The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-08

came near ending his career. The governor of Pensacola apparently F'had it in'' for Buell.. for that off cial is said to have concocted a plan to get the Clinton man into serious tangle. One day while Buell. was en' gagged on his survey. man who was said to be in the employ of the gov ernOr, went to the Connecticut man and after telling him he knew him to be a man of great ingenuity. asked him if he knew of any way the gov ernor's seal on letter could be brok- en, the letter opened, and the seal pect the operation This job appeared to be a simple, kindergarten propost~ ton for the CIi"tOn genius, for he m mediateIy opened the seal and the let governors emiSSary could not detect that the document had been tamPered with. This constituted a crime of sui fcient consequence for BueIs arrest and he was ordered confined on the is and.
 rms did not last long. for the same mind that planned the opening of the letter. was also put to use on arrang- ing a plan Of escape. Buell. secretly constructed Q, boat, procured an intel hgent boy, who was as anxious to get away from Pensacola as he was hlEn- self, and at an Opportune time the pair pushed out into the open seas They bod a tough experience. being out of si7at of and for three days. 
 port, from whence Buell. made nasty tracks for Connecticut He was not able to deliver the map of Pensaoo- Ia to MT. Romans, but he did furni h enough to the author so that it an Swered all practical purposes.
 Buell. in engraving this interesting map was assisted a great deal by Am or DooIitt e. a man who in his way was as ingenious as Rueu himself. DooIittIe lived in New Haven, having Teen born in Cheshire in 175f, about E-H- ance in Clinton. He also served an apprenticeship with a gold and lver smith, and whi-e serving as a Volun- teer in the Continental army at Cam bridge visited the batt' 'egrourd of Lex fngtOn, and afterwards made en- eraVing of the famous field This is believed to have been the first his toricaI engraving executed in Amer1-
 From making difficult maps Buell. next turned his attention to the uak- ing of type for printing purposes Dur ing the Revolution it was a very dIt- f1cu't thing to procure type for prac- tical use, except the French variety, which was not only expensive, but III adapted to the use of Yankees He devised a method which was very successful, and securing the use Of the old Sandemanian meeting house Tn Greyson Alley in New Haven, he turn ed it into the more useful employ
 nent of a type foundry. Here the Yankee genius employed upwards of twenty men and boys The General Assembly was So deeply SenS1- -Ie Of hlS inestimab'e service to the state, that it passed resolutions restoring Buell. s civil rights to him.
 When the Revolution was over Buell. commenced studying a process for the coining Of coppers, though not in a secret manner, as marked his ef- forts along the money making line when he was in Clinton. He invent ed a machine for striking off the o'd- fash 'oned colonial ''coppers' of our forefa thers that cou d turn out 12O Of the coins in minute.
 Next the adventurer went to Eng land. ostensibIy to secure copper for making money, but 1t was afterwards learned it was really to obtain knowi- edge about the manufacturing Of cloths of various kinds. It is told of Reuu that while passing through q +ov-n of England he came across 8 gang of men, who were conSt-uctin% an iron bridge over stream. Buell. stood and watched the operation long enough until he plainly saw that neither the builders of the bridge, nor the men on the job, knew what they were doing. It answered no practf- cal purpose He asked for an oppOr- tunity to take a hand in the work, and through his ingenuity in a short time gave to him a purse Of 100 guineas-.
 He came hack to New Haven after he had drawn all the secrets out of his British cousins, and he also brought with him a Scotchman, Nc Intosh by name There the two erect ed a cotton factory in what is now west Haven. Buell. drifted next to Hartford, where he lived for a while Then he landed in Stockbridee, Mass. for what reason Is not known, and while in that small town, wren over 70 years of age,s made a pubic pro- fession of religion in the church over which the great Jonathan Edwards once presided. Returning to New Haven about 1895 he seems to have been thoroughly busted so far as m oney was concerr ed, for he died in the aInshouse of that city soon af.er his arrival. Altogether his career was a lively one and he kept people guessing a good deal during it's pro- gress.