Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 3, 1909, Page 10

SETTLEMENT OF NORWICH. | Reason why though in the first Deed | n'eted before November 1, 1§61, under | lover, returning home late one evening | the gwell “(No. 1), r 2 I gamé was watch tower, a forts AEd oty Je°Is Sayde nine miles square aud yett | fenalty of forfeitiag $20. Kiderkins | from & VISIt to the iady of his W oustod S ot the cowa { ‘The Pieneers from Saybrook in 1658— | it is layde seven miles from the Head | mill stood for many years below the [ was both snapped =t by a welf an to efla ilg; n )\c. Y 3 e Fhe v s . : ' voclety both cvi an ‘men In the new satme i ixed—| 0f Trading Coave: and two miles on | [alls, to which Sltuation it had_been | hissed at by a rattiesnete,” just as he RN, . Yiliey Selte wovy ¥ Cho Tt e e viver mot mbasur Pomovad IO 10 SEINILS at Tro KAR | yaasod thisiugh 64 Bf CHS Siirnnisien g A Il Some of the Earliest Land Grants onl . - Accounting the Coave and the | Acre. - Fofty, acres upon the cove wers | Irom what Is now known as Peck’s | one of "".}a},‘,, i n% g She thwn clorie the Shetucket er. “Breadth of ye River which Reason was | §'ven to the mill, “bo Ive to it with the | corner the read follewed the present | tlement. T A . and is becsuse the Benefit & Libérty | Lending Place, for: thé se of the | Bast Tewn and West To Tetritie: up | Lefilngvell whe, in a cance loa early settlers, long | wis a! A y ood BT Presidint Gifman in his historical ad- | of the waters and River fér fishing | twn.” and to be f-p;qvu by nrnlm the place where the road erosses the | boei and other l‘::pvllfi cat " the brond D‘H%l-hln mfim o’ probERly ool dress Bty years 5o save us & word | and othervise s occusion Is wasend | I'derkin, the iller, This gdent in- | Yantic river. At thia point ere wis | reliet vt Uncas, besleged by the Nar- PToeh shosy 55 R Rl fom icturd of the arrival 6f the proprie-| 18 to gurselves Reserved and unto owr | cluded thé gréafer part of what is now | another gate, at the emd of the town | rigansetts g his fo! A il it 3 v prs when they came up the Thames | Heires and vnto owr Heires not hen- | upper Washington and Sachem strécts | strect. Where the Side Etrests and | Poguetarnuc 1ot tas which . 6. men - offen Wore | Baybroak. #nd lamied at the foot of the gravel|defing the Inhabitants of Nerwich|and was_ given with the reservation | lanes branched off frofn the main roads arning to the rt’m at Hatland's | sald have ebefn enwertaini " . broad 8. The I s - hills at the head of Yantic cove, stop- | their heires and successors. Knowall | tPut the indians should have free ac- |ints the country, gates were bulit also, | corner, and followin, chineten On_the é‘:'w ”‘smn'vl‘n e ).(: m:yfln‘l:i".n - :\:‘m:‘d :'z:nlfllmll.;.l.crton'éolnm"fl f ped in their further progress up the|that wee Oweneca and Josiah sachems | cess to their burying ground, which |and it was an important duty of the.strcet, we o-w the Olmstead or La- | the Josepl . river by the untamed cataract which | of Mohegan and as that wee and some | lay withif the boufids of the grant, | towhdmen to seée that these gates were | throp house ( 43), now oecupled by.| gart of wiich was sably bujlt nfu! the slceves |and se\entsen yeaps. The townm clerk's has .been such & source of inspiration | of the C‘I’\h»f men have been out with | The first kouses of the eoni';mnuy | kept up. s % Jihe Giliman family, Of this house Mise llmon l-{(uhu ton, ?’ *’hn An:z embroidered. SUfMly | office stond on the corner of Washing and profit to the later residents of | the English have seen and Rénewed | were doubtless log Louses, the timber s » Perking, ifr her book on the Old Houses | Huntingten, 1 18 ihe seryi y & hands and deep fton and Bast Town streets, now n‘vwn orwich. the severale Boundaries and Corner|for whieh héwn by hand, and the'| Anether muw' task iwas the | of Norwlch sayi One paft of th='ifown ih fmai ilvll In 1 ufl&.fl mm\ eavily am: [as Peck's cothier, n frotit o C ;-:- He picfurés a few of the men as| Trees which Corner Trees and Boun- [nails wefe also hand miide ' Usglly | kéeping up of ¢ 5 Town. fences, The | house 1§ evidently very oid, the ceil- | he e granted liberly to Keep 4| proidered gaubtiets, and | pher Huntington's house. & Miss, Caul- N passing the winter here, and then, in | darles are above expresséd. That the | * cnly one story, or at most of a story | ome-1ots were il enclased; the lawftl | ines o, and tho beams showing in | “houte of phbilc entertainment e mlmem tied with ribbons above | kins save: “In the Arst books,' dates the spring of 1660, the rest of the com- | Inhabitants of the plantation of Nor-|tnd a hall, they confaineéd twe rooms | front fefice being “d4ive rayie or equiv= | pis the mérk of the axe. The work- | this house Wis made & Magasine t ce, later ¢oming beiow the knee confounded and stbjeps (v o: peny coming “in shallops, stepping | wich in the Collony of Connecticut for | 0 the ground floor, a Kitehen and a|alent to it, and the senérar fence -a nehip of this part does notTesemtle | the defensive arms 6f the town, and | nd 64 With buekles, completed | mixed with a strange deffee of n!fl‘;A ‘over night at New London that some | New England—Xlay and shall for Ever | ‘'best room,” (which was often u!ed}tm‘ee rayle’ - Oiits of thesa. ferices 'that of the hibizes bullt In the middle | a report made in. 1720, # that it| the pre g costumé for men. . . . |gence. Bome of the records seem U of the party might visit the site of | pemceably. & vndisturbily Injoy hold | as u sleeping room), and fude sleéping | {he cattle were allowed to fpam at will, | of the elghtesnih centuzy, and wh be- | coijained “d balf barrel of powder, § 3 ¢ the Pequot fort, and enjoy the beau- | and Improve all and every part of the | pisces in the space above. | together with the shees, ats ve that though Dr. Danlel'Lathrop | pounds of bullets, and 480 Rint: < 2fful prespect from ité summit” Sail-| Land within Those several Cerner | swine. Hvery mud's caftle wers ! méy have thoroughly ropaired, added ing up the river the mext day, they s and Iounds as is above Ex-| In one of thesé eafly hous: it nenished by a private ear mark, ¢ . ‘and feimodeled the house, & portion | Arewnd the arsen,*and on the road AT s H d. And that shall be geod and | August. 1860, wgs born m{-um&% it 0 feust, may possivly date from | totwards Bean Hill there are alse other to all jntents’ & pérboses to| Gaughter and Jane ha time of the setilement” sugks Which imay contain portions t Norwich theire | I the first born obilld -of Narwich.| In the home-lots asslened te them | s house, aily of Dr. | which date back to this perlod in our rcceskors Asigres Administra- | Ciyistophef Huntingten, son of C long. these maln roads (he felzh- Hrop; Mre. Lytla Huntley Sizourney |‘hjstory. xecutors with all the privelleds- | lopher and Ruth titigton, born in boring lanes; the settlers Luill thelr w . Beyond this polnt, still on' Miss Pofking describes the larger 30 Apperten as is expressed C 3 . 8 smplyed he Originail Deed, And in Testimony and Comfirmation of ten and that it 18 Aet & Deéd as witness our hands and seals this th of October Anno 1683, his mark (seal) P (seal) Anno : 1685 Owenecs achem of Mohegan | m ot Aohegen ) B | pwleaged s S Act-ang Deed & " i 38 FITCH, Assistant. i he Above written is A True Coppie » HINGES, KNOCKER AND NAILS OF | of the originule being . 4 FORT MEETING HOUSE BUILT vared therewith th < O . i e wore kit b oft have been mad promiscum thi a th :N; RIC:('S b | o e =1 F raRIets & CARAL ARA Jegthas | e e (mae, romies e ASS e he chalr o ncag, whes a cretary. I utte W 1 b enbd ; an, rd or b cwvard, ~gurly of the Tndiang, with Uncas him- | The township was surveyed, a high< g o 1 o - o :’.