What to see in America . ble books while a Hartford resident. Noah Webster of dictionary fame was born at West Hart-ford in 1758. He began work on his dictionary while livingin New Haven forty years later, and died in that city atthe age of 85 while busy on a second revision. The greatestof colonial theologians, Jonathan Edwards, was born in 1703at South Windsor, where his father was the minister. Hewas the only boy among eleven children. The girls all grewto a height of six feet,and their father usedto speak\ of them jocu-larly as his sixty feet ofdaughters. At Litchfieldwere born Henry W^ard
What to see in America . ble books while a Hartford resident. Noah Webster of dictionary fame was born at West Hart-ford in 1758. He began work on his dictionary while livingin New Haven forty years later, and died in that city atthe age of 85 while busy on a second revision. The greatestof colonial theologians, Jonathan Edwards, was born in 1703at South Windsor, where his father was the minister. Hewas the only boy among eleven children. The girls all grewto a height of six feet,and their father usedto speak\ of them jocu-larly as his sixty feet ofdaughters. At Litchfieldwere born Henry W^ardBeecher and his sister,Harriet Beecher latter taught schoolin Hartford for a time,and in 1864 became a permanent resident of that city. Only a few miles north-east of Litchfield, John Brown, the militant Abolitionist, wasborn in 1800 at Torrington. One of Connecticuts heroes of the Revolution w^as OldPut, as Gen. Israel Putnam was affectionately called. Hewas born at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1718, but went as a. Bear Mountain, Salisbury 56 What to See in America young man with his wife to what is now the village ofBrooklyn in the eastern part of Connecticut. Many sheepwere kept in the region, and these suffered from theravages of a certain she-wolf. Putnam and some neigh-bors followed her trail after a light early fall of snowto a den in the rocks where they attempted unsuccessfullyto smoke her out. Finally, about midnight, Putnamdescended into the cave with a torch to investigate,and shot the wolf dead. News of the Battle of Lex-ington reached Putnam while he was plowing with oxenin an outlying field. He promptly left the oxen in careof one of his boys, mounted a horse on which he had riddento the field, and dashed away toward Boston. During thewar, while at Greenwich in the southwest corner of thestate, he stationed some troops on a steep hill near a littlechurch. Thence they fired several well-directed volleys ata large British foraging party and retired. But he li
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