Two centuries of New Milford, Connecticut : an account of the bi-centennial celebration of the founding of the town held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, with a number of historical articles and reminiscences . relatives, the newly-married pair setforth. The accompanying friends went as far as the first noon-ing, somewhere below Derby. There, the last farewells weresaid, and Caleb, with his sweet girl wife on the pillion behindhim, journeyed to their future home. They moved up the river,camping at night in some quiet nook, their boat, with theirprovisions and camp equipment, securely fastened to
Two centuries of New Milford, Connecticut : an account of the bi-centennial celebration of the founding of the town held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, with a number of historical articles and reminiscences . relatives, the newly-married pair setforth. The accompanying friends went as far as the first noon-ing, somewhere below Derby. There, the last farewells weresaid, and Caleb, with his sweet girl wife on the pillion behindhim, journeyed to their future home. They moved up the river,camping at night in some quiet nook, their boat, with theirprovisions and camp equipment, securely fastened to the riversbank. The bright camp fires flashed out from under the densefoliage of the grand old primeval forests that lined the banksof the Great River, while this pair of children strolled in thedeepening gloom, whispering their love, their plans and theirhopes of happiness in their home in the wilderness. For fourdays they thus leisurely journeyed towards the cot on SecondHill, reaching the Cove about noon of the fifth day. By the mouth of the little brook that falls into the Cove,just at the foot of Lovers Leap, they made their last camp,while their boat was being unloaded and a more permanent camp. o cr;OO X H C The Two Abigails 29 established, for it would be several days before their belong-ings could be conveyed to their home. As the sun was sinkingtoward the cover of Green Pond and Candlewood Moun-tains, Caleb led his bride up the winding trail that mounts thesouthern face of the grand old cliffs of Falls Mountain toWaramaugs Grave; and, from that sightly place, she hadher first view of the beautiful Weantinaug Valley. Wara-maugs grave has ever been held an almost sacred spot by thedescendants of Caleb and Abigail. In my early youth, onjust such another September afternoon, I was taken by myfather up this winding trail, and sitting on the grass by theside of those honored stones, was told the tale I have beenrelating, as each succeeding generation of the name had beento
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