Putnam patriot., 1911-07-14
HANNAH cADY

The bride brought by David Cady to his new home in 1722 was the daughter Of his neighbor, Thomas Whitmore, who came to Killingly about 170S. His farm lay east of the southernmost section of the "Thomp- son land" and the corner bound set by Thempsen's surveyor, is still in evidence. IL was occupied by Whit more's descendants for two or three generations and Is now held by George Whttlesey David and Han nah were both somewhat under age at the time of their marriage.
 Our actual knowledge of those who have gone before us is very much a matter of chance. A personal incl dent, a thrilling story, letters and diaries give us very vivid idea of some of these aneients while others abide with lis merely as names and shadowy phantons But of Hannah Gady we have two personal glimpses, one in youth and one in extreme old age. showing us what manner of woman she was.
 Her oldest child Hannah Cady, be- came the wife of Deacon Luther Gay and it was the delight of this great grandmother to tell her grandchildren | that when she was six years she was taken by her mother to that same Gay house in which she then lived. to see a puppet show. The later deacons S house was then a tavern kept by Wild ow Mary Lee and 1t was here that little siX-yearold Hannah and other children of the neighhorhood enjoyed the moving picture show of the day And we may be sure that busy New England housewife who would take three little girls a three-mile tramp for such an entertainment must have been a bright stirring woman, ready to make the mest of every opportuni- ty and do her part in whatever came to her.
 So few personal details come down 10 us from these far-off years that We have to gain our knowledge mainly from the course of public events. Da- vid and Hannah were quite one side of the world when they began house keeping but by 17S0, the one of the puppet shows, settlement was pro gressing with his tavern on the brow of killingly hill Cutler at the "Four. Fanged' oak with his better-roads agitation. The old way which had circled around the base of Kilingly hill was now laid over its summit. Rock and stones were re- moved. ground made ready for pub lie common and training field Train ing days soon vied with pup pet shows as popular enter tainments especially after David Ca dy was made captain of killingly.s military company. And We may be- lieve that the whole Cady family tramped over the hill every Sunday to attend services at the meeting house at its base and interchange greetings with friends from hill and valley. Then came on that great meeting house controversy which di- vided church and the middle society and resulted in the erection of two meeting houses, one al Breakneck and one at killingly hill.
 In all those changes Hannah Cady and her household were interested es- pecially when Rev Perley Howe be- came pastor of the old church for was not his wife daughter of Justice Joseph and niece of David Cadys And
  brel roofed house still standing on Putnam Heights. and cousins grew up there-four Howe boys to match the Cady girls.
 Rev. Aaron Brown succeeded in the ministry and fitted young men for col. lege in that gambrelroofed study, des- tined to attain much distinction. The Cadys. delighted to tell in later years of the cid days when "Nasah Cutler" and Joseph Howe were social leaders on old killingly Hill.
 And so the years went on. boys and girls going out into the world and l taking part in the life of the times. l Hanuah Cady's quick ears caught the 1 report of that musket fired by Hexe- | kiah Cutler as the appointed signal Of | news of outbreak and before sunrise | her son, Captain David. lr, was on