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IN THE OFFIGE OF‘THE LIB11AJ3_.IAN OF CONGIU5;£I5S AT \VASHINGTO.'N..

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Moitmsom, EsQ., of Montrea.l, P. Q., Poet; J ., B. FARNSWVOBTH,
EsQ., Toast—Ma.ster; 00L. IIIRAIVI HARLOW, l\Im:sl1a.1; CAPT. J. N.
EDl\IIN.‘5TER, lat Assistant; CHARLES -B. EVAIt'I‘F$, 2nd A8Si.8t2t1'1t; H.
L. Mimcir, 3d Assisstant. ‘

Special ‘committees were subsequeiitly £Lp]_TJOi11lJed'£!.S follows :--—-.2

ON FINANCE-— Dwight 'I‘uxbu1*y,iHo1'a.cc Weston, A. J. Hun-
ter, Chas. J. Jones, Allen Dudley, Chas. I3. Evarts, W. H. H.
"Walker, H. L. Story, Luther W. Stocker.

ON PROC-}RA1‘sJ;1\IE -——- Hiram Harlow, S.  Stoclccr, F1‘iJ.11l§'.lll.1
Butlc-:21‘, J zimos A. I’olla.1'cl, Rov. Thus. J. 'I‘a.ylo1', D1‘. Ripley Clark.

ON MILIm.im:——é Henry l?oo:::, Malcolm H. Pollzircl, Greorge_W.
Th1J_).”E:1l3011, A. F. Putiimn, Biclicrcl D. \V;yn11.

ON POWDER AND ].i‘m.1.«;‘.*vvoRI~:.:=5—— Milt-on K. Poirie, Ilcnry Poor,
Dir. l.’-Iciory FLIIDGES, Olms. B. Evartc.

ON AN'l‘IQUITIEf5~—-—BIl‘£§. M. K. Pa.i11e, Boweim l?oll.:ml, Mrs. F.
'VVl1iltakc1*, I-Iomoo P. l\IcOla.1'y, Snmli l3i:ah<3p, Ella. Iteiifrow, An»
gie Lmvronco. . _

ON‘ I)EC.‘0ItA']".‘ION —-—» Dr. Frccloirick L. l\I<31'.e:o, l\Ia.r&=tli O. Perkinzs,
C3I1a1'lc:~3 N. Aclmiio, Dr. I~Ie1n:y Fiiifiicszs. _

To PROCURE PEIl.F$ON.ATION 013‘ {mm frlmixmmo —— lslraz. I-Ieiiry D.
Stone, Mr. and l\i[i*s3. ‘V. II. '.[‘uppo1', l\C[1*:s. I-Ie1ir__V Poor, lllrs. }Ien-
ry B. Thompsoli, 011313. WV. VVl1itz3.l:c1'.

ON Glioumzrss -~—- Itollin Amadeii, Oi'la.11do L. PM-1‘iG1{, J fz3:111E!$ N.
C'ri111i:gm.  .

ON TABLEE3 —- Albert \Vczston, Smniicl U. King, Alonzo A. Ab~
bott, Lcvi O. Fay, Janics A. Pollorcl. A l A

Ef.*s:1tc:UU:‘IVE CO1\I1!I;['I."l‘EE -- Ilira-In Ilamlow, F1.‘L1111ill.1l Butler,
Thales B. Wi1:1n,lCl1a.s. "W. VVl1ital{cr. ‘ A

In p11rrs1:ia.ncc of the plans zicloptccl by the Cltli5Qll6’iCOl11111itl':G@,
l\Io11dn.y evening, July 311, was dcvotccl to illiimiiiatioms mid (lco—
omtions of the vztriouss, places of btisinesc, privtuto clwelliligza,
chiirchoss, cto.; 3.11:1 311011 a. brilliant clisplziy, so general aniong all
classes of citizens, was never before seen in VVi11clrsoJ.'. Tho Uni»-
tccl States flag floated gmnclly on the U. S. Court I-Iotisso,
C:ipt. J. H. Simonds’ AI-Iotcli, tho JOURNAL Blllldillg, the State
Prison, a.-ml many private dwellings. Tlicrc was scorccly a. 1'esi-
clcncc that (lid not nmlsic some cfl'o1't at dooomtiou with flags, ba.1:«
nors, oto. Among those porticiilarly noticeable were the 1'cx-3iclc11-
ceo of Dwight Tuxbiiry, Jams. N. Edminstcr, C. O. Bowman, Wm.

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 Eva-1'te,  T. Martin, Mrs. Suezm Adeine, the U. ‘3. Chourt
House, Jo11es’Be.rbe1' Shop, Aeoutney National Berolr, A1neden’e
Billimrd, Hell, E. 53. Stevens, O. B. Cross, Dr. N. Gr. Hole, Mr. A.
Speulding, Mrs. Zebina. Hewley, Mrs. H. B. Elteveiis, the A:-mut-
ney House, Russell Jones, Ase Jones, Rollin Anieden, Geo. F.
Sevege, Miss Anne Green, William Sabine, Tenney’e I+‘urniture
Building, H. L. 8: Greo. E. Williams’ Drug Store, M. K. l?a.iue’s
Drug Store, T. B. Winn, JOURNAL Building, M. L. ]?erha.1n, Mrs.
S11S§t11 Enswortli, Hir.-ztm I-Ierlow, Jae. A. Pollard, I7I.W. Adznne, G.
T. Fay, Dr. E. E. Phelps, M. K. Paine, I-Ieury Poor, I-Ienry
Thompson, Mrs. Harriet Pierce, S. R. Stooker, Dr. R». Clerk, H.
We1'clner, Rev. T. J. 'I‘a.y1or, Samuel H. Stone, E. D. Sebi:uo,'Dee.
Perry 0. Skinner, R. D. Wynn. Dee. C. D. IIe.zen’e yerrd wee il~
lnmineted by lanterns one hundred years old.

During the cliepley, the soldiers formed in line at the Town
Hell, under the oorxnmend of Oept. Henry Poor, and nmrclied to
his residence on State street, where tliey were invited in and treat»-
ed to 1-ef1'eeh1ne11ts. After coming out he was greeted with three

hearty cheers, when Dr. E. E. ]E’l1e1pe Wee ee1.led upon, and ed»-

dreeeod the company in meet fitting ‘words, te1l.in{.>; them of the
great obligations the nation was under to them for the eec:1:ifi.ee
they limfl inede for the perpetuity of our bleeeed Union ; the duty
of the citizen to the soldier; the duty of the eoldier nreepeeting;
hiei1:1de1)en<1e11ee sit the ballot box; not to he inlllueneed by my
nnprzineipled e1;iqueot' 1%>oli’tioim1e, but to vote honestly zmil i‘ee:r-
leeely for the iriglit; over defending the p.ri..ueip1ee on which. our
g§OV€:1.'1"1I11(311h wee foulided -—-“ Union end Liberty now and i’o:1.'ever,”
end tliet “ eternal vigilelioe is the price of Liberty.”

“Young A.1neri.ee” did not eere to eleep, for, until 1ni,d11ig;1ii;
come, melodious etmine of netionel n11.1.ei.o l7l(')1l«h(.'3(1()l.ll3].l.€3 eve11ting_._>;
air; old end young were nlihze i.11e13i:red with e:n.tl1ueieeti.e ];)).'c>e};)ecei;e
of e glorious Fourth ; the mind for 21. mo1:o.ent tumed l;>::u;*.lc the

leevee of time to reecl the ln1r1::1ing worde of the eloqiiezmt liietiiry, E

or to dwell with edniiretion 1:u.1'$cm. the ¢;st<::1:l‘i,11.;3; i1ll11;e,(2;1ri.ty oi" the no-
ble putriote of 1776. A A E

Tlie old town oloolr. etruek twelve, mull“ the 1...111]_.3l?i".1.lO'lTlf'3 “ boys,”
elweye reedy to anticipate the oheervunee of eueh 2111 event, 1:>u11ed
the bell ropes of the four el1urcl‘1ee, ee];1oo1-liouee, end Ste.1'.e l?ri.e-
on, and the olanging of bells, clieeordantlyintermingledwith.in11u-

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inerable discharges A of small guns, with tl1e booming of heavy

pieces in the direction of Lebanon and Cornish, N. I-I., and Wood-'

stool: and Springfield, Vt., gave notice that the old century had
passed and the new was dawning. At sunrise, in accordance with
the programine, the artillery, coininanded by Lieut. M. H. Pol-
lard, fired a salute of thirteen guns, accompanied by the 1'in.ging
of all the bells in town.

The place selected for holding the exercises was the Oominon,
on the east side of which the spealters’ stand, capable of seating
some two hundred persons, was erected, artistically triinzned with
evergree11 and profusely decorated with flags. At an early hour
the people began to arrive —-— the Coininon and around Antiquarian
Hall soon presenting a lively appearance.

At lialf-past eiglit o’clocl:, Edward E. Phelps, late Siirgeon U.
 Volunteers, Brevet Licnt. Colonel, presented the Ladies of the
Soldiers’ Aid Society‘ with a banner bearing the inscription,
“ Woman: always and everywhere the Soldier’s Friend.” With
much feeling he addressecl them as follows:

ADDRESS OF {SURGEON PHELPS.

To rrrn Lamas or THE SoI.:oI:sI~:s’ AID Soenrrr:-— In behalf of
thesoldiers now before "you, a part of that army of volunteers by
whose bravery the slave-holders’ rebellion has been subdued, I
p resent you this banner, in testiniony of their appreciation of the
noble zeal and readiness with which you becalne co—worl:ers with
them in the great contest for the liberty of man. We come, on
this our nati.on,al jubilee, to e.xpress our exultant gratitude
that an ove1'rulin,c_-;' ]?rovidence has kindly guided our Re-
public l:l1].‘(,')11g‘lt1r€t complete‘ century of progress, frcnn a small

beginning to a rank equal with the great nations of the world

and, "while to—day‘ i'ro:m. the Atlantic to the ‘Pacific shores, one
burst of joy arises, filliiig each heart with patriotic i1npulses,
let us soleninly resolfve that We will hand down to our posterity
the liard-earned liberty that has descended to us from our ances-
tors. But, however pleasant and appropriate it would be, to-day,
todiscourse upon liberty and the ineans and sacrifices by which it
was obtained, I must forbear; a yrcliffereiit niission calls me, into
your presence. I come to tell the ladies of the society they rep-
resent, yea, and through them all those noble yw0rke1's_througl1out

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the land, who gave their labors of leve to the eelclier, tlmt tlxejl
can never fully realize how efl'eet:ive for goecl their l2:tlJ‘0re 1)1feveél.

“In camp, on the 1ne.1'ch, in b:i.voun.e, in hospital :md even on the
battle field, these 111eeeenge1's of love and mezmy-—-— the ever ztetive

:1ge11te of the Sanitary Oommnieeion, in th.ei1' repid n1ov:i11g.§; vellielee
f1:eig'11ted with your co11t1'ib11ti011e, were coI1timmlly l1c)"ve1-i11g
around us. Beet assured tlmt such attentions filled our lxeemte
with e€lditio11a.1 eo111'ag'e, as they brouglxt to mind li1OW 111.1‘, £211‘
away in our mountein lxomee loved ones were ever 1'eecl1i11.g to the
sick and wounded comforts of which they otl1erWiee would hzwe
been dejprivecl. Who, who can tell how et-.1'c>1:1g it tnerved our i11‘I1'.l8
when we were eo11tin11e1ly reminded tllet l:i11d-l1en1'ted, eym;petle1iz~
i11g~wom:.tn was always end eve1'ywl1e1*e the eolc7l.ie1"e f1.'.ie11d ---- that
whatever lxerdelxipe and <_lm1ge1-e we were called to eu(l,m'e, ehe, of
all others, meet fully n1)p1'eei2tte<l the eee1r;i1ieee the eeldiemre m::ul.e
to p1-eeerve £01‘ her it l1iLp1)_Y home witlx. all the bleersilnge ei‘ ]it1)em:1;y.
Now, 1ed.i,ee, as we join thie 131-c>eeesi01l1, and take jpeurt in the eere~—
monies eo z1.pp1'<:>1:).1'.iet.e to this joyeue (lay, let he, 'W;ll3ll Imitecl
heerte, feel that both you and eu1'ee1vee luwe tln:1el’:5t1:<fl«:311e e111rWl1ole
duty to our c.e1mt1'y; eml xmty thie ee11l—e11livefni11,g reee7ltl.eet:i.c:m.
help he to beer with lIcx1'ti.t1,u;lc:e, the dmrlx; l;.1(ZI111."H» el‘ life thet exweit me
all, e11Ll:;Le\ve e}_;)p1'eac~.11 the ee11l1n.ee of the {g,‘1'£‘L‘\-"Q, may the :-‘sweet
eoxmeelellemxeee tlmt we have f.ui1.’]‘1:fl1..l]1 f%£§j“ve‘w1 em: ee1'1ut1‘yhe l:7»lem.'I.—
ed with our latest tlxeughte ef en.rt11.

A be111:1e1', e11tit1e.d the “ 3301]. el' I“Ie1'1e1',” (e(:)]I]‘tiLi1l\Ii]”l{; the nemee
of eolcliere who went to the wen: :l'1.-(tun Wimlemr em] leet theimr leivqeee,
wee then pi'eeeu'lseLl to the ee1111m.11y by Capt. 1?:"I?e111'y P0011, in :1.
brief ecldreee both f§‘:)]‘01l1l.1 eml epp1rc»1:>:1r:ie.te. Irle pz;1.'i<1 e h:ig*h trih-
ute to the hmve me.1‘1wl.m laid clmvn tlxetir livee cm the elt::t1:ef tl.1e;i1r
cotxrm.-y tlmt ‘we xxtiglmt enjoy the lxleeeeitxge of “ life, liberty end the
pursuit of l‘1e.p1:)i11eee.” It ie 1re~g*t1e'«v:«>.ttc*ea«.l tlmt (f73e1:)t. ]§’ee1"e :;ul«fl1*c:.ee
eennet be given in l‘u..l.l. I*‘0ll.mvi11gg ere the nnuhee of tlmee de:u.(:l :
l\{[eeere. ‘J31-eey, ]Etiel.1, .l;3’e:rt:e1', Ill1‘lF4‘\V(T)].'13lJ, Zlfl".r;mg’1xte1.1, féltemzm, I~Ie1:v..
kins, Phelps, New11mn,Wi11i.e111e, l\/lIerey', Lull, Cflleytcm, 1';)«imeg;l:11:1e,
Dinemore, Clement, Smitltn, 'Wm:e, Kenyon, ,’I.-'Imve,. Hmlley, 111.1161
Pa.rn1ent<=.z-r. On the reverse eitle of the l)e11:n.e1;' ‘Wee thie : “ W;i1:1d-—
ear, Vermont. I-‘lonor end Everleetingg; ]l‘e1ne to the remxtee of tlwee
men who died for their Cou:r1t1~y.” l The eompeuy then vetedl to
present the banner to Surgeon. Edw. E. Plxelpe. Led by the fife

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and drum, the soldiers then marched to tl1e old training ground,
near the South Church, Where, in accordance with the programme,
the procession formed at 9.30, although on account of its numbers
and the difficulty of its arrange1nent, it did not move until about
10 A. M. i . J

01213123 or‘ rnoonssron.

Freer Assrsranr l\f[AnsHAL, James N. Edminster. % ,

DRUM Con1>.e,-—- Messrs. Bartlett, VVait, Britten, Biathrow, and
Johnson. _ 

Sonnrnne on crrrn WAR on THE REBELLION. Infantry: I-Ienry
Poor, Captain; Henry B. Thompson, 1st Lieut.; Chas. Cady,,'1st
Sex.-gt._; Stephen Hammond, 2d Sergt._; Charles Stone, 3d Sergt,;
Wm. Bagley, 4th Sergt.; Urias E. Damon, 1st Corporal ; George
Dinsrnore, 2d Corporal; A. Hammond, 3d Corporal; John San-
ag;e,_ 4th Corporal; M. L.’ Perham, Color Bearer; J. W. Cady,
Standard Bearer ; Clarence M. Bixhy, J. R. Smith, Isaac Willialllls,
Geo. Colpoy, Octave Lahurr, Wm. Cluous, Joseph Lapine, Capt.
C. L. Savage, Chas. Spaulcliiig, Oscar Pierce, Geo. Spear, David
Mieot, Norman Perlrins, Geo. Sleeper, M. Bannister, Frank R.
]3u.r13ank, Marshall Dimmiek, Stillman Walker, l\Ia1'l: Bryant, Chas.
Thoiznpson, Adolphus Laundry, and Frank Newman, followed by
the artillery: Malcolm Pollard, L:Ient., Wm. H. H. Perkins, A. ll‘.
Putnam, Chas. lV[0"We1', J as. Coats, Samuel Merrill; riders, John.
fBrady, Geo. Sanhorn, with the _tw'el‘ve-po11nd field~pieoe.

Surgeon E. E. Phelps, with the disabled soldiers, James Car-
lin and George Fitch. ‘

Lanres on Ten Sonnrens’ A,I:D SOCIETY,-“-- Mrs. Rollin Amsden,
Miss Mary Phelps, Mrs. A. Spaulding, Mrs. J. T. Freeman, l\~fi[1-s.
1"-".lK. Whitney. ~ ‘ l J .

Snoonro Assrscmnr l\£AnsH.».L, Charles B. Ever-ts.

B.A;Nn,--~Geo1'ge W. Cressy, George Kenyon, Charles B. Evarts,
Adolphus Laundry, Henry W. Stocker, Rollin Bnokman, George
K. S‘toeker, Henry Harris, Roswell Boyd, Edson Austin, David
I~Ir311ghtl:h1g, Luther W. Stocker, Williain S. Pollard, Richard Nix»-
on, Artenias Wooal, D. P. Floyd, Will H. Stoeker, James E. Pol-
lard. v

Sonrornns on 1812,—-- Capt. James Stone, Parry C. Skinner,

p Josiah Lombard.

Lmms Rnrnnsnnmme rnn THIRTEEN ORIGINAL Smrns,-— Ah»

bie E. Tuxbnry, Bell Gilbert, Etta M. J onee, Frankie Jones, Em-
ma F. Ingalls, Mary Whitney, Ella Renfrew, Etta Tapper, Mary
Henry, Emma li‘. Spanlding, Ida Brown, Abbie White, Hattie
Harlow; with George E. Chase as “ Brother J onat11an.”

Miss Lucy Ellen Pett-es, representing Vermont, the first inde—~
pendent State.

CHIEF ‘l\IARsn:AL,—- Hon. Hiram Harlow.

President of the day, Franklin Butler; orator, Sewall S. Ont-
ting of Brooklyn, N. Y._; poet, Solon Mo1*riso11, Esq., of Montreal,

P. Q.; reader of the Deolai-a‘r.:im'1 of Indepe1r1de11ce, Rev. T. J.

Taylor. .

Invited guests and clergy.

Citizen.e’ Committee.

LADIES Rarnmsnnrrne rpm rrrrnrr-nrerrr Srarns on THE Umon,
-—- Etta Thoinpson, Laura Dudley, Mi1:xni.e Dudley, Jennie Porlciroe,
Eva Barnard, Maria Silver, Hattie Mann, Lettie Howe, Minnie
Stocker, Carrie '].‘l1ompeon, Katie Stone, Sarah Tewlrehnry, Clara
Twitchell, Nellie I~Iulobard, Jaimie Paine, Hattie Smith, Jaimie
Silver, Lillian Pollard, Lillian Fay, Emma Walker, Sallie Winn.
Inez Bartlioloinew, Cllara 1\€[oIndoo, Lou Mari-iiielcl, liiato O<3111i11,g,'e,
Ablnie Biiokxnaxi, Emma Pierce, Susie 1T‘arn.ewo1-tli, Jennie l\Ia1'a-
ton, Lilla Knowlton, Allie I.Ia1-low, Nettie Irlai-1.oW, Emma York,
Abbie Sprague, 'I1‘annie It:i,oh, Nanoy VVlritton_; with .‘.~’$a1'nnol. Ii‘.
Stacker ae “ Uncle Sam.”

NIAGARA. ENGINE Co. No. 1,---- Foreman, B. D. Wynn; let Aa-
aiatant, G. W. Greasy; EM .A.eeie'ta.nt, O. M. Atwood; 0.101-1:, O. S.

Ameden; Bellman, J. B. Mnnn; leading lioeoinen, F. W. Axnaw,

den, W. S. Pollard, H. C. Jones, A. E. Johnson, L. M. Davis, Cir.
K. Stooker; emotion hoaemen, D. I’. Floyd, F. F. I.-Iatoli, Janine
Cook, Wm. Lacy; privatee, Wm. F. Britten, Jatmos Conlin, Geo.
Oady, James G. Ooatoa, John Oonlin, Geo. H. Corliss, James
Dudley, Geo. A. Dnncan, I-Ioraoo .llln1e1'ao11, Cleo. Ii[o11g].1.tli:ng;, J.
S. IIael;i11ge, John Lacy, Ja1noa,Laoy, Wi1l.ia1n McCarty, Michael
McCarty, Ohae. E. Mower, Ii/i(3l1£l.J7(1 Nixon, Diulley I”e1‘kine, VVm.
I-I. Perkins, F. L. Qiiiiiri, .E(liVl11 L. ]*»’.anlott, Tliomae Seam, Wm.
Veaeey, Joseph ‘White, John Cniall.iglLe1*, Elroy J. ‘{~3l1attnc:l:, Clair»
enoe lfipragne, Eclwa.r4l B.l*3ea.1ve; 'volnnteere or thoee under. 21

‘years 01' .age, . Edaon G. A.11ati11., Edgar Austin, Fred I. Mann,
 Frank W'hite, Eli Moaley, John Iiurown, Merrie Pollard. .

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0::-0111121: 1'ep1'ese11ti11g :1 fm11i1y of 1776, co11t21i11i11g flea.  Ii};
Ha.ze11, Mm. IIn.ze11, Mrs. E11111121 IrIn.1*1'i11g'to11' £11111 son ]_7‘rz11.1k,
Thedzft S, I-Iazexn, F1'e.c1 a.11d I-Izmrry ‘W11it£L1:;e1',.. C11:11:1ie Ls1VV're11c.0,
Lottie O0111i11g:-:4, 1\/Ii1111ie Co111i11gs, and Annsm \Vesto11. Also, 515111-
d].c.1].1_01:se1, 1'ep1{ese11ti1Jgt11e .=xmne ye£t1',~ be.-a.1'i11g (}'eo1'ge 'I‘11.o111p.<3m1
ancl Ida Pollsmsl.

Ctentlemen :1.11c1 Lmlies re11resenti11g 9. family of 1876, co11sist—-
iijg of M.-a.j. L. C. Fay £11111 ladies. Citizells iii {_>;e1.1e1'a.1_, and 31121
Asast. Mars11a.1, H. L. Mzwcy, completed the line.-

First Assistmit M£1.1's11:11, J. N. Ed111i11ste1', 1‘i<1i1.1g to tlre f1'o11t

of 1.11ep1'ocessio11, in :1 1-i.11gi.11g, 111i1itm~y voice, 5111111: “ Atte1.'1tio11
co1u11111 I fo1'Wa.1°d, 111:1.1'cl'1 ! ” 511.141 the p1'oce.<3£4io11 1110veL1 clown. Main
::.:t1'ec>.t to Union six-cot, west to Asc11t11ey :at1'c1c:at, 11c.11't11 to Stutte.
rat1:ee\.t, down to M:1.i11 stmet, 110131.11 to 11eW 1111.11], t1'1m1r3c.1 t111"cn1g11
.3<1u1't street to 00111111011. II€~1'e the 111e111bm:s of t.11r.=. 1)1'(1ces51ic>11

p1'0ce.ec1ec1 to the spo.a.1m1*s’ :f-1t:111<.1 w11ic-.11 was s.=.111'1'(11111L1c-ed by :1 19.1.-g;e
c:o11c:ou1'rac~3 of people 110111 111:'111y of 111163 11eig11bo1:i.11g tow11s. Upo11
t11ep1z1tfo1'1n we1:e,111m:1Vy w11.c.1s3e locks 11a.ve 11¢-15:11 .<si.1ve1.'e<.1 by age.
A.111<111g these W011? I*Io11. J:1so11 Stcmle, Dr. E. E. P1u.11.p.s1, J01111 '1‘.
17.‘1-e.a311:1.:111, Si111eo11 Idea, now of O1:1.re111ont, N. I~I.,%D11vid I~Iu1:1te1-,
553. B. E3t0cke1r, D£111fort11 B1.'0w11,- D1,‘. D.  Story, M1's. Ac1m11
Pond!--t11e1 oldesxt Imily in town, 11esi11g in 119.1‘ 11i11e.ty—Hec:m1d yam‘.
Near the spea.keJ:.€: amt C‘reo1'ge Fitc11 511111 J 11111054 CJn.1r1i.11,‘0f the (3th
111111 31:11 Ve1'111c11.1t v011111tee1'::4 res1pective1y,—-- 1*e111iuCle1's of “ A11-
t.ietz1111’?1:11111 the “‘ VVi1der11es;s ;” the vete1-11.113 of 1812, Capt. Jam.
Sto11e, Parry O. S1:i1111e1.-, z-Lncl .To£+*.‘i£111'Lo111bz.11‘d. ’l‘11e«.11 t11e.1'e We:~.1'e
D17.-Ripley 01211115, Iieury Wa1rc111e1', Dwight ’I‘11:s:11111'y, M. K. I’a.i11c1,

W1?1':1n];1i11 Butler, J. B. Fa1'11swort11,"S. I1.Lmv1'e11(:~.e, O. L. 1’z1t1~ic1s:,

C01. I'Ii1'a.11.1 Harlow, J. A. Pc11lz1rJ, and 111a11y 0t11e1rs 110W actively
e11gage11 in b11si11ess purs11it::4 ; Capt. H.e111-y Poor, wit.l1 hie “ Boys
in 1311191,” 21111:] the Raw. ‘R.  Sear].e,t T. J. Tzmylmx, 21.1111 A.. M.
Fo1ge1*.

The ss1t1e"'"‘z1.-1:.e31~.'-.1, D1‘. Outtii1g 511111 5301011 1\I01'1'ir:x:111, Eaq., were
ta.1~:€-.111by the 11£111d by old n.cq11£1i11t£111ce£4, and a. few 111o1111.=11f1t:-7.4 Wem
spent in :1:ecz11.1i11g 1"e2111'i11ist3euc¢2s of familial‘ topics of 01119.11 time.

t The assembly was cttfled to (111131: by Chief Ma.1's11:;1l, Hiram
Harlow, a.t.11.05 A. M., a11dt11e following letter from‘ 001. Phelps

it 1
was reed by the Seeretmcy of the Oczbmmittee, J. B. F€t1‘11f$WO1“H.“1f

VVINDSOR, V'I‘., July 4-, 1876.

To Rzev. F. BUTLER, I

Dear S£7°:—— A1t110ug11 fully .mpp1'eciati11g the 110.1101‘ c:o11fe1rred
upon me in selecting; me as President of the Day, in the ee1e1)m-
tion of t}.1is our great :m:tti.o1m.1 festival, I feel that I nmst decline
to serve in that capacity. So 1neny of those with whom I was as-
eocieted in the late war assemble on this day to take pert in its
celremonies that I find. iti111po.ssib1e to deny myse].f:' the g_.3;1'zmtifica-
tion of co-opemting with them on so joyous: an 0002"-M011. '.I‘hoee
only who luwe box-he together the g1'e:'Lt vicissitudes of the soldiers
life can f1111yAu11de1'stsu1c1 the 1negien.-1 eympn.th.y that i11s;rpi.1'ee the
soldier 1'01: thoee who, like h;imse1f, lmve been fzunilim: with the
temtific scenes and almost hellish turmozil of battle, or th.e varied
but t111'i11i11g expe1*ie11cee of active, n1:i11'.t2u'y s.4e1'vic3e. I’f1.1‘t10]1 me,
t11e11, if, new as I 11011.1‘ the close 01’ the great 1.).-a,tt1e c>.f}1;i.fe, the
1:emi.11isce11eee of its m.i1it:11'y epieo<1e eo1.n.e hefomre me with a. feel-
ing e1«::i.n to en.c1;1a,ntment. May I ml: you, my clear e'i1', to take the
place de.<.3ignec1fc>1'1ne in the e:s:e1reisee 11.1161 eifeetivitiee of this gle-
rioue day for .1111m:.:t11ity, a.11dwhic~.]f1 we, as the 1'e1)1.°e:=zeJt1tn.tivee c.»:l*'
hunm11 ].:ibe1'ty, new p1'opoee to eelebmte? By 80 dcxing; ym1 will
give otlleare, as "well as 1n.yse1l.’, the p10:‘LS111'£> of seeing you oeeu.py
a, place so jusatly due to one who lime been em j11<1:i.ci011s].y active in
exciting so greet imd w]:.m1e.c;o1ne ml i11te:1re.et zih our c.mmnu.11ity to
do honor, in a. p.1:0pe1r why, 1:0 the hit1't11-(my of at 11::tt.ir;m that, in :t
s'i11g1e ce11tu1:'y, lme, by the fmree of i‘i"f‘:"; 1">met:i¢:=.h.1 131.-iemneiples; of hu-
111e.11 1ibe1'ty, :1eq11ired ft 1m111e ztml i1111x‘1o11ee eqmtl to any, e:ithe1'
111od.e1'n or lxietonie.