‘3'5'" :ho."i‘ the peités ol Wheteve Akors wab s O pa Tx?.a at thelr head, joined them ai thelr | W2y laid out, and house lots assigned F . : B : “Under the pointed. stomacher and | carliest notices relate to the granting h canoes, and accompanied them [ !n the fall o i ot Sl T ; 4 4 5 % : i 5 Bown with elbow sleeves, the women |of land, appointing fence-viewers diig nes e ¢ E did not brin ir M i * 3 ' vore pi v ome- | erer it ounds, ex wn the settiement they passed .neav nw"“”""‘mfl apri So far as we kuow, . . oy 4 e - i £ y §tifly starched aprons. The matrons'| and reguiati unbing et Aees o ; round ich Une ouse was standing in the % % y o 7 i velvet hood oy 1 other; doi £ | Chaizea them to hold sacrvd forever. - | srting ot 1660, a rude sielter puilt for o 4t : i . ! Frers oaveh i voatie, &b Well s the | man Hhase” were. ihe Irec eubjectay | Ng;:;y:»n:;dn-?::n “\‘ff, llt;}hh:'av:gn?{ Toinba s Winer s nrcikd D‘;:;‘f 4 4 B 9 % 5 Bk o % s 5 e d :ood—l short cape with hood |of legisiation. d the first officers ‘nat tell. There s a tradiiion that| e court Al oLt Ol Ul gh Nerwich was within the | (ownsmen were afterwards calledsd 8y whie- dis e rav. | Buperal court, er d ? 5 g b vdrie Wlackbirds, who would sometimes dea | TN settlement: Srlost T asaralenty- th, ANy Rteal | iour race oot It was their busl- ‘send upon the newly sprouted maize, | . “NOt many weeks now past. we are extent, and the tew B ey e il e R 1 2nd léave hardly one spear remaining. | bY sufficient information certified, that te govern themaelves like an Independ- | 3833), to order the: prudentials of the i3 {Perhaps they ware influsnced by Capt. | (V¢ nisht at ye New Plantation at #0¢ repahe, @il of the public Bubl. | town. A see (0 It LAt the wholasome {John Mason who, from his familiarity e ol g s, ok WHL Apt hess havifly Deen managed by the | town orders be atiended to. They | | jwith the Indian country and his Jong | FGrG Gf the [arcagansetts r?Ebt“l)l1 whole body pelitic. But Mr. Fitch and | were empowered 1o tall public meet- | {0, [sofuaiitanc with Uncas, may have | [ullets Into a Touse of our Englieh Major Mason, althdugh in no sense | ings, to cognizince of all offensen bl : {Onportunities Which those Manegan | Lave slain Bl whome we have ctuse SR S LIy Y OF FASM 10, ool S’ mopalirt 08 | 3 nds offered for a Settlement. to iodsi, Wiigey: dately wo Ga:tiéh bup i hev. demde. Ve the vaset | S ifemota, 484, try cases $¥ vty tuke ourselves bound to promote, our “ . < atly | S5 rg 4 ! Whatever the censiderations may | LSty Govr Major Mason.” B e it it vt RS 5| tolamey o 'the aetly ‘theerfs, red o8 [ i have been which finully brought them here is anmotber account which SRR of e sttt > woowat | R ey hali I%o ‘& deciston, we know that in 1659 | 5°aks of 8 bullets being fired into an he ahould come to the new settlement, | bok procurad At 1own ChArEs for - _,C'vllutltn was made to the General i‘:f:":'fii:;':"j“”j‘," ‘wherein 5 Englishmen or should stay with the remnant of his | recording of lands, ard allso a : At otk un we A this vecortin the| But in the spring of 1680, elther in Do I e el s A b Jelis, | cumpas and yt there shail e alinw iy miintes of the Asn!mhly‘jg S e Tor separate partles or altogether, the set- e n he decided that hlln duty\v 8 | to any of the Inhabitants of this townay “Haftlord, May 20. This Court have- | Uers reached it new home. A list ?m?msem:t’l‘? -‘t':‘:r rr::‘::r‘lxalwh-'“":; | - ";:k' thoy & e the! - :"”r "7“: { ng considered the peiition presented |9f thiese “first proprietors, thirty.five invited to take charge. of ‘the church | B wrase 1and. lysth edjormis § /by inhnbitants of Seabrook, dee de- |'D Number, Teads thus: v rimiom et B o £ 5 ¢ clare st they anprove and consent to i Biiat ot whow, hes "shaly ] | hem G swha ls desired by e petitioners, re- | The “Thirty-five Original Propristors. e thepe e s Shecp o he | oD% 3L 1865, . “Ordered by the town | specting Muhegin, provided st within| * Thomas Adsate, 1derntss?’ Phe home-1ot of Mr. | ghail be only one allotment for, the c - . > en, near the spot where the frst | iy & plicé o God pounded Ludeat, Wilkiam Heckus, Jun'r,, Raeting Douse was Srected. B B Eritthes Sl e © ., _Alist of the signers of this petition | Johfi Paldwin. coey ik sl b oY « l‘;':‘:e-.:’;"""““‘m» but ne copy of T(:‘;:“B"i_fl’l"a‘i;‘m* « | Captain, or Major, John Masen was | ¢ 15, 167 “The ferry place over pLL N deputy governor and acting EOVErmer | in. Showtucket shall be at the upper A T ot the colony, and its leading mill- | ong of the Island against the land of p 0D 1865 the eatiier-deed was ratified | Morgan Bowers, tary officer. His house was the first | {evi Lefinew The adjoining lands & d confirmed by the (we sachems and | John Dradford, 1o be built) In the town. and Et60d o0 | granted to Awios 16f Xeeping the | pther(uhw med cr:xe_z men of Mohegan, ‘;h;.ghc(;‘l?x“ 3 the southwest side of the green, sep- | farpy are extend as far as bis 4§ 8nd the boundaries estanlishod as fol: | Jonn Caildns, | arated from that of Mr. Fitch by the | najghhor Rockwéll's land. Nene to set T i alar s Ll Hictach ieartin, road running from the green to the | o6 ek FUCECCC SRR AN G e in Juus Anno 1659 prchased of Vneas, | Join Gager, fiver, ‘and ‘both_ houses - tacing the | mouin or the mer. ¢ 8 o ) . He eeh, and | oywhen' Providence shall so orde sachem of Mohegan, and Oweneca and | - Lieut. Trancis Griswold. fa descrived as Gne Who posteated | inar oive Lre e e Attawanhood, sones vnto, nine miles| Thomas Howard, “all the elements of greatness. His | > g e e n Christatier Bur ¢ . nuts. or like in the woods, then it Squars 1 Btm!‘l:‘(f:l:z:sgnfav::rzl?&r?‘r istupoer, Huniihgtén, purposes Were high:and noble: Bis [ nial’ b considered and determined ] : ¢ &c.: n Hunting will was strong and determiged: he | Wy Mfharty to grant In this respect £08 riow fax the mors Clear und platne | Eamuel Hyds \ was possessed of remarkable flrmnees | (ot the swine may have the benefit : e Bounds oundaries jam Hyde, . : and promptness, a courage which was | p i i 80 ag that.no Disagresment may be| Lieut- Thomas Lefngwell, Map of the Original 9=Mile Square Pict Abeolutely fearsoes uinited with a rm,“ngihpror:n oeits T PR i after the Deceasce of such Bnglish | Major John Mason, 2 % P dence and foderation the MOBE con- | mai” o proftable te pufter oot ey 4 and Indlans as knew the Boundaries| John Olmstead, 4 F—FRANKLIN—L—LISBON—G—GRI SWOLD—B—BOZRAH —N—NORWIC H—P—PRESTON. siderate and reflacti TREOMAE 6| sonihs o hNEFeabotta to 80 In the g - :;-ni :ln that the Town of Nerwich Hath ;ohn Pease, i| sternness and almost terrible rigor In | Ta;d“ Pl Qe 4 v ARl : thera free will given and passed | Jobn Pest, : a . £ od 18 ithe Molietans A parolli of | Thomas Pest . ovember, 1660, wdw the first male |housés. Some of the settlers may have | the left hand side of the streetfls the | houses built at this time as of “two | M2 f";‘d’fj‘,;:,:';‘! Pyl s 3 i s ¥ d on the South side of Trading Joslah Read, ciild born in the plantatien. obtained th lumber from Mr Vin- | house of Mrs. Jabez Lathrop, ¥uilt by | stories, generally square, with a huge | you hear from him one word 1){ boast- The courts, both of ~reater and of Coave brook which theire former Lyne | John Reynolds, . s sawmill at New London, but | Christopher Huntington, 2d., who was | central chimney, and .a loug roof, | Ing or vanity. lesser significa; were held in the by the originale Deed took in: Be it donathan