" Then, all at once, a
mist rose out of the sea behind her and covered her like smoke,
and through the mist and smoke men saw dimly her shrouds give
way, and her masts break and fall, as though a hurricane had
struck her, and slowly she careened and plunged beneath the
surface of the water.
The people turned to their pastor. "What does it mean?" they
asked. "It was the form of Master Lamberton. Why is this vision
sent us?" And he replied that doubtless God had sent it in answer
to their prayers, to show them the fate of their friends and to
set their hearts at rest, for "this was the mould of their ship,
and thus her tragic end."
REFERENCES
1. Levermore, Charles H.
Republic of New Haven.
Johns Hopkins University Studies. Baltimore, 1886.
2. Atwater, Edward E.
History of the Colony of New Haven.
Printed at New Haven, 1881.
3. Blake, Henry T.
Chronicles of New Haven Green.
Printed at New Haven, 1892.
4. Winthrop, John.
History of New England.
Edited by James Savage. Boston, 1825.
5. Mather, Reverend Cotton.
Magnalia Christi Americana,
i, 25. London, 1702.
THREE JUDGES
In the year 1661, when the city of New Haven was a small village
not much more than twenty years old, a family of boys named
Sperry lived out on a farm some two or three miles west of that
settlement. There was only one house then besides theirs outside
the town in that direction and the woods all about were thick and
wild.
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