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 fulness, energy, personal bravery, and to do and to dare for the right, and the defense of their fellowmen. They were faithful as good citizens to their country and their state.

Let me now call the roll from my own memory that you may know them by closer contact.

Captain William and Elizabeth Tichenor, Rachel Knapp, Peter Ruffner, William Winsor, Michael Riley, John Hamblock, Ned Fahy, Charles Hilburn, William Gauntlet, Andrew and John Nasburg, Joe Ney, Fred Unican, George Dart, Randolph Tichenor, George M. Dyer, Captain E. H. Meservey, William and Mary Langlois, M. M. Bates and Mrs. Fanny M. Bates, Asa Carman, J. B. Tichenor, Jake Summer, Mrs. John Geisel, Samuel Colt, F. A. Stewart, M. B. Gibson, Alvord, Getchell, Saxe and Dunbar, with Louis Knapp, senior, who in venerable old age still survives the rest and holds the fort at the same old place—the Last of the Mohegans.

Such pioneer names are worthy of the honor you do them in this assemblage today, and may their memories be equally cherished by those who shall follow after. They come down to us as a good pioneer American ancestry and go down to a patriotic American posterity.