Putnam patriot., 1925-05-15

address ta General Wa hingtou But Dexter was opposed to che coneentra- ton uf poorly equipped troops against British regulars and WAS e0nsequent- ly suspected of being at heart a Royal ist. "A naughty integrity cannot en- dure suspicion. wrote his son. nex- ter. therefore. retired in the spring of Il775 with his family to Woods,ock, 1 Conn. and bought the Rev. Abiel ] Leonard housa on Woodstock Hill. which subsequently, became the home ! of Rev. Sliphalet Lyman.
 Valuable Letter. Found
 Dexter's letters b Deacon Caleb | Davis. the Boston merchant. who was | born in Weodstock. are owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society. and neSter's letters to Lyman. found in ! the Lyman house in Meodstpck in 1873 and gave them a few wears ago to WorthinKteR C. Ford Co he added to The collection of Dexter letters in the Massachusetts Historical Seciety.
 Dexter wrote Davis from Wood sfoek T have kos Madeira and ias- bon wines sefe sas want some cheap Malaga e sise so country people He wanted table 6sh fsos Marhaehead slA e,zanAs af saslAs and eighteen =of sesF sess sHFEelaEs and aAatea ta Hsnz @ baes ss HssaHa8 house. ie
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 Salk sse aee nd the eIac- zaH offered f sF Waad stock ts the safaHal a ss a- aad adasaa ssaId prefer s te H asssistesk to any plbs aa sfnHl sfatseeser He spoke aF s of his Woodstock lsixtaers khaHles Church Chandler. Iegsea asgF t1 Congress. Of Captains Hsn ann and William Lyon. of Cap Lam Mathew Bowen and of General samuel Mcclellan. the last named the great grandfather of Gen. George E. Mcclellan of the Civil War, and sad
 T do not soon forget old neighbor- hood and friendship
 Remembered Dexter's Wife
 Dexter's graudnephew, Samuel r. Haven, Librarian of the American Au- tiaaarian Society. said of him.
 "Hiz name stands by the side of O.is. Bowdoir. the two Adamses, flaw iey. Hancock and Quincy" President Quincy ef Harvard regarded Dexter as one of the most remarkable men of his age and Horthingtan C. Ford wrote He iz one If the characters Hha have been neglected and Co his coat, for 1 find there have been doubts east upon his patriotism and he Is even mentioned among Che Rayallsts. something winch he did not deserve. After the death ef his wife. seven eeafs older than himself. he sold his homes in Woodstock and Dedham and from 19sG t6 190 lived m Weston. where President Willard af Harvard aHd hIs sau Prof Sidney Willard. Yis- #ted htm
 i Ia Weston Dexter wrote the pam Hhlet 8n "J8eub and EsAu. published I'm t5Hl hy izaIah Thomas, a copy of which Is owned by the American Anti. Iauafiau Society ihr last ten year. ef Dexter iife were spent in Menaon ' where he died June 10, lsl0, iH hi. s5th year He was buried in Wood stock in the center of piece of lnnt af three and a half acres fronting Of Woodstock street, which as a boy often crossed The Dexter Lot" al everybody called t. adjoined my ia thers home. neXter's will. deposited in Worcester. wrttten by himself in { thirty-seven page volume. bound 1T leather, contains the words.
 ''Nor let anB stone fell Where fie. Remarkable Man
 Abiel Holmes. born in Woodstock who remembered Dexter's wife. Han. nah Sigourney, as a lady of dark com ..H.s uuneiation, said
 Samuel Dexter had large library which attracted much attention at the time of it's removal 1 have seen the lot in which he was buried, not fai from the first church in my native town. but no sign of his grave can be traced Dexter left 5000 to liar ward College. S350 Co the City Of Bos- ton, sire 10 the schools of Dedham, and Co the church in Woodstock. "the Dexter Lot and S40 in money.
 i Of Dexters five children four grew E up One daughter was married in l Woodstock to Rev John Bradford E Jr. tHarvard i7141. Another daugh- |. ter married son of Gen. Artemus Ward. Chief Justice Artemus W ard r. Harvard l1S2l, who received an : ta.lssAfr ANkfNt AfNth AAENAAaf WAS n member of Congress and law partner | of heNteris youngest son. Samuel I Dexter. Jr Dexter's oldest son. An drew. joined the church in Woodstock Iin TIT and was the father of Andrew !. Dexter IT,, a graduate of Brown lni- ! versity. who was president of the Bos- ton bank which failed for Sl.200 ooo and who erected iu Boston the Bastnu Exchange. seven stories high. which cost SSUo. GOO and was destroyed by fire in 1895. Andrew Dexter. Jrv was the founder ef Montgomery. Alabama Gilbert Stuart painted portraits % him and hts wife. s daughter ef A torney General Pcrez Morton ef Bes. ton and of Sarah Wentworth Ap- I thorpe. a relative of Gov. Sir 1ohf Wentworth.
 Came 10 Woodstook in ITS
 The youngest child of Samuel Dex- ter of Woodstock. Samuel Dexter. IT. was born May 1. iT6i. came to Wood stock when he was fourteen and was lprepared for Harvard by a Harvard graduate. Rev. Aaron Putnam. of pomfret 4 fellow student was Elijah Paine Harvard l7Sil who afterward became Uuitel States Senator from Vermont. Another fellow student of ! cafssnni DaNfar IT, in Romfret was