People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — Israel Putnam’s Gun. [ARTICLE]

Israel Putnam’s Gun.

Gen.. Israel Putnam’s antique gun, with which the bluff continental soldier killed the she wolf, according to the famous story of “Putnam and the Wolf,” one hundred and forty years ago, is now at Hartford, on its way to the world’s fair. The gun is the property of a family at Pntnam, wholive not far from the Pomfret wolf cavern. One day recently while Mrs. M G. Bulkeley, wife of ex-Gov. Bulkeley. was visiting at Putnam, the family intrusted the gun to her and she forwarded it to Gov. Bulkeley. There it was in the care of the ex-governor’s footman and removed to the capital, where a large crowd gathered to see it. The old arm was never taken out of the state before and It will be guarded with great care while it is on its way to the fair.