Excerpt from Address: The Twentieth Annual Celebration of Independent Day on Fairfield Green The county jail. Perils from Indians and perils from the settlers of New Amsterdam forced the Puritan adventurers to organize a military com pany and practice here regularly the manual of arms. When Ludlow enlisted his little army to resist the encroachments of the Dutch, it was on these acres that he drilled the men and addressed them with his characteristic fervor and impetu osity. And when the wars with the Redmen raged, the citizen soldiers assembled here in preparation and marched from this place to the regions of conflict. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.