Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut: An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences — John Shaqi
Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut: An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and ReminiscencesVarious
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Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut: An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences
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New Milford (Conn. : Town) -- History
Muster roll of a company said to have been raised in New Milford and
to have formed a part of Colonel Andrew Ward’s Regiment of Connecticut
Militia. Roll of Captain Isaac Bostwick’s company, Seventh Company,
Sixth Regiment, of Connecticut Line. Men who crossed the Delaware
with Captain Isaac Bostwick and were in the battles of Trenton and
Princeton. Officers and men from New Milford who served in the Sixth
Company of the Fourth Regiment of Connecticut Line. New Milford men
who served in Lieutenant-Colonel Josiah Starr’s Regiment, Connecticut
Line. New Milford men who were in Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Canfield’s
Regiment of Connecticut Militia at West Point in 1781. New Milford
men who served in Connecticut Regiment of Pioneers. New Milford men
who served in Col. Moses Hazen’s Regiment, Connecticut Militia. New
Milford men who served in the Fifth Troop, Shelden’s Dragoons. New
Milford men who served in Second Regiment, Connecticut Line. Company
of forty volunteers. New Milford men in Captain Charles Smith’s
company. General David Waterbury’s State Regiment. Lieutenant John
Phelps’s Troop of Horse. New Milford men in Sixth Company, Fourth
Regiment, Continental Line. New Milford Men in Captain Kimberley’s
Company, Second Regiment, Continental Line. New Milford men who served
under Lieutenant-Colonel Canfield in the Tryon invasion. New Milford
members of the Society of the Cincinnati.
THE WAR OF 1812 53
THE MEXICAN WAR 53
THE CIVIL WAR 54
List of men from New Milford who had service in the Civil War.
Recapitulation.
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 66
RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD NEW MILFORD HOMES.
By ALICE MERWIN BOSTWICK 67
The pre-Revolutionary houses. The great chimney. The good cooking of
the early days. The hard work. The quilting bee. The shoemaker. The
schoolmaster. Homeless wanderers. Indians from the Reservation. The
calls of the parson. Visiting. Sunday. Fast Day. Thanksgiving. The
long winters. Comparison of the life then and now.
UNCHARTERED INSTITUTIONS. BY FREDERIC KNAPP 75
The general “sitting-down” place. Levi Knapp’s store. Its influence.
Remarkable longevity of its habitués.
TRAINING DAYS IN THE ’FORTIES, AS TOLD BY AN OLD BOY. BY FREDERIC
KNAPP 78
Emerson’s appreciation of boys. Training day _the_ day of the year.
Off for a good time. On the parade-ground. At the tavern. The
evolutions of the train-band. The lessons taught.
REMARKABLE LONGEVITY OF NEW MILFORD CITIZENS. By MINOT S.
GIDDINGS 81
ACTIVITIES OF NEW MILFORD IN LATER YEARS 84
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