Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
On Indipendence day I rode to
Colebrook post office and to visit sister Eunice. At the post
office directed to my father and sister I found two papers
from brother Asahel but no letters. Eunice had joined
a party to sail on the ^Doolittles^ pond. On my return
home I saw them cross the pond in the boat. I raised a
flag in token of friendship and they answered but did not know
me and as they passed my sight behind a grove I bowed
to them in silence and said to myself God save my sister
With brother Hale I took stage to New
Hartford and from thence went to Avon and spent the night at
aunt Helen Wheelers and visited my friends and kinsmen in
the place.
The Place of My Nativity
