250th ANNIVERSARY EDITION NORWICH BULLETIN, JULY 3d, 1S09. 19 HISTORICAL, AND SOCIAL EVENTS WHICH SHOW IMPORTANT PROGRESS

was from seventeen.) , town of Norwich aforesaid, by the ing them that he had been for house Jesse Brown on The David Nevins, John Kins- tured to run to schedule, was taken by a French ship, NORWICH WANT8 CITY CHARTER. (Continued page pursued kept by Huntington, closely any trip of A small sum was raised towards the house of Caleb Bushnell and the house two hours by something which had the green. This Jesse Brown built the man, 'William Adams, Asa Bacon, Lu- carried' passengers between Norwich chased on shore by an English man cf Widow - Norwich or Nook In on Isle of and set on Petition of 1784 and Names building of the bridge by lottery, but Chapman, from appearance a four wheeled carriage. house now known as the Rock ther Payne, Jedediah Johnson, Thom- Town and the Landing. Some one war the France, Signers' the was finished it was wharf bridge, nd falling into the old In the center of which were fixed two home for children, and in 1790 he was as Coit, Joseph Baker, John Parish, describing it says: "His fatrons, most, fire. A CharUr Granted Changts Sine when bridge road! Trading-cov- e on one toe so convenience to a little southerly o large balls, of fire; that he, as the only licensed to a tavern there. In the Frederick Nathan Williams, ly old ladies, were never in a The captain .of schooner Lark Madf.' . found to great a keep Stanley, hurry 20-g- - the that another lottery was bridge and the present rates of toll alternative to escape, put spurs to his early part of the Revolutionary war Zimri Murdock, Seth Grosvenor, God- and felt perfectly safe in Mr. Ben- voyage reported being boarded by a public as established by a resolve of this horse, and had rode the rate of ten he had been an and 'con- David nett's as it was im- English and very harshly - (ranted by the Legislature in the fall at express agept frey Grosvenor, John McClellon, care, physically ship him. Soon after the Revolution the ques- 177 278 or 926 "for fin- - Assembly in May, A. D. 1805, are .here- miles an hopr. He was here interrupt- fidential messenger of the state. His Holmes; Amos Jedediah Kim- possible for bis horses to move faster used, but had nothing taken from of of J to raise to be col- ed Payne. he was chased a tion organising all active centers of Ishing and completing the great Wharf by continued, and authorized by the family, who told him that it hotel was famous for its good dinners, ball, Hezeklah Bugbee. .Stephen Tuck- than a slow trot. It was an easy task On the same trip by businesAsunder a city government wim Chelsea In Norwicn." lected until said whole road' between was the stage .which ran in the night and for the delicacies which his stages er, and their associates, and were for an active man on fopt, following French privateer, but escaped. Bridge at said Norwich New Lon- from were they widely discussed, and as a rexult of The highway near this bridge was landing and Plainfield to Norwich, and that continually bringing from the constituted a corporation, by the name the same route, to distance poor old this discussion in Norwich the follow- - don, is Into a. state of re which he took to be of fire were of - a portion- of Mr. Breed's put complete balls larger cities. Merchants from the West the Norwich and Woodstock Turn- Bennett's conveyance." tho ship wra ing petition- wss and signed originally and the commissioners aforesaid more - .Up- 8.hunt-In- g dis- A run- For mutual protection prepared lions lot. The completion of the pair; nothing than lighted lamps- Indies stayed there, and many pike company. The road was similar line was established, sent out in under convoy of ono by the residents of the village sites of In all are hereby aiuthorized to borrow money on which the poor terrified countryman with hounds and .servant continued in 1846, no divi- to it did not fleets, bridge led to Improvements the on party having paid ning Greeneville, but prove or mora armed ships. One such fleet, Bean Hill. Old Norwich, the Falls, In Its. The pres- the credit of said .toll, for the pur- drew his handkerchief from his pock- started out from his door. Here Presi- dends for six years. , profitable. Omnibuses followed, that Side: roads neighborhood. pose of said road. et, wiped his to belonging in Norwich, but sailing from Chelsea and the West ent street below Christ making and repairing the sweat from face, bid dent Adams was accustomed stop of Hough's, which ran from the city New consisted of the Washington and tiled tre the avails thereof for the them a .good and his on his between seat of" govern- The Colchester and Norwich to Bean well London, ships church was widened; the road on the ' night, pursued way the turnpik Hill, being remembered, 1 Memorial of for Privl-lege- s. reimbursement of said money, Journey.", '. ' ment his is Hope, Com. Colt, guns: Sally, Capt. Norwich, City west side between the bridge and and "seat in Massachusetts." road, the company being incorporated as his long, siderseated sleigh. 12 Gen. Lincoln, Capt. Jany 1784.. Cont. in May, 1784. - new with an annual Interest not exceeding The Norwich tells us on in 1805 But the of the horse McCarty, guns; Beach was improved- and a " Paeket that by Roger Bulkley and others, with coming Mr. supercar- To tha Honorable Cansral Bandy six per anmmi." . . The first tavern of whom 1, In Lord, Jedediah Kelley. Assembly . road opened from Norwich Landing to per 'cent, keeper Wednesday evening. Aug. 1797, John extended from the Bacon Academy in railroad 1870, later changing to the Fair Capt. to be hnlden by at New Ha- In 1812 another piece . of road, waj we find record in Norwich was Thomas Adams and in town. "The Colchester to Iron works efficient the go: and the schooners Lady, adjournm. the New London road. lady arrived Fitch's in present electric service, Leffingwell, and the Favorite, Capt. ven, on the Second Thursday of Jan- Cau-lkin- added, extendi! in a direct line from Waterman. In 1679, the matross welcome in 1807 Miss tell us that the first December, company came out to Bozrah, but another piece of day of the omnibus passed by forever, . uary Next, the Memorial of a in the court house on the green in Nor town, voted that he should be "desired them in full uniform; a fed- road was added,, the as did that of the coach at the ; Palnc. Numbjr person to set up a chaise Norwich - andred bringing turnpike stage Even before tne Kevoiution, commu- of the Inhabitants living In the Flrwt Samuel Brown, and he was fined wich to the turnpike; , to keep the ordinary. And for his eral salute of 16 guns. Th proceeded lo the Backus iron works at what is coming of the railroad.. In was he is four now Yantic. arid nication had been maintained with the and Chelsea Societys the Town of for riding in it to meeting. At the encouragement granted the next day to Providence, .a large Seven years later, upon Our leisurely forefathers old world. Two or three times a year Norwich humbly sheweth Revolution "Resolve Extending the Mohegan ackers of paster land where he can company on