PUBU SIfF.D s r T HE R HOD E ISLA;';D H ISTOR IC :\L SOC IE TY 52 1' 0 \\" [ 11. S T II. [[ T, 1 '1I.0\' 11>f. ~ CE 6 , R IiO Df. I S L A ~O C'A.'" '''' F.. SH, .." " . I'" ,id," , ~

' SSU ED QUARTHRLr .41" PIW V1D E.VCE, flIIOJ) I-: I SI ,A!,'D \"(JL. 22 XO. I (Suond·daH prnt,,,.;c pa;d at Providn lU , Rh" d, ' ''and ) ISRAEL AI'\G EL L AI'\D T HE WEST l ~ 17881 TA/JLE OF C() .\'·/ r;.\'"!"S hy D W'GHT L. SMITH I' ." u ISR...n . A " ra:u. ,.." " TIl F- W t. ~ T I" 171lB Prof...sor of Histo ry, M iami Univnsity hy D wight L. SllIith I S RAEL A c-;(a:L1" a prominent Rhode Islander and a patriot of the T H~ EllWAR l> C...RII 1.' G TO... C O U.ECTIO" Ifi Ame rican Revolu tion, was interested in the opening of the \ \"est (the b y J acq ues M. Do,•.."s O hio country ) after th e wa r. A wa rtime situation helped to create a J a H" SM ITH , THE MII. LER . o s- P I< O V lll E ~ C ~: , RHODE Is L ,\"1O similar interest in many other veteran s and to present opportunit ies S OMF. 0 .' Ills D E s e J: " Il.\ ~ T S . by Cha rt... ~ \'iilliam Faillhalll whereby it co uld be fulfilled . (continw' d from Onah('r, 1 ~16 2 , y. 21, n n .~ , p. J:l"] An acute shortage of money an d an ab unda nce of unsettled land

BOOK Rf:VI.'W . on the frontier made the offering of land bounty certificates in lieu of cash for enlistment an d sen'icc d uri ng the Revolution a ra ther EX IIIRITlO !'

L E CT Ull t:S United States go\"crnmcnt was created during the war under the Articles of Confe deration. The stipulation was made with these COVE R cessions that settlement would be en couraged in this vast public C OURT H m ,.!" " , BRI STOL, Ruour. ISI.., ,, n domain a nd that it would he nurtured and developed into new states /lu i/l ill 18 17, ti" Bri5tOJ Co u,t H ou", 0' S tal ' Houu , II.< il 1t'a. 01,0 I""'cd, on a basis of eq uality with the «rigin ul th irteen. UTL',d 0' one of t he five IIhode , . Iand cap ;tol b"ildi"J!' ""til / 854. ,.-hc" a" T he problem-hounded an d wobbly new nation had a heada che (I f ,,,,,,,,d,,,,nt to tht ronJI;t ution lim it'd ", u l ;ni< ' of t h, G cna,,1 A u " " bl)' to ..... c""port ond P, ot·id" ,a . B';5tol was th' )'ounJ!tJl of the fivc copilotJ. I I' fi" t rat her mean proportions rnu-ed hy th e squatter an d Indian-infcstcd Irgi.Roger Williams on his fligh t whic h C"OIH', was set forth in the Ordinance IIf J787 . marked the founding- of Providence. b rad was a Iarm lad who was Relevant to all of this was the fact th at various schemes were pro­ trained bv his fath~~ in the use of the blacksmith. carpenter, and posed amongst the sold iers and officer; towards the close of the war to m oper's tool" and tutored by hi- ('X...... -hooltcar-her mother. He took JXlOI their bounty cr-rtificntcs for the purchase of sizable chu nks of service in the local militia -eriou-lv and soon became an officer, T hen land 10 promote settle men t somewhere in the tvest. Prominent among he was chosen as a field officer in the nlUnty regiment. these was the Iormalizaricn of an idea of alm ost three hundred offi{'crs \\'h en the Revolution broke out , Rhode " land rai-cd an "o rmv of in the Newb urgh Petition of 17B3 to Con.c:rcss. A spec ific req uest was observation." An,l::dl w;t" commi-c-iunrd a major and was soon pa r­ made for a n a rt-a in prescllt sout heas tern Ohio. ticipating: ill rhe ~icg:e of Bo"ton. In another n'g-inwnt he was moved Some of the pr ime movers and lobbyists of the petition became tip to a lieurenant-colonelcv and when the colonel died he was raised involved in the land sun:ey conducted tinder provisions of the Ordi­ to that rank and .g-ivcn command. H i.. regimental colors flt-w at such na nce of I i8S. Rcconnaiss,ancc of the area and com pa ring notes with plan'" as Bra nd ywine. Red Ban k. Valley Forge. ~I on mo \l t h . and others soon increased their enthusiasm. In january and Febru ary of Springfield ..\ ftc'r retiring from military life he returned to j ohnston to 1786 notices appeared in Xt·w Englan d newspapers explaining the his farm and ("(M'IK'rage hu-inesx,Tin...... -. the StJ("it·ty of the Cincinnati. idea and req ueviug intcre-red persons to atte nd a meetin g. O n the militia. a ju-tio- of th e pc'are po sition , and (·i\·ic du ties kept him M arch I, 1786. the now Famous meeting at the Hunch of Grapes ac tive. He a1.;0 found tinu- to make journeys to Ph iladel ph ia. upst ate

T avern in Boston resulted in the establishment of th e Ohio Company Xc w York. Xlar icua, ami other plan'" to visit friends. (If to chec k on of Ass ociates. Sub.....-q ucnt Il1 c'c· tin,'r' - Rice's T avern in Providence proposed ventures in 11('\\ .....-uh-mcnt... in ....rm- of which he i n ,' e ~ t cd : It was also a principal meeting: pla ce of the officials - an d a contrac t is said that in the vear of his death. 18:'2. he had been contt'mplatmg from Congress set things in motion. In the spring of 1788 a new' marriage hi.. ninctv-v-cond y('a r and what would have been his settlement called Adelphi. late r known as M arietta, was established fourth h ife !!3 on the O hio River at the mou th of th e M uskingum River. It was In ea rl" J \ u g u ~ t of 17R8 .-\ngd l [ourneved hy horseback from his located on the east side of the ~lu ~ki n gllm opposite Fort Hannar on home in j ohll..toll. Rhode (.;I an-d. in a sour hwc- rerlv din-r tion to the the other ba nk." nort hernmost hends of the Potomac River in wcsn-m ~I a r yl a n d . in Israel An gell was involved in this venture a nd jour neyed out to the a nonhwe-n-rlv COli N ' to the O hio River at \fh (' el i n ~ . and h y boat ~ laric-tta. 2The mosl readily available collrnion of Ohio Companr m"'nu.cripl' ha s 1I....n do,," the O hi;) to Tw elve dnvs late-r hr- was heading up compiled in Arch..r Bull ..r H ulhert (.'d .l . T hr U" ord . o/ tht O';l1inD1 Proard. river ;lgain towards WllC'd im::. .-\ " din'ctly a.. till' topography would i'lg. of Ou Ohio Comp" n,. (2 vcls.• M..ri"lIa. 191 7). Hulbrrfl introduct ion i. Ih" permit and the paths and road... t.1.ke him. he traveled r-a..t\;-ard to lIlWl extensive and ,.. ti.fa"to r)" h i , t o ~ ' of th .. o:ompa ny. :'\('w York Cit y, and rhr- nrr- back to j ohn..toll, where he a rrived on Sizable manu.nipt collection. indud.. tho....a t th.. Campus ~larti u s ~I u um in M arien a . Mariet ta ColI ..gc, W... u-rn R,'",,,,,,,, II i.torical Soc iet y in CI..,· d. Ohio O ctolxT 9. " 'l:ht're Ended my j nuflW} to the \ f i...tern Country in H isto riCliI Socie ty, and th.. M""M h u...tu lI in ork al Soci " I~ ' . O t h..r pllhli,h..d fi7 Da\. s out of whic h I lav..,1)\ 2 1 r );j \ ~ ~o that I complratc:d a J ourn ey SOurer l may be found in W ill iam 1'. Cutin and J ulia P. Cutin, Uf" JO'HnolJ, "nd Co rrr.pondenu of Rtll. '\!o'lfw f h CUlltr, I.[..D, (2 voh_. Cincinnati. 11188 ); 3 ll i o l'l: r ap h ie ~ 1 ;nformalinn is cortt~inrd ill Edward Fi,·ld (r d.), Dia,)' of C%nd C harlrs S. Hall, l-ifr ,," d L , trtrJ of Samu,l llolden [' ''' JlJ1IJ ( Bingham ton, :-;"w ["all :hJ;:f ll: Command; nr; Ih, S t cond Jlhod , I Jiand Contintn/tli Ur r;im,n/ Yor k. 190 5 ) ; Dwighl 1.. Sm ith (, d .) . Th, II'r .ltrn Journals of John Jla}': Olt io dW " IlI! tltt .-fm";(,,n Ra olwl;on . 1778 ·1 78/ ( Pro..id,·nc", 18'1'1) : 1...... i5 L, Comp".., ." ernt lind 8Uli nr JJ A d ,'rn /u tr (Cincinnat i, 1961 ) ; Row" na Bud l 1.0 ,·,,11 , I Hori .-f n ~,ll: C% nrl of thr 2nd Illt "d, l rland R,,,'mrnt ( i\" r w York , (rom p. and cd.), Tit, .\lrmoill of Ru fu Putli Dm and Co,a;" Offllj" j P"p tr J 1>1 2 1 ). Th..~" a l!\O con t"in mise, lIanl'Uus doc ulII.'ntary n-cmd,. "'p"dally mi li ta~ Dnd Corrnpond,n" l Boston and S ..w York, 190 3) . and !I:..n..a!o!l:lcaJ. 1963] 4 lsrarl .hr;:dl and the ll't'J1 in 1788 [j anua rv In ul'! . lngdllllld thr II'n t in liB8 5 of 1548 ~Iik s in 46 Days Travel.' ma nusc ript are brought down to tilt' lim' of text : if thc word" in which Two purpoS('s - pe rsonal a nd business - were served bv this these occu r ca n he rega rded a" abbreviations a point or period is journey. Angell vi-ired friend.. and wartime associates en route ~nd at ad ded to dcsiqnare them as ... uch : if the y an' cont ractions the mis.....sing :\Ia rictta . He had al"() invc-u-d in the venture of th e Ohio Company leiters are supplied in bracket." .