Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . n a sense a civil war, withmembers of many families arrayed against each other. At the beginningthe whigs and tories were pretty evenly divided, but the tories weresoon overawed and silenced and while several thousands embarked forNova Scotia and New Brunswick and colonized those provinces, theycomprised but a small minority of those who preferred silence andaquiesence, to proscription and banishment. Vol. XIX.—26 402 Ohio. Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. who have been among the most distinguished men of NewBrunswick, attaining high positions
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . n a sense a civil war, withmembers of many families arrayed against each other. At the beginningthe whigs and tories were pretty evenly divided, but the tories weresoon overawed and silenced and while several thousands embarked forNova Scotia and New Brunswick and colonized those provinces, theycomprised but a small minority of those who preferred silence andaquiesence, to proscription and banishment. Vol. XIX.—26 402 Ohio. Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. who have been among the most distinguished men of NewBrunswick, attaining high positions in professional and civillife. Hon. J. Douglas Hazen of St. Johns, a member of theexecutive council of the Province, is the present owner of thefamous Copley portrait, and to him we are indebted for thefine large photograph from which our illustration has been the later period of the war, and after the surrenderof Burgoynes army, a large detachment of which was sent toRutland where extensive barracks had been erected for their. Dr. Cutlers Church and Parsonage at Ipswich Hamlet, 1787. The place from whichthe First Company Started for the Ohio, December 3, 1787. accommodation, as if by an irony of fate the timber used inthe construction of these barracks was cut from Colonel Mur-rays lands and his mansion house was used for the British of-ficers of higher rank. When the property of the Tories wasseized by the new government, this house, destined to becomemore than a hundred years later, a patriotic shrine for futuregenerations, was purchased at the government sale by RufusPutnam and was occupied by him and his family until their de-parture for the Ohio Country. Upon that memorable winter Colonel John Murray. 403 night (January 9th, 1786), within these sacred walls was bornthe idea and plan which shortly afterwards took definite formas The Ohio Company. In April, 1888, Hon. George F. Hoar, United States Sen-ator from Massachusetts, delivered the principal address
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