Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
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elU or two Jack had outgr01lll Brownie and.
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h1m. TiP then bou.;;ht
Ranee bac", for I;;ore
than
$100 , 'but aile had becQ1:18 obstreperous
that
it ..
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mp,,!olble to :ride h"r at the
hunt
and abe .a. Bold again .
l.:r.
Frank
~pleton
thsu cave a horse of hie to Jack,
who
n&.led him Paragon. He
hat
turned out an excellent. hunter, but good for 11ttle else . Jack has h!m
still.
A~
I said onee before , 1 am
&1"....
r«lle:JIberill& 1I000000thln&
that
I bad
forgotten.
Thi,
time
it
18
the burning of our atable in 1679 . There had
been several fires in lp••ioh, almost always of barns and
It.bIn ,
and
it
wee tho'llght there ".e 8 lfire_bug_ in
town .
One evenint; in
t.:a,y.
about mid_
nljJlt . when .Alice and El81e were at Glenside, I
".&
,
wakened
by an alarm,
and towd the .table
wee
burni ng . The hOl"Be, pig and CO'll 'IIere got out.
'
ll'ith–
out difficulty - the carrl!l{!;ee as ...e11 .
By
great Qare the fi:e .as confined
to
the
atable and the ho....e laved . 'l'he neigbhorll wanted to throw every–
thill.6 o...
t
of the window by
"
a;t
of lav1n,j;
it.
b...t I thoUf;ht
it
'
IrOvld be .s
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ell to have it burned ae tIr.l&aMd UP . ,and I forbada their touchir.g 1
t .
The conae\j....er;.ol:
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that the next =rning I had IlV bou..e and Ha contents
intact , rotb1ng having been
delltro~ed
but tr.e atable
a.~d
outbuildinGB .
Several people were a-"-Bpected of havln fired the buildinga , but I don't
tl".1nk
it
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as e .. er dlsUnctl, proved on
e....
y cne .
The
general cplnlon,
h.;.nver , was that a blacksmith 1n tcWl) nBl':led Cnnpman had done
l,i,.,
RlI tlotive
k'robabl~
1
IIall a dedre to SEe a good blaze and
he
wae no doubt
hal!
crazy .
He
diad shortly afterl"'.rda.
In
1364
the to'llll lJl8o(ie
q>
ita mind to have a ce1e't:ratlon of the
BOOth annlver8&ry of ita settlement . It hAd celebrated ltll 200th &Uni –
verllary 1n 1334 , Ihen Rufus Choate 1ia11vtred the orntion . A comm1 ttee
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