. Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi .. . )osse appeared andarrested Mr. Breck in his Majestys name, and theprisoner was taken first to the town-house, and after-ward to New London for trial. The early Springfield settlers had few of the. BOSTON TO ALBANY. 97 articles which we consider the comuioiiest cum forts of*lifb. Hon. John Worthlngton, ^One of the Gods of theConnoctlcnt Valley, o
. Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi .. . )osse appeared andarrested Mr. Breck in his Majestys name, and theprisoner was taken first to the town-house, and after-ward to New London for trial. The early Springfield settlers had few of the. BOSTON TO ALBANY. 97 articles which we consider the comuioiiest cum forts of*lifb. Hon. John Worthlngton, ^One of the Gods of theConnoctlcnt Valley, owned the first uiid)relhi inSpringfield. lie never profaned the article hycarrying it in the rain, bnt used it as a snn-shadeonly. In 1753 there w\as bnt one clock in Springfiehl. Itwas considered a great cnriosity, and people used tostop to hear it strike. As early as about 1774 that wonderful innovation,a cooking-stove, made its appearance in Si)ringii( stove was made in Philadelphia, and weighed. eight or nine hundred pounds. It was 1810 when David Ames brought the firstpiano into the little settlement. We are furnished with a description of Springfieldiff 1789 by the journal of the Great the date of October twenty-first he wrote,There is a great equality in the people of thisState. Few or no opulent men, and no poor. Greatsimilitude in their buildings, the general fashion ofwhich is a chimney—always of brick
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