With ee11ti111e11te of the g1'e.:Lte:=3t eeiaec-m1 and reepect, I mu,

dear sir, T1:111y ym11',~“.¢,
IEI)W. T17‘. II?I:IELPS.
Late Su.1*g. U. {#3. VOL, Brev. Lt. (101.

Mr. ZBut1eJ:.¢,t eteppi11.g; t0 the :t':m;)11t of the 1:»1e1;f<:)1'111,  the fol-
lmvixlg adcimreee of w«:~a1ec:)me:

A7D1CJTt13}.‘.’§.‘3 OF MR. I?3TJ'I.‘I;."ETl?t.

Me. STE(JRTt!DAR‘1' ANTI‘) GrENTLEtIfmN cm 'J.‘iT]IT~‘. U01\IIvIIT’.I‘]721?.:—--I 1mm.-~
teke, as deeply m=1m1y one, of the 1reg1*et; which 1;»()e£4eeeee 2111 1.)1‘ea~
ent at the ii.1'l1"lO1.111(3€m1(%111'«, j net 1nede, tlmt 0111‘ <1i.eti11g'1:L‘i.e1t1ed fellow
citize11 wlmee p1*e—%e111‘iene11ee, as well in peeee as in Wm), wml as Well
2‘:L1)1‘0£t(1 ass at 11o1ne, jm=_zt'ly a;*.ve1'4:1::-3 to him the 1;1.tig11eet ]t1o11ors.4, Cle-
elineey to p1'eeide over thxie eeee1n1:»1y;t but, he I he1o11g to at 1:»1'ofes-

I eion 21.11411 um trained to it --——~- tlmt extends where it is put, I ehe11“a.c.-

cept his requeet and E10 the best I am:

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FELLOW CITIZENS of this great American Republic ---- of these
green hills and valleys —-- of ‘Vermont, the first independent State
--Lof New Hainpshire and the old thirteen -——- mother of Vermont
(if she has any mother), in the name of the Citirsens’ Committee by
whose arra-ngements we are here gathered, I bid you welcome to
the festivities and the gravities of this one hundredth anniverse.ry of
the Republic and of the town in which we dwell ! Welcome to the
sight of these banners and flegs and guns --—~ emblems of our princi-
ples and of our ability and purpose to maintain them! Welcome to
the view of these venerable veterans of former days, and of the
gallant braves who stood between us -~—- our homes, our wives and
children-—— and destruction 1 Welcome to the vision of these rep-
resentatives of woman in her noble mission of humanity “ al-
ways and everywhere,” not to the soldier only, but to men in all
his struggles for the good and the right I Welcome to the greet-
ings and the reminiscences and the inspiring words of the day and
the occasion that brings us together on this auspicious morning!

And now, with devout tliaiiksgiviiig to Almighty God, and
the firm purpose of maiiitaining our liberties and the Union for-
ever, et all hazards, let us enter upon the services of the hour.

The band then played “ Hail Columbia,” after which the Rev.
B. T. Searle oiferecli a fervent prayer for the continuance of the
Divine favor upon our Republic. “ The National Irlymn ” was
sung by members of the "bend, assisted by Dr. F. L. Morse, Dr.

Henry Furness, C. J. Weston, Charles Dudley, Ed. Kenyon, Oreo.

Cedy, C. H. Grilchrist, and others, under the direction of I-Ienry
VV. Stacker. Following the music, came the reading of the Declar-
ation of Independence, by Rev. T. J. Taylor, Rector of St. Paul’s
Clhurch. "

The President -~---—“ I have now the honor of introducing to you
as orator of the day, 11 distinguished son of Winclsor, the Rev. Dr.
Sewsll S. Cutting of Brooklyn, N. Y.” Dr. Cntting’s address oe-
cupied about an hour and forty minutes in its delivery; and a. more
scholarly, pertinent, and philosopliical production has been rare
even in the history of ‘Windsor. It is given in full in another
place.

-i The President then introduced Solon Morrison, Ii1sq., of Mona
treel, P. Q., as the welhknovvn 'wri.te1' of the “ Canada Post C3m:d.”

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The poem of Mr. Morrieonh was historic end local, reciting many
incidents of the older inlmbitente, with such striking eptnees as to
retain the earnest attention of the assembly to the end. It

' will be found on another page.

y At the d:i11ner~te1flo prepared by l\I[eeers. C. O. Durkee end S.
L. Le.wre11oe, at the Baptist veetry, toaete were ofl'e~1'od by the
To .et—meete1‘, J. B. Fa1~neWorth., Eeq., as follows:

“ The day We eelebraate-~ the Gentenn:ia.1 FO‘l11.’t1'1. May we eo
cultivate the virtues, the cottmge and the eelt-de;t1121-1 that eoomted
end 'tre11emitted to us our inde endenoe and free rovernment t.l:1e‘t

V _ P . ’
the day, as 111 the past, may oontmue to be honored at oontu1*y
hence.”

“Our Antiquitee —-W 11ot uee].eee rnbbie11 --—- the lendnmrke of our
g,;1*owt'.l*1, the ine.ig1:1izt of our glory, the 1'nom111t1e11te of m11*11.1)erty.
Lot thorn be p1'oee1'ved. in eeored ren1e111br2m1oe of ‘ the tones tlutt
tried :1non’e eoule.’ ”

Tl1ietwa.ereeponded to by I. Itayxxxoml Clark, Eeq., of Bostoxl,
who epoke earnestly in favor of the p1'eeerve.t;ion of theee relics; of
our hietory. Boston, ho eoid, 11nd ocmtztined the old Iimneookz
House, the old State Iifomso, end 111e11y "other 1*omi11dore of the
Revo111tio1m1‘y peJ:iod, but theee ].;1C)‘l'1£50I3 lmve o.11'ezfufIoy been re1no'vo«.1
and 11mgnifloent et1:uotnro.e erected in their plnoee. And new the
old So1it11 Ghurclx lxee been tssold under the hzt1;mno1'. ’l‘hie 5.5 the
firet inetzn1ee"in 11ieto1'y where the p'eo1;»1e have deetroyec;1 their own
monuments.

“ J u] y --.t, 1776 —--~-- May we znover forgot the day w1:r:ie1'1 ggxuvo hi1't11
to our In_de*_pe11de1.1oo and enrolled Anlorloe on the lmt of the em--
pncoe of the world.” W t

“ ';[‘he.n1omory of VVee1.1_i1:1;_;*ton ----‘ Firet in wax, limb in peace,
and met 1n the lxeu-rte of lne follow cou11t1'yn1eJ.1.’ ” d t t

Beepondocl to by tho Banal.

“ The Union —--- l\I:ty it he perpetual.”

Iteepoxmo by Rev. A. M. Folgerz

l\I1z. Plmexnnnm, Lwxme AND G~1aNu:L1m1nN:—~;-I tllullk you for
the honor you haxve done me in calling upon me to roepond to the
toast just rozmdg but, really I feel very nmoh he I fzmoy the ltev.
Mr. l\I1u:1'a.y, of Boston, must have felt when o::L].1od 11130111 to follow

« Wendell 'Phi11;ipe after his :1ne.eter1.y speech, in few chtye ego, to save

the old “ South O11uro11” from destruction. SeideMr. l\In1'my, “I

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have read of a custom in heathen lands, where, after the feasting
and the joy were ended, they served up a human sacrifice.” And,
ladies and gentlemen, I feel that, perhaps 3/02.1., having feasted to
your fill, until the cup of your joy runs over, are ready for a sacri-
iice. I believe with Phillips that a man may as well die, orator-
ically, as to speak after so much banqueting as you have enjoyed
to-clay. But I will, however, say a single word, and let me begin
by saying, God bless the United States of America. Let me say
to the young men and others assembled in this place, to-day, that
this Fourth of July means sometliing more than festivities, bon-
iires,a11Ll illuminations. It means that one liundrecl years ago to-
day our nation was born, and that we are celebrating the birth-
day, not of a man, but of a great nation. I feel that every one
here assembled shoulfil “ rejoice and be glad in the goodness of
that God, who, for all these hundred years, in peace and war alike,
has been our sun and shield, yea, the strong tower of our defence.”
Let us remember that with the fall of this Republic would fall
one of the grandest and wisest‘ systems of constitutional liberty
which the wisdom of man has ever invented, or the liopes of pop-
ular freedom cherished throughout the globe, Our fathers, who
fought, bled and died thatwe might have ajfree country, are not with
us tc—clay, but let us, standing by their graves, swear anew, -and, if
need be, teach the oath to our children, that this American. Il3tepub—
lic, clasping the entire continent in its embrace, shall stand un-
moved, though all the powers of evil, including foreign interfer-
ence, intestine wars and national, iniquity, shall unite to overthrow
it ; that we shall have in the second century of our natiou’s exist»
ence, as we have had in the past, one countr , one constitution,
one destiny. And when the ‘dark powers now seeking our over-
throw, or that shall ever seek our overthrow, shall themselves have
been overtltu-own, may our children, gathering strength from our
example in every contest “with despotism, again rally under the
glorious stars and stripes, with our olden war-«cry, “ Liberty and
Union, one and inseparable,“ now and for even”

“The niemory oi’ those heroes who fought and bled that we
may be free and in.depen<.lent —--May we have virtue to preserve
the legacy theyleft us.”

“ The I’resiclent of the United States —-i Honor and respect to by

the ofiiee ——-- Justice and impartiality, to the nuts.”

i5

“ The freedom of the Press-~—Ever ‘seared and invioleble. It
is the pelleditirn of our rights and liberties- it terror only to the
intolerant and wicked.”

“ The memor of those that fell in defence of the Union ——--
‘ Gaslned with honors e scars,
y bl
‘ Low in Glory’s lap they lie,
‘ Tho’ they fell, they fell, like stars
‘Streennng splendor thro’ the sky.’ "
“ The dead who have fallen in the late war --—
‘ How sleep the deed who sin]: to reset,
By all their Oountry’s wishes blest.‘ ”
VOLUNTEIER TOAS'.[‘S.

“ The s111'viving; soldiers of the late Wm: —-- VVe backed them up
as they went to the front, we respect and honor them on their Vic»
torious ret1_1rn.”

“ The ladies _who lnwe assisted in the e1'rz_n1gen,1ents for this
Celebration-~ Without them we could do nothing, with them We
csndo enythi:ng.”

“ The Orstor of the day --- 1}, son of Windsor that glnddene the
old motlier.” ‘ y

“ Our Poet -—-A songster whose notes are l_oye.1 and tvelcoine as
his boyhood’s, after twenty-five years of familiarity with foreign
ears.”

“ The Citizens of VVindsor--—Tl1e scenes of to-dey prove that
the spirit of the fathers still lives.”

“ The Second Centennial of Windsor, and of the Country-W
God bless those who behold it I ”

The Marshals of the day nmde zm fine nppeeraiice, hendsoniely
nionnted upon spiritecl horses, gnily oeperisoned to match the ep-
propriste dress of their riders. The lieerts of the old veterans

, bounded as they stepped lightly to the music of the rattling drums

of their comrades. The ertillery, drawn by four horses, wheeled
into position, mid. then came, as seemed most appropriate, the le—
dies of the “ Soldiers’ Aid Society,” for they are, as the banner
presented. to them said, “ always end heverywliere the soldier’s
friend.” The Windsor Cornet Bend docs itself credit wherever it
goes, and on this occasion it disconrsed sweet and lively music and
added much to the plessllre of 9.11. As We looked on the forms of
the veterans of 1812, we were carried back to the time when these
nien and their .con:1rcdes enswcrccl the cell of: “ all to the borders.”
The lady, gracefully riding alone, aptly represented Vermont, the

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first independent State. The leclies representing the original
thirteen States were dressed in unique and appropriate costumes ;
those representing the present thirty-eight, in white with badges,
all making a. very fine appearance.

V The firemen ere ft hale and hearty crew, well qualified for their
work, and have already shown that their “ pleasure is where duty
calls.” The o:;—eert, eiicl _seddle—horse with the pillion, were a.
most zunusing feature of the procession. 'I‘he cert was drew11 by
s hzmclsome pair of red oxen, owned by Chas. II. Dudley, and filled
with people both young and old. From the babe in arms the line
of :21.-scent was closely filled even to the granduine, in her antique
scoop bonnet, who kept a. watchful eye on her eldest daughter
“ tending” the baby that struggled manfully with tl1e._huge celasli
which the young mutroii were in endeevoring to find his me. The
patriarchal lieed of the feniily walked by the side of his team, and

in stentorien tones shouted, “Wl1oe, limv ther Bright 1 ” The sad- ,

dle-horse carried a. "peculiar couple, seemingly borrowed from the
past, when earriu-gee were an unlsznown institution, and economy
would eclrnit of but one horse for .two persons, as the American
people had not ecquirecl the habit of being “ fest.” Upon the
large, quiet horse was mounted :3. young lady dressed in the height
of fashion a. hundred years ago. On her head was ulurge straw
bonnet, profusely covered with roses, While ufeund her neck was are
broad Elizebetheii ruff’. In front of her rode at young men dressed
in the garb of the early pioneer —— slouch hut, liunting shirt, knee
breeches, Aleggings and moccasins. Across the pommel of his sed-
dle was carried a rifle, and in his belt :1. large knife. Thus armed
and equipped, he was ready to give the compliments of 1776.

Major Fuy’s dashing turnout niede it fine appearance, and Wes
a. good representation of to-dey. The guuwe.s hz41.ndle'd with true
military precision, by those who had acquired skill inthe service,
it being fired from two to four times per minute. The bells rung
es joyfully in their peels as when, thirteen years ego, they rang;
out the glud news of the full of Viclisburg.

Upon the soldiers’ banner were inscribed the names of thirty one
battles, in which the troops here usselnbled to-day were engag-
ed, from Big Bethel to Apponmttox Court House. l

Much grutificetioii is felt end expressed at the energy and her-
mony displayed in the preparations. The ladies particularly ,de—

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Serving of me11tio1.1i.n conneeticm. with the prepe-1'eti.o11s i’m.':1:e131'e—

ee:uta.tione of the States are Mrs. Henry Poor, ltlmre. I-Ienry Thomp-
3011, lVIre. Rollin Amsden, l‘rIre. Heiiry Tapper.

THE I~IA.LL OF A.NTIQT.TITIE.‘S.

The Committee on Antiquities eliowed 1:uueh enterpfiee in the
collection of ertielee of “ ye olden tyme.” The articles were all
eyeteiimticelly e1'1'm1geLl in the Town Hell, wllieli they lgmd deco-
1'a.ted_.witl1 fl::tg‘e, bmiting‘ and eVe1'green., while in the eentemz was at
large gilded eter, 1~epreeenti.ng Ve1*111o11t, which 11eetl1e1)e1itiee1
eigtiifieetion of the “ star that never eete.” The number of the
articles was much ltn.rge1' tlimi it was t11ougl.1t c.0111d1:)e collected,
and 11:u:my of them were of greet curiosity, e1:u;lel’ 11111011 wertli.
We elxould like to lniwe 1ne11tiene<l eeeli article, with the ow11e1*’e
meme, but found it to be im1:>1'eet;iceb1e, its ee Immy were 'b1°o11gl1dt
in on the 1i1101‘J'1i11g' of the I+"ou1r‘tl1, and it was l111pOf3Sll;)l(Z5 to classify
tliem before they we:r:et:t1:;en mvzity. A few of the emtaielee, liovvever,
e1:e11e1:e noticzedz-~—— 1’ei1'c>f eli1)}_3e1'e, eeVe11ty—i‘ive yemre old, gold
1'i1:1g end Silver 1)eppe1:—l)ex, both. over one 111:1.11¢lre4;l years old, i'1:o111
Miee Imey Ellen I’et'bee; e1‘111~elu:Li1.'eml sa,11ee1)e:r.1, over o1.1eln1ml1:ed
yezmz-1 old, 110111 Mrs. J. VVe11i1'1gt¢:>1.l '.[‘l.u:>mpeon; Bible, CWG1‘ eiglity
yemce, flrom 1\f::e. II. I). Stozne; "wine {;;le.e::~:, one lu111<.l1'c:-ll mid fifty
yezwe, poe1«:et-13001:,.0110 l.11'md1:ed, Ileed, gitvmi in 1'7 51, i'rou1 l\Ii:e,
£*3ue::m Aclmne; llefilepireml lnede "by Mire. J<;>l1(311'l1c>i:, in 11e1.~eridght-
eenth yeer, l’1'o1n l\Tre. D. '1‘. l\;Ie.J:ti11; 1':m1‘1c*.lt1-l)mvl zmd wine de«
eentelr, two l.u'n.1d1'el'l yemre (9141; front lllre. ’I‘lm1nee 1.‘;l1K-‘I-]']‘<‘i"Fl‘l«-)‘u|\)]“.l; pew-
te1'p0r1'i11ge1‘, <t)I1e’l11"111¢l1re.¢1 yez't1.*eold., f;1:e111 D. A. B111-11a1'd; fi1'e-
&"3C1”‘(~‘:(?;1f1i, werkzed by Mm. tttI+lu.niee Mm'g‘m1, eeve11.ty yemre ago, £1:-min
hfiee Seplxizt II;:Ll_l; C301. gTeeeeiL11l.1’e exvcml, came zmcl Hl.1()0-lbltlcililefii,
one l'.1u11d1'ed yeere old, frenl 1't:t11ee111 ’I.‘l101.1rm.e ; l1:11ee—l:mel:1ee
whiell J ee.iCi*nmv.i11 1‘C)tlOiSOV£}111}§/“~(Eti§§ll.l3 milee to ];>1‘11'elmee, froiii M.
L. ]:‘e:v11,em; t'tv()pi.ei;1.1ree l;>el.(>11gdi11gt0tl.1eti17et ehild b01'1i1i1;1 \Vi_11cl-
ear, if;1.'o111 M. 0. Pe'rk‘ine; Bible 1)1'i11tedi11 1730, .fe13111e1'1y' owned
by tI‘I£t'tl11£tl1 Pe'1'1;l;1u1ret, end hotigllrt by ller i‘etl1e1'in. Boeto11,_Dec.
26, 1742, now the p1'ope1:ty‘ of Alfred G. Clliztdbem, of Goifnieli,
N. 11.; the waist of Molly Ste1'1:;’e ‘wedding dress-+-ye1.lowv Sl.1lI.———

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from H. P. McO1ary; tea chest brought from China before the
Revolutionary Wa1~, by Fisher Ames, holding just one pound, also
set of razors used by Rev. Samuel Shuttleworth, a hundred years
ago, from Capt. Danforth Brown; Ethan A1leu’s old gun-—-In the
year 1776, Ethan Allen left this gun at a blacksmith’s, for repairs,
taking with him the gun beloiiging to the blacksmith, and prom-—
ised to exchange again upon his return. Mr. Allen never return~
ed, and the gun has remained in the family ever since, it now be-
ing the property of the grandson, Mr. Underhill of Rutland, and
was procured for exhibition here by Mr. P. P. Story.

The hall was full throughout the day with people interested in
the examination of the old— time articles. Much credit is due -Mr.
and Mrs. E. F. Eggleston for their services in personating George
and Martha Washington, which they did to the great satisfaction
of all.

ran rrnn-Worms.

The fire-works, under the direction of the efficient committee,
displayed, in the evening, on the grounds east of the railroad sta-
tion, owned by H. Everett, Esq., of Council Bluifs, Iowa, were
magnificent, and the pleasure of the crowd assembled to witness
them would have been complete if a torrent of rain had not inter-
rupted, after the second main piece, and compelled the imme-
diate lighting of the remaining pieces for a sudden show of all at
once,

As things were, the finale xvas grand and made even sublime, by i

the intermingling roar of theblazing twelve-pounder, so skilfully
managed by Capt. Malcolm Pollard and his aids, and by the tr-um—
pet notes of the Windsor Cornet Band, even inthe pelting rain.
On Wednesday evening, the balance of the minor works was ex-
hibited to a large, number of people who were delighted with the
exhibition, and vrhovappreciated the services of the committee who
have spent much time and labor on this important part of the fee-
tivities of the day. The Band sang an original National Hymn.

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The following letters were received in response to invite»
tions by the Citizens’ Coinniittee to p~a.rticipe.te in the exercises of

theday:
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT Sl\'II’1‘H.

DARTMOUTH Coznnnon, l_
HANOVER, N. H. July 3, 1876.}
HIRAM HARLOW, Eso., ~ I I

President of the Citizens’ Committee.

My Dear Sir:-—I have received through yourself and J. B. Ferns-

worth, Esq., Secretary, :3. courteous invitation of the Committee to at-

tend, as guest of the Town, your Centennial Celebration. I very much
regret that my engagements are such as to forbid a compliance with
that request.

Though not a. native of your town, I think I may call myself at
Windsor boy. From my fourteenth year to my nineteenth, I resided in
your village, leerning the art and mystery of printing in the office of one
of your worthiest citizens, Simeon Ide, Esq. After that period, I was
favored with it protracted course of Academies], Collegiate and Pro--
fessional training. But I can truly and gratefully say, that if I have
ever done any thing for the welfare of my fellow men, it is, in no small
degree owing to those Windsor influences under which so many of my
early years were passed. I include among them the influence of my old
master Mr. Ide; of my venerated Pastor the late Dr. John Wheeler; of
other noble men, not a. few, whose fame have passed from earth-—-the
Curtises, the Ooolidges, the Stones, and their coxnpeers, whose memory
is still fresh in the l1ee.rts of not a few among you. I should love to
speak of them at your festival; but I can only give you as a. sentiment:

The noble fathers of your town wmay their mantles rest upon the
children, even to the third and fourth generation.

Yours most truly, ,_
ASA 1). SMITH.

 

LETTER FROM MAJ’. BOYIITON.

Nnivnunon, N. Y., June 25, 1876.

Con. Hrnrm Hnnnow, Pres,
J. B. Fnnnswonrn, Sec.
" " “Ge~ntleme72.:--~Yo1i1' invitation to me to participate as a guest in the
town of Windsor, at the approaching Centennial Anniversary of the
Fourth of July, was received to day. I regret that a prior engagement
to particzipete in the public celebration in this city, on that occasion,
renders my absence unavoidable. As time will not permit me to pre-
pare some reminiscences of my old home, I beg you to accept the fol--
lowing sentiment as a. substitute:

The day on Mount Calvary and the Fourth of July ---- One redeemed
at world from sin, the other redeemed a nation from slavery.

I am very respectfully, ,
. EDWARD I C. BOYNTON.
Born at Windsor, 1824..

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LETTER FROM HON. V. B. HORTON.

I Pomrznor, OHIO, June 28, 1876.
ll‘. HARLOW, Esq., Pr‘:-s.,
J. B. Fannswonrnz, .Esq., Seo’y.
Dear Sirs :———~ I desire to express my thanks for the invitation of my
native town to join the people in the Centennial celebration of the
I*‘our-th of July. It would afford me great satisfaction to be present on
that interesting occasion, and to look again upon the beautiful scenery
which surrounds Windsor. This, however, is out of my power, and I
must content myself with thanks for the invitation, and good wishes for
the success of the celebration and the enjoyment of all who are present.

Very truly yours
’ V. B. IIORTON.

 

LETTER FROM JAMES L. HOWARD, ESQ.

' HARTFORD, C30l~Tl-1., 3rd J uly, 1876.
IIIRAM HARLOW, Pres., A
J. B. Fannswonrn, Sec’y,

Citizens’ Qonimittee, Winclson.

C-?e72.tZeme'2z :- Your kind invitation to be present and participate in
the celebration of the Fourth came duly to hand, and would have re-
ceived an earlier acknoxvledggrnent, had I not hoped, until today, to be
present. Circumstances will prevent, and I can only express my disap-
pointment on many accounts. I left Windsor, my birth—p1ace, at an
early age, and, though I call to mind vividly many of the then leading
citizens, not many reminiscences, interesting to the public, are retained
by me; but I have always felt an interest in my "birth-place, have
watched the events in her history, and now feel towards her the senti-
ment of a son for his mother. Having, in politics, ever been a Repub-
lican, I have rejoiced in good old Vermont as the “star that never
sets,” especially, as in her steadfastness of character, she has shown in
this that high quality which always commands the highest respect.
Wishing you all the best of times in your celebration,

I am, with great respect, yours sincerely, ’
r JAMES L.»HOWARD.

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LETTER FROM HORACE EVERETT, ESQ.

_ _ COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, June 1339, 1876.
Hon. HIRAM IIARLOW, Windsor.

;7lf_2/y Dem’ i.'ir:--—You.r kind invitation of the 20th is at hand, and it
is with many regrets that I am compelled to forcgo the pleasure of be-
ing with you on the Fourth of July, which I hope will be a memorable
day in the history of Windsor. It is now thirty-«seven years since I
took my final departure from my early home to seek my fortune in
other lands. In all the vicissitudes of these many years, there has been
scarcely a day that my thoughts have not wandered back to “ delight-

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ful ” Windsor, to its clear waters and mountain brooks, its forests and
fields, its lovely drives, its grand mountain, and noble river,—~—-- all hal-
lowed to me by a.ssoc.iations and memories dear end enduring. Aside
from these natural features, which have made our village so farniliar to
artists of our day, and so loved by its inhabitants, there are other causes
for the early celebrity of the town which I fear will soon pass away,
unless some historian -shall at once write its history. The materials are
abundant, for there is no town in New England that has contained so
many original characters, men of ‘decided power, men who could found
a State. Front 1780 to 1830, a period of fifty years, there wee a host
of remarkable men in Windsor ( as, indeed, there are some at the pres-
ent day ), whose characters and lives are well known to its present citi-
zens. I well renaember Judge J aoobs, Parson Shuttleworth, Mr. Hayes,
old M1‘. Johonnot, Gen. Forbes, the Lulls. the Petteses, the three Lev-
eretts, Judge Aikens, Judge Ilubbard, Judge Paine, Tom Emerson,
Gen. Phelps, Dr. 'I‘o1're_v, Dr. Green, hither and son, the Coolidges,
Captain Lord, John Lord, Mr. Campbell. Sen; I’atrick, the Traslrs (Dr.
Nehmn and Ezra), Parsons Wheeler, I-Iowerd, '].‘ra.oy., and Itiohards,
Tom Boynton, old Mam-311, Mr. Merrifielcl, Mr. Barlow, Mr. Cooper, and
my honored father, all now passed away. These were reniarkable men,
and with many others not named, both dead and living, gave Windsor
:1. high, distingtmhecl reputation. Se preserve the history of these men.
May we not hope that my friend, George "Wardner, who is so farnilisn:
with their lives and character, and so peculiarly qualified by his mem-
ory end narrative powers, will give us a Centennial Plistory of Windsor
that shall make its reputation national? With my thanks for your po-
lite invitation, and regrets that I cannot be with you, I remain,

Yours, with respect,
IIORACE EVElilil"lZ";l‘.

I-Iieto1'ica,1 .A_clcl1°ese.

BY SEWALI1 S. C'U'.Il‘TING, D. D.

