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Clarke may open a tavern. The peti- tion was granted May D, f775.
 Tn winter of IT'S \ bel Clarke made 364 pounds of saitpeter out of home material, pure, clean aad dry for the powder mill fn Windham. Capt. In- gals lost one son i'll the army and younger son Lemuel, wished to enlist In the Connecticut Line, but lis he could make and repair guns it was thought he would be more useful nt home.
 conditions in ITS. Joshua Elderkin, commissary of supplies for Gonneeti cut, writes to Capt, lngalls requesting him to excuse Ebenezer Crosse from his present military duty that he may "make a quantity of shoes for the army that are extremely wanted. It will truly serve the general good of the army as the shoes are very much wanted.n n
 While relatives and friends were in the army patriots at home would not tolerate Tories and petition was pre- sented to the selectmen requesting that the property of Nathan Frink, a lawyer in Abingdon, be confiscated. The petition was granted.
 Amasa Copeland, the last survivor of the Revolution in Abingdon, died in 1854, 94 years of age. In his last years, infirm in body and mind, he would take an imaginary musket and In ex- cited voice and .manner exclaim, "Don't you see them coming! Don't you see them comingn In the war of 1872 Abingdon furnished her quota of men for Captain Brayton's company.
 A few words regarding schools. Pom fret ordered four schools in lI33 We note specially the tone on the westerly side of Mashmoquet brook, just at go- ing over the bridge atMr. Lyons mill, T the bridge west of the house of Henry Holorook. This spot is the site of the first schoolhouse in Abingdon. The new parish had charge of all schools within it's limits and at once, l749, voted three months school in winter by master and three months in sum- mer by a school dame. In 1755 .voled six months school in three particular places, two months at each place, one in the schoolhouse, the north school in house of Caleb Grosvenor and the south school in house of Ebenezer Goodel in case he is wiling" The number of months given to school rapidlyiincreas. ed as the years passed. As there were schools in different parts of the parish il Is probable that prior to the ReVolu. ton all had an opportunity to learn 10 read and write. Rev. David Ripley taught a few pupils in his house.
 Rev. Walter Lyon, minister for over forty years, visited the schools at stat. ed times eatechising the pupils and frequently giving q reward to those who had committed to memory the entire shorter ,eatechism. A certain  quantity of tirewood WAS assessed each pupil and if the wood was not prompt ly delivered the pupil was not allowed 10 attend school. Prior to ls42 school visitors did not receive compensation.
 In 1923 Miss Ramsdell, an accom- plished woman, taught a small day and boarding school for girls in the house of John Holbrook, Esq. Of the text books used in that school, a chemistry, rhetoric, cipheFing book of much merit and maps still remain.
 About 1880 Hon. Lafayette l.. Foster, then a young man, taught private school while studying.law with John Holbrook. Later there was a long series of select schools taught mainly by theological students in their vaca- ton.