GROTON. 115 



To Col: Will"-! Prescott, Col. John Robeson, & Maj;^ Henry 

 Woods in the Continental Army. 



Gen! as it has been Reported among us that D" Zachariah Longley 

 late Quartermaster in your Regiment has Wickedly detained a 

 part of y' milk money (So called) &c from Said Regiment untill 

 he y" s? Longley was calH upon to make Satisfaction : and as we 

 y« Subscribers are appointed a Committee by the church of 

 Christ in Groton to make Enquiries into that matter We Should 

 be glad and take it as a favour, if you gentlemen wou'' Give us 

 as an impartial account as yon can of D" Longleys Conduct in 

 y" matter of milk above mention'^ &c &c. 



from your most Humble Servants 

 Isaac Farnsworth 



Benj^ Bancroft Jr. !- Committee 

 Zechariah Fitch J 



Groton March y^ 2'^ 1776. 



GROTON. 



Groton has become a good deal of a Mecca for one reason and 

 another, having produced many eminent men — the Prescotts, the 

 Lawrences, Margaret Fuller Ossoli and George S. Boutwell, and some 

 Hving celebrities and any number of budding scions of distinguished 

 families are at the boys' School. But aside from its historic and 

 personal associations, its own pastoral beauty is allurement enough 

 for a pilgrimage for those who love to seek out the oldest settled 

 parts of New England, like Ipswich and Rowley in old Essex, and 

 see the peculiarly English charm that is the result of occupation by 

 eight or nine generations of transplanted English folk in America. 

 There are softly rolling hills with here and there an old oak halfway 

 up the slope in just the right place, here and there a willow-arched 

 road across the meadow, and often for background some still un- 

 broken woods of pine or spruce and here and there a rocky pasture 

 dotted with savins. Then the whole is now given a peculiarly English 

 flavor by the Gothic chapel and the School for boys. From all points 

 of the town these imposing buildings dominate the view. The per- 

 pendicular Gothic with its high-shouldered elegance suggests familiar 

 pictures of English college and cathedral closes, and the gilt-top 

 belfry of the main building near by re-enforces the academic flavor 



