The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1902-10-10

| the town line on the road leading to
BrOOkteld, we come to Jonathan
Bartram, an honest miller who lived
to a good old age; also John II. Som
mers, who is with us to-day. Across
the way we find David Bartram, son
of Jonathan, in the house now occu-
pied by Elliott Roswell and further on
in later years Eli Jennings, who sue
! cessfully ran the feed and saw mill.
cay where lived Gilbert Lane, whose
son, Maltby, went out with KNAPP
sack in hand to the city of New York
and in years became principal owner
of the Third Avenue Railroad. Peter
WOOdin, the tanner, who died in Cali
fornia as '49er, left two sons, EN-
NETT and Charles, who are living in a
western town.
On the mountain side among the
rlttlesnakes, lived the hermits, Cud-
joe and Bolles, from whom the hill
takes it's name. Proceeding westward
to Horace Haviand'S, blacksmith,
the father of Israel, who was the
father of Tudor Haviland. William
Leach, son of the Tory who fled to
Canada, the staid old Quaker, one of
whose daughters became the wife of
DR. Sands, proprietor of Sands SarSa
parilla. well remember his instruct
ing my sister in picking geese, not to
pull the feathers the wrong way, say
ing GLOW would thee like to have thy
hair pulled contrary way"
| At the schoolhouse we find the
home of David Leach, the elder, and
for 70 years that of David W. Leach.
One mile south we reach Gideon and
James Allen, two of four brothers,
who moved from Fairfield long before
Sherman became a town. James
daughter married DR. Taylor, the
| elder, of New Milford. Many stories
are told of James and his sayings
One was that cedar post would last
forever for it had been tried out twice
in Fairfield, the place of his NATIVITY.
He had an oak, a noble specimen of
the forest, he designed for cart, but
in order to have it Of any value it
must be cut the old of the moon in
February with the sign in the heart,
and on consulting his Middlebrook s
almanac, he found the moon changed
in 20 minutes. Giving his hired man
an ak he told him to run for God s
sake as the timber would be worthless
after the moon changed. Later occu-
pants of the two places were Captain
Jennings, Ira Northrop, Orrin Adds,
Allan and Nanderburg Joyce. On the
top of the hill to the west we reach
Abram WanZer, the Quaker and
scholar, who for time ran the Nine
} Partners Boarding school in Dutchess
county.
On the other side Of the hill we
} reach Berlow Hollow, the home OF
Hubbard Barlow, who did not like tC
be beaten telling story. His ances
tors owned slave by the name OF
| Jack, who on being liberated did not
, desert him. While hocing in the tielt
, with the old mans boys, the old mar
came to them with pitcher of cider
l He inquired who hoed this and tina
: row and the boys, being ashamed O.
l what they had done, laid it all to Jack
Y The old man, thinking if Jack hoed al
9 the corn he should have all the cider
Y said, you shall not haye drop. Jacl
a had a brother in Fairfield. His maste
: being a bachelor did his own cooking
= The slave meeting a neighbor on
/ morning Said "We had awful goo
t breakfast this morning. Massa boi
two eggs and give me all the broth.
n We can judge how he must have fat
d tened.
a Morris B. Barlow, Esq, enjoyed TIL
: duties devOlving upon him Under tina
e title Nearby was Seth Gardner an
h. GershOm Barlow. a man looking afte
h his own affairs. At the corner Whel
IL stood the New Fairfield Town IIous
l. lived Briggs Woodward and later Ley
r. Leach, son of David, the elder and Fl
:, ther of Ferris, a man of firm cOnvi
d ton, who took much interest in M
l. nicipal affairs 1t was not an unllsu
g thing to hear a speech from him {
is election day. Westward we find De
mis- IIaviland, and Samuel Osborn wi
Of died without realizing what was tt