Northrop Brothers Builders, Southport, CT 1854-1912

"a great credit to the builders, Messrs. Jelliff & Northrop . . . No need to go abroad for our builders - we have those that excelled, at home."

Northrop Brothers (William F. and George E. Northrop) were very active in the Southport, Greens Farms, Westport Area. Their work included fine carpentry, at least some part in the building of the Southport Congregational Church.

Southport Congregational Church "May 6, 1874 The "new Congregational Church is to [be] constructed of stone; that nev parties
from Westerly, R.I., are to furnish the stone and do the masonry work: and that
Messrs. Jelliff and Northrop are to do the carpenter work." The Southport "Chronicle"
followed the church's construction in close detail during
iSTU.In the following items, the local newspaper recorded
simultaneously the workmen involved and the building's
progress.

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ct/ct0000/ct0034/data/ct0034.pdf and may have included some construction for an average family. There is some mention of building homes in Bridgeport as well.

They built three homes (maybe 4) adjacent to one another on Pequot Avenue and at least two on Mill River near the Tide Mill. The star in the circle was (at least one of) a mark of their work.

In the past few years many homes in Southport previously stripped on the evidence of Northrop gingerbread have renovated the homes restoring the star in the circle brackets and the cutouts on wooden stairs.

Despite some of the PR at the time "Southport Chronicle newspaper noted in 1869 that there was “no need to go abroad” for architectural inspiration when such excellent ingenuity as that produced by the Northrop firm was available at home.", some of the homes (I've heard perhaps those in Bridgeport were more standard production design than some of those in Southport.

Sturm Ruger had their first home at the Railroad Avenue Property that once housed Northrop Brothers Lumber and Coal. I believe this is George Elmore Northrop and son William standing. This is an image of from an anniversary issue of the Ruger Collector's Journal. The photo is given a date of around 1880.

This home on Pequot Avenue, Southport, Connecticut is a recently restored example of the Northrop Brothers fine carpentry and building in the Southport-Greeens Farms area. There is reference to this home being built for the Northrop brothers foreman or superintendent. It is right next to the home of George E. Northrop.

??? Lockwood Matthews Mansion popped up in a search for Northrop. Is it highly unlikely Northrop brothers did work on the original construction of the Lockwood Matthews Mansion in Norwalk, however, there is some family relationship between Lockwoods and some branch of Northrops -- not sure if it's the right branch.

Southport Globe blog http://thesouthportglobe.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html

that about the first settling of the town ol Fairfield, Thomas Staples, Thomas Newton, Edward Jessop & Edmund Strickland, having home-lots in ye rear of ye lots that Mr. Ludlow's lot lay in, ye said four above sd. persons, agreed that ye sd. Thomas Staples should take his lot at ye rear of all y« four lots, & cut all those lots so much ye shorter, which according to ye first laying out there, was as long as Mr. Ludlow's lot, but giving ye said Thomas Staples some allowance in measure, he had his lot taken out of ye rear of all their lots, & upon ye sd. Thomas Staples remove at ye rear of y* lots: ye sd. Thomas Newton, Edward Jessop & Edmund Strickland did engage to ye sd. Thomas Staples to make & maintain forever ye reare fence for their respective lots that butted upon ye sd. Thomas Staples lot, & further this deponent saith not. This is a true copy of Taken upon oath before

The heavy taxes at this time laid upon the plantations of Massachusetts, had become burdensome to many, and especially to the planters of Concord, who, to their great disappointment, "found the soil of that town very barren & the meadows wet & useless." In 1643 they petitioned the General Court to abate their taxes on this account. Another difficulty had also arisen in regard to their inability to support two ministers. Some refused to bear their proportion of the public charge, some removed to older or newer settlements, and others returned to England, so that the town rapidly decreased in numbers.

In the summer of 1644 the Rev. John Jones, with about one-seventh or one-eighth of the planters of Concord and their families removed to Fairfield. The list of those who came, so far as it can be gathered from authentic sources is as follows.

Thomas Wheeler, sr., according to the Wheeler journal, had joined the plantation in 1640, and was, as has already been stated, the first settler at Black Rock.f Ephraim Wheeler, Thomas Wheeler, sr., Thomas Wheeler, jr., William Odell, John Evarts, Joseph Middlebrook, James Bennet, Peter Johnson and Benjamin Turney afterwards settled at Pequonnock. There is ground for believing that some of this company first settled at Black- rock and very soon after went^ to Pequonnock. The others remained at Fairfield. Several joined the settlement this year from other towns, among whom were William Hill, sr., his son William Hill, jr., Richard Westcoat, John Green, Charles Taintor, Samuel Gregoiy, James Beers, Jehu and John Burr, with their kinsman John Cable. Besides these there are others, of which mention will be made hereafter. The Rev. John

Jones was granted about seven acres of land*in the rear of the Meetinghouse green, six acres of which was afterwards called his orchard.* His dwelling-house, which probably had been built before his coming, stood back of Edward's pond, with mere-stones between it and the green, running from the north-west corner of his land straight to Jehu Burr's home- lot. Thomas and Daniel Bulkley were granted home-lots in the Newton square, on the north-east side of the green, adjoining the parsonage land. The street running to the Sound between this square and the green was given the name of Concord street. Thomas Jones was granted the corner home-lot south-east of the Bulkleys ; and William Hill, sr., a home-lot north-east of the Newton square, on Dorchester street, bounded northwest by the land of Peter Johnson and Robert Turney; south-east by his son William Hill, jr., and south-west by a highway running to the beach. He afterwards purchased of Alexander Briant, of Milford, the north-east corner lot of the Newton square, upon which he lived at the time of his death, which occurred before 1650, at which time this place is called that of his widow Sarah Hill. George Hull's home-lot lay north-west of William Hill's ; William Batcman's on the same side of the square, between George Squire's and a lot for many years after called Lewis' lot.f John Thomp- kins' home-lot lay west of the pond afterwards called Hide's pond.

Two colony fairs were annually allowed to be held at Hartford, on the second Wednesdays in May and September.

The names of Jehu Burr and Thomas Sherwood appear on the list of deputies from Fairfield sent to attend the meeting of the General Court, on the nth of September, at which time Ludlow accompanied them as one of the magistrates of the court. about 1644

The two parties chosen to join this enterprise were Daniel Frost, of Fairfield, and Francis Andrews, of Hartford. This land, which was purchased from the Maxumux Indians, stretched from a white oak tree near Frost point, one English mile along the sea coast towards Compaw, and six or seven miles inland. The Maxumux Indians lived on an elevated bank east of this strip of land overlooking a grand expanse of water, Long Island in the distance, and a charming view of meadows and fine rolling hills on the west, north and north-west. A few years after they removed from their sea-side planting field to Clapboard hill, which was set apart as a. reservation for them.

Each of these five farmers were granted ten-acre home-lots. Daniel Frost's home-lot lay on the point, and was " bounded on the north & west with the highway, on the east with the land of the Old Indian field ; & on the south with the sea beach." Henry Gray's home-lot was next west of Daniel Frost's. Thomas Newton's lay west of Henry Gray's. John Green's and Francis Andrew's lay west of Thomas Newton's. The name of Maxumux gave place to that of Bankside, and the planters were for several years called " The Five Bankside Farmers" and " The West Farmers." John Green became so prosperous a land-holder, that the name of Green's Farms was applied to the vicinity west and north-west of Bankside as early as 1699.* Near the west limits of this purchase, was an island of about one hundred acres, first named Farmer's island, and the Great island, then Fox island, and in time, falling into the possession of the Sherwood family, it came to be called Sherwood's island. West of this island lay another of about ten acres which has always been known as the little island. East of Sherwood's island, standing well out in the Sound, was still another small island, which has entirely been washed away by the action of the waves and storms of more than two centuries.t At the sitting of the General Court in May, Ludlow offered a motion that Moses Wheeler should be made a ferryman across the Housatonic at Stratford, which was also referred to the next court at Fairfield, " both in behalf of the country & the town of Stratford." \

On the 2d of February Henry Jackson was given liberty from the town to erect a grist mill on Uncoway creek.§ A severe law was enacted to

On the 18th of September Ludlow was appointed by the General Court of Connecticut to prepare the soldiers of Fairfield and Stratford with provisions and all other necessaries for the design upon the Stamford Indians. George Hull, of Fairfield, and William Beardsley, of Stratford, were chosen to assist him. This movement so alarmed and intimidated the Stamford Indians, that they proved peaceable ever afterwards; but it does not appear that the murderers were given up to justice. possibly 1647

There were probably others, but those only have been given which could be obtained with certainty. The list of land-holders between 1650 and 1700 who did not share in the land dividends of the town, were as follows :

Samuel Allin.
Gideon Allen.
John Allyn.
Thomas Baxter.
Robert Bisbum.
Thomas Bedient.
John Beardsley.
Thomas Barnum.
Richard Burgis.

John Crow.
William Cross.
Robert Churchill.
Henry Castle.
John Crump.
John Campbell.
Henry Crane.
John Edwards.
John Eggleston.
Albert Dennie.
John Davis.
Elias Doughty.

Esborn Wakeman.
Elnathan Handford.
Joseph James.
Samuel Judson.
Henry Lyon.
Walter Lancaster.
Robert Lord.
Lewis Phillips.
John Mills.
Thomas Merwin.
Peter Mayoke.
John Mahew.

The soldiers engaged in the Pequot war of 1637 and 1638, who settled at Fairfield, were:

Soon after, the 26th of April, Ludlow took leave of his friends in Connecticut, and sailed for Virginia. It must have been with a keen pang of sorrow that he bade adieu to Fairfield, which he had watched with the pride of a father in its growth out of a wilderness into a beautiful town. Had he remained in Connecticut his talents would undoubtedly have won for him a higher position than he had previously occupied. But his work in New England had been accomplished. It was a noble work, which more than two centuries after he left the country, stands out as a colossal monument to his genius and to his memory. His dwelling, home-lot and pasture lot were left with William Hill for sale, and were purchased by Nathan Gold on the i8th May, 1654.

* Record of Roger Ludlow's grant of home-lot, etc., from the Town, 4 Feb., 1653. A, Town Deeds, p. 86.—Sale to Alexander Bryant, 10 May, 1654. A, Town Deeds, p. 57.—Sale to Nathan Gold, I., II May, 1654. A, Town Deeds, p. 52.—Willed to Nathan Gold, II., March I, 1693, Prob. Rec., Vol. 1689-170I.—Willed to Nathan Gold, III., April 29, 1724, Prob. Rec., Vol. 1716- 1735.—Willed to grandson Jabez Hubbell, legal representative of Martha Gold Hubbell, Sept. 28, 1761, Prob. Rec., Vol. 1754-1764.—Willed by Jabez Hubbell to his son James and his wife Roda, Jan. 3, 1798, Prob. Rec., Vol. 1799-1818. Jabez Hubbell died in 1817. His son James died at Hartford, 1810. The heirs of Jabez Hubbell and Roda, his wife, namely, Emily Bulkley, David Mallory, Jabez A. West, Hannah West, Caroline Gilbert, Simon H. Mallory, George, Elizabeth, and Jeremiah Mallory, on the 2 April, 1835, had this homestead distributed to them. Prob. Rec,, Vol. 1827-1835, p. 695.—The Hubbell heirs sold it to Obediah Jones in 1835. Town Deeds, Vol. 44, pages 546, 458, 700, 297, etc.—O. W. Jones sold it to John Thompson, Town Records, Vol. 47. John Thompson re-sold it to O. W. Jones, 22 Feb., 1850. Vol. 48, p. 512.—O. W. Jones deeded it to Sarah J. Haines, March, 185I. Town Deeds, Vol. 49.—Charles N. Butt and Sarah J. Butt, J. H. Knox and Augusta Knox, the heirs of Sarah J. Haines, deeded it to Elizabeth A. Talbot, May 7, 1853. Town Deeds, Vol. 50, pp. 724-725.—George A. Talbot and the heirs of Elizabeth A. Talbot deeded it to Oliver O. Jennings, 29 April, 1880, Vol. 61, pp. 729, 730,

Michael Try and John Wheeler were elected deputies from Fairfield, and Nehemiah Olmstead and Robert Lockwood were made sergeants of the town militia

Goodman Graves and Goodman Fairchild were appointed leather sealers for Fairfield.

Robert Beachem (Beuchamp), formerly of Norwalk, was given liberty to settle at Banksidc. Alexander Knowles, of Fairfield, was nominated to be made a magistrate of the General Court. At the May election Alexander Knowles was made an assistant of the General Court. John Wheeler and Cornelius Hull were cfIosen deputies. All sea-faring men were for the future freed from training.

It was also ordered that if the Pequonnock Indians should at any time relinquish or desert Gold-hill, the land should return to the Stratford plantation, which should pay back to Fairfield one-half of the sum they had received for the said land. Mathew Camfield, Mr. Fitch, Richard Olm- stead and Nathaniel Ely, of Norwalk, were appointed a committee to bound out eighty acres at Gold-hill," beginning at the foot of ye hill where ye wigwams stood, & so to run upward on the hill, & within Fairfield bounds as above mentioned, & to return what they did in the matter to the next General Court."

The third decade in the history of Fairfield opens with events of considerable importance to the town

At a freemen's meeting, held the last Tuesday in April " at Fairfield, Robert Silliman, Jr., James Burrs, Samuel Bradley, Jr., Thomas Harvey, Ebenezer Lyon, & Eliphalet Hill were made freemen, & took the freeman's oath."

The Bank-side farmers were not at all pleased with what they considered to be an unwarrantable liberty on the part of the town of Fairfield, in obtaining this grant from the General Court, as well as taking a formal purchase of the Indians, of whom they had previously purchased their lands. A contention arose between them and the town, which was not fully settled for nearly fifty years.

In order that particular attention should be paid towards educating the children of the town, the following vote was passed : " Whereas the town hath formerly voted that the school master shall have ten pounds towards his wages out of the town rate, it is now ordered the fifty pounds that remains of his wages, shall be paid by the masters & parents of such children as need teaching, from six years old & upwards. And if any shall send their children under six y/;ars, or girls, they shall be esteemed payable scholars. Sergeant Squire & Robert Turney are appointed to go to each family in the town, & make trial what scholars are to be payable scholars to the school, & bring in a list of the names to the secretary, that there may be a rate made to pay the schoolmaster." This appears to have been the first and only school in the town, and was without doubt kept in the building used as a school and town house. The Rev. John Jones was probably the first school teacher, and Rev. Samuel Wakeman, who followed him, appears to have been a school teacher before he became a minister.

John Green. Richard Harvey, Joseph Mead, Richard Webb, Joseph Weed and Peter Ferris, from the towns below Norwalk, were accepted freemen of the colony,

John Banks and Henry Jackson were appointed to run the town bounds between Stratford and Norwalk. Ezekiel Sandford was " granted the use of ten acres of land at Uncoway neck, to erect a tan-yard upon for three years."

Jehu Burr, Robert Turney, John Knowles, Joseph Lockwood, Robert Beacham, Simon Crouch, John Barlow, sr., John Barlow, jr., James Evarts, Peter Coly, Thomas Sherwood, William Hayden, John Gruman, Francis Bradley, John Hoit, Stephen Sherwood, Nathaniel Burr, Richard Lyon, Samuel Wakeman, Thomas Bennet, Thomas Wilson, James Beers, John Odell, Richard Hubbell, all of Fairfield, were accepted this year as freemen ; and Lieutenant Gold and Assistant Samuel Sherman, of Stratford, were appointed to administer the freeman's oath to them. Two pence farthing to the pound was levied upon all the towns to defray the colony expenses.

The Bankside farmers had asserted their independence, and in defiance of the efforts of the townsmen to include them within their limits, they assumed their rights on the strength of their first purchase of the Maxu- mux lands of the Indians. They had fenced» in a large meadow north of Sherwood's island and Gallop's gap, called the horse pasture. A herdsman was always on watch to care for both horses, cattle and sheep. There was still another meadow called Plaistead's meadow, which came to be disputed between the farmers and the town, afterwards called the Gained meadow. Cornelius Hull was appointed an agent and attorney for money due the town from the planters for grass-seed, which had been sold them by Mr. Burr, for sowing the common meadows.

Nathaniel Seeley purchased this year of an Indian named Crocecrow, a large track of land lying between the Saugatuck and Aspctuck rivers.*

The town of Fairfield was recommended to settle upon the Bankside farmers and their heirs, by a firm record, the lands which they had improved.

The General Assembly granted Major Gold three hundred acres of land for a farm, forty acres of which was to be meadow land, if as much could be found, provided it did not interfere with any previous grant, or be injurious to any plantation.

In 1667 the demand for a general synod of ministers resulted in the General Court changing the name of synod to that of An Assembly of the Ministers. This was done to pacify those ministers, who objected to such a council being called a synod. On the 16th of May following, the General Court ordered that the Reverends James Fitch, Gershom Bulkley, Joseph Eliot, and Samuel Wakeman should meet at Saybrook or Norwich, and consider some way whereby the religious questions in dispute should be settled.

Samuel Smith was given liberty to settle in the town, until the 29th of September next, when he was to "depart the town or submit to law." Samuel Davis and his heirs were bound in the sum of five pounds, to depart the town by Michaelmas next. John Camp was bound in the same way. Jonathan Miles was bound in the sum of twenty pounds, unless he had further permission to remain.

On the 28th of April the town voted that Jehu Burr, John Wheeler and William Hill, should survey the land between Mill river and the Maxumux farmers. Also a highway was ordered to be laid out between the meadows of John Green and John Burr on Mill river, and Samuel Ward's and the commons. Thomas Staples and John Green were to agree with them for a highway over the river. On the ist of February, the salt marsh at the Horse-tavern, below the path and pond and swamp that lies in Sasco field, was granted for the encouragement of a school.f John Thorp, who was ordered in 1667 to leave the town without delay, was at this meeting admitted as an inhabitant, and granted the use of two acres of land to to improve for seven years. A vote to leave the town did not necessarily imply a want of good character, but it was done to give time to ascertain whether strangers who appeared among them, were worthy to be made members of the community. The townsmen expressed their disapproval of the suit brought by Simon Couch and John Andrews, as heirs of Francis Andrews, in claiming their rights in his Bankside land, by voting that "they should not be accepted as inhabitants of the town." The right, however, of this injustice prevailed in the course of time.*

Henry Jackson, Lieutenant John Squire, Cornelius Hull, John Wheeler and John Burr, were appointed a committee, to lay out the dividend of land at Grcenlea, between the highway and commons and their property, f At the May election Major Gold was elected an assistant of the General Assembly, William Hill and Jehu Burr deputies and commissioners for Fairfield.J John Barlow, John Sturge (Sturgis), John Hide, Dan". Burr, Wm. Ward, Andr. Ward, Sam1. Ward, John Bulkley, Thomas Jones, James Bennet, Ezekicl Sanford, Richard Ogden, John Cable, jr., Benjamin Tur- ney, Thomas Oliver and Dan1. Lockwood, were propounded to be made freemen from Fairfield.

Thirty years having passed since Roger Ludlow and his associates settled Uncoway, we now find Fairfield the shire-town of the county. It was large and flourishing, and in point of influence second to no other town in the colony. It was represented in the General Assembly and the court of commissioners, by men who had been educated at Harvard. Every spring and fall its inns and private residences were crowded with the ablest men in the country, drawn hither to attend the county courts. Judges and commissioners from Long Island, and all classes of people from the towns under the jurisdiction of Connecticut, from Milford to Westchester, Rye and Long Island made their way here to seek redress for wrongs, to contend for their chartered liberties, or to take the oath of allegiance to the king and be made freemen. Stage-coaches had not yet become one of the luxuries of New England travel; and steam engines and cars had not entered the wildest imagination. Vessels bringing the attendants of the court across from Long Island, anchored in Black Rock harbor, the seaport of Fairfield.

The first dwellings of our New England ancestors were built of logs, and were nothing more than log-cabins. Plastered walls were not common, and even among the rich, hangings were used to keep out the cold. The poorer classes had floors of clay, and holes in the roofs instead of chimneys, for the escape of smoke. Oiled paper served for window-glass. The few who possessed glass windows, protected them with great care. Stone houses were occasionally built in a very rude and primitive manner. As the settlements increased,'and saw-mills were erected, frame houses appeared, of which some relics are still to be seen at Fairfield. The frames of these houses were of oak timbers, from twelve to eighteen inches in diameter. The rafters were but a little smaller, across which " ribs " were laid at regular distances. Over these, shingles of cedar were fastened with large wrought-iron nails. Oak clapboards, smoothed with a shaving-knife, and lapping over each other, covered the sides of the building. Oaken planks covered the floors. The rooms on the first floor were not more than seven feet in height, and about six and a half on the second floor. The beams, with the planks of the second floor, formed the ceilings of the first story. Panes of diamond shape, set in two leaden frames fastened to the sides of the house, and opening from the centre outward, were the style of windows used. The outer doors were made of double oaken planks, fastened together with large iron nails or spikes, in the angles of diamonds. For a long time the outer doors were secured by heavy bars of wood, and afterwards with large iron hinges and latches. The latter were made fast with an oaken plug of wood, which hung in the day time from a string attached to the latch. When in use the latch was down. The expression " the latch is always up for you " was a frequent mode of welcome. At a later date enormous locks and keys, with brass or iron doorknockers came into use.