-\11other contractions arc expanded to and was int erested in its pro~n'''<; a nd prospects.' Related to thi.. th ere full word s by hrackeu-d letter-; if . \ n~c l r " intention wit hout this device may haw 1)IT1l still another reaso n. Alt hough references are liP.1.1"!iC it is not readily apparent. is evident that some differences of opinion developed on company In the matter of punr ruatinu : \,'h n e a mark in the manuscript is mauers that brought r ritici..m frum the Rhode Islan d membe rs." It not clearly a point or a comma rhc nne best suited for the occa... ion is would -ccrn natural that A n ~dl would be vitallv interested and it is chosen. T he virguh- or -laming line i-, introduced a'" a punctuation proh~ b l c that his convercuions with company officials while at device where .-\ngell\ own punctuation i.... inadequate or lacking. Ma rietta touched upon thi.. misundcNanding. T hat he returned to O therw ise, e\'t'T~ effort has bo-n made tn mak e a" literal a rendition the Ea-..t via Xt'W York City and that he made it a point to see Richard of the document into print a" is JX " ... iblc. ~et Platt makes thi s conjecture more plau..ible . Platt wass the company A J O t: R ~ A I , OF I RRAF.t. A",[c er.r.] trea..urer and -ecmr-d to cxerci-e considerable executive function in T RAVl'.l.S FRO~ I J O H :" S T O :-: I:" TIIF. STATI'. OF R II OUE Is r.cxo the affairs of the companv." RF,Gl'", THF. ·hor Arccs'r 1788 O f immediate inte rest. .'\ ngel! kept a journal of this trip to the \\'('<;t . T he mnnu-cripr i" preserved in the collections of The Rhode Jfonda)'. August -I. /788: I left my 110US this morning (iJ 2oCIock I..land H istorical Society, That he expected others to sec thi... account "UL with an Intention (the Lo rd willing } to go to the ohio ;\[ lL".kin­ of his joumcv is indicated by a remark in his en try for Au~ " t 19: gum etc. it was an Exceeding fOR~ morning but Cleared off \'Cry " here the reader may J udg . . . ..' T he journal i" reproduced here, hou . and ,,"a~ a Co nsiderable of thunder in the afternoon though In places where the script wa" not readily decipherable it was but a Small Sprinkling of Rain where I was and from the a ppearence necessary to cxcrci-e editorial judgment. Ce rtain devices an d a ppa­ of the Clowds belenvc there was hut Little anev where ! I traveled to rat us have be en introduced for the sake of claritv : Dale lines arc Exeter parrish in Connecticut. there plltup a ln-r traviling by the best standardized. .-fllli and d c. a re substituted fur th e ampersand and its cal[c]ulation I could make 731J miles a nd two great a Days trawl variations whereve r they occur. O bvious slips of the pen such a." by onc half. " where where I could pn...... ihly get enterta inment" are corrected with ­ T UFJdar. AugltJt5 : Clear a nd \"ery hott. Lelt Exeter pa rrish @ -I out not ice. ..\ ngell lL',t·s "bin" and "ben" (for " been" ) intercha nge­ oClock ;\:\[/ wen t H addam I there di nd then went to ~[ i ddl et ow ll l ab ly; the )' are uniformly rendered as "ben." Superior leHeTS in the r roscd th e River and went to ~ I cr r id e ll Parrish/ there pu t up after traviling 3 1 miles. my hON proved very lame this Dav · ,\ ngdl o wn~d 5han's in th.. l"<-'llI/Mnf. lI ulllf'tt , RuordJ 01 th, Ohio Comp'In)', II, 235. II .. was al oo a ];ondholJn in Ih,' \'I"nture. Ibid.• ind,'x, 2-n, a llhou~h thi s We dnesday. ..II/ gust 6: Clear and hou / Left lllerridcn@ -IoClock rd" r ~ n r ~ is nUl r1 ~ ar ; l.o\'t"Il, AII I!,II, 25-26. S.... aha his ..nlrf for Srlll"llIhn 7. ;\:\L went to waterbury Mountain/ Hn-akfnsted @ Barns 'Tave rn lie Wa! involv..d in a 'IJltll'what . im;\.' r vr ntur.. in V ermo nt . Lo vd l, AII ",II, 25, then went to watcrburv and lIincd. from th ence to South Ber n ' ~ A lJu. ion i! made 10 thi s difli"uhy hy J oh n May, a "o"'l",n) a~,.nt from h o rs ~) M a..achus..11!. who s'Tm..d 10 Ill' al'lin~ in th" rol" of a Iroubk ,hoot.... Smith, [Southb ury]! th ere p ut' tip alta trnviling 35 milt's with my j o" tllau 01 johll M ,,)', .~ I. 8_~, 122· 12:1. For olhn r..lat ..d du"ullll"nlo. ,,',. Ell,..rt lame that he co uld Scarcly Step. as I passed th rough Woodbury this J. Iknlon (e d. ), "Si,k Li ~ h l ' Un Ih,' (lhio COUlpanr of .\I'~3"' ~ <~z , .x"~ • thunde r thi.. am-moo n hil t no ra in of eonseq ucnt:e he re bUI a Shower , ~:. ,, ;~g~;: 0 " to th e Southward. s '" Thursday, AI/gust i: Clowdcy a nd more cooler th an it had hen for two o r a Da ys past. my hors appeared to he lamer to da y than he had , ,• ben / I went to the blacksmith to S IT if he cou ld tt'! the cause - hut ,! he Said it was not ill the Shewing and co uld not tel th e ocr-arion/ So . I hobbled on m y Journe y to Xe\\ town 10 miles h rca kfa-tcd the-n went , to Da nb ury and Dined I to miles more. here I had the fore Shoes a ta ken of [f] m y lX'ast and new Set . bu t made the lamcnee, no better. , I went on to Salem in the State of ;\cw York 10 )..lilC" 1 there took up my l ..od ~n ~ Ior the =,\ ght. at ~I a j r. Wallest'" it Clr-ared o fT thi" ..,..... Day/ In the forenoon exceeding hott, and Continued this day till c w -. E\"cning when there was a Small Shower which Cooled the Air. i:t Friday, A I'.£!Il.l t 8: Clear and plcsnnt. Left my L odgings ea rly th is mornin g/ went to Crompond. to my , , 8 >-w frind Doctor Elias Cornelius where I arrived by Ei,ght oClock. Z found th e DO<' tON Sister and his Son with th e made at home and well. , :::l"" t: hut the Doctor was Absent having 1)I: n Called aw ay the Eveni ng 0 be fore to a wom an in traval, thou gh he Soon Came born e afte r I got ~ there, a nd a J oyfu ll meeting we ha d where I Spent the Day , \ ..,------' w , Saturday, ,lu guJl9: Clear and plesun t - :I: this be ing the [ast day of the wed: ~I y good frind Co rnelius In..istcd , .... On my ta rring with him till the be,ginnin~ of the En"uing wrr-k which , Invitation IExcepted. an d we bo th went to a Quakers meatinu, where I heard a \'cry Extreordina rv Able Sennon preached by Silas Downing from Lo ng Isla nd . ., ., , S unday. ..Iugwt 10: Clear a mi Cooler - ~ The Doctor and Iamik-y with m y Self ha d agreed lnct Eveni ng to , ' ~rc('t i n g /': ~ e go this Th y, hut the doctor was called away to Sec a M an )~-~-_. ~ th at was thout to 111.: ncar his end. a nd his disorder arose from a "~::K~' Strange and uncommon thing or ,\(Tidc uL it was one La wyer Crane/ . he had a Swea lill.1:{ partly under One of his arms .J or 5 Inches '. ,' ,I, r, -- .... • 't - - -;;.- - --' ..."' ~ ~lany of Ih..5(' names hn.. and on Ih.. return n ip tn th.. f.a, t a r.. fri" luh a nd l:j a....ciatcs from th.. d al Sof the Revolution. s.... f ield , Dia,)' ol .hg..ll , a nd 1..0 ....11 , o· A"g..Il, in wh ich Ih r K' name, oc cu r fr r'l"rnlly. , -'---.,--' • • , • 8 l u nd Angell and the W l'St in 1788 [Jan uary 1963 ] from his bodv, Which at times had ben , a y pain tull. he a nd an other and there Dind ( U :yi miles from SO\Trings )/ the old man a nd Sons Ge ntleman was riding togcarh er. the man with him as th e)' wcrr­ was absent in a mcdow to work I went to Mor ris County 5 m iles merry a nd j oll e ~ foolin,l.:" with eac h ot her flung about half a n Apple at S hort of the tow n him and hit the Swdling on his Arm wh ich In stantly threw him W ednesday. . III.!! /Ht 13: Clear and plcsam/ went on my journey into SIKh pain that be Sowndcd away a nd fell from his hers, and has (il Yz pa~l -I oClock through ;\Iorris (own to the Widow Pruddens not had his Sl'nn's mu ch Senc c. tho ugh th is is the 3rd Da y, Scnce the where in the \\;IT I had often made it my Quarter... breakfasted then Acciden t happened. I and the Doc tors Iarnilcv went to meeting wen t to Ikdmin..rer town-hip lIind. IR mile- then went to potters where we had two wry Able Sermons, preached by an Englishm an, town and refreshed where I Rec[civc]d l ntilligcnce that there was who was Settled in the j crsies. he was a Presbvtcaring minister ' at two men to Set out for Pit..burg in a day Of two from one Squire H unts our Ret urn to the Doctor fou nd the Doctor at home but a man ca lled about 6 ~t i k~ on the mad where I went and found that they had Set j ud,g Crane hurrcvinq him ofT to attend on the aforementioned man off that morning. the Gentleman lnsi-u-d on my ta rrying with him again at Ewnin~ the Doctor Ret urnd and a number of the XciR:h . that nig ht which I excepted and better Entertainment I never met bo urs who I had formerly when in the Arm y ben acquainted with with in no part of the world I found him a gentleman in ('Hry Carne in togeather with a Xumber of y'oung people, a nd Spent the respec t - he had a most beautiful! Seat about 700 AeC' TS land a large Evening in Religio us Conversation and reading, afte r which the Stone gri"t ~t i l l, and 0\1 mill, and Saw mill Doctor w ent to pra~cr. and then all Retired. Th'~-rJdal'. • t ll .c U ~ t u . Le ft mv frind H unt at half after 7 a.s he .