Putnam patriot., 1910-06-24
BYRON Q. BUG8EE Windows

appears on every hand as the moving spirit of the settlement. He lays out
 calls out and entertains committees, serves as moderator of public meetings, and when killingly became town, in 170s, he presided at town meetings and filled the most important offices-select- man. justice, commissioner on town lands, first deputy 10 General Court, etc., etc. And after three years of town administration, again he is the man to forward church organization.
 In his own quaint style, after re- counting their tolls and struggles, he begs the Great and General Court, in its great wisdom and extensive benig- nity, to aid them in their efforts, "that so Gospel candlestiek may be set in the field of the woods, with burn ing and shining light fixed in it. And then he goes on arranging for the minister's call and settlement and building the meeting house, till the church is formed in Ills, and he is chosen first deacon-for, as the Aspin- wall Chronicle puts it: "Said Peter was good sensible man and Deacon.n
 The fact that he left no son 10 carry his name onward, accounts for the fact that he passed so soon out of remem- brance.
 Among other good deeds he gave the town this honored Burying Ground the eastward extremity of his two-hun- dred acre tract, extending from the Providence road to the Qninebaug, at it's junction with Mill River.
 In the scarcity of records the exact date of the gift k not clear. IL was probably first opened for the interment of his step-sons-Peter, who died soon after town organization, and Benjamin, who died in l724, and thenceforward became the last resting place of the fa- thers and mothers Of the old town many ot whose names have long be. come illegible.
 Here was found the honored name Of Justice Joseph Leavens, the town patriarch, called as son of Woodstock 10 preside on it's great day of revolt from Massachusetts: of that far-seeing Justice, Joseph Gady, promoter of the first Library Association in East tern Connecticut. The Moffatt fa- miiy tomb commentaries the first physician and one of the first resi-. dents of old kiilingly Hill And here we read the names of worthy minis ters Rev. John Fisk, who kept the church records in Windham county Of Rev. Perley Howe. first college grad nate, and first minister raised up in town, whose sons became 50 prominent: of Rev. Aaron Brown, in whose study were trained such men as Manasseh Cutler and Rev. Joseph Homer. Here were inferred soldiers of the old India an wars, of the French and Indian war and many who went out in the War of the Revolution whose names are ore served and whose memory is honored through the agency of our Putnam Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution. We rejoice greatly that they have been moved to undertake this work sf walton and presefva. tion, and have carried 1t through 90 | successfully. There is much more that ] might b. said of this historic ground 1 and vish awakened interest ether facts will b. brought te light, and help keep in miad the lives and serv,ces of shose l who laid the fO0ndasions, and among them aii ies us give thought to our old friend Peter Aspinwall who, out of \ his portion '.cf the Field Of the Woods, - lsft us this lastinG Memorial.
 Thompson, Juns i6, 1910.