horseback them petition of .Thomas and oth- contented with coach time of the she says that - attending Lathrop stage a vessel sent out from Norwich or That your Memorialists from their were owned Turnoike Road Passed May ,1814. convenyently find it ny about the val- out of town." . ers, the the or even with "Bennett's Hour- only six chaises, or gigs, - general assembly passed travel, New London would across the local Circumstances are not able to "Upon the , petition of the town of ley going from his house into the Mr. Brown advertised as follows in following road: would rub their In astonish- journjy In the town. These six were owned bed woods." resolve, altering the ly," eyes sea, with a variety of goods, gain a Subsistence by agriculture, That Gen. Col. Heze-kia- h Norwich, showing that anew road His house was nearly oppo- the Weekly Register for Nov. 5, 1793: "Resolved by this Assembly, That ment to see our streets filled returning by Jabez Hunijngton, e - today and "the freshest advices from Eng- the been laid oiit, order of the site the the Meeting-hous- near in- the . Huntington, Dr. Daniel Lathrop, lately by rocks, "The Subscriber begs leave to prayer of said petition be granted, with electric cars and automobiles. land." After the war this trade was Dr. Rogers. Backus, County Court, leading from the Court the site of the old Sterry factory. form the Public that the MAIL STAGE and that the said alteration of said Perhaps who knows? they might Theophilus Elijah House in sum Norwich, in a direct une About 1690 Simon was will be resumed, but partly owing to the small Therefor, "have for many yeari past Esq., and Nathaniel Backus, Esq., of Huntintgon run from this to the first of May road established as part of the wish they had made some of those Blze of and Commerce & to the Mohegan Tumwike Road. "to an or bouse - of the vessels that time, Turn'd their Attention to Chelsea. Dr. Lathrop's chaise was re- appointed keep ordnary next as follows: sme, viz., beginning at the lands of same streets a trlMe wider before it to tne oi me voyages Mechanical That the lata as "Resolved by this Assembly, That of publique entertaynement" near "Leave Norwich and Jehiel Johnson, north of Mr. was too late. But with- the al- partly lengtn Art. during garded particularly splendid, with Wednesdays Baker's; airship IV I J v - of war have been unfortunate In morocco said new laid road' from the Court where is now the entrance to Cemetery 7 o'clock in thence north 20 30, west 12 most lines of diri- ' " onnutin niv they Its yellow body, red top, and liane. Saturdays at the Morning deg. rods perfected, and public the West Indlartstrade. their Navigation the greatest window upon one side. - House in said Norw'rtcii, beginning at Four years later Caleb Abell arrive at Mt. Thomas Pool's City Cof- 17 l)nks; thence north 21 deg. 15, west gible balloons al"Rdy projected, who having the south end of tha south abutment was "to "for fee 30 13 t part Captured by the Enemy and appointed keep ordinari," House, New London, at half past rods links; thence 32 deg. 45, knows what the end may be? Burnt - and them when In 1768 be- at Lord's bridge to the Mohegan Turn this yeare or till another be choosen." leave ditto west 13 rods 6 41 In 1796, tha Cares, a small was destroyed by weekly communication Ten; at half past Eleven, links; thence north ship, they were at New London. , tween Norwich and Providence was Dike, be annexed to said turnpike road arrive at Saybrook ferry the same days deg. 30, west 24 rods; thence north 65, HISTORY OF TRANSPORTATION built in Norwich for the Irish trade. and' become of the same; and that One of the most famous of these 30, 23 5 That Notwithstanding all their Mis- established by means of stage coaches part where they will meet the New Haven west rods links, to the inter- BY WATER.' Her commander was Roswell Roath, ef- the commissioners of said road taverns was the old to ab- fortunes They are renewing their which left Lathrop's tavern at the head turnpike Leffingwell Inn, Stage; Return from Saybrook Monday section, the center of the turnpike and on her first voyage she was forts In Commerce morn- be. and they are hereby authorized to which was known far and wide for a and road as week over three months. extending their at of the green every Wednesday Tuesday Mornings, arrive at said originally laid out; and the We have traced the history of trans- sent only a Necessary for them tt. so beneficial t In 1782 the road to New Lon- Preceive loans of money from any per hundred years, having been opened in Pool's, New London, at Ml - o'clock. said piece of road laid out and made as But on her second or third trip she ing. son or persons, sufficient to make and 1701. .This bouse is portation, as affecting the history of the Country in general yet many n1 don was made a turnpike the first still standing, neaf Leave New London at 2 o'clock P. M., aforesaid, shall, be and remain part of Norwich from the earliest conditions was taken by a French armed vessel, Inconvenience in complete said new laid road. Harland's corner. Parts of it were built arrive at Norwich same The the said turnpifte in the same carried into a French and con- great do arise for wn turnpike road the United States. the road annexed William or Evening. road, as they existed, when the Indians were port, of due regulation of the Internal "Provided, that by by ' Stephen Backus, and Stage" for Providence leaves Norwich manner as if the same had been orig- demned. Ships sailed also to Liver- polira this Assembly in May, 1806, to the were altered Thomas Lef- so the ruling people, through the colonial, of said Town which are Sensibly felj The road between Norwich and New by Ensign Tuesday & Friday mornings at 5 inally laid out, and that part of said and recent times, as re- pool, to London, to Bordeaux, to Spain as .well as Memo London was laid out of aforesaid Mohegan Turnpike, leading fingwell into practically its present o'clock, meets the Providence at turnpike i"oad for which this alteration revolutionary and y Strangers your by order the from the Wharf in the Parish form. Stage gards land transportation. . We will Portugal. rlallst In almont every merchanti! as early as 1970, the work bridge ( Voluntown, exchanges Mails and Pas- is a substitute, is hereby discontinued." now which legislature of Chelsea, until it intersects the Mo Miss Perkins, in her book on Old It was in briefly sketch the changes Transaction. That for the promotlo being directed by Joshua Raymond, sengers and returns to Norwich and provided the charter that have taken in water trans- of It I voul - near cove, be Houses of place In 1805 fleet of five and Trade, needles to Inform who was given in return a piece of hegan Turnpike Trading Norwich, describes the inn Providence the same days." persons traveling to attend worship or Before the of a brigs made and completed at the as,,follOws: "The house is and In or town portation. coming the schooner started for the Straits of Honor.. That a full Credit and strld land large enough for a farm upon large January, 1797, Jesse Brown & Co funerals, society, or