The boys of to-day do not see such times as I did.
The next year, 1810, my boss took a job in Ellsworth Society, Litchfield County.

I footed it to and from that place several times in the course of the year, with a load of joiners' tools on my back.

What would a boy 17 years old now think to travel thirty miles in a hot summer's day, with a heavy load of joiners' tools on his back?
But that was about the only way that we could get around in those days.

At that time there were not half a dozen one-horse wagons in the whole town.

At that place I attended the church of Rev.Daniel Parker, father of Hon.