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 NoawlcH.-A correspondent of the New.York Commercial Advertiser thus ,spenksot old Norwich in Connecticut. He has evidently been looking over the musty rolls and simple annals of the ear. ly men of that settlement. We see among the gwen names of the females nnae but, what may be com- rion to all parts of New -Engand-to those may be added. >ilence," Faith, Charity. Hope, Prudence, Sabra, Keturah, and others of like character and origin. ~

 in l7tO 1t was voted to build "a new meeting house." One of the fixtures of this house was an hour glass, placed in frame and made fast to the pulpit It cost two and eigh, pehte. In l729 It was placed under the especial cefe of Capt. Joseph | Tracy, whose duty 1t was to sec Y duly turned | when it ran out in service time and ia keep me time between the meefiDgs.f h most of the New. England settlements some of the fnhabitants were oddly named. :. .. -, .es

 Dut in this respect Norwich Gas Jack Downing sc classcally expresseth it) seems to shave taken the rag of the bush In the list of her w0ithIes are Jepihah Elderkin, Cordile Fitch. Merit Rock. we'll, Friend Weeks, Aquilla Gifiords. Shadrack Lampheer. Zorobable Wighman. Retrieve More. Rezon Geer, Hopesiill Armstrong. and Yet. nee Batstow. These were all names of the lords of creation, and among the geniler sex there were ,Xher every way worthy to be their better halves, such for example. ss Experience Porter. submit Peek. Thankful Will"ugh6y, ,Zppcrah Hssklll' Zilah Grsi Deliveranre Sauier. ohed,enes r Civil Tracy, Diadema Hid", Mercy Polly. end iir- zah Morgan. What the names "f their children mtis, nave been, if fwo of the above list had hap pened to marry, goodness only knows" but rom; the cognomen tbat might have been expected, m"ss

 Az ;Iiusrrating the " steady habits" of thspia and especially ef the times. the Huniingtoa: were regulsrly put in as town cievks rom siins imme- morisl, and one of the Tracys was sdwn tneasurer from i733 10 l77l, when be was 8 wears at age in m0raIs. too, the tows was exemplary dOne ua's is recorded as having been fined six shillings fss 1 saying Damo ne s' youuEs woman was srsaikDs ed for lanrhing in charch'; several peFs9hs f"r walking oui on Sunday evening; and a MI. Rrw1. ,hs fra man that o,Tned chaise in town. i"r Fis- ing io church in it 4 part of these ennishmenIs may seem to be overstrained; but if the Eh'S's 2! these old Norwich justices were tb vsse n some ~ our chukches. and. cheek ths silly and wIrkess s,secs of the psolans of 0ss day. their spesAfAsss would not Us saaiss. ae 'r