. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. In order to simplify his holdingsof land, he sold off all his outlying tracts — hisMoose Hill property, his nine acres at BowlesSwamp, his seventeen acres at Little Faun Hill, andhis tract of land at Lattins Mill with one half of themill itself, which was situated on the Great HalfwayRiver. It was at about the same time that he sold toLegrand M. Lewis for £130 ^ his lot containing sevenacres at Brushy Ring. On September 15, 1797, he sold to NathanWheeler, Samuel Beardsley, and Samuel Wheelerfor ^2500 the old inn and
. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. In order to simplify his holdingsof land, he sold off all his outlying tracts — hisMoose Hill property, his nine acres at BowlesSwamp, his seventeen acres at Little Faun Hill, andhis tract of land at Lattins Mill with one half of themill itself, which was situated on the Great HalfwayRiver. It was at about the same time that he sold toLegrand M. Lewis for £130 ^ his lot containing sevenacres at Brushy Ring. On September 15, 1797, he sold to NathanWheeler, Samuel Beardsley, and Samuel Wheelerfor ^2500 the old inn and the fourteen acres of landwhich surrounded it. He was not yet, however, quiteready to make the final move ; for his two daughterswere about to be married and there were also manypreparations for removal still to be made. There-fore he reserved to himself the right to reap and re-move the crops then on the land and to occupy thehouse and grounds until the fifteenth of the nextMay. ^ Money was still often reckoned in English currency inthe country districts. [ 310 ] I I. ACADEMY AT EASTON, AS IT LOOKED IN I 799 AND STILL LOOKS TODAY Nehefhiahs Later Years After having thus divested himself of most of his New Stratfordlanded interests, Nehemiah finally, on March 31,1798, completed the purchase of Williams propertyand paid him £400 for the land in Weston which thelatter had bought two years before. Thus the old inn was left still facing on the Placeof Parade, as the public green was often called afterwar time, but no longer under the efficient manage-ment of Landlord de Forest. This was not, however,the last time that the de Forest name was to be con-nected with the house. Hepzibah de Forest, Nehe-miahs sister, as we knew long ago, married MiltonHawley, and many years later (in 1807) Hepzibahsgranddaughter, Jane Hawley, who was then living inNew Stratford, was married to Linson de Forest ^from that house. Then in 1840 Janes daughter, MaryJane de Forest, was also married from th
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