. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. (17) THE I,Im\m;(. \\l\^|i|r 11,\i 1. I,-|m|i|,\i I oK OK. .1. li. NEWTON. of story-tellers, he was wont to sit ofa summer evening and entertain hisyouthful friends. On this locality livedhis father, Roger, and his The latter was an assistant, ajudge of the Superior Court and a manof note in the colony. Deacon EdwardHooker states that John Hooker and theRev. Sanniel Whitman were the onlymen in Imvn were saluted witli thetitle of Mr. Others were known asGoodman or GalTer. Mr. Whitman, tlieminister, he says, woul


. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. (17) THE I,Im\m;(. \\l\^|i|r 11,\i 1. I,-|m|i|,\i I oK OK. .1. li. NEWTON. of story-tellers, he was wont to sit ofa summer evening and entertain hisyouthful friends. On this locality livedhis father, Roger, and his The latter was an assistant, ajudge of the Superior Court and a manof note in the colony. Deacon EdwardHooker states that John Hooker and theRev. Sanniel Whitman were the onlymen in Imvn were saluted witli thetitle of Mr. Others were known asGoodman or GalTer. Mr. Whitman, tlieminister, he says, would always waitI in Ihe meeting-house steps for to come up and enter the hi>itseuilh bini im Sabbath morning and >b,ireuilli him the respeclfnl salutation of thepeople. Passing over the site where once stuodthe store of Samuel Smith, wc come tothe brick building ( [9) erected in 1791by Retiben S. Norton for a store, andwhich has since been used for divers 14 FARMIXGTOX. COXXECTICUT,. I 1^1 Ilii; M\,i(ii: ii(i()Ki:i; i>l\( i; imcsiihonc i: uy \vm. a. ki.\ii!\i,i,. ]iiir|)osi-s—Nlnrc, \\\ii]>. tuiuiiu-nllimiM, |)n-,i-iillici-. fliiirrli, yn i,n,- iild nf WliilniaiiAt till iimtliiaxi (iiiiri- wa-^ a M|iiafraddiliiiii in wliicli Miss Nancy VVliitniaiiliiTsiilril n\ir tlir |i(isl-dflicc. I reiiuiii-Ikt mi the way fnnii schniil andscc-iny tlirniii^li tin- small di-li\ri\ uin-dnw a i-ii\ ltci! letters and |ia-IXTS, anil Miss Xancy, with sll liimiK dspcctncles, lu-ndiiiH mer llu-m thisliltK- , .III a slu-lf. he milfll reaill It] liii--ihirMHls hiiys, stiiiid ahin diniiir lull in call the jinst mistress,when necessary. Irnm .an .idM-tilnnms , byclimhiiii; nil the h


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