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and then I came West to Cincinnati. While in Ohio I was a store 

 or steamboat clerk until December, 1830, when I came here to take 

 a clerkship in a store at the old Post of Arkansas. I have been in 

 trade or business of some kind in Arkansas since the year 1834, 

 most of the time at this point. 



During the early part of the year 1887 I happened to be 

 in Little Rock, when I availed myself of the opportunity to 

 call on Mr. Wait. I found him to be a gentleman of the 

 old school, who well represented the dignity of the town of 

 Groton. The years sit lightly on his shoulders, and he would 

 pass for a much younger man than an octogenarian. He has 

 accumulated a handsome fortune, which he is now enjoying 

 in leisure and with liberality. He told me that he was born on 

 Farmers' Row, in the house occupied by J. K. Bennett, — as 

 laid down on Mr. Butler's Map, — near the road leading to 

 the Red Bridge, but which in my boyhood was known as the 

 Amasa Sanderson place. Mr. Wait has been at Groton but 

 once in seventy years, and that was soon after the late War 

 of the Rebellion, when he came with a son to revisit the 

 scenes of his childhood. He became a resident of Arkansas 

 six years before it was admitted into the Union as a State. 



PRISONERS TAKEN AT THE BATTLE OF 

 BUNKER HILL. 



In " The New-England Chronicle : or. The Essex Gazette " 

 (Cambridge), September 14, 1775, is given a list of American 

 prisoners, who had been taken at the Battle of Bunker Hill 

 and confined in Boston jail, with their places of abode. 

 Among the names are the following from Groton and its 

 neighborhood : 



Lieut. Col. Parker Chelmsford. 



Capt. Benjamin Walker .... Chelmsford. 

 Lieut. Amaziah Fassett .... Groton. 



