Damon Memorial Or Notices Of Three Damon Families Who Came From Old England To New England In The 17th Century

Author : Samuel Chenery Damon
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230342375
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Damon Memorial; Or, Notices of Three Damon Families Who Came from Old England to New England in the Xviith Century written by Samuel Chenery Damon and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... cultivated by his descendants for more than a century, which the writer visited in 1841 and 1851. He married Jane Lewis, b. in Stratford, 1712. They had eight children, viz: 1. Lydia; 2. John; 3. Lewis; 4. Peter; 5. Samuel John; 6. Jane; 7. Sarah and 8. Edmund. Jane married Rev. Joel Bordwell. of Kent, and Sarah, Rev. Jeremiah Day, of New Preston. Edmund became the Pastor of Sutton, Mass., and the Rev. Samuel John Mills, known as "Father Mills," of Torringford, b. in Kent, May 16, 1743, graduated at Yale College, 1764, settled as Pastor of Torringford, June 29, 1769, m. Esther Robbins of Canaan, Nov. 19, 1771, and d. May 11, 1833, aged 90 years lacking 5 days. His name will long be remembered in the history of his native County and State. His eminent abilities and remarkable eccentricities have been duly recorded in "Sprague's Am. Pulpit," "Kilbourn's Sketches of Litchfield, Co.," and "The History of Torrington," by Orcutt. Mrs. Stowe remarks of him: "Of all the marvels that astonished my childhood, there is none I remember to this day with so much interest as Father Mills. He had original powers of thought, an omnipitant imagination and much general information. He was one ingrain New Englander." Who followed, busily, tbe world, yet knelt Daily and truly at a better shrine, --For this life wise, and wise for life divine. One hapless morn, his duties seemed to ask That on the river he should ply his task, A storm had swept the waters. Chafing still, The billows vexed the shore, and he from ill Must save his craft, which at their mercy lay; So cheerfully to labor went his way. He sought the angry stream, and from its bed That evening's shadows saw him taken, dead. The widow, --name of auguish! silence best May tell her sorrows, --sank at...