Royce, Later Settlars. of the timber and plank of w ale child born in Nerwich. | which, extending at the back of the The second church building, known | house of Richard Bushnell, which stood now & hereafter Known vnto all| Nehemiah Smith, Attracted by the success of the liitle | the fiFst Nouses were built was he wing the road as it turne| house almest to the ground, formed | ", “eor Seleiine’ nouse, was bullt | on the side of the hill apposite the whome it Doth may or Ever shall cen- | JOohn Tracy, « | celony, ot settlers came to cast in aped e by hand, no Town street by the house of | a one-story protection called the lean- | o ) e "oy e ,‘,,"U., rocks, instead | Lowthorpe Meadows cern that I, Oweneca, Sachem of Mo-| Lieut. Thomas Tracy, «ir fortunes with them. These hav- | ng in Norwich we find the Lathrop| to In the rear. On the first floor were | (PO Gl SR P O SOUEe (NS UERC Mome first . death ‘after the settiement hegan, son and heir vnto Vnces De-| Robert Wade, al home-lots and all the | r 1700. “Many of the , on the north s enerally four —rooms—the = CGreat)...', otween 1678 and 1676, Indian at- | of the town was that of the wife of and that I Josial, sone and | Thomas Waterman. s of first proprietors were: | Miss Caulkins s wer t, just above the brook-( or ‘Company Room' or "KeePli | 1oics were continually leoked for. It | Thomas Post. in March, 1661 She was Heire viito Owenca, that we Doé by ook phen Ba short clapbear s house may have | (as it was sometimes called) | g "5 gt petore King Philip's war, and | buried on-the. home-lot of her hus- tilege presents flully & Freclv consent | The families consisting of four or hard Bu gles, and the : y Samuel Lothrop, who | e chamber, a kitchen, and @ .’ ien, in their fear of Indian In- | band, situated on the road to Bean to Rattefie & Confirm the Boundaries | more members were those of Maj. John out the aid of the sawmill. ame to N in 1865, where he| o milk room. On the second | .gyien, carfled thelr- muskets with | Hill. This plece of land, with a por- #nd Bounds of the planetion of Nor- | Mazon, Rev James: Fitch, Thomas and ratiers of old bulldings still ex-'served as townsman and constable, and | floor ver. chambers, and vers often | (o™i tho ineeting house e Lie o T asining. ot o Roe wiel ressed—Beginning ngw -3 imon 1 ‘ - iAo gy = y deeds, seems to, have been | teature of the rst Norwich | Heavy beams crossed the at the mouth of Tr g Coave breok | dimtington the Lytie to Rurdn as the brooke runs ‘' uolds, Thomas B racy, John Rey- s, John Post, John! | ldest bulldings arc | showing the mark of | L i 4 | axe. 'The coors and’window shutters 5 " 4 | were gastened with huge wood, | % A ! [ still_to be seen in som i 3 houses of ancient dage. ! fomira Wall “The - kitchen - awis o the pricipat room, and ma rows of burni ewter the dre the log seats settle in the chitipey corner vernons iireplace, With NORWICH--1670-1720. Landing Place at Elderkin's Mill— The Housss’First B Early-Cos- | tumes—Nerwich a Goverament Un- to Itsclf—Early Churches—Whe the Courts Wore Held and the Orig burning logs sainst “the huge back-log | inal Pr Buried—0ffsheots of ! ints the chimney. nto | Old Norwich=Lisbon-Preston-Leba- | £ "K"‘_”'v ‘“]fl:“"wr\"l(fl\j non-Franklin. thore yere recesses | fosets in.most une & from the ceti- | stotes of fiitches | o, skins of wild ani- | | trings of dried apples, ears . and pumpkine. The floors were DR. LATHROMS DRUG STORE, . and before the intreduction of | First Drug Store in Connetticut, whére Benedict Arnold Learned the Business, small windows were of oiled er glase came into use, the | them outside, under the watchful eye | Gager, was afterwards, purchased by af first diamond shaped | of a sentinel. The congract for the | the town for a burving ground, kne, 5. new church, which wasghuilt by John |as the “Post and Gager Bur) f drawets, huge carv- | Elderkin and Samuel Uothrop, called | Ground.” A few rude headstones, StiT old-fashloned chalrs, | for a “gallery, and trough 16 carry | bearing initials ;and possibly a date, and st and high-post bedsteads | the .water from the roof.’ There i |were formetly to be seen here, but with Fangings, formed the furniture of | no description of this Fort mesting | even the suggestion of _the grassy | the other robme. . . . The open]heuse, but we may form some j#es of | mounds has long mince passed away. | wood-fire was for a long time the only | its appearance from tho fact that in | The “Society.Burial Ground, the ‘en: mode of heating. 'There was no way | 1705 it was areed ‘“to clabomrd and | trange to which is marked By gates of warming the churchee, o that the | shingle, when claboards and shingles | erected by the Daughters of the Reve. women carried. little foef stoves, and | are wenting, to repalre the staircase | lution, was not “set apart” until about the men sat with their ‘feet incased | and staires, to mend the piramid, and | the beginning of the eighiteenth cen-* in large leather overshoes to_clese the leanto roofs, where they | tury, so that probably all the inter- boxes." ™ join to the border of the meeting- | ments during the first forty years of « As o rule, the only time-pleces were | house. the settlement were made in this an the ever-piestnt tign-mark in the [ 182708 Captain Bene Grignon pre | clent cometery. ' Ameag thote who lle window, and the dial in_th nted the church with a bell which is ‘besides the and Gager fam. Greate brocke (hat rana out of the|.ors, and bullt as were the bridges The lan tant are scarred with hatchet.clefis. |as a carpenter was engaged in “Fepair- | neither ‘of them useful except e, | euphised to have beeh breugnt by & |iies, ace doubiicss ‘flg,:'mn:.:“ [ ond in to Norwich River which Lyne | aud roads, by all the men working to- | the old highw the west The axe was a mighty a h the first old | ny weather. band of French exiles from France to | elder, Nehom m o derkin, s ‘abolit- 3 even miles, and ghen the | geiher. Probably it hiad neither steeple, |4 common land and probably consid-/ when wielded by these hardy plencer | meeting house during the year lfl, ,,I;: There is no record of any suffering | Oxford, Mass. Driven from Oxford by | Thomas Bliss, John Olmstead, the firwt Line Runns from the Corner “'ree nor | prch, nior galllery. Possibly a horse- | ered #00 steep for building lots or for by 2t iy stumy o 5 from the absence of the real comferts | the Indiams, Captain Grignen brought mn-r Hunmfi:n and anding place ow the Falis e, the r ing into ELDERKIN'S MILL, 1861, near th hat {s the &4 Brooke to be the|Cuper, Nehemiah Smith, Richiard Ed- ounds between the Moheagens & the | g:rton, Robert Allyn, Jolin Baldwin, Towne of Noriwich excepting some |ind Frapels Griswold. small pleces of meadow that Lyeth on | No inconsiderable task awaitéd the the south side of the sayde brooke; | settlers in ing the ground, lay g and excepting frifteen, Acres of land out highways, and collecting ma- | 70w i belonging to the heires of Capt. John | turials for building. The central peint |sticet Mason Deceasced. Otherwise the sd [ (f the settiement located naar | {he rres ibraoke i tobe the Bounds that isso ffar | the “meeting house rocks” and at the | Till the Line comes to the head of the | fcot of these was sat Pafm- Brook: to a white Oak marked N and | aside for the public use. Here was the | (1'5. g standing @ stone heap. The Lyne Runns west | t:an green, here stood the first meet- | il 4 f . then northwesterly to a Greate pond to A | ing house, at tho southeast corner of | black Omkeé marked N—which stands | - green’ Khere is no record of Its|on the