upon them our
hearts are filled with gratitude for the results of their work. A clean
blooded, land-loving thrifty race, through their activities they escaped
from the poverty of their beginnings and attained unto an almost ideal
abundance of the primal needs of civilization. Their physical condition
became probably as good as that of any other village community in the
world. Their experiences stimulated their intellectual life into full
activity, and they bore their full share in the wonderful work which
Connecticut has done in the world. In all critical times in both State
and Nation, the sons of New Milford, both native and adopted, have been
very active and influential and one of them, Roger Sherman, performed a
work which will last as long as this nation shall continue to be free
and independent or as long as the Constitution of the United States
shall endure.

We know that the past two hundred years are but the beginning of a long
history of this town. We believe that as the years roll by, at the close
of each century of its life, the events of this day will be repeated
here. What will be the lot of those who stand here, one, two, three and
four hundred years hence, to recall the origin and history of this town,
we cannot conceive. Our hope is that it will be as peaceful, as
prosperous, and as contented, as our own.

Whatever it shall be, we expect that their desire to know what can be
known of that long vanished world, in which both present and future have
their roots, will lead them to examine the memorial of what is said and
done here to-day. We are not more sure that the Housatonic will then be
flowing than that they will share with us in affectionate interest in
what has gone before.

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the
Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907, by Daniel Davenport

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