Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-11-07
PROMINENT men FROM The COLONY
Those who Came from Saybrook Norwich were Credit
Became Important Nationally-Dr. pratts Paper
at Saybrooks Celebration.

the Masons the Huntingtons, the Lef-
! hngWelfs, the TracyS, thes Hydes, the
| Bushnells, the Buckingharns, and 9TH
| ers. Out of that stock have come four
| presidents of the United States, gov
errors. presidents of colleges. judges,
United States senators and cabinet Of
f1cers, generals in the army, merchant
| princes, authors. ministers and mis-
! sfonaries, and a goodly city.
NO doubt the departure of this first
colony had most depressing effect up
on those who remained especially as
that was followed so soon by the sec
md division when i'll 1865 By loving
agreement those on the east side of
the great river had liberty to be q
plantation by themselves This divi-
sion was inevitable and must hate
been foreseen from the first; the great
river was a reason that could not then
be bridged. That loving agreement"
has, I believe, always held, and the
sister towns of Saybrook and Lyme
have always recognized their common
family heritage. If I were to attempt
to enumerate the contribution which
Lyme has made to it's East Saybrook
besinnlng-fts governors, judges, sem
ators, men of affairs, of literature and
art-or recall its family names that
have shed lustre on the original stock
the Marvins, Griswolds. Elys, Lords
| Seldens, Waits, McCurdys, Brockways,
and (dear knows) how many others
SiiouIu heep yOu mere through the
| night
I Collegiate School Transferred.
One other division in colonial times
l have to note, that by which the Col
| lege school. nursed and cared for here
| for sixteen years, was transferred TO
| New Haven / need not repeat the
story as told by President Noah Por-
ter twenty-five years ago.
I call attention to 1t simply to claim
/ what credit we NAV have for fine home
! in its infancy of that great institution
known and honored through the world
as Yale university How great it
might have been if it had remained
| here and had had these beautiful fields
| to expand in and this great river to
| practice upon, no one can tell, and
| will not venture to guess, but as Pres
| ident Porter said in his address, tNev-
er should the college forget, never
! should its friends cease to remember
| place and the nursery house in which
| this noble tree struck it's first roots
and began its glorious growth"
| Since Connecticut became a state the
| town of Saybrook has gone on CROWNS
! and dividing, and now, where in 1900
was one town with two representatives
| in the legislature, there are five towns:
Chester, 1896; Westbrook, 1910; Old
! Saybrook, 1852: Essex, 1854. and Say
brook. 1896 with a population of 1888
/ hAiA STA ACpi
Impo ~tant Place Among Notable Towns
If we add TO these Lyme and Old
| Lyme, with their population of 1927
and three representatives, and then
| Norwich and the towns cut out of the
original nine mile square, with their
population of 1888 and six represent
atives, the colony planted here by the
sea still holds important place among
the notable towns of the state.
| We who have known and loved this
| good old town have admired the calm
conposure with which she has met the
| changes of these 275 years, the reso-
| iuteness with which she has maintain
| ed the home and made it attractive.
the quiet dignity with which she has
| carried herself, and the perennial vigor
with which she has renewed her youth
and kept her beauty and charm.
Town Divided.
| But there was one division, not
hong enough ago to be classed under
my theme of "The Early Divisions
| but notable enough to be mentioned for
it's strangeness. In 1852 the bee OF
| division got into the dear mother
bonnet and she seemed to say, IF ii
| is SO good for the children, why not
for me? Go to- will elope and set w
| housekeeping for myself under a new
name Accordingly she got a bill OF
separation, was made up into a new
town called Old Sayb and sent all
| her old things UP to Deep River; leav-
| ing the anomalous condition that a let
ter sent to Old Saybrook ought to &C
to the dead letter office because there
| is no postoffice of that name, and that
! at the same time, If one comes here to
| consult the records of Saybrook he
must go two towns toward Hartford tC
| find them.
| But today, as children come on
| Thanksgiving day, we come from the
! various Saybrook colonies-East Say
| brook, West Saybrook, the northern
| towns, and Mohegan-and bringing the
| story of our prosperity and recalling
our revered names, tell our dear moth
err of colonies I'VE owe these to you
what you wrought here, sometimes il
loneliness, privation and danger, has
borne fruit in liberty prosperity and
character" And with us, many a home
sick wanderer in other states and
across the sea turns with longing look
/ and loyal love and ancestral pride, and
breathes the prayer: blessings upon