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The Democratic advocate., 1909-06-25
NO. 1850 EQUITY.

In the Circuit Court for Carroll County.
John l.. Scheib, Plaintiff, VS. Edward s..
Scheib, ct al, Defendants.
Ordered, this 18th day of June, A. d.
1909, by the Circuit Court for Carroll
County, sitting as a Court Of Equity,
that the sale of the property men
TONED in these proceedings, made
and reported by John L. Scheib,
trustee, appointed by a decree of this
Court to make said sale, be ratified and
confirmed, unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown on or before the 18th
day of July, next; provided copy of this
order be inserted In some newspaper
published in Carroll county, once In
each Of three successive weeks before
the 18th day of July, next.
The report states the amount of sale
to be $22S0 80.
DAVID r. SMELsER, Clerk.
True Copy, Test:
inels3t DAVID P. SAELsER, Clerk.
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Her Preferences.

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ne pwesent on yonah birthday. donchcr
know" said young Desappe "would
you-aw-pweter something g-aw-- sen.
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"oh, my. nor answered Miss Dim
plcton = prefer presents thni are
characteristic Of the people who rive
them to "-ChIcago News
The Democratic advocate., 1909-06-25

no CREDITORS.

This is to give notice that the sub.
scribers have obtained from the Or.
phans' Court of Carroll county, in Mary.
land, letters of Administration on the
Personal Estate Of
MARGARET SMITH,
late Of Carroll county, deceased. AL
persons having claims against the de.
ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the
same, with the vouchers thereof legally
authenticated, to the subscribers, on o.
before the 18th day of December, 1909
they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said estate.
Given under our hands this 18th day
Of April, 1909.
PETER SMITH,
JOHN GRAHAM,
june Is 4t Administrators.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-06-25
IN THE ORPHANS COURT or
j. CARROLL COUNTY.

JuNE TERN, 1909.
Ordered. this 14th day Of June,
1909. by the Judges Of the Orphana'
Court Of Carroll county. that the &C
count and distribution Of the assets Of
the personal estate Of John w. Wilson.
deceased, in the hands of Stella NJ. vii
son. Egecutrix, made among the credi-
tors Of said deceased, be ratified and
confirmed unless cause be shown 20 the
contnry on OF before the lst Monday,
9TH day Of July. 1869; provided a copy
rof this order be inserted for two sue
eezalve weeka before the last named
day N some newspaper published ia
Carroll county.
JOHN r. ECKESRoDE.
WILLIAM l., RICHARDS. Judges.
ROBERT a. KoONTZ.
Trne copy TEST
John J Stewart
Register Of Wills for Carroll county.
Jun IS q
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operation. / had
already had two
operations, and
they wanted me ID
60 through a third
one. i suffered day
and night from In
fiammation and q
small tumor, and
never thought oi
seeing q well day
again. A friend
told me how Lydia
Il. Pinkham's Veg.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-06-25
THIRD
OPERATION
PREVENTED
By Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound

Chicago, Ill - II want 20 tell you
what Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound did for me. / was so sick
that two Of the best doctors IN Chicago
said 1 would die II | did not have an
The Democratic advocate., 1909-06-25
KEEFER'S PRICES

HEADQUARTERS FOR
Automobile Supplies.
a6e Columbia lRnltor Batteries. 25e.
cYPHER's CHICK FOOD $50 BAG.
New White Fish. sec bucket
n. cans Peaches Toe.
fi.do Rayn Nickel Lamp. fi.35.
Flour 20 10 81 90 sack.
Brooms. 10. i7 % 25. 30. ase.
itO ID. sack CoarHe Salt. e0c.
Best Beef Scrap. 800 bag,
Coo GFnphophone Racortis, SIC.
Saltnd Herring, ie each.
New Maekerel. and &c each
Pilisbury and Gold Medal Flour.
Best Jar Tops lec doz.
~. Qt and = gallon Jars.
FOR SALE CHEAP.
Peanut Roastef.
ITO Gallon on Tank.
Top Delivery Wagon.
/ Hot Water Furnace
100 Charcoal Irons with Fiuters.
VIM. NJ. Heefer,
sS & 90 E. Main ST.. Westminster
Both Phones. Free Delivery.
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PAYS INTEREST ON SPECIAL
DEPOSITS.
INVITES YOUR ACCOUNT