\fonday, Allgllft / l : .-\ fine Clear plesunt morning! afte r an Insisted onrnv t~kin,g Brcakf.e-t. ~nd in the mean time myoid frind Earl ey breakfa-r, took my leave of my good frind the Doctor and Gcnl. M axfield rntne in and bn-akfa-tcd with us. I went on to the went on m y journey. but being under Some O bligations to Stop and dillawar crest ove r to cast town [Easton. Pennsylvania] a nd there visit Several of my former Acq uaintan ces Sropt first at Doctor Perry's Dind 20 :\Iik " then went to Bethlehem J'2 xfiles and from thence 2nd a t the widow Brewers, and 3rd Colo. Hoits they all insisted on to Aliens T own over the River La hi 6 ~ liI e ~ ' the re T arried my tarrying at lea« the Day but I could not content my Self to Stay Friday, A u,t:/Ht /5; Thi-, ivthe firer Clm,dy morn ing I have had on as the weather was S() fine for tr awling. I aliso Stop[pe]d in peekskill my j orncv left my l od g i n ~ at 5 oClork at which time it rained a Severa l times to Sec rnvcld acquainancc. here I Saw the terriblest little. went on Eight miles before I Brea kfasted. then went to Red­ Ruins in the fid ds an d Road by a heavy Shower wh ich bappncd ding. 28 miles Stopping: by the way 10 l Iim-and feed etc. it Remained about two weeks before this. I Stopjpc jd about I mile Short of kin gs Clowd v but no Ra in of Co nscqucmx-Z I pu t up at Readding at a ferf),11 and Dined , proceed ed to the ferry where I was Detain ed a long: priva t hous by reason of hors I h u p i n ~ ?] - time before th e boat men cou ld be looked tip. I crosed a\XJ IlI Sa turday, A llgUlt /6: Clowdy and OK)!. left Redding 7 oClork! 6 o'Clock/ went to Kak aatto wh ere I put tip for the n ight, having C rossed the School Kill, and wh en I had tr awled aho ut 1-1 Miles travele d but 25 mil t'S - came to where it had Raind hard the t'wning IK·fCJ re wh ich made it T U{'J d(/)', A u~ lI,li 12: A fine Clear Coole ~ r orn in gl left m y Lodg­ had traveling though th en- was none where I tarried. I went to ings (I.!.' :1 oClo(·kl went to Sovcrins Tavern aYt- miles/ hr~ Ha.st t'(1 Mille rs townit :n m"ilt·s! there l'ut up ' 0 11 my way from Redd ing to and went 0 11 / I nu-t two men this morning belonging to State of th is pla ce I went thro ugh : ~ Dutch T owns 2 hut Sm all. one called Rhod e Island dirl'rtly from Xluskingum on their way tn th e Stale who Lcbcnon 5 m iles from this a Considerable of a town/ it Continue d had hcn ju st : ~ \\'l't'ks on tht'ir journey ami ga w me information of th e Cool a nd Clowd y tlw whille lla v. way. I went to my frinds Simo n \ 'anas.'>t's in P umpton [New j cr.;eyJ Su nday, A 1Ip,1I:11 17: Clowdy ~ l1 d woll Idt my lodgings 5 oCloek/ w('nt to a town Ca lled H tll1I hlt·s T own [H urnmd stown] about 12 ~' Kin'l"' f r rry oprra1t"d ano.. lilt· Hudsoll from V..rplallck to Ston~' Puint, l.hri.10l'hrt Ward, T Il' 11',,, ofth, Ra'ol~l;o" (2 ml_" l"cw York. 1952 ), II , 5'17. lIPresrnt ..\ n!lvilk , T hom,u F. GOldon,.~ G,/:,/I,o of Ih, St"t, of P",n,)'h 'a n;1l l" l'r('\l"nt :-.;,·w 1I"IIII', t,-,,,,1. I bid., II , 587. ( Philadelp hia, 1832 ), part II , 16,300; W, Snlll, A M ap of P a lr..}'I"a";" (n.p" 1770). 10 [Janllar ~ 1%3] lsrael . 1I1.t:dl and the fj"{'j t ill /788 II m iles! tlu-rc BrC;)Ua'tl'd then went (0 Hurri-es Bourou gh [Harris­ Wm . H unt s where I expected tn fall in with Esqr . H unts Son of the burg] on the Suscohanuah Riwrl Crossed at harri-es fern WenI (Ill (;('r;ie.. an d one of ~ I r . wm. H unts SIms who were ,going to Virginia ! 2 ~I i lc s l there Dined then proceeded 10 a tavern withi;l 3 miles of I railed in at a ta vam on tlu- way this Day where I Saw a young lad Carlile! put lip for that ni.ght / I found the Road s Exceedi n g- mu dd y about 1-1 )'l'ars of .-\£;e in the J::'fl'atl'st Extrem ity I r ver Saw a pef"On in -'f o" da)", . l ul! lI jt /8: Clowdv and Ra ined a little / I went on m y my life and lin' with th e (; r;l\"(·1 the Donor Come while I was there J ourney at ;) oC!oc L: I passed through Carlile 7 miles / Breakfasted and was agoing to open h im a nti tak the Stom- our but as I was on a then went on H mill'S 10 Shippens Bourgh! dined / the Springs in jorncv d id not. Stay to StT the opperction. this was the Disagreablesr this part of the world an-one of the Greati..! Curosiricsof the Coumrv/ days travel I had Inn with as it rained tilt' ( ~ rt' a ti s t part of the Day an d the co untry in General is badlv watered! t have rode H ~ Iil e; th i.. lcavina the great Roa d had nothing hut foot pat he... mer hills Moun­ da y where II1('re was not a dmpp of water to be Seen in a D~ e lime. rains an d throu gh ' Oallt'" of th e richest Soil and heavest timber I yet bring- not a Spring- nor brook in the dista nce on ly a few Su nken holt'S ever Sa\\ had several D eep Cree k... to Cru"~ and ju...t at night the in the Earth where alinle would naturclv Stand Some Da.." after a Termen deou-, mount ain I Yl' t \\ as [a-scnded "] to Clamber onrl th e rain a nd when you Come to a Spring it will Rise in a larg(' River or Inhabitants told me th at I might Le ad a hors ove r but part of the \,'ay· Creek as thf'Yare Calld in th i" Co untrv I han' Crossed two Spring" wa s as ha d as it would he to Lead a hors up a nry Common Chamber wh ich in -1 0 rods rise to the higlle'".;of Xaspatucket river at common Sta ir" hO\\C\Tr I gut ove r S,tfe and when over found m y Self in a times with \Is. I dismounted my hors vc-tcrdav and went to SCT (111(0 Deep valcv het\\ er n two hu g-e ~I ounla i n g in a thick wo od an d not a wh ich BUN out of a Seam under a hill of Lime Rock the Scam IX'in ~ hors to he Seen nur aney Cl card land . and a thunder Shower just about l a Inchcs wide and 10 or 12 feet Lo ng. another Larg Surcm Spreading from one Mountain to the othe r I hurried along- my came out of th e Rock in a eer ulemans Seller \\ hos hou s Stood about hl ind foot pavthc untill ca me to a large River \\ hu-h 1 cou ld not tell 15 feet Irom where this am al in~ flood. burst ou t before mentioned. wbcarher it \\ as fordable however a..there wa-... a trail to it an d another I was Informed of another alXl~t Six miles from this which was So from it vcn turd in and found it to h(' nt'" arl y mid side to m y hors but am azing great as t]o] ht· water Suficicnt to ca rry 3 pair of mill Stones got Safe through went on about half a mile where t found 3 little the year round within GO rod s of the head, and a lillie lx-low this O TW Sorry log hurts a nd Some Ch-ard lan d - here I applvcd for quarters other Grist ~I ill Saw mill an d forg all ph-anrifullv Supplo-d the year and an old Irish woman inform'd rue th at the place wa,;; hers and 1 round. 1 Sa w oru- thi ... Day wh ich boiled out of the foot of a Small mig ht tarry as Slw "as Sure it wn .. too far to alle y othe r hous for me hill. th e hignt'''''' of what we call the west River in Xort h Providence to ~ that ni.t.:hl. it IX'ing R mik-... to am'y hous where I could possibly at Co mmon times or rather higer as there appeared to lx- water get entertainment their nighest nabour was ~ miles the wa y t was SufTicicnl for a Saw m ill, and after Crossing a fine Bottom of land going. here wa s two nu-n that hdongnl to the hot ts and an acquain­ about 150 rods run U1ukr a led.g ()f l.inwston at the fOl lt I)f a hill. and tance of their; all miserahk Shahhy loo king: (features. Ih('y Seemed I was told it was StlpplN '1I came out Some )' [ilcs to the Eastward as not to ca re to han ~ milc h to Sa\' to me htlt colr Cl ed in olle of their thae was a Stn'illll abo ut the Sa me higness came out of a hill in that Small lo.g hutts an d wa ... ('XI Tdi;l,c; Illnryl the old woman was with Dir{'n lo11 1 I '\l'nt to Chambt'rs T own [Charn!x' rslm fgJI !ht'fl' put them kin·in.t:' me with her datlghltT who wa ~ wife 10 (Inc of the men IIp/ here I found anot lwr Spr ing" Eq ual to alley I had Seell. and two Childrn l. tog:eathrr, WI' Sat up till past 9 oClock WhCll we T I/ ('.w/llY. •J 1I ~II JI 19: an Exceed ing Rainey ~I orn i n g- and Roads as went to hed ka\"ing the old WOlllan and th rcc mel} where they Bad as (''oT r I Saw Ihem in the Spring-! left my lodgings 7oClork.! Co ntineutl till m idnight and then olle of thc melt U)l1le 10 bead with wcnt on the Road to [manuscript ill e~ible p2 about III miles thell me the ot her.; with their win's and the old woman with theif wi\"es lurn d away South to gt't to a place Ca lled the Canolawa)';;I :1 to Oil(' ...her" the G n ·.,t T o" "l " ...ay CnTk ;lIIU T UIIOlo"'",' Cn·.