{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3436", "width": "2224", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": ",0^", "height": "3317", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "S\u00c2\u00bb \\\\v\\n^0^\\n^0 v-v", "height": "3317", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "HISTORICAL ADDRESS\\nAT THE\\nDEDICATION\\nOF THE\\nSoLDiERS^ Monument\\nIN BARKHAMSTED,\\nSeptember io, 1897.\\nBY\\nWM. WALLACE LEE,\\nMERIDEN, CONN. /^\u00c3\u009fir^- ^l\\\\\\nMERIDEN, CONN.,\\nRepublican Publishing Co.\\n1899.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2llaiiiA**", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "/aA~, d4^, AV\u00c2\u00ab--\u00c2\u00ab-\u00c2\u00ab- \u00c2\u00ab--crv.\\n9iWy 01\\nirlfeUUej. \u00c3\u0084xx.", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "HisTORiCAL Address,\\nBY WM. WALLACH LEE.\\nMr. Chairman and FcIIow Citizens\\nSince the Centennial of this town was observed in 187g, each\\nyear it has been the custom of our people to assemble on\\nSeptember loth to renew our friendships and strengthen the\\nties which bind us as neighbors, friends and kindred, and\\nto-day we add another link in the chain, for we have dedicated\\na monument to the meniory of our soldiers in all the wars for\\nthe past 125 years. In the veins of a large majority of our\\npeople the same blood runs, and although mauy of the names\\ninscribed on this monument are now extinct in the town, they\\nare not forgotten, as our action to-day shows. What I shall\\nhave to say on this occasion will deal largely of the man of the\\nearlier wars. It is not my purpose to ignore the men who\\nkept our Nation undivided, but all the records of that war\\nhave been kept in an admirable manner the name, residence\\nand final record of every soldier is there shown. Thousands\\nupon thousands of those who participated in it are among us\\nto-day, and engaged in the keen activities of life. The story\\nof toil, fierce conflict, privations and sacrifices is told every\\nday to eager ears and willing listeners, and received with ab-\\nsorbing interest, as we all hope will be the case for many\\nyears to come, and because of that, and because of our lack of\\ntime and the additional reason that so little is known of the\\nearlier struggles, I shall deal more largely with them to-day.\\nJust before the struggle for independeuce as a Nation began,\\nin 1774 the Colony of Connecticut had a population of 198,356", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "2 HISTORICAL ADDRESS.\\nwhites,and 6,464 blacks as they were called. Barkhamsted\\nhad 250, Colebrook 150, Hartland 500, Winchester 327, New\\nHartford 985. Perhaps it is well to State here that these towns\\nwere named and plotted as townships by the Colonial Assembly\\nin 1732, and Barkhamsted was said to contain 20,531 acres.\\nWhether any of this land that Stands edgewise was counted\\ntwice, I have no knowledge. It must be borne in mind that\\nthe plotting and naming a township in those days was not an\\nact of incorporation that came later and in each case was a\\nseparate act. Most of the earlier towns had a central point of\\nsettlement, and the large majority, who became residents, had\\ntheir homes near the central point, the settlers being largely\\nfriends and neighbors in the several towns from which they\\ncame, and about their first act was to establish religious wor-\\nship and build a meeting house. Barkhamsted seems to\\nhave been settled around the edges, so to speak, the first\\nsettler being near the line of New Hartford, and the second or\\nthird in the Northeast part of the town. There was a lajge\\nnumber of people and houses on Center Hill as early as 1772,\\nmore than there is to-day. One hundred years ago that sec-\\ntion had more than double the number that is living there\\nnow, and the same is true of the Wallen sHill section. The\\ntown was incorporated and divided into two societies in i779\\nat that time two-thirds of the people of the Winsted society\\nwere residents of this town. The Eastern border, and especi-\\nally Ratlam, was thickly settled as early as 1780. Nearly all the\\nearly settlers were on the hills, for along these four mill streams\\nwas heavy timber, tangled vines and swamps, which could\\nonly be cleared away by degrees, as it is said lawyers get\\nto heaven.\\nIt has always been represented that this town was\\nabout the last section of the State that was made and that\\nthe inhabitants were very poor, in fact, rather below par. The\\nStory used to be told of a very zealous but illiterate Methodist\\nin a town nearby, that when solicited to assist in raising means\\nfor the Wesleyan University at Middletown, so that their min-\\nisters might have better facilities for education, he replied,\\nthat he didn t see no need on t twasn t necessary for a man\\nto be edicated to preach. The Apostles were all good preach-\\ners, but none of em was edicated, they were only fishermen\\nand such like even Paul, the greatest one among em was", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "DEDICATION OF bOLDIERS MONUMENT. 