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Present my most respectful compliments to Mrs. Prevost and the family, and also the ladies on the hill. Miss Susan Governor Livingston desires her compliments to you and the two families. So do Susan and Eliza Baskenridge. Yours affectionately, Weathersfield, 7th July, 1780.
Present my most respectful compliments to Mrs. Prevost and the family, and also the ladies on the hill. Miss Susan Governor Livingston desires her compliments to you and the two families. So do Susan and Eliza Baskenridge. Yours affectionately, Weathersfield, 7th July, 1780.
Them voice! That natral stile of doin things! 'Tis he!" she cried, and rushed into my arms. It was too much for her & she fell into a swoon. I cum very near swoundin myself. No more to-day from yours for the Pepetration of the Union, and the bringin of the Goddess of Liberty out of her present bad fix. Delivered July 4th, at Weathersfield, Connecticut, 1859. I was 96 minits passin a givin pint.
The other was Jack, a negro belonging to Samuel Wolcott of Weathersfield, who upon conviction of having set fire to a residence by waving a fire brand about in search of victuals, was condemned to be hanged until dead and then burned to ashes in the fire with the negress Maria.
Jerry's invitations were charily given, and valued accordingly; and more than once, at our table, I had felt a twinge of envy when Conybear or someone else had remarked, with the proper nonchalance, in answer to a question, that they were going to Weathersfield. Such was the name of the Kyme place....
"The said Thomas beinge at Sargant Hugh Wells his house ouer against John Harrison's house, in Weathersfield, he saw a cart cominge towards John Harrisons house loaden wth hay, on the top of the hay he saw perfectly a red calfes head, the eares standing peart up, and keeping his sight on the cart tell the cart came to the barne, the calfe vanised, and Harrison stoode on the carte wch appared not to Thomas before, nor could Thomas find or see any calfe theire at all though he sought to see the calfe.
As the Saxon names of places, with the pleasant wholesome smack of the soil in them, Weathersfield, Thaxted, Shalford, are to the Celtic names of places, with their penetrating, lofty beauty, Velindra, Tyntagel, Caernarvon, so is the homely realism of German and Norse nature to the fairy-like loveliness of Celtic nature.
Capricious, impulsive, she captured my interest because she put a high value on her favour; she drove me over the hills, informing me at length that I was sympathique different from the rest; in short, she emphasized and intensified what I may call the Weathersfield environment, stirred up in me new and vague aspirations that troubled yet excited me. Then there was Mrs.
"Richard Mountague, aged 52 years, testifieth as followeth, that meeting with Goodwife Harrison in Weathersfield the saide Katherin Harrison saide that a swarm of her beese flew away over her neighbour Boreman's lott and into the great meadow, and thence over the greate river to Nabuck side, but the said Katherin saide that shee had fetched them againe; this seemed very strange to the saide Richard, because this was acted in a little tyme and he did believe the said Katherin neither went nor used any lawful meanes to fetch the said beese as aforesaid."
Here they founded the mighty town of Pyquag, or, as it has since been called, Weathersfield a place which, if we may credit the assertions of that worthy historian, John Josselyn, gent., "hath been infamous by reason of the witches therein."
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