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M11. PRESIDENT AND FEL1‘.10‘W 0121312121155; LADIES AND Gzexcumzs-
'.M:1«31~I:—-—We celebmte tl1e Ge11t-e1111i:11 Fou1*th of July m:ou1:1cl our en-
eestml seats. A.lm1g:g; with the eom1nem01'21tion of our N:1tio11alI11-
<1epe11cle11ee, we eo1nn1emo:1'a.te the eettle111e11t of Winclrsor. We are
here, some of us ;11eve1* exiles from the 1'1ez1rtl1e of 0111'fa,-t.l1ers,——
some of us 1'etu1:11ed from the long w:1nde1'ir1ge of 111211137 ;yez1—1'e. We
keep this great festival here, impelled by 2111 irxstinet w11iel1 come‘-
cmtee the scenes of infancy and yo11t11,~—~—— wl1iel1, by the aid of the
in1a.ginz1tion, repeoples tlmee clear, fa.111i1ia-r epots with the fc11'111e of
those who ltuwe long since paesecl to their gmves, anal renders the
earth to wlttose keeping their Chlst is committed. ms sl11'i11e13tto t-l1e
loving Wvenemtion of pi1g1~i111e. We are aeesemblecl to exclxzmge
eo11g1~a.t111etions 1113011 1111 o<;:ea.sio11 the repetition of which no one _of
118 can hope to beh<:1ld,-»+- to reeou11t, as We may be able, the eve11t.s
zmcl elmngee cf 21 century,--—- 211111 mot-at of 5111 to celebrate the cl1a.1:-
aeter alncl virtuee of those depamtecl ancestors from wl1o111 we re-
ceive the 11eritage which s111'1'ou,1_:_1ds 2511111 blesses t11e:i1;.' e11i1d1'en.,

2.

Let urs rejoice that we are assembled amid eozrne things which
cannot elmnge. The stately pines which made tlxerse n1eadowe dark
with their inte1‘1aoi11g bmnelxes, 1m-seed mva.yiT01* purper.-see of com»
1:nerce or the I§_i11g’e Navy, before the oldeet of us opened our eyes
0111-helight,--— the 111a.p1e and beach and birch of tlleee 11p12mde
3-*ie1de-<1 early to the necessities of the mpiclly growirlg village, to
be 1'ep]eeed in the lapse of t3'.111e by the more orclerly ztncl artif‘1eia].,
but not 1(3:SS'bG{l1Ii3i.fL11 e1*re:,r of foliage whiclx 1I_1:1ek<'-ze 'VVind:ser the
pride of her ch:i1dJ:e11 zuxd the admimtion. of e't1'e‘uge1*e. ’.I‘l1e.ee are
c:h.e11g._2;e:s. But the river which :m11s at our feet was as silvery, ee
msrowy, whc11it:-5 e111:1'e1;1t wezL1'ied the z-1.see11¢1i11g flat-b0a.te of our
£Ll1(3(3f$t()l‘S z1.:'—;s it is to—dey,~—-- as bc.zu1t.if‘u]. t0 the eyes of the firet
e1.1iL1<J:re11 that eperted in its wz:.tere as it was to our own. T1'1ehi11.<3
which 11et111'e gs:-we to C01‘11i:sI1, w11c11,t more g0I.l0J.‘011S to 11:5, elm
gzwe to ms the Jneeclmve, eo11.~'sti:tute new :13 t11e11 the fringe of

}I—‘~

'13erp<:tz1zL1 bezmty on our em;-ste1'11 1:Lo1'izon,—--- :u1c1 there, 111o1,1.a,re11 of

the 11‘1ot1111ta.‘i11e, ei-ill :'«;sta1'1d'.~.: am tllen the lofty Ase11t11ey, new cove]:-
riug i'te1;:1'mv witltx eleude, new uglmv in the morning’ or eveni.ng
£51111, :.u1d new dzurli, eu1e1111.1 and g‘3.'zu1<.1 in the moelxlight as if itself
:1. ee11;«5eiou.:s .\ve1':s1'1i'p1:cr belicetlx the *vzm1t of 11eaveI1. 'l‘1.1ese are
the I111G1l2‘L11{l§0£Lb10 elltwzml 1'ez*x.tm:es of lmture, whielx never 1:>mse
;(.'1:em the 1ne111<;ury of eon or datxghtmr of \V.i11dz50r. However 1'emote-
1y we \v2'<mc1e1*, fwxxcy 1.‘0Sb<.>1‘0S to me these wztttere, tlxetse 11i1l::+_, M161
tlxirs 1x1e1mtz1.i;u, mxd biudas our 11ez11'te to the sp«;>'t whicll gave ms
bi.1:th.. Su1*1'e‘1111deCl by t.]_w:se eeexxcs t.<;w~<1ay, we 'wo1'.“s11;ip ms in :2.
te.n.1p],e 1:1et n1m'1’e "with 1.1e11d:~.s gm we C3(;)llt5U(31‘2M3U tl1i:3 fesstel (;>(3C‘.:L.':3i(‘)1.1
{LB wellby ::u1umtie1.1 of the I).i:v.i11e A1'e11itect am by ]_’)i011&3 1'emem-
I;m.'::L1ixee;5 of Hie I-t’1'ovide11ee, lifting up to 11e::we11 em: 00111111011
z:=.ecle,iu1_., _ “‘ C—?r1'ez1.t e.11L1 :u1a.rve1.1o1;1e 1L1‘0 thy we1'lie, Lord God
A.1L1“1*ig"11t_y,~—«jL:1.&att u,:ml true 211:0 thy ”VV£L;y'&‘-1, 1110111 Iiing 01' £5e.i1'.1t&3.”

If, was we enter upon the topiee w11i.e1;1 sure for 11, \V1il.i10 to 0G(3111‘,)y
um: ette11ti<;>11, I I11£L‘_Y be 1:m.1uf1<;>.nec1 ‘:1. ]_.’)-L">1'§~30112?:b1 :111I.1eion, it muzst be
to c,11m.- :11;.1y t11:.u.11§.:~‘s 1'01‘ the 1ii.11L1 :ce111e.1'11b1*zL11ee of :3. 1e11g~ebee11t 13011
of Wi11daao1'w11ie1.111:»:-; ez'm11«:d me to the service I min. here to per-
1701-111.. 11-e1110veL1 f1'e.111 you at firet in my eI.1i1d11ooCl, I was only an
eeeeeienzxl suj011r.11e1' here c1'L11';i11g the periecl of my youtltx. Fc)r
mcure thzm fe;ri;y yen..J::‘-J w}.Lie1;1 lmve elapsed eixlce tlmt period, it Imam
bee;x,1 1;ny =fe1*t1;me to look 'l'1}_.)C“)1j.L ”\'Vi11.«.1.~;ae:r scarcely 111ere t1m.11 once in
:11. <.'1ec::tLzf.le. ’I‘he:se :.u11:iL1 thcee fzu11;i1ie1* eee11ce3 to whom I a.111pe;rr5en-
ally lmewn Illtlflt be few indeed. '1‘l1e ntazwy W115 eonetitutecl the

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living, active Windsor of my day, are in distant places or {slumber-
ing :.With the dead. ‘ I thank you that I have not been forgotten.
You might have summoned to this duty eons of Windsor better able
to perform it, but none who could bring to his native State or native
town, or to a service like this, a more loyal heart. Proud of the
States which have given me a welcome and a home, of Massachu-
eette first in letters and in the arts of mechanical indnetr , of New
York. iirst in commerce and in the vigorous application of wealth to
national growth and expansion, I am proucler still of these interior
hills and va1leye,where if there are fewer instances of distinguished
culture there is an uneurpaseecl general intelligence, and where if
commerce hae given no great towns and abounding wealth, plenty
has cliIi'nsed more Widely the quiet and eatiefactory gifts of compe-
tence and eontentrnent,-—— a region where a state of society prevails
in which man is of more account than the accidents of his eondi-

tion, and from which are forever iesuing intelleete and hearts which i

exalt and adorn our national life. Let this devotion be my plea for
your attention, and the e11elterbencatl1 which I may ask the f(")1‘l)(-3£l1‘-
anee of your criticism. ‘ i

It will not be expected that I ehould occupy the portion of
time allotted to me in presenting to you a liietory of the town, or
even in gathering up its leading liietorical incidents. My taek, leee
honorable than this, must be more general and (30ll1p1‘(‘3lil(3lZ1$$l.V0.

I must eeek rather the conditions under which the character of the

earlier inhabitants was formed, and by which the changes of a
century have been determined. I ehould be glad, likewise, to
enggeet acme of the problems of eooiety which we commit to the
solution of those who ehall follow ua at the distance of anotlier
hundred years. In111et,l1oweve1', leave theec problems rather to eng-
geet themselves. I think it will appearthat the ecttlement of this
town was eoeval with the dawn of a new historical period,--«-tl1at
local eireumatancee and the ciremnetaneee of the world favored the
developmentiof lofty irnpnleee and the performance of noble dcede,

and that the celebration of the virtues of our ancestors, due to a»

grateful appreciation of their character, may well become tour; a
stimulus to social, patriotic and 1'el'igio11e duty.

Character is the mini of internal forces and of outward conditione.
Given a New ]1l1.1gla.11<;l people of the niiddle of the eiglitecnlh. eel.-~
tury, setting northward from Maeea-cl1t1eette*iancl«iConnecticutto find

homes in the wilds of Vermont, the question is, whatwere the condi-

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tions which surrounded them, determining the character, and there-
fore the destiny of themselves and their children? I cannot pause to
dwell on the hardships which they enoounterecl, in felling forests,
in rearing their humble dwellings, and in oultivatiiigtlieir stubborn

fields, lierdships wliich enured them to self-reliance, and developed

the power of determined will and work. Men does not find the only
or the chief aliments of his life in the narrow sphere of mere per-
sonal experience and interests. He is asooiel and political being,
moulded and swayed by the thoughts which fill the minds of great
masses of men, of communities end of nations. Let us discover if
we can what it was which thus filled the minds of our ancestors,
what the topics which they disc-ussed at their firesides and their
public g;ethe1'ings, end so find the springs and the power of their
personal and sooiel life. ,

Bear in mind then, first, that the settlement of this town was
among the first fruits of the Peace of 1763. It was but as small
event to stand in such a relation, but the relation was reel. That
the soldiers of the Colonies, returning from their oempeigns, on the
Lakes and i.n Oanecle, hed threaded their way through valleys of
surpassing 11.1'.3';111‘l£t11OG and beauty, t-urning, the footsteps of thou-
sends to these regions as to ‘e land of promise, is but the most super-

" fioielezz-tplenetion of the settlement ofVern1o:ut. Tlie greiider zunl

more influeiitinl oonsiclerntion was thet the _French were conquer-
ed and. espellecl, and that the clay of growtli zuul eX.pa.nsio11, waited
for, longed for, hoped for, lied dmvned at last. Previous to the
peace of 1763 the English population of Ainerioa. soe1'oeTly ventitrod
beyonrzl hearing of the roar of the ooea-11. Taken osptive or n1n.ssa,—
cred st Heverliill, st Doerlield, at Solioneotndy, on the Stisqtieli-mi;
he, on the l\Io11onga.l1el.-zt, on the Potomac, they lived in perpettm.l
apprehension of the I*‘renoh anal their savage allies, who pressed
thorn to the narrow limits of the coast, M11]. almost to the shelter of

their inaritinie towns zuicl ships of war. Every attempt of the ‘

English to force their way through the terrible barrier liznl hither-
to failed, and even the we): now gloriously ended, had begun in dis-
esters which tlireetenecl to nmlie this striiggle es fruitless as all
which had gone before it. To the well-founded View of the colo-
nists, it was a. struggle for liberty and life, for the freedom of
Ero‘tests.nlt worship ngztinst Oetliolio domi11a.tion. V ‘It airoused every
sentiment of loyalty, of pzttriot~is111,nncl of religion, encl, tliough
entered upon and conducted withfeiiit ooneeptions of the vastness

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of the stake, it exalted a whole people to loftier thoughts and an
inteneer life. Its successful close had tranecenicled all hope, French
authority was er.tirpated, and a continent opened to the occupation
of the Englieli race. Such a war, so cloeed, heralded and determin-
ed the eettleinent of thie town. The first great expansion of the
New England population outward, was in the direction of Vermont.
When Capt. Steele Smith reached Windsor in 1764, more than one
liundied towne within the preeent limits of this State had been
chartered since the fall of Quebec in 1759. The men who settled
Vermont had been participaxite in that great and decisive contest ;

W they had ehared in ite perils and in its renown ;-—-» its recollections T

and its motivee filled their minds at an inepi.1'ation, and became the
incitement and the power of their actions. Its long; continuance,
ite doubtful conjuliottiree, and pita more than 1nag11ii«icent close,
hardenecl their einowe to any acliievement, and filled them with
that lofty -confidence which is the prccnreor of eucceee.

In like manner the eettlernent of thie town was conte1npo-
raneone with those aeee1'tio11e of 1}’a1:lj.a111lenta1:y authority over
America, which were the iminecliate occaeione of our natioxial incle-
pende-11ce. The attempt to wield deepotic po*s‘vor in the name of
Parliament, and tl;1ro11g;'11 I’arlian1entary io1'1ne,-—~—- an attempt which
for n1an;V ;y"ea.rs had heeii ripo'ni.ng in the principles anal policy of
Britieli etateemen,-T-—attained, at thie 1‘.)e1';i0d, ite full development.
It was on the 9th of Marcli, 1?’Gi, that Citeoirge (l~1'e1'1'via1l.e, then
ope11in.g§ hie iiret budget in the 1-Iouee of C3on11no11e, gave notice of
his intention to b1‘ing; in, at the ne;\:t ee:»3eio,n, at bill for‘ lll1I)eJ£3il’l§g,‘

ietantxp dntiee in Arneriea. Ilow tliie i1‘itclli.ge11ce was received by

the people of the Qoloiiioe, ILOW tlicy111ing;1e(’l withtlieir iiicfligmiztrit
complairite. p‘ropheci.ee of inr1epend<<:1:1ce, how they hecarne inad-
dened by the newe that the tliroatcnod hill liad received on the
22d of lvlarch, 1.765, the royal aeecnt and become a lmv,-~»~11mv
everywhere from Maeeacliueette to Greorg;.i.a, the people, hy every
form of popular czstprceeion, gave ntteraricc to their lIldigllfl:lJi.C)1].,
compelling atamp-dietrihutere to rceign their co1'11n1ieaio1a1e, and
the Parliament itself to retrace its ete1'>e,-»- those are the i'a1niliar
recitals of that heroic period. It is more to our preeent pnrpoee to
refer to the fact that this outward turbulence wae fruit and eign
of an intel].ectna1 and moral agitation not lees proi’on11d,——-that
principles of government took form rapidly in the popular mind,

paroneiiig the spirit of liberty, and giviilg to the intellectual per»

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ceptione and the inetincte of men, that keen insight which enm-
bled them to clieeerii clangeri11ideee ae really as in facts, and made
them as eager to clenieiicl the renuiicietioii of 21 principle as to re-
clreee it grievance. The indignant speech of Col. Ieeac Barre, in
the I-Iouz-3e of Oonnnone, denouncing the injustice and enorniity of
British oppression, we are told by the liietorian, was within three
montlie familiar in every New El1g'l.£tI1d town, euggeetirig those im-
mortal associations, known as. the Sons of Liberty. These were
tl1e icleee, these were the discussions, and this was the temper,
which, in the decade precediiig the Revolution, our eceetore
b1'ougl1t with them to the settlement of this town. Tlieee were
the theniee of which they talked when, eiiepericliiig their lebore in
forest or field, they etc their frtigel noon—d21.y meal, or when, in the
long eve1“1inge of their northern winters, they set in iieighborly
converse around their lioepitelole lieertlrs. This wee tlieir dieei~
pline for the lionoreble pe1't which they bore in the Revolution, and
contributed to give them tliet i11tell,ec‘tuel breedth end vigor, eml
that lofty devotion to liberty, which iiiecle the founders of the Ite-
publie imniortel.

Anotlier of the outward occeeioiie, reacting on the inner life
and deterniining the clierect-or of our eiiceetoie, may be found in
that renierlmble local controversy whicli geve being and indepe11cl-
enee to the State of ‘Ve-rn:1ont. Tliie town wee settled, and rose to
C-onei<.le1'etio11 end influence, while that controversy wet; etill pend-
ing. Grovernor Golden of New York: lied ieeued 21. p1'oclama.tio1'1,
clei111i.ng the Connecticut 1‘1lV(‘.‘1‘ tie the oeetern. bo1111tle.ry of that
eoiiiewliet eznhitious province, and repelling the ju.ri.eclictlon zmcl
the g1'a.11te of Wentwortli of New I€[a.111pehi1'e, en this side of that
river, am .2111 iniportiueiice encl 11s111'pz1taion. Gove1'11or \Ve;ntwortl1,
the1*efo1'e, on the 13th of l\Ierc11, 1764;, to e*up]_;>reee zuixiety on it

point so vital, issued in reply hie in-moue proclemetion effirn1:ix:1g.

the rights of those who held vlttlldts ulidor his (3l.12lt].'l301.‘S. But the
question wee not to be so eettled. Governor Golden lied. eppceled
to imperial i11terve11tion, and on the 20tl1of July, in the eeine
year, the Kingl in council issued the order, wlioec einbiguoue
ter1ne, fevoreble to the preteneioiie of New York, precipitated the
quoetion of titles, arid opened thet iiicinorztble civil war, which,
eurviving the Revolution, resulted efter more tlien 3. quarter of 21
century of comniotioii, in the ztckno\vledg1'nent by New York of
the independence of Vermont. I mill not on tliie occasion to be

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the historian Ofi111&tGOni31'OVG1’Sy,-— I need not be- All Vermonters
know the story by heart,---how, with the supposed support of the
King, New York attempted to enforce its claims, sonietinies by the
illusion of soothing“ words, sometimes by the processes of civil‘
tribunals, and sometimes by threats and force of arins,---how,
when the authority of the King was supplanted by that of the Con-
gress, New York invoked the shelter of Coiigi-essioiial approbation
for the continuance of its warfare, weakening the common resis-
tance to British domination, by its persevering attempts to impose
its own yoke on the necks of our fathe1's,---liow out of this tur-
moil in which resistance and riot were widespread and character-
istic, arose the fair fabric of social order, the birth of the State,
and its assertion and maintenance of independence,-—- how the
boundaries‘ of the State expanded, now on the New Hampshire
side, and now on the side of New York, until, extending from the
interior hills east of the Connecticut to the lofty Adirondacks far
west of Lake Champlain, they embraced double our original ter-
1'ito1'y,--~—how treachery used the name and iniluenee of "Washing-
ton to despoil us of these magnificent acquisitions by promises
which were a delusion and a cheat,--how, in fine, against New
I-Iampshire, against Massacluisetts, agaiiist New York, against the
Ooiigress and against G-reat ]3r:itain, our fathers carried on their
controversy to final triumph, not only winning their own in-
dependence, but by the power of their arms and the skill of their
diplomacy, coiitrrilaiitiiig largely to the successful result of the
Revolution itself ;---- this, all thi.s, period of heroes and demi-gods,
all "Vermonters know as the traditions of their households, and the
epic of their hearts. I need not repeat the story. But it is to my
purpose to remind you of the power of events like these in form-
ing the character of the iirst generatioii oi‘ the inhabitants of this
town. For more than a quarter of a century,-—-—~ for one--fl:'>uJ;'tIi of
the whole period of the town’s exiistence,--thx;‘.~.se grave topics were
of incessant and pressing interest, touching the very frame—wor1c
of society, the rights and security of property and the liberties of

the citizen. {Important as a political centre, distinguished as the N

place where the i‘13bfLi3€3ig'0Ve1'l1111B11t was matured and ioiggaiiized,
this town felt the full force of these agitatioxis, and grew up to
maturity and strength marked by all those ieaturesof vigilance,
courage and determination, which, among a free people, are the

natural offspring of a ‘period of commotion.

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But the peace of 1763 issuing in the settlement of the New
Hampshire grants,—-—— the assertions of Parliamentary authority is-
suing in ‘American independence,--~ the contest with New York
issuing in the O1‘g‘iL11lZfl.tlO11 and independence of Vermont, how--
ever much influencing the character and condition of our ances-
tors, were in their own nature temporary causes. The settlement
of this town was coeval lwith other inoveinents, less ininiediately
and less noticeably potent, but more enduring‘ in their influence,
and destined in a century to effect unprecedented changes in the
character of civilization itself. As our ancestors felt the first, so
their children have felt the continuous force of those inoveinents.
If our ancestors were on the outerniost fringe of the regions in-
habited by the English colonists, they were homogeneous in char-
acter with their fathers and inothers, brothers and sisters, neigh-
bors and friends, whom they had left behind in Massachusetts and

Connecticut. Intercourse of families was frequent, and was con-

tinued to a period within the ineinory of persons now living.
“Blood is thicker than water.” The settlers brought with theni
the very names of the towns from wliich they came, and re-«created
in these wilds the municipal institutions to whose spirit they were
trained. The mould of old society was recast complete in identi-
cal fornis, and Vermont was not inaptly styled the “ New 0011-
necticut.” Great nzxovernents, affecting the Whole English mind of
their time, reached, therefore, and stirred our ancestors in the
coinxnon mass, determining not alone their drift and bent, but the
destiny of their posterity. Let us go back, then, and contemplate
some of. the signal forces which came into play with our own his-
toric period, and have operated in the great changes of a century.

I take first the religious, because it is most central and most
powerful in deterinining the character and destiny of society.
The tendency of the English mind in the earlier part of the eight-
eenth century was to stagnatioii. The political torpor of the pe-
riod of "Walpole had its counterpart in the realm of religion. Po-
litical corruption had its other self in religious decline and indif-
ference. Olmrcliinaii and Dissenter were alike in spiritual sleep.
The deadness of Old England ‘was the almost equal paralysis of
New England. Then it was that there and here,as if by the same
breath of the Almighty Spirit, a new life was kindled, whose glow
spreading beniiicently from heart to heart, was to change the face
of the world. John Wesley, the leader and organizer, George

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Whitefield, the great preaclier, and Charles Wesley, the seiupliic
singer, represent in Old England the origin of the new moveinent,
as in New E11g‘l£t11C1 do Joimtlian EdWa1'de, the unmatched meta-
physician and tlieologien, leader of the (:lo11g1'egatio11e1ists, and
Isaac Backus, leader and historian of the Baptists. The settle-
ment of this town was coeval with the no longer disputed sway
of this nioveinent. Its force was felt here, in the character of the
original churches of the town, the deer Old South, mother of us
all, formed by the very first settlers, and the Baptist formed under
the shadow of Ascutney in 178~i$‘*‘ Its force was felt throughout
the State, determining the type of prevailing‘ religious thought
and feeling, entering into the most vital sources of C:l1l11‘EtCt@.1‘, and
contributing as a. chief cause to the distinctive elements of Ver-
mont life; As in Old England so in New, tlict movement inter»-
penetrated all Protestztnt Christianity, ' estztblislied or dissenting,
giving birth to those forms of evnngelicztl mud pliilztntliropic activ—
ity which have sheltered orpliens, which have softened the severi-
ties of prisons, "which l1£W'G suppressed the slave-t1'ocle, and tvliicli
now encircling the world with missions, curry everywhere the gos-
pel with Anglo Sexoii inigmtioii, raise bnrba.rous tribes to civilize-
tion, and lift up the cross amid the old idolzttries of India, China
and Japan. Religious in her own life and mzniiiers, Vermont, true
to her ancestral training, has been in full sympathy with the most
fruitful forms of Ohristnin life and activity. The faith which
watched over her cradle has heen the i1,1Eipl1'iLl3'.lC)1l of her lristory.

t The second of the movements, coevel with the origin of the town,
and becoming 9. permanent force in its history, to which I liave ed~
verted, nieyt be termed the litemiry. Above the capitol at Rome
stands the old church of Are Ooeli, where once stood a. temple of
Jupiter. On the 15th of October, 1'7 651-, the ztutnmn of the year of
the settlement of Windsor, Ciibbon “ eat Iznusing eniid the ruins of
the capitol ‘while he:L'e-footed i'riu1'sI,vve1*e singing vespers” in that
ancient shrine,l—- and there, amid the 111€:liLllOl10ly' monnn1ents_oi' de-
cay, he conceived the idea, of his great work on the Decline and

* Without other inforu1a.tion I adopt the date of Apslund. The Rev.
John Peek became pastor of the cliurchio. 1785. The remova.l to the village
of this congregation occurred in 1814, under the ministry of the Rev. J oshne
Bradley. Tliey met in the Court House until the building of their church
which was completed and dedicated in 1815. ~ , t I

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Fall of the Roman Empire, of which the first volume appeared
in 1776. I make this reference not alone for the coincidence of
the dates, but because the appearance of this work belongs to an

era in the literature of our laiiguage. (}olds1nith’s sad life had

come to its end in 1774:. Hume died in 1776. Robertson, J clin-
son and Burke were in the midst of their powerand activity. To
this period belong the speeches of Chatham, the invectives of Jun-
ius, the rhetorical Lectures of Blair, and the Criticism of Kaines.
In 17 76 Cowper, emerging from insanity, turned to poetry,- and
“ from, a 1naniac’s tongue was poured the deathless singing."

Burns had written his earlier poems, and was soon on the high-
road to immortal fainc.

Now it is to my present purpose to say that the new literary ac-
tivity of that period, with the return of peace, sent its welcome
influences into these wilds,’ and helped to form the first generation
who were natives of this town. Our ancestors, catching the new
intellectual spirit, added the best books of the period to the best of
periods preceding. To Shakespeare and Milton, Addison and Pope,
they added Ciroldsmitli and Gibbon, Cowper and Burns. Then
came Byron to be the rage as are Tennyson, Loiigfellow and Low»
ell now. The Circulating Library was necessarily the great re-
source, and Itreineniber the wonder with which, in my childhood,
I looked on the long lines of books which still crowded the library
shelves in‘ the office of Luther Mills. It was before the period of
great 1nanufact111*i11g and commercial towns, and the distinguislied
culture of the period was then more than now in interior country
villages. ‘* Windsor was so early a centre of political influence, of
wealth and refinen1en_t, that it may have been special ainoiig the
towns of Vermont for its intellectual development; and yet, I am
certain, froin my knowledge of other towns, that it was no more
than first among equals. The distinguished physician before me
at this moment (Dr. Edward E‘. Phelps) was, like myself, a Wind-
sor boy, and when I say that it was from my inother, a Wl11dSOl!
woman, born in 1788, with a VVindsor education only, and inarried
at eighteen, that I learned to revere Addison, to love Cowper and
Burns, and how to study Shakespeare, he will bear witness that I
do not relate an e:-.:perie11ce which was uncommon. Our fathers
and mothers had come within the current of their time, and they
were borne along by its sweep. They read Afewer books, but they
read good books and read them better. The young men and young



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ally nanvigatecl the wa.ters of the Goxmecticxmt betwecm Oxford amt Fairlea.
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gained imperishable renown by their early and superior success in
this country in the use of steam, and an English youth with an
American heart, Samuel Slater, apprentice of Strutt and Arkwright,
came over instantly from his apprenticeship, in 1789, bringing a
whole cotton mill in his head, to establish cotton manufacturing
in Bhode Island, with the most perfect success, at the end of the
year 1790. * ,

In such a period Wi11dso1' was planted. On the distant front~
ier, ‘ unfavorably situated by lack of large water-power for great
manufacturing enterprises, and destined to lose in rivalry with
towns of superior local advantages, Windsor felt the sweep
of the common movement, and while the first generation of her
sons were still at the zenith of their activity, sought to repair the
lacks of nature by improving the navigation of the Connecticut,
and gathering up the waters which descend from the slopes of
Ascutney. The waters of the Connecticut, diminished in the
steadiness of their volume by the opening of the country, made
the struggle for improving navigation hopeless. The old flat-
boats of our ancestors one by, one disappeared. A disappointed
and melancholy horse-boat, as complicated in its machinery as the
wheels of Ezekiel’s prophecy, went to decay on Phelps’ meadow,
and a solitary steamboat, constructed, as awestern boatman would
be likely to say, “for the navigation of heavy dew,” once found
its way to Windsor to tantalize the hopes of our citizens. It was

 

Of this steamboat, which had its machinery in the bow, Samuel took the
model to New York and showed it to Fulton, who was experimenting towards
the same end. Fulton was pleased with the worlt, and suggested to Morey
to change the machinery to the middle of the boat. This he returned to
Iiairlee to do, and this he actually did do, and then took his model again to
lriexv York, to find that Fulton had made use of his ideas and was ahead of
him. He returned home disappointed, and with a sense of injury. Such is
the tradition as given to me. Mr. J.  Simoiiils,‘ of the Windsor House,
informs me that he himself has seen in Fairlee pond the remains of l\'Iorey’s
boat. ‘

* Besides the cotton mill, young Slater brought in his memory from Eng-
land the Sunday-schools of Robert Baikes, then just established. For his
own work~peop1e he established a Sunday-school at Pawtuoket as early as 1792
or 1793, giving it, however, a more permanent character in 1796. ’I‘his was
the first Sunday-school in blew England. The Sunday—schoo1s of Windsor
were established at the old South in 1816, at the Baptist in 1818, at the Epis-
copal Church in 1819, and at the Methodist in’--1868.

