Thomas Solley and his descendants, the story of a hunt for an ancestor . HOME OF THOMAS SULLI-V, SECOXI. 1tiS rollICI., STOKIv A\l> ST A (IK AT SOUTH BRITAIN. HIS DESCENDANTS one to which Grandfather Solley moved from Kettletown, andwe sat up till a late hour talking over the past. The next day we started for Georges Hill. We were toldthat the road led directly to the four corners at Georges Hillwhere the old meeting house had been, and where the grave-yard might be seen among its growth of bushes; but the roadwas so uninhabited that we got lost among the mountains, andfinally came out
Thomas Solley and his descendants, the story of a hunt for an ancestor . HOME OF THOMAS SULLI-V, SECOXI. 1tiS rollICI., STOKIv A\l> ST A (IK AT SOUTH BRITAIN. HIS DESCENDANTS one to which Grandfather Solley moved from Kettletown, andwe sat up till a late hour talking over the past. The next day we started for Georges Hill. We were toldthat the road led directly to the four corners at Georges Hillwhere the old meeting house had been, and where the grave-yard might be seen among its growth of bushes; but the roadwas so uninhabited that we got lost among the mountains, andfinally came out again down on the Housatonic River were well repaid, however, for getting lost, for welearned something of the geography of the country and theminds of the early settlers, which we would not have other-wise learned. We found no less than four roads ascendingfrom the Housatonic River road directly back up over themountain into the towns of Southbury and Oxford. Some ofthese roads were deserted and scarcely ever used; some weresteep and circuitous, and dangerous enough to satisfy even aSwiss m
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