Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 3, 1909, Page 11

ERORE | Y z outside of the town plot, and[Sturtevant properties, came into the . dJoseph hoemaker. North of Jern (No. 125), opened between 1750 and | ings were held in this ng, but by general. Gen. Jededian | DIVISION OF THE TOWN—1786. "mu it more oconvenient to live on mlf.em ‘chunm‘:' street not- far | Lathrop tw\nu. “(No, 60.) tuv and J Brown’s tavern (No.|1793 the courts were mfimxotiu mmfln:wr house was the one on v 2 : these grants. from the residence of Dr. Cassidy. . Daniel W 2d—In this - Lord | 130), dating from 1790, were during: this | ruinous condition. Five -ears later the | East To;'-n street now owned by Mrs. | Bozrah, - In 1750 Lower street, now Water |Si0p oF another on the same Site. | period centers of life and activity, con- | building was zegu.ml and painted and | W. H. Fitch (No. 81). Here en- 5 In this way the foundations were | street, was laid out “at the water- {Livgs. Both shop and Mfi ;fi.‘: necr‘il‘;.xs Norwich iwth the outside|moved to the lot where f- school- | tertained at different times Washing- & f d lying in bend of the Yantic, _ to the parish of West lin, Lisbon and Part of the bounds between the two Cut Off. cleties were “the river, the brook that Tty i runs out of it, the Cranberry pond,.the remained | ton, Lafayett e . . Cranberry pond brook, the great yotte, Rochambealy the Dike |* As' the' Viflades acatiored here and|swamp, the dark awamp and the IIEX lajd for a number of village s sside,” conn the two roads just I’:‘&ec%mhfl ‘were paint wo house now stands, where - -wlich may be considered s offshoots | described. /this time_ this section . (No. 60 7 until 189 de Lauzun, and others of the French’ a 2 Old Norwich. The. @rst of those | of the townTbsEan o show. some re- e at Peck’s cor- | This period was oharacterized by | The court house served as a theater | officers quartered at Lauzun. there through the nine miles square | swamp.: Sipce 1832 the = village of © was at the landing place, where Elder- | spectable-buildings, instead of nothing t corner. Before 1805. buildling of more substantial houses and here too were- held the singing| The = second son, Judge Andrew |grew,and pros they came to have | Fitchvilie has grown up within ita lim- kin's grist mill was built, Elderkin| but .ship yards, warehouses, and®the uel A & Son, then Rog- | than had been constructed previously, | school and the dancing clas: But | Huntington, was a commissiary of | interests quite from. ot its, around the cotton mill erected by was first granted @ home lot on the | cottages of fishermen and sailors. By | v Huntington & Avery (1818).| 7 i houses built before 1720 which ¢x- | after the.courts were moved fo the I'brigade, collecting and _distributing [ mother town Asa Fitch, Esq, the village occupying tuwn street, near what is mow known | 1757 there were eighty-seven resident | (No. 70.) 3 ist in parts at least today have been | Landing the building was scld (1835) | supplies for tha, army. He lived in | Were establis e the coml| the site of the oid Huntington Irons as ;&m corner. This he found (oo | proprietors of rateable . estate, and | _ Felix Huntington—Joiner- Corner- of eady mentioned, namely: (1) the|to be used as.a schoolhouse and con- | the house (No. 74) en East Town street [ mon center of the life of the people In| works, :stablished in 1750 by Nehemiah far from the mill for his home, and | twenty-five noniresidents, in “the so- | East Town street and Huntington | Ileynolds house, ' No, 1 on map of | tinued to be'used for that purpose un- | next to that of his brothers, Jedediah |each little settlement, and ",‘I“ Hurtington and Captain Joshua Abel. P later granted the land on Wash- | clety of New Chelsy." b ulius. No. 76.) Some | 1155 ho Bliss-Geer house, No. 3t [iil it was torn down in 1801 to make | and lEbzne_'z‘er. H thare. the u".pmxmtm gito, the in, 1723 the ‘;u'cfllellla;llcnl JSoclety of it y , ferred to; The ere was 3 e of | Sam rth—“Pewterer.” Some | (2) the .Lieut. Thomas Lefingwell | room for the present school