freeman's white men canoes and were In ar the-roa- same time, in to aia grant; rambling, and of it dugouts Belle Isle on a fishing Four oth- punctuality performing contracts the route. But for conformity many parts bear advertised that "The Mail meetings, and persons obliged to do trip. I many years and both roads when so completed to the marks of Some of Diligence the highest method of transportation In a few and a absolutely necessary. . .That it was little better than an Indian great age. the from Boston, through Providence, &c, military duty, traveling to attend train- used the Indians. ' The settlers ers fotlowed days, part matter no siai.d on an equal ground, and, the rooms are on a much lower level than' to New York, run ings, to arid by early of them visited the Mediterranean be- of small Importance that trail, and few people attempted" to performs the through persons going from, grist of Norwich, to old Com-modi- one town to nrinerpal and interest of the sums ex others, and these may indicate where in less than five runs twice mill3, and persons one according accounts, fore their return. Wharves, Streets & Highway be make the Journey from In to be re- days a living within used "pinks and snows," and then for business and Con- the other and return the same day. pended making said roads, additions were made to the original week. mile of said gate,' and not With the declaration of war with kept the funds of the in Backus ...... passing sloops and brigs. commerce tinually In good . .That thn was on funded from gate homestead. The windows "Each from Boston more than one mile beyond said Great Britain in 1812, .the repair. Travel principally horseback, and to pledge the still retain their passenger pays gate It is probable that the. persons and The blockade abovesald regulation cannot take place or with ox carts, and the fords and equal proportions, wooden shutters, the to Providence, three dollars, and from to attend their ordinary business, were of the Thames ceased. avails of the gate on said turnpike for door its g, and the rooms should not goods of the proprietors brought of coast the continued unless your Memorialists have a Juris- numerous windings of the road rend- Providence to New London four dol- be liable, to the payment from water. It Is also the by enemy diction the repayment of said money so loan- are heavily wainscoted, the large north the oi ton; and tnat the should Saybrook by for two years, and American vessels of their Own. Subordinate to ered it inconvenient and dangerous. with interest thereon lars, remainder of the road four company probable that for many years most of that of tho to en- 1789 the a lot- ed toeether the parlor paneled throughout. The en- pence half are al- have liberty to and hold lands disappeared from the coast. After the State, enabling them In legislature granted . penny per mile, and purchase the supplies, all the mail which was act the of which were to be at six per cent, per annum,' whenever trance, was formerly on the north lowed 14 lbs. All extra for the accommodation of their toll war an effort was made to revive the bye Ijiws for their particular com- tery, proceeds there shall be a of monies re- of the house, and it said that in baggage. bag- received, and all the arms, ammuni- West but the mercial wellfare, a Occasion in- used in the improvement of the r.oad, surplus early gage pays at the rate of 100 lbs. a house, not exceeding fifty acres; and tion and manufactured articles from trade with the Indies, Nor ran mT or so much of it as ran the ceived at said gate, over and above the times slave auctions were held at this all rights and shares in said attempt was almost useless. quire. good faith and creillt through sums which said is north door." passenger. turnpike, Europe came up the Thames river by of 15, however essential to a Mercantile The was for gate already s "N. B. The old and vested in the stock of lo- The Norwich Courier October Mohegan territory lottery also over above what line Industry runs property boats. Norwich was an- People ever bo In drawn at Norwich in 1791, and pledged, and and from Norwich to Hartford on Tuea- - said company, should be considered undoubtedly 1816, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, expected any great June, shall be found necessary to be expend- cated where it is on account of this "We the to an- degree, unless your Memorialists bi the following May the company was There havs been many speculations days and returns on Wednesdays." personal estate, and the shares of said water to the land- nounced, stop press allowed to ed on said turnpike road', and all that in to this house was company should be transferable easy transportation nounce the arrival at this port of tho a Court of their Own to alt incorporated make the road and was to May, regard why built only ing at the Falls. The shallow water often for the of 'erect a toll-gat- e. The toll commenced annexed thereto previous with its point to the street. It is prob- In 1798 from New York reach- on the books of said company, and in new Steam Boat Connecticut, Captain dispensation Justice, 1806, for and any necessary stages at the cove had sufficient depth for the &c. the and having a concurrent o in June, 1792, In accordance with the repairs able that it was built to face the orig- ed Norwich three times a week, Sun- such manner as said company should boats" Bunker," This steamboat, first cognizance said' commissioners by-la- small used for the first sixty cause within resolution of the as- alterations, that inal road which went over Hill at noon, and on by their direct. . of its kind upon the waters of the arising certain limits, following general or make hereafter from time Sentry day Wednesday and years after the settlement of Norwich. won- with the Court of Common In sembly: have may from about this point. There was no Friday by 9 a, m.; and from Boston ar- Thames, was greeted with great Law to time." road in front of the Thomas rived oa In 1827 Newcomb der and curiosity. Before long, the old this State your Memorialist would Harland Thursday. Saturday and Kinney, Henry It is difficult for the genera- for- further ' 1 present lines. In of their humbly Suggest to Hon- ' "A Resolution the Col- house until some time in the middle of Tuesday by p. m. Perkins and Dwight Ripley were "con- tion to form of packet spite your Authorizing The post-roa- d between Norwich and the stituted a a conception the mer were forced out of ors, that the limits they would prOnnM Toll on Road from New in eighteenth century. The land About this time a number of fami body corporate" by the name amount of traffic which passed up and popularity, lection of the Providence was made a turnpike where the Harland house now lies from siection emi- of "The Norwich and Salem Turn- existence, and the old days of uncer- for their Jurisdiction are all the Ter. and' made for the es- stands this of the state down the Thames river in the days within the line London 'to Norwich, Through the Mo 1794, provision was common land until 1737 or 1738, grated to New York state and the pike company." This road