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not till. a later day, fresh in the recollection of many, that Paine
and Follett, themselves to fall under the weight of their burden,

became leaders of the great enterprises which were to bring the ,

fruitful advantages of the railroad to Windsor, and to put Ver-
mont into the connnon relations of American industry and pro-
gress. T w

I have thus, fellow—citizens, sons and 'daugl1ters of Windsor,
attempted to set forth before you some of the events, coeval with
the settlement of this town, in which our ancestors had a deep,
personal concern, and which reacted innnediately on their charac-
ter, and to indicate some other inoveinents coeval, more general in
their operation, which, as permanent causes, have contributed to
shape and determine the destiny of siicceecliiig generations. It
would be an agreeable task, if it were a task possible for this
hour, to record with ininuter exactness the deeds of our ancestors
which illustrated their character, and to trace their influence in a
coinpleter history of their children, But I am not to attempt his-
tory, and must make only such f1,1_rt11e1‘ historical references as
may aid the imagination in filling out a picture necessarily incoin~
plete.

Within the first third of its history Windsor had become the
first town in the State, first in wealth, and distinguished for the
public character of its leading men. Here, in 1777, at the very
niornent of Burgoyne’s proud and menacing advance, was framed
and adopted the Constitution of the State. Here often met the
historic men of Vermont,——»- one-eyed Col. Toni Clhittenden, the
cool Washington of our troubled councils; Tichenor, the fine
gentlenian; Ira Allen, restless projector, ambitions of literary dis—
tinction; Royal Tyler, jurist, poet and wit; Stephen R. Bradley,
sagacious and imperious statesman, and other notables whom I

have not space to I11£~3I1lJiO]'1.' Legends of the Parxnelee House

(you call it in its changed condition the Ascutney Iffouse) pre-
serve traditions of their inirth and revelry as they turned from
themes of state concern to iniiigle socially with their lVindsor
friends. A coininercial it centre, likewise, here were cliief iner-
chants, such as Allen Hayes and G‘renera1s Curtis and Forbes, who
gained fame and fortune in Windsor. , » _.

With growing wealth came the power‘ to gratify a cultivated
taste. The old architecture was the bestrof its time. The ]?ar-
melee House was built in 1786. Its spacious, open porch,

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Witlx stately pillows, zmcl its amolxecl a11cl c01‘11icec1 (:l£l.1].(31'.11‘£3'~1‘OOl11 {all
gone now) were esL1'l.y eigm of n.dVeuc:ing l11x111'y. ’Il‘he principal
clwellings, with ample g1'ou11ds. anal a.b011ncli11g folriage, were large
e.1:u;I. lmncleolnel Old. So11th.., erected in 1798-, was, in its; o:rigi1:u11
f-01111, a, fine s,peolme11 of the ch.u1*cl1 a1'ol.1itectu1'e *ivl1icl1 New Eng-
lzmcl lmcl developed from the E11g'lisl1 1nocle1e of Sir Ol1ris3t_opl1e1-
'W1’e11 and l'1;iepupile. It 11.9.3 been sadly 1112/u:re(.l by the olmzngee
Wl1iel1 eontmotecl i.t.€~: clzimeneiozo s. The Bapti:~3t Calmzroh, 1rem;*ecl
in 1815, chiefly at the expenee of G-e11em1 l3‘o1*bee, XVELB 1'a.tl;1e1'
ettbetexxtiel tl12m elega11t,——- a11.<;l yet its o1‘iginal pulpit, lofty mod
enoloeecl, cojpying; the {l110i€:11l3 pu1_pit of I31’. Ba.1clWiI1’e G11l1~.1'C‘.l1 in
Boston, was in the moot po1rfeolt .<styl.e of ita clay. Lo11g-ago the
_15'_)11]1)Il‘l'; gave place to mocglem i11ve11‘tio11ra, zmal HOW tllext the old
ohu1'el.1 itself l1a.:a_bee11 a.ba.m;lo11ecl for one 111o1'e 111C)(';l(:'él‘11 and con-«
Venient, I 11m.y olm'.111 the fO1'g'i.V€*11-9.33 of at eiglx tlmt the eh,1'i11e to
Whielx my i1‘1f:3.nt feet were led, ooneecmteil by the xxxlemory of my
pa.1~e11te, 1"E.*I1T1£ti1'lSl no 1o11g‘eJ: to we-.l<;:o111e my 1'et1.11‘11. 'I‘he Episcopal
Ohurell, built :Ci.—13011l': 18%, not .s;t1'll:i11g'ly eooleeiaéstimtl in its type,
11213 always eeemecl to me, neve;-tlxeleee, a. e1'e21.tio11 of genilme, simple
ancl h.su'monioue in. its besmty, mlcl mrely equalled in st1'uyot1:11*e:=3 of
its clues. Tl1e first or11zm1e11te1 trees of the village were in the spa-
cious grounds about the. silwellings. Of tlzeee sonm were e.lJ:e£~u1y ven-
e1.~a.ble  my boyhoocl. I think the lofty trees in the Imue, j not as
you croes the 1~eily1road, were planted about 1818. ’l.‘l1ere 'ws:1.o it
passion for tree plzmting fro1n 1817 to 18530 which I well 1‘eme111be1'.
There were pla.11te::l large 1‘.1u111be1'e of nmplesa in the :=:st1*eets. In
1817 my fetlle-1' brotxglxt in his lmnd from G‘re11eml St-::>no’e plain,
aml plantecl the pine whose lofty t1r1mk 211141 :3l1ag;gyl1eadlyyo1y1 of
this gene1'ation have been awcc1mto1neLl to see at the 11o1'tl1—weet cor-

ner of the Pa.-1-melee I-Iouee, which thell, olxsmged to private dwell-“I

ingza, haul become his residence. I 111ies it to-ola.y, o1}1<;l feel it pong
at its loss. ’I‘l1e garden:-‘slof-Wi11dsso1' were bea.1:1til’1”1l at an elerly
period.’ Mr. Eve:rett’e, eo justly your pl-icle, lxmfl its 1:i~m1 soon
after the war of 1812, in the ga.mle1'1 of Capt. Dunham. These all
were sigma of the o“L1lttivet.io11ofytoete in VVi11::lso.r;~—- flllsil as the
tmneitiolx to :=sooi.ety is eaey and 1mtuml, it is fitting for me to say’
that, with lznowleclge of society in my own. oncl. in other lands, I
l1f<‘i.-‘V8 11owhe1'e meet‘ men” and women of more gentle breeding and
manners than I recall with my lnemznries of Windsor.

Windsor lxes been distinguibehed by eminence in the profes-

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sions. The ge11tlema.11 (Dr. Phelpss) who declined to preside over
our feaf,iviti.es to-clay "that he might take his place among l1is’com~
mcles of the war, brings l'1'on1 21. mmote period in the llistory of
tltte town a. profesaiorxal 11-Lune, ihlld 11o11o1‘s Windsor by his OW11 il-
lustrioua pJ:ofesaio11a;l life. Wl1entl1e I~te'v. Lelancl Howaral, 'l3l‘.l.€-3
]3a.ptis't pam:-01', whose genial spirit and pure cl1a;mcter I112ulel1im
EL 1‘a.vo1‘:ite with all -Wixxdsor people, lmcl ret.i1'ed from his first min-
izs't1'y l1ei'e, he was :succeecle.cl in 1823 by '-'t0n1e0 Elton. J 01311
Wlleeler lmcl sttcceoded Bzmcrof't Fowler at the Old South, anal
Geolrge Le0;m3.1'cl wms still 1'ect0r0f St. Paul’a. Windsm: VMS at
the height of it»; 1e2trn.i11g and refirm-xn1e11t, and it wzfvs the pride of
itzs citizells tlmt the zsselmlzmrly cultural-3 w11icl.1 ::mc1or11e.<_l its pulpit at
that time 1'a.ised it to ]_)1'c—e111i1w1‘1cc-3 21.11101‘: g tlw towms of New Engu
lzmcl. And tlm l:>a.l' 01’ VViI1cl:sc>r was. not less clist.i1'1guj.&sl“1ecl. It
was c:111i11e1'1t be.fo1'e the cl‘orscs of the e,ig1t1tw11t11 ce11t'.111'_y. It llmzs
e1nb1'acex.l 1nex111‘)e.rs Llisti11g1:1ial.u~3cl am jm.-irsts 311:1 2u.cllvc)csztte:£.4,--— men
who luwe C>(5(3I1l).i£)—dl3l1t3 13311011 ztml lillesd civil st:-ttiom3wit11 1101101‘.
'.[‘0p-Clay, ;you1'a.s xnom tlmll lmlf, by <l<:a::4(:(;311t or 11'1ill1IJ.‘J:i;Lg,‘¢EB, and by
1‘e.aiCle211oe in the nlozst be£mti;f111 j[m1't ml‘ the year, we g1'eztt lawyezmaz,
m;:l:110\v1udgeclp lcxztclonrra of t’l.;10 l;nft1' of L111-3 U1.1i.teLl ffltamtem, 0110 of
wlmm by ‘t-116 £w(Jl2'L111£tti()11£$ of 1'lii:~1 <:<:>1.111t1'yn1e;1;z, sspez%ukz5 at tlmirs 110111‘
in P11i1acle1pl:1izL tlw pmtiscz c:>.l:' om: libc*a1‘l‘.y tar: tlm ea]: of the \v0r1d."‘

Eiclrmolaa 1'0:-:50 with. the» town, ms tlmy «.1111 t::ve.1.'ywl1(—21'e in Vex»
131C)11l7,-~];')1.11lf.)].i0 an-.11<::o1s, ziuul private: sc.21.u:><._)l.<3 01’ lligllel‘ g1’:-tde. I
lmcrw my own 1Tl'J.(i'.l.‘1"1()1‘i(3fr'»--~~»lJ].l.i.tlJ am c-mly ma létéiltl I W:-1.53 in Capt.
D1111lmt1;n.’za l.':r1.1m.n‘1t;~'. f;$!;‘.11(.“)(I1],--~-Hlitl) :i..11 tluir;-5 r:w.l'10o1 'we1'e pupi.1s f1'c)n1
(‘leo1'gi2.t, zmcl l’1:c)m the frc>1;11'.i.o.1* n‘1ilillzL1:y1.'»r)z~st of tlm l'a.1:-011‘ Debmilw,
--- sjmtl tlmt n.1:uom_2; tlw pupilz:1 wu1'c: 1.2110 .lu,t4;;: e:1:11i:1.'m11t C511i,ea‘,t' .Tt11rst-icere
Belllowrs of Nenv I*I.m11pr»s11irta, a.11«fl om ml‘ cmr own tz:nv11m.:~ae1'1 oi‘
wlwm we i:l~‘.L'(;) p:1.'m.:u,:1, tho clistixugtjtcisslmfl czlmxxmt, Allgtxrstxtas A.
Hztyea. I‘I¢.-am, lilmwir-39,, l1m’ltl.:m:c‘x1 t.m.1g,*,11t :3, little) em-rlie.:1' tlxzm lillitis
t-116;: latte Clrlief J mst;ioc> Sn1mo11~l1’. Cllmm, wl'1<;'nva.r:s it Cxzmmisxlm boy.
T<::>tl;1is 53011001 omne ymmg lzmxilicarsz 01’ t £t1‘.i E%l3l)C*l'$?£»l‘»i(: oc;11ne.¢ati(>J;1s:4, *w].mn1
my dim 1'e.co1l.ec3ti0ra. :mrm.11:§ in ixlmgczss of 8tat.ely lZ)(.‘!£t1ll1ay. At I’ms—
iclent l.\Io11roe’rs visit to VVi1:uflr-301', tlmy :e41‘1ameCl in the l:mJ.1<m3 of the
1'e;n3e1j>t.i.o11. T119 m.::Zl1r‘)c>l '\v2m tlm p;1:i.<j.l<;:-. wt.‘ t-I10. tmvn, zmcl wlmn Capt-.
Imnlmm <3lc3£3£3<‘Zl it to trm.1r~:+sl'0:L' l1i11'1m2lf t0 L£3X.i1‘l§;‘l':O11, l‘§;¢mt11cl:y, it
glory (l€*.pfl.-1‘t(3L1 fron1 :;L111<;>1:1g 11:3.

* ’1‘11e Hon. William M. Iflvamta and E. W. St011gl;1l01:1, 1'1}-3q., of New York.
l\Ir. Evarts cleliverecl the Centennial Fourth of J 11]y‘O1'a0tiO11 in Plniladelphia.

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The newspaper press belongs to the intellectual life of VVind-

tsor. Ooevel with its history, it has always been respectable end

influential. In 1812 it gave an editor, Sylvester Churchill, to
the army, and from Lieutenant he rose, by merited promotions, to
the rank of Brigadier General, winning his last promotion at
Buene Vista, and performing his last 0' service, in extreme old age,
in the mustering in of the 75,000 troops summoned first by Presi-
dent Lincolnfl‘

These 1‘2L1.')lCl historical references, imperfect at best, would be
essentially lacking, if they enrbreoed no allusion to mechanical
sncl agricultural industry. Herein early times lived and worked
Martin Cheney, famous here and famous in Cariade for near a.
half century, whose clocks were the pride of Vermont households,
and to-day are precio s lieir-looms. Some of them told, not only
the hours, but the clays of the month and the changes of the
moon,-—» and some of them had musical accompeiiinieiits, with a.
tune for each day of the week, piously inclined to e meditative
air on Saturdays, playing St. Me1'y’s on Sundays, but at Sunday
n1idnigl1t,':J.sif impatient st so loiig restrein't, starting of in joy-
ous glee with “ Over the wet-er to C3l1erlie.” Superior cabinet
work was executed hero, and when Ul1l11‘Cl1-O1‘g2t11S were little used
in country towns, very nearly or quite fifty years ago, two of
your churches, the Episcopal end the Baptist, lizul organs built in
this town by Mr. Hedge. Furniis tell their own story, and it is e.
vindication of the ugriotlltiire of the successive generations tliet
the i‘erms of the town lmvc improved with the lapse of time.
Nine years ago, with an elder brother, I visited "Windsor that we
might look once more on tliesceiiesof our boyhood. We esce11d~
ed the interior hills of the town (for Windsor end West Windsor

nu...-

* The first newspaper of the town, and the first permanently established
newspaper of the State, was the Vermont J ournel. Simeon Icle, Esq., pres-—
ent et this festival, in advanced age, became a‘.pp_renticed to Farnewortli -3:
Churchill, in the office of the Vermont Republican, in 1809. Arriving at
manhood he purchased the paper, and added to its original title that of
American Yeoman, brought with 3. paper of that name from Brattleboro.
The Vermont Itepublican and American Yeoman was conducted by him with
ability and honor for many years. The Wa.shingtonien was a. Federalist
paper, edited by Capt. Dunhasm at about the time of the mu-‘or 1812.
The Vermont Chronicle, e religious j ournel of high character, was publish-
ed for long :2. period at Windsor. ‘

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89.

were all one to our memory and our love), and threaded the interior
valleys. A soft sun-shine‘ was on the landscape, and refreshing
breezes played over woods and fields. Everywhere we met signs
of improved agriculture, of thrift and comfort, of contented and
prosperous industry. It seemed as if the peace of God had come
down to dwell in the habitations of men.

How many memories of Windsor characters now crowd upon
my mind, and ask for records which I have no space to give. How
the men reappear who walked these streets more than fifty years
ago and impressed the imagination of my boyhood,——-—-*Creneral
Curtis, restless, eager man of aiiairs,-—— General Forbes, whose
quiet, natural dignity led every man that met him to giye him the
walk,---- John Leverett, gentleman and scholar, whose old-fashioned
coach, opening at the rear, brought, every Sunday, the family to
church, leaving him and one or two daughters at the Baptist, and
depositing Mrs. Leverett and the rest at the Old South,—-- Judge
Hubbard, whose thoughtful face told the world of law he carried
in his head,--~Dea. Coolidge, grave, sagaeious and honored citizen,
-7-Dr. Isaac Green, who dispensed prudential maxims with his heal»
ing drugs,— Captains Lord and Ingersoll, the one a sturdy and
bluif, the other an urbane and polished sailor,»-~Jeudge Hunter, in
whom it did not require the eye of a grandchild to see a serene and
majestic nature. Drs. Trask and Torrey belongedto this class of
older and old men,--- a class which might include other names as
well. Horace Everett, Asa Aikens, Carlos Coolidge, Frederic and
John Pettes, Shubael and Allen Wardncr, the latter your patriarch
to-day, the others all dead, were in their vigor or prime. Edward
and George Curtis, William Guy Hunter, Charles Forbes, Isaac
Watts Hubbard, Francis E. Phelps, Simeon Ide, the last, in old

, age, honoring us with his presence at this hour, the rest nearlyall

departed, were younger or young men. Some of them were wits
who made Windsor resound with their humor. Edwin Edgerton
had just come totown from Dartmouth; Thomas S. Fullerton and
Albert G. Hatch came a little later. All were well-known Wind-

sor characters ;—--and how easy to extend the list. How, too, events i

come to my memory,—--- the burning of the old Tontine in 1818,
and the solemn patrol of the village when ineendiaries were about.
A recollection more agreeable than that of these conflagrations is
the visit of La Fayette in 189.5. Near the Cornish bridge I stood
by the side of the barouche in which he entered Vermont, when

 

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C01. Jesse L111], the 13105-sh couzrtly _m::L11 in Windzsor, 1nou11'ted on 3,
bay lxrpme, gave him so welconm, zmcl 1.11011, lezmcling; the ea3co1't,
b1'ough'b him t111'011g11 t11ro11ging 111111ti.tude2'. to the balcony of Pet-
tes’ Coffee House, and, in the siglfls of the great crowd, 1:»1'e:se11‘bec1
him to O<:>r11e.1ius P. V'a..11 Nose, C~'rove1*11o1: of tin: State, who lnwl
001119 fro.n1 Bm'1i11gbon to 1'c<3ei.v0 him.---~B11t I 11111513 not 1’l111 the
risk of wea1'yi11g you with personal 1'0co11ectio11s w1'1ic.a11 llzwo t11<::i1:
int-0.1:e:~3‘o for a, few only who linger from dep::u:tcd genc1'z:LtioJ;1ss.

'I‘he n1i1it:;u'yh:isto1‘y of Wi11d:3or belongs zu11ong the osssonliztl
thczxxzxcs ‘of t11:i:~s day. I could wish my lmcnvledgc of it n1o.1.'o <':o111-
pletze. The fzznm of Seth \Va1'11e1"s 1'ogin1011twa.s s11zm1'e«1 by 111011
of this t-own. After the Imttlos of Loxingto11 zm(.1 13111113201: Hill,
:nfte1* the cz.2.vptu1'e of Ticolxdcrogn. by Allen, C:.L]_:>i3. ulm G-1‘z'L11'b of
tlmt1*@g'i1ne11t ca,1.*11c in the :s1m1n1e1' of 17 75 to Wi1:Ldso1' for 1'<;-.cJ:1%1iL::;.
.A.m«;)1.1g ialaose who <3.111i.%t-ed 1111d<-3:1: him were .A:3z<L11(;~.1 S111iL1;1, J 01111
I-Iemt»11, Zenms Lull, J (M111-.1. S1zmyt011, mld VVi11i:a.n1 II1.11.1t.o1', the
last 11z1.111c:d onlistiltxg as seJ:goa.nt., and 1.>c:<:oJ:11:i.ug' tlzxe. oJ:dc1'1y of tlw
co1131;nu:1.y. L21yi11g dowll tlmir s5i(:1s:1<:::::,--—fO1'::L11 old 1‘1:u;'.1'z1.ti“ve :52.Lf::; it
v.«'m3 “1'e-apillg {;iu1e,”--- t»}.:z.c:y }_)ro<3c$e3dc‘:L1 to j<.)i1l ‘c.h<::i.1' 1'og.i11ic1"1b at
Cu_'mV11 I?‘o'i11t, zuguil, dosuc11di11.g H10 Lzblsze. to Ozgngmulzb, t<;)c>1<. }_'n;L1'b 11;; L1’i2.e
b3.'i1I:im1t c.v1:>e1'zfLi:-i«311:s which ms.-sL11t0d in the ca.pL11:1.'w of S12. J<.:1;u:x:s; mul

’1\I011t1'ezm1, a.11«:1i11 1-1%101.1ig.;11tc:.f (L‘m'1Lo1;1 to (L7 Lu;~.1:)<:zc. Yuu11;j3‘ II§‘;I111‘1~

f-521', 1211911 L‘. 'cs:11Ly-01.10 ;yc.\m-:5 of ago.‘-, ’vvm.2s zL«1:.%t':-r..c:].1<::d to L110 _}_)c1':~;'.m1 Q1’
C;i~m.1em1 1\I«.:'>i1:1l:.g:311.‘101.'§*, a.11c1 f<;>;r 11;i.:s g_;;oo<1 co11d1.‘1<3b at ‘£1.10 .2:i.c.~g¢3 ml’ 19*} is.
Jc:>%1.1m, 1'r3c:civ0c1%zL c:0111111i:5:si.u3.;1 :13 1i;mt LLi01.1t(:1l,1&,‘L111?. ’l‘ho t.imc.: 1'41):
Wllich. ‘£119. 11101.1 11i3.~d c111i.zs3b<2a1 11:wiJ;‘1g' Cr:-;_pi1'u.¢jl, IIui1:1{‘.r;>.1' oziuim 1i')z?L<I3k to
Wi11<fl:*sc;v1' in ])ecc11t1be1' of tlmis yc:z11' rfm.‘ 1110113 :I:c:«::.,r1L:ii:.s-.4. ’l‘1w1'o “vm:m;:
slim-3.w;1_y 111i1it»ia, 0o1;1‘11:Jzm11ii;~:3 in % ‘£3110 b("J'\V11 , m1Cl%t1'.u31.fe ‘it: 21. J:ec:<::n.'<1<;:f
tlle c11'i.l1oJ:' 0110 of 131:1un'1 lay‘ L%.i<":11t»e1"1::L1%1t l'Il‘l1i1bO1‘ aftczr 11iz~3 1'(;>t111:11 at
tvlmt ti1m3.“ Ilia; 33:1issic:»11 V«’&f:S .e:11<‘:c-.m:;::;1'111. 1i1u~J:],y i.11%JzLI1112u:*y, 17%},
011 {.110 bma,d Cm+'$tQ1'1‘1 $.3I<::1.‘)0 of “ tlw I.Ii.11” Q1‘ 11.1.10 'VV08t; 1§%’:L1'.i‘rsh,
whcwcz ‘Ljo—c'I:'1«_y g1'¢.3c311 fielcls snmile 1i11<flu1' 13110 stxlxltlmj:-M1111, 1;11¢:,a%:5s1&1mv
was ]A_yi1‘1g 61901:). 'I‘l.u::m, znt b]..u:«a ]:101.1ssu%c::f b':m111r.31 Rucnb, II1111i201'
m11s1;e1'e.d 1.11:4; 1'oc1'11it:2:, of w]1<;m1 z“u:<:: 1,>1'CSC§I.‘\~’(;3Cl tllm 1:m.111c:z=;~:. oi’ Iilbw 1:1,-
£E.3:?.&(&,‘J.‘ ]3Ic)i.&:i.11%gto11, I’1'1i11em.s I{.i11zm:1, J'c;:1111 IE1'cntI.1%, Joel '.I3L1t1c.~.1', Am
:'“'S111ez1<;1, J O1‘li'L{':11£'LI1. IIo<:L<g111a.11, mmd ‘ ‘ ml 01C,l01‘].y 1112:u1 11£z1.u<'::d E11'1—«
1.fx101m. ” ';I_‘I1e.':;o, \vitil%1 _1:u<.":1'11%z1.1::rs ms 11121-:11y 111o1'o, 111:: 1‘m1.:m::.1.1od zuvszmy ma.
m1c>w~—:s11<:>e.;s to b‘ls:ee11:e'.1301'o11gh, 11mv'\Vl1;it<:e1m11, w11e11c:o, <1e:sce13.c’li1.1g;
flue Lalm on t.1,1o;icc..~, t11<:»y 1‘ez'mhoc1_ 1.110 zu-v111y d<3:3ti11e:fl to C,3xJ.c:13cc::,
mzxcl fllxaflly 011can313ec1 011 the I’la.i11rs of Abmlxanx. In the cliaw

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ask-r0113 3:eb1*eat of the enas11i11g :spri11g, Wa1'11e1"’:ss 1'egi111ent ‘wars the
1msto11 the field, m1c11;:e.pt the 1'£3m:. It was on this 1'ebrc-mt that
Liemsc-mzL1'1t Ii[1111b01', discove1'i.1'1g an. sic}: O(;)1’Il'i.‘.$1'1 soldier who liad.
laxid down to die, i1'1spire<l with 110130 13110 Cie.s:pz.Li1'i11g u'm11’s 11ea1'!‘.,
mid, 1ii'ti11g him 011 liis hzwlc, caxwiczd him .t1:z..L'c:o miles to the baub-
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l\I2mjor J ozmb I~Ioisi11gt011, they ‘were of the t-Lroops who kept ]JEL(."31{
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’.'[‘1mt \‘Vi11d:sor “wms *’LJ.'1‘L0 to 11€31.‘11iSt01'i0 pri11cip1ers zmd J:enoW11 in
the late Mrvtxggle w11i<;:11 szmvmi tlm Union, a.nd gave us 2» Country

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unstained by slavery, is fresh within your knowledge, and eulogy
from one so unfamiliaras myself with your later history, would for
that reason be inadequate and unsatisfactory. Your sons and”
brothers went forth to fall as heroes fall, or to return to be held
in honor as you crown them with honors to-day. They are
here to the number of fifty, with their battle-fields inscribed
on their banners,—--- here bearing the marks of honorable wounds,
their names household words in the families of Windsor, and the
remembrance of their valor one of the sacred treasures which we
commit to the keeping of a grateful posterity. Among the sons
of Windsor meriting special honor was one, ”*‘ who, educated at
West Point, had ‘retired from military service, and at the breaking
out of the Rebellion was teaching in a, Mississippi College. The"
heart of \Vindsor beat in his breast, the blood‘ of'Windsor was in
his own veins and in the veins of his childrenl, and fighting his
way through difficulties grave and perilous, he shame back to-his
post in the army to render service which his townsmen delight to
honor. a p i _ \ V V

i And this allusion tothe war of the Rebellion justifies an allu-
sion to the political principles and the social questions out of
which it sprung. It was in our own town, in the year 1799, that
the legislature of Vermont, in response to the legislatures of Vir-
ginia and Kentucky, repelled the doctrines of nullification and
secession, by the identical arguments by which, thirty years later,
Webster replied to Hayne in the Senate of the United States, and
by which, after another thirty years, the Federal Government
aflirmed its majesty on the bloody fields of the civil war. One of
the earliest judges of Vermont, the eccentric Harrington, had de-
manded “ a bill of sale signed in the handwriting of the Almighty
himself,” as the only evidence of title on which he would restore
a fugitive slave, and in all their history down to the sundering of
the last chain, the sons of Windsor and the sons of Vermont have
been as true to the freedom of all men as the stars to their
courses. '

But I must pursue these grateful themes no longer. The past
is past. The dead sleep in their graves, and time moves on. We
follow in their steps, and transmit to our children the inheritance
which has come down to us. Change succeeds change, the present

 

*V Major Edward C. Boynton.

