New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1922, Page 10

New Britain’s Early Growth ARy i Saie T & A0 i e g 1103 0 DEC g Was Slow, Ten Houses Were [’ A5t s s . o 8, T T SUMHER RESORTS| & \ 4 Do GASTURI A Built During Thirty Years| S ad O, .‘f.‘._:‘:"",":j‘W”’fl‘“""zg‘”[gZ‘g{}fm‘f’cg{" Prioes| gagh For Infants and Children, . by iy ’ | house was built Furthermaore the ) : . to Isane Lewis wecording to o the Chieago, 111, April 10— Reductions Stephen Lee was the first scttler in |« of their coming here, Stephen that part of the Great Swamp o was the lender of the Great ACHPOFGOOdTea Parmington land rocordss April 20, ranging from 25 to 454 per cent will ) : b | i ,, ~ o 18, 1705, No mention of any house fs|'hicago and Louis in round ftrip ; = i3 A to New Nritain in 1704 T ( ./ Isane Lee might well have heen ] “” ” = o grant from the town of Farming-|called the “Father of New Britain," is a “freshener”’ ot made In connection with elther of [fares to Western summer resorts din 0 AL(;bfimm‘“ & of land on Rast street| We o dato or his buflding bi . ] [ 3 these deeds. The Stephen Lee honse | effective in some terrvitories May. 15, \ A . ] Al Sl sobde of land on ey ' ‘\1\1 ”:.‘H“. ‘.:M.yvy‘.’u‘ Iy‘j, “\fi.‘.,?.'.".‘.\ any time, day or right was bullt 1604 .:h‘]m.-n yeur bew | I ofher JI.‘m. ,‘,' :||<‘I|)‘]“\“V’I;: 1o ul.‘um A\céc_lnblcl‘rtpfim"”‘gga’_ Wa'ys to hulld within four years ‘“or e | Royee, October 1, 1690, 1t was the | fore Isaane Lewis owned land in this|J. Magnive, Chairman of the tariff I similating theFood by it {8 to return to the town again,”ifashion for young men who con Enjoy the stimu- vlelnlte, Tn. ordor to antedate the|DUredu of the Western Pasngor ting theStomachs and Bowels o Bears the . ca | ' e wilding o » Stephen Lee house, | Association Reductions of 20 per TS . (John Lee and his decendants, prge | templated marriage to provide a home X Lnilding of the Stepl | \onse, I ¥ ANTS .~ C MILDRE 186,) The house which Stephen lee 1 to have the house ready for o lating frajrance [ some data prior to 1600 must he fully (". nt oon fares to Kastern resorts will | INFAN LS " L i erected on this lund was the frst o v ahout the date of their mar | Of tea at l‘:S bCCt ‘nl;vux.n\u;ul and \‘.m; |u|~;~n .vym{‘ ‘-‘lm-‘lll‘v"l-llr:'-‘ll‘ ‘:nylwul»}'y‘yfiwl\l l"H”I:A)II\‘III.\I\v: :.]xi : imemW#P ofl'néflflozfi’:&‘ Slgnature erected within the present limits of [ or very soon thereafter, This| & wnoa five year old infant mu " one g « dRest | inle] \ : ; | lines 80 ‘ed, The measure £ cerfulness an New Britain without regard to former | nractice was so common, that in the | by drinking | |named aa the antedating party ,",’ ".,',,:",“" "”'I'"j""_l, ”,' '”',"'\'”,' i ?émm- jum, Morphine nor e Vitastion: ot sthie Asta. . ihe Vins of | Hearsay Statement il duction i declared (o be not only ¢ Wt ¥ NARGOTIC 0 In this house Stephen Lee and his| narviage can he generally relied upon 1 A e gre st for summer rates .~v||y|t N +P'li Mineral, o_. bride commenced housekeeping in the | '8 approximately the date of erceting \‘\j”'_"“n entrance into the World sl latter part o 1000 His nearest you mar first hous Stephen | ar, but far g 'l'l‘lhul\ any for a ) mon with one of the erroncous and |Mimber af ye before that war, contradictory statements given by An-|®Yen When lower reduced fares were R z ! ) ki I e [offered becanse the basis rates were 3l : sosite direction, the nearest houses|vouth for sisty.three years, She died drews, ihes the huilding of the} =0 © i 4 Ky :»r» In Farmington centor. His houge | May 2, 1760 fn the 01st year of her first house in New Pritain to Jona- | Much lows The surmer reductions I had been standing on st stheet [ & than Lewls, He was a younger| SUbplemented homeseekers rates of \ second House Holder Lewis, son of pt. Jonathan, “lived |Prother of lsaac and not horn until A one-way fare plus 82 for a round elght years when the first house ARLILEAL ) ¢ R nirren? 