Extends such accommodations to Pa
irons as is consistent with safe and
conservative banking.
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STATE DEPOSITORY

Does General Banking Business.
Has been in continuous existence for
81 years; has declared 1874 semi
annual dividends.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-06-25

]. H. BILLINGSLEA, PRESIDENT
j. w. Herring, J. PEARRE WANTZ.
CASHIER. ASSISTANT CAsHIE
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

Sturtevant properties, came into the present Washington street not far from the residence of Dr. Cassidy.
 In 1850 Lower street, now Water street, was laid out lat the water side" connecting the two roads just described. By this time this section of the town began to show some re- spectacle buildings, instead of nothing but ship yards, warehouses, and athe cottages of fishermen and sailors. By l757 there were eighty seven resident proprietors of rateable estate, and twenty-five non-residents, in the so- ciety of New Chelsy''
 Here was the port the gate of commerce for Old Norwich. Here at the wbarves, coming and going, might be seen the coasting sloops, Defiance and Ann; the brig Two Brothers, Capt. Asa Waterman; the Nancy, Capt. Uriah Rogers; the Charming Sally, Capt. Matthew Perkins; or the Bet sey, Capt. William Billings.
 Here also were located a number of merchants, some of them importing their own goods direct from Lon don" Felt hats, which the colonists were forbidden to manufacture. nails, paper, loaf sugar, snuff, spices,. were all imported from Europe. The goods were curiously assorted, one merchant advertising sheep,s- wool, codfish, West India products, and an assortment of European dry goods.
 But the best stores were at the orig inal settlement and the ladies of Chell- sea were accustomed to go thither to do their shopping
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ern (No. 125), opened between 1750 and 1770, and Jesse, Browns tavern (No. 130). dating from 1790 were during this period centers of life and activity, con- meeting Norwich iwth the outside world. @i
 This period was characterized by the building of more substantial houses than had been constructed previously, ' fle houses built before 1720 which ex- ist in parts at least today have been already mentioned, namely: CD the Reynolds house, No. 1 on map of 1.95; <(2l the Bliss-Geer house, No. 3. f2) the Lieut.. Thomas Leffingwell house. now occupied by D. M. Toro- sian, No. 5; ,(4) the Leffingwen Inn, huilt by William Baclus, and occupied at present by Miss Sara Huntington, No. It (5) the OllnsteadLa Lathrop herse inow the home of Miss Gilman, \ c. 4S) (6) the house built by Chris t,'pher Huntington. 2d, and now own cd by Mrs. Jabez Lathron, No. 62; fD the house on East Town street built ty Samuel Lathrop, and later occupied by Joshua Huntington, and still later by his brother Andrew. No. "A; lSl the house in the lane, known as inc General JabeZ Huntington house, a rart of which may have belonged to tire old Bradford homestead, No. IS; f*, the Simon Huntington, or Joseph Carew house, on Elm avenue, now Cc- cUpied by Mrs. Kelley, No. 93.
 Among the larger houses built at this time and still existing may be mentioned the following:
 The house built by Thomas Harland about the year 1779. and still occupied by his descendants (No. 36). The ground on which this house stands was at first common land, and was purchased by Thomas Harland in ITS. The elm trees in front of the houses were planted by Nathaniel Shipman on Sept. G. TIT, the day that New Lonoon was burned by the British.
 On the same side of Washington street, little north of General Har- lands, stands the house on the hill now occupied by Mir William Palmer (No. 4S). This house was built by Thomas Lathrop, son of Dri Joshua Lathrop, about the time of his mar riage in l7S3.
 The other house upon the hill (No. 49) was built by Daniel Lathrop Colt in l785 probably occupying the site of the older Bushnell homestead. It is said that the famous Colt elms" standing in front of this house were set out in 1754 by Jabez Perkins, who Drought from the woods two young elms of a size that he could con-. veniently bear upon his shoulder and set them out in such positions that, when grown, they would throw their shade over the shop in which he worked The house has never passed out of the possession of the family.
 On the south side of East Town street, about half way between Peck's corner and the corner of Elm avenue. stands the house built shortly after the Revolution by Governor Samuel Huntington and now owned by Mrs. Charles Young. The house has been greatly changed since Governor Hunt instons' day. as at that time it's tall pillars extended from the ground to the roof. making it one of the most iD,-
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Captain Ebenezer Baldwin, Deacon Jo- seph Bushnell, Samuel Lefiingwell and Captain Andrew Perkins. The final outcome of the matter was the forma- ton of four towns instead of three: the town of Norwich, including First Society and Chelsea: Lisbon, formed from Hanover and Newent; West and Eighth Societies. constituting the town Of Franklin. and New Concord, town by itself.
 West Farms. or Franklin. was set tied almost as early as the town-plot itself Farms were here granted to the first proprietors, passing later into the hands of their sons. who became actual residents. So the earliest names in Franklin are Lathrop. Hyde. Birch ard. Tracy, Edgerton. Huntington and Waterman. But with the second gen. eration new names appeared, and it soon became advisable that a separate ecclesiastical body should be organized. The record of the division is brIef. Tn 1116 we find this statement: "The West farmers are freely allowed to be- come society" Two years later church of eight members was organ i7ed. and a church erected cn Meeting
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03
OLD NORWICH. 172o. 1zs4.
These Were Years of Most Rapid De- veIopment-A List of the Residents and their Locations.

