September 29 Wednesday – The Hartford Courant published a letter from Sam wrote (probably on Sept. 27) about a man who had knocked on his door with documents of petition “so conspicuously dirty that it would be only fair & right to tax them as real estate.” The documents claimed that other Hartford notables had contributed to the “professor…a late candidate for the legislature,” for the purpose of establishing “a school in a southern state…” Sam thought the man a fraud and sent him on his way, then wrote the letter to the Courant [MTL 6: 543]. The article ran under the title “Information Wanted” [Courant.com]