Besides the kitchen and bed-room adjoining it, there were but seldom more than two rooms on the first floor. In the course of time, among the rich, the fire-places in the best parlor and the sitting-room were bordered with earthen and China tiles, painted in various designs of birds, and mythological figures, or with men, women, and children, dressed in the fashions of those days. Highly polished andirons, and brass fenders were used in these fire-places. On the mantel-piece above, were silver, glass, or brass candlesticks, with dipped candles of home-make, and also small trays for the snuffers. Over the mantel was usually a closet in the bricks. The most wonderful part of one of these dwellings was the chimney, built in the centre of the house upon a stone foundation of twelve feet square. The fire-place in the kitchen extended across the full length of the chimney. The hearth consisted of one or more large flat stones, fitted into the floor, and extending well out into the room. From heavy iron sockets, fastened on the right side against the back of the chimney, swept a long iron crane. From this hung iron trammels, each with rows of holes one above the other, into which hooks were fitted, by means of which the pots and kettles used in cooking could be raised or lowered over the fire. On the right side, and opening into the chimney, was built a huge brick oven used for baking purposes. Near the front of the fire-place, on each side of the jambs, were seats of brick, on which a person could sit with ease, and on a cold winter's day with comfort. It was not an unusual thing in the early part of winter to see hams and pieces of bacon suspended from a long pole, fastened at a sufficient height up the chimney to smoke and yet not to cook them,*

Richard Ogden purchased the mill he had erected on Mill river from the town, February I5th. A fence was ordered to be made across the great meadow from Paul's neck to Pine creek, to close it in from the beach, at the expense of the town.

Richard Osborn, Isaac Hall, Isaac Wheeler, Samuel Treadwell, Samuel Hall, Joseph VVhelpley and Samuel Smith were nominated to be made freemen.

Those who took the freeman's oath at this time were Rev. Eliphalet Jones, Josiah Harvey, Richard Lyon, John Andrews, Francis Bradley, John Tompkins, and Joseph Middlebrook.

Richard Osborn, Isaac Hall, Isaac Wheeler, Samuel Treadwell, Samuel Hall, Joseph Whelpley, and Samuel Smith were accepted as freemen of Fairfield.

Thomas Lyon was to receive his dividend in his own right from his tenant. Samuel Goodwin was to have his proportion as a master of a family. Daniel Finch was to have his dividend according to his tenant, Henry Castle's list of his estate. Phebe and Deborah Barlow, the sole surviving heirs of Thomas Barlow, were to receive their father's proportion from their tenant, Edward Wilson. Isaac Sherwood and Nathaniel Perry, were to receive theirs as masters of a family. Sarah Wilson, a daughter of Rev. John Jones, who was first a widow of Thomas Bulkley and at this time the widow of Antony Wilson, was to receive her proportion as a master of a family. Ezborn Wakeman, a cousin of the Rev. Samuel Wakeman, was granted a share in the dividend at the rate of £20 estate. Major Gold was voted two hundred and fifty acres to be added to his proportion. Stephen Sherwood in like manner was granted an addition of eighty acres. George Squire, jr., was granted a child's portion, according to his list of estate from his father.*

then to begin wt h Couch and Andrus till farms have y' due next Norwalk bounds, and So to Run Eastward : then to begin att R. Ogdens, to begin his proportion of his building dividend where ye farms Ended, and he is to begin upon y« pastures over ye mill-River Southward. and So ye neighbours Successively, till you come to Mr. Harvie's, he included: then to begin wth Thos. Sherwington, and So up wt h y' Street on both sides of ye high way till you come to Barlow's children, they Included ; each Inhabitant to have y' proportions as this Land ordered to be divided, as the quantity y' of will allow. (1670)

Jn«- Banks, Serg'-Squire, Cor : Hull and Mr. Harvy are appointed to layout ye above- said building Lots and pastures, and to lay out w* high wayes they think necessary among ye Said Lots and pastures : also they are appointed to lay to every man his proportion of Lands on ye abovesaid Lands, lying on both Sides of ye mile Common: Every man to begin in his place next to ye half mile Common, and so to Run back to ye End of our bounds, necessary high wayes to be laid out.*

The highway which divided the half mile of common from the mile of common and the Long lots, began a little below Sherwood's grist mill, above Toilesome hill at Bridgeport, ran a little above the Stratfield Baptist church, crossed Mill river below Samp-mortar rocks, through the elm groves to the foot of Greenfield hill and the estates of Frederick Bronson Esq., and David Banks, through Hull's farms, past the old school-house; ran above the Adams' academy at Green's farms, to the blacksmith's shop -at Westport, and continued on to the old bridge, which crosses the Sauga- tuck river at Westport. The highway which ran below the half mile of common and the building and pasture lots, is at the present day, mostly in constant use, although some parts of it, like the above highway, has become overgrown with grass, shrubs, and vines. It began at the corner of Division avenue and the King's highway, at Bridgeport, ran to Jackson's, now Moody's mill, and through chair swamp, forked to the northwest from the King's highway at the Jew cemetery, ran over Holland hill, past General Silliman's estate, to the rear of Osborn's and Round hills, to Richard Ogden's mill, now Burr Perry's mill, at Mill plain ; there forded Mill river, ran past the estate of the late Abel Beers, over Mill hill, and the grass-grown road, a little north-west of the present turnpike at South- port, crossed the turnpike below Sasco mill-ponds, and the farms of Joel and Francis Buckley, wound from E. Mills' corner, ran over Turkey hill to the farms of William Jennings, T. B. and H. B. Wakeman's, crossed Muddy brook below the Green's Farms church, at Rev. Dr. Hezekiah Ripley's old homestead ; and continued south-west, crossing the New York and New Haven Railroad west.of Sherwood's island ; re-crossed the railroad, and wound to the road at Compo, which runs due north to Westport village. The King's highway began at the corner of Division street, and ran west of Mountain Grove cemetery and Moody's mill, and is now called the back road to Bridgeport; from the fork of the road at the Jew cemetery south-west to the estate of the late John Gould, of Fairfield, through the main street of Fairfield, and through Mill plain, where it ran to the highway which lay on the south of the half mile of commons, and the building and pasture lots to Westport.

The village of Greenfield was afterwards built upon the mile of common, the south-east corner of which is bounded by the road which crosses the main road at the foot of the long hill leading up to the meetinghouse. The half mile of common, which extended across the town, formed the division line between the building and pasture lots on the south-east and the Long lots above it. The Long lots commenced on the north-west of the half mile of common, and lay on the east and west sides of the mile of common, which extended to the north limits of the town.

The Rev. Samuel Wakeman was voted a share in the dividends, according to his proportion of ratable estate. In this dividend, parsonage land was ordered to be set off at the rate of two hundred pounds' estate, and school lands in the same manner. The liberality shown to the Rev. Samuel Wakeman exhibited the spirit of those days, and the high esteem and reverence paid to the minister of God. It was voted that hired servants should not be included as members of a family, thus preventing an over share of land, by increasing the number of heads of families. On the I5th of February the names of Hendrick Henrickson, Daniel Silliman and John

Applegate were added to the list of dividend sharers, according to their list of estates. Simon Couch and John Andrews, in right of their deceased father Francis Andrews, were voted to receive their dividends only as one master of a family, which lands should be equally divided between them. They were also ordered to divide a portion of land at a place called the Horse-pasture, then in controversy, among the five Bankside farmers.

Simon Couch, of Bankside, was so much aggrieved because the lands, which had been expressly stipulated in the agreement of 1666 should continue in the possession of the Bankside farmers, were included in the dividend lands, that he brought an action against the town for his rights in those lands from his father-in-law Francis Andrews.

Richard Osborn, of Fairfield, was granted " eighty acres of land for his good services in the Pequot war."

John Banks and seven others belonging to the neighboring plantations, were granted liberty to purchase lands of the Indians, provided such purchases were at the disposal of the General Assembly, upon the said gentlemen being duly remunerated.

voted to divide the lands at Compo neck among the inhabitants of the town who owned taxable estates. John Banks, Cornelius Hull, and Francis Bradley were chosen a committee to examine and make report of the quantity and quality of the lands at Compo.

On account of several persons having expressed dissatisfaction with their building dividends, it was voted January 3Ist, that such persons should return these dividends to the town, and in lieu of them they were granted the same proportion of lands in the rear of these dividends in the half mile of common, provided there should be laid out "a highway twenty rods broad," between the half mile of common and the Long-lots ; and eight score rods between them and the former building dividend. Sergeant John Banks, Sergeant Nathaniel Seeley, and Cornelius Hull were appointed a committee to lay out these lots, and also such highways between them as they deemed necessary.*

It was found, however, that even this change did not satisfy all. It was therefore voted, after those who " slipped or jumped their lots were first served, & the highways had been staked out, that others upon giving up their present building dividends should also receive shares in the Half Mile of Common." John Banks. Robert Rumsey, Daniel Lockwood, Jehu Burr, Nathaniel Burr, Obediah Gilbert and Thomas Morehouse, were the first who received the benefit of this last order.

Major Gold, John Burr and William Hill were appointed to settle the claims of Simon Couch and John Smith " to a lawful share in the land dividends, & to allow each, such a proportion of lands as they judged to be right," with the proviso, " that they were not to receive any more than they were entitled to according to their rateable estates." Those who lived on the east end of the town were to have lots set out to them

* B, Town Votes, p 45.

within the cast limits of the half mile common; and those on the west

side were to be served in the same way, allowing a twenty rod highway between them and the Long-lots, and a ten instead of an eight-rod highway between them and the building lots dividend. Sergeant Nathaniel Seeley, Cornelius Hull and John Wheeler, were appointed a committee to lay out these lots.

On the 28th of February the committee appointed to examine the lands at Compo neck made a report of "about 300 acres of good land, & 300 of worse land." It was immediately to be divided in two dividends, which were to run as follows:

" Ist At ye Island, ye Lots to begin there att ye South End, ye divisible land is 5 acres. 2nd ye pjne plane beginning at ye beach, yc first Lots to Run by ye beach and So onto ye high way y' runs to ye Island, and fronts upon an highway running along by yf pound.

3rd Tear fronting against yc Great high way y' runs from ye Sea-beach up to ye Rocks att ye little ponds, ye lots to run over ye hills to ye high way at ye hazekee meadow and over y» Swamp y' Runs to ye muddy Creek, and ye meer Swamp to be accounted measure, and also upon ye high way running from ye Swamp to Compo Creek's mouth : ye Lots to begin by yehigh way by yeSea, and So on northward till they come up to ye Rocks and ye great Swamp there is, an high way runs across two rods wide from ye great high way to Compo Creek's mouth under ye end of ye hill. 4th Tear to begin at ye North End of a piece of upland y' lies on ye north East Side of hazeky meadow, ye lots to run cross ye upland, to run westerly to ye mark'd trees, & So on over hazeky meadow, butting on ye rocks upon ye north west End & on ye north End, and So to run on ye point of Land near Dan'll Frost building lot, yc lots to run cross ye hill to ye marked trees ot" Each Side of ye bill. ye lots to begin att ye upper End of ye hill next Dan" Frost building lott, and So on untill they come to nn high way by a marsh, ye brow of ye hill of Rocks next ye creek is not to be valued in measure. Ye Second Dividend being ye Rock Dividend, is to lye on both Sides of ye high way y' Runs from ye point of rocks to Handford path, and So to ye Lots to run back from ye Said high way as ye tear hath already been Surveyed : y' is to be a good liigh way left to run from ye great high way to Saugatuck River, & to lye between M'. Wakeman's farm and ye Dividends. ye Comittee is to leave necessary high *Vote of Jan. 31, 1672. B, Town Votes, p. 46.

wayes for M? Wakeman to come to his meadow. ye first Lot to begin next ye high way y' Runs to Saugatuck River by W. Wakeman's farm, and So ye Lots to Run northward to ye end of ye tear, y', ye lots to Run on ye Tear on ye other side of ye great high way, beginning northward of ye Teer, and So to Run Southward to ye End of ye Teer. he that begins So Successively in ye first Dividend of y6 good Land, must also So begin in ye Second Dividend by ye high way by ?>Ir Wakeman's farm and So on northward as is above ordered."*

A dividend of these lands was made on the 28th of February, to the dividend holders, and recorded on the same day. An interesting record, called the pounder's oath, was made at this time, which shows that the young fruit trees were grown in fields, and held in common by the townsmen. It also shows the care exercised in the healthy growth of fruit trees, which had been brought from England, or raised from imported inoculation, grafts, pits and seeds.

At the meeting of the October Assembly, William Hill and John Banks were each granted one hundred and fifty acres of land for a farm.

In January, Richard Ogden was granted liberty to erect a new mill on Mill river, near the old mill site. Mill-hill was voted to remain a common forever. On the 3Ot4I of April, Jehu Burr, Sergeant John Banks, and Sergeant Nathaniel Seely, were appointed to examine the lands of Wyantenuck or New Milford, and to report to the town if it was a suitable place for a plantation.

At the May court of election Major Gold was elected an assistant of the General Assembly, John Burr and John Banks deputies, and Jehu Burr and William Hill commissioners for Fairfield. Jehu Burr with Captain William Curtis of Stratford, was appointed to lay out to Henry Wakeley, of Fairfield, eight acres of land granted him in 1669. A committee was also appointed to lay out the land granted William Hill, John Banks, and John Wheeler. John Banks was made one of a committee to examine the lands of Potatuck or Newtown, with a view of beginning a plantation there.

The Rev. Samuel Wakeman and Jehu Burr were each granted two hundred acres of land.*

Meanwhile the townsmen of Fairfield continued their work of attending to the necessary improvements of the town. On the 22d of October it was voted, that a fence should be built on the Sound from Mill river to Paul's neck. This fence was soon after erected, and inclosed the farmers' lands on the beach from McKcnzie's point, all the way around Pine creek and the great meadow before the town, to the hassocks on the east of Paul's neck. A highway lay between this fence and the beach, shaded on both sides by tall beech trees.*

Stringent laws were passed for a more effectual and speedy way to carry the overland mail from New York to Boston. Hartford had been made the central point for perfecting this project; and from the ist of January, 1673, a postman was dispatched on the first Monday of each month from New York to Boston, with letters and small packages free of postage. In order to prevent postmen from loitering at taverns, stated allowances were made for them and their horses from Rye to Springfield, by the Assembly.*

Vigorous measures were taken to make a strong resistance at Fairfield. At a town meeting held on the I5th of May, Richard Hubbell was authorized to furnish eight hundred weight of lead within three months, for the use of the magazine in the town.

John Banks was made one of a committee to settle the boundaries of Derby, Woodbury, Waterbury, Newtown and New Milford.

The village of Brookfield was burned on the 2d of August. In September, Hadley, Deerfield, and Northfield, on the Connecticut river, were attacked. Many of the inhabitants were killed, and valuable property burned or destroyed. On the I2th of September, Captain Beers was surprised near Northfield, and twenty of his men killed.

In 1679, previous to which time, everything connected with the settlement of Fairfield appears to have worn a most encouraging aspect, the town was visited by a most alarming epidemic. But little information is to be found about it, or what the character of the disease was, which made such ravages among the inhabitants. From a document to be found in the State House, at Hartford, the following account is given :

"Fairfield, 1679.—A sore sickness attended with an uncommon mortality in this town, though very healthy in the neighboring towns. There died about 70 persons within three months & there was hardly enough well persons to tend the sick & bury the dead."

At the October session of the General Assembly, John Banks was appointed one of a committee to settle the boundary line between Milford and Derby

1680—1690

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22. Answ. Very seldom other vessels than those from Boston or New York come to trade with us. The number of our vessels amount to 4 ships, & 24 pincks, ketches, & barks ; the combined weight of which amounts to about 1000 tons.

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23. Answ. The obstructions we find to trade & navigation, are, want of men of estates to venture ; of money at home for managing trade, & the high rates of labor.

24. Answ. If Hartford, New London, New Haven & Fairfield could be made free ports for 20 or I5 years, it would be the means of increasing navigation & the wealth & trade of the colony.

26. Answ. Our people are generally strict Congregationalists, others more liberal Congregationalists, & some moderate Presbyterians. There are also about 4 or 5 Seven- day men, & so many Quakers.

The towns on Long Island Sound had for some years past been much annoyed with pirates, who had been especially troublesome within the past year. Some of them were captured, but they caused considerable uneasiness, on account of their seizing vessels going out to sea, and preying upon the cattle and grain along the coast. A law was passed that all persons captured on board vessels of a suspicious character, should be sent to the common jail, and " two & two chained together, legs & hands, sent to the place from which they came."

The year 1685 was one particularly noticeable, as the Fairfield meeting-house was this year enriched with a bell, which no doubt was a source of great delight alike to the aged and to the youth of the town. Many of those who were born in England had not probably heard the sound of a church bell, since the old home bells of their native towns rung out their last farewell. They had passed through many hardships and many sorrows since those years of youth and buoyancy ; but in the mean time they had accomplished great things; and as the meeting-house bell, for the first time, peeled out its cheering sounds, many thoughts of the old home and of the new, must have passed in quick-succession through the avenues of busy memory. Among the town records is the following note :

* Pine-tree money was coined by John Hull of Boston, as early as May 27, 1652. The first coins were XIId, VId , and IIId. In 1662 a coin of IId-, was added. The pine-tree money formed a standard, by which circulation was made from time to time in New England. Ils exportation was forbidden under a penalty of forfeiting all visible estate. It was against the royal law to coin money in America ; and England had protested against the use of the pine-tree money.

"At a town meeting held April 28, 1685, it was voted, that the townsmen should settle Samuel Wilson's matter, about satisfying him for money the town borrowed of him to pay for the rneeting-house bell."

Until long after the Revolution it was the custom to ring this bell at twelve o'clock at noon, and at nine in the evening, at which time the law required all peace-abiding citizens to be at home.

On the nth of February, 1685-6, the plain southeast of Golden hill, called Wolves' Pit Plain, which appears to have been the low land near Greenlea, lying west of the Stratford line, was purchased of the Indians.* In April it was voted that as much of the plain should be sold at an. outcry by Sergeant George Squire at the next training day, as would pay for the purchase of the said neck of land. It appears that Samuel Hall, on the 25th of November, for a certain portion of land granted him by the town, lent the desired amount to pay for the plain.f

Major Gold petitioned the Assembly that a neck of land in the west part of Danbury, adjoining the land laid out to him at Umpewage, should be added to his former grant, which petition was granted, provided the land did not exceed five hundred acres. To this one hundred more acres were added a few days after. \ Simon Couch, of Bankside, petitioned that his right in the land of his father-in-law, Francis Andrews, at or near Bankside, be granted him, according to the agreement made at the time of union between Fairfield and the Bankside planters. The court granted his petition, and ordered that Mr. John Burr and the selectmen of the town should, forthwith set out to each planter of Bankside his proportion of land, by virtue of their agreement with the town of Fairfield in 1666. Among the town votes of January 9th, of this year, is the following : " For good considerations moving ym, y' town orders one acre & a half of land near y* east farms, for any of ye inhabitants to bury their dead in, as occasion shall be." John Burr, of Fairfield, and Lieutenant Mathcw Sherwood, of Pequonnock, were appointed to lay it out. This burial place, has ever since been known as the old Stratfield or Pequonnock grave yard. It is situated on the king's highway, but a short distance north of Mountain Grove cemetery, adjoining the military green of the early settlement.

Again the disputed boundary line between Norwalk and Fairfield was brought forward. The court decided that a white oak tree, east of the deceased Daniel Frost's house at Bankside, was the early west bounds of Fairfield, and that a just mile west of the said white oak tree should be their west or head line, to run up to the Stamford path, and then northward according to the former grant of the court : " & the town of Fairfield is to have all the lands southward of this line from Standford path east of Saugatuck river." Two hundred acres of land were granted to John Burr. * Lieutenants Samuel Morehouse and Nathaniel S?cly were appointed to lay out this grant ; and also one hundred acres to John Bell of Stamford, f In order to avoid having their timber lands impoverished by Andros, a law was passed, that no more timber should be sent out of the colony without a license from the towns in which it was cut, under a penalty of forfeiting said timber. The captains of the vessels were forbidden to receive it without a license, under a penalty of forty shillings for every breach of this law. Tanners were also forbidden to cut down trees for bark, without a license from the towns in which they lived, under a penalty of five shillings for every barked tree.

