Identifier: newtownshistoryh00johns (find matches)
Title: Newtown's history and historian, Ezra Levan Johnson
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Ezra Levan, 1832-1917 Johnson, Jane Eliza (Camp), 1837
Subjects: Newtown (Conn.) -- History Newtown (Conn.) -- Genealogy
Publisher: Newtown, Conn.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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neat and particular. One time she had a big mince pie on the table
and going from the room for a moment, one of her guests raised
the top crust, slipped a horse shoe in the pie and laid back the crust,
just in the nick of time. Taking her knife to cut the pie and strik-
ing some hard substance, she uttered an exclamation of surprise
and chagrin, but when the cause was ascertained and the guilty
party known, the treat for the crowd was on the culprit. It was
still an open house in my early days and I well recall that when six
years old, I was sent there to get cigars, and, little-boy-like, I had
the silver piece with which I was to pay, in my mouth, when a dog
bouncing out, frightened me to boo-hooing, and I swallowed the
the silver piece. I was frightened. Aunt Mary comforted me as
best she could and I ran home to my mother with the pitiful tale.
The house is still standing and in all respects the same in architec-
ture as when built, but the maple trees of more than a century's
growth begin to show decay. The blacksmith shop that stood
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Now residence of Charles F. Beardsley

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