The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-15

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 maining in the army until mustered out by Washington in 17S3 He was we'll known and prosperous merchant in this community, where he lived and died at eighty-two years of age. and, as the in scription on this monument states, was much esteemed and beloved for his up- rightness and worth.
 Dr. Napthali Daggett was a descend- ant of John Daggett, of Suffolk, Eng land, and came to this country with the Governor Winthrop colony in 163O. One brother, Colonel John, was promi- nent in Massachusetts during the Rev. olutionary period; another brother was @ physician, and still another, Philip, was a graduate of Yale.
 In 1755 Dr. Daggett was chosen pro- lessor of divinity and continued in the position for twenty-five years. or until his death. He was the fourth president of Yale college, succeeding President Clap, father of Mary Clap Wooster, whose name the New Haven branch of the Daughters of the American Revo- luton bears, and was succeeded by the eminent President Stiles.
 During Dr. Daggett's administration many brilliant young men graduated from the college, including John Trum- bull and Timothy Dwight, and although the country was suffering from seri- ous depression and at times it was diff ficult to obtain even food for the stu dents, the college made progress.
 One innovation, an evidence of the democratic spirit introduced and devel- oped at that time, and that was the cause of considerable agitation, is re- ferred to-the arranging of all class lists of students alphabetically, hereto fore they having been placed in the supposed order of family rank or re- spectability.
 A very amusing incident is quoted in this connection. One of the students, son of a shoemaker, being asked his fathers occupation in order to be prop erly classified, replied, "He was on the bench;" and this jest. until discovered, secured for him foremost place of rank in the list of students.
 It was said by learned man in that day that in no part of the world was the education of all ranks of people more attended to than in Connecticut"
 The clergy were leaders in opposition to the stamp act in its earliest concep- tion, and pr. Daggett was known as a most ardent champion of the rights of the colonies.
 Ten years before the outbreak of hos tilities he began and continued to pub fish at various times a series of articles or papers in the Connecticut Gazette in opposition to the king.
 Only five days before the famous out break known to history as the Boston Tea Party" a most vigorous article ap- peared from his pen, filled with loyal sentiments like the following:
 Some there are that feel the patriotic flame glowing in their bosoms and would esteem it glorious to die for their country"
 This article was reprinted in most of the papers of America.
 As an acknowledged leader in New England, his utterances coupled with Trumbulrs famous proclamation in June, 1799, addressed 'to all friends of American freedom" no doubt had great influence in. directing the attention of Sir Henry Clinton, who was command ing general of the British army, with
 
 paign in Connecticut and invasion of New Haven. which was made with force of 5000 men, the largest that ever entered Long Island sound during the Revolutionary war.
 Fired and stung by the address ''to the inhabitants of Connecticut" issued by Commodore Sir George Collier, con- alander-in-c chief of his majestys ships and vessels in North America, and read upon the New Haven green that mem orabIe Monday morning of July 5, 1779, Elizur Goodrich, then one of the one hundred students hastily enrolled for. the defence of the town, afterwards member of congress and professor of law in Yale college, wrote in Sprague's Annuals that, although Dr. Daggett had studied the matter thoroughly and satisfied his own mind as to the right and propriety of fighting it out, they ! were not quite prepared to see him come forth in so gallant style to carry his principle into practice"
 Early in the day, on his old black mare, his fowling piece across the pom mel of his saddle, he rode furiously to the front, overtaking the Second com- pany of Governors Foot Guards and Yale, Students, marshalled under Cap- tain Hillhouse, who were marching to- wards Milford Hill to meet the invading army. As he rode in advance of the troops he was cheered to the echo es- pecially by the Yale men, who knew then as now, how to cheer. Continu- ing across the West river bridge and passing the Milford road down towards West Haven. he surveyed the situation, and, with his familiarity of the loca- tion, selected the spot for his campaign. It was behind 8 clump of bushes off the road we'll upon the hill, a few hundred feet only from the spot where Adjutant