A petition was presented to the Assembly by Samuel Hayes of Nor- walk, in behalf of Thomas Fitch, Thomas Bennydick, and John and Jehu Burr, representing that as Pequiage contained twenty families, and others were expected soon to settle there, it should be constituted a town, and named Swamfield; but the court gave it the name of Danbury.*

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on the 6th of April the town ordered that Pauls neck, the reedy ponds and swamp lying west of it, and the Half Mile of common, lying between the Building Lots "so called, long since laid out;" and two miles and a half in length of the Mile of common, should be forthwith laid out to the lawful dividers. If any others were admitted to this dividend, one lot was to be drawn for all said divisions, to begin on each division until the whole was finished. Isaac Hall not having been allowed his claim in the previous dividends, the town readily granted him the same, and appointed a committee to lay out to him his just dividends. John and Jonathan More- house, John Whitlock, David Whitlock, James Newton, Henry Grey and Thomas Dickinson, were allowed an interest in these lands at the rate of twenty pounds estate.

Golden-hill having been claimed by the Stratford planters, who were over-eager to dispossess the Indians of this reservation, without adhering to the agreement made with Fairfield of May 19, 1659, application for redress was made at this time by the Indian owners to Governor Andros. Major Treat was appointed to look into the matter and report the true state of the claims of the English and Indians. On the 23d of May, he reported to Andros, that the Stratford men were not to claim any of the grant secured to the Golden-hill Indians, unless the said Indians vacated their reservation of their own free will; in which case, the Stratford planters were to own the said reservation, upon paying the sum of twenty pounds to the Fairfield planters, " partly in line of their first title, & partly estimated to Stratford, & the care Fairfield had taken, in looking after the said Indians."

There is little doubt that the Toleration Act was a source of great departure from the early church regulations in the New England towns, and the vigorous efforts which had been made within the past few years, to compel an enforcement of the colony laws in regard to the duties of the Lord's Day. Scarcely had the joy of escaping from the tyrannical reign of Andros been experienced, than the colonies found themselves at war with the French and Indians. The eastern towns of New England had been subject to frequent depredations by the Indians, while the French and northern Indians were menacing the Canadian frontiers. A special General Court was assembled at Hartford on the 29th of August; but there not being a sufficient number of the assistants present, it was resolved to call a second court on the 3d of September.* Major Gold alone represented Fairfield. A letter of August 3d from Governor Brad- street of Massachusetts, complaining of the depredations of the eastern Indians, was read before the Assembly. He also informed them of the escape of Governor Andros from the castle; and that he had issued orders for him to be searched for by water and land. Another letter of August 21st from Governor Bradstreet was read, renewing complaints of the incursions of the enemy on the frontier towns, murdering and taking captive the English and burning and destroying their houses ; and requesting that Captain Bull be sent from Connecticut to accompany their messengers to treat with the Maqueas or Mohawks.

1690-1700

Fifty years had now elapsed since the settlement of the town of Fair- field, and the fair fields which attracted Roger Ludlow and his little band of pioneers had become fairer still under the cultivation of the thrifty planters. The large tracts, from one end of the town to the other, even to the centre of Redding, had been staked off or fenced in to the dividend- holders. Prospered in an unusual degree, Fairfield had known nothing of the distresses and devastations of the northern and eastern towns of Connecticut. Rich in agriculture and in commerce, the growth of wheat, corn, oats and barley furnished supplies for other markets and enriched the planters. In point of political influence, no town in New England was of more importance, nor was there one that more readily responded to calls for military assistance from the eastern colonies, or from the province of New York. Fairfield's assistants, judges and ministers, might well be compared to the sturdy, rugged pines of the forest, standing out as sentinels, honored and revered by their contemporaries in America, and not less honored in England. Most of them were young men when they came to Fairfield, and had seen one after another of their early associates pass away. Though years advanced upon them, and their locks were white with the frosts of time, they still girded on their armor, ready to die in harness, whenever and wherever death should overtake them.

hrough instructions from Governor Andros in August, 1688, Major Gold had taken every precaution for the defense of Fairfield in case of an attack from foreign foes or hostile Indians. The town was now put under strict vigilance and military rule. All along the Sound, watch and ward was kept by day and by night. A special General Assembly was held at Hartford on the iith of April, when war was declared against the French and Indians of Canada. The governor, deputy-governor, and the assistants of the General Court were made a council of war. Two foot companies of English and Indians were ordered to be speedily raised and sent for the protection of Albany, one of which was to be from the Hartford and New London counties, under the command of Captain Joseph Fitch ; while the others, consisting of sixty English and forty Indians, from Fairfield and New Haven counties, were commanded by Captain Ebenezer Johnson of Stratford. A tax of four pence on the pound was levied to defray the expenses of the expedition. That there might be no failure in fitting out and maintaining the soldiers for the expedition, the Assembly recommended the select-men and assistants of each town to send the colony what provisions and grain should be necessary for the space of ten months. John Burr was appointed captain, Mathew Sherwood lieutenant, and Nathan Gold, jr., ensign of the Fairfield train band. Mathew Sherwood of Stratfield was commissioned captain of the dragoons of Fairfield county, James Judson lieutenant, and David Waterbury ensign.* The commissioned officers of each town were to list, and appoint every seventh man in each company to be a flying army of dragoons. All male persons upwards of sixteen years of age, except Indians and negroes, were ordered to serve on the town military watch. The watch of persons absent or at sea was to be supplied by their families; widows and men disabled by infirmities, owning estates of fifty pounds, were to supply a watch for their protection. Ministers, assistants, and commissioned officers were exempt from this obligation.

The fortifications of each town were ordered to be repaired and equipped without delay. There appears to be no document confirming the idea that Grover's hill was fortified at this time, but it undoubtedly was, and had been for a long time, as it commanded the harbor of Black

Rock and Fairfield. To prevent the seizure of grain by the French or pirates, it was ordered, " that no corn or provision of any kind should be shipped out of the ports of the colony for the space of three months, without special license from the governor or two assistants," under a penalty of confiscation. Major Gold and Captain John Burr were appointed to give special licenses for Fairfield county. A letter having been sent to the king by the governor and council in January, and fifty pounds having also been raised to send to their agent in England to be used in behalf of the interests of the colony, the Assembly agreed that it should be paid out of the public treasury.

The privileges granted by the Toleration Act (24th May, 1689) in England, " which relieved Protestant dissenters from the requirements of the Act of Uniformity (1662) & gave them liberty to worship with open doors, & also freed them from the penalties of a non-attendance at church " as before stated, had its influence in New England. In consequence of this the General Court, " finding to their sorrow, that instead of the reformation aimed at," vice and corruption increased more than ever; "& fearing if the Lord in his mercy & sovereign grace" did not prevent the growing evils, " they might at length prove an incorrigible people, & so a generation of his wrath without remedy, ripened for deserved desolation, ... so obvious to all by cruel war & sick

ness," resolved once more not only to recommend all the magistrates, select-men and commissioners of the several plantations in the colony, as well as the constables and grand juries, to carefully attend and carry out the orders and reformed laws passed in 1684, with "other good & wholesome laws, that so our government & rulers may be a terror to evil doers, as in our first times, that the Lord may yet take pleasure in us as a people." The court also further recommended the ministers in all the churches, " by their holy labors " to further to their utmost endeavor the great work of reformation. Thus the magistrates of Connecticut sought to cleanse Fairfield, as well as all the other towns in the colony, of every evil provoking to the wrath of the Most High. The Bible being their daily companion, and regarding themselves like the Israelites of old, a chosen people, led by the guiding hand of the Almighty into a wilderness, to establish a church and government upon the principles of truth and righteousness, they sought to govern the colony according to these principles, and to purify every individual family, from that of the richest planter to the humblest cottage of the poor man, even to the wigwam of the savage, from every social and moral vice. In the breast, however, of every son and daughter of America dwelt the one great principle of religious and political liberty, which, with the New England colonists, had been the watchword of every civil and ecclesiastical movement, since the dawn of the Reformation. At no previous time, since the Reformation had all classes, except the Romanists, enjoyed a greater degree of freedom in England than at the present. The dissenters, who had been compelled to worship with closed doors in the mother country, now not only assembled with open doors, but were protected from molestation. In Connecticut, however, none, as yet, were free to worship openly, save in the established church of the colony. Nor is this a matter of surprise, when it is considered that the aim of the early New England planters was to make this country a home for all who dissented from the Church of England and from the fiery rule of Catholicism. They had much yet to struggle through, and much to contend with.

At the General Court in May, a petition was presented by the inhabitants of Pequonnock, or the east farmers, " that they might have liberty to procure a minister among themselves, & be freed from paying the minister at Fairfield." * This petition was presented to the court by Lieutenant James Bennet, of Pequonnock, and signed with forty-six names, t Major Gold and John Wakeman objected, upon the ground that the Pequonnock planters had not first applied to the magistrates of Fair- field, and as Lieutenant Bennet did not make it appear that he had been empowered to petition in behalf of Fairfield, the court recommended, " the town of Fairfield & the people of Pequonnock to meet lovingly together about the matter," . . . and they would confirm or ratify what should be mutually agreed upon.

At a town meeting held on the 23d of March, Thomas Morehouse was given liberty to erect a mill at the foot of the creek, near the house of John Davis. Thomas Merwin was also granted a piece of land near the same place, to erect a tan vat. At the May election Major Gold and Major John Burr were elected assistants, Jehu Burr and Samuel Ward deputies, and Captain Jehu Burr commissioner for Fairfield. Jehu Burr was also appointed to administer the commissioner's oath to the newly elected commissioners of Stratford, Norwalk, Stamford and Greenwich. Owing to a great scarcity of salt and other importations during the late war, for the encouragement of salt-making, the Assembly offered to give an exclusive patent for ten years, to any person familiar with the art, and possessing a sufficient estate, for establishing salt works. Small quantities made in families for private use, were exempt from this law. A long dispute between Dr. Isaac Hall and his brother Samuel, was at this time brought before the Assembly. The complaint of Samuel Hall was to the effect that his brother, Dr. Isaac, had seized certain lands belonging to him, and had not only used high language, " but many violences & threat- enings," and also resisted ail means used in the common law for his protection. The Assembly ordered a summons to be issued and served upon Dr. Isaac Hall, for his appearance before the next court of assistants. Considerable delay having been experienced in cases of appeal from the county courts to the court of assistants held after the General Court in May, it was voted that the court of assistants should be held the Monday before the General Court of election, " whereby all appellants from the court of assistants might be more speedily issued." No change was made in the October term.

During the meeting of the Assembly in May, Captain Jehu Burr presented a petition for increasing the number of free grammar or Latin schools in the colony, by granting one in each of Fairfield and New London counties ; but the court, after twice hearing the bill read, decided that they saw no reason to make any alteration in the law passed for two free schools in the colony. At the same time the Pequonnock planters resolutely pushed their efforts to establish a church and school within their limits. From the following town record, it does not appear that they carried out the advice of the General Court in " discoursing lovingly together" :

" April 27. 1691, We the inhabitants of Pequonnock being warned to a town meeting held in Fairfield, & notwithstanding that one end for which it was warned is to hire a school-master in the town of Fairfield, we the inhabitants of Pequonnock, at a general meeting thereof, have thought & met to declare our own protest against a dislike of such a thing, & that for many reasons inducing thereto, & instead of many that might be mentioned, let these two satisfy, because the law hath enjoined to half a year only, & as to a grammar school totally freed us ; we moreover have already hired a school-master among ourselves for the instruction of children, wi1ich are not able to come to any school that is served in Fairfield. Wherefore the inhabitants of Pequonnock do desire that this our protest may be entered & recorded, that this is our protest against hav1ng a school in the town of Fairfield, we do set our hands, Signed. May 6. 1691 ; Mathew Sherwood jr,

*Trumbull's Hist. Conn., I., 407.

Samuel Gregory, Joseph Seely, Richard Hubbell sr, Moses Jackson sen, John Odell jr, Timothy Wheeler, Ephraim Wheeler, Samuel Hall, Samuel Treadwell, Nathaniel Sherwood sen, James Bennit sen, Richard Hubbell jr, James Bennit jr, Thomas Morehouse sen."

The Rev. Charles Chauncey, son of the Rev. Israel Chauncey, of Stratford, and grandson of President Charles Chauncey, of Harvard College, preached to the people of Pequonnock, cither in the school-house or in the dwellings of the planters, from about the year 1688, when not engaged as a chaplain and surgeon in the expeditions sent out against the French and Indians. He became very popular among them, and they invited him at this time to take upon him the office of a permanent pastor. Without delay they proceeded to erect a small church. The spot selected was, according to the custom of those days, on one of the most prominent hills in the village, which commanded a fine view of the surrounding country and Long Island Sound, and was situated on Division street, a short distance south of the king's highway, still known as Meeting-House hill. The members of this first church of Stratfield were as follows:

"The names of those who have renewed the Covenant, & personally subjected themselves to the government of Christ in His church, & particularly in this Church ; together with ye time of yr doing it."

Edward & Mary Treadwell 23. Dec. 1695. Mary Bennet ye wife of James Bennet ye shipwright 10. May 1696. ] Sarah wife of Ephraim Wheeler 3i. Jan. 1696. Samuel Wells. Benjamin Fairweather. Mathew Sherwood jr. Daniel Beardsly. Elijah Crane. Nathaniel Porter. William Beardsly. Samuel Smedly. Samuel Summers. John Beardsly. John Tredwell. Samuel Wheeler. Samuel Odell. Ebenezer Beardsly. Benjamin Beardsly. Samuel Gregory. Joseph Bennet. Nathaniel Knap. Jonathan Wakely. Mary Sherwood to 8. Feb. 1697. Rebecca Sealey, John's wife. Mary Odell. Sarah Hubbell. Joanna Walker. Abigail French. Elizabeth Jackson. Rebecca Beardsly. Hannah Odell d. of John Sr., wife of Nathaniel Seely, & 1706 of Isaac Sterling. Abigail Summers. Mary Beardsly. Ruth Treadwell. Abigail Gregory. Ruth Wheeler. Ruth Wakely. Samuel & Martha Tredwell 1698. Isaac Bennet & wife. John & Deborah Burr 1700.

Communicants.

The names of such as have been received to full communion in this church who were not before in full communion elsewhere.

Joseph & Sarah Seely 8. Dec. 1695. Hannah Sherman & Susanna Hall 5. Jan. 1695-o. Edward Preston 29. March 1696. Abel & Elizabeth Bingham 10. May 1696. Joanna Sherwood 2I. Sept. 1696. Rebecca Wheeler 25. Oct. 1696. Sarah Chauncey 20. Dec. 1696. James & Sarah Bennet 7. Nov. 1697. Samuel French 8. March 1697-'. John Odell Senr & Samuel Tredwell sr. 20 Feb. \6yj-'. Mary Odell jr. 29. May 1698. Rebecca Wheeler & Isaac Wilson 28. Aug. 1699. Abigail French 22. April 1699. Mary Crane 22. Oct. 1699. Jane Hall 7. April 1700.

The names of those that were afterwards received by letters dismissary or recommendatory from other churches were as follows. From Fairfiekl :

Mary Sherwood. Ann Wheeler. Mary Odell. Rebecca Gregory. Ruth Tredwell. Mercy Wheeler. Abigail Wells. Elizabeth Sherwood. Sarah Odell. Their letter was accepted & accepted Anno. 1695. From Stratford : Abigail wife of Richard Hubbell senr. Mary wife of James Ilubhell. Abigail Beardsley wife of Samuel. Abigail Wakely dau. of Henry, married Paul Gregory Jun' [ Temperance wife of Richard Hubbell jr. Their letter read & accepted 10. July 1693. Concord—Joseph Wheeler 20. Dec. 1697 & accepted 20. Dec 1697. accepted 20. Dec. 1697.

Mary Jackson of Norwalk, her letter read 2O. Dec. 1697, &
Concord — Stratford-Hannah Fairchild 10. Sept. 1699. read &

accepted 10 Sept 1699. ! Thomas Hawley, his letter read & accepted. | Mary wife of John Beardsly of Fairfield, her letter read & accepted 26. July 1702. Woodbury—Abigail Tredwell of Woodbury accepted 24. Nov. 1704. | Concord—Sarah Whitacus 17. June 1705. Charleston—Zacheriah Ferris 9. Sept. 1705. Stratfield Parish Records.

Nathan Gold, Captain John Burr, and John Thompson, were appointed " in the name & behalf of the town to give Mr. Webb a call. Jonathan Morehouse & Samuel Squire were chosen to remove Mr. Webb with his family & goods to Fairfield at the town's cost." Under this last record is the following entry: " It is to be remembered that Mr. Webb & his family came to Fairfield, on a Thursday, at night, being the 13. of October 1692."* From the particular attention paid to Mr. Webb's views on baptism, and from his church record, it is evident that a majority of the townsmen favored what was called the half-way covenant, which for many years was sanctioned by the ministers of Fairfield. By this provision the children of non-communicants who accepted the church covenant before the congregation, were baptized.

The Indian land at Rocky neck in Sasco field at the mouth of Mill river, was also to be bounded out to the Indians. The point or neck of land on the west side of Mill river, in the Sasco field, which had been reserved by the town for a ship-yard, and called Joseph Palmer's neck, was ordered to be bounded out.* Every person owning fence in the common line of fence in the common field, was ordered within ten days to set a stake at each end of his fence in the line, with the initial letters of his name distinctly marked upon them. The highways, on the west side of Mill river were to be laid open, and made free for grazing the cattle of the town for six months. John Beardsley of Stratford, was invited to set up the trade of a smith at Fairfield.

Fairfield was never more astir than at this time. This new infringement of their chartered liberties was discussed at every fireside ; Major Gold, now well advanced in years, with Major Burr and the deputies of their town, had already expressed their approval of the message sent to Governor Phipps, and calmly awaited further developments. A second cause of excitement prevailed to an alarming extent. Witches, after a lapse of forty years, had again embodied themselves in some of the women of the town. Mercy Disborow of Compo, Goody Miller, goodwife Elizabeth Clawson, and Mrs. Staples, had been indicted for familiarity with Satan. So great was the mass of evidence against them, and the number of witnesses so large, that at the special session of the General Court, the governor, deputy-governor, and assistants, numbering seven at least, were granted a term of oyer and terminer, at Fairfield on the second Wednesday in December. The coming of the governor and so many of the assistants, added to the prestige of the case, and probably the women, save Mrs. Staples, had never figured more conspicuously before the public. Mrs. Staples after a lapse of more than forty years since her first trial, was again accused of being a witch, but once more proved too clever, even for the governor and his seven judges.

* This neck is probably the point which lies opposite the breakwater at Southport.—B, Town Votes, p. 97.

The supposed witches were tried before the governor and the assistants and judges of the General Court, but the jury failed to agree in rendering a verdict. An account of what had been done was related by Governor Treat before the General Court in October, when it was decided that a new trial should take place at Fairfield as soon as possible, so that a verdict might be obtained, upon which the court should render a final issue. John Wakeman and Nathaniel Burr acted as deputies at the fall session of the Assembly. Major Gold was granted fifteen pounds for his services to the colony during the year. On the igth of September a special court of oyer and terminer was again held at Fairfield to try the women accused of witchcraft. Governor Treat, Deputy-Governor William Jones, Secretary John Allin, Assistants Andrew Leete of New Haven, John Burr of Fairfield, William Pitkin of Hartford and Moses Mansfield of New Haven. occupied the bench.

The grand jurors impaneled were Joseph Bayard, Samuel Ward, Edward Hay ward, Peter Ferris, Jonas Waterbury, John Bowers, Samuel Sherman, Samuel Gilpin, Ebenezer Booth, John Platt, Christopher Corn- stock, and William Reed. The petit jury were James Beers, Isaac Wheeler, John Osborn, John Miles, Ambrose Thompson, John Hubby, John Bowton, Samuel Hayes, Eleazer Slawson, John Belding, John Wakeman, and Joseph Rowland. Mercy Disborow, Goody Miller, Elizabeth Slawson, and Mrs. Staples, were arraigned before this august body of magistrates and sworn jurors. The charges made a-gainst them were, as in all of the witch cases, of the most absurd character. The testimony given in was " very voluminous." About two hundred depositions were taken. The women were pronounced to be guilty of witchcraft; but that none of them might suffer innocently, it was decided to try a plan, which had been adopted at Hartford, of throwing them into a river or pond, under the superstition that if they sank under the water they were innocent of the charge brought against them ; but if they floated, they were veritable witches, fit only for condemnation and death. »

Whether this test was performed at Hyde's pond, or at Edward's pond on the meeting house green, is not stated ; but " four witnesses swore, that Mercy Disborow, being bound hand & foot & put into the water, swam like a cork, though one labored to press her down." Elizabeth Clawson also floated.

