America's own folklore, collected county by county: the treasure and the cats at Harry Main's, the headless skeleton of Swamptown, the storm ship of New Haven, and several hundred more.

Robert Lockwood's Fate

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Robert Lockwood's Fate

N the winter of 1779, General Putnam was stationed at Reading, Connecticut, with a band of ill-fed, unpaid troops. He was quartered at the…

Robert Lockwood's Fate: Putnam

But he must not read it, and he must on no account say from whom he had it. The young man consented without a question that she required it…

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