Front:
Dewey Homestead and St. Francis de Sales Church from Railroad Station.
Historic Bennington, Vt.
No.21
COPYRIGHT I
E.T.GR SWOLD,
HAND- coL
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Back:
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FOREIGN, 20.
THE ALBERTYPE CO.!
BROOKLYN, N.Y.
Dewey house, built by the "Parson"
for his son in 1765, on which floor
the night of August 15, 1777 slept
many American Patriots, while the
women of the household baked eighty
loaves of bread for their use the follow-
ing day of strife.
All the men folk having left for battle
and an Army Surgeon having approp-
riated the horse left for her flight, it
was Mrs Mary Tilden Dewey who pro-
posed, if necessery, to defend herself
against the Indians, to bombard them
with “Hasty pudding and a quantity
of boiling water."
One of a series of 36 Historical Post Cards
published by Griswold, Bennington, Vt.