The court again assembled at Fairfield on the 28th of October, when fresh testimony was taken. Elizabeth Clawson, Goody Miller, and Mrs. Staples were acquitted ; but Mercy Disborow was found guilty. The jury were sent out a second time to reconsider their verdict; but they returned to the court room, and the foreman stated " that they saw no reason to alter it, but found her guilty as before. The court approved of their verdict, & the governor passed upon her the sentence of death." Her sentence, however, was not satisfactory to a majority of the people in the town. Their zeal for hanging witches appears to have been satisfied, when the simple-minded woman, Goodwife Knapp, ended her life on the scaffold to satiate the ignorance and fanatical bigotry of her neighbors, in which then, as in the present instance, the leading and most learned and pious magistrates of the colony concurred. To the credit of the more enlightened townsmen of Fairfield, however, a petition, exhibiting considerable intelligence, was presented to the General Assembly in her behalf, setting forth weighty reasons why she should be pardoned.* The petition appears to have been granted, as she was living in 1707, in which year her husband's will was probated, and she is mentioned as the widow of Thomas Disborow.f In the summer of this year Fairfield lost another of her most distinguished public men, in the death of Captain Jehu Burr. The pages of this history give many proofs of his great usefulness in the town, in the General Courts, and particularly in King Philip's war, during which time he was made a commissioner, and invested with great power. The renown of his family had increased in luster almost from the time of the landing of his father, Jehu Burr, at Boston.

* An account of this case of witcheraft was published in the Connecticut Mirror, The New York Commercial Advertiser for July I4th and 15th, and re-printed in the New York Spectator July iSth, and in the Times and Weekly Advertiser, of Hartford, Aug. 8th, 1820, by the late William L. Stone, of Hartford, then editor of the Connelticut Mirror.—Col. Rec. of Conn., IV., 76, 77-

f Mercy Disborow appears to have been a daughter of the widow of the Rev. John Jones, by a former marriage. In a sale of land made by Thomas Disborow of Compo, about 1688, the consent of his mother-in-law, Susannah Jones, and that of his wife. Mercy Disborow, was obtained. Letter A, Town Deeds, p. 622. Susannah Jones sold out her right in her husband's parsonage at Fairfield to Thomas Bennet, soon after Mr. Jones' death, and moved to Compo.

Captain John Burr was appointed sergeant-major of Fairfield county. This additional honor to those he had already acquired, was paid him but a few days before his death, which occurred on the 16th of the month, while still in the prime of his life and usefulness. The valuable services rendered to the town, and colony and to the country in Philip's and the French and Indian wars, by Major Burr, have been so thoroughly interwoven in the pages of this work, that a greater eulogy of him as a statesman, judge and soldier, need not be offered here. His death, with that of his brother, Jehu Burr, in 1692, of the Rev. Samuel Wakeman, the same year, and that of Major Gold in March of this year, deprived Fair- field of four of her ablest and most honored citizens.

p283 - more about new reverends and baptisms

The first extant parish records, which commenced with the Rev. Joseph Webb's ministry, this year, explain the views of the Fairfield people as to baptism, and their desire to become acquainted with the opinion he entertained upon the subject. Mr. Trumbull states " that notwithstanding the result of the synod of 1662, & the various attempts which had been made to introduce the practice of what was termed " Owning the covenant," it was not generally observed until 1696. In Fairfield, however, it was used by Mr. Webb immediately after entering upon the care of the parish. A Renewal of the Covenant, is found in the early pages of Mr. Webb's record, by which "the children of parents who did not enter into full communion " were baptized. The birth and marriage records, however, were still kept by the town recorder. This Renewal of the Covenant was not always the same in power; but the synod allowed the churches to adapt their form of covenant to the special circumstances of each church." * The covenant used by Mr. Webb was probably the same as the one found in the Green's farms and Greenfield parish records, which is as follows:

1692

"The practice of owning the Covenant by people," says Mr. Trumbull, " & offering their children in baptism, was in time gradually introduced into most of the churches in the colony. It became a custom for the ministers & deacons to pay annual visits to every family in the town, & to warn all young people before marriage, to publicly subscribe or own the covenant; " but this was more generally done after they became parents, and wished to have baptism administered to their children, " though they made no profession of religion, & neglected the Lord's supper & other duties, peculiar to members in full communion ; " and this was called the halfway covenant.

As a part of the village was composed of the planters living on the east side of the division line between Pequonnock and Stratford, it was for many years called the east parish, and the Fairfield side the west parish. According to the wishes of the parish the Rev. Charles Chauncey now became the first regularly sanctioned pastor of Fairfield village. At the October Assembly, for the satisfaction of such as were conscientiously desirous of being married by their minister, liberty was granted to ordained ministers of the several plantations in the colony, "to join in marriage such persons as were qualified for the same, according to law."

Piracy, which had existed for many years, had increased to an alarming extent, so that it became as necessary for vessels to carry guns and ammunition, as it was to supply the forts and principal ports with means of defense. Privateers, with and without licenses, roved the seas, and preyed upon the commerce of all nations, not even that of England excepted ; in fact, privateers sent out under commissions from the king of England to intercept the commerce of France, turned pirates, seized, plundered, and sunk every vessel that crossed their track. It was not until commerce was almost destroyed, that the lords of trade and navigation awoke to the perils of the situation. Even private citizens, and men of wealth, both in England and America, were accused of complicity with the pirates which infested the Indian Ocean, in accumulating property in this atrocious manner. Gold coin, luxuriant silks, satins, and velvets, with other elegancies, were freely brought into this country. Men hitherto in moderate circumstances, erected fine mansions, and in consequence, became the subjects of envy and suspicion.

Captain Kidd is described as having been an intelligent, cultivated man of pleasing address, and up to the time of engaging in this expedition, regarded as thoroughly trustworthy. He had married in 1691 Sarah Oort, the beautiful and cultivated young widow of a fellow officer. At the time of his sailing for the eastern ocean, he was living in comfortable circumstances with his wife and a lovely little daughter in Liberty street, New York. When it was discovered a few years later that Kidd had turned pirate and was sailing under the black flag, every one connected with the undertaking, not even the king of England excepted, was charged with complicity in his piratical deeds for their private enrichment; and every valuable jewel or ornament worn, was supposed to be connected with some frightful story of wretched captives and horrible deaths. The wildest stories of his daring deeds and of his acts of cruelty to men and to the women whom he captured, in putting them to death, or obliging them to walk a plank into the sea, that their end might never be known, was the theme of public and private gatherings, until his name became a terror alike to people on land and on the seas. He was finally taken captive at Boston by an order from Lord Bellomont, the governor of New York, and sent to England for trial. He was there condemned and executed on the I2th of May, 1701. Songs were sung on board ship and in taverns of his deeds of courage and cruelty, and of his vast accumulations of gold and precious stones, which, it was believed, he had buried in chests on the shores and islands of the ocean, Long Island and Connecticut.

A tradition exists that one of Kidd's rendezvous in the summer was a point on Sherwood's Island at Green's farms, and there is some ground for this tradition, from the fact that the little island lying west of it has been made a resort from time to time of many persons, who believed that he had buried a large amount of gold there. The island bears traces here and there of deep holes, which have been dug with the hope of finding some one of his numerous chests of gold.* At Black Rock repeated searches have been made for Kidd's treasures, and also at Berkshire, a hamlet about two miles north of Bridgeport, f

* Stratford Point has also been made a frequent place of resort, especially at night, for the same purpose.

f In 1884 a gang of Italians, while excavating for the Olmstead parallel railroad near the head of the Pequonnock river, where there was once a famous shipyard, in picking between the rocks, found a powder horn tipped with silver and covered with hieroglyphies, containing some old English coins, a Spanish doubloon, and an old parchment. The Berkshire people believed that the Italians found a large amount of gold, which Kidd had buried.—Author.

The winter of 1697-8 had been one of unusual length and severity. The summer had been cool and cloudy, and not a month without frosts. In Februaiy and March heavy snows fell, covering the roads and fences "high & hard." There was a loud cry for bread, and cattle famished and died in the yards from want. A distressing fever prevailed, preceded by an influenza, which proved very fatal. Those in health found it difficult to obtain fuel, to care for the sick, and to bury their dead.f Fairfield suffered severely from this epidemic. % The governor and council met at Hartford on the I2th of March, and appointed the fourth Wednesday in the month to be observed as a day of fasting and prayer throughout the colony, to implore the mercy of God in abating the sufferings which had fallen upon man and beast.

On the 16. of April 1636 Ludlow and a company, comprising the larger part of the Dorchester church, set out for the Connecticut. " Their pastor Mr. Warehain some state accompanied them, while others say he followed soon after." By this movement Dorchester " was deprived of nearly one half of its population, including the ministers, Messrs. Wareham & Maverick, & a large part of the intelligence & wealth which accompanied the first comers." During the same year Agawam or Springfield was settled by Mr. Pinchion, John & Jehu Burr, Henry Smyth, & others from Roxbury. In June the Rev. Mr. Hooker with about one hundred men, women & children from Cambridge, settled Suckiage or Hartford. The settlement of Weathersfield, already begun the previous year, was increased by the arrival of a few others.

Ludlow with the other leading spirits of the emigration, no doubt felt more at ease to be thus far removed from the Bay colony, whose warlike preparations towards the Mother-country had already assumed a serious aspect. The murmur of the waters of the Connecticut & of the distant falls, was far more soothing to his wounded spirit, than the boom of his Majestie's cannon balls approaching Castle Island. Perhaps too, at that time he felt that he could far better serve his king and his countrymen in the wilderness of Connecticut, than the freemen of Massachusetts, who had so ungratefully rewarded his services. It was certainly a novel position for a man of spirit to erect a fort for the protection of a body of freemen, who did not hesitate to depose him from the high offices he had held. He had, however, been learning the lesson of political experience ; & the very discipline which had angered & humiliated him, served to enlarge his views, & to prepare him for a more liberal & enlightened mode of building up a republican form of government. From this time he became the leader of Connecticut jurisprudence. His name heads the list of the first nine Courts held in the colony, & he was to all intents & purposes its first governor. On the 26. of April, 1636, Ludlow & four of his associates met at Newtown or Hartford, to open the first Court held in Connecticut. The following names are given as they occur in the Colonial Records :

Roger Ludlow Esqr. Mr. Westwood.

Mr. Steel. Mr. Warde.*

Mr. Phelps.

Mr. Pinchion, Mr. Swaine & Mr. Smyth, the three others appointed to assist in governing the colony, were not present.

Ludlowe home " In his unpretentious home, situated on the corner of Ludlow and Windsor streets,* he compiled a code of laws, which many years afterwards, was destined to rank him among the leading statesmen of the age in which he lived. At the present date, 1888, the property of O. B. Jennings.

PPENDIX No. Ill " A list of ye names of ye freemen of towne of Fairefield. Oct. 1669.

Jno: Odell.
James Bennett.
Math: Sherwood.
Richd. Hubball.
Jno. Wheeler.
Ezekiell Sanford.
Tho: Morchouse.
Sam" Morchouse.
Nat" Seely.
Robt Turney.
Tho: Benneu

Tho: Jones.
Mr. Nathan Gold.
Mr. Willm Hill.
Willm Ward.
Nat" Burr.
John Buckley.
Mr. Jehu Burr.
John Banks.
John Palmer.
Cornelius Hull.
Ino. Burr.

oshua Knowles.

ohn Cable Senr.

iumphry Hide. Ino. Hide. Peter Coley.

no Knowles.

no Sturge.

)an" Lockwood.

no Cable junr.
r. Dan" Burr.
Ogden.

Dan" Frost.
Joseph Lockwood.
John Green senr.
Simon Crouch.
Sam" Ward.
John Barlow.
Robert Beacham.
Mr. Wakeman.
Henry Jackson.
Henry Rowland.
Thomas Staples.

Oct. 10, 1669

John Sturgis, select man.

Peter Clapham, select man.

John Knowles, select man.

Will'am Ward, Nathaniell Burr, Constables."

Col. Rec. Conn. II. 521.

NO. IV

A list of y lots drawn for Sasqua Land in yc New field Feb. 8. 1668/6,.

Jno. Odell 66

Is: Wheel' 54

Ja:Bennet 47

Math : Sherwood 62

Rid.Hubbell 16

jno. Wheel' 67

Rogr. Knapp 57

Robt. Tumy 17

Thos. Benet 36

la: Beers 05

Jos: Middlcbk 32

Thos. Jones 31

Thos. Wilson 06

Willm. Hill 53

Francis Bradley 50

Thos. Sherwood 48

Mrs Jones 08

'a: Gray 21

ehu Burr 33

no. Hanks 68

>bd. Gilbert 02

Stepn. Hedge 25

Cor:Hull 69

Jno. Burr 65

Hen; Rowland 35

Benjn Turny 40

Jno. Cable sr 28

Richd. Osburn 14

Hump: Hide...

Petr. Coly

Jno. Hide

Pr. Clapham..,
Jno. Knowles

SIr. Gold

Willm. Ward..

Mr Pell

Nath". Burr...

Andrew
&

Samll

Ward.

Dan" Lockwood.

W. Wilson

Bulkly

Jos. Jennings

Thos. Staples

Rich. Lyon

Thos. Grumon—
Robt. Meacar....
Jno. Tompkins ..

Thos. Lyon

Jno. Sturgis

Jno. Cable jr

S. Drake

G. Smith

Jno. Barlow sr—
Jno. Barlow jr....
Samll. Smith... .

34 '5

37 55 5'

{osiah Knowles 23

. Sherwington 03

* Col. Rec. New Haven, II. 77-89 & 1aa.

Robt. Rumsie 24

Richd. Ogden 10

DanN Frost 01

Robt Beachem 07

Couch & Andrus aa

Jno. Green 64

Jos : Lockwood 59

P. Norton 39

Mr. Wakeman 60

Samil Wilson 09

Danll Burr 27

Samll Tredwell 04

NO. V

B. Town Votes p. 15.

Names of persons who shared'in the second division of the Sasqua Lands Jan 30. 1668/69.

Jno. Odell 35 J. Green sr 57

Isaac Wheel' 36 Jos. Lockwood 15

Tas. Bennet 69 P. Norton 13

Math. Sherwood 64 Thos. Bennet 26

Ricd. Hubbil 23 Ja: Beers 1a

Jno. Wheelr 16 Jos: Middlebrook 20

Rog: Knap 4 Thos. Jones 67

Rob: Turny 19 Thos. Wilson 11

Mr. Pell 08 Willm. Hill 34

Nathll Burr 45 Mr. Gold ai

And. Ward 18 Mr. Ward... 24

Dann Lockwood 56 B. Turny 30

W.Wilson 51 Jno.CableS' 61

Sam" Tredwell 50 Mr. Wakeman 50

Jno Buckley 48 Sarah Wilson 130

Jos: Jennings 02 Richd. Osburn 31

Thos. Staples 14 Josha. Knowles 28

Ric: Lyon 09 Thos. Shervington 44

Jno. Grumon 03 Hump. Hide 05

Rob: Meacar o1 Peter Coly 06

J. Tompkins 49 Jno. Hide 07

Francis Bradley 58 Peter Clapham 62

Thos. Sherwood 46 To. Knowles 66

Mrs. Jones 22 Thos Lyon 33

Ja. Gray 52 Jno. Sturgia 38

Jehu Burr 59 Jno. Cable jr 60

J. Banks 43 Samll. Drake 17

O. Gilbert 54 G. Smith 27

S. Hedge. 25 J: Barlow s' 1o

C. Hull 47 J: Barlow jr. 42

Jno. Burr f 35 Samll Smith 63

H. Rowland 53 Rob. Rumsie 40

R : Beachamp 41 R: Ogden 39

Jno. Andrews 29 D : Frost 37

B. Town Votes p. 3I.

No. VI

The names of those yt. Removed ye building Lots att ye Rear of ye Lots, into ye half- mile Comon, according to ye order ye last meeting. Jan. 17. 1671/2

Michael Try
Ezek. Sandford
Rog: Knap
Dan". Silleiman
Thos. Skidmore
Tos: Jennings
Rich; Osborn
Ja: Beers
Rich: Lyons
Jno. Aplcgate
Jno. Cable jr.

Feb. 28. 1671 '7a

Serg t. Sely
old Odell
Sam11. Morehous<
Ens: Turny
Ste: Hedge
Hen: Rowland
Jn". Grummon.
Robt. Meacar
Jos: Wakeman
Ino. Burr
Jno. Cable sr

Peter Coly
Inn. Barlow jr
Jos Patchin
Tho: Shervington
Hen: Jackson
Hump: Hide
Samll. Drake
N. Perry
S. Smith
Jnn. Sturgis
Sarah Wilson

NO. VII
List for Compo Dividend.

Benjn. Turny
Mr. Harvy
Thos. Staples
Cor: Hull
Jos. Knowles
Jn». Hide
Jno. Barlow sr
T. Lyon
El. Smith
Jno. Knowles
Ed: Adams

B. Town Votes p. 44.

Feb. 28. 1671/2

W.Wheeier 83 Is. Wheeler ..

F. Hall's farm a Tas. Bennet...

Jos. Whelpley 58 M.Sherwood.

Jno. Odell 60

Samuel Treadwell 6

101

R. Hubbell '.'.'.'.'.'..'.'.'.'.".'.'.'.'.I'.!'.'.'.I'."'." 5?

H.Jackson 20 W. Fry 95 F.Bradley 45

E. Sandford 10 T.Sherwood 78

T. Morehouse ; 42 H. Hide 56

D. Silliman.... ioj Jno. Hide 65

T.Oliver 61 P. Coley '. 72

Sergt.Sely 31 P. Clapham 67

O. Odell 44 Jno. Knowles 64

Sam. Morehouse 85 Jno. Sturges 92

T. Turnie 74 Jno. Cable Junr 07

T. Bennet 98 Danll. Lockwood 73

Jn'. Thompson 23 Ja. Beers 08

Geo. Squire 36 Sam. Smith ... 04

Jo. Middlebrook 8a Jno. Barlow Snr 51

T.Jones 13 Jno. Barlow Jnr 49

W. Hill 89 S. Smith 04

Mr. Gold 34 T. Shervington 21

Sarah Wilson 57 R. Rumsie 84

Benj. Turney 33 Jno. Tompkins 10

N. Burr 87 S. Ward 03

W. Ward 16 Josh. Lockwood 69

Dni. Burr 24 Sm". Couch 47

Mos. Dimon 14 D.Frost 100

T.Wilson 20 Jno. Andrews 43

H. Sherwood 48 Jno. Green 53

Mr. Harvey 22 R. Beacham 59

W. Wilson 77 Jno. Wheeler 54

Jno. Bulkiey 63 Hendrick 70

T. Staples 37 R. Lyon 39

Ed. Adams 75 Mr. Wakeman 17

Jno. Grumon 86 G. Squire Jnr 38

R. Meacre 71 Parsonage 25

las. Gray 05 School 28

Mr. Jehu Burr 32 Samuel Drake 79

Mr. Jones 81 D. Finch 01

John Banks 62 Th'. Sherwood 99

Jos. Wakeman 46 Sam". Goodwin 30

T. Skidmore 55 P. Barlow 66

S. Hedge 29 N. Perry 35

Cor. Huil 91 Mr. Thomas Pell 12

Jno Burr 03 Ino. Applegate 90

O.Gilbert 09 Jno. Bennet 42

Jo. Jennings 96 T. Lyon 15

Hen. Rowland 80 R. Ogden 52

Jos Knowles 18 Patcbin 76

Ino. Cable Sr 94 Jno. Smith : 27

R. Osbom 40

No. X

A List of ye Inhabitants proportions of Lands in -f Cofflons granted to ye Inhabitants in ye year 167071 & is now Recorded December 168I.*

Estates Acres

234: 10 Widow Wheeler 706

217 : 14 Goodman Hall's farm 707

81 — Jos : Whelpley 263

14^ : 16 Jno. Odell 467

:o6 : 2 Samll Treadwell 245

195: 6 Isaac Wheeler 635

143 : — James Bennet 465

157: 14 Math : Sherwood 412

298: 16 Rich. Hubell 971

291: 4 H;nry Jackson 946

198 :18 Michael Fry 647

131 : 12 Ezek : Sanford 428

180: — Roper Knap 486

n6:16Thos. Morenouse 412

103 : — Danll Silleman 270

93: 4 Thos. Oliver 303

262: 4 Nathll Sely Senr 852

1n: 8 Willm Odell Senr 362

251: 4 Samll. Morehouse 816

187 : 4 Ensigne Robt. Turny 608

141 : 4 Thos. Bennet 459

62 : 12 Jno Tomson 203

263 : — Sergt George Squire 855

233:— Jos : Middlebrook Senr 757

243: 4 Cor. Hull 792

265: 14 Mr. Jno Burr., 863

285: 12 Obedh Gilbert '. 603

254 : — Joshua Jennings 825

aoo:— Henry Rowland 943

as Knowles . 582

no Cable Senr 449

Jich. Osburn 825

196 : 18 Frances Bradley 631

210:— Thos Sherwood 68a

175 : 4 Hum : Hide 569

125: 4 Jno Hide 308

183 : 18 Peter Colee 387

18j : o Peter Clapham 604

173; 4 Jos. Kno\yles 553

238: — Jno Sturgis 774

1 ^4 : — Tno Cable Junr 501

147: Id Danll Lockwood 479

194 : 10 James Beers 045

80: — Samll Drake 260

40: — Jno. Applcgate 132

138 :12 Samll Smith 450

120: 10 John Barlow Senr 391

122 : 12 John Barlow Junr 398

91: 10 Eleazer Smith 298

141: — Robt. Rumsie 458

171: 16 JnoTomkins 233

Estates

139:10
229: 8
87: 17

460: 4
172:-
80; 4
192 : :6
198: 2
98: 12
90: —
15 " 10

137: —

M3 :

Acres

Samll Ward 45*

Richd. Ogden 745

Thos Jones 286

Willm Hill 694

Major Nathan Gold 1500

Sarah Wilson 506

Benjan Turny 280

Nathll Burr 6a6

Willm Ward 644

Danll Burr 321

Moses Dimon..: 29B

Thos Wilson 375

Stephen Sherwood 445

Mr. Harvey 466

47' 7

77: 6 347' — 220 : 4 190: 16 119:-

56: 14 113: 14 250: — 244 : 12

88: 4- 133 : 8

93: 16
Ibij 4

239: 10
207 :

irvey...
Bulkle

Widow Bulkley 477

Tno Bulkty 249

Thos. Staples 1128

Edward Adams 715

Jno Grumon . 620

Robt Mecar 387

Mrs. Jones 184

Jacob Gray 370

Mr. Jehu Burr 812

Jno. Banks 705

Ezburn Wakeman 287

Thorns. Skidmore 433

Stephen Hedge 305

Jos. Lockwood 681

Danll Frost 779

Ino Green.

