. . . originating a Brother Jonathan, a Com. Hull, an Ellsworth, a Lyon, a McClellan, a Foote – and a brave trained and brought out a Putnam, a Roger Sherman, and Eli Whitney, a Fulton, a Joel Barlow, a Col. Humphrey, a Col. Colt, a David Bushnell, an electric Morse, and scores of other worthies – she is also humiliated in giving origin to an Arnold, a Jefferson Davis, an Alexander H. Stephens – the parents of two latter men were resident’s of North Killingly. – The father of Jeff. Davis moved from Black Rock district, the northwest corner of North Killingworth, about sixty-two years ago, and it is said settled at first near Marietta, in Ohio, whence there was an easy transit to the then wild lands of Mississippi, about the time of the Jefferson purchase of Louisiana – hence the name. – N. Y. Tribune.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 15, 1862, p. 2
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