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From the Memorial of John Slafter:

Late in life [Sylvester Slafter] sold this estate, and purchased another in the eastern part of the town, containing 130 acres, and including that given by the town to the Rev. Asa Burton, D.D., and known as the "Old Parsonage." On the settlement of Dr. Burton, the parish, then comprising the whole town, gave to him fifty acres of land, and contributed fifty pounds towards the erection of a house. The "Old Parsonage," now standing and in good preservation, was the result of the contributions of the parishoners, mostly by their personal labor, and was erected in the summer of 1779. Mr. Slafter remodelled it in many of its internal arrangements, but preserved intact one room in it for his own use, and in memory of the distinguished divine for whom it was erected, and whom he greatly revered. He occupied this apartment in his declining years, and enjoyed without weariness the beautiful scenery, which it commands, stretching along the valley of the Connecticut. The exterior of the old parsonage has not been changed. The trees, however, by which it is surrounded, were planted by Mr. Slafter. The drawing from which the engraving, which we here present, was made, was by his grandson, Master Theodore S. Slafter, sketched in the summer of 1867, and is very accurate. Most of the sixty or eighty clergymen, educated by Dr. Burton, found an agreeable home in the old parsonage.

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• Source:Slafter, Edmund Farwell. Memorial of John Slafter
• Person:Sylvester Slafter (1)
• Person:Asa Burton (1)
• Family:Sylvester Slafter and Anna White (1)

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