179: 10 Robert Beachem 584

308: 18 Jno Wheeler 1004

060:— Henrick 203

247: — Richd I-yon 800

2o5 : 5 Mr. Wakeman 641

40: 10 George Squire 132

200 : — Parsonage 650

100: — School 325

79: — Nathll Finch 237

3° : — Isaac Sherwood 097

134 : — Phebe & Deborah Barlow 434

58 : — Nathll Perry .101

90:- Mr. Pell.,

: - J"
:- T:

£1=

37 : —

2O2

no Bennet 254

Thos Lyon 254

Jno Smith 251

Thos Shervington 305

Simon Couch 578

Jno. Andrews r96

Patchin 195

Samll Goodwin 121

B. Fairfield Town Votes, p. 66.

* The order of names in this list is, perhaps, more correct than in any other of the lists of dividend holders in the various divisions of lands. From the Widow Wheeler's long lot at Pequonnock to Joseph Middlebrook's, & in fact, the names of most of the owners of the long lots of the East farmers as far west as the M1le of Common, appear to be perfectly correct in their order of ownership. The addition of new divIdend holders, & of the names of persons who lived on the opposite sides of the main streets of the town, appear to have created nolittle confusion, in giving the exact order of the names of the dividend holders west of the Mile cf Common, as far more received dividends in the two & a half miles on the west side, than those who shared the dividends of the one and a half mile on the east side. The frequent exchange & sale of some of these lots, no doubt, was the cause of the irregularity in the order cf names of the holders of the lots west of the Mile of Common. It must always be remembered that Simon Couch owned the last long lots next to the Norwalk boundary line. Joseph PatchIn did not remain lon^ at Green's Farms, & both his long lot& that of Samuel Goodwin's lay among those east of Couch's & Andrews'. But the order of ownership in this list is very nearly correct. The highways were laid out, & afterwards renewed at a much later date, which will be shown hereafter. It will be well to remember also, that the building-lots had nothing whatever to do with the old home-lots of the first settlers.—Author.

No. XI

Here followeth a list of ye building lots pasture lots, & long-lots granted to ye inhabitants of ye town Jan. 1670-71 & recored Dec. 30. 168I.

	Building		Lots.	Pastures,		Long Lots Yk Breadth
	Acres.	0-	Roda.	Acres.	0-	Rods.	Rods.	0-	Feet.
Widow Wheeler ....	\l	2 I 0	M II 12 09 22 22	"4 "3	oo	6 06 "7 20	27 »5 °9 16	oo	e
John Odell	6 10 07 '4	3		ot 06	00 03 02 01			OO 00	I
Sam'll Treadwell		3				3? 13 34 34 34 3°	12 22	oa	a 4 so
Isaac Wheeler		a a		II 08 °9 '7 '7 II °7	oa 02		16	00 00
Mathew Sherwood . .	10		37				18 34 33 23 '5 20 '3 II	oa o1	00
Richard Hubbcll	II	3	12 26		OI OI OI				oo
	22 21 14	i						00	00
Michael Fry -		3 3 3	2					oo	°7
Ezekiel Sandford	o9		"9		°3	22 08 01 14		oo	00
Roger Knap.	oi 07 06	a	00	10	03 03 oo			00	03 03
Thomas Morehouse		2	1	°7 05 °5				°3 02	00
Daniel Silliman . ...		a			Of			03	OI
Thomas Oliver		3	3« 26		01	3a	10	OB OI	oa
Nathaniel Seely Sen	11 18	2 I 3			02		30		OI
William Odell Sen			'9	00	oa 4	20	12	oo oo	»7
Samuel Morehouse			3	'5 ii 08 °3 '5 M 05		II	29 21		07
Tho. Bennet	M	0			00	37		00	°7
	10	2	14		o1	<5	'5 °7 30 27 7° »5 S3 '9 °9	OB 00	02
Serj. George Squire ."	°4 '9	a a s	1		02				oa
Joseph Middlebrook, Sen					O2 00	20 08 O2		o:	OI
Thomas Jones	00	2	<1 »9 02 =4 02		or			OO	oo
William HiK	16	o						oo 0O OI	oo
Mr. Nathan Gold				12	°3 OB 01	II			00
Sarah Wilson	34	2		27 10 04 II II		16 ii			oo
	12 06	3 o						oa oo	03 04
Nathaniel Burr . . .	M		II		'3	10
William Ward	Jo	I			OB	II	22	OI	OI
		3			03 OI	a3 24	n	oo OI	00
Thomas Wilson		3	00	ol			10		03 oo
	08	2 I	28	08 08 08 04	03	28	'3	02
Mr. Josiah Harvey	10 10		06		oo	37 15 M	3	«3	oa
		3 o	oo		O.'			02 OO 00 00 OO	0.'
lohn Bulkley	11		08		03		'7 °9 40 »5		IO
	05 26	3 o	03 04		02	22 II			02
Edward Adams	16			20	°3				0-3
		a i	02	'3 II	00	04 3'			OO
	ol		°9 02		OI		21	°3 03	03
Rev Mr: Jones	04	3 o		o7	00 01	22	ii 13		00
	o3 18	2	°3 OO	3	03	2-1 II 00 28 OS 00 22 '9		00 00 00	05
Mr. Jehu Burr									00
	a	3	00 00 00 00 00 OI	'5 14	OO		3 ii '5	01	oo oo
Esburn Wakeman	08	I			oa
Thomas Skidmore	10	I		3	02 00 12			OO	03
Stephen Hedge	3	o						oa	CO
Cornelius Hun		o I 3 3		05 '4			10	CO	oo oo oo
Mr. John Burr ,	19		03		OB °3	24	28 30	OO 03
Obediah Gilbert	'3 '9		°3	II	00	21	21	02 06 OO	00
Henry Rowland		o	03	'5	oo	38	a9 31 20		04
loshua K nowles	21	3 ot	00	'7 10 8	00	34			00
John Cable snr	'3		28		3	00		3	oo oo
Richard Orsborn	10	Ol	16			°I 38	'5 »9
Francis Bradley	'9	CO	08 03	'5	o 3				oo
Thomas Sherwood	'4 '5	o3		II		IO 06 00	22 *4 2O		06
Humphrey Hide	'3	03 00 02 03	oo	12	a				oo oo oo
John Hide	3		=4 30	IO	7		'3
Peter Coly			27	°7 II	O O	24 15	22		02
	"3	0^	26 If	10	o I	34 15	'9 a7 18		03
John Cable Jr	'7	°3	08	M		£			02
	TI II	02 OP		3	o 3				oo
James Beers	M 10	02	10				i7 22 16		03
Samuel Smith			M	ti	2	a7			00
				08

	Building		Lots.	Pastures.	Long Lots Ye Breadth
	Acres.	g.	Rods.	Acres. Q. Rods.	Rods.		Q.	Feet.
John Barlow Sr	09 08 06	oo 03 03	06 18	07 °7	37	13 i3		oo oo
Eliezear Smith					22	13 i3	3	oo oo
Eliezear Smith					38	IO		00
	10	02 OI			34 3a	It		05
	05	02 OI	21 OO	04 08 11	34 3a	08 16		00 00 00
	IO	OI			22	08 16
	M	oo oo oo			37	21 2O II 27 24 30
	3	oo oo oo		IO				oo oo
Daniel Frost	17 15	«s	34 cH 34 »7 a4 04	05 M				oo OO
Robt. Beacham . . ,	17 15	03 Of		13 10 18	31 03			01
lohn Wheeler	3 15 13 15	oo		13 10 18	11 15 '7	35 07		oo
		Oft 02 Of 00		'3 M		28 23 05		03
Rev. Mr Wakeman				12 02 12 06 °4				03 00
			oo 05					03
School .		o	oo 05		00			00 00
School .	2	2	01		oo	11		00 00
	2	o	oo		08	°9		07
	05	3	28 1t	M	oo			02 02
	02	I	28 1t	02 13 08 °3 04 04 04	08	°3	3	02 02
Phebe Barlow	03	3 o t 3 3 3			II		o	05
Nathaniel Perry	10				II	oo		01 Oft OO
Nathaniel Perry					05	06	13
Thomas Pell			oo			10	01 00 00 02 00
	05 °5 17 04		16 16		29	°9		02
			16 16			3		OO
		0		'3 °3 04 05 02	oa 16	06		oa
		2	00		oa 16	06		OS
		3 o	16		»9	o9	oo
		o	00 00		22	10	oo	°7
	03	o	00 00		29	04	03	00

B. Fairfield Town Votes, pp. 67, 68. No. XII

March ye 10t h 1681/2 The Town by vote declare y' ye old Indian-field shall be forthwith divided to ye Inhabitants y' have right to divide according to ye Lists of Estates, ye Greatest part of yc Comons having been divided.

A List of ye Lots for yc old Indian field drawn this 22? March 1681/2.

88 Widow Wheeler
80 Goodman Halls' farm
68 Jos. Whelplie
73 Jno. Odell

52 Sam" Treadwell
59 Isaac Whee'er
33 James Bernct

21 Math. Shenvood
94 Michl Try
26 Eze. Sanford
67 R. Knap
64 Tho. Morchouse

53 D. Selleman
01 T. Oliver

78 N. Scly

47 Will" Odell

44 SamH Morchouse

48 Ensigne Turny
40 Thomas Bennct
63 1. Tom son

77 Sergt Squire
87 Jos. Middlcbrook
oo S Jones
Willm Hill

7 Majr Gold

13 Jas. Rowland
89 Benj° Turny
12 N. Burr
a0 W. Hawley
27 D. Burr
15 Moses Dimon
36 T. Wilson
23 Mr. Harvy
56 Wid? Bulkley
39 Jno Bulkley

9 T. Staples
74 Ed. Adams
69 Jno. Grumon
02 Robt. Meaar

4 Mrs.Jones
19 Jah Gray
42 Mr. John Burr

32 Jno. Banks

76 Ez. Wakeman
30 T. Skidmore
58 Steph. Hedges
55 Cor. Hull

32 Mr. Jno. Burr
71 O. Gilbert

35 Jos. Jennings

79 H Rowland

84 Jos. Knowles
75 Jno. Cable Senr
57 R. Osburn

45 Francis Bradley

37 T. Sherwood
86 Hum. Hide
i1 Ino. Hide

60 P. Colec

82 P. Clapham
18 Jno. Knowles

61 Jno. Sturgis

54 Jno. Cable Junr

65 Dan'1 Lockwood
43 James Beers

91 Sam" Drake

38 Ino. Applegate
14 Sam" Smith

5 Jno. Barlow Senr
49 Eleza Smith

85 Rob. Rumsie
72 Sam" Ward

66 R. Oeden

11 Jos. Lockwood
1 Dan". Frost

3 Jno. Green 1o R Beachem (a Jno. Wheeler »8 Henrich Henrichson 51 R. Lyon 41 Mr. Wakeman

83 George Squire Junr
20 Parsonage
17 School
50 Mr. Finch
70 P. Barlow
6 N. Perry

16 Jno. Bennet
25 Jno. Smith
2 T. Shervington

7 S. Couch
- ' ,. And

. Patchin

46 Jno. Andrews
8 Jos. I

NO. XIII

Dividend Of Old Indian Field
10. Feb. 1682 3

B. Town Votes, p. 70.

Acres.

Rods.

Feet.

Inch.

1 Danll. Frost

2 Tho. Shervington

4 Mrs. Jones

5 Jno. Barlow, Senr

6 Nathll. Perry

7 Simon Couch

8 Patching

9 Tho. Staples

10 R. Beachem

11 Jas. Lockwood

c2 Nathll Burr

13 Jas. Rowland

14 Samll. Smith

15 Moses Dimon

16 Jno. Bennet

17 School

18 Jno. Knowles

19 Jacob Gray

20 Hawly

21 Nath Sherwood

22 Ino. Burr

23 Mr. Harvy

24 Jno. Barlow, Junr

25 Jno. Smith

26 Eze. Sanf ord

27 D. Burr

28 Hendrick

29 Parsonage

30 Thomas Skidmore

31 Jno Hide

32 Jno. Banks 1

33 James Bennet

34 Samll. Morehouse 1

33 Jas. Jennings

36 Tho. Wilson

37 Tho. Sherwood

38 Jno. Applegate o

39 Ino. Bulkley

40 Tho. Bennet

41 Mr. Wakeman

42 Mr. Jehu Burr

43 James Beers

44 Willm. Hill

45 Francis Bradley

46 Jno. Andrews

47 Willm. Oiell

48 Ensign Turny

49 Eleaz. Smith

50 Nath. Finch

51 R. Lyon

52 Samll. Treadwell

o?
16
o
'7
»3
M

4 14 '3

'7 '9

28
'5
39

53 D. Silliman

54 Jno. Cable

56 Wid. Kulkley

57 R. Osburn

58 Ste. Hedge

59 Isaac Wheeler

60 Peter Colee

61 Jno. Sturgis

62 Jno. Wheeler

II
2^

c3 14

4 4 '3

Acres.

Rods.

Feet.

Inch.

63 Jos. Whelplie

64 Tho. Morehouse

65 Danll Lockwood

66 Rich Ogden

67 Roger Knap

68 Jno. Thompson

69 jno. Grummon

70 Phebee Barlow

71 Wid. Gilbert

72 Samll.Ward

73 Jno. OJcll

74 Ed. Adams

75 I no. Cable Senr

76 Ez. Wakeman

77 Serg't Squire

78 Nath: Scfy

79 Henry Rowland

80 Halls' Farm

82 Peter Clapham

83 George Squire Junr

84 Jos. Knowles

85 R. Rumsie

86 Hum. Hide

87 Jos. Middlebrook

87 Major Gold

88 Wid. Wheeler

89 Benjn. Turny

oo Tho. Jones o

91 Samll. Drake

92 R. Meacar

93 Tho. Oliver

94 Mr. Try

4 is M

36
'7

20
25

25
15

33
9

'9
3
4
5

4 '5

4 13 to

9
3

No. XIV

B. Town Votes, p. 73.

A list of ye Lots at Compo neck, both ye Divisions, ye first division is 3 Rods per pound ye Second division is 5 Rods pr pound, and is as followeth 1682.

Lots.

Estates.

First Division.

Acres. Quarters. Rds.

Second Division.

Acres.

Quarters.

Rds.

=34 03?

'43

191

116

103

?3 262

III

17a

.Widow Wheeler

.Halls Farm.

Joseph Whelplcy

no Odell

.Samll. Treadwell

. Isaac Wheeler.,

James Bennet

tfath w Sherwood.

.Rich. Hubll.

.Henry Jackson

.Michael Fry ,.

.Ez. Sandford

. Ropcr Knap

.Tho. Morehouse

.Dan. Silliman

.Tho. Oliver

.Nathll. Sely. Senr

.Willm. Odell. Senr

.Samll. Morehouse.

. Ensign Robt. Turny

.Tho. Bennet

. J no. T nmspn

.Sergt. Squire

.Jos'Middlebrook, Sr

.Tho. Jones

.Willm. Hill

.Nathn. Gold

,Sarah Wilson, now Roland

3 31

o 26 29

=7
74
=4

28 29 '9 *4 39

IJ 3!

a5 \l

37 37

6 33 35 5 39 =5

Lots.	Estates.				First Division.			Second Division.
				Acres.	Quarters.		Rods.	Acres.	Quarters.	Rods.
S	80 192	oo	4	. .Ben. Turny ....Nathll. Burr Eben. Hawley ....Danll. Burr	1 1 3 1	a	1 18 34 1? 30 30 11 '9 I	2	a O 0	t '3 30 13
	3	16	o			2		6 6 3
		2 12 O O 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0			2
»4						3			o 3
3 1S 7	90			Tho. Wilson	1	2		2		10
	i75 '37 M3 M7 '77 347 220			Stephen Sherwood	2 2 2 2 I	0 I 2		3	2 0 I 2 I 3 3 3	IS
		6						4 4 4		4
S		I		....Widow Wilson		2 I 2 O				2
57		o		Jno. Bulkley ....Tho. Staples Ed. Adams	6 4 3		32 I 21 14	2 10		15
8		4 6	o					6 5 3 l		21 34 35
	'9°	0	0	Rob. Meacar Mrs. Jones Jacob Gray		a o o o
E	3		o o		2 I 2		37		2
		4 14					1		3	,i
5	"3 250		0 0 0 0 0 0 0				22	3 7 7	2
02*		0 12			4	2 2	3°		3	10
46	H	a		Ez. Wakeman	4		12		2	20
					1	a	25 I I II	2	3 o
55	'33 93	16		....Ste. Hedge .Lieut: Cor: Hull	2 I 4 4 3 4 5 3 2 4 3 3 3	2		4		Z
»9 9° 3		c4 M				3		3 i	3
	T 265			Jno. Burr ....Obed. Gilbert		2			2 I	'I
	185	12 O O O	o			3	37 37			8 3°
			0	Joshua Jennings Henry Rowland Joshua Knowles ,		I		5 7 9	3
	»54		o			3	2		3 o
	290		0			I	3° 17 14			10
18 94 40	'79 '33		o o	Jno. Cable, Senr Rich. Osburn		I 2		5	2 2	1t
		o						4		20
	254 196	o 18	o o o			3	2 30	!	3 o	30 »4 1o
1 I				Tho. Sherwood		2	8	6 5 4 3 5 5 7 4	2 I
	210	o		Hum. Hide		3				36
	'75 129 188 .85 170 238 '54 M7 194 080 040 '38	4	0		2	1 1 o	28			1o 34 S
		4	o o o						O
				Peter Clapham Jno. Knowles Jno. Sturgis — Jno. Cable, Junr. Danll. Lockwood	a 3 3 4		37 35 3' 34		2
		0				1			3
		4 o	0			0			I	II
9*			0			I			' 3	30
07		0 10 10	o o		2 2	3 3	10			1o
1 79			o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o	....Samll. Drake Jno. Applegate Samll. Smith Jno. Barlow, Senr Jno. Barlow. Junr Eleaz. Smith	3	2 2	I 24	i	2 12	8 o o o *3 o
		o o			1		0	2 I	2 I
90 4 S1 19					0 2	3	o
		12				2 I	M	4 3 3	I
y	120 122 091 M1 O/I	1O 12 IO 0			2 2 I 2 1 2	I	1 8 4 23 '5	2	3 3 3 1 o 1 o	11
84		16 13 8		(no. Tompkins Samll Ward		2 2		4		»5
'9						I 2 1		2		3
93	'39 229 181 a19 207 179 308 162 247 206 040			Rich. Ogden Jos. Lockwood . .Danll Frost	4 3 4 3 3 5 3 4 3 o		1	4 7 5		2
1!
69		4					24 39	I	2	38
100		IO				I			I I 2 2 0 2 I I I 0
53 59 54 70		3		Jno. Green .... Robt. Beachem		3 I	22 *9			H
		IO						5 9 5
		18 o		Hendrick Henderson Rich. Lyons Mr. Wakeman		3 o	6 6			a4
										10
39 38 2i		0	0			2	2I	1		35 3a 3 o
		5	o			3 3 3 3	i9
		IO	0 0 0 0 0 0 0				2 O 2O	I
	200 ZOO	oo oo		Nathll Finch . ...	3			6 3		20
I	079 030 037	0		Isaac Sherwood Samll. Goden Phe: & Deb Barlow		I 2 2 2 0 2 I I I 2 I 2 0	37	2 O	I	35 3o 28
99		o					IO		3 o o
£		0 0 0					3'	I 4
	Isl			....Nathll. Perry ....Mr. Pell			i			3°
35	058		o o o				M 3° 34 34 34 39 M 33 so	I 2	3 3	10 10
12 4'	090	o o
'5 27	078 078 078	o	o	Tho. Lyon ....Jno. Smith Tho. Shervington				2 2	1 1 1 3	3° 30 30 »5 1o
		0	0					2
21	°»2	o	o o o					a
'7	178	0 0 0		Tno. Andrews Jos: Patchin				S	2	15
ii	091							a	3 3
	060		0					I		2O

B. Town Votes, p. 76, 77. XV

Know all men by these presents that wee whose names are hereunto written, being true proprietors of a neck of land, commonly called wolfs pit neck within ye bounds of Fayfield towne, & being resolved to make sale of ye same, wee therfore ye subscribers hereunto have sold, & doe by these presents sell, alienate & set over from us, & from our heirs, executors & administrators forever to Major Nathan Gold, Mr. Jehue Bur, & Mr. John Wheeler, in ye behalf of ye rest of ye allowed inhabitant of ye town of Fairfield, such as were allowed deuiders of lands & to their heirs forever, for a vauabell consideration to us secured to be payd, a parcell of land, being a neck of land within ye township of Fairfield as above mentioned called wolf's (wolve's) Pit neck, bounded on Stratford dividing- line on ye north-east, on ye other side with ye land of ye inhabitants of ye aforesaid Fair- field ; wee ye sd. subscribers have sold to ye said Major-Nathan Gold, Mr. Jchue Bur, & Mr. John Wheeler for ye ves of ye town aforesaid, the aforesaid mentioned neck of land, all our interest & propriety of land thar forever, to enioy as thar owne propor land, without let or molistation from us or from ours, & do affirm ourselves, to have good right to sell the same, it being a parcell of land sequestered by Court for our ves & improvement, & doe fully acquit ye town of Fayrfield forever not to challang or lay claim to ye aforesaid, as witness our hands February the eleventh 1685 ; wee ye above sayd subscribers doe by these presents fully acquit & discharge ye afoarsayd town of Fayrfield from all manner of claims, demands & rights of land within ye town of Fayrfield, or ves of any land of them to plant or any other ves, either from us or from our heirs forever, witness our hands ye day above,

The mark of X Pennmscot. The mark of X Kahaco

The mark of X Pasoroimpom. The mark of X Shaganoset

The mark of X Machoka The mark of X Old Anthony

Atunk'i daughter. The mark of X Pascoy

The mark of X Pony The mark of X Juterpretar

The mark of X Matamke
SIgned in presence of

Nathanial Paine
Thomas T. W. Williams,
his mark

The above deed of sale was owned by ye several Indians whose names are subscribed thereto, to be thar free act the II. Feb. 1685 before Jehu Bur

Commissioner
The above is a true copy of the originall recorded this 31. May 1686 by me

Nathan Gold Recorder It is to be noted ye deed of which this is a copy, is on file with ye county clerk.*

No. XVI
Indian Deed Of Highway Across Goldt.n Hill.