building. Col. Joshun Huntington, the third | Original tow: vere loosened. ewént was nized — wi seve 4 A street, already refe as the port, the " gat Dan ok Dot neboel - | gom, served at the sione ot Boaton. and | . The settlement at-tidewater was fakt ! members. Up to thia time the people exact dato of the building of this mill| commerce for Old Norwich. Here at | time between: 1793 and 1803. Occupied | buuse, now occupled by D. M. Tore- X , is_umknown, but it was probably built | the wharves, coming and going, might |in 1818 By.lei:nr Huntington and Hen- | sian, 'No. 5 u)v‘me Teffngwell Inn, | NORWICH IN THE REVOLUTION. | during the campaign of 1776 in New | becoming the centeF of commerce, with | had been accustomed to attend meet- between 1663 and 1665 The time of | be seen the Coasting sloops, Defiance |ry Avery as a shop. (No. 75.) tuilt by William Backus, and oceupied - York and New Jersey.’ Afterwards he | Jts exports and imports, but transpor- | ing at the church in the town-plot, W» removal from New London is also [ and Ann; the brik Two Brothers, Capt.| _Ebenezer Huntington—SHop. Corner |at pregent by Miss Sara Huntington, | Four Companies Organized Here—The [ was employed in the commissary de- |tation and communication were diffi-|come of them journeying a distance of = uakmown, but daubtless for a number| Asa Waterman; the Nancy, Capt.{of East Town stréet -and Huntington | No. 171 (5) the Olmetead-Lathrop | Four Huntingtons—Ancestors of the | PArtment, in securing shigs for serv- | cult, and the general iiverssis oecame | eight miles, the older people on horse- ' of years hé ran the mills in both | Uriah Ro the Charming Sally, | Lare, now owned by Mrs. W. H. Fitch. . fiow the home of Miss Gilman, . 2 fee and 'n 6t e Lo e vea by S tnateioe o | back, and the younger people often §o " eces. His house was probably. the | Capt.. Matthew Peridng: or u\es;e!- Tise. (No. 30y ¥ ; 48); (6) ihe house built by Chris- | Nevins Family—The Service of Our g A Ving and returning_on foot. The first S ¥ ono built in the viMage now | sey, Capt. William Billings. Charles Whiting—Goldsmith or jew- | Lupher Huntington, 2d, and now own- | Soldiers—Capt. David Nevins as a —_ | iceeting house was probably bullt soon 3 iowwn as the Falls, and stood mear| Hére also were located a number of {elcr- Across the street, on East'Town |cd by Mrs. Jabez Lathror, No. 62; /1) | Messenger. : T ter the church was orgamized and " cpe of the springs on Yantic street. |'merchants, some of them importing |sireet. After 1750.. (No. 84.) * the house on East Town street budlt St was used until about 1770. The see- ' o . Newent, or Lisbon, at an early peri- | their own goods “direct from Lon- | Zachariah Hantington — Merchant. | ty Samuel Lathrop, and later occuvied | Too much credit cannot be given to i ond church puilding stood for many. od was odoupied by Indian tributaries | don." Felt hats, which the colonists t . Town stret, near residence of |Ly Joshua Huntington, and still Jaler the inhabitants of Norwich for the 5 g | vears, its interior giving an (mpressi 3 of Uncas, called the Showtuckets, but | were forbidden fo manufacture, nails, | Mirs. Jabez Wattles. After 1786 (No.|by his brother Andrew, No. 74; (5) §part which they took in the War for {of deep solemnity: Hanover, wl e first settlers of Norwich claimed | paper, loaf sugar, snuff, spices, were | 16t.) the house in the lane, known as the | Independeuce. ~Owing to her inland {was included with Newent in the new the land as a part of their commons. | all imported from Europe. The'goods | Ardrew Huptington—Merchant. West | General Jabez Huntington lLou 4 | sitaation the city did not suffer from | 1 | town of Lisbon, had not been incor- “ihe first permanent settler in this ter- | were curiously assorted, one merchant’|or Zachariah Huntington, in the “long [ rort of which may have ‘belonged 10 | diregt attacks by the enemy, mor did porated as an ecclesiastical society u Tiry was perhaps Josiah Read. who | advertisingsheepig-wool, codfish, West [ st.cp” of his father, Gen.' Jabez Hunt- |tie old Bradford homestead, No. Ler people suffer much from want aft- tll 1761. 