Captain Smith LbNA #40283
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Add Location| Owner: | Flutterby Flew By  |
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| Plant date: | May 21, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | ??? |
| County: | Tolland |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | ??? |
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| Last found: | Dec 16, 2021 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | May 21, 2008 |
~There is no ink in this box, but black or grey will do nicely.
After reading the following...
"IN THE YEAR 1760, one Captain Simon Smith of New London was returning home from a campaign in the French and Indian War. Whether he had fallen ill before or after he mustered himself out of active service is unknown, but by the time he and his trusty horse had passed through Thompsonville and reached the tiny eastern Connecticut community of Andover, it was obvious to all who saw him that he was a very sick man. According to tradition, the youthful soldier stopped briefly at an inn in the village for a short respite from his long, difficult journey, but though the inn-keeper tried to hold him there because of his sickly appearance, Capt. Smith insisted on getting on home without further delay.
Though he managed to ride a short distance south on the Gilead road, the New London soldier was mortally ill. No longer able to cling even feebly to his horse, he soon slid from the saddle onto the road, where his body was later discovered by passers-by, still attended by his loyal mount. The thought that Capt. Smith had died from smallpox, one of the most dread diseases of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, so terrified the inhabitants of Andover that they decided to bury Smith, along with his horse which they shot -- and all his personal effects at a spot beside the road where he fell. Man and horse were given a hasty burial in a common grave, above which was placed a marker to his memory with the touching inscription: "Loved yet unattended. All Alone Sweetly repose beneath this humble stone ye last remains." Though worn by more than two-hundred years of exposure to the elements, the solitary marker has survived to this day."
...you will need to figure out where this marker is located.
There is a small pull off here to get you off of the road on the correct side. Just please be careful as cars really fly over the hill here.
Stand with your back to the foot stone and walk easterly (towards where you parked) to a stone wall on your left. At this wall turn left and walk 6 steps to the 2nd tree. Look deep in the wall behind it.
Flutterby~
**Please be discrete as there is a house right across the street.**
After reading the following...
"IN THE YEAR 1760, one Captain Simon Smith of New London was returning home from a campaign in the French and Indian War. Whether he had fallen ill before or after he mustered himself out of active service is unknown, but by the time he and his trusty horse had passed through Thompsonville and reached the tiny eastern Connecticut community of Andover, it was obvious to all who saw him that he was a very sick man. According to tradition, the youthful soldier stopped briefly at an inn in the village for a short respite from his long, difficult journey, but though the inn-keeper tried to hold him there because of his sickly appearance, Capt. Smith insisted on getting on home without further delay.
Though he managed to ride a short distance south on the Gilead road, the New London soldier was mortally ill. No longer able to cling even feebly to his horse, he soon slid from the saddle onto the road, where his body was later discovered by passers-by, still attended by his loyal mount. The thought that Capt. Smith had died from smallpox, one of the most dread diseases of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, so terrified the inhabitants of Andover that they decided to bury Smith, along with his horse which they shot -- and all his personal effects at a spot beside the road where he fell. Man and horse were given a hasty burial in a common grave, above which was placed a marker to his memory with the touching inscription: "Loved yet unattended. All Alone Sweetly repose beneath this humble stone ye last remains." Though worn by more than two-hundred years of exposure to the elements, the solitary marker has survived to this day."
...you will need to figure out where this marker is located.
There is a small pull off here to get you off of the road on the correct side. Just please be careful as cars really fly over the hill here.
Stand with your back to the foot stone and walk easterly (towards where you parked) to a stone wall on your left. At this wall turn left and walk 6 steps to the 2nd tree. Look deep in the wall behind it.
Flutterby~
**Please be discrete as there is a house right across the street.**