History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut: From the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1854 ... Including the Present Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, and a Part of Oxford and Middlebury, Volume 2Bronson Brothers, 1872 - Bethlehem (Conn. : Town) |
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Page 844
... passed away , as is stated on a preceding page , but the interest still lingers around the ancient locality , and our artist has given a sketch of it for a future chapter . These few names sufficed their first wants , as they builded ...
... passed away , as is stated on a preceding page , but the interest still lingers around the ancient locality , and our artist has given a sketch of it for a future chapter . These few names sufficed their first wants , as they builded ...
Page 851
... passed through our town during the Revolutionary war ; that it was so called because an ox broke his neck while descending the hill , drawing heavy cannon . Such an accident may have occurred , but it was called by this name , in the ...
... passed through our town during the Revolutionary war ; that it was so called because an ox broke his neck while descending the hill , drawing heavy cannon . Such an accident may have occurred , but it was called by this name , in the ...
Page 859
... passed by this pond , which is called Cranberry Pond , and noti- cing that the frogs were very musical , the odd fancy of the mo- ment suggested to him , that he should name it the " Helicon Spring . " Acting upon the thought , he ...
... passed by this pond , which is called Cranberry Pond , and noti- cing that the frogs were very musical , the odd fancy of the mo- ment suggested to him , that he should name it the " Helicon Spring . " Acting upon the thought , he ...
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... passed away with them , and we can now form a true estimate of their character , and the right and wrong of their conduct , since all passion and prejudice have long since been buried in the grave of years . Still , there is yet great ...
... passed away with them , and we can now form a true estimate of their character , and the right and wrong of their conduct , since all passion and prejudice have long since been buried in the grave of years . Still , there is yet great ...
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... passed away ! Your lights have gone out on the shore ! Your thin smokes ro longer curl faintly amid the thick woods ! Well do we love your good old Indian names , and would that more of them , almost the sole relic of your once pow ...
... passed away ! Your lights have gone out on the shore ! Your thin smokes ro longer curl faintly amid the thick woods ! Well do we love your good old Indian names , and would that more of them , almost the sole relic of your once pow ...
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