1t included a~small part ved from Norwich about 1687. In | India products, and an assortment of | irgton. This shop was “a long, low, | (i the Simon Huntington, or Joseph |er the first stress of the war, and in | Canterbury anda Windbam. 1,23 the socicty took the name of | European dry goods. cne story and -a half-building, painted | Carew house, on Elm avenue, now uc- | the last years they enjoyed exceptional | dn 1534 @ correspondent of the Newent, having been known up to| But the best stores were at the orig- | red, “with the roof sloping to (hé | cupied by Mrs. Kelley, No. 93. . | prosperity, agriculture flourishing.and ! Sipringfield Republican says that “in the foundations of many large manu- Lisbon, Ct., there is an ancient edifice toat time simply as the “crotch of the [ inal settlement and the Jadies of Chell-| sccet.” (Miss Perkins, in Old Houses [ Among the larger houses built at sea were aceustomed to’ go thither to | of Norwich.) Here Gen. Jabez Hunt- | this time and still existing may be | facturing interests being laid. in which for the last i years Rev. { do their shopping. ington carried on an extensivve busi- | mentioned the following: The Stamp Act in 1764 had been met Mr. Nelson has been the ‘pastor. It st grants on che ress for. many years. Still carlier it| The house built by Thomas Harland | with great indignation. A watch and r never has been repaired upon the in- Sretuckst river, below its junction OLD NORWICH, 1720-1784. vas probably occnpied by his father, | about the year 1779.and still occupied | guard were organized, to' prevent the g8 =i i side, nor have the pews ever been with the Quinebaus, included Tand on Jeshua Huntington. (No- 108.) by his descendants (No. 36). The |admission of any stamps into the town. E s R & | painted or remodeled. The pulpit is on both sides, the district on the cast side | These Were Years of Most Rapid De- | Simeon Huntington—Blacksmith. A |ground on which this house stands |Ingersoll, the stamp master, was burn- i =X { the side of the house, Instéad of the ot the river being comprised in Long [ yelopment—A List of the Residents | ort gistance west of Andrew Hunt-|was at first common land, and was |ed iff effigy, and frequent and enthusi- | 2 e B, . end, and there is a tounding board over Ecciety, Probably the first actual in- hei frgon. After 1774. (No. 105.) purchased by Thomas Harland in 1778. | astic liberty meetings were held. One s 5 g 3 | it, and the deacons’ seat is directly in Pabitant of the town of Preston was| and their Locations, .eremiah Leach—Cooper shop in ‘he | The elm trees in front of the houses [of the most active leaders in these . 3 | tront. The pews are the old-fashioned seenfield Larrabee- Next to him ray [ - . Sanan #i1. | rcag of Simeon - Huntington's shop. | were planted’by Nathaniel Shipman on | commotions wag Major, afterwards square kind, and the gallery is in the e counted the sons of- Norwich pro- [, During the years 1720-1784 the Vil- | 1747 “No. 104.) | Sept. 6, 1771, the day that New Lonaon | Colonel, John Durkee, an able and va- 2 old style, with the tything-men's seats Frietors—Thomas Tracy, Jun., Jona- | 'age site “Which we have ealled Old}™'p. ;g Nevins—Hat factor; short | was burned by the British. liant soldier, who fought at Bunker S > A " y in conspicuous places. The avdiences t-.an Tracy, Samuel Fitch and Nathan- | NOrwich saw’ its most rapid develob- | g;iance west of Simeon Huntington,| On the same side of Washington | Hill and was in.ccmmand of a regi- o 5 e 2, 2 are descendants of the former wor- meng of business. It extended from the | {5 A TETE, & trest. a Ufiler Horth Of sGencral’ Tax : i i S g A - om the |4 27 " (No. 102 p street, a little nos seneral Har- | ment in the battles of White Plains, ; " A . shippers there, and the house, the pag- Revfiolds house, which was' probably at | *"C, | athrop—Shoemaker. Still far- | land’s, stands the house on the ill | Trenton and Monmouth. G 2, " 5 tor and the people present probably gh this time a tavern, by Harland's.cor- | .y ; yest, ‘After 