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EARLY RECOLLECTIONS BY WM. C. HOYT
June 7th, 1873
On a certain day Mr. Throop and some of his neighbors were sitting in that portico, when two gentlemen were driving past, each man being alone, and having a very splendid turnout. Some one enquired as to who they were,
the response being, "I don't know, and I don't care, " when Mr. Throop said that he did Tcnow—that they were destitute of a cultivated taste, because they did not even look at his portico. " ¦
In 1857 Mr. Throop sold his farm, then containing 800 acres, to John Glenn, for $18, 000, and all his personal property (except four horses, which he took east), at auction^ for $3, 000 more. He began there ten years before, with 240 acres, with 40 acres improved, and left 800 acres with 250 improved. Much of his land, after his first purchase, he obtained for $2 per acre, so that the first cost to him, of his 800 acres, was about $3, 000.
When Mr. Throop had closed up all his affairs, and the serious reality pressed upon his mind that he was about to leave the dear old farm where he had taken so much pleasure in devising, and so successfully executing all his fondly cherished schemes, and that he was also to sever his connections with his friends and neighbors and all other pleasant surrounding associations, he was so overwhelmed with sorrow that he sat down and wept like a child.
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