. Sketches and chronicles of the town of Litchfield, Connecticut, historical, biographical, and statistical; . Gatta was a mark-ed character, and somewhat eccentric. He had been so longin the service as to acquire habits of military precision andpromptness, and a soldiers proverbial indifference to he— When the Lord calls John I. Gatta, I shall answer, Here. Alas !—he heard the roll-call long ago, whichsummoned him from a world of vicissitude and trial to theland unseen. He died in this town in 1837, aged 81 years. 134 HISTOEY OF LITCHFIELD. Towards the close of life, lie thought an
. Sketches and chronicles of the town of Litchfield, Connecticut, historical, biographical, and statistical; . Gatta was a mark-ed character, and somewhat eccentric. He had been so longin the service as to acquire habits of military precision andpromptness, and a soldiers proverbial indifference to he— When the Lord calls John I. Gatta, I shall answer, Here. Alas !—he heard the roll-call long ago, whichsummoned him from a world of vicissitude and trial to theland unseen. He died in this town in 1837, aged 81 years. 134 HISTOEY OF LITCHFIELD. Towards the close of life, lie thought and talked much of hisnative laud and of the friends of his youth; and sometimestold, with much emotion, how, after his impressment, hismother, having pleaded in vain for his release, followed thepress-gang for a distance of twenty miles, that she might havethe mournful satisfaction of bidding her son farewell !j John Glass, William Barrell, Henry Poulson, James Glassand Adam Tilford, all British soldiers in the revolution, be-came residents of tliis town, and some of them died here, leav-ing ^. ^^^^ du/rh^^nvf i CHAPTER VIII. MEN OF THE REVOLUTION. The historic names of the Revolutionary Period most inti-mately associated with Litchfield, are those of Ethan Allen,Oliver Wolcott, Elisha Sheldon, Andrew Adams, BezaleelBeebe, Moses Seymour, Jedediah Strong and Tapping chapter will be mainly devoted to brief biographicalsketches of these eminent and useful men. General ETHAN ALLEN, the Hero of Ticonderoga, wasborn in Litchfield, January 10, 1737-8. He was the eldestchild of his parents—Joseph and Mary (Baker) Allen—who,when Ethan was about two years old, removed to the adjoin-ing town of Cornwall. The subject of this sketch spent hisyouth and early manhood in Cornwall and Salisbury; andabout the year 1765, emigrated to the New HampshireGrants, as they were then called—a wild, mountainous regionlying between Lake Charaplain on the west and the Connecti
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