1794, (No- 101.) I now occupied by Mr. William Palmer | In 1767 the famous Boston Circular ¥ S 3 ” mdays us gongd epecimay oF "GhN icl Leffingwells who were cultivating farms there in 1680, or sofi afterward. Preston 4s an independent town Le- &an in 1687. ’ ner and Washington street to the town | 4o gppy Carew—General Store. A I't- | (No. 45). This house fvas built by | was received, and at a meeting in the ° e - 1 of ‘the fathers' as can be 2 About three vears later a grist mill | clers office at the corner nm\humvd tle in the rear of Asa Lathrop, nearly | Thamas. Lathrop, son of Dr| Joshua|court house an agreement was/made 2t 4 (A . d extant in New England. - Mr, wes established at. the _junction of | Peck's corner, and thence througlf Bast | ;7 osite the end of Elnr avenue. After | Latarop, about the time of his mar- | not to use any articles of foreign pro- elson preaches his half-century sers Fiuse's brook dnd. the Yantic river,| Town steet to the green and "'f'im ., (No. 99.) Later Carew & Hunt- | riage in 1783 duce. Labrador tea and gowns of cH sic mon on the 6th of December. Trear the border of Lebanon, the small | Meeting house rocks. . Many. of the lj'sion, on the Green. (No. 128.) The other house upon the hill (No.|homespun became the fashion. OLD SCHOULHOUSE pat e beginning from which the present vil-| residents had small stores on . their Ebenezer Jones—Cooper. Elm ave- | 49) was built by Daniel Lathrop Coit —_— | on Norwich, Town Green. 1 Long Society compris a long and luge of Bozrahville has grown. home lots, and the town green was the | ., /" Jjttle back from the street (NO.|in 1785, probably occupying the site of | At a field review in 1774 there were . .. | comparatively narrow strip, lying east ‘Although the first hoi in Wind- | center of bushess for all the daughter 116.) the older Bushnell homestead. It is|four Norwich companies, trained and house is owned at present by Mrs. |cerns of H\ separate community. .\U; of the rivers Shetucket and Thames. " | ready for marching, under the follow- | Theodore McCurdy (No 78 | that with the coming of the third orf well might it be c Long, for it tam is said to have been built by an | Settlemenis which had sprung up in| “Aga Lathrop, Jun.—Sioe shop. Next|said that the famous “Coit elms v.ghshman named John Cates, as ear- | the northerh portion of New ‘London |, “mpenezer ‘Jones. (oN. 117-) standing in_front of this house were!ing captains: Jededlah Huntingten, | The fourth son, Col. Ebenezer Hunt- | fourth ation it is npt surprising | originally evtended over the -whole’ as 1689, yet the men who actuaily | county and for some distance into| " jop, Manly—Shop on Elm avenue. [set out in 4 by Jabez Perkins, who | Samuel Wheat, Isaac Tracy, Jr., and | Ington, was a senior in Yale college | to see a movement toward the estab-| gagtern bordcr of the nine miles square ficrded the town were legatees of | Windham and Tolland counties. (No. 118) “brought 1} > woods two young | Gershom Breed. In the autumn of | When the war broke out. With other | lishment of new towns within and on| rom Plainfleld to Poquetanuck, and : borders of the original nine m refusea ! t During this period it has been shown| ™ wiijfiam Morgan—sShop on Elm ave- | eims of hat he - could ~ con- | this year a regiment was organized of | members of his class e8| this line of the origina! purchase, fn Joshua Uncas, sixteen in number,fonr- teen being of Norwich. that the landing place for vessels had| .o (No, 119 veniently bear upon his shoulder and | which Jedediah Huntington was made | permission to enter the army, he | square. its liberal measurement, was probabl Flainfield (1699), Canterbury (1703), | been changed from the Falls to the vil-{ "G\ don" Lathrop—Druggist or doc- | s in such positions that, | colonel. ‘The spring of 1775 saw a|Aaway in the night and joined the army — ten or twelve miles A i sna New Concord (1715) were aiso|lage site of Chelsea: and the 0048|441 and merchant. In 1790 .in a shop [when grown, they would throw their | throng of volunteers departing ~for | at Boston. He served