3 yhoy { i sever Hite “nftar the Btsphen 1.0 P, Which went into effect in March, gy for erected in Southingta mor Penjumin Judd, our second house|on the old homestead of his father|fcVen years nfter t sty fiAniR o ¥ dy Tickets Daily D arrhoed, twenty-five years when the fist honseinalder marrled a daughter of John|® * * sald to be the oldest place fn|house was bullt, that is to say, he Witk | oG8k ats will be | Gonstipation and Di hness a n January 1889, upon which hearsay statement appears as | foot note on page 43 of Camp'’s 1is tory of New Rritein, which in com neighbars were ot Christinr i ce Janunry 7, 1758, aged 87, about two miles' distant, In the op- | having lived here with the wife of his waa erceted In Htanley Quarter and [ Narth on June 8, 1694 und located on |New Britain, Andrews has glven [born in 1607, Jonathan Lewis deed| o B 0 Boie fae e e a0 0 the | B and Feveris! more than thirty years when the first | zast street less than halt a mile|these contradictory and hearsay state. | f0r his house and land, herein before fo BB SO0 b ot o e house within the limits of Erlstol wus|narth of [.oe's, He was the first man|ments as they were related to him,|Mentioned, shows that his house was| PEEC B 0 BHE AN (ATE FE8 0N i inlnfancy. rilden. » broct 8 house here. which: wan leas |And Pefralned from making any com-{Dulll 10 the year 1700 twenty=nin® | .o 0 or oo tha Jonaer Afa. g ety or ver The Christian Lane parich in 1708 h two miles from another man's ment thereon. Had he | fam{llap|YeATS After ohen Leo had movedf i o ™ oaind, . iMor. axampie & { tncluded the gr part of New Brit ouse, He died March 9, 1764, aged | With the genealogical data of Isaac;!Nt0 his new house, | cannot find ¢ round trip from Chicago to Yellow- 00 . ain and was then referred to as “that{14, having lived here with his wife|and Jonathan Lewls, he would havejevidence ~whatever showing that| o050 o o0 e pacifie coast HAF g oL desolate corner of the wilderncas.” In]tor 70 yeurs, 1 month and 21 days |known that these statemonts were |1888¢ lewls, or Jonathan Lewls, or| o, "0 50 bl 0 imes s one-way i Ir y ears this wilderness Stephen Lee's son | the gied April 1764, aged 88, Mr, |not true, Al Bian NN, ATEOACL - 0 "I"""‘ fare, while a round trip from Chicago YORK. _ Isaac was born on September 6, 1691, 1 md Mrs, Judd and their next nelgh-| A manuscript *History of the Farm-| 1110 the present fimits of New to a Wisconsin resort il usually ths old i t i ain prior to the erection of 5 8 2@;‘[::':"('\“ i ‘u'mu barn fo Mr. and Mre, Lee, sched the | inzton Family of Towns" by the Hon, .\‘lr‘pl‘wn R kb cost one and one-half times a one way | A | Arome CApCENTS h Britain, Col. Tsaac , i fioh O ze of ninety years. Blihu Burritt and now in the State tare nilarly the reduction on the ¢ ‘351’0,51-,5 A ] this first Isaac, gave New Hritain its] Daniel Dewey, our third house ||ibeary referring to the early houses| ? ; vound trip to Yellowstone or the s / name in 1784, when the New Britian [ older married Catherine Beckley on | o¢ the Great Swamp parish within | King of Denmark’s favorite y | coast will be less in proportion as the il g 8 society was incorporated. Col. Lee was | teptomber 1706 and located the |4 Britain. | © crocheting. tourist’s starting point is out nearer S Rt R Ao BE-A) e o was e ol Sl el present limits of New ! 7 A 8 o [ he first resident of this pli 0 serve foast side of Stanley street opposite | giotec that “The first of these was {hat his destination 8 a rule the wreturn Exact Copy of Wrapper, b [ 1imit will be Octoher 31, but some P! THE CENTAUR COMP/AY, NEW YORK CITY, fFs s ale ot Bapnectldut dn. the Gy | He wus, 80 to speak, our firstor ryanc Lewis” Probably Burritt so = eral Assembly, having been a mem | ore having been horn in West-|ypjerctood Andrews' statement con- 2 ?1“"""" to Michigan and Wisconsin _ ber of the Lower House at its first | e ss., while all our other early|serning this house, Andrews glves no ave ou l es points ca a thirty day limit. session, which convened at New sweve, Horn ind Connectant | cereninalont data s te. Tsaso 1ewis: ® Home Seckers Tickets, i Haven in October, 1776, M NG e exsention iof HoBeTRGIE Rbori aatusthal HE | whA|! D leohHErat R O ROIT it es vision R R D R PR B e T R R First Congrezational Church ooth of Stratford, were born in|uprohably a son of William Lewls the | fjove any form of Piles—qnick action ,The first Copgregational church of | “armington. Dewey di2d in 1717 aged | pegigtrar, that is, William No. 2, it[in even old stubhorn cases. No cut- New Britain was orginized in the year the first of our min to pass AWay.