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Show HISTORIC RELIC OF INTEREST.- JM Chair Said to Have Been Used by- II Fugitive Regicide Judges. 9 In the possession of the Rev. A. N. H Bomors of Sharon, Mass., Is an old H chair, said to have boon used by tho H regicide Judges, Goffo and Whaley, H after their cscapo to America and H whllo they wort) ln hiding hero from H tho king's troops. Whaley was a H Lrothor-in-law of Oliver Cromwoll, H nnd William Goffo was tho former's I oon-ln-law and ono of tho strongest H men ln Cromwell's government, Tho chair was used by them whllo H thoy wore In hiding in tho houso of I tho Rev. John Russell In Hadley, after I leaving tho hiding place In tho cava I in Connecticut. It formerly had rock I ers on It, which It is said woro worn H off during tho fourteen years of con- H ctant uso by ono or tho other of tho- two exiles as thoy sat in tho attic I room of Mr. Russoll's hbuso. Tradition says that Judgo Goffo was sitting In this chair when tho Indians attacked tho village, and that ho roso I from it to fako command of tho cltl- zon forces that drove the savages oft I after n stubborn fight. I Aftor the death of Mr. Russoll this chair, by purchase, camo Into the possession pos-session of a Mrs. Hadloy, who removed re-moved from Massachusetts to Burnt Hills, N. Y. At hor death It passed to hor daughter, Mrs. Hlnkson, whoso son Ezrn, sonfo 70 years of ago, la 1880 gavo tho chair to Mr. Somors, pastor of tho church of which he was a member In Holland, N. Y. It has been In Mr. Somera' possession slnco. "Tho story of tho chair being connected con-nected with Goffo and Whaley," said Mr. Somors recently, "camo with so much directness and simplicity from such artless and Illiterate pcoplo that 1 havo always accepted It as undoubtedly undoubt-edly true, and of Importanco as con- .nectlng tho relic with Important historic his-toric personages. Tho chair Is said, to havo been mado In Nowburyport. "I shquld llko to seo It safely ln possession of somo Institution whoro-It whoro-It would bo presorved for tho future, or hdld by Homo prlvnto collector of historical relics." |