throughout tve | In 1786 the division of the town took | ~ Mijvs Caulkins says of it: culldren of Old Norwich., where the Chapel now stands. (No. [shade over the shop in which he | Cambridge to join the army there, and | W rising to the rank of leutcnant | piace. Drafts of two memorials to ‘The farmers on this side of th . — ——— 128). In 1795 on the corner,of Burying | worked.” The house has never passed | all through the war the town furnished , I After the removal his | zeneral assembly were presented at i pivers petitioned the town as early CHELSEA IN 1720-1784. Ground lane, (No. 123). Still later | out of the possession of the fam |its regular quota. A part hese early 1er Jedediah to New London, Kb- | town meeting: one by Nathan 9 to be released from paying eccle- | on_Elm :uct-nuc (No. 1}51». o On the south side of East Town |recruits fought at Bunker Hjll. pass- - ‘5:‘mmnh 0 4“.\v<l )r house | Ki “h'ur,\ .n~’mlm In.(t)l u‘;lls net nv\uv stical rave Norwich on account r Being 70 Years a Wilderness the { Simon Carew—Books. EIm avenue, | street out half way between Peck’s | ing the next winter in pressing the | on East Town street (No. 81) right be made from the three parishes the great inconvenlence they round Atiec Joing kel 5 | corner of burying ground lane. 17 and the corner of Elm aven ge of Boston. Being transferred to — of West Farms, New Concord _and jn attending divine worsh'p by reasom Landing is Developed Because Bet- | (No. 123.) : 8 the house built shortly afte w York in March, they.took part in | wrhe ancestors of the Nevine family | DAUtIDRUE: the second, by Joseph Per- the ferry znd their distance from tter Adopted to Trade—Commercial Carew & Huntington—General store Revolution by Governor Samuel |the battles of Brooklyn and Harlem Y | kinsp that Newent, Hanover and a part | the town-plot. After crossing tae ngland or Scotls of Long clety might constitute a Gis- | pjye gh the Jer- | emigrated from inet town. The 1800. (No. | Huntington and now owned by Mrs. | Heights, the retreat thr at the old fording plae it ond memorial met | necessary Pursuits Take Root at the Head of | on_ site of Chapel. 179 | 128) In 1800 the firm becomes Joseph | Charles Young. The house has been | seys amd the battle of Germanto®n. |about the vear 1730 David N k to traverse a tedious win £39 T | & Charles P. Huntingion: (No. 128 changed since Gov nt- | Many of them served throughout BB P, carns {0 Norafiett ere he mar- | Jith 1o opposition, and against’ the |ipg path around the Chelsea hllls to e aitan Bl Joseph Carpsater—Goldsmith n | ingtons” day, as at that ts tall [ war. 2 4 first only ome vote was wiven get into the town street and pass . m:,?i,'}i.?:f;:x‘:t:fi-&; :)hlosg:‘r:\d B of | the old store still standing” on thepillars extended from the ground to the | A number of Norwich men gaineq | Fie¢ A d ter of Lieut. Col.|affair was managed most amicably and | on to the meeting house. The destsed 4 - green and probably built in 1773. The | roof. « it ‘one of the most Im- hizh honor as officers. both on, land mon Lathrop, and finally fixed his | it was ordered that th memorials | permission was not then granted, but Chelsea began. As has beon said, the original landing place, for both the Indians and the English, just | below the Falls, at the head of Yan- | tic cove, and near the site of ‘Eider- kin'’s mills., As trade increased, and pushed its wi#% down the river, the term Landing Place was transferred the point where the rivers unite, (No. residence in Canterbury. Cor ntally killed b g from a bridge during a freshat, in the wpring of 1 “The oldest son of the deceased, t Capt. Devid N of Norv, about 9 ye his_grandfa Here | should both be laid before ihe assem- | twenty-one years later thev were froe- ) ¥ the representatives of the tow. [ |y gilowed to become a distinct parish men were appointec e | and sixty acres of land set apart zor tdeir first minister in 1 Long Soclety wi annexed to Prest and instead of the design; on 5th of Norwich took that of 2d ot Precton.” - i | nt. In | part of the £ liis brother, Jo- seph C 152), but in’ 1795 