During the years 1720-17S4 the vil- lage site which we have called Old Norwich saw its most rapid develop ment of business 1t extended from the Reynolds house, which was probably at this time a tavern, by Harland's cor ner and Washington street to the town clerks office at the corner now called Peck's corner, anG thence through East Town street to the green and the meeting house rocks. Many. of the residents had small stores on their home lots, and the town green was the center of business for all the daughter settlements which had sprung up in the northern portion of New London county and for some distance into Windham and Holland counties.
 During this period it has been shown that the landing place for vessels had been changed from the Falls to the vil- lage site of Chelsea: and the goods
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Fire Buckets, Levi Huntington. which were landed at the port of Nor wich were transferred up to the ser- clement two miles from tidewater. <AsI will be shoYn later. this condition could not last permanently on account of the distance of the settlement from the port; but during this period the busi- nesz development of this old settle mznt was the most rapid in its his- tory.
 It is difficult to form an accurate picture after the lapse of more than a hundred years, and it is impossible to enumerate accurately the 1usmess houses existing at any one time. It has been attempted, however to show in the following list of places of busi-. ness in Old Norwich the great variety which existed towards the close of the eighteenth century.
 The numbers in parenthesis refer to the accompanying map of 1795.
 Col. Christopher Leffinewell-Gene stone on the triangle of land opposite General Harland's. He was succeeded who carried on the postoffice here from 1889 to about 1900. The shop stood close to the walk on the upper road, so that the present sidewalk passes over it's site. (No 19 on map of 1795.)
 Baldwin & Strone-Dry good and groceries, in the Col. Leftingwell store. 1901. Store of two stories, painted yell low, with a gable roof (No. 19)
 Thomas Harland-Watch factory just north of General HarlaDds house. (No. 37). Business commenced 1773, in a little shop next to Col LeffingweH. (No. 20).
 Tn this little shop near the store of Christopher Leffingwell" were probably located at different times the follow ing:
 Thomas Leffingwell, 4th. 1776.
 John Richards-Wool-c cards, in ex- change for well-tanned sheepskins TITS.
 James Lincoln--Wool-c cards. 17S5.
 Thomas Morrow--Weaver. 17S6.
 Daniel WiIIiams-'T Taylor" In Lef- fingwell Row. just north of the Lef-
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posing residences in the town. (No S6).
 Samuel Huntington was native of Windhan. but established himself in Norwich as a lawyer before he was 2S years old. Miss Perkins, ins her book on the Old Houses of Norwich. tells us that his public life began in 11o4 s.s. a representative to the general assem- ply. In 17I3 he was elected member of the upper house, in 1774 associate judge of the supreme court of Con- necticut, and in 1775 a member of congress, which office he held till 17S0. He was also elected a member of the marine court was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, served as president of congress from 177y to 17S1. and was then obliged to resign on account of ill health. On retiring from congress he resumed his office of judge of the supreme court. In 17S2 and 17S3 he was again elected to congress, but resigned the office for ever in this last year. In 1fS4 he was appointed chief justice of the supreme court in 17S5 lieutenant governor in 17S5 governor, which office he held till his death in 1196."
 The governor and his wife. having no children of their own, adopted a niece and nephew children of the Rev. Joseph Huntington of Coventry. Conn. This adopted son, also named Samuel Huntington,- was governor of Ohio from 1908 to 1910.
 On Elm avenue the house now occu- pied by Mir w. s. Allis was owned about the year 1764 by Azariah La throp. The house may have been built al this time or it may have been alter ed and enlarged from an older house built by William Morgan between I745 and 1752. (No. 12O).
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