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perpetually holding in itself and sewing the seeds of the future.
One hundred years ago our ancestors were clad chiefly in the wool
and linen of their own flocks and fields. Erports of pot-ash, of
timber, and of their surplus agricultural products, brought back
the foreign conveniences and luxuries, few in number, in which
they indulged. Even fifty years ago the traveller through Ver-
mont, climbing our hills or winding our valleys by stage-coach,
heard at every i'arm~house, in the summer and autumnal months,
the whirl of the spindle and the click of the loom. The domestic
spindle and loom have passed away as effectually as the stage-
coach. It remains to be seen what shall be the influence‘ of the
new civilization on the production of men and women. We are in
the midst of the world’s great experiment. Améclée Thierry * tells

us that in proportion as Greece and Rome taught and felt the a

higher spiritual philosophy of Plato and his disciples, which
recognizes and exalts the inner life of man, manners were pu-
fled and civilization was strong, and that, in proportion as the
philosophy which found its principles and aims in external con-
ditions prevailed, manners were corrupted and civilization fell.‘
Our dangers, social , and political, are the dangers which come
froinsimilar sources, from luxury, and from the corruption which
luxury breeds. Be it ours to cling to that Divine Faith which
ennobles the human soul by its redemption by Jesus Christ, and
to the philosophy and the education which have their grounds
and motives in the nature, the duties and destinies of man immor-
tal. These are the foundations of an iinpcrishable Republic,-——— a
republic which exists not for oflice-holders and patronage, but to
maintain for its citizens the liberty of tlioiriglit, of worship, of in-
dustry and of commerce, in the establislied harmony of equal
rights, guarded by equal laws. It is not safe to predict the growth
and glory of the future. The Abbe Reyna], writing while our
Revolution was still in progress, and forecasting in a friendly spir~
it the destiny of our country, did not anticipate a possible increase
of our population beyond ten millionsfr nor any large attainments
of power or wealth. We are now more than forty millions, and
deem ourselves in the infancy of our development. To calculate

 

* Tableau de 1’Empire Romain.
i Si dix millions d’homrncs trouvent jamais une subsistence assume clans
ces provinces, cc sera b€&‘L'l.C0l$l}_).*-*'Ili¢lU0l?.6t'i0’fb dc Z’Amer-ique, pl. 169.

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'L1pO11'E$L101l it ratio of pregrees in popu1atio11 and wealth for enotller
century is to suppose the preee1'vetien and increase 01' intelligeiaee,
religion eI1d.virtue. The s11bsiete11ee 01' great p0p11la.tio11e, zmd
the etrength and glory of greztt empires, preeeecl from the inner
life of men and Women, mid are possible only‘ to the presence
and eontrol 01' euperior intellecttml zu.1<.l moral culture. To that
vast future whose dim. haze will not lift to our Vision, we ee111m.it
with hope our posterity, because we believe in God, in the univer-
sality of his laws, anal in the laenihgnmney 01' his purposes. One
1l1111C11‘€3(1 years from today we 551111.11 sleep with our fathers. But
the sun o11tl1:=tt mor11i:r1g will eome up its now over the Ocnsnieli
11i1l.<3, tinging first with his soft light the brow of Aseutney, aml
then ba.t11i11g nieeclow:-3, groves, zmcl fields with his eclvaneirrg; glo-
r_iee. May he shine on our chilcl1'e:u’e' ehi1<;1re11 ripe:n.er_l in all
knowledge -end virtue, the shield of Vermont etill resple11c1e11t
with £LCO11I11l11a13iI1g honors, the Republic still one, the fe1"tJ:eee of
freedom; encl the hope of the world.

POEM,

BY »‘:}()Iz()N 1\‘I(;)1U:1‘.1'SC)N, ESQ.

‘ NE-}3‘OUR’l‘1‘1' it century’e co111~ee has run,
"‘@* Since, gazing on the setting eun,
Wit-11 tearful eye, and throbbing heert._,

I did from '\Vinds<.u: lest depart.

O1:xe—fourt11 theeircling years, that ewell

The deeds your nation now can tell,

Have winged their way through heevexfe abyss,
And now divide that day from this.

How g1'ea.t the change to xnortal man I

How wide the gulf theeetyeare do spam I

I f:%u3.*e ’tis a dream, I am asleep,

Or, if awake, 0, Itmuet weep!

Yes, ’tie a. dream, and confused thoughts
Come coursing on in motley low.

I see the ghoete of fleeting years 1

I I {see them etere te raiee my fears!
% I hear the bells now tolling nigh,

And see the theeree go slowly by; %
And sorrowing friends, with measured tread,

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Now silent move behind their dead.
Hark ! ’t.is the chimes on Notre-Dame!
Pve heard them oft, the same, the same;
Strains of sweet music fill the air,

And bands of priests and nuns go there;
And coming here in eddying whirls, ‘
Are troops of little boys and girls ;

And now the cannon’s booming roar,
Starts me from sleep, I dream no more.

Yes, I’m awake, and this is I,

But, as I come, you passed me by ;
Though now, along your busy streets,

I see how friend with friend here meets.
None gave to me the outstretched hand,
And here alone, alone I stand.

If in a foreign land I were,

And unknown accents met my ear,

Then I could stand, without surprise,
The vacant gaze of strangers’ eyes ;
But in one’s native place to be,

And no familiar face to see,

This sure is sad, and in my grief,

A tear may fall to give relief.

Where are all those I knew full well ?
Whose every name I once could tell 1
Where’s Jones and Kelley, Hunter, West,
And Clark and Werdner and the rest?

“ Where’s J ones! oh, Jones, he’s far away,
But where he is we cannot say;

Ah, yes! but can it be ,
’Twas bounding o’er the billowy sear?
Or went he towards the westering sun,
Where fortunes oft are lost and won ‘P ”
Sees he to-day the light of heaven?
And breathes the life‘ to mortals given ?
Or has he long since passed away ?

You do not know, and cannot say.

And do you know where Kelley went,
Where he has, thus far, his life spent?
“ Yes, Kelley, he became a priest, e
And is, today, somewhere down East;

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In stately church he high niaeewgtreade,

And says his prayers, and counts hie beads ;
Sweet incense on his altar lmrne, =
And when unto his flock he turne,
Assembled round him, eilent, dumb,

He chants ‘flontinuie eobiec11.m.’ M”

Now where ieliunter, where went he ?

Lives he on land or on the eee?

“Now let us think ——~we this can state,
Hunter became an advocate;

He learned to twist and turnihe laws,

And find them sound, or full of flaws ;

To prove that four and three were eight,
That turning oft wee going straight,

To make a witnese tell a lie,

And swear an elephant could fly.

Being armed with this eupernal grace,

He found in Government it place ;

Since that he feree --- Well, like the rest,
Lives; fast and hee the very best.”

And where hee Clark gone, did you say ‘B
“ You’ll see him here this very day ;
In fact he’e here now on this spot,
’1‘is plain ’tie he, now, ie it not? ”
Well, since you my thet’e eurely he,
Then Doctor Clark that sure mnet be.
But now comes-z up the etmngeet thought
Of all thalfe to my mind been brought;
To look on one that I once knew, i
To gaze, and look, and etare him tliroughg
And then not know who he can be, , V
'l‘l1ough,in hie looke I partly heel
The old friend loet, but so coiuhined
"With eome one else, I cannot find
Where ends the old, or where 1;>eggiz1e
The friend that claims they both are twine.
And as we tellr, it seems to me, i i
I might at any Inoinent see
The old friend come, with out-etreehed hand,
And ask the new aeide to etend. i
So here I am a little niiiced,
By my twofriende I etand betwixt ;

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And if there should. diepute arise,
I xxiiist, of course, apologize.

Still further does this some thought: go,
If my old friend has changed so,
How have these years, with omverd tread,
Passed o’e1- my own devoted heed ‘S’
As; I came here I vainly thou:ght

, In all these years I ’d changed not;

But now, alas! I must agree,
That they have quite as much changed me.

But let me go now on your street,
Eiome old, familiar face to illeetv. ,
My shoes are Worn, so let me stop
At Mansfielde’ we11—1°eme:mbe1'e:;l shop.
‘_‘ At Maneflelcls’ shop! you sure forget -—-~
The J3/Ia11Sfi-91613 long eince paid the debt»
To Nature clue ; and you’ll now find

’ But few who have them yet in mind.”

Well, then I’ll loolz for something more ,'

‘Tia in I. W. Hubba:rcl’s store

1’ve pounds of tea. and coffee bought ;
He’e square and honest, and will not
Cheat one in weight, or give bad goods,
As others do in tricking moodza ;
Besidee, l1e’e pleas-mnt and polite,

And my wlmtever thing you might,
Against his price, against hie wares,
He always siiiilingly declares,

“ The price is low, the goods are fine,
If you don’t like them they’re still mine.”
“ But Hubbard long since laid his head
In yonder church-yard, with the cleacll”
Still on I’ll go, for I must fiml

Eiome that I have now in my iniiid.

I wish to look your sstatutee o’er,

That were in force liere long before
Your day or mine, as I’ve been told
Strange laws were made in days of old;
And Carlee Coolidge has them all.

So at his office let us call.

I see, today, his etately tread,

And hear, if anything he said,

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. The measured accents of his voice,

His exact speech and words of choice ;

And I have seen, end taken note,

The firm round hand in which he wrote.

“ But summefs suns have blazed in heaven,
And winter’s frosts the rocks have riven,
Since he has passed from life away,
Through death, unto the perfect day.”

Well, this seems strange, but on I’ll go,--

There are more yet I used to know;

One more I sure might call upon,

The Rev. Mr. Hutchinson.

On many a bright, Warm sabbath’s morn,
When fragrance on the winds was borne;
On stormy wintei-’s blnstering days,
When snows blocked up the drifted ways;
At eventide, when in the breeze

The angels whispered imong the trees;

At all these times, in earnest speech,

In yonder church I’ve heard him preach.
His deep convictions of the right

Gave to his words a cutting might;

And when he raised his voice in prayer,
0, then was mighty influence there I

And when his wants and thanks were given,
“ Our Father who art in high Heaven,”
In solemn accents from him fell

In tones few voices ever swell.

“ When this mortal shall immortal be,
And thou, as thonart seen, canst see,
Then shalt then, with the spirits eyes,
ties him ye seek, beyond the skies.”

But now I see, in long array, ,

The many others passed away,

Since last along these streets I went,

And towards the north my footsteps bent.
There’s Price, the 1eWye1', smart and young,
With nimble step and practised tongue ;
And‘ Merrifield, whose moderate speech
The words divided each from each ; ,
And John P. Skinne-r’s full, round face
I’d recognize in any place; i r

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And Shubael Wardner, who, with joking,
Would sell you tea, and wine and cloaking;
And others yet crowd thick and fast

On memo1'y’s page, and hurry pas-t.

“‘ Like as -the grass or fading -flower,

So is man’:-3 strength; itsfailing power,
The passing wi-I-ids, as they go o’»er,

Bear far away ———’tis known no more.”

Now go with me along dais read, ,

Whose winding course I have not trod
Since years -before these whitening hairs
Their color changed, through many ceres;
Sinceyears before my faih':.ngtstigh't
Required this aid to make it right.

Go with me now out ’mo11g the hills,

Whose preeerme all my being thrills.

They stand unohangecl through changing years,
And whatsoever be our fears 

That f1 iends may die, or, living, turn,

And from their presence us should epurn,
The hills change not; them I salute

With Salutation silent, mute.

Go with me then, and you shall see

The bleak, high hill, where used to be

My chi1dhood’s home ;‘ there stands, to-day,
The long, old house, gone to decay;

The winds sweep through the empty rooms,
To which no footetep ever comes ;

At mom, or night, or mid-day hour,

N o curling smoke is seen to tower

Above the square, old chimney top ;

And if ’ti1l evening we should stop,

’I‘hen we should see no friendly light

To cheer the gloominess of night.

Through fifty years now I’ll go back,

Upon my memory’s dusty track,

And place before you, here and there,
Who at that time our neighbors were.
First, just below that belt of Wood,
Beneath thetall, old elm-tree, stood
The dwelling of onegloab Lull,

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Whom some of you _reme1:nber well.

In summer, when the leaves were on,

We by no means could look upon ,
Our neighbor’e house; but autun1n’e frown
Would all the foliage scatter down;

Tilt‘-311 through the woods his friendly light
Did cheer us in the stormy night.

No other lights to us were given,

Except the starry lights in heaven.

Thus lived we there while years went round,
And each in each a helper found.

Thence, it across the fields one etrode,
Or further yet, went round the road,
Another neighbort-3 house one eeee,

Upon a ridge, behind some trees ;

A dark, thick clump of hemlock, epruce,
Through which the winds, without a truce,
Forever sigh; j net there for years

George Cabot lived ; and all his fears
Where, leet in word or deed he might

Go devious; from the path of right.

The Weedene lived not far away,
And I remember to this day
A eickly child, a little girl,
With thin, pale face, and teeth of pearl.
Like other children ehe played not,
But alweye set absorbed in thought.
Megrath and Spaulding, Blood and Hale, ,
On hill-top dwelt, or in the vale,
And others, yet, lived r,ound‘yebout,
Whose ne.rnee,if mentioned, would, no doubt,
Cell old thoughts up, and scenes of yore,
Of friende _deperted by the score.

But let me show you now the spot
Where my first lessons I twee taught.
N ear by the house of Stephen Towne, , ,
Where two small brooke come babbling down
From hills above, and onward flow , '
Through the broad meadow just below, ‘
Our school-house stood; ta1l,pop1a.rtreee,-

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Are ranged along beside the brook,

As Westward from the house you look;
Here, in the sultry summer-day,

At length upon my seat I lay ;

With book aslzew, and half-closed eyes,

I heard the buzzing of the flies ;

And saw the shadows on the floor

Slow creeping through the open door;
Green bushes round the room were hung,
The fire—p1ace filled; and all among

Were fading flowers, that had been sought

In fields, and to the sehool—house brought.

In winter time the fire-place blazed
With piles of wood on andirons raised.
And now be pleased with me to go

“ Out on the hill,” and I will show
Where, long years since, in lonely mood,
A gray, old church in Silence stood.

Just south, with gullies deep and wide,
Old ’Cutney raised its rocky side ;

And just below there is, to-day,

The same old grave-yard, in which lay
The generations of those men b

"Who in this church have frequent been.
At its great size I’ve often gazed,

And wondered how its spire was raised;
No bell was in its belfry hung,

To wake, with elanging of its tongue,
The echoes of the woods around ;

No organ, with harmonious sound,

Did help the choir its voice to raise

In strains of ' thanlzfulness and praise.
Ilere, as thewdragging weeks went round,
The farmers in their pews were found ;
Their sun-‘burnt face and c-.allous’d hands
Showed labors on their half-cleared lauds.
Assembled round the open door,

Just after church and just before,

The news was asked in simple speech,

‘ Told and re-told from "each to each.

For miles around the farmers came,

_ And some e’en 11owI well trould name.

One, Mr. Towne, who was known then

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By every one as “ Uncle Ben,” .
Drove a. large “ hack,” in which were stowed.
Wife, boys and girls, a. various load.

Then Samuel Lemson’s welI~filled pew

Told that the six-days’ work was through.
He, though devoid of polished speech,

Did sometimes in the pulpit preach.

The Burrs, who on “ the meadow ” dwelt,
In this old church have often knelt; A

And Osgoods, who lived close beside,

On Sundays, also, hither hied.

One J ebez Hammond likewise clrews

My thoughts, for he the sexton was.

The ‘Waits ezud Ferewells, Bridge and Shedd,
A.ncl many others, long since deed,

Come crowding up, in us to find

A chance to be brought back to mind.

And here a few words I must say
About the great “ J une Training” dey.
’.[‘wes just below this some old church

s The soldiers used to “ form ” and march.

Can any time so famous be

As was, this “ training day ” to me!

For months the time was counted well,
The weeks and days we ell could tell ;
At thought of it, for weeks before,

The labors of the fernu we bore

‘With less of care end oo11sci<:>us pain,
Tlian if our minds he.ddorment lein.
And when upon our eager eyes ii

That momin g rose with cloudless skies,
VVib11~rfl.pt111‘6 then we all set out ‘

Upon the long and devious eroute;

In gathering bands, as we drew near,
The rattling of the drums we hear; ‘
And pressing on. with eager might,
The gleaming guns now come in;sight—-—~
The cepteinfis nodding plumes we see,
And we are lost in extecy!

Through all the day from place to place,
T The marching soldiers we do ehese;

Or, while they call the soetteringlroll, 5

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We just aside may sometimes stroll
To buy a card of gingerbread,

Or see some one whose turning head.
Has caused him to step out one side,
His sorrow and disgrace to hide.

At close of day We homeward go,
With weary pace, and pained to know
That training day has passed once mo1'e———-
That one long year must drag before
Its rising sun again should meet

Qur longing eyes, our nimble feet.

Still let me linger ‘among the hills,
Though thought of them these pages fills .;
Two names on memory’s page I find
That briefly I would bring to mind.

Old Doctor I:Ioughtou’s smiling face

“‘ Has solace brought to many a place;

His large, full eyes would seem to see
The sick one cured —-.-»- or soon to be —.-.
His pleasant jokes tvould sure beguile
The pains that must. be borne the while.
How many years his old horse trudged —-e.—»
As frequent with a stick he nudged -—--
0"er these high hills ; by night a:ud day,
Through fail): and storm he took his way.
But Doctor Story, withimore thought,
More science to the sick—room brought ;

For gravel‘ ills he was more sure,

And deeper looked for means to cure.

With nimble ‘steps his smart horse wen t,
When for the sick he had been sent.

One more loved place my memory claims,

And many -well-remembered names

Come trooping on, as now I hear

The once familiar word “ Broomshire.”
You all, perhaps, have been that way,

And some of you came thence this day ;

W The old school--house you all have seen,

And some within its Walls have been. '

Can, you go back now forty years,‘

Through all life’s cares, and; hoipeis land fears,
And stand with me withinits walls;

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While some old names the teacher cells?
Seth B1a.neha1'c1in the corner site,
And not one moment ever flite
That he does not his lesson seen,
To have more perfect if he can.
Sam Burnhem, at the other end,
Now tries some old gooeequill to menrl;
Hie lesson, if he can, he’ll get,
.t"B“.t if he can’t he will not fret;
And with the girls he likes to piety
As well es: any task to say. V
Orlando Patrick site between,
And learns, as ean well now be seen,
Without much thought or labor epent,
Hi 5 leeeon. well, and is intent '
On some great drive, or clenee or hell,
At which he’d like to see us all.
The Bryante aleo here are found,
And Shewe and '.I‘ue1:er.e all sit round.
At this same place, in euinmermdeys,

, J net as the eun’e long, level rays,
7 Were streaming o’er' the hills; behind,

Eeehipeeeing eebbeth us did find.

The thoughtful, old, ihoee without care,
The parent, child, aeeemhledi there.
The l3ible’e open page was read, ‘

The earnest, heart-felt prayer wee said;
In simple words one Martin Rowe
Would us the path of duty show.

'.l‘hen sue the gathering elieclee of night
Out elowly oil the raye of light,

The evening.-hynzin wee fi*tly.s1u;1g,

In many 9. heart, bymeny a tongue;

In either years, in eloietered wells,

To which the ‘Vesper-bell loud ojalle

Long iilee of priests, in sozmmee dressed,

While many 23. etudent fo1'wa1'd pressed ;
With loud ehente read in Latin tongue, %
And 1381111118 in French were glibly Sung,, ,
Theeeleiinple scenes then came to mind,
And strange the contrast I did find.
Another scene now comes in view,

At which, perhaps,‘ bothI and you ‘

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Together stood; ’twas at this place,

One July Fourth ; but long ’s the space
Of time gone by-——- indeed,_;to fix

The rolling years, ’tis thirty—six ;

Just thirty-six, this very day, .

This very hour I well may say.
Assembled thousands here stood round,
And bands of music, and the sound

Of booming guns, from hill to hill,

Did all these echoing valleys fill.

A stand was here, and on it stood

Brave men, who for their country’s good
Their lives would give; or, for the right,
Were Iain to wage a constant fight.

The signs of rustic life were clear ;

A rough, log—oabin stood just here.
Skins of wild beasts killed in the chase,
The doorway and the gable grace;

The hunter’s gun stood just one side,
The unletohed door, was open wide.

A large, rough plow, with polished share,
Showed in the mellow fields its wear. .
The hero of that July day,

I need not take the time to say,

i As ’tis your minds impressed upon,

Was William Henry I-Ierrison.

A brave, old men, and honest too ;
Resolved that he would always do

The thing his conscience said was right,
Let others do whete’er they might.

N ow, as our theine to memory brings

Old times and many olden things,

Allow, as we the end approach,

To bring to mind the old “ stage-coach.”
I see it now with blinking eyes,

As through the dusty street it flies;

I hear the driver’s sounding horn,

At evening-hour or in the morn.

The horses come, some crank and smart,
Some limp and lameend sick at heart.
The dogs and boys, with yelp and scream,
Come closely on behind the teem. , p

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The cracking whip the horses epurn,

As to the “ Windsor House” they turn ;
And J. H. Simonds, then as now, '

To make all pleasant knew just how.

You would be pleased to see how much “
Was stowed within this old stagecoach:
First are thrown out the great mail—bags,
Which some strong arm away soon drags;
Then from the dusty, :rounding.top,

The brisk young men begin to hop ;

Then from within there do come out

Six well-built men, both large and stout;
The children. then are passed along,

I did not count them —-’-twas a throng ;
Ten women came —— no hoops were then -—-

_,Not quite so large as the six men.

The baggage now begins to rattle,

And, with the noise of some small battle,
The porch fills up in one large heap,

O’er which the porter tries to leap.

Gan anything more fine betide

Than in an old stage-coach to ride? T
Each passenger to each is known ;

The driver has to each one shown

The ciountry roads, the farming folks,
With all their fields, and barneand flocks ;
The villages and every town ; ‘
Where every brook comes tuinbling down
From hills around, and mountain side,
And onward flows to ocean’etide.

Alas! ’tie gone! no more we’ll see

The old stage-coachi as’t used to be!

Be patientwhileil tarry still,

To talk about the old ‘;‘ igooiee-quill.”
Through all the far-oif, shadowy past,

a The deeds of all it has made fast;

The moving centuries’ track behind

It has marked out, and we can find

Just where they passed, just what they did,
And nothing from its search lies hid. V

The teeming thoughts of busy brains,

It has eaughtiup and placed in chains;
And almost every thing we know,

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We to the old goose-quill do owe.
Long, pleasant letters it did send

To nieny a. fer—ofl’, waiting friend;

And solemn deeds and vows were made
More firm and solemn through its aid.
But this old friend, alas! we leave
Now far behind; and let us grieve

A moment while its knell now tolls,

As the new Century onward rolls!

And as I linger in the past,

The old “ fire-place ” now comes at last.
Deer, old appendage of our “home!”
How far so’er we ever roam,

We look to thee with feeling heart --
We grieved when from thee we did part.
We all remember thy greet hearth,

With brick or stone laid on the earth;
Weyhear the crioket’e xnournful song,

At evenin g-hour, as all along

The peesing years of childhood’e days
We gathered round in simple plays.

We see thy crane ell hung with hooks,
And well remember j net how looks

The string of kettles o’er the fire,

As high it blazes, end yet higher.

At festive times, Tlienksgiving-clays,
There was hung up before thy blaze,
The erisping spare-.rib_. always turning,
That it might roeet well ‘without burning.
The evening hours we oft have spent,
When cheered by light thy beck-vlog lent ;
And pleasant j okes and stories old

In turns byleech to each were told.

But here we pert; thy fires are dead ;
And now hereafter ’twill be said

As ’twes of Carthage in the past,

“ The fire-place was :” ’tie gone at last.

And now I hear deep sighs and groans,-—
It is the Oentnry’s dying means I
Old Gen-tu~ry,l thou need’et not grieve,
Thou hast done well, and so may leave
Us, thy young children, without sorrow,

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As we are cared for, for the morrow.
Think, rather think whet thou haet done,
Since that n'1o1*n when the rieing eun
This nation saw, a new-born child,

Ite weilings heard, both loud and wild.
How has it prospered in thy care I’

It is triumphant everywhere.

The nations of the earth proclaim

With great respect its honored name.
Think of thy gifts to human kind;

How thou hast helped its, struggling mind.
The steam-boat and the railroad car,
And telegraph thy children are‘.

And now old Century we must part!

We do it with a. throbbing heart:

A nation now thy requiem siege,

And to thy shrine its oifering brings.

My tee]: is done; these simple themes,

Like scattered rays of solar beams,

Just serve to mark the various course
Of past events ; and show the source W
Whence coming times may faintly trace
Some fixécl points in this 1ife’s race.

My modest muse did not aspire

From Helicon to catch its fire;

, Nor did she seek, with trumpetutongue,

When to the winds were banners flung,
‘To step upon the battleground,

And to the world the conflict sound;
But rather strove, more humbly, thus
To imitate Theocritue,

Who een g the praises of T the fields,

And showed just what each live flock yields. W.

Whottelked as talks the shepherd ewein,
When through the waving fields of grain.
He homewerd drives his sheep and goats,
And feeds hie cows with hay and oats;

And novv once more, my task its done;
Accept these wandering thoughts from one
Who n’er forgot, in all life’s ways, i,

The scenes and friends of childhood’s days.

REMINISCENCES.

 

er srrmorr Inn, nee.

N RESPONDING to your call, Mr. President, I Wish it
may be borne in mind that I do not come to this old home

of mine as a public speaker, but am here to-day in full 00111-
inunion witli your native citizens, and throw myself on their

  kind forbearance, should I fail, in strength of voice, or in the
pertiiience and interest of the subjects discussed, to meet

your reasonable expectations, While I read from the paper before _

me “ reminiscences ” touching some of the early settlers of the
town. I

It is almost sixty-seven years since I first set foot in this good- ~

1y village of yours. ‘I came here to learn; the art or mystery of
printing ~—--- as it was then regarded --—~- and in the humble rank of
an apprentice,——-—- and, about nine years afterwards, in the assumed
capacity of “ master printer,”——— I spent the best and happiest
twenty years of my life as a resident of this town. N 0 wonder,
then, Mr. President, that your kind invitation, in behalf of its
present citizens, to be present asits guest on this glorious annivern
sary, revived very pleasing anticipations of a happy re-union with
some of my former townsmen, in this “feast of reason andflow
of soul.” 'i ‘ H 

Sixty—se”ven years ago, We may Without vaunting say, Windsor

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was the largest -- the metropolvitan town of the country within a
radius of fifty miles or more. She maintained this pre-eminence,
in point of business enterprise and wealth, some twenty years or
more. One hundred- years ago there were but few framed houses
in town, and not a very great supply of log-houses. Windsor was
chartered July 6, 1761, si_mu1taneous1y,With Reading and Plym-
outh———- and was not, probably, settled many years earlier than
Reading, the first settlement of which town is put -down in its
history as occurring in 17 72. But if its settlement commenced
five or six years earlier than that of Reading, it must have been

' very rapid, for, in 1782, Messrs. Hough & Spooner started the

Vermon-t Journal, a weekly paper which has been continued here,
with but a short intermission, ever since.