·k "lll pt)" illlo th.. 1'000m,,,, 121' roh ahly in th e ,· i t" i ll ;l ~· of pr ....·lIt SI. Thomas, a f..w lIlil... wnl of from ttw lIorth. Early map.1 n· fnr...j to th,·,,· '!It·,,n'' ". " Cono lo...a}"·' or .,m n.. Chambrnbulg. ,·ar iat;o". S,''' , for ..:'tampl,·, R""J illl( 1[" .....]1. .,1 .\fllP afth, SIal, of I', nn.,. l"ania 13{n till" \· i cill it ~, of lI;ulCork, ~ t ar } I.llId. whic h j! on the Pot omac Ri n r b.·t",...n ( n ,p ., 17112 ). 12 IJTad .-lngi'l l and the W rst in JiBB [January 1~l{:;J] I mU'/.-l I1 J:d l and 1"1' We,ll in Ji88 13 [sic], here the reader may j u d ~ wheat her it was likely that I Skp Monday, A ugllst 25: Left our lod,gings Earlcy ! we nt on over milch h('fore they all bro ke up h(." ing .') OO miles from Illy native Country ' l uge Xlountain -, Sometinw" Oil the ha nks of th e R iver then up the among a people I knew not and in the most desolatee-t and Awful mo untains. and could get no b reakfast untill II ot.lock when we lookin g wilderness. however thery] all appear'd to be Civi l and you came to a Small tow n Callt'd Old town in M arrvla nd. we then went led me kindl y [sir]. t hi-n- wav a most terrible thunder Showe r gust on a nd after about nne hnu .... Ride Came in Si.ght of the Allagancv ~ot ~I o u n t a i n s this "a>; a Cl,,,,d\' and fo~ g'Y morning but Soon Broak as J to thi >; place < " , ,- Il"t'llnesdo)', .-1"euJt 20: Clowdv a\'.lY hott. and a thunder Shower in the a fternoon I we went to Left my good ol:l lri>;h mothcr f ~ClocK went on a winding' round Cumberland fort \\'here there was a Small Town I here we tarried and ove r ~I ou nt a i n g' through the mo-t Dtsolatc plare-, I CHr Saw the night! we tr awled by Some the la r"~est fields of tobaco I ncr crossing Dee p Ri\'eT'S un till l ca me to Mr. wrn. H unts [in the vicinitv Saw. un the bottoms and in new land where the timber was all except of Hancock, ~I a ryl a nd p ' where I found the young' men which we-n t the small Stuff Standing only girdled ami half that not dead fmm ~Ir. Daniel lI unts Esqr. j erscvs on last wcdnsdav morning. T uesday, . lu!:lIJt 26: Some Clowdv/ we had a most terrible they infonnd me th at they could not goo on till Sundae "0 I concluded Shower last night there is a ,r:rcat quantity of hay in this Country' to ta rry' and go with them it being so lonesom traveling a Wild('m cs.>; entirely 10'<1. after ~itin.r: our horses Shod we Engagr d with the alone Allcgancv mountains and for the wo....t Roads I r-ver Saw where aney T h ursday, .-Ju,euJl2J: IRemaind the Day with my frin d H unt his pt.'NOn ancmprcd to drive a wag,r:0n, we put lip at one j oseph Sene and ~Ir. Dan iel H unt Son of Xew j eT'S\ went to th e H ott Mounta in after trawling 28 ~I ill' s in this Days travel we passed Springs ahout 12 milt'Sm this was a wa rm D~ \ - and Clear till the through a number of good bottoms of la nd and extrordinarv timber Afternoon when we had a thunder Shower, w'hich p revented the W ed nesday. .- Iltgust 2i: ..\ fine Clear morning / left our Lodgings y'oung gentleme n from Return ing (rom the Springs @ 5 oClock / went on in as bad Read as could he and aney person Frid ay, A ug/lst 22: Clowdv an d fog "~ ' mo rni ng ! Spent the Day git along 6 ~ (il('S there breakfasted - then went about 5 M iles at ~ Ir . Hunts, this afu-moon the young men th at went to the Springa further where the 3 hunts Id t us and went about a mile out of the Rctumd / these springe lay about 5 miles ove r Patomok River in Road to trade hor-,d ~ Ir . Birch and m y Self went on to one j oh n Virginia / there wax a Small Shower th is afternoon Cimrncrlcvs two or three mill's there waited umill -l oClocK in the Sa tu rday• .-Iu.ells! 23: Ch-ar and exceeding ph-ant morning. Last Afternoon before they fame up / we then went on among the ~r oun · evening one Ferry' living O\Tr th e Alaganey Mountain on the ~ I nno n· rains untill we carne to the main hranch of the You gbanncv [Yonghio­ ~ I id s id e gchalcy River came to ~ l r . H unt" h ut b rought no new s of Conse, g-he ny] R iver which we forded but it was abou t to a hers/ we q cuncc/ a I l('a\'(~ y Thunder Shower th is Afternoon - the n endeavoured to Reach a T avern about 10 miles ah ead though Sunday. A II.l:Ufl 2·1: Clear ami plcsam Morning/ aft er Breakfast it was nearly Su nset! th is mad e it nigh t before we had got half the J left my frind Hunts and went forward in Co lmpanv] with Raft' way a nd the roa d tak ing Different [dl ircction s to avoid the muddy H unt Son of \rill. H unt a nd Rnfc H unt Son of Daniel H unt j rr"y Sloughs led us into the wuods a nd Rocks among the Mountains where j os cpb lIunt and \rm, Birch of jcrs y/ we traw led into \,hau." r-alh-d we expected to han ' Remained the nig-ht. hut ht'in g wen in Crossing the Xlcrrvland and Vir ginia Road, crossing over Mountains and th e River and ha ving no fire works with us, made us Strive exceedi ng through Dl't'p Valli('''/ aft ('r we ~o t 10 the mai n Road we f[o]ulld it hard to find, the way which with gn' al DilTi cul!y and Dan,ger of mu ch th e Sa me! we tra\Tkd to I'atomok. and then kept up t ilt' brc:Jking ollr nrcks we Did and got to th e ta\'l'rT1 by II oClock, River! we trawled 17 ~ I ik s then Pllt lip in a poo r H UH Thursday, A u.eu\t 28: ell'ar and pleasant! left our lodgings at GoClo('k/ \H'nt on and aftl'f rid ing abollt an hour Saw two old hen liS" .. not .. ] 3, aboH, Turkeys with as maney I hdca\'e as :W young ones with th clll I th ey An!t',·n pr<>babl~' l" H'FrOll\ Ihi. :tnd Ih,' ",I'''''I'''"n! ,'ntr\', "j,it,·d wha l ,h.. ~ pr..... nt r...urt :tn'a of 8 .-r\.. ..lq Spring!. \\, ... 1 Yirgini" . W ;LS not more then 20 anls from the Road , wr rode nearl y in among 14 f:,md . l ngdf and the We,,! ill 1788 [January 1963 ] l sracl .- In,c;rll and th e W i's! in /788 I :; them hefore they flr,,/ T he young ones was more then half growll. th e Badn cs..of the Road.. th is C(J ullIry .\ hounds with them wild. we Dccendid the .-\ l kga lU~Y slondav. Sl'ljfcmbcr J: Clowdy and cx("(Td ing rnim-v - after thi.. morning' an d \\ ('111 into a tow n Called Bccen To wn'" where we Breakfast I left my ).:ood old Irind Dod g and went on for W htt l i n ~ Breakfa' lcd. then went 9 or 10 miles to one River who had a Verv a nd it Imcadc rlv Set 10 raining a" ha rd as I lx-k-a vcd it r-ve- r Did and Ellcgcnt fan n l here \\(' tarried the night. . road s Exceed ing bad and the land a-, good as land could l)t, I Saw Fridav. .-l u!!IH t 29: Clear and plcsanr/ left OUf Lxl .gi n ~ this a large number of wild Turkcs on my wa y this D.1Y in J flocks. I morning fi oClock I Rid round about th e Neighbour hood \'icwing the arrived at one Colo. Shepherd.. on W h (' d i n ~ Crck Ii rnih-, Short of land and took Dinner ;11 Col Phillip" - th en went to one Clea rs wheeling fort thence oatcd then proc eeded to th e: fort , where I [Clari] n where we ta rried the Night on the Banks of the Arrived at J o'Clock on m y W ; l ~ here I took a road leading up a .