Category: Witness Stones
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The Brief Appearance and Constant Disappearance of Dinah Gardner
By Dennis Culliton Until six months ago, we didn’t have much to go on if we wanted to tell the story of Dinah. We had a Bill of Sale written in 1792 where Guilford’s selectmen purchased Dinah from Elias Cadwell for 12 pounds lawful money for a term of four years when she would be…
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West Hartford Slave, Revolutionary War Soldier Honored on Local War Memorial
By Peter Marteka in the Hartford Courant on May 23, 2019 As Marc Boucher carved the simple four-letter name into the Revolutionary War memorial in the West Hartford Town Center Thursday morning, pieces of granite flew into the air. In a manner of seconds, a man simply known as “Prut” was added to a list of…