led from tainty, in which one might consume a ritory Parish of th tablishment of a, toll gate and the col when Messrs. the wharf in Norwich before the coming of the railroad. week on the voyage to New York, first Society aqd the Society of Chel- hegan Reservation Passed, May, 1792. collected Hezekiah Huntington, Western Reserve, and as means of bridge Landing Overland was means In said lection 06 toll, the money so Simon i emi- to Salem, transportation by forever away. sea Norwich and to Include th 179Z road from Tracy and Richard Hvde were communication between these -' meeting there the road from of the cumbrous coach, and thi passed River Thame and Cove to be used in repairing the appointed a committee to sell "some and the friends who New Haven, by . stage toward Net "Resolved this That Norwich to the bridge over the river grants remained Dragons bridge, carrying of goods for any reat dis- London below high WRter Mark a fa by Assembly, of ye sd Common land lying in the behind Hartshorn's stage wamoh was through Essex. tance must been slow and there may be erected and established between Lisbon and Preston, "at a Town Loth- - have both Regular naviation by steam to New as the most Southerly Extent of tha platt between Ebenezer employed, a wagron. . the commissioners hereafter named called Je.vetfs City." great. lumb?ring The costly. But the river opened a path- York began In 1817. There were two Town of Norwich and rom thence by place London rop's orchard and ve end of ve hill almost as large ;is' a house, and drawn Shetucket turnpike ran through for commerce to distant ti in and by this resolve to be appointed, In May, 1795, "The New and by Thomas well's house six the towns of Volun- way leading steamers on the line, the Connecticut Include the Channel a far a tho on said road Windham Society" was incor- Letfing and to by horpes.. This wagon made six Preston, Griswold, ports and foreign lands. and the and made three In said River or Such and at such place between County attend ye following method to or to Chemung.-Germa- town and to the eastern boun- Fulton, they Stralghta other the house of Williams for the purpose of establishing (viz.. eight yearly trips Sterling The first masters of vessels of whom each week, at New Limit a your Honors Shall Pleaa to dwelling George porated convey and lay out Lotts of sd Land Flats. &c, for the purpose of car- dary line of the state. The company, we were trips per stopping and said Mohegan lands, as the said a turnpike road from Norwich to the Jo- know Captain Kelley and Cap- London and New Haven. Grant and number the. same. No Lott to be rying passengers, freight, and letters. consisting of Amos H. Hubbard, who were in commissioners shall judge most exped- Rhode Island line, through Norwich, more than 4 Rods wide can nah "with their tain Norman, engaged the In 1820. Capt. W. W. Coit. who had And your Memorialist would humblr Platnfleld and Ster- fronting on the 0,ne imagine the enthusiasm with Witter, associates and Barbadoes trade us as 1715. Cap- estab- Honor ient, a gate or turnpike for the pur- Lisbon, Preston, street Westward, and so to. which its arrival Was in Frank- assigns," was incorporated in 1829, and early been commander qf a packet, pray your That the Inhabitant. of a toll from .persons ling. It was provided s usual that per- run, up ye greeted tain Kelley was soon granted by the lished a Sound steamboat line. His living within the aforesaid limit mar pose collecting oth- niu MBiwaro. leaving a nurnwav on lin and Norwich, and how the' continued in operation for more than town on the said road, which toll son traveling on the Sabbath, and Of eagerly div- "free liberty to build vessels first steamboat was the General Jack- be a Corporation with full power traveling wor- the hill at ye Rere ye Lotts one rod letttrs from absent frien.ls. were read. thirty years, paying yearly a small the town to ami shall not' exceed the rates following, er public days to attend public and a halfe Letters were not idend. In 1861 the towns of Point ... the have the son, but he later commanded in suc- Authority to enact bye Laws for tha wide, and leaving the delivered at the Preston, Bush-ne- ll viz.: i ships, funerals, or town or society use of his wharf." In 1717 Caleb cession the Norwich, the Huntress and of their Commerce and bor-Iho- Street or west end of houses of the or Griswold and Voluntown the regulation tot and farmers In the neigh highway at the people three four times purchased applied for a grant by the water- the Worcester. the ireneral Wellfare of said For a traveling or pleasure meetings, ye Lotts 3 rods wide," and to "sell of a day in those days, but mails two or franchise for the sum of $1,375. side Corpora- of four wheels, 0 0s. 9d. of the turnpike passing through sd at convenient for building vessels, Captain Coit was one of the most tion.. And that your Honor wouM carriage their business, Lotts publick Vandue to tne three times a week were the rule, and and the following vote was A carriage of the same to attend farming highest bidder for money till have "letters to be forwarded must be left The first post office at the Landing passed: popular of these enrly steamboat cap- Authorize d. Corporation to appoint a should not be liable to the payment of they was established in 1803. and known as "The town grants to Caleb Bushnell tains. He was accustomed to carry Court to be holden within Juris- kind with two wheels, sold to ye value of 80 or 90 money, the at the office, at loast half an hour be- 20 said or 00.630 3 the toll, Chelsea Landing. In 1827 the name feet square upon ye water upon the back and forth between Nor- diction with full power and I,oaded wagon cart, Wind- vanaue to negm at one of ye Clock on fore the mail clones." Neither was the side of packages authority do. do. 0 0 2 "The Hartford, New London, first of March on was changed to Norwich City, what we west the rockie Point at ye wich and New York, for the accommo- to hear try and determine all personal Empty, and Tolland Society," ye day next at ye house postage the letters prepaid, and Norwich place." of his These where th Single horse cart loaded, . 0 0 2 ham County ot Mr. xnomas this seems to have caused all kinds of know as Town being then Landing dation friends. packages Action, Title of Iind la ' of Joshua "and Lothrop leaving needful 1836 in care on do. 1 consisting Lathrop. hill." to num-be'- 1 called Norwich. Not until did the - Increased number until their concern'd, grounded any Contract Empty, 0.0 his with such, oth highways up ye. trouble the postmasters for a About the 1730 the sloo- - Mar- of or Horses, cattle and mules, associates, together Af this auction five tots were sold of years. names of Norwich and Norwich Town year became somewhat a burden upon made, Injury happening within a1i 0 0 1 er persons as they shall associate with," come into their use. tha, the Elizabeth and the .Success, the busy About this time a limita and that ald Court hav each, . this number being enough to raise the The following notires were taken present 40 captain. may or was Incorporated m nan tor tne pur- Along with these public lines each of tons' displacement, the Olive young man by the name of Adams ap- a concurrent authority In said cause Pleasure travelling required sum, and the remaining land from, the coumns of the Chelsea Cour- stage 25 . 