83 LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



Professor Hubbiird, my son, B. S., Jr., and his wife, and 



youii'4 William Silliman Hillyer of New Albany, Indiana, 



of my elder half brother, with myself, left home 



at eight o'clock, A. M. ; the depot at eight and three quar- 



on the rails of the New Haven and New York road, 



and were at Bridgeport, eighteen miles, before ten o'clock. 



1 1 civ, by previous arrangement, carriages were ready, and 



.11 proceeded three miles, by old Peqnamoc, noticing 



by the way interesting objects, as the site of the old 



school-house, now removed, where my brother, G. S. S., 



and I, were taught the elements of knowledge ; also, 



Knopp's mill, one mile from my father's mansion, where 



was formerly our grinding-place ; the place also for washing 



sheep, and a considerable fishery of alewives by the seine. 



We next saw the beginning of my father's land, in the 



duck-pond pasture, a tract of probably seventy acres; there 



were seven tracts of land, one of them the homestead, 



and six others in different places, some at from one mile 



to four miles distant. As we went up the hill, I pointed 



out the spot where they found me, a little wanderer, of two 



"Id, strayed half a mile from home, lost for the time, 



-looked for anxiously in the well and in many other 



places, but found at last, sitting quietly on a stone by the 



where the cows were put into the pasture. I showed 



also the Held where my father's fine bald-faced horse lost 



his life, after surviving the battles of the Revolution, in 



;.il nf which he had been rode: the servant went down, 



on a Sabbath morning, to lead him up for service, as we 



lived two miles from the town, but we found him with both 



i >roken short off. He had stepped into a crevice 



he two contiguous portions of a fissure rock, and 



had fallen sidewise The old house, formerly my 



-id built by him, being the elder brother 



old to Mr. Eliot, after the burning of 



; " -'uly, 177!), who, under my father's influence 



** d I removed to Holland Hill, Mr. Eliot's house 



