“Dear Brother,” wrote a heartbroken farmer in Connecticut on March 28, 1777, “I Recd your favor of the 17th of February Last … your obversation as to the Dificulty of the times is very just so gloomey a day wee niver saw before but I trust our Cause is Just and for our Consolation in the times of greatest destress we have this to sopert us that their is a God that Jugeth in the earth … you desired me to inform you about my son Nathan … betra’d he doutless wass by somebody he was executed about the 22nd … Continue reading The Families Back Home