pieces but one shot hit and that through the topgallant sail. They were in greater danger from the guns of the burning ship discharged as they became heated. The report of the first brilliant achievement of the American Navy was received with great enthusiasm and added much to its reputation in its day of infancy and weakness. Great credit was justly given to Commodore Preble and Lieut. Decatur but the young midshipman whose foot While admitting in first touched the Philadelphia deck won the public heart. later years that the reputation thus gained had a beneficial influence upon his career with characteristic modesty and candor he disclaimed any particular merit for it, and insisted that he deserved more credit for his faithful report against the premature attempt to enter the Tripoli harbor than for an accidental precedence that had cost him not half the effort. LIST OF BURIALS, CENTER CHURCH BURYING Mar. 14 Caleb Bull [son of Caleb and 22 22 Martha (Cadwell) Bull, born 2 Infant Child of Jeremiah Barret. Melser Fowler, Burial charged Aaron Bradley, aged 20 years. Child of Daniel Dwight, aged 1 428 IO 77 years. The Wife of Justin Lyman, aged 13 Jonathan Hastings [son of Lieut. Josiah Hastings of Chesterfield, N. H.], aged 29 years. 16 Daughter of Widow Mary Barnard [Martha], aged 15 years. 16 Mary Watrous, aged 33 years. 16 Wife of Cotton Murray [Cotton Murray came here from New Hampshire as early as 1777. (Christ Church Annals. C. J. Hoadly)], aged 55 years. Child of Philip Smith, aged 1 year. Samuel (Lemuel)? 29 Child of Adams [Frederick], aged 22 I 21 Child of Normand Smith, aged 1 18 Joseph Steinart's son, aged 7 years. 2 John Brace, aged 56 years. 5 John Cable, aged 58 years. II 12 27 1799 Jan'y 2 WilliamAndrus, Jr.,aged 35 years. Child of Mrs. Mercer, aged 1 Samuel Wadsworth [born Oct. 25, 1716, son of Sergt. Jonathan and Hepsibah (Marsh) Wadsworth], aged 82 years. 7 Wife of John Van Orden (Van Norden) [Anna dau. of Ebenezer and Mary(Holtom) Catlin born Aug. 3, 1758], aged 40 years. 15 Feb. 17 Infant Child of John Carter. 25 years. 25 Infant child of [Joseph] Whiting Seymour [Mary Anna, aged 7 months]. 25 Child of Salmon Burr, aged 6 months. aged 9 months. of Samuel Thompson [Delia], aged 6 years. 25 March 9 4 Son of Abel Flynt [Henry Langdon. ] 8 Child of David Wadsworth, aged 3 months. II Infant Child of EbeneserWarner. Infant Child of John Ellsworth. 17 Child of Asariah Hancock, aged 13 15 Infant Child of Geo. Goodwin. of John Caldwell The Wife [Margaret, dau. of Capt. Hezekiah and Jennett (Evans) Collier], aged 40 years Adonijah Brainard, aged 42 years. Deliverance Seymour [widow of Jared Seymour, bapt. Feb. 28, 1731, dau. of John and Mary (Turner) Skinner], aged 68 years. April 7 The Wife of Alfred James [Polly], aged 22 years. 17 Infant Child of Joshua Leffing well. (To be Continued. Don't look like she ever won a race-decrepit 'n' blind 'n' lame But she 'members th' time in her younger days when she hustled 'em, all th' same; 'Nd she needed no urgin' t' send 'er along t' th' head uv th' list, 'n' so I always steadied th' faithful gal with a "Wh-o-a, Nance, wh-o-a." I entered her once at th' Cornville track 'gainst trotters uv pedigree smart, Each drawin' a light, little two-wheeled gig, while Nance pulled th' ol' farm-cart; 'Nd she looked about on her rivals gay, all rigged in th' latest style, 'Nd I fancied I seen in her han'some face a kind uv sarcastic smile. But th' jockeys sneered at th' green young mare, who had never betrayed her trust, Ol' Nance she flew from th' startin' post, in th' midst uv her rivals gay, 'Nd foot b' foot she wuz leavin' 'em all, ez th' cart swung to 'n' fro, 'Nd them jockeys wuz gittin' thet Cornville dust, with a Wh-o-a, Nance, wh-o-a." At th' "half" she wuz fairly a-rippin' a groove in th' track, ez she plowed it through! Ol' Nance she scooted beneath th' wire amid th' shouts uv all, 429 A S the express, bound for New York, nears Milford, or the local slows down for that station, on the right of the track, an old burying-ground unrolls itself, heavily shaded, and sprinkled freely with the low slabs of slate and sandstone which indicate the resting place of early At the western boundary generations. not far from the gateway, a single shaft of Portland freestone rises in solitary stateliness. On its sculptured column are the arms of Connecticut, and on the broad square base below the Qui transtulit sustinet, Milford town thus records the name and residence of forty-six Revolutionary heroes. IN HONOR OF who Soldiers "Forty-six American sacrificed their lives in struggling for the Independence of their county this Monument was erected in 1852, by the joint liberality of the General Assembly, the people of Milford, and other contributing friends. Two hundred American Soldiers, in a destitute, sickly and dying condition, were brought from a British Prison Ship, then lying near New York, and suddenly cast upon our shore from a British cartel-ship, on the first of January, 1777. The inhabitants of Milford made the most charitable efforts for the relief of the 1. strangers, yet notwithstanding all their kind ministrations, in one month these forty-six died, and were buried in one common grave. Their names and residences are on this monument. Who shall say that Republics are ungrateful." The names are chiselled on the north and west face of the pediment. Beginning near the shaft, and trending northward an arched and sombre path of ever greens binds the old and new, for in the farthest distance dots of reflected sunlight suggest the modern cemetery beyond. SO Of the five hundred and odd stones in this ancient God's-acre, many are "dented by the tooth of Time and razure of oblivion" as to be no longer decipherable. Ten years ago the late Mr. Nathan G. Pond issued a pamphlet entitled Inscriptions on tombstones in Milford, Connecticut, in which he included some four hundred and seventy-nine stones. standing The oldest headstone now records that Here lieth |