The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . l commercial intercourse with Great Britain, until these oppres-sive acts are repealed. After adopting these resolutions a committee was appointed to con-fer with committees from other towns respecting the best measures to beadopted in the crisis, and to receive and forward contributions for therelief of those persons in the towns of Boston, Charlestown, etc., whoare distressed by the unhappy consequences of the Boston Port patriotism which prompted these acts was no ephemeral senti-ment, but an abiding conviction of t
The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . l commercial intercourse with Great Britain, until these oppres-sive acts are repealed. After adopting these resolutions a committee was appointed to con-fer with committees from other towns respecting the best measures to beadopted in the crisis, and to receive and forward contributions for therelief of those persons in the towns of Boston, Charlestown, etc., whoare distressed by the unhappy consequences of the Boston Port patriotism which prompted these acts was no ephemeral senti-ment, but an abiding conviction of the justice of the colonial cause,and a determination to push the questions at issue to a just when the storm broke the people of Enfield did not waver;the report of the battle of Lexington reached the place while theywere gathered in the meeting-house at their regular Thursday week-daylecture. Captain Thomas Abbe hastily procured a drum, and with itmarched around the meeting-house, drumming furiously. 148 MEMORIAL HISTORY OF HARTFORD .€ ^ Vj^ So drum and doctrine rndely blent,The casements rattled strange accord ;No mortal knew wliat either meant :T was double-drag and Holy Word,Thus saith the drum, and thus the captain raised so wild a rout,He drummed the congregation out. The next morning a company ofseventy-four men started for Boston;but before they reached that place thedanger had passed, and most of themreturned home. As the war continued,efficient measures were taken by thetown to meet the many demands thatwere made upon it. Early in 1777 acommittee was appointed to take careof the families of those who shouldenlist in the Continental army. Fortydollars was also voted to each able-bodied man who should enlist, till thetowns quota of forty-seven men wasfilled. During the war town-meetingswere held frequently for the discussionof the many exciting questions that arose,and for such action as would forwardthe colonial cause. An annual
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