Hi, happened to notice a Goddard from this Worcester, MA posting. BTW: on another subject is not Goddard College (where in VT I can't remember) now part of Norwich University, which used to be in Norwich, Vermont? The founder of Norwich, Alden Partridge, from Norwich and there WERE Goddards in Norwich also. Harriet Chase ----- Original Message ----- From: <mlabbe3@juno.com> To: <MAWORCES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 6:46 PM Subject: [MAWORCES] Windham County Transcript | Hello, | | I am once again working on the papers.. here are a few tidbits from the | ones I worked on today. | | Windham County Transcript, Danielson, CT- Thursday, 18 July 1861 | | James E. Marshall, a carpenter, residing in Worcester, MA, was drowned | while bathing in Salisbury's Pond on Saturday evening last. He had his | overhalls on, and, after diving, they caught on a snag, and, holding him | fast under water, and before he could be extricated, life was extinct. | He leaves a wife and three children. | | Thursday, 26 Sept. 1861 | The Rev. H. S. Wayland, Pastor of the Third Baptist Church in Worcester, | and a son of the Rev. Dr. Wayland, of Providence, has accepted the | appointment of Chaplain of the Seventh Connecticut Regiment, and will | join his regiment at Washington the present week. | | Rev. S. C. Kendall of Webster will preach in the Congregational Church, | Putnam, next Sabbath. | | Thursday, 10 Oct. 1861 | Mr. Thomas Pond, a prosperous farmer in Shrewsbury, the Worcester | Transcript says, was visited one night last week by a party of men, who | treated him rather roughly on account of his supposed secession | sentiments. The raids against law and order are to be deprecated by | every true citizen. | | Friend Spaulding, of the Webster Times, came near being burned out last | week. The fire destroyed some $300 worth of property in his office, | which was fortunately covered by insurance. | | John Sloan, seven years old, son of Robert Sloan of Worcester, fell from | the railroad bridge on Southbridge street, the first part of last week, | and died in consequence on Friday. | | Thursday, 12 Dec. 1861 | P. Emery Aldrich, the temperance candidate, has been elected Mayor of the | city of Worcester, over Mayor Davis, the present imcumbent. | | Thursday, 9 Jan. 1862 | The Congregational Meeting house in Spencer, MA, was burned on Friday | last. This is the church over which Rev. Mr. Waterman is settled. | | The inhabitants of Fitchburg, at a town meeting on the 14th inst., upon | the suggestion of Dr. Hitchcock, adopted measures for the preservation, | in the archives of the public library, of "all the interesting facts, | correspondence, incidents, memorials, trophies, or patriotic sentiments, | and sacrifices which may illustrate and perpetuate to future generations | the history of the service in which the Fitchburg volunteers have been or | may be engaged." The town also appropriated $1,000, to be expended at | the discretion of the Executive Soldiers Relief Committee for the benefit | of their volunteers who now are, or who may be, in the army.--Worcester | Spy. | | Thursday, 20 Feb. 1862 | A young lady named Lizzie N. May, residing on Central street, Worcester, | was found lying on the floor of her chamber at an early hour, Monday | morning, having apparently died in a apoplectic fit. Deceased retired to | bed at an early hour, in her usual health. | | Thursday, 27 Feb. 1862 | Patrick Corbit of Oxford, MA, on Friday morning, being somewhat unwell, | took what was supposed to be oxalic acid instead of a dose of Epsom | salts: Immediately after he complained of a burning sensation in his | stomach, and soon became insensible and in less than an hour he died. | | Thursday, 6 Mar. 1862 | Mr. Wm. Goddard of Petersham, while on his way to Hardwick with a loaded | sleigh, last Monday, was struck by lightning and rendered insensible. On | recovering his senses he found his horse, which was a very valuable one, | dead in the road. Mr. Goddard received serious injuries, but is now | recovering.--Barre Gazette. | | Thursday, 20 Mar. 1862 | Mrs. Louisa Jewett of Worcester committee suicide on Friday. After | attending to her household duties she went into a chamber where were a | couple of firearms. She shot herself in the throat, and her body was | found on the floor, the throat horribly mangled, and the gun lying on the | body. | | Thursday, 5 June 1862 | A man named Goulding, of Shirley, was run over on the Boston and | Fitchburg road, between Groton Junction and Shirley, on Monday last, and | injuring him so severely that he died soon after. Rum did it. | | Thursday, 13 Nov. 1862 | Dr. William S. Saunders of Sturbridge, a well known physician of that | town, was found dead Wednesday afternoon, about half a mile from Fiskdale | village, on the road to Holland. The cause of his sudden death is | supposed to have been disease of the heart, with which he had long been | troubled. --Worcester Spy. | | Thursday, 27 Nov. 1862 | Counterfeit five dollar bills on the Southbridge Bank, of Southbridge, | MA, are in circulation in Providence. | | Marilyn Labbe | | | ==== MAWORCES Mailing List ==== | Need to UNsub for vacation or summer?? | Forget How to UN sub??? | http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/MA/worcester.html | |