Dewey House and St. Francis De Sales Church

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Dewey House and St. Francis De Sales Church, Bennington, Vt. #I

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PUBLISHED BY F. E. BRAMAN, & CO., BENNINGTON, VERMONT. CHICAGO BENNINGTON, VT. DEWEY HOMESTEAD AND ST. FRANCIS DE SALES CHURCH. Dewey house, built by the "Parson" for his son in 1765, on which floor the night of August 15, 1777 slept many American Patri- ots, while the women of the household baked eighty loaves of bread for their use the fol- lowing day of strife. All men folk having left for battle and an Army Surgeon having appropriated the horse left for her flight. it was Mrs. Mary Tilden Dewey who proposed, if necessary, to defend herself against the Indians. to bombard them with "Hasty Pudding and a quantity of boiling water." R-19988 PHOTOCHROM Cattiolie Clever Roman Hhure 255 CAR FOREIG THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS ONLY