Whereas it is complained yt there is no allowed highway for passing & repassing of Inglish not endians, from ye highway between Fayrfield & Stratford into ye endian field called Golden Hill, it being as is informed partaining to both John Beardsley, ytt land whear it is thought meet & convenient sd highway shall be, ye endians of Golden Hill earnestly desiring a highway be layd out there or near there, whear ye path lyeth from Samuel Gregorie's across ye Indian Field yt goeth towards Stratford, & being very con-

* A. Fairfield Town Deeds p. 661.

venient also for ye Inglish for egress & regress thare, as occasion may bee, upon which consederation it is agreed firmly by these presents, by & between both John Beardsley of Stratford & ye Indians belonging or partaining to Golden Hill aforesayd, in bounds of Stratford:

That a highway shall be staked out two rods broad at ye fence, whare the path goeth into sd Beardlie's ground, leading to ye Indian Field or land tharr, & to hold ye same bredth till it come to ye endian land, & this being so laid out thare as ye path now goeth so to remain highway forever, for free passage for Inglish & Endians, for whose carts & foot as occasion may be, ye highway hath its entrance into ye sd Beardsly's land, leading to sd. Endian-field a little east of Samuel Gregrorie's hous, whear he now luii th whear ye path abouesaid is, & sd highway is bounded south-east with ye land of Leeft. John Beardslie's aforesaid, on the north-west with ye land of Henry Summars, which highway is to remain for yt ves, as aboue for-euver, without any let or claim or molestation from ye sd John or any by or vndar him ; & in consideration of ye aboue grant of sd. highway by said John, his heirs executors & administrators & assigns, we ye Endians foresaid partaining to said Golden Hill do give and grant alienate, asigne, & set ouer from us, our heirs executors & administrators & assigns, onto ye aboue said John Beardsley & his heirs forever, peacably to have & hold without any let, claim, or molestation from us, our heirs or any of us, or any by, from, or vunder us, at any time hear after, but quietly to possess & enjoy ye same & every part of ye vunder written land, being a parsell or bouge of lowland or rockey medow, with sum parts of hard-land, to ye quantity of about two acres more or less ; sd. land is bounded on ye South with ye fence parting ye Inglish & ye Endian land theare, & northarly, bounded on ye path going throw ye field, on all other sides with ye Endian land ; & for confirmation of this as thare unto, all agreement ye parties, aboue mentioned, haue set to thar hands, with promises yt sd. John be not so molested as to haue ye land taken away from him or his, if so it be, then this to be void & of none effect, witness our hands this 8. of June 1686. signed and delieured in presence of vs witnesses,

Nathan Gold, Sr. Saacus X his mark.

Samuel Morehouse. Pascot X his mark.

John Beardsley Pony X his mark.

Wowompom X his mark. Roben X his mark.

Panomscot X his mark.

It is to be noted yt. ye. sd. two acres of land mentioned, lyeth in ye Endian land in Golden Hill.

The Endians signing, & John Beardsley's hand acknowledged ye aboue agreement to bee thar act, & deed in Fairfield, this 8. of June 1686 before me,

Nathan Gold Assistant.

This is aboue copye of'ye original, compared & recorded this 8. June 1686 by me,

Nathan Gold, Recorder.
A. Town Deeds p. 519.
No. XVII

Bankside Lands

Whereas ye town of Fayrfeild ded grant formarly to ye west farmars belonging to Fayrfeild a deuesion of a parsell of land, Commonly called a hors pastuer, & y' in cas ye sd farmars could not agree to deuide ye sd pastuer amongst them Selues y' then mai'. Gold Mr., John Bur & Sargant John Wheeler ware apointed to detirmine ye way of deuision of Sd land, but ye Sd farmars haueing agreed about ye deuision of Sd land & layd it out : we ye sayd presons apointed to determin Consarning y« deuision of Sd land, doe See Caus to aproue of y' deuision allredy made among them Selues, except anny mistak in measuering. June ye 8th 1687.

That this is our agreement or conclusion, wee haue hearunto set our hands.

Nathan Gold John Bur John Wheeler Recorded this loth of Octobar 1687 by mee, Nathan Gold Recorder.

No. XVIII

Wee, whos names are vndar written, being impovured & oppointed by ye Generoll Court in May ye i6th 1687 to set out unto ye inhabitants of ye Bankeside such proportions of lands as become due to them by natue of y' agreement with ye town of Fayrfield to each man by proportion we make retern as followeth.

As comparing ye lands within fence, which is commonly called ye horse pasture which y" formerly inioyed, we find they haue deuided themseues to thar good satisfaction as Daniel Frost, Joseph Lockwood, Robert Beacham, John Green, Simon Croutch. It is to be noated yt deuesion of land in ye hors pasture yt was so set out to Robert Beacham & Joseph Lockwood, shall remain good to them, if ye sd Beacham & Lockwood signe to ye agreement yt was made with ye town, bearing date ye 29. June 1666. As for ye remainder of ye gained, so called, being within ye sd fence, wee have set out to each man his proportion as followeth :

First: wee haue laid out to ye estate of Daniel Frost deceased & to his sucksesors fiue acres anexed, to ye meadow of John Andrews, westward, to ly next to Frost; we have laid out to Joseph Lockwood as he is sucksessor to Henry Grey deceased, fiue acres if ye sd Lockwood signe to ye agreement, yt was made with ye town of Fayrfield June ye 29. 1666 : 3dly, next to Joseph Lockwood, wee haue layd out to John Green fiue acres lying by ye main creeke, except one small piece nearer hoam, hee to haue a highway a rod wide, in some conuenient place through ye sd Lockwood's meadow to come to his own.— 4thly next to John Green we haue lay'd out to Robert Beacham fiue acres, as hee is sucksessor to Thomas Newton deceased, if ye sd Beacham sign to ye agreement yt was made with ye towne Fayrfield June 29t h 1666. . . 5thly, Next to Robart Beacham wee haue layd out to Simon Croutch, as he is successor to Frances Andrews deceased fiue acres, and last after Coutch wee haue layed out fiue acres to ye fiue farmers aboue mentioned, to each of ym an equal proportion which they may call plasteds if they pleas.

Thus wee haue layd out ye sd land & meadow, to each man his proportion according to order. September ye 6th : 1687

John Bur John Wheeler y>

Thomas Wilson fT

Ephraham Nichols
Thomas Jones
Samuel Morehouse

This is a true copy of Ye originall, recorded & compared this 14. Sep. 1687, by mee, Nathan Gold—Recorder

No. XIX

At a town meeting of ye inhabitants of Kairfi eld yc 6th of Ap" 1688, ye Sd Town ordered ye Pauls neck & ye reedy ponds & ye Swamp and ye half mile ofComon, lying between ye^J>uilding & pasture Lots, So called long Since laid out, & two mile & half of ye mile of Con1on it to ly lengthwayes, all which to be forthwith laid out to ye Rightfull dividers, & those if any y' Shall be admitted to divide wt h ym, to be laid out In manner following, one lot to be drawn for all Said Divisions by Each Dividor for his part, & to begin & go on in Each Division till ye whole is finished—Large high wayes to be left round Pauls neck, & to begin to lay out Sd Lots at ye north-east End, one, two, three in order till ye whole is Run out—ye Swamp pond Reeds ye laying out ye same to begin by an highway to be laid out by Jn° Bulkley's Ditch, one, two, three till all is Run out y' buts against ye burying hill, this tear to run through quite across ye hassuky ground there, & ye Remaining part of ye Swamp & hassuks to be fronted on ye high way, to be laid out between ye front of Nathan Gold & Will™ Reed, & ye rest of ye meadow y' lies against ye Swamp there, & ye sd Swampy Land to begin in this tear on the north east Side of Said Land by Nathan Golds Ditch, & So in order till all that is Run out, & to rear it on ye tear butting against ye burying place & ye ponds, Reeds & hassuks; y' land lying below ye Cart way over ye Swamp, ye Lots to run across Sd Land, buting at Each End South west & north East on an high way, which high waye are to be in ye measure of Each Lot. Sd high way is for men to come at y' Land for to bring of their hay, & other needfull occasions there, to begin ye laying out this tear next ye Sd Cart way, so in order till ye tear is run out at ye beach, & ye remainder of y' Land wch lyeth on ye South East of \athan Gold's meadow wch Land is to front on ye beach & rear on Nathan Gold's meadow. & to begin to lay it out by ye high way y' goes down from ye Cart way y' goes over ye Swamp on yc South west Side of Sd Tear last laid out, y' runs to ye beach, & So logo on in order till all y0 Lots are laid out. A Liberty is reserved for draining said Swamp & ponds in all necessary places for draining & measure, is to be allowed for Said drains, & when ye major part of ye proprietors Shall agree to drain Sd Swamp and ponds, those of Sd Dividors y' will neither help their part in draining, nor pay for y' parts doing, Shall forfeit y' parts to ye rest of ye Dividors. Jn° Wakeman & Tho« Wilson to lay out Sd Swamp land. & Dann Burr & Eliphelet Hill to lay out Pauls neck—on ye 9th of Ap" 1688 by reason of Mr. Dan" Burr's absence, yc Townsmen appoint Thos Wilson, Jn° Wakeman, & Eliphelet Hill to lay out ye Swamp & Pauls neck.

B. Fairfield Town Votes, p. 81. No. XX

Here followeth ye Divisions of Pauls neck to ye Several Dividors in 1688, wth y' order of lying.

Rods.	Feet.	Inches.			Rods.	Feet.	Inches.
Jno. Green	3	o 1 a 1 6 o a 1 o 2	0	1I	Humphry Hide	16 16 16 m '7	3 3	6 11 7
			8 o	12 13	Robt. Beachem
School	26			M			5 a 6 8	I 6
Mr. Samuel Wakeman... Jno. Cable Junr Sergt. Rich: Hubbell.... Sergt. George Squire....	9 *9 14 29 24 14 10		0	15
			o 6	16	Peter Coly.. .	12		0
			6 o	\l	Jos Whelplie	3 8 3	0 0	o 9 6
Parsonage. ...				*9	Samll Godwin		6 o
			T	20

Rods.	Feet.		Inches.	Rods.	Feet.	Inches.
Sergt Samll Ward			6	64 Sarah Wilson		8	6
Michael Try	16	8	6	65 Samll Smith	,8
Michael Try	26	8	6	67 Cornelius Hull
		6		68 Thomas Wilson.
				69 John Sturgis		8	6
Tho Oliver						8
Widow Wheeler		8	6	71 Willm Odell
Sam 1 l^Tred wel 1		8	o	73 Rich Osburn	8
Hall's farm			6
Mr Danll Burr			6	75 John Applegate.
Tho. Lyon	6	6	6	77 Danll. Frost
Tho. Lyon		I		78 Tho. Bennet
Jps. Middlebrook		I	6	79 Jno. Hide. . .
Tho. Staples				80 Nathll. Finch		8	6
Jps Patenin		6	6	81 Jno, Smith
Math. Sherwood			6	83 Jos. Lockwood . . .
Sergt. Jno. Wheeler. .		16		84 Nathll. Burr	18
Joshua Knowles			9	85 Stephen Hedges			6
Willm Hill..		16		86 Tho. Sherwood
Willm Ward				87 Isaac Wheeler .	18	8
Capt. Robt. Turny		8	6	87 Isaac Wheeler .		a	6
Capt. Robt. Turny				89 Obed G1lbert .		g	6
Danll Silleman						8	6
						8
Robt. Rumsie		8	6	94 Frances Bradley. .		8
Phebc & Deb*Barlow. . . .	1		6	94 Frances Bradley. .			5
Nathll Perry	1			06 Ben. Turny. . .	'	g	6
Nathll Perry		8	8	97 Nathll. Sely.	'
Jno. Barlow Junr				98 Jno. Bulkley	6		6
Rich, Ogden		8		too Widow Bulkey	5		6
John Bcnnet		8	6	too Widow Bulkey
John Odcll	'i	8
Nathan Gold	'i
Mr Pell	g

B. Town Votes, p. 24.

No. XXI

Here followeth ye Lots as they are laid out In ye wolf Swamp before ye Town, with ye Reed ponds & hassucks, ye order of y' lying as on ye other Side of this leaf, being yc Same with Pauls neck, with ye number of rods in ye margent of both Sd wolf Swamp & Reeds & Pauls neck, pertaining to Each Dividor or proprietor laid out in 1688 : according to an order of yetown, dated ye6th of Ap"1688. also ye distinct number of rods Each p'son has set on y right hand of Each name as to yeS'1 Swamp, reeds & hassuck.

Rods.		Rods.	Feet.	Inches.	Rods.	Rods.	Feet.	Inches.
		84			86	Robt Beachem			0
					86	Robt Beachem
I i8	School	38		6	fir	Simon Couch	K	8
08	Mr Samll Wakeman	38			IIS		9*
					87	Roger Knap
	Sergt Rich- Hubbell	116				Jps Whefplie
		si				Tho. Jones
	Parsonaee ,	T«	oo	0	17	Samll. Goodwin	14	o	o

Rods		Rods.	Feet.	Inches.	Rods.		Rods.	Feet.	Inches .
£ 9« 138 28	Sergt Samll Ward	54	8 6 o	o	94	Frances Bradley	77 aa	0 0 0	o o o o o
		I		O	27	Mrs. Jones
	Michel Fry			o	39 128	Ben. Turney	32 103
			0	0		Nathll. Sely		9
		16	o o	o	39 34	John Bulkly	3	0
54 39 HI 5» M 69 228		r«		0		Jno. Tompkins. . ,		o	0
			0	o	I! 105	Widow Bulkly	58	0 0*	o
	Widow Wheeler	9i 42	o o 6 o o o o o	0		Jno. Knowles	66 85 47 39 3° 35 191 '*>		0
	samll Treadwell [saac Sherwood Jno Odell			o		Hall's farm			o o o o
		12		0	59 48 3« 37	Mr Danll. Burr		o o o
	Nathan Gold.... Mr Pell	,io6 II		o
				0		Jno. Andrus		0	o o
?	Sarah Wilson			o	112	Jos. Middlebrook Tho. Staples		o
63		54 75 95 45		0	1 60 28			0	0
93 12:>			0 0	o o o o		Jos. Patcnin	I!	o o o	o
					$ 49	Tho Morehouse Senr Lieut. Math: Sherwood... Serfft. John Wheeler Joshua Knowles Willm Hill...".			0
56 "4 45 45 45 124 39	Tl o Wilson		o						o 6 o
		38* H	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0			lao	0
	Willm Odell				87 103	Willm Ward	S	o o o o	0
		100	o 6 o o o o 6 3 o o o o o o o o	o	I?	Robt. Turny	7°		o o o o o
		32		0	g	Izbon Wakeman	rc	G
20		16		o		Tosiah Harvey		o o o
66		54 °94 55 5° 32 32 53 7' 75		0	72 49	Jno. Cable ',	59 4° 30 55 °55
3				o o o		Danll. Silleman			0
	Tho. Bennet				&	Henry Hendrickson Robt. Rumsie		0	o o
62	Nathll Finch .				66	Phebe & Deborah Barlow. Nathll. Perrv		o o o	0
39				0 0 0
% 88 93 46 95 96 124	Tho Skid more				»9 119 60 no 37 "3		23«		o
	T T It oorf					I no. Barlow Junr	s	0	0
	Nathll Burr			o		Rich: Ogden	85	o o o	o
				0		Ino. Bennet			0
		,11 78		o o o		Samll Morehouse	3° 9'		o
						fno. Tomson		' 0	0
					25	Eze. Sanford	20	o	o
		100		0	8	fames Bennet	51	0	0 0 0
3	Obediah Gilbert	73	0	o			56	o
	Hephen Sherwood		o	0	Q 9 9	Jno. Morehouse	7	0
£			0	o		Jonathn Morehouse	7 7	o o	o
			o	0					0
4*		tf	t1	o

B. Town Votes p. 93.

No. XXII

Here follows a draught of ye Lots for Pauls' neck & ye wolf Swamp & reedy ponds, & yc two half mile of Comon, & two miles in length of ye mile of Cofnon, more fully appearing in an order of ye town dated ye 6'h of Ap" 1688., & y' each divider Should draw one Lot for his part of Said Divisions.

Widow Wheeler 28

Halls' Farm 31

Jos. Whelplie 18

Jno. Odell 61

Samll. Treadwell 29

Isaac Wheeler 87

Tames Bennet 102

Mathw. Sherwood 40

Rich: Hubll 07

Henry Jackson 3

Michael Fry 23

Ezll. Sanford 101

Roger Knap 16

Thos. Morehouse 39

Danll. Silleman 49

Thos. Oliver 27

Nathll. Sely . 97

Willm. Odell ?.

Samll. Morehouse 58

Robt. Turny 45

Thos. Bennet 78

Serjt. Squire 8

Jos. Middlebrook 36

Tho. Jones... .19

Willm. Hill 43

Nathan Gold 62

Sarah Wilson 64

Ben Turny 96

Nathll. Burr 84

Willm. Ward 44

Danll. Burr 33

Moses Dimon 93

Tho. Wilson 68

Stephen Sherwood 90

Mr Harvy 47

Widow Bulkley 100

Jos. Bulklv 98

Tho. Staples 37

Edward Adams 92

Jno. Grummon 66

Robt. Meacar 32

Mrs. Jones 95

iacob Gray 26

ehu Burr 54

no. Banks 13

sburn Wakeman 40

Tho. Skidmore 82

Stephen Hedge 85

Cor. Hull 67

Jno. Burr a

Obed Gilbert 80

Joshua Jennings 88

Henry Rowland 24

Joshua Knowls 42

Jno. Cable Senr 48

Rich Osborne 73

Frances Bradly 04

Tho. Sherwood 66

Goodman Hide 79

Peter Coly 17 Peter Clapham »

Jno. Knowles 30

Jno. Sturgis 69

Jno. Cable Junr 6

Danll. Lockwood 9

James Beers Qi

S .mil Drake 74

Jno. Aplegate 75

Samll. Smith 65

Jno. Barlow Senr 76

Jno. Barlow Junr 55

Eleaz Smith 72

Root. Rumsie 51

Tompkins 99

Samll. Ward at

Rich.Ogden 56

Jos. Lockw 83

Danll. Frost 77

Jno. Green 01

Robt. Bcachem 12

Jno. Wheeler 41

Hendrich Henderson 50

Mr. Wakeman 05

George Squire Junr 25

Parsonage zo

School 04

Finch So

NO. XXIII

Isaac Sherwood

Samll. Godwin

Febe & Deb Barlow.