3\\nbrought up at the foot of GammeTs Hill, and everybody knew\\nthat was a low down, ignorant place pcople that lived there\\ndidn t know nothin A similar idea has seemed to prevail\\naboiit people of this town.\\nA Military Company was organized here in 1774, Pele-\\ntiah Allya, Captain. He must have been the senior\\nfor the junior was then only twcnty years old).\\nIsrael Jones was Lieutenant, he too must have been\\nthe senior for the junior was only twenty, John Norton,\\nEnsign. There is no roll of members in existence that I\\nknow of. As most of the settlers were young men, it is safe\\nto say that at that time there were at least fifty subjects for\\nMilitary duty, from 18 to 50), and probably more. I have\\nprepared a catalogue of them all, so far as it is possible to\\ngather the information, but there is not time to read it here\\neven if you could remember it, (as I know you could not),\\nwhich gives the names, time of Service, etc., of all those who\\nserved as soldiers in that struggle, who are in any way identi-\\nfied with the town.\\nI am certain that more than fifty and probably more than\\nsixty were residents of the town at the time of Service. A largc\\nProportion, but no greater than all through the Colony. Of\\nthe total population of Connecticut at that time for it is not\\nprobable there was much increase, if any, during the war) there\\nwould be from 40,000 to 50,000 subject to Military duty.\\nThere were at least 5,000 Loyalists, as they called them-\\nselves, commonly called Tories), I think nearer 10,000; the\\nlarger proportion of which were in Fairfield County. They\\nwere niostly of the Protestant Episcopal Church, honest\\nin their convictions, looking upon revolt against the State\\nand Church, for in England they were closely connected,\\nas a sin against God and lawful authority. They were\\ntreated very harshly of that there is no question, and doubt-\\nless thought life hardly worth the trouble of living. The men\\nwho opposed the Government in our last war had a bed of\\nroses in comparison with the Tories.\\nThe Conn. Records contain something over 28,000 names of\\nmen who served in some capacity during that struggle. That\\nlist represents at least 35,000 different men. You may ask how\\nI know this because in a great many cases the same name was\\nborne by several different men as you will see in the Cata-", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "4 HISTORICAL ADDRESS.\\nlogue. There are forty-five of the Lee name in that book, and\\nI know from my records they represent seventy different\\nmen. 1 am certain that the William Taylor that was killed at\\nthe Danbury raid was not the William Taylor that some of us\\nknew, who died in this town in 1835 and is buried at the Center.\\nI do not believe that the Timothy Tiffany that was killed at the\\nbattle of White Plains in 1776 is the Timothy Tiffany that was\\npensioned in 1840, as a soldier, then living in Hartland.\\nThe David Barber that is buried in the Hollow I am very\\nconfident is not the David Barber that was killed in 1777.\\nI know from records in my possession there were six differ-\\nent Samuel Lees in the Service, and this Catalogue of 130\\nnames that I have prepared represents more than 180 different\\nmen. I am certain that from 35,000 to 40,000 was furnished\\nfrom Connecticut in that eight years struggle. They got small\\npay, and much of that was worthless many of us can remem-\\nber that Continental currency, a pocketful of which would not\\nbuy a bushel of grain. If the advocates of a paper currency\\nhad lived in those days they could easily have secured an ample\\nsupply and found what it was worth.\\nI do not know that any of these men were ever lauded as\\nheroes. I never saw any one of them pictured on the out-\\nside of a horse at a safe distance from the battlefield with a\\ndrawn sword pointing towards the enemy. I never heard that\\nany one of them was voted a medal or sword by Congress, or\\npublicly thanked for his bravery. Perhaps as prominent as\\nany one of the number was Israel Jones, Jr., and he retired\\nfrom Service as Captain. He lived in what is now the oldest\\nhouse in town (I think for it was sold in 1771 to Israel Jones\\nby Simon Baxter, (he called it my mantion, who was\\nafterwards a Tory and went to Halifax. It Stands about one-\\nfourth of a mile north of the Universalist church, and is now\\noccupied by James N. Howard. It is one of the few houses of\\nthat age now Standing in New England, concerning which\\nthere is no tradition that General Washington ever staid\\nthere over night, or stopped to take a drink.