Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1895 — “Old Put’s” Plow. [ARTICLE]

“Old Put’s” Plow.

When the news came into Connecticut that the British soldiers had fired the shot heard "around the world,” Israel Putnam was plowing In a stony field In his farm in Pomfret. The plow vanished from the unfinished furrow and from history, then and there, when “Old Put” took up arms for his country. It was rescued from a Windham County barn loft,a short time ago and bought for a song by E. A. Brooks, an enthusiastic relic hunter of Hartford. It now occupies an honored position among his collection of curiosities. The Putnam plow is a pretty tough-looking reiic, but it is intact in all its parts. It Is interesting and valuable aside -from its associations, in that it is a capital type of the plow used in New England during the colonial period. Mr. Brooks has also secured a wrinkled old image of Bacchus, the eldest in the country, under whose benign countenance travelers found entertainment in the Sanford tavern, in Windham town, in the seventeenth century. The figure was carved from a log of pine by British prisoners in Windham jail In 1786.- -New York Herald.