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History of the towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1703-1882

 By Samuel Orcutt
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A catalogue of the names of the first Puritan settlers of the colony of Connecticut
Royal Ralph Hinman
1846 - 367 pages - Full view
Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society
Connecticut Historical Society
1899 - - Full view
Page 76
At present, and for many years, — a spur at the northeast of and adjoining Great Mount Tom, is, and has been called Little Mount Tom ; the contour of which ...
Page 73
Great Mount Tom : usually called Mount Tom, lies in full view, and is the first mountain north from New Milford village. It is said that, upon careful ...
Page 128
... and all appurtenances and a dwelling-house on it," and afterwards bought a piece of land "to the backside of Mount Tom, northward of the Horse-beat. ...
Page 646
19, 1803, by the falling of a limb of a tree, in the woods east of Mount Tom, where there is a stone set up as a monument of the sad accident. 49. Mercy, b. ...
Page 468
In 1722, a highway was laid "beginning at the south end of Mount Tom, near Wolf-pit, then northward to the upper end of the plain, after crossing Deep Brook ...
Page 320
5, 1822, in behalf of " the Baptist Society, owners of the meetinghouse, near the red school- house, commonly called the Mount Tom school-house," to be ...
Page 72
Bare Hill: particularly the high elevation of land north of Great Mount Tom. It was so called because denuded of the forests by the Indians. ...
Page 42
"The town by vote granted to John Bost- wick, Sen., the liberty and privilege of the highway across Aspe- tuck river at the lower end of Mount Tom meadow, ...
Page 127
John Drinkwater, came from Rhode Island, .and bought of Wm. Drinkwater, 10 acres of land " near Little Mount Tom, with a dwelling-house on it," March 30, ...
Page 318
It was probably about 1748 when Theophilus Baldwin, Jr., and his brother Isaac Baldwin settled on the east side of Mount Tom, and were the first who resided ...
Page 68
In 1728, he received land surveyed to him " against Mount Tom eastward, east of East Aspetuck river, near to a place called the Thousand Hills." . ...
Page 152
This was west, across the valley from Mount Tom. In 1727, they laid the fifth division of fifty acres " lying on the east side of the brook called Rock ...
Page 57
... and in the same year, " in consideration of 300 good chestnut rails," he sold to Theophilus Baldwin " one half of a meadow lot in Mount Tom Meadow. ...
Page 651
... Great Mount Tom. Ch. : 28. Henry Ward, m. Lizzie Loomis, Nov. 3, 30. Abel Stephen. 1880. 31. Bertha L. 29. Mary Ann, d. Mar. 4, 1874. ...
Page 174
Mount Tom District. Zachariah Ferris's District. "In town meeting, Dec. 24, 1787, Voted, that the town will give ^60, L. M'y [lawful money] out of the Town ...
Page 302
the top of Mount Tom, Town Hill, Carman's Hill, Guarding Mountain, Great Hill, or many other points of elevated observation, is scarcely surpassed by that ...
Page 467
... two or three years later. In 1726, a highway was laid from Little Mount Tom, north of Nathan Gaylord's to the Notch on Long Mountain. ...
Page 461
... a route from New Milford to Litchfield, laying, it along Great Brook and through on the west side and also on the east side of Mount Tom in Litchfield. ...
Page 87
After the above division of meadow lots, another meadow was made on the east side of Great Mount Tom, and one also on the west side of the same mountain, ...
Page 70
... of Great Bare Hill,". and his second forty acres were laid "southward of Great Mount Tom," March 22, 1722. He was one of the proprietors " in the north ...
Page 840
Life makes the soul dependent on the Just Death gives her wings To mount above the spheres Feeble nature may drop a tear While Reason and Religion better ...
Page 891
Mountain, 74, 80. Mount Tom, 70, 73, 74, 75. 76, 87. Plain, 162. ...
Page 895
... Samuel, 344, 345- Little Mount Tom, 127. location of, 76. Little Straits Hill, 76, 78. ...
Page 897
Lewis W., 493, 494, 550. Morton, James, 424. Moss, Rev. Mr., 46. Mott, family of, 738. Mount Tom, 68, 75, 76, 128, '52. 302, 318. District, 174. ...