The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . n our right, nearly parallelwith the course of StonyBrook and the track of theProvidence Railroad, whichlies to the west of it. is Pyn-chon Street, laid out in 1834from Carletons, on TremontStreet, to Heath Street, andnamed in honor of the founderof Roxbury. The once beautiful estates of Gore, Lowell, andHeath have been ruthlessly invaded and •• improved, until agreater contrast than that of the past and present of this ter-ritory could har
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . n our right, nearly parallelwith the course of StonyBrook and the track of theProvidence Railroad, whichlies to the west of it. is Pyn-chon Street, laid out in 1834from Carletons, on TremontStreet, to Heath Street, andnamed in honor of the founderof Roxbury. The once beautiful estates of Gore, Lowell, andHeath have been ruthlessly invaded and •• improved, until agreater contrast than that of the past and present of this ter-ritory could hardly be imagined. Central or Hog Bridge, as it has long been popularlycalled, where Stony Brook now runs under the street, is saidto derive its name from the following incident: Col. JosephWilliams had a daughter Patty, remarkable, like all the fam-ily, for great physical strength, and who afterwards removedto Pomfret. Conn. One of her yet remembered feats was theloading, unaided, of two barrels of cider upon a country-mans wagon that had overset near the house, in response tohis appeal for assistance. On the occasion above referred to,. COL. JOSEPU WILLIAMS. 386 HOG BRIDGE. TANNER HEATH. and when she was a young girl of eighteen, the narrow pas-sage over the bridge she was about to cross was impeded bya drove of hogs, the driver of which manifested no disposi-tion to allow her to pass. To the request that he would makeway for her, he returned an insulting reply. Whereupon shesiezed one of the hogs and threw him into the stream, thensent her insulter to keep him company, and finished the jobneatly by throwing another hog atop of him. A youngwoman of spirit was Patty Williams. Fancy a girl of theperiod confronted b}r a similar emergency ! Gen. Heaths brother Samuel, Tanner Heath as he wascalled, pursued his vocation on Stony Brook near the bridgeuntil his decease in 1817. He lived in the old Gary home-stead, next east of Fenuers meal store, which came into thepossession of hi
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