Connecticut historical collections, containing a general collection of interesting facts, traditions biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to the history and antiquities of every town in Connecticut, with geographical descriptions . ship is characteristically diversified with hills and * His monument is in a small burying ground a little west of the town house. Hedied in 1786, aged 85. He had a park of 10 or 15 acres, in which he kept deer, up-wards of a mile noith of the town house. READING. 395 valleys, with a soil generally good. Agriculture is almost exclusivelythe business of t
Connecticut historical collections, containing a general collection of interesting facts, traditions biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to the history and antiquities of every town in Connecticut, with geographical descriptions . ship is characteristically diversified with hills and * His monument is in a small burying ground a little west of the town house. Hedied in 1786, aged 85. He had a park of 10 or 15 acres, in which he kept deer, up-wards of a mile noith of the town house. READING. 395 valleys, with a soil generally good. Agriculture is almost exclusivelythe business of the inhabitants, who live scattered about on their two principal roads through the town pass, one through the west-ern part, the other through the eastern part. There are four houses ofworship, 1 Episcopal, 1 Methodist, 1 Congregational, and I Episcopal church is situated in the eastern part of the town, onwhat is called Reading ridge. Perhaps the most compactly settledpart is in the vicinity of this church, which is 15 miles n. w. fromBridgeport, and 8£ miles from Danbury court house. The town house,Methodist and Congregational churches, are on a cross road, upwards oftwo miles westerly from the Episcopal House in Heading, (formerly Gen. Putnams Quarters.) During the Revolutionary war, in the winter of 1779, in order tocover the country adjoining the Sound, and to support the garrison atWest Point in case of an attack, Maj. Gen. Putnam was stationed inReading. The engraving above is a representation of the house usedfor his head-quarters. It is situated on the Norwalk and Danburyroad, about 15 miles north of Norwalk, and 3 west from the Congrega-tional church. Putnam had under his orders Gen. Poors brigade ofNew Hampshire, the two brigades of Connecticut, the corps of infan-try commanded by Hazen, and that of cavalry by Sheldon. The troops, who had been badly fed, badly clothed, and worse paid, by broodingover their grievances in the leisure and
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