\\nThe men who by toil, labor and sacrifice made us a Nation,\\nare dust and ashes long ago. They were piain, earnest, unpre-\\ntentious men who were faithful to duty as they saw it, and\\nwe do well to place their names upon bronze and granite for\\nthe Coming generations to reverence and admire and I am", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "DEDICATION OF SOLDIERS MONUMENT. 5\\nsomewhat proud of the fact that we as a town, are the first to\\nplace their names thus before the public. Some of them I\\nknew and admired and would fain linger upon the subject, but\\nI well know the limitations of the hour.\\nThe war of 1812-15 was a small affair in comparison with the\\nstruggle to establish the independence of the Nation. Another\\ngeneration, sons of the men of 76 were at the heim of\\nState, and managing public aHairs. It did not command a\\nhearty support in New England. It was looked upon as\\noriginating in the South and intended for their special benefit.\\nNew England had large shipping interests that would be in-\\njured by it, and was strong in its Opposition to the doctrine of\\nprotection, as expounded and defended by Mr. Calhoun,\\nYou can see, friends, that times have changed since then, or\\nat least politics have. While the people of Connecticut\\nfurnished only from 2,000 to 3,000 for the Regul\u00c3\u00a4r Army in\\nthat war, it furnished over 10,000 men to guard the coast and\\ndefend this State from Invasion. These were mostly volunteers,\\nall for short terms of Service, and a very few drafted men. I\\nthink no English soldier landed in Connecticut, nor was there\\na life lost by conflict of arms. Between forty and fifty of the\\nmen of this town shared in that Service, such as it was, and\\nthey are duly classified in the Catalogue.\\nAgain in the Mexican war much the same conditions pre-\\nvailed, and but few, in proportion, to the population of the\\nNorth, responded to the call for troops from the General Gov-\\nernment to prosecute a war, which, as Mr. Calhoun said, was\\ncarried on for the benefit of the peculiar institutions of\\nthe South. I find the names of seven only who can be\\nclaimed as of this town, and they are duly placed in the Cata-\\nlogue. Only one of that number is living, so far as I have\\nknowledge, and we greet him as the sole survivor and as the\\nlast man now living in this town, whose father was a soldier of\\nthe Revolution, and we call him Coionel Hodge.\\nI must pass briefly over the causes which led up to the war\\nof 1861-5. The South had mainly controlled the policyof the\\nGovernment from its Organization, and it is the first instance\\nin all history, so far as I have knowledge, of a revolt of the\\nproperty class against the Government, where they had always\\nmade its laws, shaped its policy and had their own way,\\nsimply because they were voted out of control. We^hear much", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "6 HISTORICAL ADDRESS.\\nnow of monopoly, combinations, trusts, etc., and it comes\\nlargely from those who defended a monopol} that had behind\\nit four billions of dollars, and defended it until it was trampled\\nto death by the American people on more than 2,000 battle-\\nfields. They had been told that the men of the North would\\nnever fight to preserve the Union, for their friends at the North\\nwould never allow them to invade the soil of sovereign States,\\netc. Never were a people more greatly mistaken. The thun-\\nder of cannon around Fort Sumter awakened honest, earnest\\nlovers of country and right, that had long been blind to all the\\ndangers which some men foresaw. Never in all human history\\nwas there a grander awakening never a grander response. In\\nthe words of one of our Connecticut poets\\nThey came from the hiUside they came from the grien\\nFrom the streets thronfred with traffic, and surg ing with men\\nFrom loom and from ledg er from Workshop and farni,\\nThe fearless of heart and the mightj of arm.\\nAs the mountain-born torrents exultingly leap\\nWhen their ice fetters melt to the breasts of the deej),\\nLike the winds of the prairie, like the waves of the sea.\\nFor the Union they raUied, these sons of the free,\\nAnd they flung- out their banner, the old starry banner,\\nTheir father s proud banner, the Hng of the free.\\nMen of all creeds, parties and sects, rallied, animated by\\na common Impulse to raise the flag which had been torn down\\nby those who had sworn allegiance to it, and pledged their\\nfaith to the Government and to each other to replace it there\\nat whatever cost.\\nLet me relate an instance showing that spirit in men whom\\nmany of you know\\nAfter the firing on Fort Sumter, a Democrat of this town\\nprominent in his party, visited a brother Democrat in New\\nHartford and proposed to him to enlist (and I have the story\\nfrom him), but he replied you know we are Democrats. We\\ncan t well mix in this matter you know what we have said and\\nhow we have voted, the response came promptly, I don t\\ncare a d what I have said or how I have voted, I am going\\nin for the old flag You men of New Hartford know well\\nthe story of Drum Major Benjamin G. Loomis, whom as a\\nsoldier you buried a few years since.