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Mays, Willie Howard, Jr.
(Encyclopedia) Mays, Willie Howard, Jr. (“Say Hey” Willie Mays), 1931–, American baseball player, b. Fairfield, Ala. He began his professional career at 17 with the Black Barons of the Negro National…Chauncey Judd: The Robbery
The Robbers Gunn's Barn The Robbery Captain Dayton's residence was on the eastern side of the meeting-house Green, about three fourths of a mile south from the present churches in…Chauncey Judd: The Tories
Returning From Mill Religious Aspects of War The Tories From the beginning of the troubles with our mother country, there was a considerable portion of the people in these colonies -…Chauncey Judd: Capture
Rescue and Flight Retribution Capture The pursuers were baffled, but not discouraged. From their knowledge of localities upon the Island, they did not doubt that, if immediately…Chauncey Judd: Retribution
Capture Newgate Retribution It was past sunrise on Saturday morning ere the boats were espied, from Sentinel Hill, rounding the point in the river, and approaching the Landing at…Chauncey Judd: Newgate
Retribution Prison Life Newgate The old copper mine in what is now Granby, part of the ancient town of Simsbury, used for about half a century as a state prison, and named from the…Chauncey Judd: Afterward
Prison Life Afterward Were we writing a tale of fiction, we should feel bound, in deference to the feelings of our readers, to end our story with the marriage of Chauncey Judd to…Chauncey Judd: The Abduction
A Quilting Party Ebenezer Dayton The Abduction Presently Chauncey came to a small piece of woods, through which ran a foot-path, cutting off an angle of the road, and shortening by a…Chauncey Judd: The Robbers
Ebenezer Dayton The Robbery The Robbers Upon the high bluff of land a little east of the present village of Seymour stood, in 1780, a tavern of some celebrity, kept by a man named…Chauncey Judd: Preface
Special Notice Preface Few persons, probably, of the present generation are aware that in the time of the American Revolution there was carried on a border warfare between Long Island…