|js certainly improbable that William | ting—no ¢ y salves-~a harmless SRR Sanout ARt e after Anthony duda [No. 3 could have had a son who|tablet that removes the cause, Mon Capt. Stephen Lee moved into his new Athions TiHss ot Polimthi HoliBel o k8 i Ghatiah fo: have loen $he|back-if not satisheds: Clark & Br house. This church was the first[“older n ed Susanna Woodford on | pioneor settler of New Britain. In fact|erd Company. i daughter of the Great Swamp or 26, 1707 and settied on Stanley ¥ ~ Kensington church, the latter heing a little north of Dewey's about | the first of sixteen churches which He was o deacon of the Great| have descended from = mother| twamp church and the first resident church in Farmington. The town of I 2¢ New Britain to servé in the General Farmington was the first daughter of |\ mbly of the Conlony. He first Hartford. The first house of worship { wrved at the May session of 1717 and within the limits of Beriin and New | ast in the May ion of 1741, serv- Britain was on the hitl a little east oi [‘ng in all thirteen sessions. His first the road which is now called Christian | wife* Susana, was the first adult in Lane, having been so named because (New Britain to depart this life, the God's house was standing there. e of her death being unknown, but In the year 1656 the town of FFarm- | it was probably before the Kensington | ington voted “that highways shouid|~hurch was organized in 171 be laid to and through the Great Joseph Smith, our fifth house hold- Swamp,” whereby the Christian Lane | »r married January 17, 1708, Mary road and the roads through New|Royce, a sister of Mrs. Stephen Lee. , % Under the homeseeker p round trip tickets to sparsely *d United States since the tendency un- n. The tickets are <old to resi- regions with a return limit of 2 S . . cooaent control to discourage | dents of ferritory ecast of the Miss- ill he sold on roads west of Chicago | unnecessary travel in the effort to|ouri river. and St. Lonis the first and third Tues- | keep roads clear for their wartime | The reductions will represent a LI ach month, ending with| functions. Destinations of home- | concerted effort on the part of the Jovember. The homeseckers rates|seekers tickets are chiefly in Montana | railway companies to build up pas- are the first to be offered in the|North Dakota, Washington and Ore- | senger traffic, it was stated. Britain leading to it came into exist- [ He located on the east side of East ence soon after 1686, The TIndiun|street a little south of Stephen lLee name for the Great Swamp territory|ibout 1708, His place was occupied was “Pagonchamischang.” Two par-|by Joseph after Joseph for five gen- ¢ : cels of land at Chrigtian Lane were| rations. exchanged in the year 1678, between| John Woodruff, our sisth house Jonathon Gilbert of Hartford and [ 5older married Klizabeth Thompson | Richard Seymour of [Farmington, [ ihout 1696. She died on December | - each parcel being described as “lying |30, 1705 and he married Mary—, his at a place called by the Indian name [ cesidence then being in Farmington of “Pagonchamischaug.” It is stated [ In the month of January, 1708, he in several publications that the Great [ sld his house there and about that Swamp scttlement - was begun by [‘ims removed here with his second Richard Seymour and others alout|wife and feur children, three of them 1686, but as a matter of fact Jonathan,were by his first wife. These three Gilberf had farm buildings there | children were the first in this place prior to his death on December 10, to have a step-mother. Woodruff's 1682. The inventory of his estate, house in New Britain was on the hill taken in the following Iebruary, in-|east of our présent Town Home. A | cludes as one item, “his farm at! pair of twin hoys were born to him on | Pagonchamischaug with buildings on|March 5, 17 probably the first It,” thereby showing that the Great: twins born in this place Swamp settlement began fully thrce sieventh Aouse years earlier than has generali, boen| Isaac Lewis. our seventh hoise supposed. holder married Abigail Curtis on May One reason why the existence of |4, 1710, and located about that time | these early buildings has not been|on the north side of South street, a more gencrally known is because - little west of the bridge over the main | few who may have seen this item in|line of the Consolidated railroad, near | Gilbert's inventory had any concep-|the upper end of Christian Lane. He tion of the locality thus described. rei wved to Southington with his| Larly Settlers