Nathll. Perry

Mr Pell.

Jno. Bennet

Tho. Lyon

Jno. Smith

Tho. Sherwington...

Simon Couch

Jno. Andrus

Patchin

Jno. Tomson

20 5*

7° 14

B. Town Votes, p. 92.

Here followeth ye names of ye freemen allowed by ye Townsmen of Fairfield, & Sworn this i&* of March 1689 90.

Robt Rumsie *

Samll Drake *

Jos. Bastard * .

Samll Robinson *

Epm. Nickols *

Jno. Wakeman *

Jno. Sturgis junr

Nathan Gold junr.

Elipht Hill *

Samll. Squire *

Samll. Adams

Abram Adams

Nathll. Burr Junr*

Jose : Seelcy *

Jno. Wheeler

Willm Hill

Tho. Willson *

James Neuton *

las. Beers *

John Whetlock *

Samll Hub'll"

Willm. Reed

Benjn. Banks *

Jno. Odell Junr

Jacob Gray *

Jno. Osburn Sworn ye »7th March

1690''r

Mr Charles Chauncey *
Mr Peter Burr
Jos: Phippeny
Jnn. Sturgis
Samll. Couch
Simon Couch
Jno. Edwards
George Squire *
Inn. Squire
Rich Lyon
Serjt. Ma: w Sherwood *

Tim: Wheeler
Rich: Hubbll
Samll Gregory *
Theoph : Hull *
Jos : Sturgis
Moses Dimon
Thadus Burr
Ephrm Burr
Jehu Burr
David Treadwell
Benjn. Banks
Jno Hide Senr
Jas. Beers
Samll. Bradley Senr
Jacob Gray
Peter Sturgis
Samll. Osburn
Hen : Rowland
Samll. Hall
Davd Sherman
James Bennet
Jno. Burr
Giddcon Allin
Jos. Jennings
Mr. Jos. Webb
Samll. Cable *
Moses Dimon
Samll. Wheeler *
Ino. Smith
Samll. Treadwell
Robt. Silleman
Samll. Odell
Danll. Morehouse
Lieut. Jos. Wakeman
Abell Bingham *

ino. Treadwell
no. Darling
no. Barlow *

Samll. Smcdley

Jno. Downs

Jno. Osburn

Jacob Patchin

Tho. Sanford

The Revd. Danll Chapman.

James Sely

Jno. Wheeler

Robt. Turny

David Sturgis

Tho. Turny

Andrew Burr

Tho. Couch

Danll. Adams

Peter Bulkly

Thos. Disbrow

George Hull

Peter Coly

Benjn. Gilbert

Samll. Gold

Samll. Couch Junr

Jos. Wakeman

Jos. Darling

Jos. Crane

Davd Hubll

Eleazcr Sturgis

Nathll. liurr Junr

Ebenz. Dimon

Jno. Barthram

Capn. Mathw Sherwood

Jno. Odell Senr

Ens. Isaac Wheeler *

Lieut. James Bennet *

Samll. Morehouse

Samll. Treadwell Senr

Tho. Jones

Jno. Bulkley *

Benjn. Fairweather

B. Town Votes, p. 89.

GENEALOGIES

William sould have been about 14 in 1850, so it's possible he spend some time with

291 RODOLPHUS EDWARD' NORTHROP (Joel*, Amos*, Amos", Samuel*, Joseph1), b. Nov. 2, 1797, Branford, Conn. ; m., 1st, May 28, 1828, Harriet P. Wells, of New Haven (b. 1808; d. March 23, 1831). They had 2 s., who lived but a few hours. M., 2d, Apr. 4, 1832, Martha Jane (b. Oct. 8, 1812 ; d. June 16, 1882), dau. of Daniel Brown, of New Haven. Resided in New Haven. Carpenter and carver. D. 1860. Children all by 2d marriage:

13, 1860, Victoria Maria (b. Oct. 12, 1838), dau. of Elizur E. and Sarah M. Clarke, of New Haven, where they reside. Have 1 child,

Lilla Martha, b. Jan. 24, 1862, a teacher, who m. Oct. 2, 1890, at Newtown, Conn., Albert Lathrop, of Topeka, Kan.

188 JOHN" NORTHROP (John4, John3, Jeremiah1, Jo- teph1), b. Aug. 2,1772, Newtown, Conn., and resided there; was a farmer ; m. Nabby Baldwin (b. Dec. 20, 1771, and d. Dec. 24, 1869), dau. of Daniel and Abigail (Northrup) Baldwin. He d. Jan. 28, 1886.

i Nanny6, b. Sept. 27, 1796 ; m. Feb. 20, 1815, Oliver Northrup, s. of Alanson. Oliver d. Nov. 25, 1835.

iii Alonzo, b. Dec. 12, 1803; farmer; m., 1st, Jan. 17, 1840, Mary Ann Skidmore (d. Aug. 24, 1854, aged 44) ; m., 2d, 1860, widow Almira Sherman, who d. Aug. 15, 1882. He d. Aug. 30, 1881. No children.

iv Nelson, b. Sept. 26, 1805; tailor; m. Oct. 28, 1836, widow Abigail Walker (d. May 6, 1862, aged 70) ; he d. Feb. 6, 1889. No children.

v David, b. July 21,1810 ; combmaker and carpenter ; m. Dec. 26, 1836, Sarah Emily (b. July 15, 1819—living in 1889), dau. of Samuel Johnson, of Newtown. He d. Nov. 12, 1883. No children.

154a NEWTON5 NORTHRUP (Heth*, Joseph3, WiUiam*, Joseph1)^. May 26, 1781, in town of Milford, New Haven Co., Conn.; carpenter and joiner; m. Feb. 16, 1809, Abigail Ann Smith (b. about 1786, and d. Sept. 12, 1872, aged about 86), dau. of Caleb. He d. Jan. 6, 1858.
i William Otis9, b. Nov., 1809; d. 1870, Mobile, Ala.; unmarried, ii Allen Burr, b. Oct., 1815 ; d. Apr. 8, 1887 ; unmarried.
841 iii Caleb Smith, b. June 14, 1819, town of Milford.

204 ELI6 NORTHRUP (EW, Eli4, Joseph", Joseph*, Joseph1), b. Apr. 9, 1793, "Putnam Co., near Ct. line" (more probably in Dutchess Co., N. Y.) ; m. Aug. 3, 1818, Phoebe Osborn, of Dutchess Co., who d. about 1873. Removed, soon after marriage, to the town of Ovid, Seneca Co., N. Y. ; later to Barrington, Yates Co., N. Y.; then, Apr., 1830, to Cameron, Steuben Co., N. Y. D. Apr. 3, 1878. Farmer.

456 i Orrin7, b. May 4,1814.
ii Sally, b. Oct. 22, 1815 ; m. Oct. 2, 1834, Eli R. Eddy, carpenter and farmer. Resided at Rockford,
111. iii Eliza, b. Jan. 19, 1818; m. Nov. 24, 1841, Elder C. D. Kinney; d. Oct., 1886.
iv Amanda, b. Dec. 26, 1819; m. Dec. 30, 1840, William D. Swarthout. Resided at Dresden, Yates Co., N. Y.
457 v Asher Spicer, b. Apr. 7,1827.
vi Almira; m. Eli Lee; d. as early as 1859.
vii Phœbe A., b. Feb. 25, 1830; m. Oct. 22, 1848, David I. Lee; d. May 18, 1856.

817 NIRA B." NORTHROP (Joseph*, Enos<, Jeremiah3, Jeremiah1, Joseph1), b. Dec. 8, 1791, Brookfield, Conn. Cabinetmaker ; Justice of the Peace one term. Settled in Ohio in 1818. M. July 9, 1818, Abigail Nettleton (b. Nov. 22, 1797 ; d. Sept. 25, 1876), dau. of Daniel and Eunice Nettleton, of Washington, Conn. He d. Sept. 27, 1878.
i Dwight7, b. ; m. Delia, dau. of Chloe (Northrop)
Briggs. Resides at Ypsilanti, Mich, ii Mason.

476 RUFUS7 NORTHRUP (Philip', Josiah*, Aaron4, Jo- teph", Joseph", Joseph1), b. May 13,1808, at Ridgefield, Conn. ; builder; m. Nov. 6, 1831, Lucretia Mead (b. Jan., 1807), dau. of James and Sarah (Sherwood) Mead. (Sarah was sister of Clarissa Sherwood Olmstead, mentioned under Samuel Mead Northrup.) D. at Danbury, Conn., June 29, 1870. .Children b. at Ridgefield, Conn. :
i Margaret8, b. 1838; m. at Ridgefield, 1852, Morris Canfield. She d. 1868. Had 1 s., George William Canfield.
ii Louisa, b. 1835; m. at Ridgefield, June 25, 1862, Timothy Hunt Foster (b. Aug. 11, 1836, Ridgefield).
iii John Burr, b. Oct. 6, 1839 ; carpenter ; m. at Ridgebury, Conn., Jan. 29, 1868, Flora Maria Rundle, dau. of Allen and Betsey (Bailey) Rundle, of Ridgebury, formerly of North Salem, N. Y., where she was b. She d. at Danbury, Sept. 8, 1873. He was living at Danbury in Aug., 1877.
iv Warren Hoyt, b. Oct. 8, 1842; m. about 1864, at Bethel, Conn., Emily Wheeler. Living in Danbury, Aug., 1877.

624 HEMAN G.7 NORTHROP (Oliver*, Alanson*, Benjamin*, Benjamin*, Jeremiah2, Joseph1)^. Oct. 14,1816, Newtown, Conn. Carpenter. M. Apr. 18, 1838, Fanny (b. July 12, 1819), dau. of Gersham and Lucy (Peck) Dimon, of Newtown. She was living in 1889. He d. Apr. 6, 1877.
i Annie Eliza', b. Oct. 23, 1842; m. Oct. 8, 1861, Francis W. Platt (d. Nov. 11, 1877, aged 37 years),
ii Lucy Amelia, b. Nov. 20, 1846; d. (single) Dec. 31, 1891.
831 iii George Wilbur, b. June 20, 1859 ; m. Jan. 17, 1881, Frances E. Merrill.

669 ALBERT7 NORTHROP (Clement', Job", Job4, Thomas3, William*, Joseph1), b. July 14, 1830, Elyria, O. ; m. May 1, 1853, at Newtown, Conn., Margaret Sanford (his cousin), dau. of Josiah and Polly Sanford, of Newtown. In Dec., 1877, he went to Pittsburg, Pa., and engaged in the manufacture of sheet iron roofing under patents taken out by him, and in 1881 added the business of manufacturing panelled sheet iron ceilings. He took out a number of patents and carried on a large business, being practically the first manufacturer of metal ceilings. His trade extended all over this country and to many foreign countries. He was a man of great courage and enterprise. D. at Pittsburg, Pa., May 2, 1891. Children b. at Elyria, O.
844 i Henry Sanford8, b. May 22, 1857 ; m. Mary N. Kerr. ii Harriet Burnell, b. Dec. 18, 1858; d. Oct. 22, 1865.
iii Mary Antoinette, b. Nov. 29, 1860.
845 iv Frederick Albert, b. July 2, 1862 ; m. Edna Tripp.
v Anna Margaret, b. Dec. 12, 1868.
vi Charlotte Sanford, b. Feb. 28, 1867; m. June 4, 1874.
vii Fannie Noakes, b. July 14, 1871.
viii Clement Josiah, b. Jan. 2, 1876; unmarried.

680 RHODA LUCRETIA7 NORTHROP (Alfred Mix', John*, Job*, Thomas3, William", Joseph1), b. June 10, 1831, at Watertown, Conn. ; m. Aug. 6, 1848, Daniel M. Pritchard, carpenter, s. of Elias and Hannah Pritchard. Children b. at Watertown.
i Miles L.', b. Feb. 1, 1850; m., 1st, Aug. 12, 1869, Lottie Munson (d. June, 1872); m., 2d, Nov., 1879, Alice Ward (d. June 9. 1881) ; m., 3d, Sept. 6, 1883, Lillian Eaton; now (1889) resides at Bridgeport, Conn,
ii Hattie I., b. Sept. 25, 1852; m. Apr. 6, 1871, Frank B. Fisher, brass turner. Resides at New Haven, Conn.
v Albertice David, b. Nov. 4, 1860 ; m. Oct. 25, 1888, Pauline Wheaton.
vi Cora E., b. July 12, 1865. Resides at New Haven. M., 1st, William E. Jones; m., 2d, Dwight B. Snow.
vii Marshal N., b. Apr. 21, 1867 ; d. July 12, 1871.
viii Sarah M., b. Jan. 23, 1877 ; d. Feb. 2, 1877

55 WAITE4 NORTHRTJP (Jeremiah1, Jeremiah1, Joseph1), b. Sept. 6, 1730; m., 1st, March 20, 1755, Sarah Gunn, who d. July 1, 1758, aged 25 years; m. 2d, Ann Benedict, who d. Aug. 7, 1806, at Brookfield, Conn. (She b. Feb. 22, 1730, dau. of Capt. Matthew and Ruth (Keeler) Benedict, of Norwalk, Conn.) He d. Aug. 3,1773, at Brookfield (death recorded at Newtown).
Children all b. and d. in Brookfield:
141 i Andrew5 (s. of 1st wife), b. about 1756.
142 ii Waite, b. May 12, 1765.
143 iii John, b. about 1772 ; d. Sept. 9, 1847, "in 75th year."
iv Sarah.
v Anna (probably d. before her father; not mentioned in his will).

311 ELI COOK" NORTHROP (Asa*, Joshua*, Jeremiah\ Jeremiah?, Joseph1), b. May 11, 1797, Brookfield, Conn.; shoemaker; m. Dec. 5, 1822, Lucinda Sophia Grummond, at Norwalk, Conn. (b. June 2, 1802, at Norwalk; d. Dec. 23, 1881, Edinburg, O.). He resided at New Milford, Conn., where all his cliildren were b., and removed from there, between 1833 and 1841, to Edinburg, Portage Co., O., where he d., Feb. 25, 1873. In 1814 he was a member of St. Peter's Lodge, New Milford,
i Sarah A.T
611 ü Mary A., b. March 4, 1828.
612 iii Eli Cook, b. (probably about 1830).
iv Asa H., b. Nov., 1832; d. Sept. 10, 1841.
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92 JONAH8 NORTHRUP (Isaac4, Joseph*, Joseph2, Joseph1), of Ridgefield, Conn.; m., 1st, ; m., 2d, Rhuanna . D. about 1811. Had 5 children by 1st wife and 4 by2d:
219 i William', b. .
220 ii David, b.
221 iii Lucy, b. June 4, 1800, Ridgefield.
222 iv Jeremiah, b. May 7, 1801, Ridgefield.
v Zilpha, b. ; m. Zerah West, and settled in Bridgeport, Conn. Had: (1) Julia, (2) Maria, (3) Henrietta, (4) Mary, (5) Ferdinand, (6) Catherine, (7) Angeline (twin of Catherine), m. Friend Smith.
223 vi Isaac.
vii Rhuanna, b. ; m., 1st, Harvey Baxter, and had (1) Jerome, (2) Nathaniel, (3) Martha, (4) James, (6) Darius; m., 2d, .
viii Eunice.
ix Clara.

135 AMY8 NORTHROP (John*, John", Jeremiah1, Jo- teph1), b. Feb. 9, 1760; m. John Sanford, of Newtown, Conn, (b. March 28, 1762; d. Jan. 20, 1839), s. of John. She d. Oct., 1849.
i David«, b. Aug. 1, 1783 ; d. 1804.
ii Elijah, b. May 23,1787 ; m. Abigail E. Tomlinson ; d.Oct. 26, 1849.
iii Charlotte, b. Apr. 16, 1792 ; m. Noble. Gen.William H. Noble, of Bridgeport, Conn., is their s.

293 JOEL GRANDISON" NORTHRUP (Hezekiah*, Joel1, Joel3, Samuel2, Joseph1), b. Feb. 8, 1807, Woodbridge, Conn. ; inventor; m. July 8, 1827, at New Haven, Conn., Mary Olive (d. Oct., 1885, aged 80 years, less 33 days), dau. of Bela and Polly Higgins, of New Haven. He left Woodbridge in 1828, and went to Homer, N. Y. ; then to Skaneateles, N. Y.» early in 1830; in 1832 to Marcellus, N. Y. ; to Cortland again until 1848; to Syracuse, N. Y., for 8 years; to Bridgeport, Conn., for 3 years ; to Marcellus again in May, 1858, where he resided with his dau., in a hale and hearty old age. with mental faculties remarkably keen until he d., Dec. 5, 1895, in his 89th year. He had a successful and noted career as an inventor, his most notable invention being a printing press that has gone into general use. The list of his inventions of a useful character is very interesting. His last important work was the invention and construction of a "Combined Press and Folding Machine, Printing from a Roll of Paper from flat forms of set type, and Folding and Cutting Automatically 16 or 32 pages."

i Charles Linus7, b. Nov. 3, 1828, Cortland; d. Nov. 27, 1850, at Syracuse; unmarried, ii Mary Ann, b. Nov., 1830, Skaneateles, N. Y. ; m., 1st, Bruce; m., 2d, James D. Mather. Reside at Marcellus, N. Y., on a farm. Children by 2d husband: (1) Charles Northrup, b. 1858; (2) James Henry, b. July 15, 1863; (3) Mary Frances, b. March, 1868.

300 ZIBA B.e NORTHRUP (George*, Jonathan4, John", Jeremiah2, Joseph*), b. July 15, 1792, Newtown, Conn.; m. Oct. 5, 1819. Phoebe Bennett, at Pine Plains, N. Y. Was in business at Bridgeport, Conn. ; d. Oct. 2, 1839.
i Frances Mary7, b. July 25, 1825 ; d. before 1839.
ii Theodore S., b. Nov., 1829.
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302 NICHOLAS B." NORTHROP (George1, Jonathan*, John", Jeremiah*, Joseph1), b. March 11, 1795; m., 1st, 1820, Caroline Sherman, dau. of Silas. She d., and he m., 2d, , xxxxx who lives (1887) in his old homestead at Bridgeport, Conn. He d. July 27,1884, at Bridgeport. Was a manufacturer of chairs at Bridgeport in 1840. Had by 1st wife:
i Charles Sherman7; d. (about) 1867, at Bridgeport, ii Philo (?) ; m. Harriet Wheeler.

834 WILLIAM WALLACE" NORTHROP (Andrew", Nathaniel*, Benjamin*, Jeremiah2, Joteph1), b. Oct. 5, 1817, Bridgeport, Conn. Was 40 years in business in Cincinnati, O. ; now (1889) resides at Belpra, O. M. Melissa Barker Stone, dau. of Ool. John and Charlotte (Putnam) Stone, of Belpra.
i William Harry7 ; d. in infancy, ii John Stone; d. in infancy.
iii Jessie, b. Apr. 24, 1857, Cincinnati, 0. ; m. Dec. 4, 1878, Samuel W. McMunn, in Belpra (he b. March 20,1850, Sharon, O. ). Address : 45 Broadway, New York City. Children: (1) William Northrop, b. Jan. 12, 1880, St. Louis, Mo. ; (2) Mary Wayne, b. Oct. 21, 1884, St. Louis.---

601 PHILO7 NORTHROP (Philo*, George', Jonathan4, John*, Jeremiah1, Joseph1), b. Feb. 17, 1822, Newtown, Conn. Resides near Hawleyville, Conn. M., 1st, March 6,184?, Mary G. Lewis, of Newtown (d. Aug. 12,1846) ; m., 2d, Apr. 9,1848, Harriet G. Lewis, sister of Mary.
By 1st wife:
i John Harson", b. July 3, 1846; d. May 15, 1847, Newtown.
By 2d wife :
ii Edwin Foster, b. July 4, 1849, Bridgeport, Conn. ; d. Jan. 30, 1850.
iii Mary Lewis, b. Dec. 2, 1852, Newtown; m. W. H. Barnum;d. May 27, 1889. Children: (1) Tracy A.; (2) Leon.
iv George Sperry, b. Nov. 1, 1860, Newtown; m. Henrietta S. Richardson.
v Annie Delia, b. May 10,1864, Newtown ; m. Benjamin W. Latin, of Shelton, Conn. ; 3 children.
vi Chester Philo, b. March 21, 1867, Newtown. (Bachelor.)
vii Bertha Almira, b. March 8, 1870, Newtown ; d. Sept; 10, 1871.