0 0 3 pose of establishing a turnpike road were established1 other more en- Branch of tons. and the Mary of 20, plied to- him for work, and he suggest- with the other Court of Common Iwii Bleigh, - was laid out in. small lots and dis- ier, one appearing in January. 179S, private And each loaded extending from the court house in terprises. In March, 1814, Ezra Backus were engaged in "the trade with the ed that he should assume the care of in thi State, and that all the afore for sleigh Norwich. tributed to various, inhabitants of the and the other In November, 1842. or sled, 0 0 2 Hartford to the court house in town. advertises that he will "comnjence West Jndies. Soon 'afterward a sloop these packages, and should see them said matter an things be under 1 . about the' 1st of a and a schooner were sent to Ireland. delivered to the persons to reairicuons ana a For empty do. 0 0 "Gentlemen will oblige the Post Mas- running April, safely seem regulation For ach rnan and horse. 0 Before many years these turnpikes ter not for WACJ N with four Horses, for the whom they were assigned. From this meet to your Honor and 0:1 well out and well had The lower road, now known as Town by asking letters unless transrwn-tatio- The "New London the bus- Memorialist a "And be it That laid kept are to ror. as of Goods to Providence Summary," humble beginning grew the great in duty bound further resolved, brought about a better day for travel- street, was until 1752 a pentway with tney prepare pay them; and Bo.tin, or New York. A very first newspaper published in eastern iness enterprise known as the Adams ever pray, .dated at Norwich the the monies collected by the said toll. ano turnstiles at either no person w'hatever. will have credit adver- or in ers, and had greatly changed theface gates at this offico for A careful driver will be employed, and Connecticut, contained frequent Express company. any uecemoer, A. D. 1783. shall be expended mending and . at the time the Lefflnirwell postage. quarter of the country, With the turnpike. rs all to his tisements of Norwich vessels, ,as in Signed on News-Pape- is due this business committed charge : keeping in repair the said road, espe came also of the tavern and Inn was built the public ran postage -- 1760: Theo the. Gay highway from those who do chu-- to will be attended to with promptitude." August, Rogers. Zeph. Jennlng;, clally that part of the same which coach. in quite a different direction from that day, nt an- "For Menis or The channel of tha Thames Daniel runs the stage pay for them as arrive. Those And in July. 1S34, A. J. Clark Chignertor. the sloop shifting Rodman. JameaCulhs through the said Mohegan lands, of Washington street of the present. they nounces that the Norwich will Defiance, Obadiah Ayer, master," and river has always been a source of Dudley under the direction and at the discre- who advance a quarters postage wijl Hourly In WoodbrldgePeter Unman, . been In- in tne next tew years we read of "accommodate of to "The sloop Ann, Catkins, mas- trouble to navigators. Early the Joshua Saml. tion of the said commissioners. Taverns had established, Simon have their papers forwarded per first parties pleasure Stephen Warren. deed, the of New inns kept by Huntington, Jr., in New London or any other place. 'Every ter, lyir.Aat Norwich Landing, Is ready nineteenth century a Channel company Tho. Mumford, Simon "And it is further resolved, that the very early.jn history the Capt. Carew house on Elm conveyance after their arrival. and was and we read in the Huntington, said commissioners shall in England." But with greater facilities Joseph CHRI R. LRKFIVOWULL. Jun. attention will be paid by David for freight passengers." organized, Bela Turner. Zabl. Roger. Jr., annually for and with the establishment avenue, now occupied by Mrs. Kelly; in his to the All through the years of the Revo- Norwich Courier of July" 18, 1821, as Samuel Wheat, Palmer the month of June account for the re travel, or in an eariier house on D. Post Master." Whiting power satisfy in t'arew, of . lines In all the the same site; lution, spite of grave danger of less follows: Rufua Jon. Silsbv. ceipt and expenditure of the avails of stage directions, in public." Iathrop, im- by Joseph Reynolds the Reynolds de-la- and the West India trade was "The Norwich Channel Company Willm. Colt. tavern became a place of great "On account of thn and v capture, Jame R. Whitney, the said toll, with the County Court -. bouse near the entrance to difficulty opera- Wood-wort- New-Londo- were ap- the Radi But brisk, owners, and crews not have completed their Samel. Abbott. h. for the of n, and portance. Tavern keepers attending collection of postage by this time the railroad was captains nearly Benjamin Couuty by Ate town and counted us, hospital: and by Sergeant William thtj to the coach. hesitating at the risks since large re- tions in digging out the Channel of Caleb Huntington, In default of sucn account, or of a pointed Hyde, on West Town street. Bills, the trouble of keeping several beginning supersede stage case suc- Thtfrnes: and we are to due of such among the towi officials. No one could hundred the fact of no one The new order of things commenced turns were promised in of the happy Jonathan Sth Harding, application avails, they obtain a license to a House of The LathroD tavern alrea1v 'men accounts, for Norwich with the first stroke of cess. state that there is now a sufficiency of Ebenezer Thomas, Elisha Colt. may be sued by the Treasurer of said keep tioned was one of the famous being benefited by such accofints. and for and the sum Entertainment who had not a good hostelrles for other reasons deemed to he the snade on the Norwk.-- and Worces- water the steamboat packets Joseph Howland, Thomas King. County; and recovered from on the. green. It was built Na- divers Novem- With the close of the war the com- at all times of tide and, of course, at Aaron Cleveland. them shall be under the direc reputation and considerable means. by good! and sufficient, the Cast System, ter Railroad, at Greeneville, Alpiie Billing. applied thaniel on land which he pur-chas- merce Norwich for vessels of bur- Ablel tion of said for the of The tavern served as a clearing Lathrop hereafter will be in this office, ber 18, 1832. The road was finished, of increased rapidly. high water, larger Cheney. Jr., Jeremiah Harris, Court, benefit house the news of the Here in 1737. His son, Azarlah, who adopted were Horses, cattle, sheep, swine, lumber then." Phineas Leffingwell John said road; and in case of the death or for day. succeeded under the firm belief that it will, in and trains running the entire Trumbull, came the rider with- his him, became a well known distance of sixty-seve- n miies March, and produce were carried to the West Not content with, the Thames rfver, John Backus, Chauncy Lord, refusal to serve of any or either of the post bag and citizen a the end, be more satisfactaory to all by even with a of water." said the said Court are of letters and his budget of news to prosperous and popular concerned. 