In the line of personal reminiscences I can go no farther‘ back

than the year 1809. The number of my contemporaries of that

day, still to be seen among us, is few indeed. I had hoped to have
met here and taken by the hand, to—day, one of that number --- a
life-long friend —v==~l1e then a clerk in an apothecary store, while I
was the “ devil” of a printing officem-«I mean the Hon. ALLEN

Wannnnrs. [ Did not modesty andthe Want of time forbid, I might I

here wander a little way from the path I had marked out, and go
on to tell you how, on many occasions in after life, we conferred
with Edward R. Campbell, Doct. Edward and Francis E. Phelps,
J ohnand Frederic Pettes, I. W. Hubbard, Thomas Emerson, and
many other "wide-awake citizens, in projecting improvements‘ by
way of Connecticut river navigation, the building of mill-dams,
new roads and bridges, &c., for the benefit of’ the town -— how we
put our hands in our pockets, and in due time afterwards put big
rolls of river and dam “stocks” in our “ strong-boxes” for safe
keeping---— and how, quietly and iuiidisturbed, -those stocks and
their coupons reniaincdthere, intact, some of them, no ‘doubt, to
this very day. But I forbear._] ‘

I remember the names of some of those enterprising citizens
to whom the town is indebted for its rapid increase in wealth and
population, previous to 18109. There were Dr. Isaac Green, Gene.
Zebina Curtis and Abner Forbes, Dr. Elisha Phelps, among the
leading, financiers of the place. I ’l.‘here were Sam’l Hedge, black-
smith; William Tileston, coach ‘and chaise-maker; Dea. Nathan
Coolidge, bookseller (in company with Isaiah Thomas), father of
Gov. Carlos Coolidge; Allen Hayes, merchant, father of Allgllfitlls

es

A. Hayes, late Assayer of Massachusetts, and grandfather of the
present Assayer of that State. There were the Leverett brothers
(originally from Boston), John and William, merchants, and

1 Thomas, for several years Secretary of State, post—master from

1803 (perhaps earlier) to 1828, when . he was superseded by
Thomas Emerson, who soon resigned in favor of J abez Sargeant.
There was Isaac Townshend, watch—maker and jeweler, also from
Boston, who died in 1813; and another shortelived firm of watch-—
makers and jewelers, William, 82: William Johonnot- Thomas 8::
Merrifield had a bindery and bookstore in the old, three—story
Tontine building, which was destroyed by fire in 1818. The pres-
ent generation need not be told about the junior member of this

last named firm, Pnnsron M:ennI:sInLD—-about his long and useful ,

life——how he continued his regular business at his bookstore and
bindery till called hence, at the age of almost ninety.
Sylvester Churchill and Oliver Farnsworth, publishers of the
I7"ermont Jflcpublralcan, as also William Hunter and Asa Aikens,
were influential citizens of the town, at that day. Mr. Churchill en-

tered the U. S. Army as 1st Lieutenant of Artillery, in 1812, and ~

continued in and died, in his country's service, in 1862. Hon. Wm.
Hunter was member of Congress, Judge of Probate, Councillor,

and so forth. Mr. Aikens held several important ofiices, civil and _,

military, among them Judge of the Supreme Court. There were
\Vi1liam Emerson and Samuel Patrick, Jr. , hatters ; Mr. Patrick
in the three-story brick building next south of Patrick’s Tavern,
and Emerson in the wooden building opposite, next south of the
Tontine. Farnsworth it Churchill, my honored masters, had _a
Bookstore in the first story of the above-named brick building,
then known as the “‘ Patrick Block ;” a book-bindery in the second
story, and a printing—ofiice in the third, where the “ VnnM:o1~I'r Rn-
PuBLIoaN” was printed, I think, till the building was burnt. Rufus
Norton had a Cabinet-shop in the second story of this building.
There were Zebina Hawley and Daniel Bugbee, tanners ; Daniel
Sheldon and David Barlow, shoemakers; Henry Stevens and J as.
Cochran, tailors. And I must not forget the genial old patriarch
of the village, Uncle Ben Cady, the constable, who had a good
word for his friends and a “sharp stick, by faitli,” as he used to
say, for the rogues,‘-—---nor yet old Mr. Samuel Patrick, whose ready‘-
heated flip-iron and well-stocked bar cheered a host of thirsty cus-

tomers on their wayward course to perdition.

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The Rev. Bancroft Fowler was ordained Pastor of ‘th'e'1s't Con-
gregational church, May 26, 1805, and was the only settled minis-
ter in the village for several years afterwards. Col. Josiali Dun-

, ham, “ erst of Mackinaw,” began his career among us in 1810, if I

mistake not, as editor of the celebrated “%lVa.9h-iosgtovriarlz,” a week-?
ly paper, of which Thomas M. Pomroy was the nominal publisher.

‘ Capt. John Henry, a former . resident of Windsor‘, was accused of

being an emissary of Great Britain, a11d a political .co-worker-with
the editor of the Waslwingtonian.

Joseph Pettes, of the “Windsor Cofiee-House,” was a promi-
nent early settler. Also, Stephen Conant, saddler and harness-
maker, and the most extensive and enterprising builder of that
early day. There were Judges Jacob and J. H. Hubbard, Luther

Mills, and Samuel Shuttlesworth, among the older lawyers,—~l\1r. J

Shuttlesworth, if my memory serves me, having been the predeces-
sor of Mr. Fowler as minister in the Congregational church. There
was, to set the tunes with the pitch—pipe, the veteran leader of the
singing in said church, Mr. Hart Smith. Caleb Stone, an early
settler, lived in the house next south of Mill Brook, at south end,
and old Mr. Watts Hubbard, the malt-man, at the south-west cor-
ner of the village, near the big dam. Amongthe early, if not the
first stage-proprietors in town, was Isaiah 'Carpenter, the crack of
whose whip, or the toot of whose tin horn, set the denizens
of the village on tiptoe for the Post-office, the same as the whistle
of the locomotive does now.

There may be here present a few of the heroes of the war of
1812, who remember the peculiar‘ state of the political, parties of

that day. I remember that, during that era---say from 1810 to _-

1815-—-party spirit ran very high. The neighborly. relations be-
tween republican and federal citizens, of both sexes, were very
much disturbed. Tliey would not mingle in their social gather-
ings. In 1810 they had separate public meetings to celebrate the
battle of Bennington. In 1811 the republican party got up a rous-
ing celebration of the 4th of July. Some two or three thousand
citizens, of this and the adjoining towns, participated~——-«but not a

federalist of any note had a hand in it. In the procession,-~which_

then seemed to me a mile long-4»-drawn by horses, and on all manner
of vehicles, were represented, by agricultural and mechanical inn

plements, some of the various industries, by which this Republic has ,

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grown from one of the least, and become one of the most ]J02l!€’»7:fMZ
nations of the earth. Among these industries were represented
the farmer, breaking’ and swingling flax; the blacksmith, at work
with his sledge-hammer, anvil, vise, and sofortli ; the shoemaker,
plying his lap-hammer, awl and waxed end ; the tailor, at work
upon his bench, with crossed legs, his shears, goose, and cabbage-
box close by; the carpenter and joiner, at his work,-bench, plying
the foreplaneg and last, though not least,——~among these indispens-
able prerequisites in rearing and perpetuating this fabric of Na-
tional Freedom and Independence, the one hundredth anniversary
of which we are here to commemorate,—--é- there was in the proces-
sion, drawn by four beautiful horses, a Pnnwrrne Panes, throwing
off, as it moved slowly along (the ink not having time to dry), cop-
ies of the Declaration of Independence. Tradition had it, that this
was the same press that Benjamin. Franklin commenced his ap-
prenticeship on, in 1718.

I have before intimated that Windsor, in 1809, and for many
years afterwards, was the largest village in the State, save one,
perhaps. It may seem strange to us of to-day, that in 1805, Mr.

Postmaster Leverett’s advertisements of letters contained the

names of persons residing in Chelsea, Thetford, Norwich, Hart-
ford, Bridgewater, Bethe-l, Pomfret, Strafford, Vershire, Spring~
field, ‘Weathersfield, Plymouth and Reading, in Vermont; and
Plainfield, Cornish, Olaremont and Charlestown, in New I-lamp»
shire ; indicating that the postal facilities of those towns were not
what they are now.

I understand it has of late been a much mooted question be-
tween Benningtonand Windsor, which of these towns first enjoyed

the enlightening rays of the Panes as a fixture within its borders!

it being conceded by the rest of the aspiring towns of the State,
that the honor belongs to one or the other of them. By the help
of Isaiah Thomas’ “ History of_ Printing,” I think I can solve this
question by proving that in neither Bennington nor Windsor was
iirstthe newspaper started inthis State ----«the modest little town of
Westminster being entitled to that honor,-I-=~bnt that Windsor is
entitled to M the credit of permanently maintaining the first newspa-
per establishment in the State. I In Thomas’ History, page 373 of
Vol. II, I find that, “ In April, 17 81, the first newspaper printed

in Vermont was published at Westminster : it was entitled, ‘ The

Ve1‘111o11t (.T‘r£LZ€3H3(:‘., or Green Me1u1tei11 Poet 13ey. Mette :
‘Pliezxt as Reade, where ’etrea.z11s of Freedoxn glide ;
‘ Firm as the Hills, to etern Opp1'eeei011'e tide.’

It was 1:>1'i11ted on it sheet of post eiee, eml ptnhliehecl weekly, on

yMo11dey,‘1)y J udalx Pedclockz Spoener e,11c11’.'[‘irr1et11y Ge:ee1.1.” I~Iew
long the G'a.aette wee conti11u.ed‘a.t Weetnlimater does not precisely‘

appear; but it is Vevident it was not over at year or two; fez; M1‘.
Thonme adds, on another Ioegez 1“'I‘he firm [Spoouer 31?. Green]
eontlnuedionly :3. short time,”—-—end thet Green, who owned the
types a.1'1d tpress,» sold them to Greorge Hough, who removed t11e-111
to Wi11dse1', and there fo1*1ne<l at pa.1-tne:rehip with ALDEN Spoomm,
who was a. b1-othemr of J ucleh I’. The 2:?.c1 Volume of “ ;. 'fpecme2°’e
V69"-inomf Jo'z,m'1ctZ,” publielmecl at Wim1ee1', wee eo1n1ne11eedi11 1804:,
which indicates the.-t Vol. I was begmrx in 1.78:2. The “ Vemnont
(;}’a:::ette” of March 17, 1876, (pub1ie11eda.t 13e111'1'i11gg'teu) ie 11umber-
ed 4810, W11ich shows that it lme been publiehed about 11inety-tone
yee1*e, or wee eo1n111e11eed in 1785, three years eftyer the .fe2mzal.

I knew" Alden. Spooner 2.1.3 21. “ 1;)1'othe1- e1:efte11m11” a. few yeere--
there may be e few 0.1‘ our elder te"W11en1e11 present, who also lsznew
11i1111o11gere11d more i.11timete1y, ee.e 1s:i.11L1 11eig1.1be1*, z1.11:inc111et1'.i.-
one, Worthy eitizaen, who 1'ea1'ea;1 21. ].1Tt1fg€3 family, eeem11u1eted e.
1:1::Lm1ee111e property, eml diezl et at good 01:1. age. A11 zmeeclote of
him I once lxemrd when 211. hey, 1:m1.y i.1'1uet1'ete 21. peculiar trait of hie
ehereeter site it p<;>71iti.«r:.i.zm, if not as e eeetzu-ie11 :. “ km you tell me,”
ea'i<1:z1.1.1ew comer in tewazn, to lxtie 11eiig;11bm.' 13., “ whet meeting;
Squire Speeller et'ten<:1e ?” “ Ne, fina1ee.d, eir,” 1'ep1i.ed"B., “1‘o1' I

have been out 01‘ town fen: inemrly 1‘/1./‘ee euee/.::.s* ;pa.e6.”—--I eeuld eon- A

tinue thie 1:e1'ere1.1ee to ei.t1'zene of W.i.11c1eer, (jwlmee m‘m1ee 21.1141 ee-
eupetiorne ere fennilimr to me) d111'.i.11g_.; the years between 1818 end
1.835, in which I wee e 1'eei.«1e11the1re ; but I lmve elreecly exeeecled
the limite ellmvecl me; maul yet I emmet eleee wvitlmmxt e passing
notice of 21. 1reeiden.t 11e1'e,--«:1. c:e111pmt1i.en of my I:>ey1t1eed, eml 21. feet
frielld in xnere 111u.tm:e yeere : _ 1

Steel) after the cleetruetiezn of t"l1e1)1'i«1;_:3,'e over M111-B1:0ek, at the
2-1cm.'t11 eml of the viI.1e.ge, 9. ten1pe1re.ry 1..:1*ic1g‘-.'5,*e hml bee11ereetec1fl1’-—
teen or twenty 1‘0{1S above the old one. On. t1p1e”28t].1 of 1\Ie1'eh,
1824, in eeneeq11e11ee 01' the 1ra.i.11 end. we1~1'n wee.t11e1'of the previous
eve11i11g, the water reee ~ee11i,g;11 me to exeihte 1'e:".n.1's for its safety.
Capt. -DAVID BLIITH, in company with eeverel gen_t1eme11 of the
village, went to protect this te1:e.pore1'y bridge from deetruetiontby

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t'..1e floating ice and timber with which the stream was filled. The
end of it large log had lodged against one of the string-pieces, and
while in the act of pressing it down with a. pole in Capt. S1nith’s
hands, it slipped off the log, and he was precipitated into the mid-
dle of the streani, then ‘about two rods wide. The current being
rapid, and Capt; S. having on :3. great-coat, he was unable to rise
until he was nearly mid-Way between the bridge and the upper
dam, when he vainly attempted to gain the shore, and was seen

again to rise, below said dean, and heard to call for help, and ap-_

peared to the egonized spectators to be on the point of gaining the
shore, when he again cliseppeared. On the 30th of May following
his body was accidentally discovered, lying on the west bank (at
low-water mark) of Chese’s island", just below the 1ni.lroa.d bridge.
Capt. S. was in his 3:241 year. ,

‘The “ Veiimovzt Jtepublica-n” of March 31, 1824, concludes its
account of this event as follows : “ This s.filicti.'ve dispensation has
cast it gloom over our village which time only can dissipate. Capt.
Smith was in the prime of life mid usefulness, and in the success-
ful tide of business prospe1*ity,--«::L men of unconlmon activity and
perseverance-~—up1*ight rmcl honorable in all his tmnsactions——l1igh-
ly esteemed as a citizen and neighbor, and will be deeply laniented
by his extensive circle of friends and acquaintances. He has left it
twice-be1*e::wecl wife, and one c11ild,—---two aged parents lmve lost a
chief support in their declining years. Surely the disconsolete

relatives may, in this deep affliction, feel how true is the poet’s

epl1o1'is1n, t‘h.n.t _
“ ‘ The spiclex-’s meet attenuated thread
Is czo-rcZ---is oAnLn—»to man’s tender tie
On earthly bliss : it breaks at every breeze 1’ '”

WINDSOR AS 11‘ IS.

I.———ITS LooALITr".l

HE Town, as it is in July, 1876, difiere in its locality from that of
T 17 7 6 * only in its extent tweetwezrcl, the town of WeetWindeo1' hav-
ing been constituted from that pert of its territory in 1,848. It embrac-
es 11,062 acres of beautifully variegated surface of hill and valley, up»

land and me9.clow, nearly every foot of which is erehle and rich in pro--'

ducts of the forest or of culture. Mt. Aecutney peers, are of old, high
overall in the eout.11—weet corner of the ’1‘own. Bounded on the north by
I-Iertlund, on the east by Connecticut river, on the south by Weathers-
field, and on the weet loy Weet Wiucleor, it present»; a prospect to the
observer as “ beautiful for eitueiiou” ee any which the eye diecovers in
the valley of the Connecticut. The village liee in letitmle 43° 28’
north, and in longitude. xi“ £33’ :32’ ’ east. of Washington.

IT.»--I’I‘i:~‘a ]?‘()PULA.'l‘I()N AND INDUSTRIES.

Wincleorcontuine a. population of about £?,O()(T) eoule, and it has 422

, polls on the list. Itei1.1duetriee are chiefly agricultural, but they aleo em-

ln-a.ce largely the 1na.nufa.et1u*ing, niechenieal, and commercial pureuite.

“Within the limits; of the village corporation there are 2:34 dwelling

houeee, and twenty ehope, mills" and factories. On the several streets
there are clwelliug houeee ee followe: Main etreet, 57 ; State, 47 ; River,
235; Bridge, 1!); Aeeiitney, 1(5); Union, 15; Buene. Vista, 15; Armory,
7 ; Pine, 7 ; Everett, 6; Iteilwey---—eeet 5, west 4; J ecob, 6; Court, 5;
Depot Avenue, 2 —-mincliieive of the old “ Constitution House.”

“'lf‘he following bueineee hlocke now exist in the village, viz: The
JOURNAL litiildiugg, next door south of the Windsor Iiouee, on Main St,

 

* The iiret pernmment eettlemeut of Vvimhior was mecle in A.uguet, 1764,
by Capt. Steele Sirnith, who, with hie feiriiily, reruovecl from IB‘a.ru1iugton, Ct.,
to this town. '1‘he next season IVIej. Elielie Hewley, Capt. Iereel Curtis,
Dee. Ilezekieh Thompson. Cllliomes Cooper and some others came and made
some imprrovemente. The first child born in town wee Samuel, eon of Steele
Emit 1. . ,1

(38

three sto1*ies.:, brick; 'J.‘o11tine, two s('.o1'ie:=a, b1°i.ok ; ~ $3z1vi11g.<; Bank, on
"State 86., two stories, brick ; Miller {is Stuart’s Block, two s4t:or:ies:, bx-ic-.k ;
I-Iazen & Stiles’ Block, corner Main and State Stat , three Stcnries, Wood ;
M'er1-ifield Building, two stories, brick; J ones, Lamson, «Sis 0o.’s Build-

ing, at South End, two sto1'ies, b1'iC‘.k; Allen VVa.1.'dner’:f-3 Store, one sto- .

1'_§,r, wood; D. Gr. Billings’ (formerly J. «So It. IVIa11sfie1ds’) ]3ui1di11;4;,
two stoz'ie:-;, briclc; Fa.y’s_ Block, 2-1; stories, 1.>1'ic.'l;:; Atm's(]en’s Block,
at foot of Depot Avenuo, 2}; stories, brick; IIa1j1ow &; "White’s]31oc1:,
head of Depot Avenue, easst side of State St-., three stories, brick;
Hubbard’s Building, t.h1reesto1'ies,woocL Of the txuszinesss firms; and
1mrs11ib+: there are the following in the village, viz: W

lV[ANUFAC'j.‘URERS.-- II. II. Mawhinlxey & Co. ( II:-:zn1'y Poor, Super-£11..
tondent ), L. W.’ L£wv1'enoe, Harvey M.i11e1', Boots and Shoes; Jo11es~:
A‘; Lzunson Machine 00., 1%. D. Wynn, Ma.chi11e1'y; I«‘rancir4 Drape1-,
Iron Fo11nd1'y and.("3‘:1‘is;t-11:1i.1.l; Rollin Amsdefi, Flour a11r1 Meal ; Ba.rna1'd
A15 VVi11i:::u1:1s;, Lumlaer; J ones, I.m'xm.on dis Oo., Prixxt C«l()t11:”~;; 11.19. Mo-
Jlary, Altomble Sigmtm and Job I’1-mting;  U. King‘ &; 00., §E§c_ythe
Sxmaths ; Cook & Cole, Shingling B1-a(:-.1:et.~3. '

l\I:1::o1mNIos mo ARTI3ANS.--T1143 J(‘)U1'~tNA.L (ilcyxnpmzy, New.‘~"spa;::>er,

‘1."£ook, and Job 1’riut.er::a,~—-—F1'an1~:1in B'11t1e1r, 1’1'ces:ic1eI1t ; Ohsm. A. Cove],

Patrick & G-ilman, E. J. ‘Silver, J. 11. 1':3oyc‘l, L. "Pm'1s:o1'., C.~11‘[.)f;%1'1f:E31‘.E?‘a.£11i1C1
Joinersa; Calvin ’I‘l1om1)s;on, Wheea1w1'ig11t.; Jfl.'f;X".l¢':‘.fi Oz-xrlin, J. Ii‘. Irmzzoxl,
Elm-11es:4:»1xxzL1m:a1's:; Comma «Sin ("3a.r:t., J. S. ]3‘n.1'11sm*o1:t.1"1, Dudleay O. 13¢-1-—
kin:'+:,1’§1:Lc1:s;rnit!1s3; D. Gr. ¢‘.s'.n Or. A. ]‘$i11:i1:1{.v,sa, E. 1’. Koxadall, 1V’lIarL»1c~.~.-

W(‘J1'k*C:1.‘:~‘%;EdVVm.'i1 In-own, E. L. 1?m.trio.k, A. (J. VVGM), Wm. (3‘ri1:-Json,

Wm. Mioott, A.. ’J.‘l"mr1"1ton, ]L‘.  Ifiesssey, Pu.i.11Lc~.1's ancl Gr]fl.Zi€‘.1‘S; ‘

'\VE£I1tWOt‘Lh #:§t1m.1~t“., J'o]_m E. "VVat.t:, Imlph 1.-Iowmwl, '.l"'m.1om; W. W.
J'o21ee;,_ M. V. Ii. I*Im'lc.=.y, .'[oI‘:i.‘a.i1.'-(‘Iz:(:‘::4;:@:mrt4; H. 13‘. l\IoL1e2ey, 1*"hc>tc>g;1r:::.—
pher; Geo. E. (3hn,s-r.e-, 1\Ta:~::<:21‘1.

M.EROIIAfN'I.‘£~3 mm 'CL"1‘c.a.1:::1-:.t1..*...¢.s.--~—Tlfuxlgmry «Sn E‘st«_:m«:~, I‘I1.11_:1)fl.1‘<,;1 A25 Fags,
L. W. Soboc1':o1', Dry Groodres anal G-rocseu-iesa; J. A. I’ol1ard (J. J. W ossto11,
Ifia.rc1\v£m'e; 1\’.Ii.:as 1\’[m:y 1'I+.?-.1'1'iok, 1VI1'.~';. C‘. L. '1;?[i1m:1c'l, l\’[1'.=:. M. A. 1Ef:).oz--
low, Ivladazne 173. I1". IEg§g1¢asto1:x, Millinery; T111'l.1(‘;‘.F! B. Wi1:m., Frmcl
W. f‘3p&TL111dil.1g, Jew«:e1ry; G.  "'\‘V11i1.2:a.1cr=n-,  L. Lt1w1.‘e..11c*.e, Pixtric.-1:
Go27L]1£l;T,{11f$1‘, G-1'ocm‘iert4; M..1{.. ]C’a.ine, H. L. “X5 (Si-.  ‘yyilljzmzmixs, .lj)1'11;;»;.~;
and lVI€di(3i1’16SI~1; ]‘:I. W. A.c1a.rrm, 1”5oot.v:4 and §t§hoe.:-z; ’.l.‘. 1.). 'il.‘m:uu«y, 13‘m-—
:uitm'e:a;  1?‘. I:I11{.;gitnrs, Zlsookas; zmcl E3bat.im1r.+1'y; A. G. «Sic E. Gr. Axxmclexz,
‘::~‘.awi1;1g I\/Ia.c:‘hi11e3 ztudl l\«Iru-sic.-.a1 Imszt1'11me.11t.a~;; Geo. W. '1711111*.~:;t;o:r.a, 1\'.[em;-
nmx-1r.e.1;; II. F. ’I?11o1np:a:o11, Fizall zmd Oys‘ate1‘9;; M11311 AIxmfl¢a11, (;!oul,
Lum1:we1*, em; II. M. lvlorggan, 1"Lmat9.u1'a1.1t.

N{")'JI'.*&RIIE£% 1?tJ'BI.ro~—-I%Iea111'_v VVz:11'd1.1m',, J amt. 117». 13‘::11'n.~‘:4'Wo1't:Il1, William
.'f5ntchelc7le:1'. o

U.  Oomlwtxsasaxormn 1N I.’$.A.I~1'J::xm1=~trc::"r———-—J"rmuo::; N. f1‘I.L]1:wc1i1:1z'::io4::o1'.

]1~mU*I‘us.NoE AcmNtt*:a4.—- E. I). §?3a};.»i11o, J. 15. I?‘zm:1..<»:~‘.\o“o1'ot.11, H. IL. §:%tuo1c-

% £1‘, U11a1‘1em II. Gray.

I‘

LI“VEI:'3Z' :‘~5"§'l‘A.13I.1il I£’.1a:1«*.;1:=1?.1;.:.s=;.-—~ 13}. ‘E3. f-":.t.:-evemstz, (Ii-. 13%.. G1fw.-rn:':c=y, zuufi W.
H. 'l‘1.1p 1391'.

III.-~—~ I’l‘fE‘a C3fI~'i'.URC3'IrTf[E1..;‘, f}§(".3IIf[(L)(')I.n‘.i=‘:, _/\.N'%D Il.'.;]".1"?‘.."i“£.A.It?.ITI31fi$.

'].‘h@1'-.=a are .fo1:n: c:1'1111'<;e’.‘.1e.<.*. in ‘Wind:«::o1', viz :--— ("'I3o11g“;;1‘og;;mimam’! (0141
§‘:‘u311th%), Rev. 1%.. '1‘. E3sea:;'ml.o, 1’zw~.'i:or;‘ Balatisaia, ltav. W. M. Mick. 13’m:-;tc.~r;
Epmcopal (Sb. P£11J1.':‘.i ), “Lev. T. J. 'J.‘u.y1o1', liecxtzcsrg 1V,1e.t.114:ndi:?:t EpisM:op'2u.,
Qoompylng the Unlbéncian £~.d1fic:o ), ’s’.<=.=v. A. M. FoT3*@.1', Pmazoto1'. ';lI‘ho

69

, l l?.oma11 Catholics hold services once in two weeks in the hall of Stiles &

}Iazcn’s block, and the Rev. Fa-thei' Pigeon officiatcv.

’I‘hc "l‘ow1i is divided into seven. {school di.st1'icts4, in tho tliircl of
wliich fliers is a Graded High School, with a. regula1° four-yeai's’i course
of study. Its tcachers are as follovvsz--Marsh O. Perlzim-3, A. M.,
Principal ; l\Ii:-is Rowena A. I’ollz—11*d, A.ssiota.ut; gra.duatcs, J une, 187:3 :
Lilla B. Horton, Nancy E. Wliitton, Clara. A. Mclndoe, J cimie E. l\Iai's;~
ion, Carrie Tliompson, Frecl I. Mann, Will Tcahaii, Will 11. Hoisington,

Ii‘ra.n.k P. Whitcomb, Will H. Stockmr, Will L. Pierce, Windsor; Angie.

1*}. Wclcl, Carrie A. Williaiim, Cornisli, N. I-;l.; Grr.~m1ma1' School. litmu-
iuic G. Tu.\:l;m1‘y; (lento): I~‘rimz-u'y, ltvlary L. I'L'.Ly(-38; West I’1'imm~y,
'Jla.m O. '.L‘witchc11; South Primary, l‘.f[a1'y%L. Olapp. I)ist.1'ict No. 1,
Hairali (llapp; No. :3, Nollie L. Potters; no ochool in No. 4;; No. 5, Alice
E. Itolliiis; No. (3, Lilla. K. Fletcher; No. 7, Miss StE‘.€L1‘I1?3.

licssidozs sscvc1'zL1 p1'.ivzitc libmrics, belonging to p1'ofcs3ssioL1a.l Inen,
mid tl1or~:c connoctccl with Sab1:»ath—scl.1ools-s, there is an librmry bélonging to
tho Higli School, contziining a, 11umbc1'-of volumes, and a public libramy,
csillocl tho Wi1icls~m1' Atl'lOIl1’Bl1l11Lll31'aITy, containing :.i,0OO voltiniec, W m.
llctcheltloir, ll.l‘I!‘Fl.t.‘i‘cL1'l, ancl it is ownccl mid managed by St0CklZl0ld€B1'£-3.

l'V.-—~-- I'l‘E‘3 l§”U]f3~LIC3 C-_.iE'il:‘%J'§)}_l‘lL_‘l[\';]f”:L‘§i,‘%NSTI'.l‘U'J3IONS, AND
3" ‘ I" I Go .

