Dolls Tapping Reeve 40— Elijah Wadsworth 20— Daniel Sheldon 20— Uriah Holmes 20— Frederick Wolcott 20— John R. Landon 10— Elijah Adams 15— Aron Smith 20— Moses Seymour 15— Roger Skinner 15— Solomon Marsh 10— Asa Morgan 10— Julius Deming 20— Sam^l. Seymour 10— Isaac Baldwin Jr. 15— Daniel Starr 10— Moses Seymour Jr. 10— Timothy Peck 10— Thomas Colliar 10— Daniel W. Lewis 15— Uriah Tracy 20— Amos Galpin 10— Reuben Smith 10— John Allen 20— James Morris 5— John Welch 5— ———— Total 385 Dolls 1801–1868. LITCHFIELD AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Many a summer visitor, after toiling laboriously up the circuitous little branch of the Consolidated Railroad and arriving at Litchfield for the first time, wonders why, though perched on such a distant hilltop, it still wears such an air of old established dignity. The results of the changed conditions of travel are not easily recognized. Instead of being at the end of a small branch road as it is now, a hundred years ago Litchfield was on the high road, traversed by more than one of the main lines of Post Coaches, then the only means of public travel. The first of these stage lines were “The Litchfield and New Milford Turnpike Company, incorporated in October, 1797; The Litchfield and Harwinton Company in October, 1798; The Litchfield and Canaan Company in May, 1799. Then followed Strait’s Turnpike from Litchfield to New Haven, the Litchfield and Cornwall, the Litchfield and Torrington and the Litchfield and Plymouth Turnpikes.”[10]... “Daily lines of mail stages were established between this village and Hartford, New Haven, Norwalk, Poughkeepsie and Albany.”[10]... “Litchfield was on the great inland route from Boston to New York as well as from Hartford to West Point so that the amount of travel through the town was very great.”[10] This continued until about the year 1840, when the building of railroads broke up the stage routes and left the town stranded by itself, the nearest railroad four miles away. Then naturally many of the inhabitants moved away to new and growing centres of commerce and influence.