1840. The S'tation was built near the Indies, where they were exchanged for "sufficiency E. Huntington, Kufua Hnckua, commissioners, word landlord. In his tavern were held the molasses, I.ong Island sound, and the ocean Itself K rust i is Nathan hereby authorized to appoint another be delivered by of mouth. And S. M. DOWNER, P. M." ' lower end of Shetucket street. sugar, rum, pimento, limes, Perkins, Chsppel, Jr. here gathered the men of the town, for winter assemblies, and entertainments The location chosen by the original tamarinds, pepper, coffee, salt, cot- tha people of Norwich wara constant- Rus. (?) Hubbard, John Thatcher, or others, in his or their .place and of one kind and another. In 1797 ly forward for arti- - where else could learn a Mr. was one difficult of ton.' tobacco, etc. Most of the vessels bringing plans Andw. Zebadiah stead. they anything Marriott About the of the nineteenth proprietors very ficial of Tracy, Jr, Hyde, "And is of the affairs of the day? To be sure, advertises here a performance beginning approach for railroads, although com- in which .these voyages were made waterways. In The Courier Asa Waterman, Jabea Armstrong, it further resolved, that If called . "Brush Newcomb the March 6, we as follows: shall remove or there were newspapers, but they were upon Brush, or' a Pill century Kinney opened paratively easy of approach for turn- were sloops, schooners and brigs of 1822, read Peleg Hyde, Squire Allen. any person destroy any con- for.the Spleen," admission Is. 6d. The hotel known as Kinney's Hotel, and rail- from 35 to 70 tons burden. sea- "At a numerous of gentle- Colt. Andrew ' or otner obstruction said com- few and not widely circulated and In pikes. The routes followed by The meeting Tho. Calkins, gate by tained almost nothing "which we should tavern remained in possession of the later as Merchants' Hotel, the build- roads are generally where there are going shipping belonging in Norwich at men of this city, convened at Kinney'a Joseph Perkins, John Collier, missioners placed in said road for the news. until 1821. when it was ing on Main stret now occupied by the time nve Hotel, on the of the 27th ult., Saml. Lemuel of the said toll, such call At the tavern also the Lathrop family high hils between rivers as is the case this comprised twenty simps, evening Leffingwell, Wentwortl, purpose collecting coaches made their sold to Bela Peck. Shortly after this F. A. Wells Company and the Ge. W. in Norwich. The of the Nor- schooners, five and one ship. on the subject of a Canal from the Jabez Perkins, Elisha person shall forfeit and pay the sum stage headquarters it was Kies "For a lonir time this building brigs waters of the River Thames to Avery, of five L. and great was the excitement and bus- partially destroyed bv fire. In Company. wich & Worcester railroad was one of tide Tho. Fanning. Joseph Yale, pounds money, and such de- 1829 the Union Hotel company mir- - was the leading hotel nf Chelsa Land Worcester Count?, Massachusetts, the Jabez sum as shall be nec- tle attendant upon the arrival and en- - the contributing factors to the growth Among the regular packets runnina Perkins, Jr., George Dennis, Jr., further adjudged coaches. So in- chased the and built the ing. Here President Jackson was following votes were Eben. Wm. essary to the done, to parture of the great, property larg of.Chebea at the expense of Old Nor- from Norwich to New Vork may be passed Huntington, Waterman. Jr, repair damage deed, was the commotion that in the DncK Dunaing now occupied by the tcrtaier.d during his visit to the city wich. the "Voted, That measures ought to be Simeon Carew, Thomas fc recovered, in an action to be in 1S33, when he laid cor stone mentioned Juno, Robert Niles; the Marshall, Chelsea Courier of 3, 1799, we Johnson home. But after the courts the ier Le-- adopted to ascertain the practicability Ellpht. Carew. Isaac Griswold, in proper to the July - Venus. Christopher Vail; and the brought anyCourt try read the following: i were moved to the Landing- the Union of the Uncas Monument. And on the constant of having a Canal from the source of He. Leffingwell, Ablcl Hyde, same, toy the said commissioners, the hotel lost its in balcony of this hotel the of 'During a freshet in the spring of Washington, "the packet," the River in sums so to in popularity and 1834 daughter 1841 was in the Culver. The Lady Washing- Quinabaug Massachusetts, David Greene, Ebenr. Hyde, recovered be applied was advertised for sale. Mayor James Lanman crowned the a bar formed channel Stephen to the head of navigation of the River Denniss, Samuel the same manner as tha avails of said "A Memorial, signed by a number of roses. of the Thames river by sand ton is reported in the marine news as Benja. Hunting ' Across the green. Peck's tavern, President with a ,wreath of brought Thames. Jeremla-- tolls. the Inhabitants of Norwich, was hand- was the down the Shetucket. On account of having "lately niade a trip from New Clement, ton.jr.. ed to opened probably about 1754, witnessed Kinney's Hotel starting London to New and from thence Voted. That Messrs. Charles Rock John Nutter, Jamea Mix. ,' "Provided, nevertheless, that the In, the last Honorable Assembly scenes Revo- for the stages from the Landing this bar the steamboats were frequent- York, well, Williams, and Francis A..LRobt. some of this state, a many stirring during the point and back., in sixty-on- e hours!!" Joseph Niles, Jonathan Trott, said commissioners shall provide exhibiting complaint here to Providence, New Haven. ly delayed in their passage up be a committee for the ', meet to that the Mail were suffered to lution, and the cannon thundered running down river. This Other sloops', to Perkins, pur Jonathan Culver, Darius Peck, person attend constantly at Stages when peace was declared in 1784. This Boston. Hartford, . and Springfield. the trouble, togeth- coasting running pose aforesaid." Zebadiah Hezk. Wlllium. ' said gate, so that travellers paying run on the Sabbath; and praying in house now Clark's Hotel also had its line of er with the inconvenience given by Newport, Boston and other nearby In Lathrop, the viz.: is owned by Mr. Fenton. City induced com- ports, were the Norwich Ben- the Canal of Intelligence, under Gardr. Carpenter, Elisha Burchard, uch toll be not obstructed following' words, 'That this the ice in the winter, the Packet, fol- thereby. would stages to Hartford, drtvem by Orrin date of November 26, 1828, is the Abel Brewster. John Durkee. "And it is further resolved, that Honorable Assembly take Into An editorial in the Chelsea pany to build an extension of their jamin Culver; the Swallow. Zeplianish notice: . - Messrs. William Stewart and Samuel consideration the case now laid before All over the town, wherever roads Perrigo. road from Norwich the bank of Jennings; the Lark, Jonathan Roath, lowing Berlah Lathrop, Andrew Griswold s Courier to