. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. undoubt-edly put upon it. She owned the Olde Homestead on Moose Hill (over twenty-eight acres) and theequal half of the house and barn standing thereon,valued at £220. There were also mentioned theTylee lot, twenty-three acres, £100; Kady lot, four-teen acres, £117; east side of the highway, twenty-three acres, £137; at Deep Brook, eighteen acres,£105; adjoining the homestead of Joseph de Forestdeceased, forty-five acres, £292. A goodly inheri-tance for her sons ! What had become of Samuel and Abigails largefamily ^
. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. undoubt-edly put upon it. She owned the Olde Homestead on Moose Hill (over twenty-eight acres) and theequal half of the house and barn standing thereon,valued at £220. There were also mentioned theTylee lot, twenty-three acres, £100; Kady lot, four-teen acres, £117; east side of the highway, twenty-three acres, £137; at Deep Brook, eighteen acres,£105; adjoining the homestead of Joseph de Forestdeceased, forty-five acres, £292. A goodly inheri-tance for her sons ! What had become of Samuel and Abigails largefamily ^ at the time of the parents decease ? MaryMills was still living in Ripton. Hepzibah Hawley ^ For an account of Samuels children see Appendix,p. 297. [ 2^6] Samuel de Forest was in her home on Barn Hill. Martha and EUza- Moose HUibeth were both married and apparently had movedelsewhere. Of the sons, Joseph, Samuel, and Josiahwere dead, David had moved to Derby, on thebanks of the Housatonic, and Nehemiah alone, ofall that large family, was left on that lovely VII THE DE FORESTS IN WAR TIME THE death of Samuel de Forest of MooseHill has brought our record down to theyear following the Declaration of AmericanIndependence. Samuel himself was too old a manto take part in the Revolutionary War, although hewas active, as we know, in the local military organi-zations ; but his son Nehemiah was in the prime ofmanhood during the stirring days of the colonialstruggle with England. Nehemiahs part in thatstruggle will be told in the chapter relating especi-ally to him. Before we begin our story of Nehe-miahs life, however, it seems worth while to pauselong enough to offer the facts that we have gleanedconcerning those de Forests whose war records havebeen preserved to us, and something, as well, of thepart played by Connecticut during the war. Ne-hemiah will then be seen against the background ofhis period. So far we have spoken of this family as simplefarmer-folk, tilling t
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