title of major general. Gen. Jedediah Huntingtehs house was the one on East Town street now owned by Mrs. w. H. Fitch (No. SD. Here he en- tertained at different times Washing ton, Lafayette, Rochambeau, the Duke de Lauzun, and others of the French officers quartered at Lauzun.
 The second son, Judge Andrew Huntington, was a commissiary of brigade, collecting and distributing supplies for thA army. He lived in the house (No 74) on East Town street next to that of his brothers, Jedediah and Ebenezer.
 Col Joshua Huntington, the third son, served at the siege of Boston, and during the campaign of 1776 in New York and New Jersey. Afterwards he was employed in the commissary de- partment. in securing ships for serv- ice and n 6ttin2 cut r- -'.~-errs. i4is
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

cerns of each separate community. So that with the coming of the third or fourth generation it is not surprising to see a movement toward the estab- lishment of new towns within and on the borders of the original nine miles square.
 In 1786 the division of the town took place. Drafts of two memorials to the general assembly were presented at a town meeting: one by Nathaniel Kingsbury asking that a distinct town might be made from the three parishes of West Farms. New Concord and Pautipaug: the second. by Joseph Per- kinsg that Newent. Hanover and d part of Long Society might constitute dis tiuet town. The second memorial met with no opposition. and against the first only one vote was given. The affair was managed most amicably and it was ordered that the memorials should both be laid before the assem- bly by the representatives of the town.
 E'olr m an were appointed as the
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03
DIVISION OF THE rowN-i7se.
Bozrah, Franklin, Lisbon and Part of
 Preston Cut of.

As the villages scattered here and there through the nine miles square grew.and prospered. they came to have Interests quite apart iron. those of the mother town at Norwich. Churches were established to become the com- mon center of the life of the people in each little settlement and more ana more the ties binding them to the .origina, town plot were loosened.
 The settlement at .tidewater was fast becoming the center of commerce, with it's exports and imports. but transpor- tation and communication were diff cult. and the general interfsis became f, ,--~ ~rel7qffc se1 r.. Tho f"~fs.it'--- ,1n -
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

and on sea. Of most of them we can only mention the names here Be- sides those already mentioned there were Col. Benajah Tbroop, Col. Labdiel Rogers, Colonels Benajah and Chris topher Leffingweli, Captains David Nevins, Jedediah and James Hyde, Elisha Prior, Andrew Lathrop, Joseph Jewett, Jacob and Joseph Perkins and Lieutenants Charles Tanning, Andrew Griswold Silas Goodell and Jacob Kingsbury, with Captains Lester Rob- ert Niles. Seth Harding. Timothy Parker, Jabez and Hezekiah Perkins, William Wattles. Thomas King. Will liam Loring, Jabez Lord and Elisha Lathrop.
 Many a glowing tale might be told of the marine activities of this period. Privateering was carried on from this port with varying fortuae, but unva- rying energy. A number of ships, among them the Governor Trumbull, of IS or 20 guns. and the Confeoeracy, yard on the west side of the river and performed many gallant exploits.
 The fact that the great war governor of Connecticut. Jonathan TrumDull, was connected with Norwich, doubtless added to the unanimity with which he was supported by Norwich citizens His son, Joseph Trumbull, was a resi- dent of Norwich. and in 1775 was ap- pointed the first commissary general of the American army: but the weight of care and responsibility connected with this important office wore him out and in July, ITS. he died at his fa- ther's home in Lebanon.
 The story of Norwich in the Revolu- tion cannot be told without special mention of Gen Jabez Huntington and his four sons. When Governor Fitch. in 1765. decided to support the Stamp Act, and wished his council to admin ister to him the oath to that effect seven of the eleTen members with drew, refusing to witness the cere- mony One of these men was Gen. Jabez Huntington, and another his cousin Hezekiah. In 1776 General Huntington and General Wooster were appointed major generals of the Con necticut militia. and on the death of General Wooster the Following year. General Huntingdon became the sole major general of the state. and was authorized to call out the militia for the defense of this and the neighb bor- ing states. He was in rrespondence during the war with many influential patriots of the time. among them Washington. Lafayette. Hancock. Sherman, Trumbull and Samuel Hunt ington. The homestead of Gen. Jabez Huntington is still standing on Hunt ipgton lane-a large, square house, wish projecting upper story and stand ing with it's side to the street It is said that Lafayette was entertained in this house during one of his visits to Norwich. (No. 1l0)
 His oldest son, Jededah Huntington, served in many of the most import ant battles of the war including Bum ker Hill and Long Island. He was a member of the courtmartial which tried Gen. Charles Lee, and one of the court of inquiry to which was referred the case of Major Andre. Tn 1777, "at General Washington's request he was made brigadier general, and at the end of the war received the brevet
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