'.l‘l.«1c1'o mo tlimzso pu.l:.i»1ic (flommo1i:s'. in tho villzigo -— the zmciont “twirl-
i:ng; g;1r<;n"1i;n'l,” mom‘ tho South (Ilh1.'1i1'cli, tho (lotirt-l:1ous:.c Common, near the
old (.3o11rt-l1o1.1:~:o, 2:LlldBl1GIli‘tVlE:$l3fl, at tho izioutli Eniid. 'J.‘hc1'o mo alto
llll.‘(.€?t(f1~!, (ZJL-3111¢;i*.;:J.ei:i«i‘:?%~;x-«~ mite 1.:i<:~zi:r ill? ‘.‘1;1.<:>111th Cil1111':r.li,L 1b€:1‘!;:L:[é";‘l1l{§ to this I’a\1*Esli,
mio ”.l.fE3Tl.‘ vvc~»- 0; I-..t‘5<.’2lTl '.m:~._y :~.+urcc-., >(:<:rngg;1i1g o '10 it-lulllllfl cmo 'cr:,r
AM$t')(3ll1.tl0l[.l ”—--- llimixti l.I_m;'low, 1’.l‘0l~$i(l€lIl.f»; IlI)wi.ght '.[‘uxb11ry3: Scc1'otm~y
:1.‘m:l '.If‘ronsurcr; anti :1. tlmrcl, \V§3Hl',‘11€?§?t].' tho (Jcpt. ]::lOLl.gll1;0Yl place. Tl'1(3
Vc1'mo1;it Stmo .l.t’l‘.l..‘*‘»(.)1l1 its l<.>ca.to(l ].),(;'~1'(,‘, 11&tVll.lf;‘ now confined will»
in ital walls ono l.i1iu.1<lL'cv;l m1c1 oiglitcum convicts -- of which cm
is n. fcnmlc zmrl onc is uncle;-.r scxitcmco of clczLth--Jolm 1?‘. Bailey,
f:‘»1*x.1pc;1'ir.ntonclont ; S. A. Gr. l\"Iowo1*, Kocpcr. ’.l‘lic (Jo113:t-liomtc an.clPo.=.st—
<':)fl‘ic(;3 ]..3~I:zi1¢.'ling;, :f:'or tl.1o1.1s;o of the U. S. Clircuit zmrl District Courts:-3 of
Ve;:::n<:tmt;, crc«;:.tc<;l in. i1t357--8, stmicls on tlic cost side of Main. sitrcot, climact-
ly o17po:~.s:i1‘.(:a to tho \Vind:+:o1' Ilcimim, mid its in lcli:i1'go of A. Cir. I“I13.tCll.1, lllsq_.,

:l.7'(.)‘-it—llll€"Lfri{J(31' ¥'L“1A(.1 (l'lm.~;to<"li2:m, 1Lll1(1'l..'l~l1.l. stxlmfciitisil l%l1.1(;‘,l3L1l‘(E3 :fo.1: its pur-_
Imwc. '.|_‘hc '.l‘ow1ix. lrlull, cc‘>m~:.tr1.1otccl from the old (i3o11'1't—l1ous:4c, is located

on tho :11.«:)1'l.h-cost ccmzicr of tlio (I3'o1tx;nnon, msicl it partially £t11SW(31'E%ll10]_)1Il”l.'-
].»m~:c:'-'~; of tlio c:iti'z:c.~m~'. Mr. Wril.]izm1 B‘l1tl.‘l;1m1 liws llie oliargc of it. 'l.‘li1,o
_Iil;)«:'1mi‘. ovi.’ tho (hmtral Va-imoitilt ltailwny is a la1~go and a;pa<.~iom:; laiiilcling;
Hl"1ll)_-Lb1l.‘;i for its Imus, micl llfrl in crliaigc of 0. C}. Butler, Station Agont marl
’l7<;il<::_:;;\i'o1;l>li C)po.1'a.1<nr. ’J.‘l;u-3' I1lx1’iIo::—m-oflicic it; in tliis 'l;>1:1i.1Lli11g,-»—-1:). '1‘.
ll‘l+I.l,‘l'i11, Ag(«:m'.. 'l.'l1o “VVir1c,l:s;oi'S:?Llv:i11{_.;:~3 'l"ianlc.lmi1c.ling occupiws tho silo
of tho culdl‘\Vi1i.<lzzm1* ]'3zml{, and, with the mlclitioii of at occzoxirl atom’, in
:2. ggoozfi Htritcturc of iii: l<.im.l. ’lt.‘Th.o olcl gt-anitc vemlt is tux-xiccl
into n or;>11'vox.iio1it i'im~1;n:oof t»rm:l:"c for 11:10 t0\‘V§.1 1'o::oL'cls4,-~—~ A]?‘f'L-E1fi(‘T’l Iicll,
l)l‘(‘~'1S‘l<'l4E’.TlHf.; Jolm '.[‘. Fl'UC:1ll€LI1, l1’l.e:c_:1., 'l‘roz1r~:urc1'. ’l.‘ho Aasciitucy Na.1_i.o1i-
ul Tlizmlc ilk; 1«:)ont.-Ml in 1119 sxocoml story of I~Ia1'l<:nv A’: Whitc’.~s lixnultlixigg, at
tluo. noi'tl'i,~~wc:~;;i: (L3-()1’);l1.€’Il.‘()f Depot Avcmtio and ll/Iain sit.i-cc2ts;,—l-Ion. Hlirzuzn
l,.l:zti:1<>vs*, 1L’1vosicle21:it; II;Icm.*y Wamduer, l1loq., Cmeliicr. '1‘11o:1-c are thrco
hotclzi~:. in ’l‘ow1:1., viz: Windsor Ilo11sso,-——-J. 1’I.]'3rll'l'101l(l!3, l‘1*o1)ri.e§3oir;
Azazciitney 1‘1'o11£se,-- (J. O. Durlacc, Pi-op1'iotor; ucllcy l~louse.,—--« ‘rs.
llllmy lmclloy, I"rcp1*i<;t0r. ,

"'70
V.—~ITS PROFESSIONS.

As in fo1'111e1* days, so now, ‘Windsor has its proportion of the learn-r
ed p1*ofes.sio11s : " _

OLEBGmmN.—-- R. T. Searlo, I+‘ra,nl;1i.n Butler, Clongregational; W. M.
Mick, Baptist; T. J. '1‘a.y1or, Ep=sioop.t1l_’; A. M. Folgesr, David Mclucloe,
Methodist. ’

LAW3zIs1z£s.—- Ja.s-301.1 Steaelo, J ona.. B. ]3‘a1*11swo1'th, Jag. N. Edminst:-In-,
William Batcheldw. L

PHYSICIAN.‘~3.~—-Edwaftl E. l’h.e:]p:.»', M. 1)., LL. 1)., Itiploy Clark,
F1'ede1‘ick L. 1\*Io1*r;e, Henry 1+"‘u1'11o:s.94. ‘

.DI:JNTISTS.--- N athan G. Halo and Henry L.‘ VVillia1ms.

VI.-»--—I’J.‘S ’.l.’OWN~ OFFICERS.

$3:-;1ectzno1J, Hiram Hzewlow, Horace We-seston, Alfred I-Iall; olork,Wm.
Batohelder; trezu.~:11'1'e.=.r, I)w:'gl.1t. Ttxxlmry; const.al.)1o, George W. '1‘1m:rs-
ton; superintendent of st,-.hoole_4, F1'ede.1'iok L. lltlomso; jmsticess of the
peace, John '1‘. Fr:'_~rcm1a11, '1‘hz'Lle:»' B. Winn, J'a1.r1o<«; A. Pollarcl, James N.
Eclnuixmlor, J. B. Fa.'t‘mwvo.rth, 1‘f[o1‘m.~.e Wozston, J ohm F. ]3aile.y.

'V1;[.--~I’l'§f:l CIVIC AND IN‘])U.[”l’1iIAL SOCIE'1‘I'J.*3£*5.
M'A."5(.h‘.\’.l(7 )l$()Il11:J.’%i«- Vvrmmtl. L0£l.l_.;(.', No. 1.8.

Nathan Ill. 1'.-Bugbee, W. M..; 1l‘recle1"i~ck L. 1VIorse, S. W.; l\rIa.re«11 O.
}T’e1'kims, J. W.; (llharlors Hugh Gilohrhet, Se.o1'et+.1ry; Chmlos W. Whitm-
ker, '1‘1*eass1.11'o1'; Luther G. 17’mkl;1111'ast, S. 1).; I.n.1oi<=:13. O. Wzilliamsg J. 1).;
William H. H. 1’e11~:ins, S. 8.; Ja.mos.=; N. (3‘r.ilma.n, J. 8.; I-Iemy 1;). Stone,
Mmshalg I’a1'do11K. Whitney, '.l‘y].e:.r. Co1mm1m:ion.tic>ns; 'I‘11111's;day, on
or before the full, of the moo11--—~ 1.574;, July (3, A.1“lg'l'l.‘5l3 3, A11gm.~;t3 ,
»’:+'3optembe1' 28, October :36, Novom1.:cr £31.), Docsomlmr 28; 187 7, Ja.mm.ry
:35. February 22. March .‘.»££l, Ap1'i1‘f2(3, May 24:, June 1-31., July '19, Allgllfi‘-ll»
‘.33, Sepmuxlger 21), October 15:‘, Nc.)vo1.uhor 15'. Doc.cm:al:Je1' 20.

lVm'mont (Jon:nmmlmry, No. 4:, of flalnnlglngs '.l.‘mnplur:+a.

(.}onol.=wes fourth We<lm7.9<:lny of ouch month. Sir H. I). Stoxxe, 1:111:1-
inent (Jom11'1m:1cler;lSir M. K. Patina, (3l»onorali:ssi1'x1o; Sir L. (J. 'Pm1a:-
lmmt, Captain General; Sir J. El. ]5‘a1'11xs\vortl1, Prelate; Sir M. O. Pet‘-.
kins, ,E‘.;‘~onio1' Wa.rd,o11; Sir I). A. Bmzzurcl, Junior Warden; Sir G. J’.
Jones, '1‘roam11~er and Itteoorderg Sir 1-1. F. '.l.‘l1ompz-xon, Standard Boa.r'e1-;
Sir G. W. 'I11't1l‘f:3fOn, Sword Bearer; Sir F. L. IVIOTHG, 'VVardor; Sir L.
O. VVillia.111s, Sir I). S. Willamd, and Sir G. W. ]?€3flf$€l, Captains of the
(5‘r11i§.rd; Sir 1’. K. Whitnc~_v., Sentinel.

* 'W’iI1d.r.~5or (.IIm.p!:¢rr. V‘

J. S. Fm.’I18W(Z)rl3h, II. P.; L. C. J."-’m'k1m1'zst, K.; H. 1). Stone. 53.; C.
J. Jones, Seoretmy and ’l“resam1re1'; J. N. Gihxmn, C. 11.; M. 0. Por-
hins, I’. 8.; L. 0. Williams. ILA. 0.; 17‘. L. Morso, M. $361 V.; Gr. W.
Thurston, M. 24:1 V.; II. F. Thompson, M. that V.; S. R. Stooker, Mar-
shal; I’. K. Whitney, 'l“y1er. _ L

'tVim1:-.<or Goumail. ,

L Oonvoc-atiozzs first F1'ida.y in each month. Gr. W. '1‘11111':4;to11, 'J.‘hric:o
Iil. G. M.; Ii. D. »‘:5tone, Right Ill. G. M.; J.  Fi;11'11£§'WO.L‘th, Ill. G. M.;
(3. J. Jones, '1‘1*ems. and Itooorcler; L. 0. 1’ark11111'st, (3. General; L.
0. Willia.1:ns,1’. 0.; W. H. I’o1'ki1:u:, G. S.; M. O. Perl-tins, M£v.1'5ha.l_;
P. K. Whitney, Sentinel. M L

71

De lllolziy Conclave No. 2, Kniglits of the Real Cross of Con»-

, stantine and appemlzmt. orders,

M.  Paine, M. P. Sovereign; J. S. Farnsworlh, Viceroy; J. C.
Paine, 8. General; E. D. Sabine, J. General; D. S. Willard, H. Pre-
late; S. R. Stooker, Treasurer; A. L. Pea-ee, Prefect; Wilson Britten,
Standard Bearer; O. W. Peaee, Herald; P. K. Whitney, Sentinel.

‘Windsor Lodge of Perfectioii.

Meetings last Friday of each month. M. K. Paine, 32°, '13.‘. P. ‘.
Gr.‘. M.'.; H. 0. Philips, 16°, D. '. G.'. M.'.; M. O. Perkins, 32°, V.'.
8.‘. G.'. W.'.; Henry Poor, 16”, V. °. J. ‘. G.'. W. '.‘; E. F. Spaulding,
14°, G.'. K. '. S.'.; C. J. Jones, 16°, Gr.'. Treasurer; H. P. MoClar_v,
14°, Gr.'. Secretary; F. L. Morse, 1=l°,'Gr.'. Orator; J. S. Farnsworth,
32'”, G.'. M. C.‘.; E. J. Shattuelr, 14.-°, Ga‘. C.'. G-.'.; G. W. Greasy,
G3. Hospitaler; A. A. Martin, Gm‘. Organist; P. K. Whitney, 14°, G.'.
T ler. . ,

y (§Il.A.N(~liER.lt='o.

R. M. Cole, Maator; J. B. Spencer, Overseer; Engine Robinson,
f-Steward; L. M. Perkins, Assistant Steward; W. H. H. Walker, Secre-
tary; Ed. Hoieington, 'I.‘reasurer; Levi Bunnell, Chaplain; Lyons
Kimball, Lecturer; Mrs. R. M. Cole, Ceres; Mrs. Levi Bunnell, Pomo-
na; Mrs. Fletcher, Flora; Mrs. W. H. H. Walker, Lady Asst. Steward.

t-§()VEIl’.EIGNf:i,:()I? Il‘~lI)Il§Ei'I‘RY.

G. W. Crerey, President; M. L. Perhani, Vice-President; Henry
Paul, Seoiretary; Louie Hiland, Treasurer; J amea Dudley, Fred Ladd,
Stewards.

I

AS(3I.T'1‘NEY A(_ulIlI(lllLT[lIlAI. A."5E540GIA'1‘Il.)N. .

C.  I)urlley., President; J. B. Farusworth, tileoretary; C. J. Jones,
’_i.‘reaeur_er; Hirarn Harlow, (3. '1‘. Fay,  L. Layvreiioe, James Walker,
J. N. Gilrnan, A.lfrec1}_Iall, E. _L. Woodward, (zoo. 1)._ Kenyon, E. It.
Sliedd, Director}. This Park is near the old Capt. Wait place.

VIII.--~ ITS REAL ES'I‘A'1‘E OWNERS.

Henry W. Adaine, Elam Alden, A. G. Ameden, llollin Ameden. Aeeutney
Agricultural Aarooiation, Lihbeue H. Austin, Mrs. Almira Austin,  It. Bag-
ley, John Eli‘. Bailey. Z. Bairlior and eon, Barnard «ft: Williainis, Mre. Flora Bar-
hoo, Alex Barboo. Joseph Bean, Cliarlee E. Billinge, Darwin (ft. «is H. G. Bil»
lin -is. Darwin (Ti. Billings, Nelaon Bielio *3 estate, Mrs. Mary M. Bixby, Hart-

welllond, Mre. Caroline 1’. Bowen, re. L. P. Bowen, J. Ii. Boyd. Mre. _

Abbie Butler, Thomas Brady and wife, Patrick Braney. Mrs. Isabella 8. Bridge,

lildward Brown, Nathan Brown, Danfortl1.13ro~’.vn.lI). P. Bryant. It. R. «It II. B. .

Buokman, Twing Buolzmanve eetate, Levi Biinnell, Mrs. C. C. Burbank, Mrs.
C. It. Burnhani and M re. E. L. Driver, l3raclley Burr, Wm. H. Butrnan, Mrs’.
Sarah A. Batman, Franklin Butler and Mre. H. B. Coolidge, Loren B. Cabot,
lienry 13. Carly. Lyman Oady’e eetate, Mre. Sarali A. Carly, Willie G‘. Carly,
Mre. Parlrer Carr; and (J. L. Nime, Vermont Central Railroad Company, Cleo.
1+3. Chase, Wm. I’. Cheney, Ripley Clark and wife, Ephraim Cleveland and
wife, John Clifford, Robert C. Coate, Henry M. Coats, Coate a C‘-arr, William
Coate, Peter Coil. Alvan Colby, Rufus M. Cole. Ellen Conley, Ihcederiok 1).
Conant, Cornish Brid Aye Company, Cleo. 1-I. Cor-liee, Charles A. Covel, Thom-
as Greeley, .TolinCree ey, Mrs. A. Greeley, C. 13. Cross, (3. B. Cross and L. 1‘.

Jumminge, Patrick Culligan, Ellen II. Dailey, Luther Damon’e estate, Wm. E.
Damon. trustee; Aaron Damon, Mrs. H. G. Damon Geo. F. Davie and wife,
I)anie1  Davis, Aeepli 1+‘. Doiioghrie, Mrs. M. B. Donoghiie, Mrs. Mary 
Dudley, Allen Dudley, Charlee H. Dudley, J olm Duff, Cyrus Dun1ap’e eet-ate,

'72

1\I1*~:=.. Jane Dxmclaleen ‘W. H. 8:. C. O. Du1‘kea, IVIH3. He.]enG.Edmi11Bte1‘, James
A. Edmimstermx estate. ];'lyla.nc"l1€I‘.,.T1"l1_v. Elia:-3 E1113 a.m:1wi'fe, La.u1fa. Emere;on,
W.:l].izu11 M. Eva.1-1::-3, Horace E*ve.1:el.t:, J. 1-3. I¢‘a1‘n:%sw01'tl'1, J. I-I. 1+‘a.1'1'n=.4wo1't11, J.
H. Fa.1'nawort.h, Mrs. Mamy A. F8..I'1Tll:$WO1'l'1), Oollzmler '1‘. iI.*‘a.y, Levi Cl. Fay, L.
(J. Fay & soms, l.\'[rs. Lucia. Field, Oharlers I’-":l.. I.l‘i‘t'.-011, Benjan1irx I¢'1m.c11e1"ra ow.-
mte, I-Benjamin. Floyd, Jolm Fowler and wife, John '1‘. F1'ee.n1a.n, lllrs. M. E.
.Ful1erto.n, Pa.l.1‘iUk Gaifney, ]."’a.trick G-a1la.ghe1', 1\:Tr53. Jzmo Gra.1la.gh¢u:, J ane a.nc1

.Laura. Gallup, 1VI1‘e:s. Eat]-xer Gates. I‘.-Iris. 8msa.n Cl-a.y, 1\«Irss. Iiosixm Geotgca. An-

na. E. Green, Wells Cr. Hadley, Alfred Hall, Na.i1:1a.n Gr. Hale, I~Ia.t'.1.mv & W].1ite,
Hiran1 I~Izu:low, Mm. l\Iarietta. Iilarris. A. W.‘I~Iarlow, Zenas Ilaestiuga, An11'I‘.
.Ha.s1ing2':x. Jo I). Halal), Fmncees F. I-latch, Wm. T. I~Ia.w1ay, Mm. Cllhaxleas
II a.w1ey, 14‘. A. 1Tl2.mv1ey, Zebina. I-Imvley's estate. Stiles .85 Ilazen, (J. I). I-Iazen,
Il\.Ia.1'y A. 1~l:'mye:sl, Nancy I-Ie11ry, Mary HOI'1'iCk, Wm. II. I-Teywoocl, I‘»icl.1ar<l G.
I-Iic1mon._ V. C. IIor]gx11a11, 1)a.'vid "ll. Hoitzsington, James E. I~Ioisingfon, M. L.
Hort.<m and wife}. M118. ‘Lucy..1’. H cmghton, Allen B. I-Ioughton, Joel  I~Iough-
ism), K. R. &. 11'. A. lilowamcl, Alvin Howe, (Jha1*les Hoyt, l\I:Lrvi11 C. II11l3l.>a.rrl,
l\‘[1':s. Saralx A. Illubbalfl, I‘ W. H ubl:»a1'cl’:s eslzato, $2‘:-.m\.h A. 1~Iublm.rc1 and r.>t.]"i-
ems, l\’l’a.ry B. Ilixggixms mzmcl I*Ia.m°3c3b .l..{11gglc:s, Ma.ry 13. I~I1.*1ggin:4, 1\vIt‘i-3. J oanmn
.I:Iuut]0y', David Hmitor. Ilenry O. Iugallns, 1’et.er J l).1'Vif:%. l*‘1‘c(1e1‘ick A. J01m-
9101.1, 1l.1m2~'.¢3llI.;. JOIIGH, Jones. I.zmmi3m1  00., lillton 1"’. I{enda.1J, (lz1r;~.sx=_sit1rs 1').
Killlbibll, S. U. King, Wm.Ii[. ljielxsey‘, Wm. Ilacy, 13. Gr. Larmson zmd wife, IVIM-.4.
1\'['a1-Lha. W. Jjlmxza-ao1.z,l'!l. G. La.1m~son, Amstin La.ml;>e1'ton, W. 1:1. Ilzunberton.
Mr1~3. tL~3m*al_1 I,.a1m.-.s<:>r‘:, J 11111153 La.111b, 1\'I1*s. A. J. La.wr¢;mcc:, bscmlmia zL11c1Am;ie.
Lawremre. $mn1m1 L. I.«mv1rc11co, Aclol1j:)1m+3 T..a111;1<.lr_v. 1+‘ra.ncirs Lamixclry, (3l‘1am.
I..eC1aim, Wm. H. I.en1nmx’a e::5t:a.t.e, l\:‘Io1'rize~a Lull, (fllmrless L. I.uml.m.1'd, J caw-
ett lllzmzn zm.1<;l wilfo. Wmllaxwl l\‘1jz1.r1zeslir:.l¢,l, I). '1‘. Ma.1't.in, H. L. l\Ia.r<;zy, VVix1l;111*cm
I'l.[m'<:~._v, llms. Mamy l\.”Inl.l1e1', 1\ii<:.1m.e.l 1\il'(:(3a.1'l;y, J cmcmlx lllczcllixtxtcm, §l3‘ra.nk zmcl
Illarl l.\;’l<;:1;L311¢3., I)m'ic'1l\‘IcIx1c1oo, L. J. lVIu'I'ml<‘>o’.~3 c:::+t.zLl.ca, 1’.mHton 1l:I<.=m'il'lcld’r§ oran-
ta.le, E1421-muel l.\'Im‘1:il1, Eliznl,>e.l.l.1 1VI¢:1'1.'ill’r3 etemnto, (?lcs<.>. Mi1.1ilmn 21.1111 wife, II:u.'-
vesy Miller. tvmstee ; I{z1.1'w;:y I\'Iillcr, Ssa.1oma. 1‘vIoom, 1”)m'id l\locm.s am1vrifc:=,
Elizzmbetlx 1\.[0x'a-11, I)n.vir.‘l 1‘rI01'ri::s<;.»1?x, S. A. Cl. 1‘..Iowc:r, (limes ll}. lylower, Jcwl
Nam-mn, I;Ia1'riat Newman, 'l‘l.1onmss ('-)’.B1‘io11 anal wifca, 1‘vliIl:0n K. lfzmine. L(.’.".Vir‘e‘.
l”a.t2ric.k, 17’a.trick 6'1. Gilxmm, 11}. L. 1"~’al;1‘ic.l~:, O. L. 1"‘al;riulc, N. W. 1’a.t1'icla:, A<:1-
die J. 1”a.rkca1', L. ('3. "l3‘a1‘1r.111:11*Ht, Ilcmry S. 1"’u.t1l, M. I13. mxd N. Ill. 1'}. 1”e1'1;im~s,
llimx. 17-’m1]i1:m. P€51‘ls'.ilil8, J olm l‘e.t.tc:-.4’ ()l:'l‘l".iLll}f3, Wm ll. 1'.’et.t.e:~3. 1)zx.nies1 I‘]1a.‘.ou
and wife, I<3<;1Vv'zm'1 143. I’l1.0.lp:l-t, l\.1n.1'_')’ A. l;’lmlpH, J()f:§£2_'[ll1 1’c:qu.oic1, 1\11.'m. .‘“:§a1'a.l1 C}.
Plumb. Mrs. Jt:>r;=.a(;=pl.1i.11c: II. I.’ol1:.m"l, 1l;<:mr_v l‘Qm' m,:1c1wi'1'0, (.l£LlV'ix1 I‘oxne1'0y,
John .1-"on1r.21'oy. 11'}. I3‘. llltamlett, I.4.l11gmm 1‘. ].l.<.vl.:i11x-son and win), 133.1110], L. l§ln.:v,
Wm. Iiobim-son, Gl;1itt<mdon 1-Cm-;+t.~z.itm', Jllclgnr M. 1~:1'1;_,rg1¢a::s and wife», Clyms ll‘.
Ht1ggl_eH, 1VIi1t.on .1h1gg1.e::-3, §~.‘aylvo.'.-:4t<31' ll-xusxsell, Wm. H. itmlaixme, I..4011i&$fL M. fin.-
lirirm, Mm. J ulia A.,f:‘a.birm. I)a.raic.-.1. Ezlzxvaggeg. Cleo. ll‘. tfiuvage and wife, Im. 11:.
Havnp 0, '.[‘lJo1nms »‘:3£a:1.m, I*.‘.c’l1m'm(1 §5l.1zLtn1c.>l<.’r3 cntzxtca, 'lI‘it.ur‘s V. Sl.:mpl..1m'd’a lmirst,
M 1'24. I.o11ir:m Silver, E. J. Efiilvur a.fn.<;'l wife, J «.3111.-.1 Ill. l~.5ilrxxc.m<:1::1, Jc;2r-3.l111.a.  bli-
rnomlts n.nc;1wif«r.?, I’m'1'y (J. t3'liin11m', Wm. 11'. §$1{il..lll(-.3".l.", l:%lz11c)11dH a.m'l{151:i.1;1nc,:1-,
Z¢.~.~1:mI:-3 Snmll, Iflres. M. M. Sx11ibl.1, Al.>ia.1 §$$pzx.I.11c]im::, , lVlr1~3. A. '1‘. Spamltling, Jilli-
wha. .‘:‘apau1<.l:i.ng and wife, J. 1?». Spemrczmr, Saxxaucl It. f:3l'm3l~;c:ax', fiilzxxxxwxaal N. ltlloxm,
Ilonry  Sl;«;:m3, f'§Z'l:ll11”.1(.,:1. §':‘»l:orm, ]§*zmc:l'1a.1 1’. §:‘»lor'y, '.I;liu;x:1ry L. tillzclxry, J31. W.
l-itongl1t‘.on, .I')a1:xi.ol Stczzxzrrm, L-Jwsmm lilzuelca, 13}. {-3. .‘;:'»l'.uvam3., M.1't;~l. CIlllvi1:a. §$lmr¢:=11z'«=,
VVe.mt.w‘vo1'Ll.1 l‘;lf:1.m1'1; tmcl wife». Ill. 17‘. lf~".l£im;1m', :TiLx"I.”tCMB f‘~:‘stmm,l‘w.I'::.':~3. Ja.m-.3 Cl. lf-4n“:i.tl.l'x,
Lmlit-zm. 1". ’.I‘cm1p1r2~, 1\:Ires. A.l.l(Z)1]_1)1ll1H ’l‘c:1.111t:y, '1‘. I). ’.lL‘(m11¢.:y, Arliu '.l‘l1011‘11)::sc,m~.
He.n1'y B. 'l"11<:v1’11pts011 am} wife... 1Im'1'iz~acm 1!‘. ’ZI7110r,x*xp~.'»<):x., Q.'1.1Vil1'.l.‘Ix()Ix1[)B(TnI,
I‘i:n.nsu:>rx1 Tlxomzws, Otit-.3 .'.l.‘hon"m.s, J. W. '.l.‘llu:m:.1}:mo1:.1, Geo. W. r.“.l111'i3l}(.'")lTl,, W.
H. '".l.‘upper, Mr:-rs. f§‘»:1ru.l1 '.[‘11xb'u1'y n.m‘1 othom, 1")wi;.:I,ll'.’1‘n.'x.lm1'y,t.x'mstsm; Dwiglat
'.l'11xbu1:y, J 01111 Vz1.ng;]'1zu:x, Clr. L. Wz1.l1m1', W. H. M. VVn.llu3r, H. Wn.rdx::1m', (jlum.
Wa.r<l.nc1'. t1'm-;a‘t.¢.m; A.W'fl.1‘(1ITl0l‘,M1‘H. Ilouirsa. Ware, A. C. Welhlr), 1%. M. VVm;4(;():'x.,
Iloraca Wc.:tst01.1, (".ly1'ns VVhoelm', Mm. Ill. VVli;itcc>n1b~ a.m;'l cfntlmm, 1”’. K. Whit-
1163', Ol1cec=st.m.' IT. White, Mrr3. ft‘sm'a11 J. Wlmitc, (I3. W. VV’l.Liim.l:e1‘, Gem. 1‘. Whit-
fon, Geo. I’. Willzhunts, Jolm Willirs, '1‘. 1:73. VViu1'.1n.m1 l\Im. filavmge, 'J.‘. ]3..Wi1*m,
James WI’ 111), Win.<lsv.:1.' Gzm].i{.;l‘1b O0n.1pa,11y, VVir1drs0r l\1a.n11factu1'ing Coxirlpmzy,
Windrsor Sm'i1“1g£s13zLul:, Get). A. Wood, Clullen. Wo0c:1rul:f, 1?l{n.bbicsa.11c11*‘1'ec1
"jforlc, a,n,d Ira. J. Young. ’l‘uta.1 Grand Iuiffill 1'01: State taxes, €il%'i,'i57.2(;S.

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GIL/x’J:J'I.‘;ED BY 1~:1c'*.v 1;'()1:1{, 1.\1A:m<:21-I 28, 1772.

