference. II is perhaps
fifteen feet high. and stands in front cf long.
rambling, old homestead. On the side OF the stump
away from the road is opening several feet
high. and wide enough to admit a man to the
interior which will hold several men. The upper
part of the tree was broken off in a storm few
years ago. 1t known as the Beecher Oak
from the fact that the widow of a relative Of
Henry Ward Beecher for many years conducted
school for girls in the old house.
There Is a story told of this old oak which dates
back TO the Revolutionary War. 1t then
cording to the legend little if smaller in cir
cumference than to-day. A certain rebel militia
officer of Greenwich, Captain Hobby by name, as
British. one evening he and his men were in the
house the oak citing their super Fesc Hof Of
them were approaching. The QUICK VII OF IapIsii
Of escape in ar instant. Jumping up from the
table, he and his men ran from the house across ;
crowded into its heart, BY this time the approach
galoped along their ranks spread out into the
wideHed space about the tree The troop thnn-
The opening IN the trunk was not discovered put put
had captain Hobby desired. he could have grasped
their happing coattails as they swept by;
turnpike and Captain Hobby and his men squeezed
out of the tree and went back to finish their sup
per.
The legend Of Putnams ride down the hill at
Horseneck Greenwich was called at the time
OF the Revolution, has put the name of Greenwich
. in every history of the United States. 1t was on
the morning OF February 26, l779 that the cele-
brated ride taken. Putnam, whose headquar-
in Redding, happened to be in Greenwich
at the time when Governor TryOn OF his
marauding expeditions, entered it with fifteen hun
bred men. destroy and pillege. Tradition says
! that Putnam had been attending a ball the night
before, and had taken woman from Cos COD
with him on his horse. He had returned late
TO his headquarters in Greenwich, an old house
still standing, that when he heard of the approach
OF the British he had not been in bed. He i'm
mediateIy ordered out the small company Of militia
IN the village and the old feldpieces. which
were kept there for use in emergencies. He sta
toned the and guns a little eminence at
the junction of two roads. where the Soldiers
/ Monument stands. and, the enemy sp-
reached. ordered them to fire. He that the
| number of the enemy was too large to meet sue
cessfuIly with his handful of men and old guns,
and after firing shot or two he ordered them to
fan back short distance. while he rode to Siam
ford for achievements. The troops fell back six
miies-;oo far to be Of further service that Cay.
Putnam sprang on his horse and galoped along
the post road toward Stamford. five miles to the
eastward The hat and Tapping garments OF the
nara ridlng soldier recognized by the British
as ne gathered headway down the road. and several
men from Delanceys corps OF Tories which led
van started after him at a gallop. At the brow of
the hill over which the turnpike now through