The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-23
D.A. R.UNVE|[ S BRONZE
MEMORIAL IN PARK
TABLET CONTEMPORARIES BATTLE
OF FORT GRISWOID.
Huge Boulder Embedded at Foot OF
Tree Which Society Planted in Earth
from the Thirteen Original Colonies
Patriotic Addresses by Distinguished
Daughters.

With impressive ceremonies Mime
apolis chapter, Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, unveiled bronze tab
let yesterday in Loring park to com
memorate the battle Of Fort Griswold.
fought at New London, Conn. The
tablet was imbedded in a huge boulder
which had been placed on the knoll at
the end of Fourteenth street at the foot
of tree the chapter had planted in
AS Mrs. Ell Torrance, former state
regent Of the D. A. R., reverently lifted
the American flag which covered the
stone the tablet was revealed, bearing
the inscription: Z" To commemorate the
battle of Fort Griswold, fought Sept.
8, 1761. This tree was planted in his.
toric earth from the thirteen original
colonies by the Minneapolis chapter.
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Tablet placed, Sept. 8, 1862
Salute to the Flag.
Rev. E. S. Hodgin of the First Uni
tartan church conducted the patriotic
ceremony which attended the unvelllng.
and Mrs. R. F. Goodwin presided.
Twenty young girls from the Emerson
school greeted the assembly with sa-
Lutte to the flag, which waved from a
patriotism to high pitch by singing
together "America.''
The horrors of the massacre at Fort
Griswold were told by Mrs. Torrance,
and the reason for the particular inter-
est which the chapter had in the date.
Six members of the chapter, she said.
were direct descendants from soldiers
who fought at the fort, two having
been officers. Mrs. Goodwin is a de-
scendant of Colonel Perkins, Mrs. Moon
ey of Lieutenant Stanton.
| Dr. Ethel B. Hurd read the records Of
the tree planting and of the erection
of the tablet. Rooted in earth from
historical spots in the thirteen original
r planted last asst fall fail. must grow into a
sturdy, magnificent tree. It IS nourished
by the earth from Mary Washington s
grave, Fort Nonsense, Fort Lernoulf
the birthplace Of Colonel William Pres
colt, Groton Monument grounds, Fort
Griswold, graves of two signers Of the
Declaration Of Independence, William
Hooper and John Penn; graves OF
George and Martha Washington; graves
of Colonel Robert johnson and his wife
who was Hepsibah Johnson of revolu
tionary fame; grave of Lieutenant ODE
diah Perkins; grave of Elnathan Per
kins; Horseshoe Battery, Mt. Indepen
dence, Vt; grounds Of the old aas
house, 239 Arch street, Philadelphia
which was the birthplace Of col
Glory: home of Dolly Madison, Wash
; ington, D. c.; Fort Crelo, Rensselae
county, N. Y; grave Of Colonel Will
liam Ledyard, commander at Fort Girls
, void.
Patriotic Address.
Mrs. J. E. Bell, state regent, made
patriotic address, and Mrs. W. NJ. Lis
, gett, former regent, gave the greeting
, Mrs. Florence E. Parks sang the HSta
/ Spangled Banner,' all joining tn
, chorus.
( G. M. Loring Of the park board. i
| the absence of Superintendent Theodo,
= Wirth, explained that the boulde
which the superintendent had selecte
for the D. A. RS marker, had in a
: probability come down in the glacii
4 drift, and was deposited in the MINI
haha parkway. The boulder is of toue
0 granite which broke many a tool as tt
e workmen made the excavation for tt
a bed of the tablet.
8 The grounds about the tree were dec
: rated with the national colors al
around the boulder were thirteen flag
t representing the thirteen colonies.