Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-01
DANIELs0N AND PUTNAM NEWS

of the total number of eesays submit ted 37 were selected and sent to 8 pror awards.
 The essays submitted by the Putnam children were as follows:
 The Military Career of IsraeI Putnam
 (By Albert Putnam)
 Among the earliest settlers in Salem, was John Putnam, who left England with the Puritans under Endicott. The original name of this family was Put tenham. from Buckinghamshire. Israel Putnam was the eleventh child of Captain Joseph Putnam, and great grandson of John Putnam. He was born January '. 171S. His character was fearless, generous and heroic, al- ways in good humor. He was married at twenty-on to Hannah Pope of Salem, and moved to Pomfret Conn, on the Quinebaug river, where the pasture was well adapted to sheep, and he had as good fieeces as any in New England. A wolf killed so many of his flock that two men trailed her, and drove her into a cave. After a while Putnam went in, shot her, and brought her out by the ears, amid the rejoicing of his friends.
 At the beginning of the French war he was made captain of a reg;- ment of Connecticut provincials. He was so popular that it was easy to get
  was Waylaying conveys of provisions, surprising pickets and capturing de- tached posts. He was in an eXpedi- tion to capture Crown Point, and drive the French from Lake Champlain and Lake George. It was failure. He failed in this. The campaign of 1T50 was to reduce Crown Point, Niagara and Fort Duquesne. Putnam seemed possessed of the qualities required in the peculiar service of harassing the frl, in t,n ir7o tion of his commander. In 1757 the Legislature of Connecticut gave Put nam a majors commission.
 Putnam was of great help in the disastrous siege of Ticonderoga. cover ing the retreat of the British by giving ground slowly.
 Once when trying to cut off retreat he fell into an ambush and discharged his pistol at big Indian. But it failed, and he was captured. And had to carry heavy packs for many miles, walking barefooted. They tied him to tree, and piled lighted fagots around him, but French officer rescued him. Later he was exchanged and went home.
 In 1759 he was made lieutenant colonel. He was in the siege of Isle Royal and captured it by strategy. Montreal capitulated, and the French power in America ended.
 After many years when England was taxing her colonies unjustiy, Put nam did other brave military deeds When he heard the alarm of the Battle of Lexington, he was blowing in a field. He left his steers, took a horse and started for Boston. He was made brigadier- general. lie then came o Hartford and raised a regiment, and returning to Boston took command at the Battle of Bunker Hill. When Gen era1 Washington came to take com- mand of the American army, he brought with him a major generals s commission for Putnam. During this time the Declaration of Independence was signed.
 Putnam had command at he Battle of Long Island, and being forced to re- treat saved his division by strategy. After the fall of Fort Washington, and the retreat through New Jersey, he was stationed at Philadelphia, to com plete some defenses. as the British had begun campaign against it. He then went to Princeton to take command. From there he was sent to the High lands, and fought several battles with : the British in the vicinity of the Hud- son River, and he established a fort at West Point which bears his name. In TIT and IT'S re was in ConRec- ticut raising recruits to strengthen l Washington's army, and was stationed at various points in western Connecti- cut.
 While on a visit to his home he had a stroke of paralysis, and was unable | to return to the army. He died in Brooklyn, Conn.,, May 19, 1790. Second Prize Essay (By Marcella Putnam) | Israel Putnam, son of Joseph Put nam and great grandson of John Put nam who came from England in 1884; was born in Old Salem, now Danvers l Massachusetts, January 2, 171S. When he was twenty-one he married Hannah 1 Pope and the next year moved to Pom- 1 fret, Connecticut, in that part of the l town now called Brooklyn. | For the next fifteen years, he work 1 ed on his farm in Pomfret, and though he prospered had many adventures, fo1 | the country was new and unsettled | One of his most famous explois was with an old wolf which had been kill ing sheep in the neighborhood. The | farmers chased the animal into hel den and Putnam crawled in after her shot her, and brought her out by hel ears.
 1 When the last French war broke out Putnam offered his services to the col necticut regiment, which he raised among his personal friends and ad. nirers. With these young men ht fought the French and Indians in the territory near Lake George. Near thu end of the war Putnam was made major.
 He had many narrow escapes ana thrilling adventures. Once he wa. captured by the Indians who tied hin
 to a free and built a fire around him He was rescued by a French officeI
 and taken a prisoner to Canada 4 little later he was exchanged and re
 turned to the English army.
 At he close of the war Major Put
 nam returned to his farm in Pom
 fret where he lived about seven years
 When the port of Boston was closet
 because of the Boston Tea Party; Put
 nam drove flock of sheep from tn
 parish of Brooklyn to Boston to hell feed the people.
 The messenger who brought new
 of the battle of Lexington found Put
 nam blowing in the field. Sending wor
 to his wife that he had gone, he un hftched one of the horses and mount , ing one of them started for Cambridge In twenty-four hours he was there; ' Journey of one hundred miles.
 The Connecticut Legislature mad him brigadier general an dhe wa 1 given command of the Connection
 troops by Jonathan Trumbull, govern , or of our state. General Putnam wa
 in command at the Battle of Bunke Hill.
 On July 8, 1776, General washingto
 arrived at Cambridge and took com
 mand of the army, bringing with hin
 for Israel Putnam, the first majo
 generals commission conferred by tn