46 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



of some of the boys to get a pass to visit the prison-boat. 

 Timothy O'Connor visited the boat one day, and was greatly 

 surprised to find his brother John there. Thinking that his 

 brother might Hke an opportunity to escape, if offered him, 

 Timothy called him aside and proposed a scheme for him to 

 go over to the Union side, John heard his brother's plans ; 

 and when he had finished he soundly berated him for pro- 

 posing such an idea. Timothy had to make haste to leave 

 the boat for fear his brother would expose him, as he strongly 

 announced his allegiance to the Southern cause. An ex- 

 change of prisoners occurred soon afterward ; and in a severe 

 engagement, John was killed while fighting for the Confed- 

 eracy, Timothy was killed at Winchester fighting for the 

 Union. 



WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. 



In Hawley, Mr. Joseph Longley, born in Groton, Mass., Aug. 

 17, 1744. He was great grandson to William Longley, who, with 

 a part of his family, were killed at Groton, by the Indians, in 1 684 

 [1694?] — grandson to John Longley, who was Captain five years 

 in Canada — and son to Joseph Longley, who was mortally wounded 

 in the battle and defeat of Fort William Henry, 1758. When 16, 

 he was in the French war one year and helped to build the stone 

 barracks at Crown Point, 1760, He was five years in the revolu- 

 tionary war for Independence. In the first eight months' service, 

 1775. At Ticonderoga in '76. At the capture of Burgoyne, '77. 

 In December following, while in the van of 100 volunteers, under 

 Maj. Hull, pursuing a foraging party, 32 were cut off by the British 

 cavalry, near Derby, deprived of their blankets, and put in prison 

 at Philadelphia, where more than half died of cold, hunger, and 

 disease. In April, '78, he, with others, were put on board a prison 

 ship for New York, where he was exchanged in July, and soon 

 after joined his regiment, and was in the battle in Rhode Island, 

 and in that signal retreat, under Gen. Sullivan, 



"The Massachusetts Spy" (Worcester), August 24, 1836. 



According to the genealogical tables in the Appendix to 

 Mr. Butler's History (p, 417), Joseph Longley was born on 



