Farmington in the War of the Revolution
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Excerpt from Farmington in the War of the Revolution: An Historical Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Village Library Company of Farmington, May 3, 1893 Ladies and Gentlemen of the Village Library Company of Farmington: I propose this evening to answer, in a somewhat informal way, certain questions often asked about Farmington in the days of the Revolution. I shall have little to say of battles and campaigns, and great generals. A glimpse, and only a glimpse, we may have of Washington as he rides into the forest toward Litchfield, soon to learn of the treachery of Arnold. All these weightier matters every schoolboy knows, or ought to know. My subject lies nearer home, of little interest but to those whose grandsires here lived, and from this valley went out to preserve its liberties. The visitor to the old cemetery, after passing through the gateway with its grim inscription, "Memento Mori," and climbing the steep pathway beyond, soon finds on his left a stone with this inscription: "In Memory of Mr. Matthias Learning Who hars got Beyond the reach of Parcecushion. The life of man is Vanity." There is no date of death or record of age. It is not so much the memorial of an individual as of a lost cause. Its position, facing in opposition to all the other stones, is itself a protest. Matthias Leaming was a Tory, or, as he preferred to be called, a Loyalist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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