Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — Colonial Days. [ARTICLE]

Colonial Days.

There were no lawyers in Vermont fc» attend the Redding trial daring thn Revolution. One of the first laws passed in Kentucky was one to preserve the breed el horses. A man was killed by Indians St a race course before there were 800 people in the State. In Guilford, Vt., in 1769, there we*«r 893 children in eighty-two families. There was no carriage road direct front New York to Boston in lj 22. In 1783 Governor Benedict Arnold of Rhode Island left by will an old gray mare to> the Quaker preacheresses to enable then to travel through the woods on honeback. Blacksmith’s hand-made nails were so expensive that shingles were fastened upon roofs and wooden runnera upon, sledges by wooden pegs. The potato first appeared as a now delicacy at the Harvard College commencement dinner in 1703.