\Iollongd wa k y - ~I ou nt a i n leaving the road by the CITek. this road had ben cu t so as Snturdav, .l flgll l! 3(): Clowdvl Left mv Irind T hom as Clan an d to lead a han; up when the Roads was dry and wa ~ nearl y I ~ [ i le parte-d with m y CuITlIMllillns in ~\-h O"<' Company I had been E XC(' ('d ­ nearer but it being So exceed ing wet. th at after I had got more th an ill~ ha ppy. C ru s~:d the Xlononga halev and betook my Self to the half way up I would ben ~ I ad to have gin'n a considerable to ha ve wiIJ l·rnl-,~ ollie 1Il0n' alone/ took th e Road to a Small town Called ben ba ck bUI there wav no gitting m ~ l )t' a~t about to git back and to Cat fi~ h l~ in \\ · a ~h i Tl ~ on Countv Pensvlvania I I rude about 28 ).Iik s go forward appea red Impoc-ible. h ut however with rnancv danger­ this Day ca me to a tolerable 'hut! ;nd plantation where I put up ous Struggles I .l::ot Safe up and bid aduc to that road forevermo re. bein g- \'l'ry wi-t a" it had rained wry ha rd the greatest part of the on my arival at the fort found 1\' 0 boa (:<. had gOll(, from th ere th is .\ lter nOOIl the Coumrev I pav-ed through th is Day I Shall gin' no morning! So unl ucke-, was I. however wa s Informd that th ere wa-, ot her Discripnon of more than to Sa y that the poorest I have Scm is one that would go ill a day or too. here.' I had a " jew for the first eq ual 10 the he..t I r-ver Saw in Xcw engla nd. of the great and famous Rive r O hio it was not So wide a« I expec ted Sunday. . I U~ fH t 3 /: Ld t my l odg i n ~ ea rly thi... morni ng! \ ,"("Il t to finde it being le-, than 0 a mile. to \\ ' a ~ h i n g: l on Court ho us to a Small town Ca lled Catfish! there T uesday, September 2: Fo g-g-~ morning but Soon Cleared off fine brenkfn-red 120 mile«! then went on for Wheeling. Stopt at a weather! I kept wa tch of the River In hopes of g-i ui ng a pa ,; ~ a g- (' . ha ll" on rhe war to bait my hers and it hap pened 10 be a X('w there was a Boat a fixin g: awa y which wou ld Sal in a day or two. bill England man from Connect icut hy th e name of Hi tchcock. here I I was det erm ined to go in the fir-t hllat that went , a nd about 2 oClo('k dind on 'ellison . I proceeded on to one Colo. Shepha rd- but the there Cam e a boat down from Cro,,~ creek loade d with flowr with Roads being had l\' ig:ht overtook me before I could Reach rnv 3 ha nds on Boa rd. I g:ot a p ;l ~sag-c with rhcm and pro-ceded down Intended qu a rters. and there was not a ho us or hut on the maci. the Rive r delighted with the prospt'( t of So bcaurifull a CnUll lrcy. took a fOUL path and followed that till it brought me to a small log: we rowed till da rk h ut the go f('all'st part of the night we only d rifted h un where there was a woman and a boy. here I could g:ct 110 enter­ with the Cou rint . rainnu-nt hut tltt' woman was Kin d eno ugh to Sen d her little Son on W ednesday. S"I" oll/)/', 3 : an Exn 't'd ing- foggy morn ing- , \t' about a mile to Sht'\\" lilt' anoth er foot paylh which led to Qne ~ fr . [Claspd ?] to our O ars at day light and pulln l forwa rd with all 01lf Dod g-t's and Irish man. wlwl"r I g"O l Entertainment, a fter tran 'ling­ might amI a bollt 4 0 1' ;1 oC[OI' k l'~ t arin-d ill Sig- ht uf ~ltbk i n g llm . 3:!% m iles in lhe worst road s I enTSaw ill th e rain, wh ich occati nllt"tl where I landed among l'\umhn s of my old :\ r cq u a iJl t an ~ who wei· 100 1l, ' ,' , o n ' ~ T owll WiU 111<' or i ~ i na l n arn ~ of uniontown, Pennsylvania, I.oi. corned me to th est' Delight -Shorl's and Ikalltifllll Country, I took up ~I tl l k " ~ r n an d Ed win V. Pugh , ,I T rnl'tlrr's Gu idr to H isto, ic Jl" n lrrn l' ~ n n . my quarters at unc Colo, Battks,tl' we mett a Ilumhrr of Callows a'S J}'I,'n"ia ( Pit" hur ll: h. l'I:i.J) . 226. I r S ~ , ' ('ntry for Sat"td "Y. '\ " If,,"t 30, lwlow . we came down l\\ ho WITt'] honnd up ltl\(' rin'IJ l,-Wa,hington. C,"fhh Cam}) ',;as a R",-ol" lionary \" ar mil itia r~n d{,l\'ou~. !i'Eh"""7n ll,utdl.· ..... a, ,It, aJl;" llt uf tl". O hio C " lll p ", , ~ . I! ull,... , \. liuords of ~l u l k , ,; tr n a nd Pugh . G u i d ~ to II il/ o,;c II" ~ J t rr n Pt1ltlS}'h'Gnia, :lI Oj.3 20. th e O hi" COll1 pnn)" , I, 5-t. Til E EDWARD CAR R l i\GTOX COLLECT JO:"J 19GJ ] The Edu-ard C(/rr;71glo l1 Collection 17 by J ~ (; QU E S :\L D o ws s A much smaller amount of material crnu-crns the business and pcr­ Assista nt Pro fesso r of History, 51. Fra ncis Coll ~ 'll'" -onal livcs of Edward Carrington II . an d his son , Edward II l. LIl"I" G T HE WHITF.-Tll.ED WALLS of an arrhcd gallery leadi ng oil Born in Xl'\\" Haven in 177'j . Carrington moved to Providence as a the Society's cavernous wine cellar, is one of the most va luable r-ollcc­ vcrv \OU l lt!; man and became a rink in the couu ring bouse of Seth tions of early American com mercial papns in the United States. III \\"I;e.;ton,·Sa rnuci Butk r, and Richard J ackson. By ~ IU' late l790s, dozens of heavy, lea ther-bound \'OIU llWS and in hundreds of br ight Carringt on was sailing as suprrcaruo on ships belonging to these and blue document bo xes are the records of Ed ward Carrington ami his ,I ot her Providence nu-rrhants. In this capacity. Ca rrington enjoyed descendants ~ one of Rhode Island 's greatcst merch ant-dynasties. ra ther ind ifferen t sucress unti l IHO ~, when he sailed for C hina on the T he Carrington papers ha d lain for gene rations in the a ttic of th e ship U I'JO lI / r l' . Captain W illiam F. Mcgee. Carringto n House, across Power St reet from the Society. It was not Carrington remained almost exactl y eight years in Canton, the only unt il the summer of 1960 tha t the collection ~ in paper bags, card­ po rt in the Celesti al Empire open to foreigners at th at time. D uring board boxes. and even in loose piles ~ was moved to the basem ent of th is period of exile, Carrington amassed a consi de rable fortune. the John Brown House, lndrt-d. in a good year his profit an d loss account showed a gain of O nce safely ill the possession of the Society, the collectio n presen ted ~ 60,OnO or more. and Carr ington apparently did not include all of his a Iorm ida hh- problem. All told. it consisted of about seventy-five ruhic ea m ill.!!;S in this section of h is k dget". He seems to haw made most of fret of gr imy. d isorg-anized pape rs and snTTal hund red hooks, often his mOIH'y speculating 011 his own account. but he abo charged com­ worm-eate n . mi ldewed, and torn. T wo geIHTOlls grants from the m issions against the husinr-ss he n-a nsacted for stateside m e-rc-hants an d Ameri can Philosoph ical SocietyI and the hard labor of severa l p -ople" extracted fcc" fro m those he ser ved in h is posit ion as American Consul went into the sorting, cleani ng, repa iring, and boxing th at the pa pers in C hina, a pest Ill' held for most of h is stay abroad. required , Carrington 's China records arc invaluable. HI' kept a total of six T he problem of salvage was com plicated hy the discovery [ha t h-ttrrbooks and two volu mes of consular pa pers. These eight slim impo rta nt parts of th e collection apparcntlv had been missing fur books probably constitute the most important part of the entire collec­ yt"a r~. Although some a rc still lost, at least the ca rf records now seem tion . T he h-ttcrhook v arc ccrtainlv the lx-st C hina documents of their to be essentially com ple te. U pwards of fifty additional volumes ami kind st ill ex tant." an d the consular n-r-ords are uniq ue . The on ly several boxes of documents r-anu- to light in a search of th e closets. comparable material on the subject i~ in the National Archives in bureaus, chests, and bookcases of Carrington House. Several ships' \\ ' a ~ h i n g t o n , logs and two chests of lega l documentswere un rnvcred in th e basement Carrington probably had about a q uarter of a million do lla rs when of th e Rhode Island School of Design, and one lvttcrbook turned up he ret urned home in the spring of Ifill. 0\"(' 1' the next few yea rs he inex p licably on th e shelves of the Society's libra ry. Altogeth er, the I pu t his money to work in commodity speculations, rea l estate, textile pa pers now fill nea rlv th ree hun d red boxes. and over [our hun dred mills, privat('(' ring (d uring- the War of I S I ~ ) , and in the stock of separate volumes stand on the shd\TS of the lillie gallery in t he I banks, turnpikes, canals, and insurance companies. H is principal Soc iety's basement. inu-rcst, hmn 'wr, continued to he shipping until tilt' 1Il20s. T here is Hut thr - story the documents tell is more interesting than tlie h um ­ romparativclv little ma terial in the collectio n on the peri od between d rum wor k of ra ising" the Just of a century and a half. T he .e; reat bul k IS I I and IS 15 . bccau -c on September 23, IRl .'i , a hu rri cane destroye d of the collection nlllsists of the 11tIsint·s,s n-rord-, of Edwa rd Ca rrington. both Carrington's ne wly-built rountinahou-e and his store (ware­ Providence merchant and manufact u rer from tht· I 7 ~ ! n s to the la-lOs. hou se ) on South \\'ater Sut-r-t. The sole record book to survive was t V i ~ ; :-00. ~ 7 6 from lh ,· J ohnson Fund and 309g from tlu ' P"nro... Fund. the ledger." ~ .