Memorial of Henry Wolcott, one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, and of some of his descendants . \-j^ X^. SIXTH GENERATION. 311 At the houses of the principal Federalists connected with the government therewas a very different style of conversation ; religion was treated with reverence; theinstructions of the past were received with humility, and visions of the future wereseen through the softening light of experience. The New Englanders clusteredabout the home of Wolcott. ^ We find among our pajaers a letter fi-om his wife, dated Litchfield,August 29th, addressed to him at New Y
Memorial of Henry Wolcott, one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, and of some of his descendants . \-j^ X^. SIXTH GENERATION. 311 At the houses of the principal Federalists connected with the government therewas a very different style of conversation ; religion was treated with reverence; theinstructions of the past were received with humility, and visions of the future wereseen through the softening light of experience. The New Englanders clusteredabout the home of Wolcott. ^ We find among our pajaers a letter fi-om his wife, dated Litchfield,August 29th, addressed to him at New York, and closing as follows: — My cough has been a little tighter, a few days past, otherwise I am much aswhen you left me. The children are much as usual ; they join me in love to me affectionately to all friends. Adieu, my dearest friend. That Godmay bless you and bring you again in safety is the constant prayer of your affec-tionate Eliza Wolcott To this letter he has appended this memorandum, written, evidently,in his latter years : — This is the last letter which I ever received from my most
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