Woodstock: An historical sketch

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Woodstock speaks of Massachusetts’ repeated claims in a memorial to Conn. Gen. Assembly, May 2, 1771.

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Gen. Putnam was much interested in this project. A meeting to promote the idea was held at his house in Pomfret, Feb. 11, 1771. The State again refused the application for a new county, when Pomfret applied in 1786 for a new county, “with Pomfret for shire-town.”

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Captain Johnson was the father of Nathaniel Johnson, and father-in-law of Lieutenant Henry Bowen, both first settlers of Woodstock.

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“The Chandler Family,” by Dr. George Chandler.

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England declared war against France March 31st.

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Seven hundred men from Massachusetts, of which Woodstock was then a part, were impressed for this service.

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Lieut. – Col. Thomas Chandler was the son of Col. John Chandler, and was Woodstock’s first representative to the General Assembly of Connecticut. Ante p. 44.

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The forces were furnished by New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, and amounted to 4,070.

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October 7th.

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Fight at “Charlestown, No. 4,” New Hampshire, May 2, 1748, in which Peter Perrin and Aaron Lyon, of Woodstock, were killed.

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Or the Seven Years’ War (1753-1760).

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At town meeting, June 21, 1774.

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Miss Ellen D. Larned’s “History of Windham County.”

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There is no evidence to prove the reiterated statement that one hundred and eighty-nine Woodstock men fought at the battle of Bunker Hill. This number was stationed at Cambridge, and some of them may have been at Bunker Hill.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes at Roseland Park, July 4, 1877.

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Rev. Abel Styles subscribed the largest sum, £30. He was fond of belles-lettres, and in a communication to his church, speaks of “his beloved studies.” Under his inspiration and instruction, Woodstock and Pomfret young men entered Yale College.

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1784-1856.

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1763-1837.

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1764-1804.

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Cotton Mather: “Massachusetts soon became like a hive overstocked with bees, and many thought of swarming into new plantations.”