these says: along "All to New-Londo- n, met, a was alluding days persons friendly petitioning Bela Prck, Samuel Thntcher. Wheat, of and Joseph them, and define the limits, and intent bridge built, or a the river to Allyn's Point. The Nor- and the Royal Oak, Timothy Parker. in ' of the law of this State clustered these tav- in Congress for aid making a Canal Ebenezer Jones, Benjamin Vheat,Jr. How land and Ebenezer Huntington, respecting together., "Think of the Hartforo stage (O. wich Courier speaks of Its opening from this place to Boston. and for Charles of and are said Stages, within said State; and if erns sprang up. The list of landlords 1843 as follows: ,. It was not unusual for from to Zeph Huntington, Charlton, Norwich, be, they hereby includes Perrigo, driver), toiling in, nfter a nine sixty aid In deepinlng the Channel of the Nathaniel Parish. Joshua Abel, appointed commissioners for the pur- rtecessary make such additional pro- Elderkin at the Falls, Major hours' experience a journey too fa eighty American vessels to be reported are to meet jr. of vision as their wisdom, shall Durkee at Bean, Hill, Morgan in the ""Rail Road Celebration. The" com- in one West Indian at the same River Thames, requested Joshua Huntington, Tlmo. Brlgilen pose carrying into effect the pro- dictate, tiguing to he accomplished oftener than port School House In Chel- Wint-Ben- in order to remove in fu- house at East Great Plain now occu- of Norwich and Worcester time. This trade with at the District Zabdiel Roger. Joslah W. j. visions of this resolve. And. the act effectually every other day notn drlrt-- and pas- pletion the and that the sea, this evening at 6 o'clock." worth. of any three of the said commission- ture the ground of this complaint.' pied by John H. Ford, Ebenezer Fitch sengers hailing Gen. Williams' red Rail Road to the terminous at Allyn's northern coast of South America was Huntington, Jr "A from both houses was and Jeremiah Harris at the six miles below is cele- A of Hezeklah Perkins, Benjn. Egerton, ers respecting the subject matter of committee Landing. brick house (now the Ptirk church Point, this, city, very lucrative. memorandum the Mandator to the' above tavern corner gen- of Hunt- i Joseph Williams, Tracy. this resolve, shall be valid as the act appointed consider peti- Trapp's occupied the of parsonage) as a sign of relief, but not brated today. Quite a number of lading the Josephus. Elisha Great pride waa taken in the beau- Wm. whole tion and make of their Water and Shetucket where e- tlemen from for Demarara. will an idea John Breed, Mansfield, of the of .them. report doings streets, losing sight of green pastures and Boston, Worcester, &c, ington, give tiful new steamboata. One of them, I. ' ''And be It further thereon. The following is the report the Pill block now stands. On the rows until tliev nassed connected with the Norwich and Wor, of the cargoes which these car- Ham Tracy, Wm. Cowill. resolved, that now ships the 1'nion. is described as follows: Ebenezer Carew, Thomas L. said commissioners shall set up and of the said committee, and the accept- corner owned by the Norwich Charles H. RockfcU's new house a cester Rail Road and with the Boston ried. Miss Caulkins says: "Her live- "Her is 126 width 34 feet, Thoraaa, on ance of the same, the stood Road are Af- - of 62 length feet; John Peret, Joseph Talntor, maintain the post of said gate or by Honorable Savings society Cheneys' tavern, piece of extravagant architecture In and Worcester present. stock consisted horses and mules, Including her guards. Her cabin is Samel. and in view of Assembly. . and here Washington is said to have which called in a ter over and viewing the road, a few cows, a yoke of oxen .and a doz- Eben Whiting, Post, turnpike, open the pas-- : " those days, forth, passing beautifully tinished and furnished David Nevins, J. Turner. sengers, an account written in capi- 'To the Honorable General Assembly. stayed when he passed through the city Town Meeting, the fact that the company partake of a cold collation en sheep and swine. Of provisions she her courteous, and her men on alarming On captain Benajnh IefflngwcUCIiarle White. tals, of all the fares allowed by this ."'Your Committee appointed to take his way to take charge of the" troops 'the Democracy were in danger from hoard of the steamer New Haven. carried 4.500 bunches of onions, 18 orderly. Her common sjieed is 14 resolve Into consideration the at in June of 1775. Manv side of Wharf. hhds. of 86 boxes of cheese. Jacob Witter, Win. Townsend. and payable at said gate, in foregoing repre- Cambridge these aristocrats that had bells to their Tying along the Depot potatoes. miles per hour. Her engineer, on Thos. Thomas sentation- of will remember the as "as-tero- l" We 18 firkins of SO hhds. Leffingwell, Hubbard,, the same manner as is directed by law Joshua Lathrop, &c, and building occupied front doors, burnt lamps. regret our friends from abroad butter, nearly of whom rests a mighty responsibility, is. Daniel to be done at the ferries within this make report thereon, have attended as a jeweiry store for a long time by and called their "sarvants."' should have, on such an occasion, so beef and pork, 3i kegs of crackers. 34 wo are told, h skillful man, and Henry Billings. Abbott, - help, very Jonathan Cnrew, State. thereto and report. That in our opm- S. R. Parlin, and later by A. B. Kings- Tory Hill might, today, guide such an stormy a reception." bbls. of bread and 30 hbls. of flour. She the utmost reliance may be placed in Starr, Joseph re- ion the laws of the bury.. old-ti- In Since that time the road has been had a amount of brick and lum- John Bliss, Phlneaa Wood, "Provided, nevertheless, that this present existing traveler his search for the large him." Wm. solve shall be and remain in force on- State, if duly executed, are sufficient Merchants (better known then as Kin- extended to Groton. ber, planks, clapboards, staves, joints, A diary of the year 1834 contain Hubbard, Joseph Carpenter, the of to the evil complained of. In 1782 the first was estab- and 115 water a lot Zeph, Bliss, Eliez Lord. Jr.. ly during pleasure the General remedy postoffica ney's) hotel, and the Frarklin House; spars; hogsheads: the following account of a trip to New Bliss. Asa , Assembly." "'Signed per order, lished in Norwich, Dudley Woodbridge but we think he would most decidedly A few years after the construction of of parlor furniture, such as mahogany York : Ellas Lathrop. " 'ROGER NEWBERRY.' " - Thomas Williams. Joseph Colt. Jr.. This turnpike road became at once being appointed postmaster, and the prefer to stop at the stately Waure- the Norwich and Worcester railroad, tables, green chairs and sofas, and a "Oct. 13th. 1834. Monday Ebenezer an important thoroughfare, and a great office being located in his .store, where gan which has taken the place in the the New London, Willimantic and few saddles and bridles." "We set out for N. York to make a Jno. lluntingtnn.Jr. Grover, ' The is the Norwich Town now New Lon- Tho. Harland, Kzeklel Huntley, convenience to the people of Norwich following