Well I Guess Washington Didn't Stop Under our Tree

While surfing the web awhile ago, I landed on the town of Plymouth Ct web site. On the history page, there was a little story of General Washington stopping at David Smith' tavern and I said to myself that we had a David Smith in our tree. I went up the hill, to the library in Plymouth, to see what I could find and it wasn't much, just a picture of the tavern. I didn't have sources for this line so I needed to find if this was our David. My best bet would be looking though " Families of Ancient New Haven",By Donald Lines Jacobus. 
So on Monday, while the grandkids were in school I went over to the Kent NY library which has a copy. Its a new facility and has a wonderfull
genealogy research room. It's packed with books of the Putnam and Duchess county area, but also has quite a few CT related books.
 I took a lot of notes on  two David Smith family groups which stopped short of getting me to our neighborhood. I now have the source notes to help fill out the tree if  I find the connection to our Gideon Smith whose daughter married into the Barnes line. At the end of one of the family groups, a note mentions to see "Timlows Sketches of Southington, Conn. for children. So its off to find a copy and a search of World Cat and Archive.com revealed nothing, but good old Google gave me a hit. The actual name turned out to be " Ecclesiastical and other sketches of Southington, Conn."  and Google  has a copy on line. It was written by a local minister and contains local family genealogies. In most cases he did not follow a family once they moved out of town. I believe I have the correct family group now, as I found a Gideon, 6 Aug. 1763; d. in Burlington.  It looks like our Smith line traveled through Southington Ct. and not though Plymouth. So George was in the neighborhood, just not under our tree.
 And so the quest  goes on, looking for those Bits and Pieces !