in_s the other side of the school house (No. 135) Nathaniel Townséd—Baker. Next to i+ Gardner Carpenter in (No. 136) and from that period became X0 SN &Ad the upper Station was known as ar % b ! the old Landing Place. | e ey probably occupied in | resident of Norwich. When tho Keic _In 1816 the town of Griswold was What we know as the city of Nor- | 714 by ¥ i | lutionary contest commenced, [ ormed from a part of Preston. Grisa. wich was, for seventy years after the | i John Wheatley—Shoe maker. Ané in | | te aracteriztic zea d included a ph of land lying on settlement, little more than a wilder- 1778 by 2 : rar of o the east side of the Quinebaug rivar, Nathaniel Patten—Book seller. And 1 o Being o ski v outh of Plainfield, originally & part of ness called Weequaw's Hill, Rocky Point, or Fort Hill. It was used as in 1783 by g ana peculiarly prompt | the Norwich purchase. On this Nor- I olhaisc walk,” e Sovamon: saspwge, | Gideon ‘Denidon—merchant. ! was selected as a coutide wich strip Jewett City has grown up Stading Trom: Ny -minnts Mere o te i 3 Colonel Leffingwell’s (later Charles ger by the 1atriots on v " around the farm, the gristmill and the mouth of the Shetucket, and enclosed Fire Buckets, Levi H\"\(I"g(flfl.4 Lathrop's) pottery k\!n and shop. On 1 ing oc i He wo awmill of Eliezer Jewett on the Pa- With & fence. Access.from. the set- | Which were landgd at the port of Nor- [ Town street. (No. 23 on map). Norwich to New Haver chaug river. wich were transferred up to the sei-| Ebenezer Carew—Ca Shop then measuring abo — tlement at Norwich was by means of a gateway. near the house of John Reynolds, connecting with a cart path. ¢ and there a cow path or a sheep |7 teack led around the hills, but for the | distancé ont pansing, exc steep hill to br occasion, as newspapers of th {with some impor started for Proy arter 8 o' | despatched his | and was met or miles from home, before 11 o' next_morni fe enlisted in the army upen ti news of the battle of Bunker H served at the siege of Bokton, v tlement two miles from tidewater. sui| on Town.street. (No. will be shown later, this condition cpuld | Stocking factory—Noirth Washington not last xermanently on account of the | street. (Neo. 2.) of the settlement from the Tracy & Coit—General store. vi i o be seen | POrt; but during this period the busi- | ly opposite the Leffingwell Inn. fnost part there wia litthe o e “°i | Ress’ development of ¢his old settle- | lished in 1780~ (No. 343 the spring floods, and even in common | 4Nt was the most rapid in its his- Robertsons & Trumbull—Printers, rains, East Chelsea, including Frank- | tOTY. 7 and publishers of the Norwich Packet 1in square, was overflowed, as the low- | 1t is difficult to form an accurate|or Weekly Advertiser, the first news- er, or Water street. picture after tne lapse of more than a | paper published in Nprwich, 1773. First Barly in 1684 a spot was chfsen for [ hundred vears, and it is Impossible fo|located “near the Court House” but & public landing place and a highway enumerate accurately ‘the S1ne: removed in 1775 to a scand west of the Yo connect with it. This landing must | houses existing any one time. It| meeting house. In 1861 the town of was “ranklin, making five towns und parts )f two others within the limits of the e miles sqy ar- Sstab- SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH OF CHELSEA. Closo of the Revolution Marked a New Era—Between 1786 and 1820 the Cen- ter of Trade Changed from Norwich ess in that plac turn onl + have been below Elderkin's mil and | has been attempted, however, to show | Barzillai Davison—Goldsmith. Town i the highway ran via- Yantic street and | in the following list of places of busi-| street. 1775 R | irom thence to New York, was engage GuUY. {AMUEL HUK®INGTON, to Chelsea—The Imports—Shipbuild- Mill lune, now Lafaye(te street, to the [ 1¢ss in Old Norwich the great SAzlsty gafiku. I‘rurn :{:’:k.wx antic, % in various skirmishes with the encm 1731—1796. ing a Leading Industry—War Sleop eynoids, mate. Tt rwas vaeernd® ahe | which existed towards the close of the | Pottery fo e Ware—Begun a and shared in all the hardshi d i M, e It wan ereed and | ehtecnth tentury. 