641 GEORGE W.7 NORTHROP (Andrew*, Hezekiah*. Nathaniel*, Benjamin*, Jeremiah1, Joseph1), b. July 4, 1839; m. May 28, 1863, Julia Antoinette Pollard, of Bristol, Conn.
i Minerva Rebecca", b: May 2, 1864, Bristol; m. Apr. 21, 1867, Frederick Frank Beach, ii Willie Pollard, b. Oct. 10,1863, Bridgeport, Conn. ; d. July 21, 1876.
iii Lottie Corinne, b. Feb. —, 1876, Bridgeport; d. July 21, 1878.
iv Nettie Pollard, b. Dec. 20, 1881.
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662 MARK A.7 NORTHROP (William*, Job*, Job4, Thomas", William2, Joseph1), b. May 23, 1821, Sherman, Conn. Auger and bit maker. Has resided at Seymour and Hamden, Conn., Matteawan and Newburgh, N. Y., Gracine, Mich., and has been a sailor. Resides at 26 Garden St., New Haven, Conn. M. July 4, 1843, Elizabeth Leatham, of Seymour (b. Dec. 27, 1826, New York City). Both members of M. E. Church.
i Minnie L.8, b. Dec. 10, 1845, Seymour; m., 1st, Nov. 9, 1866, William Henry Dickerson, of Newburgh, N. Y., who was lost at sea, 1870 ; m., 2d, Nov., 1875, Charles W. Monroe, of Gaylordville, Conn. No children. Resides at 160 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport, Conn.
ii Charles S., b. March 14, 1848, Seymour; d. July 31, 1877, New Haven; unmarried.
839 iii George H., b. July 28, 1851, Hamden, Conn.
iv Lillie, b. Feb. 23, 1854, Seymour; m. June 30, 1880, Frank E. Allin, s. of Délos. Have adopted dau., Bertha E. Resides at New Haven.
840 v Clarence, b. Oct. 23, 1855, Hamden.
vi Charlotte, b. Jan. 4, 1858, Matteawan; m. Jan. 22, 1882, Elmer Mathews, of Bethany, Conn. Resides at 535 George St., New Haven. Children: (1) Mabel E., b. Dec. 6, 1883; d. Feb. 21, 1885; (2) Grace E., b. Nov. 9, 1885.
vii Jennie E., b. May 5, 1864, Matteawan.

680 RHODA LUCRETIA7 NORTHROP (Alfred Mix', John*, Job*, Thomas3, William", Joseph1), b. June 10, 1831, at Watertown, Conn. ; m. Aug. 6, 1848, Daniel M. Pritchard, carpenter, s. of Elias and Hannah Pritchard. Children b. at Watertown.
i Miles L.', b. Feb. 1, 1850; m., 1st, Aug. 12, 1869, Lottie Munson (d. June, 1872); m., 2d, Nov., 1879, Alice Ward (d. June 9. 1881) ; m., 3d, Sept. 6, 1883, Lillian Eaton; now (1889) resides at Bridgeport, Conn,
ii Hattie I., b. Sept. 25, 1852; m. Apr. 6, 1871, Frank B. Fisher, brass turner. Resides at New Haven, Conn.
v Albertice David, b. Nov. 4, 1860 ; m. Oct. 25, 1888, Pauline Wheaton.
vi Cora E., b. July 12, 1865. Resides at New Haven. M., 1st, William E. Jones; m., 2d, Dwight B. Snow.
vii Marshal N., b. Apr. 21, 1867 ; d. July 12, 1871.
viii Sarah M., b. Jan. 23, 1877 ; d. Feb. 2, 1877 .

682 GEORGE ALFRED7 NORTHROP (Alfred Mix", John*, Job4, Thomas3, William3, Joseph1), b. June 3, 18361, Watertown, Conn. Carpenter. M. Feb. 10, 1857, Mary H., dau. of John W. and Elizabeth Ticknor. He d. March 7, 1881, at Waterbury, Conn.
i Stephen Potter8, b. Feb. 21, 1859, Williamstown, N. Y. ; d. Apr. 7, 1861, Florence, N. Y.
853 ii George Roland, b. Nov. 7, 1860, Florence, N. Y. ; m.Martha Balcom.
854 iii Frederick Alfred, b. July 13, 1862, Camden, N. Y. ; m. Rosa Frey. iv Harlow Sheels, b. Feb. 3, 1866, Pontiac, Mich. : m. in Bridgeport, Conn., Mamie E., dau. of Levi E. Dart, v William Wallace, b. March 20, 1868, Pontiac, Mich; m. Eliza Blodgett.
vi Llewellyn, b. March 30, 1872, Oneida, N. Y.

Map	Year	Name /Location	Image / Link Click for larger image	Carpenters	William Age b 1836 Died aft 1900 b4 1910	George Age b. 1844 Died 1906
	1854	Trinity Parish Hall (Pequot Avenue and Center Street SW Corner)	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	Parish Hall built by Jelliff & Northrop. The original Trinity Church building was built by Sherwood & Jeliff which may be the predecessor partnership to Jelliff & Northrop.	Age 18	Age 10
	1854	?? Southport Savings Bank	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	There is an attribution to Northrop Brothers in other HABS reports. However the HABS report for this building shows Sherwood & Jelliff as the builders. I suspect this partnership is the predecessor to Jelliff & Northrop with Francis Jelliff as one of the principals.	Age 18	Age 10
	c 1855	?? 22 Spruce Street map north of RR	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	If this is a Northrop house, it is likely Jelliff & Northrop. It may be a Sherwood & Jelliff building. Built for Legrand Sherwood,. William F. Northrop bought the house in 1861 and Northrops lived here until the late 1930's. It is shown on an 186? map as Wm F. Northrop (NE side of street) as the only home on what was then First Street.	Age 19	Age 11
	1850s	Sherwood-Banks House, 98 Banks Place detail	courtesy LOC HABS images	Sherwood-Banks House, 98 Banks Place. There is no attribution for the veranda addition, but it is possibly the work of Northrop Brothers. The sawed scrollwork is nearly identical to that of the Wakeman B. Meeker House identified as probable Northrop Brothers
	1860 /1774-5	?? Waugh House, 249 Old South Road	courtesy HABS	?? Waugh House, 249 Old South Road 1860 addition 1774-5 garage & 2nd floor rear. No attribution for architect or builder
		Mrs. Charles Jennings		sawn scrollwork porch detail looks to be Northrop Brothers
	1861	Moses Bulkley House, 176 Main Street (west / school side)	more recent image Old image “From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	HABS report indicates "Northrop Brothers, a prominent Southport lumher and building firm, received many of the contracts for the finest and most elegant commissions in town. Their works included Trinity Church (Conn-312), Southport Congregational Church (Conn-311), Southport Savings Bank (Conn-315), and the Charles Gilman House at 177 Main Street.It is therefore quite possible that Northrop was the builder/ carpenter for the Bulkley house" (perhaps Jelliff & Northrop since George volunteered in the Civil War serving in the Connecticut 8th Sept 25, 1861-Sept 25, 1864.) 1862 Oliver Bulkley & father original homr builder? 1886-1887 Expansion including tower Northrop Brothers 1922-1958 Used as Inn. Proch extended 1922.	Age 25	Age 17
	~1868	156 Pequot Avenue, George E.Northrop home (across from Larbert Drive)	scanned from family photo	This property does not (nor does any other Northrop Pequot Avenue property) appear on the 1867 map. However, William's home is shown on the map. A guess would be that this home was built just after the map was created. George E. had returned from the Civil War in 1864 and lost a son in September 1866 -- son George I. was born in 1871.	Age 32	Age 24
	1868-69	Pomeroy House 658 Pequot Avenue AKA Moses Aaron Sherwood House(northwest corner of Pequot.Road and Center Street)	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	Jelllff & Northrop	Age 32	Age 24
	??	??Godfrey House Methodist parsonage Center street just south of RR	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.” (edited)	There is no attribution for this home. Photographer: Edward, Clinton or Eugene Hall. Note found with glass plate negative: "The (new) Methodist Church Bldg at the corner of Pequot Rd & Center St." House in left background is house built for or by Jonathan Godfrey ( in 1880 one Jonathan Godfrey was 15, son of Harriet? and the other is age 82, Retired Merchant so it is likely FOR Godfrey) which had stood on site in front of church and was moved to front on Center St. It was the parsonage. It has been razed. May have been Jelliff and/or Northrop.
		612 Pequot Avenue	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.” (edited)	?? The house partially visible to right of church is another house built for Godfrey; it is now the Congregational Church parsonage, #612 Pequot Ave. See also commentary with photo #12. See photo #414 & 414A. See Packet Oct 1993. The house to the right of the church is now #612 Peq Ave, the present Congregational Church parsonage. Both houses (this and Methodist Parsonage) were built by Jonathan Godfrey. May have been Jelliff and/or Northrop.
	1868-69	Mrs. Benjamin Pomeroy Carriage House	courtesy LoC HABS	While not explicitly stated, the HABS report lists it as probably built at the same time(late 1860s) as the home and designed by Lambert and Bunnell.	Age 32	Age 24
	1870s	?? Charles E. Jelliff Home 212 Center Street ??(This address is across from Trinity and shown as home of Francis Jelliff on 187? map) (believe this may have been 212 Spruce Street) Charles Meeker John Meeker William F. Northrop Levi Sherwood Charles E. Jelliff	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	?? Jelliff and Northrop? House of Charles E. Jelliff. Built in the 1870s for Charles E. Jelliff, son of Francis Jelliff. In the 1950s the house, which stood directly in the path of I-95, was moved to 154 Taintor Drive. (facade was turned and other alterations made.). Francis Jelliff was 43 in the census of 1860., 53 in 1870 and does not appear in 1880. 186? map shows "P.Jellitt" owning half the street at the intersection with what is now the Post Road - and Spruce/First Street - no homes shown. F. Jelliff home is shown on Center Street across from the Episcopal Church. "Annals of an old parish; historical sketches of Trinity church, Southport, Connecticut, 1725 to 1848" indicates Francis Jelliff died in 1896.	Age 34	Age 26
	1871	?? Zalmon Wakeman 418 Harbor Road (north side)	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	Lambert and Bunnell architects. It is possible Jelliff & Northrop did the carpentry since they worked on many L and B homes,, but this is without documentation.	Age 35	Age 27
	1873	John Meeker House Spruce Street?? map (probably closest to I 95 on Spruce St) Census Order 1880 Charles Meeker John Meeker William F. Northrop Levi Sherwood Charles E. Jelliff	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	Jelliff & Northrop Mrs Meeker took both local and summer boarders in the 1880's.Sthport _Chronicle_ 10 Dec 1873, . "Mr & Mrs John Meeker's new house was raised on Monday. This is to be a very large dwelling & will be used as a boarding house, just the thing Southport has wanted for many years. The large number of bedrooms will be commodious and airy, just suited for summer boarders. Messrs Jelliff & Northrop, builders, have the contract.	Age 37	Age 29
	1884	Hemson Mrs. Simon C. Sherwood House 67 Westway Road	courtersy LoC HABS	This house is attributed to "D.P. Hemson as the contractor" ."The work is being done by the well-known builder Mr. F Hemson. 1892 addition "a large new cistern, the addition of a butler's pantry, etc. The work is being done by Northrop Brothers...".HABS report
		89 Westway Road Mrs. Simon C.Sherwood	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	I believe this is the same house as above.. Not sure which is the correct address.
	1873	Charles Gilman House, 139 Main Street (east side)	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	Northrop Brothers. 17 room Victorian Mansion. Gilman kept trotting horses in the stables behind. Later the home of M&M Richard Joyce Smith.	Age 37	Age 29
	1874-1874	Southport Congregational Church 523 Pequot Avenue		Jelliff & Northrop Carpentry work.	Age 38	Age 30
	~1880	?201 Harbor Road Cottage 1 (water side)		Northrop Brothers ? I'm not sure if this is the correct building (may be 231).If so, it has been substantially renovated. My understanding is there were three homes next to one another by Northrop Brothers on Harbor Road.	Age 44	Age 36
	~ 1880	Harbor Road Cottage 211 Harbor Road Gibbons (water side)		Northrop Brothers	Age 44	Age 36
	~ 1880	221 Harbor Road Cottage 3 (water side)		Northrop Brothers. This one is probably closest to its original look.	Age 44	Age 36
	~ 1880	170 Pequot Avenue (railroad side)	Image Courtesy of David Parker Associates	David Parker restoration http://dsparker.com/ *170 Pequot Avenue (currently David Parker Associates) sold October 1947 to Anna M. Wood for $7500 -- 1946 taxes were $53.26*	Age 44	Age 36
	~ 1880??	142 Pequot Avenue (railroad side to the right of northrop homestead)		One of three or more northrop houses maybe Whaler family home. 142 Pequot Avenue sold October 1947 to Stanley and Susan Short for $5500. It appears they were previously renting the house. The mortgage on the property was $1009.00. Since the papers also mention a name change from Mary Keeler Northrop to Mary Billings, it may be that they sold the property to divide up the assets as each sibling started their own households.	Age 44	Age 36
	~ 1880??	132 Pequot Avenue		This is to the right of the three know Northrop Houses and may well be another Northrop house, but there is no documentation.	Age 44	Age 36
	~ 1880??	610 Center Street number uncertain		No documentation. Dad had said his grandfather built several houses on this block.	Age 44	Age 36
	~ 1880??	612 center Street, Southport, CT (east side)		smaller center street homes No documentation. Dad had said his grandfather built several houses on this block.	Age 44	Age 36
	~ 1880??	621 Center Street ( west side)		had star in the circle woodwork detail until recently.No documentation. Dad had said his grandfather built several houses on this block.	Age 44	Age 36
	~ 1880??	541 Center Street			Age 44	Age 36
	~1880-1885	134 Center Street		NOT Northrop #123 134 Center St, Judge John H Perry House This house was built c 1880-85 for Judge John H Perry.. Sthport _Times_ 15 Apr 1880: Mr J H Perry will build a residence on Center St between the properties of Capt Pike and Francis Jellife [sic]. Norwallk parties have the contract and have stipulated to finish the house by the first of Sept.
	1885	Hardware Store Picture	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	Northrop Brothers Building, Northrop Bros., lumber and hardware dealers - just southwest of the northbound railroad station. Store first established in 1885(Ruger History).. "Standing out front is George Northrop and his son (sic) Fredrick ca. 1899".	Age 49	Age 41
	June 1888	Victorian Cottage and Barn (Stable)		Northrop Brothers built "The Victorian Cottage and Barn" in the summer of 1888. Quite a few members of the Fairfield Historic District Commission assured me that their identity of the Northrops as the builders had been documented, but no one was able to put their hands on the proof. I'm sure there is more detailed information, but the June 1, 1888 article from the Advertiser clearly names them as the builders for the cottage and stable. Mr. Robert S. Manuel was then owner of the Penfield Sun Tavern structure. In another of the files is the statement "In 1885 Robert S. Manuel of Troy, N.Y. bought the property for a summer retreat." The cottage mentioned is the small cottage now on Fairfield Town Hall Green. The buildings are popularly known as "The Victorian Cottage and Barn".	Age 52	Age 44
	1884& 1890-1891	?? Railroad Stations Southport		Northrop Brothers have been mentioned in relation to the Northbound RR station in Southport.The HABS survey indicates a New Haven company W. B Dickerman for the original brick depot. It is possible Northrop Brothers played some part in later renovations including, perhaps, the large overhanging roof and supporting brackets and/or platform roofs. It was literally around the corner from Northrop Brothers Store.	Age 54	Age 46
	1890	C. O. Jelliff Home Spruce Street Census Order 1880 Charles Meeker John Meeker William F. Northrop Levi Sherwood Charles E. Jelliff	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	House of C O Jelliff This house was built in 1890 for Charles O Jelliff, the founder of the Jelliff Manufacturing Corp on Pequot Ave. Originally, two Charles Jelliffs lived on Spruce St. Charles O and Charles E were distant cousins
	1850-55 scrollwork additions 1891	Wakeman B. Meeker 25 Westway Road	courtesy LoC HABS	Jelliff & Northrop or Northrop probable (HABS report)" veranda trimmed with highly ornamental sawed scrollwork, added in 1891, enhanced the austere simplicty of the original house""Though no concrete information concerning an architect or builder is available, the exterior form and details are similar to other commissions of Northrop and Jelliff, the most prominent builder in Southport after mid-century."
	1893-4	Captain Peet House 1000 Harbor Road	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	1000 Harbor Road built by Northrop Brothers. Tower later removed.	Age 57	Age 49
	Oct 22, 1895	Fire Southport Harbor area. Jelliff Buildiing, later Pequot Yacht Club, was one of the damaged buildings		Southport Burned. the Business Center Of the Place Destroyed-Loss over $50,000 Date: October 22, 1885 Connecticut New Haven Register News Article (left) Northrop Bros Loss $4000. The Southport Fire Department was organized October 2, 1895 following an arson fire that claimed $10,000 in damages to the brick warehouses of Francis Jelliff and the lives of 4 horses trapped in a neighboring barn. It took nearly three hours for the villagers and the Fairfield Volunteer Hook & Ladder Co. to extinguish the blaze. George E, the younger of the Northrop Brothers, was instrumental in the organization of a Southport volunteer department and served as the first Chief. Within two weeks there were already 23 members in newly formed department. The original Fire Department was next to Northrop Brothers Store. It is interesting to note that in 1857 a number of prominent Southporters (Jennings, Sherwood, Meeker, Perry Bulkley incorporated the "Southport Fire Insurance Company". Special acts and resolutions of the state of Connecticut	Age 59	Age 51
	1896-9	Dunne House Woodwork Beachside Avenue, Greens Farms	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	"Northrop Brothers have the contract for the woodwork", Beachside Avenue	Age 60	Age 52
	1896-1900?	?? Hammond House, Beachside Avenue	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	Hammond House (mislabeled as Dunne House) was right next door to Dunne on Beachside Avenue. It is pure speculation that Northrop Brothers may have done some of the woodwork. 214 288 in census	Age 60	Age 52
	1898	?? Methodist Church Center St & Pequot Ave	“From the Southport Picture File at Pequot Library, used with permission.”	No attribution for builder "The (new) Methodist Church Bldg at the corner of Pequot Rd & Center St." House in left background is house (built for Godfrey) (above) which had stood on site in front of church and was moved to front on Center St. It was the parsonage. Around 1880 "Present Steward include Andrew W. Jennings, Lewis B. Jennings, William F. Northrop, George E. Northrop, A. P. Jennings. Trustees include AW Jennings, LB Jennings, William F. Northrop, AP Jennings, George E. Northrop" many Meekers, Parsells, Hubbells as well as Northrops in marriage and birth records. The 1856 Clark Fairfield County Map shows the older Methodist Episcopal Church around the intersection of Taintor Drive and Rose Hill Road	Age 61	Age 53
	1899	Advertisement in Greenfield Hill Cook Book		A book for the cook: old fashioned receipts for new fashioned kitchens By Village Improvement Society of Greenfield Hill, Conn Published by Published under the auspices of the Village Improvement Society of Greenfield Hill, Conn., 1899 Original from Harvard University Digitized Dec 29, 2007 100 pages	Age 63	Age 55
	1904	William dies Fred takes over Northrop Brothers		1904, on the death of his father, Frederick, son of William F. became sole proprietor and continued the business under the name of Northrop Bros. George dies in 1906?, but apparently was not involved with business in 1904.	Age 64	Age 56
	1910	Cotone /Kish House		Northrop Brothers under the direction of Frederick Elmore Northrop, son of William Fenn Northrop. originally stood on the site of 3530 Post Rd.moved to 742-44 Kings Hwy West	Deceased
		William Houses in Bridgeport (prob while George was in Civil War)		note in father Alvin's daybook
		Family		Jelliff and Northrop and Northrop Brothers constructed many of the buildings designed by Bridgeport architects, Lambert and Bunnell (Edward R. Lambert and Rufus W. Bunnell). Ther may be other L&B buildings constructed by the Northrops. William and George's in-laws were Charles Bulkley (married to sister, Julia) of Southport and later Greens Farms, Charles Meeker (brother-inlaw married to sister,Frances) , Westport, George B. Mills (married to sister,Louisa) , Westport, CT. It seems quite plausible that unattributed homes of similar construction for Bulkleys, Meekers and Mills may be Northrop Brothers. Charles Bulkley (Julia Burr Northrop's husband) was also a carpenter and later a farmer (census). There is no information so far to indicate whether he worked with Northrop Brothers. Their uncle, William Hemson b. NY (mother Sarah's brother-in-law living in Westport next to father Alvin and mother Sarah in 1850) was also a carpenter and MIGHT be the one with the Mrs. Simon C. Sherwood home attributed to him. 1850 Westport -- Census Alvin Northrop and Sarah Wakeman Alvord are apparently living next to Abby Alvord Hemson, sister of Sarah, William Hemson (Carpenter) Brother-in-law to Sarah and Alvin and Abigail Jennings Alvord, Sarah's mother. Charles Bulkley, Carpenter age 18 was also living with the Hemsons. It is not know whether he was serving as an apprentice to William Hemson. 0348 361 Greens Farms Road William Hemson House 5453-236 1855/ 1964 Bracketed Italianate?/Neo-Colonial CHC (1988); WHS 5:3 from Westport Historic Resources Inventory 2004 Another builder/carpenter during this period in Southport is Disbrow.(LF Sherwood House, Osborne Hetzel House carpenter work by Joseph Disbrow of Southport)There may even be an extended family connection through the Jelliffs.

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