23. MARRIAGE IN THE TUNXIS VALLEY.

The yearly seasons rolled along,

Bringing marriage to the hill-side

And daily Molly's gentle song

Soothed her children's children's slumber.

Six were married in the valley,

Binding thus in holy wedlock

Families of the early settlers

And the Narragansett children

From the cabin in the forest,

Home of Molly and James Chaugham.

Samuel married Green of Sharon,

Mercy married Isaac Jacklin.

Polly married William Wilson,

Mary Chaugham married Webster,

Hannah married Reuben Barber,

( Barber's parents came from Canton ),

Solomon and Hayes were married

In the Ragged Mountain cabin

On the lonely mountain-side.

Two there were that died unmarried,—

Sally died in early childhood

And Elizabeth, unmarried,

Lingered in her father's cabin,

Lingered to the age of eighty,

Died at eighty, still unmarried,

Died in eighteen four and fifty.