“…a pack of the most barbarous ruffians came rushing into the house, and repeatedly accosted me with, ‘You rebel, where is your husband, he is a selectman!’ . . . at the same time stripping me of my buckles, tearing down the curtains of my bed, breaking the frame of my dressing glass, pulling out the drawers of my table and desk; and after taking what they could find, they then went upstairs, and proceeded much in the same manner.”
“…while a number went into the house to set fire to it; two or three others come to search me; they took my pocket book and buttons, which till then, I had preserved . . . I disengaged my pocket and fled into the meadow. The house, with everything they had left, both furniture and stores, were consumed.”
The Testimony of Eunice Burr
From A Historical Collection (618-623) by Royal R. Hinman, available for reference at the Research Library at the Fairfield Museum .
This silver cann belonged to Thaddeus and Eunice Dennie Burr. Family tradition says that the small dent resulted when the cann was thrown down a well along with other valuables that the Burrs hid from the British. Long-Term Loan from Timothy A. Burr and Thaddeus O. Burr.