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’l‘.b.e, 1<.nv11£s11ip of "\Vi;u<1r.-au1' V\=’é!H fm:1.1;1(-'2<:1 u11d(':.1' ax. O11a:rte1' ;;1:.:;z,11tcrL1
by {.110 I’r0vi11c:o of New I“I€111Zl.[)&£1li1‘(3, to SA1\.tUmt; Ass)“.-.IL':n;1' mxcl fif1sy~-
e::ig..3;1:1tot,1%1cz1*ss, July (5, 1761. It xvms 1'o~c:1.1z111'te1'0(1 by the 1-7’1'ov:?11r:.e
of Nmv-Y01'1; in 1772. T110 1'o11x)wi1)g is 2.1. v¢;~1'bzx.t.i111 copy of the
1z'x.'b{;m.' (;'«11z‘L1,'13€~:1':--‘ ‘ % ‘ ‘

 ,% +» ,  5,  *  BY'1‘1;-IE (:;1w;:m cm c:.(:>;1:.> ofG1'mt.1t
  J  * I5.rita,i,n., 1'+‘1'm.1<:«;.~. and Irelaml, liiug, Du-
fm.1de1* of tlm 1<"21ith, atml so f\.)1'tT»h: To ALL WIIOMI '1*m:::;;m 1:»1c1c.~sI;:N:I‘£s (“SI-Y.A]'..I4
comm, % C7tR1§I:"1'1'ING~.

W /m‘a((.s‘, our p1'0vinc<3 of New Y01'1£, in Ame1i<::n,, hath, even’ eziuccr. tlm gJ.':111t
t1m1'eof to J zutrwrs 5%} 191.1110 01.‘ Yolk, lmcn almttccl and lmulxdcd to the (mast. in.
}m1*b1;yt].,1e wcsrsest 1;>:m1<;or aide of C01m(?ctic1.1i: rival‘; and, "ml¢¢a'2'm.~', o1'1:.a-.l.u
_ven,m, grcznt part 01‘ om: mid provincce lyin * to Athca wem.wzx1'<1 of the aezune riv-
er, lmth, 1.1caw*ca1't.1m1eh3a. 1mcm1>mto1‘1c1<::<1 tog 0 gramzod by divcn-3 im3’r.1'11111e1z‘t:-5
mxdszsr tlm Heats mail of the provi1‘xc:e of Nexv I-1a1111m1‘1ix'e. as though the asaxxm
].z1.11<ii%e; had 11.1§1'e1nei1o11gec1 to 2111631 werle wighin the 1301111518 andlliznitzss of t%.<=:.

tmovinoo of raw I’ am fratlnire an wit win t 1e 1=xowerss an j1'u‘isc iotion of (Axe:
g;ove1:1'11ne1.1t t1m1'eo1’; iund, u:I2.ci7*«2as, a.1ncmg otlaers, the tract c)fJa1.1c11%::ythem2s
pre:-3e1xte‘s 11e1‘ei1m1‘ter g1'aa;11;cd, Bmrt of om: tsaid province of New York, as
z.r1.'<:>1'c:mLid, M111 been :;u)1)mte1‘u'ccl to be gmntecl and to be cerectescl into an
tmV11I:sI.1i_'[) of 1110 mid :>1'o'vi1'1ce of Nmv 1l{ampr.~shi1'o, by the name. of Wind.»-
amr; ancl, 'u:7z.m*c%(1s, om:1oving.; s$’I.‘11;rjc3ci‘.t3, Zedekia-11 Strime. Na.t1.xan f:§t.cucm, and
Dzwid $10130, -thc smne i1117ve].1a1:f 01' tlxexxxaselvea ancl twenfy otlmr ];>err:m11:‘-3, by
Hmir humble 1:>e.t'.ition presented unto our txmaty and well-laelovecl C‘-adwaller
( Ic.a1<t'lc11, E xaq11i1'e, our I.1cute1xa.n.t-G ovemor, and than our cmnma-nder-i1:1~c11ief
of omiaaid prc:>vi1z<:eof N ew York anr.1rea.d in our council for o1t1*mic1 1Tr1'0Vi11Ccs
of New ’.S.’mr1<, cm the 1-wenty—11int11 day of October, whiclx wzu3:i1.x the year of
our Lord one 111011:-szmd seven lulndrecl and sixty—1ive,':-.set;fo1'th among otlzer

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things,--'Ihat there was a. certain tract of land lying in our said province of
New York, commonly called and known by the name of Windsor, 2:. little more
than six miles square, beginning at a. black ash tree standing on the west
bank of Connecticut river, marked with the,fig_u:res two _and three, and runs
from thence west, sixteen degrees north, six miles ; then north, six degrees
east, six miles and fifty-six rode ;, then ea.st,sixteen degrees south,six miles and
a quarter, to a maple tree standing on the said bank of the said river, marked
with the figures three and four; then down the said river to the first men-
tioned, bounding easterly on the said river southerly on e tract of land com-
monly celled and known by the name of Weatliersfield, westerly on a tract of
land commonly celled and known by the name of Reading, and northerly on
a township known by the name of Hartford. That the petitioners and their
associates held the same by the said,pretended grant of the government of
New Hsnipsliire, and thinking their title good, settled about sixteen families
thereon. That they were willing and desirous to secure their property, pos-
:-essions and in1p1'oven1ent;s, by holding the same under the government of
our said province of New York, and make further settlements upon the said
tract; and therefore the petitioners did, in behalf of themselves and asso-
ciates humbly pray that our said Lient.-Clrovernor would be favorably pleased
by our Letters Jitatent to ,r,;rant to the petitioners and their associates, their
heirs and assigns, the said tract of land containing upwards of 23,600 acres,
and that the sarne might be erected into a township, by the name of Wind-
sor, and vested with the saute powers and privileges as other towns in our
said province of New York had and did enjoy. Which petition having been

thusrefcrrod to the conizrnittee of our council for our said province of New

York, our same council did, afterwards, on the same day, in pursuance of the
report of the said committee, humbly advise our consent that our said Lieut-
Cirovernor, should, by our Letters I‘atent, ,c;rant to the said petitioners, asso-
ciates and their heirs, the tract of land afoi-esaid, under tie Q,uit-rent pro-
visoes, limitations and restrictions prescribed by our royal institutions.
Aim, ‘W'I{l.'}Itll3.AS, the seicl Nethan Stone and our loving subj eot William Swan,
in behalf of themselves and their associat.es, by their humble petition pre-
sented unto our trusty and well-beloved Williazn l‘ryon, Itlsquire, our Captain-
General and Governor-in-tllziiof in and over our said province of New York,
and the territories depending thereon, in America, chancellor and vice—admi-
ml of the same, and read in our council for our said province of New York,
on the twenty-ninth day of January, now last pest, writing the proceedings
aforesaid, did set l:'ort.h, among other tliiiigs, in substance that, since the
above proceedings, the several parties who were formerly associated with the
petitioners, save Mary Stone, the wife of the petitioner Netltan Stone, had
rclinquislied all their rig;ht, title and interest to the said lands, as by the in-
strunients in tt'1'ititig p1.'@t"-.’.(~I‘>lll.e(l with the said petition moiglit appear, and that
the pet.iti.one.rs and the person named in the schedule to the said petition au-
nexed were the only persons interested in the said lands’: and therefore the
petitioners did liurnbly pray that our Letters Patent so directed to issue, as
at:'oresaid, might pass in the names of the petitioners and their associates,
nientioned in the schedule aforesaid. On due coxieideratiou of which last
recited petition our same council, did humbly advise that, when our Letters
l"’ate1it should issue for the said tract of land called Windsor, our said Cap
tain-General and G overnor-in-c‘o:ief should issue agreeable to the proceedings
aforesaicl, of the twenty-ninth day of October, 1765; but that, instead of the
;.:rantees therein mentioned or referred to, our said Letters Patent should
issitc in the names of the petitioners, the said Nathan Stone and Viilliam
Swan, and of their associates named in the schedule to the last: recited peti-
tion annexed, and t-list the several shares of the said tract‘ of land which. by
the pretended grant or charter from the governinent of New Ilanipshire, were
intended for public uses, be granted in tI'I1H'b'8;fi3 f()].10Vl’t3---Hltlalf is to say: one
such shsre for the use of the society for the p1'opegetio11 of tlieflospel in
iorcign parts; alike share as a Globe for the use of the minister of the GrOS~

pel in communion of the C1”lll1'G1'l of llhtgland, as by law established. for the

time being, residing o1.'1't11e}‘*1’emises; a like share for the tirst settled min-

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ister of the Gospel in the said town, and one hundred acres for the use of the
school-mast-er residing on the premises. That the share of the said tract of
land formerly allotted to Bennie g Weiitworth, Esquire, should remain vested
in us, and that the whole of the said tract of land should be erected into a
township by the name of Windsor, with the usual privileges.

IN russuascu wirsnrtor, and in obedience to our said royal instructions,

‘ our cornn_oissione1*s appointed I or the setting out all lands to be granted with-
V in oursaidprovince of New York, have set out for t-he said Nathan Stone and

William Swan and for their associates named in the schedule aforesaid. to

‘wit:-—-Waldron‘Blaare. John Abeel, William Punt-ine, Michael Nan, J01111

ltlotlinnis, Richard Mcolinnis, Robert Mcflinnis, Patrick Walsh, James Abeel,
llidward Collom, lllarinus Low, Edward Patten, Andries Iti'e=g11er, George
Klein, Tliomas Lupton, Duncan Robertson, Samuel Stevens, John I’esinge1'.
George Lucam, Francis Groome, and James Cobham, ALL THAT certain tract
or parcel of land by the name of Windsor, situate, lying and being on the
west side of Connecticut river, in the County of C~urnber1a'nd, within our
provicce of New York, beginning on the west bank of the said river, at the
distance of five hundred and six chains and twentty links south from the south
bounds of the township of Hartford. 'l‘his tract runs from the said place of
beginnin,¢r,nortl1 74 degreesnveist 480 chains; then north, six degrees east, 494

~ cliains ; then, south 74: degrees, east along the said south bounds of Itlartfcrd

to Connecticut river; then down along the west haul; of the said river, as It
winds and turns, to the place where this tract began, containing 24,500 acres
of land and the usual allowance for highways, and containing, ezxclusive of
the five several lots or parcels hereinafter described. 23,000 acres or land and
the usual allowance for highways; one of which said lots or parcels of land
distinguished by the name of the First Lot, is to remain vested in us, and is
bounded as follows, that is to say: Bnernnruo on the west bank of the C‘
necticut river, at the southeast corner of the above mentioned larger tract,
of which this first lot is a part, and runs thence along the south bounds of
the said larger tract,north 7:1; dcgrees,west 136 chains ; then north, 16 degrees
east, 40 chains ; then, south '74: degrees, east to Connecticut river; and than
down the west. bank. of said river. as it winds and turns, to the .»lace where
the first lot hogan, containing 500 acres of land and the usual al owance for
highways. And, also, our said commissioners have set‘ out to be granted in
trust for the uses and purposes hereinatter inentioned, the following four
lots of land, parts and parcels of the said larger tract so set out as a.forcsaid.
that is to say: For the use of the incorporated society for the propagation of
the Gospel in foreign, parts, all that certain lot or parcel of land distinguish-
cd by the name of the fzlecond Lot and which begins in the south bounds of
the above mentioned larger tract, at the south-east. comer of the said first lot
and runs thence along the said south bounds,north '74 dcgrccs,wcst '79 cliains ;
then north, 16 degrees cast, -10 chains ; then, soutrlir74clcg1'eos. cast 79 cliains,
to the said tirst lot, and thou along the west bou.nds of the said tirst lot south,
1.6 degrees west. 40 chains, to the lace whore tliissccond lot lregan, contain-
ing 300 acres of land and the usua allowance for higliways. For a Globe for
the use of the minister of the Gospel in communiron of the Church of Eng»
lancl. as by law established for the time be’n ,‘ residing on the said larger
tract, all that certain lot or parcclof land distvinguished by the name of the
'_l‘hi1'd Lot, and which begins , in the south. bounds of the said larger tract at
the south-west corner of the said second lot, and runs thence along the said
south bounds, north 74 degrees, west 70 chains : then north, 16 degrees cast, 45
chains ; south 7st degrees, east '70 chains, to the 1’ourtl1 lot hc1'ei11a1’tcr de—
scribed, and then along part of the west bounds of the said fourth lot and the
west bounds of the said second lot south, 16 degrees west, 45 chains, to the

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place where this third lot began, containing 300 acres of land and the usual’

a‘l.owance for highways. F or the use of a school-master residing on the said
larger tract, all that certain lot or parcel of land distinguished by the name
of tho 1i‘ourth Lot, and which begins at the north-west corner of the said it cc-
cud lot and runs thence along the north bounds of the said second lot, south
74; degrees, east 79 cliains, to the fifth lot, hereinafter’ described ; then along

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13 chaims and 4:()1ink:~t4, to the }:>1zma wlmre 11.118 1’«:>m.'t.11 10t;1)<.:;j.;m1, cox1minif1'u..v;
1()0a,c1*erso.l'1a.nc1 and the utsuul a.Uow:m<_:e for higluvzmya. And for the fimi;
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end else, except and always reserved out of this our present ggrent, unto us.
our heirs and successors, forever, all mines of gold and silver; and also, all
white and other lots of pine trees fit for masts, of the growth of twenty-fonr
inches in cliemeter and upwards, at twelve inches froin the eartlx, f01'111EtE'.1.‘B
for the royal navy of us, our heirs and successors. ' - -i
To Inwn AND TO nonro all ancl singiilar the said lends, tenements, 11€’.I'e(lil3iL-
ments, anclpremisee, by these p1‘ese1.“.1t:3 granted, ratified end eonthrmed, anal
every part and parcel thereof, with their epplirteriaiiees (except an is hereinbe-
fore excepted) unto them, our grantees above named, their heirs zimfl assigns
forever; to, for and upon the sevetrel and respective use and uses, trusts,
intents and purposes hereinafter expressed, limited, cleelerecl and appoint-
ecl of and concerning the same, and every part and parcel thereof respective-

i ly, and to end for no other use or nsee, intent or purpose whatsoever; that

is to eay, as for and ceiieerning all that the beforenientioneél smell tract, lot
or parcel of land so set out for the incorpora.ted society for the propagation of
the Gospel in foreign parts, as aforesaid. being; part and parcel of the said.
tract of lencl an cl premises hereby g1'e.nte(_l, ratified and eontirmecl, and Within
the township, by these p1.'eeent.s he1'eina.i‘tereonstiiuted, end every part and
parcel of the same lot of lzincl with the e.ppurtena.nees to the same belc)nging»;,
(except as is hereinbefore (#1Z\2(3(i*]_)l7.(3(1) to and for the only proper and separate
use and behoof of the society for the p1'o13e,<_m.tio1‘1 of the Ctoepel in foreign
p_z11'ts above mentio11ccil, e'.n(l their sueeessors forever, and to midi for no other
use or uses, intent or purpose \V11€LtBO6V'(31.‘; zmcl as for end concerning all
t.ha.t the beforementionecl sxnell tmet, lot or parcel of land so set out as encl

.t‘or e. Globe. for the use of it minister of the Gospel in communion of the

Clrurch of Eiiglencl as by low established, being anrt and parcel of the Eettid.
trzn:-.t of lencl and premises hereby g;renter.El, 1-entitle end contirmecl, encl within
the township by these presents her-eimrfter eonstitntecl, end every part and
parcel of the same lot of lend with the eppn.1"tenenees to the some belonging,
(except es is hereizobefore excepted) in trust and its for 3. Globe forever,to marl
for the only proper end sepamte use, 1;xenefit end bcfhoof of the tirst minister
oi‘ the Gospel in eonnnunion oi’ the Ohureli oi’ I4lr1gla.n<l, as by low esteblishecl,
having the core of eouls end residing; on the said tract of land hereby g;rente(1,
and his successors foreveir, rninisters mi-l nforeseicl, t‘o1'thotin1el)ei1;1g, 1'esicli11g
es eforeeeicl, anal to and for no ot.l.1er use or uses, intent or purpo.»-.«,e wl1etso-
ever ; encl as for end co'11eer1:ning; ell that the bei‘oren1e'ntionecl smell tract, lot
o1'pzL1'eeloi' lencl so eet out for tho iirst iininieteron the sziicl t1's.etof1:nn1
hereby grzmted, the same lot or p2u.'eo1ot' lnncl being;pe1't m.1<lpzt1'ee1of the
smue_t1'eet hereby g~;rent.ec7l, 1‘Iltili(i2(1ft1]C1 eoniirxnecl, and Witliill the township,
bytliese presents herei.no1‘tei:r eonstitutecl, and every pert end pmreel of the
same lot of 111.1161 with the oppnrte1l'xa.1'xeesto the some belonging, (e:»:eept as is
horeinbefo1'e exeeptecl) in tr'ue.t, to e'1..uii‘or' the sole, proper zmcl sepamtta use,
benetit and behooi‘ of the first :~:c.~.tti;lc-;-.<l 1'l'llIii£'5l£}1‘(§)f the Gospel that shall be-.
settled ztncl oI'1’lein,ti'ng on the lsititl tnr,-.t of loncl hereby g2;rzinte<.l, his heirs and
eesigns forever ; end in trust, also, t.1m,t our seicl grozutees, their heirs and
essigirs, shell 'well and truly, byggoocl tmcl enlilleient eesnrenees in the law,
convey the some last ruenti.oneri s1'no.l1 tmet: or lot of him], with the eppurte~
noneee, to em-.11 rninister oi’ the Gospel as elm1lbe,I“u'st settlecl and ol7111eizx.1:i1'ip,'
an-is at‘orese.ic"l, his hoire ILTIC1 ittltésigllts lbrever, in fee sixnplo, as soon as may he
efter snelti rninister she.l1 be settled zmcl oiliein.ting_z; es ot‘orese.iu;1, znnl to and
for no other nee or Ilt-lF3.t'4, intent or purpose vvl'1e.t,soeve1r; and as for encl eon~
(.'.e1'ni“ng ell tltmt other small 'trm:-.t, lot or parcel of l:L1'1.C1 so eet out for the uee

,oi' the eehoo1«1noste1', being; e.'l.~:-to part encl pen:ee‘l of said tract of leml onrl

pre1'nises hereby granted, mtitiecl zmd eonihrmecl, and "\vi.t1“1in the township by
these presents herein e.t‘ter const;itutecl, and every part and pereel of the same
lot of 1:nn‘l with the nppurtoneness to the :~::m‘x1e 'l3e1o13gi‘1'xg*, (exoept ms is here-
inbefore ermeptecl) in trust, forever, to and for the sole e1n:'lse1:)a.1'ete11se,
benefit end. behoot of the first public t3¢;5l100l-11lil.E4t€*.]..‘ of the township by these
presents he1'eina..i'ter ecmet:it11tec1 and erected, of1'ieieti1:1g' emit resiclent in the
township marl his successors, sel1oo1~mesters as s.t‘o1'esa.id, forever, and to and

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fox‘ no other use or uses, intent or purpose whatsoever; and as for and com
earning all the rest, residue and remainder of the said tract of land, tene-
ments, hereditaments and premises hereby granted, ratified and confirmed.
To HAVE AND ro I-IOLD, one full and equal three-and-twentieth part (the
whole into twenty—three equal parts to be clivided) of the said rest,resiclue and
remainder, and every part and parcel thereof, with all and every the appur-
tenances to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining, (except as is
hereinbefore excepted) unto each of them, the said Nathan Stone, William
Swan, Waldron Blaare, John Abeel, William Puntine, Michael Nan, John
ililcflinnis, Richard lvlcGinnis, Robert lVIcCiinn1s, Patrick Walsh, James Abeel,
Jhlclward Mcflollom, Marinus Low, Edward Patten, Anclries Itiegher, George
Klein, Thomas Lupton, Duncan ltiobertson, Samuel Stevens, ohn Pesinger,
George Luearn, Francis Grooms, and James Cobham, their heirs and assigns
respectively, to their only proper and separate use and behoof respectively
forever, and tenants in common, an.d not as joint tenants, and to and for no
other use or uses, intent or purpose whatsoever, all and singular the said
tract of land and premises hereby granted, and every part and parcel thereof’,
to be holden of us, our heirs, and successors in free and common socage as
of our manor of East Greenwich, in our County of Kent, within our Kingdom
of Great British, yielding, rendering and paying therefor yearly, and every
year forever. unto us, our heirs, and successors, at our Custom House in our
city of New York, in our said province oi’ New York, unto our or their Col;
lector or l~teceiver-Gleneiial, then for the time being, on the Feast of the An-
nunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, comrnonly called Lady Day, the year-
ly rent of two shillings and six pence sterling for each and every lnnidreal
acres of the above granted lands, and so in proportion for any lesser quanti-
ty thereof, saving and except for such parts of the said lands allowed for
highways, as above mentioned, in lien and head of all other rents, services,
dues, duties and demands whatsoever, for the hereby granted lands and prein-
rises, or any part thereot‘; and we do of our especial grace and certain k1'l0'Wl-
edge and meer motion create. erect and constitute, the said large tract of
land containing 24.500 acres of land hereinbefore rnentionecl, and every part
and parcel thereof a township forever, 'hereal‘te1- to be, continue and remain,
and by the name of Wrsnsoze, forever and hereafter to be called and known ;
and for the better and more easily carrying on and managing the public af-
fairs and business of the said township, our royal will and pleasure is, and
we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant to the inhal;)i-
tants of the said township, all the powers, authorities, privileges, and advan-
tages heretofore given and granted to, or legally enjoyed by any or either
our other townships, within our said province of New Yorlt ,-, and we also oi-~
claim and establish, that there shall be forever, l'1ereai’te1' in the said township,
two assessors, one treasurer, two overseers of the lrigliwa , two overseers of
the poor, one collector, and four constables, elected £l.1‘l(. chosen out of the
inhabitants of the said township yearly, and every year on tlie_t.liircl ’I.‘uesc'lay
of May, at thelmost public place in the said township, by the majority of the
freeholders tliereoi’ then and there met, and assembled for that purpose,
hereby cleclaring that wheresocver the first election in the said towns "lip shall
be held, the future election shall forever thereai’ter be held in the same place
as near as may be, and giviiig and granting to the said oi‘1‘i.cers so chosen,
‘power and authority to exercise their said several and respective oiiices dur-
iing one whole year from such an election‘ and until others are legally chosen’
and elected in their roomand stead, as fully and amply as any the like officers
have or legally may use or exercise their offices in our said province of New
York. and in case any or either of the officers oi‘ the said township should
die or remove l'rom the said township before the time of their annual service
shall be exercised, or refuse to act in the ofllces for which they shall respect-
ively be chosen, then our royal will and pleasure i'urt11cr is, and we do hereby
direct, ordain and require the freeholclers of the said township to meet at the
place where the the annual election shall be held for the said township and
choose other or others of the saidlinhabitants of the ‘said township in the
place and stead of him orthem so dying or removing or refusing to act with-—

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in forty days next. after such contingency, And to prevent any undue elec~

tion in this case, we do hereby ordain and require that upon every vacancy
ID. the cities of assessors, the treasurer, and in either of the other offices, the

assessors of the said township shall, within ten days next after any such va- '

cancy first happens, appoint the day for such election. and give public notice
thereof in writing, under his or their hands, by affixing such notice on the
church or other most public place in the said township, at the least ten days
before the day appointed for such election; and in default thereof, we do
hereby require the officer or otlicers of the said township, or the survivors of
them, Who, in the order they are hereinbefore mentioned, shall next succeed
him or them so making default, within ten days next after such default, to
appoint the day for such election and give notice thereof as aforesaid, hereby
giving and granting that such person or persons as shall be so chosen by the
majority of such of the freeholders of the said township as shall meet in
manner hereby directed shall have, hold, exercise and enjoy the cities or of-
fices to which he or they shall be so elected and chosen, from the time of
such election until the third Tuesday in May then next following, and until
other or others be legally chosen in his or their place and stead, as fully as
the person or persons in whose place he or they shall be chosen, might or
could have done by virtue of these presents. And we do hereby will and di-4
rect that, this method shall forever hereafter be used for the filling up of all
vacancies that shall happen in any or either of the said offices, between the

annual elections above directed; .P9“O"?_7ir,Z(:!(,7., always, and upon condition nev-y

ertheless, that if our said grantees, their heirs or assigns, or some or one of
them, shall not, within three years next after the date of this, our present
grant, settle on the said tract of land hereby -granted. so many families as
shall amount to one family for every thousand acres of the same tract ; or if
they, our said grantees, or one of them, their or one of their heirs or assigns,
shall not also, within three years, to be computed as aforesaid, plant and ef-
fectually cultivate at the least three acres for every fifty acres of such of the
hereby granted lands as are capable of cultivation; or, if they, our said gran-
tees, or any of them their or of their heirs or assigns, or any other person or
persons by their or any of their privity, consent or procurement, shall fell,
out down, or otherwise destroy any of the pine trees by these presents reserv-
ed to us, our heirs and successors, or hereby intended so to be without the l:io,v--
al License of us, our heirs or successors, for so doing first had and obtained,
that then and in any of these cases this our present grant and everything there-
in contained shall seize and be absolutely void, and the lands and premises
hereby granted shall revert to and rest in us, our heirs and successors, as if
this our present grant had not been made, anything hereinbefore contained
to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. Jfrooidecl, further, and up-
on condition also, nevertheless, and we do hereby for us, our heirs and suc-
cessors direct and appoint that this our present grant shall be registered and
entere‘ on record within six months from the date thereof, in our said E-lec-
retary’s office, in our city of New York, in our said province of New York, in
one of the books of patents there remaining, and that a Docquet shall be al~
so entered in our Auditors oiiice there, for our said province of New York,
and that in default thereof, this our present giant shall be void and of none
effect, anything before inthese presents contaiiied to the contrary thereof in
any wise notwithstanding. And we do, moreover, of our especial grace, cer—
tain knowledge,'and meer motion, consent and agree, that this our present
grant being registered, recorded and a Docquet thereof made as before di-

,rected and appointed, shall be good and effectual in the law to all intents,

instructions and purposes whatsoever, against us, our heirs and successors,

notwithstanding any niiswritiug, niishounding, misnamiug, or other imper-"

faction or omission of, in or in any wise concerning the abovegrantecl or
hereby mentioned or intended to be granted lands, tenements, hereditaraenl s,
and premises, or any part thereof. a

In rnsrxmonr wrmlinor, we have caused these our letters to be made pa_-
tent, and the great seal of our said province of New You 1:, to be hereunto at-
fixed. Wgimess, our said trusty and well beloved WILLIAM Turns, Esournn,



mu‘ said 02. 3tain—Gone1'a.1 3.11:1 Govern.o1'-in»Ol1it"af in and W91‘ our aaicl 'pro‘¢-
ance of New Stork, and the terrxtorlea dependmg _the1'e0n_L 1n A.n1er1ca, Oha.n-
cellor and Vice-Admira.l of the same, at our fort, 111 our cm}; of New York. the

-twenty-e~igb.t11 day of l\Iu.1'a.-11, in the year of our Lo1'd.01mtl1011Ba11d sevcau

lumdz-ed zmd seventy-two, and of our raigg our twelfth.

l+‘irs3t skin. line 28, the words “ eighty chains; then nortlm, six. d0.g1'«::es east,
four hundred mud," and lime forty-six the word “ so,”i11te.1'li1mc1; and secoml
skin. line five, the worcl “before” wrote on Razurn, and line 11ine, the wordss
“ for the time bcaingg 1'esic1ing as a;t'01'et3aic ,” ix‘1tez']im3c1.



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1we11’r_v—«fm.1rt.honsa.nd acme of land in tlm (L<:mnty of ('J1.11'11be1'lzLnd, and e1'ec:t-
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t:3w11;a11ip by the zmmm cf Wilxrlwm. ~

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2ec’dt11i.~s C311a.1~te1.' to 1'¢:2c~.:m:1 and 1'er:n1'der_1 111:3 :-szmm in Windsor ]iec<':z1'daa
‘for IN;-£:c1:'., Lib. N0. 4, page 1, 5!, '3 zmcl 6.
Atteat, I3. .13,I’£.OWN, '1‘. Clerlc.

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'.1‘he within Lettam Pa.te1:1t an e DOC:q1‘u.“-.ted in t11i:3 oflico.
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