Appendix A 



lished in Stamford in 1702 a private school which was 

 accepted in town meeting in the following language: 



Ye town doth say that they doth accept ye present scoole 

 kept by ye person to teach to reade English and to write and 

 to arrithmetick, is a scoole according to lawe. 



Lieutenant WILLIAM FOWLER, one of the Puritan 

 prisoners in the Bridewell in 1592, who came to New 

 Haven in 1637, was among the few colonists having a 

 classical education, becoming the first magistrate of New 

 Haven, and one of the "seven pillars of the church." 

 His son, Captain William Fowler, was also active in 

 colonial affairs. 



JOHN ELDERKIN was a "builder of corn-mills and 

 churches," erecting one of each at Lynn, Dedham, 

 Reading, Providence, New London, Norwich, and Kil- 

 lingworth. JOHN ELDERKIN WALDO of Canterbury, Con- 

 necticut, was a prominent attorney and judge, an un- 

 compromising Federalist in his day. 1 



THOMAS LAKE was the only one of all these colonial 

 worthies who adhered to the Church of England, he 

 having been "a pew holder in the Episcopal Church in 

 Stratford in 1745"; and later (1747) his son Joseph 

 "consented to articles of faith on the organization of the 

 North Stratford Church." 



Several of my ancestors took part in the War of the 

 Revolution. These were: 



John Jordan, born at Litchfield, Connecticut, 1750, afterward 

 of South Brimfield, Massachusetts, and Moriah, New York ; 

 also fought in the War of 1812; 



Captain William Fowler of New Haven; 



Sergeant William Foster of Canterbury; 



Joseph Lake of Stratford and Sharon. 



To these people as a whole the fine words of Starr 

 King are truly applicable: 



When they found that all which civilization had done for 



1 See Chapter i, page 5. 



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