Monday, May 11, 2009

Stone Mounds at the Edge of a Land Trust






(Or "The First Installment, Uploading my Photos,

Last to First, Along the Purple Lines above, more or less")
Here’s a place that becomes “History” in around 1661 when there were only two houses “weftward from New Haven, between this Weft Rock and Hudfons River, unless we except a few houfes at Derby or Paugaffet. All was an immenfe widernefs,” or so writes Ezra Stiles in “A History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I.”
It’s got several names attached to it, such as the Harbor, the Fort, and the Lodge, as you will find alluded to in a language that resembles English if you take the time to claw through:


"A history of three of the judges of King Charles I"
By Ezra Stiles

Section II ; "Their fecreted pilgimages…”
Page 71
“... Sperry told me that "The incident which caused them to leave the cave was this : the mountain being a haunt for wild animals, one night as the judges lay in bed, a panther or catamount, putting his head into the aperture of the cave, blazed his eyeballs in such a frightful manner as greatly...‎ Page 77
Appears in 10 books from 1794-2004



















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