on this spot ever since the year 1800. On the opposite side of the street is seen another tavern, to which the county jail is attached. The Baptist church, with a square tower, is seen in the distance: the post office is kept at this time in the basement story of this building. The Methodist church is situated at the northern extremity of the village, on the west side of the street. The Congregational church, the largest building in the place, stands at the south end of.the village, and being in the street, is a very prominent object in that direction. The view being taken in the central part of the street, looking north, of course this church could not be represented in the engraving.

The following inscriptions are copied from monuments in the grave yard, south of the village.

Here lies the body of the Rev. Mr. Stephen Steel, the worthy pastor of the Church of Christ in Tolland, who departed this life the 4th of December, A. D. 1759, in the 63d year of his age, and the 37th of his ministry. For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Here lies interred the body of ye Hon'ble Zebulon West, Esq'r. sometime Justice of ye quorum, Judge of probates, Speaker of ye Lower House of Assembly, and member of ye Hon'ble Council, who lived much respected and died greatly lamented, on ye 4th day of December, A. D. 1770. Etatis Anno 65th.

Heaven waits not the last moment.......owns her friends

On this side death, and points them out to men:

A lecture silent, but of sovereign power

To vice confusion, and to virtue peace.

In memory of Samuel Cobb, Esq. a gentleman of public education and distinguished abilities, who long served his generation as a physician and minister of justice, to great acceptance, and in his life and death was an example of sobriety and virtue, and evidenced the influences and consolations of Religion; lived much esteemed, and died universally lamented, on ye 6th day of April, A. D. 1781, Anno tatis 65th.

The great, the good, the wise, the just,

Must all in time be turn'd to dust:
Then learn to quit terrestrial ties,
That you may soar above the skies;
And then enjoy the blissful favor,

Of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

Capt. Amos Fellows was captivated by ye British troops on ye Island of New York, Sept. 15, 1776, and was closely confined for several months, and there suffered repeated hardships, probably insupportable, and died in captivity, Feb. 16, 1777, in ye 48th year of his age. His remains are there still, and that his memory may be perpetuated, this monument is here erected by his son. A tribute of a tear is due to him who in his country's cause has lost his life.

BOLTON.

THE settlement of this town commenced about the year 1716, by a number of settlers, principally from the towns of Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield. The first town meeting was held in 1720, the year it was incorporated. In 1725, the inhabitants obtained liberty of the General Assembly, to form a church. The first minister of the town was the Rev. Thomas White, who was ordained in 1725.

The town is bounded N. by Vernon, w. by Manchester and Glastenbury, E. by Coventry, and s. by Hebron. It is upwards of 5 miles in

length and 3 in breadth. The soil is a coarse, hard, gravelly loam, rather cold and sterile. It affords, however, tolerable grazing lands. The township has an elevated situation, hilly and stony, being within the granitic region of the eastern section of the state.

The above is a representation of the Bolton Quarry, so called; being the principal place, at the time this drawing was taken, where this stone was quarried. The engraving shows the position in which the stone is found. Recently, (1836,) a new quarry has been opened, a few rods north of the one represented. This range is near the boundary line between Bolton and Vernon, and about 13 miles from Hartford. This stone is a species of slate, of a brilliant light gray color, composed of mica and quartz, and is excellent for flagging and other purposes. It is extensively used in the principal cities of the United States. For strength it exceeds any other known in this country, and the demand for it is rapidly increasing. These quarries have been worked about twenty years, though not in an extensive manner till quite recently. Messrs. Apollos Sweetland, and Waterman Roberts, of Hartford, and Ahab Smith, and Isaac Keney, Jr. of Bolton, are the proprietors. Sweetland and Roberts, of Hartford, are agents for the

concern.

COLUMBIA.

COLUMBIA was formerly a part of the town of Lebanon. It was incorporated as a town in 1800. It is bounded N. by Hop river, which separates it from Coventry, w. by Hebron, E. by Lebanon and Windham, and s. by Lebanon. It is about five miles long, and four wide. The central part of the town is twenty two miles east from Hartford. The township is uneven and hilly, and the soil is a coarse gravelly loam, being hard and dry, yet well adapted for grazing. The town constitutes one Congregational society.

