The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-24
A NEW CONNECTICUT BOOK.

A NEW CONNECTICUT BOOK.
 ". H. Gocher of Hartford has just finished the preparation of book which will be sure to interest all students of IConnecticut history. He has gathered together and put into readable form a large amount of material concerning the family of Capt. Joseph Wadsworth of Charter Oak fame, beginning with the earliest corners of that name to this country, and their associates; also con- cerning the methods adopted to procure and preserve the Charter "in very troublesome season. The traditions of New England show that Captain Wads- worth was well equipped by nature for the part assigned him on. All Hallaw Fen in 1887, when the Charter was taken from the Council Chamber after the candles were snuffed out, as well as for the tiff with Gov Fletcher of New York. The author says that he was truly:
 A village Hampden, that with daunt-
 less breast The little tyrant of his fields with
 stood. :5. .......5.s and adds that he has prepared this book because the era in which Capt Wads- worth lived, and especially the Connec- ticut portion of it, has been so largely skipped by those who. make speciality of New England subjects.
 The book, which will be. entitled 'Wadsworth or the Charter Oak" will be ready for delivery about the middle lof September. It will contain 400 or more pages, handsomely. printed, bound land illustrated, and will be sold by sub scription only. Orders may be sent to MT. Gocher at Hartford. The price is I s2.
 According to the prospectus "Wads- worth or the Charter Oak" opens with Ian introduction in which reference is made to the founding of Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield, the Funda- lmental Orders of Constitution of 16S8-9, land sketches of Thomas Hooker, the lpreacher Roger Ludlow, the lawyer. land Jonh Haynes, the colonizer. This is followed by sketches of William Wads- I worth, his voyages and companions in ithe Lion who came to Hartford, Cron1- lwell, who was at one time expected and This ancestors, the Regicides, Whalley, I Goffe and Dixwell and their sojourn in New England. The titles of the other jchapters are as follows:
 The Charter Oak. The peace tree of 1.-the River Indians-the story of the ltwin brothers saweg and Nowashe-- lthe coming of the Mohawks trib- lute in wampum--the quarrel-the with cred branch-the fort at Roaring Brook il-attacks and repulses of the Mo- hawks trailing the enemy-the fort taken -Nowashe slain-the transfer of lthe land to the English.
 4 The Royal Oak. The career of John Winthrop, Jr. at home and abroad-the Ipfne tree shilling legend, and narra- ltive attributed to winthrop giving an account of Charles IPs escape from Worcester.
 \ Patent, Charter and Deed. The War 4 wick patent-Winthrop appointed Gov lernor Lion Gardiner and his family lPequot war Edward Hopkins -found- ling Saybrook-the Fenwick sale-settle- Iment with his heirs seeking a char lter-petition and addresses Winthrop lat Court the Charter its keepers-the IIndfan deed--the second deed.
 \ Hiding the Charter. King Philip war Connecticut in the Narragansett Fort Ifght- Treat--Sir Edmund Andros and his career -Gershom Bulleley at lacking the -Randolphs arti- Icles-the quo warrantos- correspond lence with Andres Charters brought n 1.-the supposed surrender coming of IAndros--his reception-tfle tavern-the might sesion people present Treat, Wordsworth, Andros and Leete speeches the Charter was taken Wadsworth's fiight-his hiding place the story of Weatogue.
 The Man. All that will ever be \ known of the man who preserved the Charter of the Colony his will and in ventory of his estate.
 The Tree. Its fall by I. T, Stuart reference to it by daughter of Secretary lWyllys Mrs. Sigourney and George D. Prentice.
 The determined manner in which the .lpeople of Connecticut resisted the power Iof the crown and persisted in govern- ling themselves under charter which was to belong to them and their suc- Ecessors forever, and the promptness I with which they resumed their local in Istitutions upon the advice that James IT had fled from England and Andros was under arrest in Boston is ample evidence that the seed of American 8l democracy sown broadcast by Hooker and Ludlow had not fallen on barren I ground, and in measure mirrored the resistance which took a much more successful form a century later. This self reliant spirit runs through every Iline of the original documents in the controversy between the colony and the king, and is a striking outline. of Con- necticut- almost to the point of yielding-that failing resistance if there is a chance to win.
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