paragraph taken chapel stands. affections of the people of those two Palmer railroad (later the visit to our children!!! at 3 o'clock 8. and New London, as it shortened the from the Providence Gazette of No- Up to this time the mails had been' de- ancient hostelries, and, and don and Northern railroad) was built; .The ship masters generally owned & o m. we left the and Nath. Welch, Henry Cobb, materially Landing Simeon Case, , . Benja. A. Lord, distance between them to about four- vember 6, 1802: ' livered by post riders, who went from of the old rookeries and in 1853 the two roads were con- of the and it was no uncom- reached 5 In to geographcially, part cargo Groton o'clock, took a Nathan Cobb, John Waterman, teen miles. The road approached "Norwich, Oct. 19. place place on horseback, New Lon- that were then huddled together on the nected by a track over Yantic cove, and mon thing for a merchant to alternate few passengers then to N. London, ' Ishhc John Mix. Norwich by "way of the East Great "The following laughable circum- don being the postoffice center --for corner it occupies." across the city wharves. This junc- between trading at home' and trading & ree'd more to the amount of 100 in Tracy, stance occurred a few since: eastern Connecticut who sea. John Rlchurds, Joseph Lord. Plain and crossing the Tantic river, nights These post riders At a later date other lines of stages tion was bitterly opposed by those at all. amidst, rain & wind in great Samuel came to its terminus ,"As a farmer of Vermont was re- often had no time for were established with feared the loss of the steamboats and Serious obstructions to this - com- Thoa.Lefflngwell.Jr. Hruwn, at the court regular starting connecting the abundance, poor ladle dripping wet Samuel Avery. house on the green. turning from a visit to" Providence or arriving, but would wait until let- steamboat lines. , ; the 'transfer of trade to New London. merce came with the war between came Into the cabin where we were Joseph Colt, 1806 was this town, an occa- ters to had col- But was built in in last Jed Huntington. Daniel Williams, In the turnpike extended through having enough pay expenses the connecting track England and France the years sitting a close row each side of It & Andw. Jame to Norwich Landing by means of a sion to travel in the night, he was lected, then jog slowly on, sometimes During the first part of the nine spite of the opposition, the companies of the eighteenth century and the first I had a good to see what Huntington,. Buroham, few miles this side of the time ves- opportunity Ephrnlm Bill. Nnthl. Townsend, new road leading from a point south overtaken a improving by knitting mittens teenth century several turnpike' roads, paying about $35,000 in damages. years of the nineteenth. American selfish creatures the most of us are Jabez the X7ove to Plainfield, between the hours of 11 and or stockings. Some years before 1752 in addition to were In 1853, "William Bennett de- sels were seized of both par- I no concern Nathnl. linrku. Lathrop, of Trading bridge' the those already built, June, by ships heard expressed for any wharf bridge in Norwich. ; ' 12, by the mail stage; being wholly Franklin, then postmaster general, had In May, 1801', a, com- sires tn. express to the ladies of Nor- ties, carried into port, libelled and con- one but self one woman with a black Johnn. Frlsbie, JoephGale. a. incorporated. Nathan W'etmore, Rufu Hartshorn. "Rssolvs . Extending the Mohegan unacquainted with their new mode of proposed to run "stage wagon" to pany was incorporated to lav out a wich, and all who have aided hinV-hi- s demned, the spoils being shared by the silk ho wet that she fear'd her baby &c.,- was so the mall once week Phil- hand- Ernstus Itackus. Simeon Huntington, Turnpike Road to Norwich Landing traveling with lanterns. carry a from road from Norwich Landing to the sincere thanks for the gift of a government and the captors. The brig wou'd take cold & In great concern Elisha frightened with the sight as to occa adelphia to Boston. The good people Missachusetts line, some and convenient He Minerva, miles from Block Isl- for the hrot Jonth. Huntington Huntington, 1806, - , . passing through carriage. eighty fear maid that her babe Passed May, sion a retreat of several of shook their at Pom-fre- t. of In with oft Jr. Jededll precipitate Philadelphia heads Lisbon, Canterbury, Brooklyn, hopes, by a faithful discliurge the and, fell a French privateer, bourd wou'd be carried off strlpp'd Trniiu. AmazHh "Resnlve by this Assembly. That miles before he could muster such wild notions, but nevertheless the of to- to show his was robbed amount of $41)0 Xr Caleb Hosworth, courage Woodstock, and part Thomp- duties beiongwig him, to the and chung'd her dress for another in. . Hen J. Sutler. ifm"rry and authority be, and tlie same enough to alight from' his horse. He "stage wagon" was bound to come. son; and a bond of $15,000 was re- gratitude for their unsolicited but wel. dismissed. tiie midst of us all with the door I'eabody Clement,. the. seen some sur- open Soln. lliimllbui. Is hereby given to commissioners here, like one who had quired that the road should be built come present, and is happy in the another, with a very ntc cloth cloak-appear'- or to be to super-Inten- d In threw By the end of the appointed, appointed prising phenomenon. haste eighteenth century, and but in good repair by September thoughthat through their liberality he The new armed ship Pacific, Captain in .some difficulty as 'twas House - the of the himself from his horse at the door of In addition to the Providence 10, 18U3. be able to add to Solomon - went In the uppwr , repairs Mohegan stages may the comfort and Ingraham,- down the wet through & blam'd her friend for TlV of this Memorial Turnpike Road, lying between Norwich a gentleman's house, where, with a starting from the Lathrop tavern, there The company consisted of Mosese of the donors, as well as all river in May. 179S, bound for Calcut- her off so soon &c &c. Prayer - pleasure hurrying and that a Bill Ac v and New London, to make said road, trembling voice, he begged for were stage lines running between Hart- Cleaveland and Joshua Huntington, who may favor him with their patron- ta, the first expedition of the kind ever "We went to bed early (or rather granfc their said norther- his cries some of the ford and Boston Boston Hft-- er Test GEORGE WYLLYS. and extend repairs ' brought and between Ebenezer Huntington, James Lanman, age." fitted from Connecticut. She arrived to berth, and cot. and floor) add Bacroty ly tor Norwich landing, on a" new road family to his assistance, to whom he and New York, by way of Norwich, and Zachariah Huntington; Luther Spald- Bennett's "Hourly," as it was called, at Calcutta in safety after a voyage of a very restless night arr'd in New In the Lower House latalx 'A out by the select-me- n and related the cause of his affright, assur- - making thalr headquarters at the ing, Bela Peck, Jesse Brown, Joseph although the driver was too good na-- two hundred days, but on her return York about ." (Continued on pa(a IL)