Putnam patriot., 1920-08-13

he was appointed seleetman and mod orator and in l773 received the ap- pointment of bell-ringer for the new meetinghouse.
 Through the intervening years the speaker pictured Putnam in the midst of the development of the country's affairs down to the year l775 to the battle of Lexington. Putnam had al- ready brought the Connecticut men into organization On Lexington day these men were in full readiness. Putnam left his blow in the furrow and reported for duty. He becomes a Brigadier General and reports to Gen eral Ward at Cambridge The speak CT then proceeds to carry the hero, whose memory is being eommemorat- ed, through the struggle that resulted Tn the birth of new republic.
 In 1773, when Washington had bid ] farewell at Faunce's Tavern, New I York, to the officers who were within reach, he bore in mind his old com rade Putnam and wrote long letter of greeting, sympathy and congratu- lations In this letter Washington says:
 You have contributed distin- euished past towards the success of our cause and the name of Putnam cannot be forgotten by this country
 Death came to General Putnam sey- en years later at the age of 72.
 Mrs. E. M. Warner, regent of Eliz- abeth Porter Putnam Chapter. D. A. R., accepted the tablet on behalf of the chapter
 In her address of acceptance, Mrs. ] Warner, after expressing the thanks of the chapter, and congratulating the Putnam family upon their ancestry and present achievements, gave q brief account of the Wolf Den prop erty since it's purchase by the Eliza 1 beth Porter Putnam Chapter, D. A. R.
 "When our chapter was organized some twenty-three years ago, we nat urally looked for name, hero, and mission. As to the Revolutionary i hero there was no question. As an- other chapter had already taken the name of Deborah Avery, the wife of ! Israel Putnam, we decided to take the name of his mother, Elizabeth Porter Putnam. By a singular coincidence, the wolf-den property came into the market just previous to our organiza- i ton. and was in real danger of being i sold and cut off for the timber. It seemed to us very desirable to acquire the ownership, and to preserve It Tn it's natural wild beauty.
 "Some of our kind friends stood back of us, and the property was deed- ed to our trustee, Miss S. Elizabeth Clarke, till We could go to the iegis- lature and become the first chapter in the state to be incorporated to hold real estate.
 '.Meanwhile we were busily solicit ing contributions. Our friends were very kind to us, so that almost before we knew it we had collected about s2 200, had received our charter, and found ourselves landed proprietors perpetually exempt from taxation. When we sat down to count up our l acres, We lDuDu lfldl lutlt Wtit "bcht 97 acres in all, f5 acres of mature timber, some old pastures or fields partly grown up, and several acres of young timber that would be valuable later.
 aIn those days the usual approach to the den was from another direction over the land of another proprietor, and although don't expect you to be- lieve it, the foot-path was much worse than the present one. So we had a civil engineer come over and select the easiest approach, we put up the stone piers at the entrance, some of our neighbors took their teams and work ed out new road, we had the ruins of an old house removed, put up a register and a few seats and table, and left Old Glory on guard.
 Since 1912 this property together with the property of adjoining own CTS, has been posted as a bird and game preserve, and we have actually