Show HISTORIC RELIC OF INTEREST chair sa d to have been used by fug t ve reg cide judges in the possession of the rev A N somers of sharon mass Is an old chair said to have been used by the regicide judges goffe and whaley after their escape to america and while they were in hiding here from the kings troops whaley was a brother in law of oliver cromwell and william goffe was the former 3 son in law and one of the strongest men in cromwell s government the chair was used by them while they were in hiding in the house of the kev john russell in hadley after leaving the hiding place in the cave in connecticut it formerly had rock ers on it which it is said were worn off during the fourteen years of con stant use by one or the other of the two exiles as they sat in the attic room of mr russell s house tradition says that judge goffe waa sitting in this chair when the indiana attacked the village and that he ross from it to take command of the citi zen forces that drove the savages on after a stubborn fight after the death of mr russell thia chair by purchase came into the session of a mrs hadley who removed from massachusetts to burnt hills N at her death it passed to her daughter mrs hinkson whose son ezra some 70 years of age in 1880 gave the chair to mr somers pastor of the church of which he was a member in holland N it baa been in mr somers possession since the story of the chair being con necked with goffe and whaley said mr somers recently came with so much directness and simplicity from such artless and illiterate people that 1 have always accepted it as edby true and of importance as con necking the relic with important bis personages the chair is said to have been made in newburyport I 1 should like to see it safely in possession of some institution where it would be preserved tor the future or held by some private collector of historical relics |