\\nThe other is here to-day and we greet him as a soldier of\\ntwo wars, the oldest one now living in this town and the long-\\nest record of Service, Colonel Justin Hodge. Now let me teil", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "DEDICATION OF SOLDIERS MONUMENT. 7\\nanother, which came under my own Observation. A personal\\nfriend and I used often to discuss these questions during the\\ncampaign of 1860, and, in a heated discussion, he made this\\nStatement If this thing ever comes to a fight I will draw\\nmy sword for the South. No you will not, was the reply.\\nWhat is the reason I will not? Because you think too\\nmuch of the flag. After the firing on Sumter, I watched him\\nclosely. He was so excited he could not work, but walked\\nthe streets. That night a war meeting was held he was\\npresent, was called upon to speak. He stepped upon the\\nplatform and said I can t talk I never made a speech in\\nmy life, and turning to the flag, said I have followed that\\nflag over the world it has protected me in every port, and by\\nrU protect it now. You who know how he led the\\nSecond, H. A., in that terrible charge at Cold Harbor know\\nhow Elisha S. Kellogg kept his word. Let me relate another\\nof one born and reared in this town, for remember, friends,\\nto-day we are not talkiiig of Generals and noted heroes, but of\\npiain, common men. This man had enlisted in the Seventh\\nC. V., had been in several battles. and shared in the fortunes\\nof that Regiment. It was at the time when the men were\\nasked to re-enlist as Veterans. I wrote to him not to re-enlist,\\nsaying, You have done your share you have a wife and four\\nsmall children they need you mine are dead, I cau go. If\\nthe Government needs more men from our family, let them\\ngive me a place I can do a man s duty somewhere, even with\\nmy disability. The reply came at once I have re-enlisted\\nthe Government needs me I will see the end of this or it shall\\nsee the end of me. He was the oldest of the brothers whose\\nname is on the brown stone monument in the Valley Cemetery.\\nThese instances show the spirit which animated the great\\nmass of the common people a deep, earnest determinatiou to\\nmaintain our Nation at whatever cost of life or treasure. There\\nis not time to foUow the long story of four weary years, the at\\ntimes despairing wail when it almost seemed as if God had\\nforsaken us, until at length the long wished for victory came\\nand the survivors returned to receive the welcome plaudits and\\ncongratulations of an undivided and redeemed Nation.\\nTo-day after weary years of waiting, of hope often deferred,\\nwe dedicate and set apart for all Coming time, a monument\\nbeariug the names of those of our boys who helped to win in", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8 HISTORICAL ADDRESS.\\nthat struggle. Let the morning sun touch itwith its gladsome\\nrays and its departing beams gild it with mellow light. Here\u00c2\u00bb\\nnear where the forefathers of the hamlet sleep let it stand\\nthrough all the Coming years here let children and children s\\nchildren come to read the names and hear the story of the men\\nwho helped to make, defend and preserve the best Government\\nyet given to man.\\nSuffer me in closing to use the language of a Western poet\\nit is better than anythiug I can compose), a tribute to his\\ndead comrades\\nThe patriots sleep in the land of their choice,\\nIn the robes of a martyr aU gory,\\nBut they heed not the tones of a world-wakinf, voice\\nThat would cover their ashes with ylory.\\nWhat reck they of riches, what care they for fanie,\\nOr a World decked and trarland in beauty\\nIf the marble shall speak that records each proud nanie,\\nThey died at their post doing- duty.\\nThe pilot who stood at the heim of our bark,\\nUnmoved by the tempest s coniniotion,\\nWas swept from the deck in the Storni and the dark\\nAnd sank, neath the depths of the ocean.\\nBut little he ll reck of the life that it cost,\\nIf our flag shall still float in beauty,\\nAnd eniblaze on its folds of the pilot we lost,\\nHe died at his post doing duty.\\nThe warrior chieftain has g one to his rest,\\nThe sod of the niountain his pillow,\\nFor his bed, the broad earth has opened its breast,\\nHis dirffe is the ocean s sad billow.\\nAs lonfT as the ocean wave beats on the shore,\\nAnd our Valleys shall blooni out in beauty.\\nSo lonf, shall our Country its heroes deplore\\nWho died at their post doing- duty.\\nPn 1.8 ii", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3330", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00leew_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "^0\\ni \u00c2\u00abi\\n^J-\\n\\\\Wm\\n.0)\\n4a*-\\n4i^-\\nDOBBS BROS.\\nLIBRARY BINDING\\nST. 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