The Connecticut River And the Valley of the Connecticut Three Hundred And Fifty
The Connecticut River And the Valley of the Connecticut Three Hundred And Fifty
Edwin M Edwin Monroe Bacon
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" Almost the only communication between the houses, according to another account, was by passages underground from cellar to cellar. Such was the little village within the rude walls of the picketed fort on the night before the attack, on the last of 170 Connecticut River February. When that night closed down Sheldon counts two himdred and ninety-one souls here. Of these, he finds, twenty were garrison soldiers ; two were visitors from Hatfield ; three. Frenchmen from Canada ; one, a friendly I...ndian ; and three, negro slaves. The rest were the towns- people, of all ages, "from Widow Allison of eigthy-four years, to John, the youngling of Deacon Trench's flock, of four weeks. " In the minister's house with him were his family, — his wife Eunice, a daughter of Eleazer Mather, the earlier Northampton minister, and seven of their eight living children, with two negro slaves, a maid and a man, — and the two soldiers as guard. In the Stebbins house were three families and a guard. In the Sheldon house, — the ensign's family, and his newly married son with his bride, bom Hannah Chapin of Springfield, whose wed- ding journey had been a winter's trip from Springfield to this house on horseback, the bride riding a pillion behind the groom.
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