other. om this polnt the neare the pond heare the Moutl of the ction, but it was probably built of lown ‘the Hill into the ngton where and ain northeaste nine miles to A black oak | Llock stood near the door, and per- |the laying out of hizhways. A foot-| Probably none of these first-built |Arri In 1673, together with John| e jire. Harvests seém to have been | the bell to Nopwich. A scaftolding was ason, with y by the River side on the south side |Fhups a sun-diel. It is probable also|Wway from the Leffingwell Inn at the | houses stillyexist in the same shape in | Elderkin, he Built the new imeeting| abundant, and food of all ki to buflt on the vidge west of the meeting e Meason mom of the River A little above Marnia- | t1at long benches were used instead | present Harland's corner followed ap- | which they were originally bu but | hous®e. The perty was =old at a| had in great varisty. “The Indian | house, where ‘dell Mason quage And then the Lyne Runs Easte | of paws. the men sitting on ene side | Proximately the lower road, or Tewn | there are a number of houses in which | later date to =hua Huntington, wh town, was e o was and . samp, or pounded maize, hesty-pud- | Iseac eland was en; the south Easterly nine miles to a white | of the church, the women on the other. | étreet. This path, only six feet wide, [a part at least of the original building | in 1740 may bave remodeled the heuse. | aing and succotash were much . [ sum of £5 10s. per year, Hxl near Robertt Allym's and near | In the absence of a cheir, the deadon | remained for almost one hundrea years | yet/remains. Four of these houses are | Colonel Joshua Huntington was a no- | As for Indian puddings, the Nor%n /ell on P and at 8 ‘homas Roses Dwelling houss, which | “iized out” the hiymms, and the cen- | pentway, with gate and turnstile at|on Washington street, Wetween the | table merchant, and was, most active | puddings were fameup, both for ajze | in the evemin e Tree is marked N & from thence the | gregation sang as best they might. each end. “Although a beautiful and | Hospital .corner and Harland’s cBrner.| In starting the new settlement at the | and xox;ne The umversal l&m& of the old - ‘ and | hawiants were to seat the peo- rant of land, 20 feet square, on the | there can he no deubt that the name | plo the seats being «Lyne Punns westerly to Mohegan Riv- romantic way by daylight, and one fre- | First, on the left as ong goes up the | landing, for which seryice he recetved | night treat was baRed beans, - aecording ‘the River gide the Lyne Cro mili for the grinding of corn or maise, | mer on account of its grateful shade, | proudly bearing on its frent the date | west side of Rocky Point” The two | of Bean Hill came fem this habit of | divided into eight olasses, the “square er icmnutmumquuu One of the first necessities was a|quented by the teamsters In tne sum- | street is the Reynolds house (No. 1), |a. ¥ i ern o1d the first town act of which we|brave indeed must be he who would | “1659;” next abeve comes the Bliss|elm trees in front of the house are| Satirday night baked: beans. Peta- | pue” raniing first “in Dignity.” ¢} from ed Fave recerd refers to a contract be- | venture to pass through after mightfall. | house (Ne. 3), and on the same side of ( said to have been planted b+ his son | toes were unkno but turnips and % & vty Lyeen the town and Johi l:'fln for | Miss Caulkins, in her History of Nor- | the street, just opposite Harland's cor- | Zachariah, who died in 1761. Judge pumpkins. were mn In 3ddi- | This chusch on the hill, be- % b ' & the ersction of @ grist -&l be com-wich, tells us that an “adventurous ner, stands the house once famous as ! Andrew, grandsen of Col. Jeshua andtion the flocks herds owmed Ing a‘ house of wership, LA : £ > ¥ 3 ST L gt IR e A Py NI A 1A