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 William Lyon
 T0se0 bsek to ihe inscription. l. fsfnisaes commtniaFy on fame, which Chsuaeey Bepe0 defined as aIlo n noble deed and get your name #- Earnest effort has failed 10 discover which one Of "ihe four Bli Lyons living in Acodstoek lG I74l gave this pulpit pesief to the church. E had bsen planned b have his living rope. sentative sppeag tonight 10 leii some thing Of the man. sif Andrew Lyon says he hadn't sny aGfandfalher Nil liam, % be is oai Of the question, sad Jbe other LYons say either that t was not theif Grandfather William Or thst they hadn't grandfather William tn I'll The W ilusm Lyon Of that peri. oa, whoever he sas, would have been amazed al the means used in trying to tface hls identity, the telephone and iae automobile Whle in i73i this William would have been relieved samew bat Of his ancestors fear Of the Indians. he would most likely haze a5out hlm a little ancestral supefsii ton, and he might have sseribed the tso b magic. You remember that even Oliver ! Wendell Holmes told about the wIlcbes' efoamstieks Of sa- lem memory being converted Into tfol- ley poies.
 Woodstock was pretty comfortable to live in at that time. II had passed through the effect of thes Revolution of 15sg, three years after ils setllementin I8s6, had been under the authority of King James, William III, Anne, George I and George l l the then king While thefe had been more of less trouble between the English anu French colonies, reflection oi The slegner conflicts between the mother nations iu Europe, still Il was not un- Al about 750 that the real struggle be. gan between the two powers for the control of this continent The Mar of The Austrian ~uare siou had hot begun ta bother oa laI- continent, Oatitis interesting t8 n9le taese t@o parts in connection Nftb eteH4, Of today Iu the year la4u prassih hnd iucrea-ed in importance, aad under Fredef flt ihe Gfeat, aas peeaming world p9s- CT, and a.he waf telween sweden and Russia, when iAe >Wedes WefetdrtSeu out of Finland. This was probably talked abaui as something temett, whenever the ships coming io Boston, Plymouth, or even AeW York, brought news witch was quickly disseminated throughout the Colonies, the means of Is dissemination being considered Woodstock was mol so far from the Post Road between New York and Boston, and on the old Nipmuc Trail, slill used, 50 the village got its news as quickly as possible An it's people were loyal Ensii,hmen then, and the toasis began Wilh i'one To King George
 | Ills stthsS ito hiNN aNAAittA Nt tNN times in which The old pulpit pewter was given. II was the second ot the four sets which the village has had Oi the first that brought by the "Proprie- lofsn lColonists there is now DC trace.
 Value of Four Pieces
 The four pieces of pewter which have had Inc honor and pleasure of re- storing 10 the church, have Increased in value since my father rescued them from oblivion. or course, as R pewter expert told me, "theif value is really what they would bring st auction. II would depend upon justshow much 8 museum Of private collector wanted tc possess them Bui he estimated il Al about s4'0 "if properly oil This is because they have known his tory and because O! their touch marks The probable first cost of the set'wa' abonl si0o, paid then la the EugAst pounds Originally there we're foul more pieces, two goblels and two pa lens or bread plates. Of these one gob lei has been traced.
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