It was in this place that Dr. Eleazar Wheelock, the first president of Dartmouth College, had his celebrated Indian school. His house and the school stood a few rods from the present Congregational church. Dr. Wheelock was born in Windham, in April, 1711, and graduated at Yale College in 1733. Soon after leaving college, he entered into the ministry, and soon received an unanimous invitation to become the pastor of the second society in Lebanon, (now Columbia,) with which he complied. While a minister in this place, he became desirous to employ himself in a more extended field of action. The unhappy and neglected tribes of Indians in the county, and on its borders, excited his compassion and engaged his attention. About this time, (1741,) Sampson Occum, a serious Indian youth, solicited instruction, as Mr. Wheelock had opened a school for a small number of young men who were preparing for college. He willingly received young Occum into his family and school, where he continued for about three years. He afterwards became a preacher of considerable celebrity. Dr. Wheelock conceived, that if he could educate Indian youth for missionaries, they would be more successful among their countrymen than the whites. With these views, he undertook himself the care and expense of educating two Indian lads from the Delaware nation, in 1754, but the design was so benevolent, that a number of gentlemen soon united with him. His pupils increased, and after receiving numerous benefactions, the largest of which was the benefaction of Mr. Joshua Moor, of Mansfield, he called his institution "Moor's Indian Charity School." In 1764, the school consisted of about thirty scholars, of whom about half were Indian youth. The Indian boys were accommodated in a part of the house given by Mr. Moor. The school house was nigh Mr. Wheelock's dwelling, in the hall of which the students and their instructors attended morning and evening prayers.

To enlarge the power of doing good, contributions were solicited not only in various parts of this country, but also in England and Scotland. The money collected in England was put into the hands of a board of trustees, of whom the earl of Dartmouth was at the head. From this circumstance, when Dr. Wheelock was invited by the government of New Hampshire to remove to Hanover and establish a college in that place, it was called Dartmouth College. This seminary was incorporated in 1769, and Dr. Wheelock was declared its founder and president, with the right of appointing his successor.

In 1770, Dr. Wheelock removed his family and school to Hanover, his pupils performing the tour on foot. The roads at that period were in a very rough and unfinished state, and it was in many places difficult to proceed. The site selected for the college and other buildings, was an extensive plain, shaded by lofty pines, with no accommodations, except two or three small log huts, and no house on that side of the river within two miles, through one continued dreary wood. The number of souls then with him was about seventy. Log houses were soon constructed, and a small framed house was begun, designed for the reception of Dr. Wheelock and his family. The frame of a college, eighty feet in length and two stories in height, was soon after raised, and partially covered: a hall, and two or three rooms in it, were considerably advanced when the autumnal storms commenced..... Upon a circular area of about six acres, the pines were soon felled, and in all directions covered be ground to the height of about five feet. Paths of communication were cut through them.... The snow lay four feet in depth between four and five months. "Sometimes standing in the open air, at the head of his numerous family, Dr. Wheelock presented to God their morning and evening prayers: the surrounding forests, for the first time, reverberated the solemn sounds of supplication and praise." He died in 1779, in the 69th year of his age, and was succeeded by his son in the presidency of the college.

The following inscriptions are copied from monuments in the burying ground, near the Congregational church in Columbia.

Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Sarah, the wife of ye Rev'd Eleazer Wheelock, who died Nov. 13, A. D. 1746, and in the 44th yr. of her age; and of a character too great and good, to have any thing worthy of it inscribed here.

Sacred to the memory of Dea'n THOMAS LYMAN, who died Aug. 13, 1783, in the 80th year of his age. He was a man of great experience in ye Christian Religion. Few in our world have enjoyed a more constant communion with Heaven, or at intervals had greater discoveries of Divine things. His life was zealous and exemplary, his death was peaceful and triumphant. He did great honor to religion while he lived, but greater when he died. In his last moments were seen ye power of ye divine life, and ye most convincing proofs to ye truth of ye Christian Religion.

Behold my friends, what grace can do for men,
When by it, they like babes are born again.

Memoirs of Wheelock, by Drs. M'Clure and Parish.

COVENTRY.

COVENTRY was first settled about the year 1700, by Nathaniel Rust and some others. The settlement of the town has, however, been dated from 1709. In the spring of this year, a number of respectable persons from Northampton and other places moved into the town, and the inhabitants were so increased in about two years, that they were. incorporated with the privileges of other towns. The planters were from a great variety of places, but principally from Northampton and Hartford. The township was originally given by Joshua, sachem of the Mohegans, to a number of legatees in Hartford, who conveyed their right to William Pitkin, Joseph Talcott, William Whiting, and Richard Lord, to be a committee to lay out said township, and make settlements on the lands.

North view of the Hale House, Coventry.

Coventry, the central part of which is eighteen miles east from Hartford, is bounded N. by Tolland, w. by Bolton and Vernon, E. by the Willimantic river, separating it from Mansfield, and s. by Hebron and Columbia. Its average length and breadth is upwards of six miles. The surface of the town is uneven, and the soil is generally a gravelly loam. There is a lake, or pond, in this town, called Wangombog, two miles in length and one in breadth. A stream, called the Skungamug, runs from north to south through the town; and, uniting its waters with another stream, forms Hop river, which passing eastward till it reaches the Willimantic, constitutes the greater part of the southern boundary of the town.

