Excerpt from History of Newgate of Connecticut, at Simsbury, Now East Granby: Its Insurrections and Massacres, the Imprisonment of the Tories in the Revolution, and the Working of Its Mines, Also, Some Account of the State Prison at WethersfieldThere is an exciting fascination in the eventful history Of newgate OF connecticut to all who have been familiar with it, especially to those who, like the writer, have resided in its vicinity and witnessed many of its scenes, and to judge by the, numbers who come from afar to explore its caverns and the ruins which now cover its grounds, it will long continue to be an object of interest and examination. The aged residents in its vicinity are nearly all gone but this prison-fortress will doubtless long remain and continue to be a place Of classic interest. The trav eller will inquire, Who built these towers? Why these iron grates, these trenches, and these walls? How came these huge caverns to be dug out Of solid rock? Surely the echo Of the caverns cannot answer, nor the people who lived cotemporane ously with their use.The facts herein presented have been gathered from a variety of sources. Besides what came within the knowledge Of the writer, he has availed himself of the statistics afforded by ancient colonial and state records, Of the verbal statements kindly fur nished by the few aged persons still living, and of other facts preserved from the recorded relations Of Witnesses long since passed away.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.