The Press., 1905-11-08
pecially by his jealous leadership in the fierce politics of that most oritic'al

time,
 On Thursday, May, 30th, 177l, Mir. Adams amounted his horse for '' On his return he reached Boston June 17th, 8 date des- tined to be immortalized just four years from that very date, by the bat tie of Bunker Hill and the death of Warren.
 The notes jotted down at the close of each of the eighteen days of this journey fill sixteen octave pages of his diary. He describes the Springs and the scenery, it's visitors and lodging places, the roads, the hills and farms, the habits and customs of the people of Stafford and the river towns of Con- necticut, his own views of himself, as to his health, his home, his farm and and what is more interest ing than all his views of public men and events then transpiring, especial ly his opinions, of his own duties, and his own records of his own mo- tives and purposes in view of the great conflict then impending, and hastening on apsce. There is no vol ume of American history which fur nishes better centennial reading to- day than the diary of John Adams from 1755 to 1776; and no part of his diary is of greater interest than that which records the hopes and fears
 of the writer during the summer of 1771. But we must be content in the present sketch with those notes which relate chiefly to the Springs and mat ters and persons more or less connect ed herewith.
 Mir Adams rode from Worcester to Stafford, by way of BrookAeld, War rem and Rrimfeld; and he noted the opinions of people on the way, as to the medical reputation of the Springs, most of which he found to be very favorable. He reached Oolburn's tav- ern-the first house within the limits of Stafford north of the present vil- lage of Staffordville1 on.A Monday, June 3d, vheFe he lodged. His diary con tains a long and g very amusing ac. coqnt of this days ride, particularly of the talks with David 0rcutt, an old acquainfance, who moved from Bridgewater thirty years before, ana with Landlord ColbuFn, who came thirty years before from Roxbury; "Colbqrn has 9 farm of two h4Hdred acres of lapd, one hundred qnder im- prQvement, keeps thirty head 9f neat cattle, three horses, fifty aheep, and yet offers to sell me bis placs for five hundred poRpds lawful money"
 On Tuesday, June 4th, MT. Adams rode from Colburp's "over to the Spring. Que Child had built small house within g few yards of the Spring, and there some of the lame and infirm people keep. The Spring rises at the foot of a high, steep hill, between clust ter of rocks, very near the side of a river. The water is very clear, limpid and transparent. The rocks and stene and earth, at the bottom, gre tinged with g red fish yellow color, and 80 is the little wood en gutter, that is placed at the mouth of the Spring to carry off the water. Indeed the water eommHnicates that color, which resembles that of tine rust of iron, to whatever object it washes.''
 Mrs. Child furnished me with a glass mug, broken to pieces and put tied together again, and with that I drank pretty plentifully of the water It had the taste of fair water, with an infusion of some preparation of steel in it, which I have taken before, salmar tis, like coppereas.
 "They have built a shed oyer lit. tie reservoir, made of wood, about three feet deep, and into this have conveyed the water, and there people bathe and wash and plunge, for which Child has eight pence a time. I plunged in twice, but the second time was superfiuous, and did me more hurt than good. It is very cold i'm deed."
 Mrs. Child directed me to one Greens, half mile from the Spring, as a place to lodge at-and when I got there l found it was my old acquaint- ance, John Green, who lived at Wor- cester, where I lived with Putnam. The place where l now sit, in the chamber of Greens house, has the command of a great view, and stands on very high land. Here is a spa cious road, laid out very wide, of great length and quite straight, which lies right before me now, with the meeting house in the middle of it, more than half mile off,
 Greens tavern was on the site own ed in later times by Samuel Rockwell, and the meeting house, the first built in the town, stood in "the Street," nearly between the so-called Major Phelps house, and the house still standing, formerly owned by Aholiab Johnson. It was abandoned in l775, and new meeting house erected half a mile or more north, which was de- stroyed by fire some thirty-five years since.
 ITO be continued next week.
 It Depends.
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