The above is a view of the birth-place of Capt. Nathan Hale, the martyr to American liberty. The house is on elevated ground, commanding an extensive prospect westward; twenty miles from Hartford, and seven from Tolland.

Capt. Hale graduated at Yale College in 1773. The ardent glow of patriotism induced him in an early period of the Revolution to enter the army, as a captain in the light infantry regiment, commanded by Col. Knowlton of Ashford. After the defeat of the Americans on the 27th of August, 1776, and their retreat from Long Island, Gen. Washington became extremely desirous to gain some knowledge respecting the enemy's future-operations. Notwithstanding the extreme difficulty and peril of the undertaking, Capt. Hale volunteered his services to the commander in chief. Having disguised himself and crossed over to Long Island, he proceeded to the British encampment, obtained the necessary information, but at the moment of his leaving the island, he was recognized by a relative, who was a refugee, and betrayed. He was taken before Sir William Howe, who, without the formality of a trial, ordered him to be hung the next morning. This peremptory order was carried into effect in a cruel, barbarous, and revengeful manner. He met his fate with composure and firmness. His last words were, "that he lamented that he had but one lite to lose for his country."

The Hon. Samuel Huntington, governor of Ohio, was the son of the Rev. Joseph Huntington of this town. In 1801, he removed to Ohio, then comparatively a wilderness. He was appointed to a succession of important offices. He died at Painsville, June 7th, 1817, aged 49 years.

Lorenzo Dow, a celebrated itinerant preacher, was born in this town, about two miles south of the Hale house, Oct. 16th, 1777. He was distinguished for his eccentricities and labors. He cominenced preaching in the Methodist connexion. He traveled through the United States, from New England to the extremities of the Union, at least from fifteen to twenty times. Occasionally he went into Canada, and once to the West Indies. He also made three voyages to England and Ireland, where he drew crowds around him. "It is thought, and not without reason, that during the thirty eight years of his public life, he must have traveled nearly two hundred thousand miles." He wrote a number of books, besides his "Journal," or life: the titles are usually as eccentric as their author. He died at Georgetown, (D. C.) Feb. 2d, 1834.

From the American Mercury, May 2d, 1785. By authentic information from Connecticut, we learn that a few weeks since, a person on his travels through the town of Coventry in that state, stopped on a Saturday at the house of the Rev. Joseph Huntington, D. D. and acquainted the Doctor that he had been preaching at Susquehannah for a considerable time, was so unfortunate as to be driven from his possessions there by the Indians-that his property was destroyed by them--that he was then bound to the state of Massachusetts, where he had some friends residing, and at the same time begged charity. The Doctor, who is by no means a stranger to acts of hospitality, was very liberal and charitable to the clergyman, invited him to stay and spend the Sabbath, as there would be an impropriety in his traveling the succeeding day which invitation the stranger accepted. The Doctor then requested his brother clergyman to assist him in the duties of his function; but he objected, and said that his clothes were not sufficiently decent to appear in the pulpit. In order to obviate this difficulty, the Doctor offered him a suit of clothes which he had not long since received from the tailor, and desired him to try them on, which he did, and found they suited very well. The objection being removed, the clergyman accordingly agreed to assist the Doctor the succeeding day, and desired to be by himself that evening to study his discourse. A fire was then made in his bed chamber, where he repaired with his new garb, at the same time acquainting the Doctor that he must study until late at night, and hoped no noise which he might make would disturb the repose of the family. Sunday morning came, the adroit clergyman was sent for to breakfast, but to the great surprise of the family, he was not to be found; for during the night he had taken his exit, not forgetting the garment so well suited to his clerical dignity, and leaving behind him the following select and well adapted text, prefixed at the top of the paper intended for his sermon: "Ye shall seek me and shall not find me; and where I am, thither ye cannot come."-John 7, 34.

The following inscriptions are from monuments near the Congregational church, in the southeastern part of the town. Mr. Meacham is believed to have been the first settled minister in the town.

The Rev. Mr. JOSEPH MEACHAM was near 40 years ye learned, faithful, and painful pastor of ye church in Coventry. He was a man of God, fervent in prayer, zealous and plain in preaching, sincere in reproving, holy and prudent in conversation; a kind husband, tender father, sincere friend; a lover of souls. Fired with ye labors of ye Word, his ardent soul bent its flight to Jesus, and dropped ye body to rest here till Jesus come, Sept. 15th, 1752, in ye 67th year of his age.