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Identifier: magazineofamericv19stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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The houses are dotted along a street over a mile in length and one hun-dred and twenty feet in width. Two continuous rows of lofty elm, mapleand sycamore trees line the road. On each side of the drive is a footpathcut from the green sod that lies under the majestic trees. This quaint oldvillage may have larger and richer rivals—it certainly has none fairer. That Ridgefield was the birthplace and early home of Peter Parley (S.G. Goodrich) should alone give the place an interest to those persons whoremember how, as children, they read and wondered at his delightfulstories, and whose illustrated and attractive books of education were thefirst relief experienced from the daily drudgery of school life. When butfour years of age, in 1794, his family removed from the old house to thenew, now the residence of John Alsop King, Esq., and it was there thatthe days of his boyhood were passed. The original house still remains,although an addition has been put on, and the house painted. It is the
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1 OLD ENGLISH DOOR AND KNOCKER. RIDGEFIELD D 2 OLD SWINGING SIGN, RIDGEFIELD INN. 3 SWORD AND SCABBARD, THE GIFT OF LAFAYETTE. 4 OLD CHLRCH ON THE VILLAGE GREEN. 194 HISTORIC CANNON BALLS AND HOUSES most southerly of the residences that surmount High Ridge, and com-mands a beautiful view in every direction. The old homestead of GeneralJoshua King stands on the main street. It was to General Kings custodythat Major Andre was entrusted immediately after his capture. GeneralKing was then a lieutenant in the second regiment of Light Dragoonsstationed at South Salem. In a letter to a friend he has preserved a mostinteresting account of Andre when brought to him a prisoner. Ridgefield, June 17. 1817.Dear Sir: ... I was the first and only officer who had charge of Andre whilstat the Headquarters of the 2nd Regiment of Light Dragoons, which was then at Esquire Gilberts in South Salem.He was brought up by an adjutant andfour men belonging to the Connecticutmilitia under the command of Lieut. C

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