\lth()ll "h th ey U"'l'"IY" sorrll'thinll; h,·l!('r. I should like::It 1<-"'1 tu thank th l' ",mt 3T h,· on'" r-ornp"r "hl~ m:lnusrril'ts art· the two sm all S ulliv an Dorr kltl'" l'boob l'l"ni'knt of my helpers. t' i~: :\tn . J. Canol t".,lk",soll a nd :\[r. Nino D. S,'otti of in th .. J->ossessiun o[ ~lr . l' r a n k ~Lt (( r a n , III. of Provid ence, and th e SalTIul'"1 R usw ll I'ruvid,.f1 n ·, a nd M r•. F. li, al". t h \\'. Duwm o[ B ("]' k ~ h · y . Califor nia . & Co.Jcttcrbocks in lh e Library of Con ",. ~ss. ~Carrin"lIOn may h"vp h pl hi.lcd"l,'r :11 hOIll<' . J ohn ~f (( rr a )" J.' o r b ~ ~ ,1"le ~ Ih"t 16 Ihe J->,,, ctic{" of takin g COUlp''''y booK. home w'lS cornmou wilh another grea t finn in th l'" China trad ~ - J - & T . H . I' ~ ]' k i "" of BoHon (John ~ I \l r r a y Fnrb<:s. r.e/l en ,m d Recolle cli",u ( lJu, ton, 188'1), I. 54. ) IS T he Ed ward Ca rrington Collection [Ja n uary 1963 J 'lhr lidumrd Carnneton Collation 19 Only {ou r months before the gale stru ck. Ca rrington and Sa muel perilously ill a rms." furn iture. and provisions in retu rn for hides, horn , wetmore. a merch ant formerly of Midd letown , Connecticut, formed copper, silver, 1" and tropical prod ucts. T ogether with othe r collect ions th e mercantile hou se of Edward Carrinut un a mi Com pany. This firm in the Providence area the Carrington paper'S afford a wea lth of here­ ver y shortly became the largest shi po wner in Rhode Isla m !""' and one tofore unused documentary ma terial on our early comme rcial relations of the most im portant in the country." Six months aft er the firm was with Lat in Am erica. orga nized, W illiam Sturgis wro te C arrington, T rade was the original source of his wealth, but Carrington inter­ You an d M r. Gray [William Gra y of Salem] ser-m[to] hI' monopoliz­ esu-d him-elf in several other fields of enterprise. He was a leading ing a ll the naviga tion in rln- U Sra ms. A man m ust lovt' tro ub le to promoter of the Blackstone Canal. link ing- Providence with Worcester, wa nt so Illally vessels. \ Vh y do yOll never g-in' uv all invitation to ta ke a project whir-h has been desc ribed as "the greatest fiasco in Providence a co ncern with yoU?1 business history." 11 Ca rri ngton served as first president of the Carrington's nephew stain] ~ {' a ", lat er that, at OIlC rime , his uncle had Hlnrk stone Canal Company ( 1828- 1830) after the Providence and owned twcntv-six n ~ s:,d ~ , ~ which sailed in en:ry ocean. Alt hou gh the \\' OrtTster companies nHTgr:d . T he first ca nal boat to transit th e en tire con cern's chid business lay in the trad e with the East Ind ies an d d istan ce from \\'Ort:cs\(:( was named the l.ady Carrington. Eu rope, E. Carrington & Co. w ssds freq uently appea red on the coast As lar ge a" the Canal IOOIlH'd in Carrington's life, there arc surp ris­ of Africa, Southern Asia, and many lands around the Pacific Basin. ingly Iew husiru-ss records 0 11 the su bject in the collectio n. However. Carrington's widespread international commerce required a con­ there is some co rrespondence, a few 1)II ~ ine s." paJXrs, and S(TCIl mis­ siderable acq uaintance wit h econ om ic and political condit ions all over cellaneous accou nt hooks. th e world . Conseq uen tly his cor respondence wa s va st. frequentl y Less spect ac ular hu t undoubted ly m ort' im portant were Carring­ prod ucing hundreds of incoming- letters a month. T hese letter" com­ ton's investments inmanufacturing. particularly colton mi lk He built prise by far th e largest part of the collection an d shou ld prow [ 0 he of severa l factories in the Provid ence-woonsocket area, inrluding the great interest to scho lars, especially th e-e concerned with Sou th well-k nown Hamlet a nd Clint on Mills. H is records inclu de mater ial America and the O rient. T he South Amer ican material is csp('(:iall y on at least eight other m ills in \\ hich he owned sha res." By 1835 interest ing (although spott ier than the East Asia n data ) lx-rau:«-m uch Carringto n valued his manufact uring prop erty a lone at $ ~ 35 , OOO , of it concerns the ea rly 1820s, \\ hen revolu tionary mov ements WtTl' a w ry respectable sum inch-ed in the mid -1830s . overthrowing Spanish rule in the area . Carrington's yes.st.· 1s trafficked \\'h ilt' Carrington continued his foreign trade, on a somewh at r'On iiI" at th " Soci..t}", librar}' is a list of all ,hil's n-giSlI'f(' d at f'rov id,'n c" for n-dur-r-d scale after I lnO, he S;hou.<:- at l~ ;\,mwly: Bb ckstom' Man ufact uring Co., ~l t" n do n , M a,.,. ; C"rrin,,,ton Ma nu­ 122 South ' .... atr-r St« ·" t a~, d for an even l"anl':"r p.-riod "'f\Td a, C a rr i n ~ lO n ' , [ac turiug Co.. Cumberland: Lonsdale Ma nufact uring Co., SlIIith ti"ld: Prn viden",' Cantun ",~,'n l. T h,' figure given by Bull i, from th,' lli,,);rnphi cn/ C}'dupt'lha .. . of ~ l a n u f a r t Ll r i n g ( ;0.• (;rornplOn ; Sterling M anufact uring Coo, Sterling, Con n. ; R h o d ~ 1, laad ( I'rovidl'n",', t881 ) 1.81. L'niun ~ ' '''lU f "ct ur i n g Cu., J uh nst on ; Smith ~ l " n u f a c t u r i n g Co., and w enscc u Ma nufact uring Co. 20 T he Edu-ard Cmri",t!ton Collection 196J] Thr Edu-ard CaTTing/on Coueaion 21

lamb in Connectic ut. :'I.l a"..;\chIN'U'. Vermont. and South Carolina. major substantive dr-..-isio n"'HI in hi.. son's name and eve n wrote letters .\s {"a r l~ as 18:29Cnrrincton foun d it n("ct"'<-"a~ to ma ke a rondirional for him to ..i.gnY' whatever the cause, the ~oun1-:t'r man seems 10 have convcvance of much of the Rhode I...land property to hi.. [rieud­ prospered even after hi.. father's death in 184 J until the depression of Benjamin ami T homa" C. Hoppin ill return fur their 'U~I1:t'I11cllt to 1857, whe n he

laThis firm "'a~ Ih.. Pro\·idenn · ~ lf l( , Co. in Warwk k. rull Ilr lk n j'llllig C" I/<"I)S am ong the driest of the husint's,s pap<'rs of Edw ard I are traccs of the for C;.rringlOn, l lpo n th.. la lt..r', death th.' l' ro ~, i d e n ('<' lou.nlll (Sq'lnulH'r IS, !xTsollal narrat i\"(" - tht.' l'xhilaration of succes,,, and the a ~()n y of IBli.')) , remarknl of hi, ""Ol'ialion wil h C;Hringlon Ih al C"n"", ha d nOI h....n fa ilure of an extraurdinarily giftn J man, ""r ;1 I..mp,'r 10 rema in in a ~"h"rdin" t .. flo.ilio n." \Vh al o'\'n Ihl' "'1, .., Ill' amI C"rrington did nOI long rl'main in I.Il.irw" t0l'wthn , and COl/t'n. wO'nl hankrupt In8y 1841 C"rrilO!lt oll ",roh' hi. Iwpl1l'w (and ,,!Co'U I in Chin«) " I wrile Ihi, ill 1837, It·tl n in li.·u of Ed war d's ;lddn'"ino: \'OU, an d y·ou will co",ida it an d all olhn s ttE. Carrington, Providl' n('l', to P,ldd ford , Fay & Co., Savannah, :\o\'.·mbn 27, I ..·ril" as ,uppl)'ino: hi. r"rr"'I",nd.. nc~·:' ( E. Carrino:ton, Pro" id,'nc.., 10 h aac ~L IB:U,. 8 ull! Ca nlon/ , :-':o\rml",'r 12, 1841. ) 1:'Salll<', o.'('r mbt.-r 26, 1836. Edwa rd II ldl Deceml" 'r 27 For S,,\'ann«h but I ~ S.... r" ...·cially Ed wa rd 11'. k tt..r, for 18:18 and 18:!'!. Th... " ar.. a numb.-r of rrlurn r d ..",rlr th.. following r ..ar. 8 \' th.. follm" ing .\pril Carringlon', kll.... 10 hi. d ra ft. in his falh .,. .-, h.lnd, ahhouo:h thc k tlrrhook copy is in Ih.. crahh.-d wri li",. !lOn in Sa "annah ..·..r.. coming hack 10 P r o ~' i d ..nc.., of 11... young... ma n, on" ..ionaltr im lruClions fro nt Carrinl(l<>n Sr . ar.. apP"nd..d lor hi. son', rnlighlcnmrnl, JOII :< S ~ I IT Il, T HE ~ IILL ER , O F I'Ro\' IDEKCE, 1963] j ohn Smith. th e .\flllcr. of Providence 21 RHO DE ISL\KIl The sui t uf Elisha an d .\ lartha (Sm ith) Brown named as ddend­ SO~ f E OF H IS DESCE XD:\ :\TS ants Hanna h Sm ith [ widow of john" }: Sa rah Smi th (Sarah (lllleY.

