. Historic Litchfield, 1721-1907; being a short account of the history of the old houses of Litchfield; . tttomb. The tomb of John Pierpont may be found, andthose of two of the children of Lyman Beecher. Thesearcher will be rewarded by many quaint epitaphs and manynames of historical interest will be found. Mention must be made of the first Litchfield paper,The Monitor, established in 1784, and highly important inits day. Its full name was The Weekly Monitor and Ameri-can Advertiser, and it was first issued the year of the LawSchool by Thomas Collier, printed on coarse blue paper ona sheet abo
. Historic Litchfield, 1721-1907; being a short account of the history of the old houses of Litchfield; . tttomb. The tomb of John Pierpont may be found, andthose of two of the children of Lyman Beecher. Thesearcher will be rewarded by many quaint epitaphs and manynames of historical interest will be found. Mention must be made of the first Litchfield paper,The Monitor, established in 1784, and highly important inits day. Its full name was The Weekly Monitor and Ameri-can Advertiser, and it was first issued the year of the LawSchool by Thomas Collier, printed on coarse blue paper ona sheet about one-third the size of the present LitchfieldEnquirer. There were only three Litchfield advertisements,—Wm. Russell, stocking weaver, from Norwich, Eng., an-nounced that he was ready to make worsted, cotton, andlinen jackets and breeches patterns, mens and womens stock-ings, gloves, and mitts. Zalmon Bedient, barber, offers cashfor human hair; Cornelius Thayer, brazier, also calls atten-tion to his business. The Monitor was continued for aperiod of twenty-two years, for sixteen of which it had no. mmiBM mm- i.*il»:?Jft
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