ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an opportunity to explore the difficult moral positions of war, along with the complications of the Quaker family who hid and sheltered the boy. When the war came, the Connecticut House turned Lord Denny's land over to his tenants, and the good citizens of New Haven tarred and feathered Lord Denny's lawyer, who subsequently fled to Canada. Naham Buskin had a large landhold, almost two hundred acres, which had been part of Lord Denny's grant and under litigation for the past twenty years. Abraham Hunt climbed onto the well-housing and told the men, gathered close around him, what he intended to do. Squire Hunt then turned over to Naham Buskin six hundred pounds of hard British money, which not only made Naham one of the rich men of the county but placed him completely in a debt of gratitude to Hunt.
