Miss Larned (Ellen D Larned) sketches a moment when an alarm was sounded in Killingly. Not a man was left at home but decrepit grandfathers and paralytics: no arms, no ammunition. Flight seemed the only resource, and a dismal, mirey swamp was selected as the place of refuge. A boy was sent to rally all the neighbors. He ran to Larned's store, then a well-known business centre. Lieut. Larned had gone to the front with his regiment, leaving business and family in charge of his wife. She was not one to run from the face of danger. A rousing fire was blazing in the huge kitchen fire-place, filled with kettles of water and every iron instrument that could be mustered, with which she intended to make a stand against the invaders .
"Old Granny Leavens", the aged widow of the first William Larned of Thompson was equally resolute. She had survived several Indian wars and two husbands, and now, sinking back into her chimney corner, exclaimed with Calvinistic resignation, "If I am to be killed by the Tories tonight, why then I shall be, so I'll be staying with Becky."
"Old Granny Leavens", the aged widow of the first William Larned of Thompson was equally resolute. She had survived several Indian wars and two husbands, and now, sinking back into her chimney corner, exclaimed with Calvinistic resignation, "If I am to be killed by the Tories tonight, why then I shall be, so I'll be staying with Becky."
Miss Larned (Ellen D Larned) sketches a moment when an alarm was sounded in Killingly. Not a man was left at home but decrepit grandfathers and paralytics: no arms, no ammunition. Flight seemed the only resource, and a dismal, mirey swamp was selected as the place of refuge. A boy was sent to rally all the neighbors. He ran to Larned's store, then a well-known business centre. Lieut. Larned had gone to the front with his regiment, leaving business and family in charge of his wife. She was not one to run from the face of danger. A rousing fire was blazing in the huge kitchen fire-place, filled with kettles of water and every iron instrument that could be mustered, with which she intended to make a stand against the invaders .
"Old Granny Leavens", the aged widow of the first William Larned of Thompson was equally resolute. She had survived several Indian wars and two husbands, and now, sinking back into her chimney corner, exclaimed with Calvinistic resignation, "If I am to be killed by the Tories tonight, why then I shall be, so I'll be staying with Becky."
"Old Granny Leavens", the aged widow of the first William Larned of Thompson was equally resolute. She had survived several Indian wars and two husbands, and now, sinking back into her chimney corner, exclaimed with Calvinistic resignation, "If I am to be killed by the Tories tonight, why then I shall be, so I'll be staying with Becky."
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Hannah Leavens, formerly wife of William Learned, died April 12, 1781, age 84 yrs
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