ramily prior to 1730, It was the first | It is stated in Comp's Mistory of [family to remove from this place. | New RBritain, page 31, with reference | ‘ertoin statements concerning the age to the northward extension of the|of Isaac and Jonathun Lewis houses | Great Swamp parish that “The per- | will be hereinafter considered. sons living in this direction were| Robert Booth,<our eighth house | Captain Stephen , Scrgt, Benjamin | holder married Anna Hollister on No- | Judd, Joseph Smith, Robert Booth, | vembe and located on South | o 5 o Anthony Judd, 1saac Lewis and some | treet a little westerly from the Isaac | Tough, live, springy, O’Sullivan’s others. The names of these sisx men | Lewis house on the opposite side of Safety Cushion Heels for men and two others who located here, viz. [ the road. He bought his land on Feh- aughePafenshnck.absmbfl-s, John Woodruif and Daniel Dewey, | uary 26, 1 i, the deed therefore | are given on 16 of Andrew's His- | siving his residence as of Stratford \ tory of the IMir Church, together | Andrews states that he held office in | e N M with the location of cach man's house. [ Great Swamp society as early as 1715 3 \ U Ewery woman reeds the pro- Thomas Stanley and Jonathan Lewis | while Oreutt's History of Stratford | tection of O’Sullivan’s Safety may also be added to our list of early -V{H‘r that he removed here in 1716, Cushion Heels. A style for He was the first to come here from A 2 stiother part of the states all of, the | . . every type of shoe. sthers having heen residents of Farm- gton before they settled in this ace . . . Figst in Bianley Dnartes | Worn by gmwm{lchnldnn, O’Sullivan’s % Safety Cushion Heels turn hard, noisy Thomas Staaley, our ninth house f e L oltlar merrel WEEr Cowise of Jais pavements into silent, springy turf. uary 2, 1718 and about that time| acated in Stanley Quarter which was | then within the 1armington parish. His ouss was U fist within the DULTS or children —standing or walk- amount of springiness. They are made in all the dreat Swamp parieh. ing—all face the same problem. Every- sizes—for men, women and children. ma vk abeth Newell and 1 1 i H mastted Hilsnkats Newdl] wd where the same unyielding hardness underfoot The price of O’Sullivan’s to you is gener- on which date his father, —floors and pavements where just standing is ally the same a5 the price of ordinary heels, ym Lewis, deeded him 60 acres i P ’ ( land on which s father hai | a strain and where every step is a jolt. although they cost the repairman more than AL & THblbr G it Hoiwe Ve 10 Hard leather heels of course give no relief. any other heels made. Your repairman has : outh, of the Town Home. Probably Ordinary rubber heels are little better. Some only two reasons for accepting this smaller Let Cuticura Keep Your ire tand In New Dritain with & | are soft, crumbly rubber that quickly wears profit: first, because O’Sullivan’s always make it Skin Fresh and Young plé at Swamp Socicty down—others as hard and lifeless as leather pleased customers; second, because pleased customers help him to enlatge his business. g . | # » \foresaid ten house § Daily use of the Soap keeps the hol iEned the petition of 1705 for itself. skin smooth and clear, whiletouches | |1/ (% BEREY DRGSR 0T S it ent now and then BIE- [ | society. Stephen Lee and Benjamin O’Sullivan’s Safety Cushion Heels absorb Ask for O’Sullivan’s Safety Cushion Heels vent little skin troublss becoming Tudd with their families were living Setbuais "Cutitura Taleum 1o fdeal | |1 0 e s rttar tors i ing— j j for powdering and pesfuming. Sl L S L the strain of standing—the jolts and jars of when you leave your shoes —see that they i R A [ Josenn st e Taewis were walking. They combine just the right tough- are attached. The O’Sullivan, Hecl Com- where. Sozi % o. Ointment % as married 1 probably signed . ftlon a8 prompective settiers ness for long, hard wear, with the greatest pany. eferring again to Andrews' His v 1¢ it is stated that the Isaae Lewis house was said to be the oldest within the present limits of the 4 Days Starting Sunday town of New Britain.” This may mean JACKIE COOGAN that it was the first house here, or it N 4 e s . ! nay mean that at one time, it was the in the season’s ;:.l‘o.nml [ |oidest House then stasding 1n New “MY BOY New Britain Andrews has given History, it i stated that William o — A ]