Memorial of Henry Wolcott, one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, and of some of his descendants . wes Point on Lake George, by the sinking of a boat, Nov. 27,1768,—his daughter Elizabeth being then an infant a year old. His widow married (2d), Wyllys, of Hartford. ^ Colonel Gibbs was a man of singular culture and talent. Brilliant in conversation, polishedin manners, and of large and various experience of men and hfe, he was one of the marked men of hisday, and his large mansion at Sunswick was the seat of a broad and elegant hospitality rarely to bemet with in this cou
Memorial of Henry Wolcott, one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, and of some of his descendants . wes Point on Lake George, by the sinking of a boat, Nov. 27,1768,—his daughter Elizabeth being then an infant a year old. His widow married (2d), Wyllys, of Hartford. ^ Colonel Gibbs was a man of singular culture and talent. Brilliant in conversation, polishedin manners, and of large and various experience of men and hfe, he was one of the marked men of hisday, and his large mansion at Sunswick was the seat of a broad and elegant hospitality rarely to bemet with in this country at that time. The beautiful mansion, with its front upon the East River, atone of its most picturesque points, and its rear opening upon a broad inward landscape of fertile fields,was then one of the landmarks of the river. Within was his fine library, abounding in works of thebest authors, and in many tongues ; added to this, a mineralogical collection. The extensive and valu-able collection now in the possession of Yale College was made by Colonel Gibbs himself whileabroad. — J. A. Stevens, ^^^^ SIXTH GENERATION. 217 tinguished name in science. A third son, Alfred Gibbs, received amajor-generals commission in the army, and rendered gallant servicein the field. A correspondent who knew Mrs. Gibbs intimately writes us:No more noble and vigorous soul has honored the name since historybegan. The sermon by Dr. Bellows, after her death, was a most justand appreciative utterance. We give the opening and the closing paragraphs of this FuneralAddress : — One of the last links binding the present with the early and heroic periodof our national history has parted, and we are gathered about all that remainsof its once vigorous fibres. The daughter of Oliver Wolcott, a member of theCabinet of Washington, lies in this coffin, and will carry into her tomb a storeof vivid recollections of the men and the times when our national life was youngand earnest, anxious and devoted,
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