b y C HARLE S \ .... I LLI.' M F .\R"" .\ M 1l 1011IC Tof C harles and wid ow of Ph ilip ) ; Elizabet h Sm it h. widow of Charles: .\I nr~ .\IcCldlan , widow . of Providence. who a ~ earlier (co ntimwd from O n ol,... r, 1 ~jfi2. p . 1331 mcnuon-d i ~ presumed to he the widow of H umphrey XlrCh-llan and F iFTH (;E:-';f.RAT1 0 :-'; da ughter of John Smith": Elnnthan Walker, fuller : and Obadiah l H CIIAR I . ES ~' SM ITH ( Philip,4 J ohn , 31 ohl1, ~ j ohn ) of Providence. Brown of Providence. who~e connection with the ("ase ha s not lx-en mi ller. died in Providen ce I ~ A pril 17.')2. and his tombstone in the discovered. Smith buriallot at Korth Burial Ground records his de ath at twr-ntv­ T Ill' plaintiffs, in an anion of trespass and ejectment, alle ged that five ~ ea N . nine months. and six days. He married 1h Xlarcb 17S0 '1 on 10 April 1752 Charles Smith was seized in his own right in Icc Elizabeth Per-k of Reh oboth. .\ la s.sar hus('tts Y ~'· Probably she was the sim ple of about fifty ac-res of land in Provid ence. toget her wit h two :\ Irs., Elizabet h Smith whose marriage to Uriah Arnold 19 August dwelling hon-es. our- grist mill. one fulling mill , one press house. and I i 54 i ~ recorded in Providence ma rrial{t's.~:,!l The Ballou genealog~ one chocola te mill, the land bein g hounded on the north, west and lists the marr-iag e of Uriah Arnold. son of David and Bathsheba south hy highways. on the east partly on land owned bv the plaintiff. ( Ballou) Arnold, to Elizabeth r ed . dnuuhtr-r of Xatban of Elisha Brown, ami Daniel Smith (so n of Benjamin ") . partly with Rehobot h. b. fl August I nG, but docs not provide a first marriage Ed ward Thurber's land. partly with Thomas O wen's land, and partly and assumes tha t Elizabeth died about 17--1:9. an obvious error. for the with M ill R iver, th e properties being known by the name of th e year of marriage was 1 7 .i --l- . ~ 'J " Rehoboth vital records lisr thr- birth of Providence Xtill. Eliza beth. da ughter of Nathan and Patience ( Carpenter ) Per k. in T he declaration contin ued that Charles died 12 April I is::? without 1726. 2fol and Providence birth s name two t-hildn-n of Uriah and issue and intesta te, It added that Ma rth a Brown was the only issue of Elizabet h Arnold : Eliznbt-th, b. ~O April 17.')1) and Daniel. h. ~. ~ :\0­ J ohn Sm ith. deceased. who was the t-lrh-st bro ther of P hilip Smith. vr-m lx-r 17:)8. ~'1 ~ father of Charles. and was the nearest heir-at-law to Charles Smith, Charles Smith was the last of the miller Smi ths to operate the grist She became rightfully seized of the proptTty of Charles at his death, mi1l in Providence set u p hy the original J oh n Smith. the m iller . After it was claimed. and con tinued to hold the property until 20 :\lay 17:')2 Chm-lcs's death as a youn g man th e propI.'rty was clai med by his first when the defendants with force a nd arms look the property and with­ cousin, Martha Brown . daughter of j oh n' and Deborah ( :\n g-d l) held it. to the plaintiffs' damage of It'll t housand pounds. Smi th an d wife of Dep uty Governor Elisha Brown. as the next kgal "I'he suit was tried at great length and with many depositions offered kill. Then-al ter it fell into Brown hands an d remained in that Iamilv hy friends and relatives (If the principals. T he situation was thi s : for Illany ~'("

~;".-\rn uld , 1',/ 171Ua oTd of Rehoboth , p. 4'l9. ~:'! ' .-\ rn o l d, op. cil. feared that if he died without a will. his wife would be left penniless. ~ '; ". \djn Ball ou. A n F. 1 " b " ' a l ~ I/i,to, )" lind C""CfII"l:.I' of t h ~ lillI/ntH '" T here was also some anxictv expressed thaI Hannah Smith. widow of A """j(II .. .. I I ' r o \, j d , - n ,. ~ t8R8 1, V. 107, Charles's grandf arber. J nh n. 3 might gain po-ses-ion of the property, ~nl . \l"ll ol d. V ilal RU OTd, of ll(h" both .1' 70S ~'i~ \I'"old, op. cit.. 2: 21n. Te stil1l(Jn ~ was pre sented that Charles was finally prevailed upon 22 to make a will. It stated that he ga\'e all his. lands, bui ldinRs and j ohn Smith. the M iller. of Prorid ence (January 1963J john Smith. the M iller, of Providence 25 movable gOOlb tu his wife Elizabeth n ccpt ing: the thirds hdonging to six days after the dea th of his mot her, Elizab e th Smith, Ill' died intes­ his gra ndmothn, H annah Smith, and his m other, Sa rah Sm ith, tute and \\'illiam Ha w kins, grandson of said Elizabeth by her first during their naturallife , but in case his wife sho uld ma rry again a fter marr'iaur- to \ \' illiam Hawkins, and Zebedee H opkins, second husband his decease, he ordered that she sho uld ha ve th e full one-half of his of R uth ( Hawkins) W ade. widow of Nathaniel \\'ad(: an d daughter lands and buildings and movable esta te. He lx-qur-athcd the other of said Eliz a beth, were named administrators. reporting an inventory half of the la nd s and build ings and movable esta te to h is mother, of R+2 pounds, 19 shillings, an d 11 pence. Sarah Smith, in case his widow remarried, but in case his m other After' Stephen's death Lt. \\'illiam Hopkins appeared hefore the sho uld d ie before his wid ow remarried, he then ordered th at what he Gl l)(" ester Town Council as administrator for Stephen to report he had given to his mother sho uld descend to his own rightf ul heirs. T he had found places for binding- out "so me of Ste phen's chi ldren" as will, made 10 April 1752, named his wife executrix. follows: "Stephen Smith, an infant and son of the aforesaid Stephen, The cr ux of th e C;tl'r deed.. Owen family found OI l The Rhod e Island H isto rica l Socierv A b i ~ a il a rc ~i,!:nt-d ofTbv ~1ar\' as the wife of Obadiah Le-wis. is li..ted till' rnarriagl' ,\f Slllith, "dauzhter of ES{'"k Steph en Smith, J r.:d,·,·d,-d to his brother Esek of Gloces­ and Phebe Smith. born in 17iO I" 10 O l i \"l " ~ Owen. Her ter on 9 J)1·CI'IlIh.:·r 178-1 tr-n acres. the e-asterly pa rt of the birthplace was given as Glocc-u-r, and it was stated that she fann wht're Stephen lived . lIis wife Elizabet h yielded he r died at nineteen. If th ere wav ;1 first marriaKl" then "Esek down rights.2 611 T he marriage of S tephe n Smith a nd Smith J r." who aplX'ars in Gloo'sln deeds mav have been a Elizabeth T income , of H czckia h T inco mc (T inkha m) in son hy the first marriage. . Glon -stt'r 27 O ctober 1768 is recorded in Glocester vital XUITII'f{)US GlcxTstt'r deeds for Est'k indicat e thai ES{'"k « 'cord,.n o lived m-ar his brother Su-phr-n Jr. in the ne ig-h borhood of Ste-phe-n Jr. wav a Revolution ary War ~ Id il' r. serving wha t is now Snake' I lill Road and Paris Inlils-Road, in the with his brother Ea-k . Proof is larking. hut the index of sourh-ct-ntral part of rolon·stn. only a short distance from Revolutionary \"ar pellSion applicants includes a Sn-phvn the northern bo rd ers (If till' adjoining towns of Scituate and Smith whost' wifl' was Elizabeth an d who die d 11 AO\"t'mh,'r Fo..tcr. H is 1;1 '1 transactio n was recorded 1:1 Sept. 18m IRI:i at ~ I on i sl o wn , St. La wn 'nr e Cou nh ', XI'"\\" Y " r k . ~ l1 " I)('n hr-!'Old to Rollt'rt Stl"tT" of ( ;Ion 'ster for $2.000 three I h' migh t ha l''' be('n Stl'p!l ('T\ Jr. A son 'of E"I'k SlI1 ilh. trail' in Gl oce ~tl'r. : 1 ,1 One of fifty an I" with d welling how;(' .\ rnol d Smith. had move d 10 ~ l o r ri s lO wn in th e ea rly 1ROOs. :Ind barns ahutted William l';lg,' ;lIId Elizafwth H awkins ; tfw s('cond was eight arn's nn till' ,o uth side of South 8.' I I ESEh." S:\Uf ll.:t ..ordi ('l" of th e Rt'\ o[ution , wa~ born ill Glor rs· Killingly Road (Sllah' lI ill Road ) a butt ing land ESI'k had 11·r. hut till' fint public reco rd of hilll wa~ in 17;;R' \!l(' 1\ Ill' sold to Capt. J oh n Gn'f'I1t' ; and the third wa s of nine acres wa s hou nd o ut til ZdJt'c!t-t' Il opkin", .II'. A deposition made that E,,'k had bou ght fro m Rufus Steere, abu tting land of in (;[ o("('st"1" II (),-ttlht'l' 18:16 hy his widow. 1{ I'[le\\, Sl11i th, in Willialll I ' .-'.~ ,-. , J o rd a n Sp rag- tit'. and the land of Ihe late .-\hia I.uther ( Sr. ) d'TI'a' l'Cl , ZnsGlo('(',lrr !) t"t·d. , 5: ,180. ~'I!l J bid., II: 51. ~." Arnold, op. cit" 3: :1-1 . Z;l lndrx of Rr v. Wa r P" m ion Applk ants. R9728. ~'~ Jbid., W l 29i ti. :w J O}1Il Smith , th t' .Ifill.", of Pta rideuc, [januurv 1963J John Smith, the M iller, of Pracidence