settlement and the surrounding vil- lages.
 By this time a system of reads had been established leading from Old Nor wich to the surrounding towns, and at the close of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth the set tlement of Old Norwich was at the height of its prosperity as "a business center.
 The introduction of mail stages and the development of taverns as describ- ed elsewhere was an important factor in the development of this community, two miles from tidewater. Leffingwelrs tavern (No. II on map of 1795). estab- lisffed in 1701; Peck's tavern (No i14), established in 1754; the Lathrop tav-
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

fingwell Inn. 17S4. (No. 1S).
 Alexander Mcdonald - Bookbinder. Leffingwell Row. 17SS.
 Thomas Hubbard & Chris4 Lef- fingwell- Manufacture clothins.F 14Sf. (No. 1S).
 Roswell Gaylord Hats and furs. For several years from 178S. (No 1S).
 Henry Strons-I.aw office in'Iefing- wen Row, and later across the street. G8e IS on map of 1Si3)
 pr. Daniel Lathrop - Drug store. North of Gen. HaIland's. About 1.a7. Afterwards in company with his broth CT Joshua (No. 46)
 Lathrop & EeIs-(Joshua Lathrop and Cushing Eels.) Cotton goods man. Lfactorv. North of Miss Gilmanis. 1795. (No. 59.)
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

ings were held in this building. but by 1793 the courts were complaining of it's ruinous condition. Five ~ears later the building was repaired and painted and moved to the lot where the school house now stands, where 1t remained until 1891.
 The court house served as a theater and here too were held, the singing school and the dancing classes. But after the courts were moved to the Landing the building was sold (1S35) to be used asNa schoolhouse and con- tinued to be used for that purpose un- til it was torn down in 1891 tc make room for the present school building.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

The early courts had met in private houses, or in the meeting house, but in 1735 Norwich was made a half shire town. and a court house, whip ping post and pillory were built Cap tain Joseph Tracy was given charge of the key of the court house. and the towns stock of ammunition was stored in q room in the attic, fine of 5s. be- ing imposed on any man who shall smoke it in the time of sessions of any town meeting"
 This building became so dilapidated that in 1762 a new one was built on the southeast corner of the plain, in front of the first one
 In this second court house was read the Boston circular of 1767. and a con- mittee was appointed to draw up report for another meeting This re- port consisted of an agreement not to import or use articles of foreign pro- duction. One clause read: And it is strongly recommended to the worthy ladies of this town that for the future they would omit a-drinking in the afternoon; and to commission officers to be moderate and frugal in their ac- Acknowledgements to their companies. for making choice of them as officers. which at this distressing time win be more honorable than the usual lavish and eXtravagant entertainments hereA tofore given" The report closes with the determination to reIhain loyal subjects to our Sovereign Lord the King, holding firm and inviolable our attachment to and dependence on our mother country
 During all the years of the Revolu- tion numerous and enthusiastic meet
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-03

In 1916 the town of Griswoid was formed from a part of Preston. GrisA. void included a piece of land lying on the east side of the Quinebaug river. south of Plainheld. originally part Of the Norwich purchase. On this Nor w.ch strip Jewett City has grown up around the farm. the gristmlll and the sawmill of Eliezer Jewett on the Pa chaug river.