Putnam patriot., 1915-09-03
Historic pomfret
fC Coolinued from Page I

took from the BrttisBs Beac0n Leillu- eI Grosvenor died Iu 1851 in the room in which be was born in I7s4, and his daughter Ms Perry came into pos. session and ehrisianed the place Gfos- senor Grange
 Df. Hat H4ed on Pomfret Street huodrea yeafs ae8 and hts son intro dnced the hsst aaalfeliai info fhe teNn4 and n certain good dsaeon moufufaily said. Taas tempting Providence 2 similar Import ~s tne prophecy of q certain -lap fhea he saW Aasfin -taHsaf HrefHet a HeT stg 5e vehicle -tIae-e fa#a a aae.a4 faH= "lIA be tae HiuaHoH af tle craH,fy
 Ha.f mta ssest af lae street ae come ton afz- lll..ssa.ez haase Isns Enoan roE H1.ae @4ta place. The outer uET# dr fHe HIsl sf1tE ar lned Hta aHcs anG aa iasafc= ns festafe ls chimney bu4t ailh esay i1slead of Ime moraf. lt was tLe home oi th- picturesque fH'itau gid ow. Esther Eo#seuaf @Ho feaIlzed the blessing iaVaked upoH A65n Sen Alden -4Hay thy tribe increase i After Che strenuous iife 9f aH eHi- grant l,om England and 2 pioneer To mashmo4uet. she breaihed her last in this house ia LIS. The plnee has been ja he possession fof Esther GFosvenof or some of hef descendants ffom the diyis.0n Of Mashmoqael Purchase.
 Continuing our say past Mrs k. m. eiark's elegant villa and Hamlet Lodge, turning to the right at Cooper corners We soon come To the charming home of the Misses Slanlen aad Rogers, < few rods south of the Wind ham road Ebenezef Hol6fook from RoXbury built this house fes years after his purchase in l7l9 of q triauKu- lar tract Of several hundred acres on the east side Of the Mashme4uet. This was the bIflhpinee of Ebenezer Hoi- brook, Jun, who WIS lieutenant iu The Pomffet company iu time Of the French and Indian War. Every tfiYtat i0gM incident connected with She Ketoiu ton is of interest now and We note that Capt. lnpnlls and his company ffam Abingdon on way to Pomirel street stopped under the elm tree ill front of the house and Were tfea5ed by good Deacon Holbrook, but whether to hard cider or New England rum tradition is silent. Three generations of Hol- brooks lived here, then after changing ownership two or three times Il came into lhe possession of the present occu pants who have made this place one of the most attractive in town.
 Continuing on the Windham road we soon come to a time-worn, weather beaten dwelling known as the Caleb Trowbridge place, where NJ. D. Iil dreth now lives. Evidently there has been no attempt to modernize the building which is the type ol the colo niai houses \ huge chimney in the center of the house, Che front door opening into n smatl entry or porch as 1t was called in c3ioniAl tiMcs, ai eAch end door opening into a large square room, flight nf stairs with two land ings leading from lhc front entrance to tAe second neer 9hc kitchen with H. large fireplace nud brick oven is on the other side oi the chimney opposite ihe itanl door. Al one end of kitchen a bedroom, al the other is a pautfy ani
 
 fallefsjn ihis mud the other houses arc of size ana uaHFef to r ta heaVN demands on il modem lumber yard Mrs. TfowbIidge WAS Il proud spirited woman. she saw people in a speCi ally fine carriage coming she would say "they look like our company and expect a call Even when she was nearly ninety years Of age she would insist in looking after the making of sausages, the curing Of hams and the preserving Of fruit, saying "l never taught Maria how to do such work, ' not realizing that Maria was mature spinsler of sixty winters. Many re- member the ciumps Of quince bushes loaded with golden fruit and the gar den of old.fashioned flowers carefully teuded by Mss Troworidge. Two Trowbfidge brothers were in Capt. In. gals company in the memorable march 10 Winchester in l476, one of them died at Fort Washington. Mrs. Jerome Pike, a granddaughter of Mrs. Trowbddse, retains tue place as pre-. cious hcutanee
 Immediately after leaving this place we cross an invisible line that marks the eastern boundary of Abingdon that was set oil as a separate ecclesiastical society tn l7i9 Passing another colo. nial house that originally had cen. tral chimney and lean-to but now looking like modern building we come to sheriff Holbrook's house where Ebenezer Eaton, Revolution ary soldier, lived and where Grace Malone held sway over one of the dame schools of that day.
 A few rods west of this house, turn ing 10 the right and ascending long hill we strike the old Boston and Hart ford turnpike and soon come to Sprng Hill farm Caleb Grosyenof lived here prior to l750 and the ancient house be- fore is modern changes was stmllar to the one just described When the