T Il(' (tlJl o wil1 ~ RI'\"olutionary \\";n' "'I\"ill' of Ewk i~ as 'i. l:I: 25'1. n ':lb id., 15: -I75. ~ "G l on·5t..r "LHria",· Hook I : 201;. ~:' ( ;lm'r>U' r D.'"d" 19 :327. 30 John Smith. th e J/ illo , of Providence [Janua ry Hook Rt'l';eu' 3 1 ~l a rt ha fur Smith. wilmanh, Almira. and john Phil lips. TIU'fl' can be little doubt hut she was the who had ~a rdian,hip O n 12 n et:" , 18H Ma rtha Phillip... wid"w of John. '"'.'11 placed under the of Abin J r.'s father. Abia Lut her of Gl on " ln sold to Da vid Cowt'n of Gl oces­ a ppean-d h.·fon' ( ;!on ...tr-r T own Ullin, il ro take OHT till" ~ ua r d i;m,hi p of lu-r children. nanu-d abovr-. with ter fo r I-l-OO silver dolla rs on 10 O ct . 1797 a farm of eig"hty­ a h uttin.~ (;" org-t' Smith as m n ' I Y , ~: " Pn-sumcblv tln-n- wa~ sorru­ 1\'0 aut's " where I live." (;,'orgl' Bo wen . \ \'illiam ~larlh a tutlily til' with (;t'Olg' ". a nd th e facl th a t tht' fin! child "',uk . and J ohn H awkins. His wi fl' yielded dower r i g h h . ~ · ~ Doubtless th is sa le was thl' signa l for Abia's was Smith Phillips would -an-ngthr-n tI](' n-sumption. n 'l1lo\';11 from Glocester. II I P~RH ;lU:-;t.') Ssm -n, hound out In J oh n Round (,f Scituate. O n 21 Sept. 18CH Allia L uther. "Lite of Gloc ester and Rh od e Ida nd . aftr-r tht' dea th of his father. lIlarried I Ja n. now of H artwick . Otseg"o Count y. :'\l ' W York," sold to 1778 Zerviah Eddy nf Pou-r and M arv ( Round ) Ed dv in Ni cholas Tucker of Glon 'stn fo r $2(1) one-half part of a S ( · il \lall ·. ~ · " He died . prnhOlhly in Ira. VlTIIlOIlt, 20 Ma rch tract of 366 acres. the sa me tract Abia purc hased from 181 :1. Benja min Colwell. Ii i...... idow, who nrarrir'd "'"('(mdJ tN 'ph Tower. stated in A nolh" r deed 20 AUJ:" . 179-treveals the names of two sons 11I" r claim (or a pension Oil th.. Rt'\"olution;Jry \\';Ir services of Abia and ~I a rt ha . Squi re Luther sold to J l'rl'm iah SWt't'1 of 1'.-rl"J::r il\l· that h e enlisu-d [rom Sciru.uc in A pril I i7j of G locNt('r "the 101 tha i Illy honored father, A bia L u the r fo r nin.. months under Capt. Isaac l lopkinc in Col. Hitch­ J r., gave 10 my b rot her J o..h ua Luther, hy deed of gift. a nd cock's rl'g:inll·nt. He W;IS wi th Capt. H opkin' in the fa ll of i, till' ,all\{' that Abi a Jr. ho ui:: ht of Sirm-on 5W('(-'"t."20(\ 1777 and for the month of O ctober I i78 wrvr-d wit h C apt. :""<1 children fo r Abia Jr. and ~ l arth a were rec ord ed in Tourn-lloue. Ller declara tion stated that sill' wa' horn in G lcl(·I"tfT. 1 7S 6 . ~ ' 1 2""GloCl's tn V""U., 15: H ~, 2 "~ /bid., 13: HI. Children of P('regr ilw a mi Zerviah Smith, li-n-d ill th e E; : .J.U H:.... who married [10 bc' conrinur-d] H a nn ah of james and ~l a ry (Sa li,hury) Eddy : ./0 11 : L EVI : AR:>;O I.Il; a nd 1'0 1.l.Y. T Il(' fami ly moved from Scituat e to Ve rmo nt . whn t' th..y lived in C la re ndon . Pitt -ford , a nd BOOK REVI EW I ra. e-e ,lImf"J B r QIl Ol , R t' llIel "as ;, 1\' ~ hRTlt " ~ S'IIT". it will hI' IT l1l l·mh elt"d . e1l0,,· .-\h ia Luther. d Mllll' ioli of l it<' ,';tII't· of puhl ic r,hw;' liull. Ilis d('lCT mim'd dforls, ",ith rl",SI' Sr" o[ Clon "tt' r :l, Ilt'r gua rd ian a[tt'r 11](' death of her "f "t!l n ,. hn,ugllt Rln,dr Island ( :ullrgr (1Ir(", n LT nivrr , ity) 10 l' rovitk lln ·. f;lIllI" l", Clon 'stlT marria l.!: \' rtTo rds li,1 lilt' Illa n ia g-e n n l it' \\,1' a k."kr. ;I!mn rnuc. houl :":rw England. ~'2 Rulh Story O", c'n'ul< Eddy, T iu EddJ FII",il)" i~ _~",n;"I . ,., ( Bo. lon 1''130 ), p. I-H . ~':IPro,'idf' nn' D...·d•. :lQ: 1.)3. ~'l ( :locf'u f'r !-b rria!l."l'"S, I : 132. Book R eoieio [january Thr- ( ;"lL, " h ,," t {;r"up of the I'rm'idl'w ", l'rr-v-rv.nion So('ir-ly hOI' " '1 " 1' in It is this record, herr- harr-ly sllggrstrd, which Dr. ~ la,k T hompson, fo rmerly our ""hibili" n tl" >l 11 a showing uf EIl.I ITII:> lll ( :t ."TI'II\' l ) u ,mt,\TI\'1 , \IIT~ . o( III<' history department o( Brown L'ni\'('rsilr an d now chairman of the T tw " " hihili,,", illu, tr Iw gi"" n at th.. So ..il·t y·' hv.idquarters on Fr-hru;uy 17, will derail ill his r-xrr-llr-nt hiouraphv, .\lOUJ ltronm, Uf!urlall( ltclormrr. As the Iw "II \"it'" IIm 'Ul:h"llt tilt" nWllt h. nth- suggrst", howr-vr-r, the hook is more th.-.n a n anoulit of ~ rus~s Brown's work s. It is also rhr- sto rv of his search for pra,r of mind and of his dTo rts tu From ~"IH"IIi1><,r through Onolwr rhc " il 1'" itlt Lllg " f G t::'II Ut,\L HI 11 "'" 11 rcr-onr-ilr- his spi ritual need" wlth his worldly interests. I'm in 177-1, afu-r 1I10rr .\." " I ll s ~T '\ H III ~ I"s,' _s ' Vi.llhl was "" 1" ,," to rill" \ \'a, hin .ll toll C " "I1I\ ~I ~l a l)' l a nd , than tw o years of spiritual travail following til(' rh-ath of hi" beloved ",ife, Ihis u-c-um 011 II a,l:n,;own, T he " " hil,iti" n " ;IS thr- muS<:"um ', ,',ml rihu­ cu tcrprisinz. prosperous business man, this gr,llldson of a Baptist minister and li"1] 10 thr- ( :"l ltt'lInial Co mmemorati"" " f II", Ibttk "f Anricr am .uu! Ih,' descendant of several generations of Baptists, sought and W;IS gr,lntl'd rcroge Ili" ... ntr-nni.rl " f till" founding of l lagr-rvtown. in tilt' Society of f riends. lie was nca-lv thirty-six years old , .\ n exhibiti,," . .\r.\"A:-; F tsH f,R, I 79:!·I Rt,3, .\\ If .. W...... I' to s u :.. I:> 1.,' :>1' . tvh v did Mosos Brown hrr-ak with h is family and hi~ (-h ur{'h, and what d T"I'ts Sf ',\1'1 \Sl> ( ;I ....-RF , h,'" heen prep;lrrd and arranm-d by' Robert C, \'0 ' <', Jr.. "f did his conversion to Quakr-risrn haw on hi~ ran-crP I n ;lIlswcr in L( these h' ~ \ ',,,,. ( ;" II" ri,', "r 11"'1011, The exhibition m"" I,,~ ",,'11 ;It The Conn,·,'li, 111 questions Dr. Thompson giws us an interprr-mtion of ~ I,,,,'s Hrowuthat is hoth I li' I",;, " I S,,,iny in Hart ford through ] an uan .lll, 1963, a fter which il will moving and r onvincinq. h,' ",,,,...d in i!S e llli n ' t ~' to the ~i u"" lJ m of Fim' .\rls ;1) lI"ston, wh r rr it 11101\ Ill" :\I us,-s conversion and the rrst of his life-, as Dr. Thompson u-Hs II', wr-n- ;,11 "·... n frn m F,'brllary :!8 through April 7, lYlj:>. TIl<" Rh"d,' Islan d Histnric.rl of ;( piece with all that ha d gonr be fore. For a whil" Iw wilhdrl'w from thr­ ~,, ct_ Covr, "hi..h Fisher painted aflnirs uf the world, but not for long. H e could not reconcilc withdrawal I,iill f" r t il<" I{n n"nd T. D. Ca rlisle in 1818 . ,\ ftn Carli.,lr\ death il was booulu disapproval. Strong in him, as in h is family lin .., was a sr-nsr- of social n-'pon· hy C hari,·, I I Ru"rl1 ,L1ld pla ced on board a -tc.unboat running ht-twer-n "ihilit y, which was also in the Quakr-r trad ition . W ith his new-found hrarillgs, :\rw Yor k ;lIId I'rnvid"nn', It was l... ft to the S",'ir (, bv Roswell E. Lockwood. he ""'ut OIl to do gn-at humanitarian work throughout thr- R evolution and tn In »rd.-r tu l'r"tel"l J ohn Brown House and it> irrepla....able ronu-uts from lx-coruc " 0 111' of America's grea t hu manitarians." In his years o( study of p"-,,ihlo- d"'1I'IIdi"n hy tire, a sprinkler 'y't~m h,ts IWI'II insta lled . After murh Q Ll ak.-r writings he had found, not a progr:lm of ar-rion, hil t prjnr-iplcs of "oll,idnat;,," i( '''IS dr-ridcd not to r-xn-ud Ill<' 'y'tem to th e vault, which nmdu,'l. hou,,'s th,' S" ,' j,'ty's inva luable manuo-ripr ""Ik d i"",. Th,' vault itself ;, [f we wish 10 understand why Moses Brown has rem ain ed for over a century lir"l'roof. Imt to avoid anv ch ance of d; "na~(" it will herrafter he do,ed 10 all ill thl' ,h",lo'" of his work, why th is is t he first well-rounded hioaeaphy o f the "",",'pt ,talf members. m,Ill,lhr answer i, ill I k Thompson's r-lusing t rihute : " I f ti lt' desire (o r fo rtune :\lrs. William B, Rnhinsou has la kr-n 0" thl' duur-s of secretary in th r- lir'l ~ I " s \' s , f anH ~ . th o~" W ;I.' not prr-st-m in neither was the desire for T here ;Ire r ar" tI""r olli,·C'. indi\"idual" who can work li rc!rsslr amI sunessfull y fo r 110 other n'ason than a .\Ir, I).,vid l :, F... llIwr of :\orth Fa lll1 " Ulh, :\I.,,,;,,'hu'l'll'. h;,. g;,'cn to tilt' f"cling of re_spomibility and a gen uine lo,,~ fo r mankind, ~ I o ,, (' .s Brown wa s S"..i"t" a coli li"n of m;ol.'ri,d re la ting to th,' aru 'i"1I! Ft'lllln famil\' " f Rhod r ,itch a man." I<. l;lI1 d', In.-l" d I arr ;' lim' p"rtrai l ;,f hi~ ~n'''1 !(n'''1 l:r;md fath,:r, T huma, Dr. T hom pson's work j~ Ihor"ugh, SdlOlarly, wdl·writll'll .Hld admirahly F..llIwr ( 17i:\- l W,:!}, ;llld.-. bt... "ig hll'('lllh ," 'ntun III"pk d..,k in "hi,-h till' planned. It pres"m" a warm p,nttr ;,it of a gn'al, good man who d,..sery,'s to be "'(,(Jlldary ",,,,d is , I""tnlll, indicating;, R hod,· I,lallt! ori!(in . known, rell1emhC'Ced, and honorf·d - esp"dally hy Illl' pt'opk of R hode b land . illd"\in~ .'.1oSl's IIrown SdlOOI \ \·ll.l.lA\I I' AXTOS :\11'. J " hll II. \\"dh n"ltilllr,·s his lill<" ""lk " f the RI1<>J,' 1,land n'n'u" "f IBb:,. III addili"" t" Ih,· t"wns li,t... 1ill th,' July i"u,' of IU",d,' I ,land JliJl fJ TI' [\ . ~ 1. 110. 3, in,i, 1t- front ("o\"I'r] 11<' I"" ,olllpl"It',1 IIlIrrill, illr , r"'l<'r. EXHIBITIOXS (;Io",·, tn , Johll'I"ll . 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LEG I'URES J a n u a r ~ :!O, 191):l Sunday 33 0 p.m . T be l" depn ,J elll Historical .'ioc;t'I.) W \I.n R ~ 1 1 'rR W IIITf. 1I11.1. • •• Febr ua rv 17, I ~ 1{j 3 S un dav :UO p.III, R b ode l sl,," d