3 Bean Hill in 1766, and continued into be f the retreat from that city Gev. o Omesstivut, RN T gl - and unlayed out land at the mouth of | The numbers in parenthesis refer to the 1Sth century 4 ‘ g e retired from the army with | Captain Ebenezer Baldwin, Deacon Jo- er the Revolution the re $he Showtuck shall be and remain for | the accompanying map of 1795 Edmund Darrow—\Manufacturer of FHESIMON HUNTINGTON TAVERN, 4705 ihe fank of captain, and NA¥ing mar- | sepn uamen Samar L agetl and | indusirieo. and the — crease o oo the benefit of cattle watering and nev. | Col. Christopher Leffingwell--General | cat-nails. Bean Hill. 1772 Built as Residence in 1688 and Enlarged in 1782. | riea 3ary. qaughter ‘of rw Hab- | Saotain Androw: Perkine. e amallmercial relations with othet portioed er to be disposed of without the con- | Stone on the triangle of land opposite| Aaron Cleveland—Hat maker. Bean| . s / -« - % bard of New Londonm, r to his & of'\le, matter was the fobiah- ] of this country and with forelgm GO sent of eight or ten of the familys at | General Harland’s. He was succedded | Hill. posing residences in town. (No.iand on sea. Of most of them we can | old home at Norwich n OF four. towns Insieed F three:| tries, loading to a gréater voruma of The east 'end of the towner This |by his sons, William and Christopher, |- Daniel Redman—General store. Bean {36). = {only mention the “names here. Be- |50 vears of his life . B T o el tt s ot i e T shows that at this date there was no | Y10 carried on the. postoffice here from | Hill joaielcEinfington ak & pative of | Kiden ST hest Y Pentioned there | latter days—days. sh und greeh | Soctety and Che Lisbon, formed | difficulty of the two miles of land illage"at Cliclese” 139 to about 1800. The shop stood | Colonel Rogers—General store. Bean | Windham, bui cstiol elt in | were Col. B Throop, Col. Labdiel | old ase- he was nd joyou nover and Newent: West and | transportation following the = ocean This act, however, did not remain in | ¢/95¢ to the walk on the upper road, so | Hill. : T o e e (et b iR ajah and Chris-| almost to the last ssed with jotics, Constituting the town | transporation. suggest the two main force very long; for sites at the river | that (he present sidewalk passes over| Samuel Woodbridge—General store, |years old. - Miss Perkius, ingher book | topher * Leflingweli, Captains David | his children i New *lire: he g ety 4y i | reasons for the growth of the ilege side vere in great demand for com- | 1t site. (No 19 on map of 1795.) Bean’ Hill. Aftefward of the firm of | on the Old iéh, tells us ;| Nevins, Jedec and James Hyde, | dieq Janua 1838, as Y N of Chaines Lt fhe xandh ot e S mercial purposes. Capt. James Fitch | Baldwin & Strong—Dry ood' and{ Woodbridge & Snow, at the Landing, |that “hi gan in 170s we, rior, Andrew Lathrop, Joseph | _Norwich r, M 1 t ‘:., 8 Rorwiohe | sy and Capt, Caleb Bushnell were granted | £roceries, in the Col. Leffingwell store. | Hyde & Hosmed—Sawmill, gristmil, | a repres genoral assem. | Jewett, Jacob and Joseph Perkin i Iy SN ARl e dornimacos ok b 3 Sed it « | sufficient land, for each to build a|1501. Store of two stories, painted yels | and oilmill at Bean Hll. 1795 bly. In ted a member | Lieutenants Charles Fanning, Andrew | q e L R et ine during. the, wat (EEe I Whart and wabehouse near the meath | low. with a @able roof. (Ne. 19) Elijah_and Simon Lathrop—Oilmill | of the 74 associate | Griswold, ~Silas Goodell. and Jacob | 4 the first Droprictors, paselfia. iater into |DAE of more exposed ports, and ber OB atic’ ooE. Thomas Harland—Watch factory just | at the Falls, 1778 o t of Con- | Kingsbury, with Lester, Rob- | yacmbe he hands of their aons, who became|merchants' and shipmasters were Det Othior grants. werb-made for' ship- | nOrth of General Harlagd's Iouse. (No. |- Joshua Huntington—Olimill at the'{ necticut nember_of | ext. Nilea’ Setli Hurqing, = Timothy | the Protes Becust residents. - So the setllest names| ter Brepared fo tavo aGvantage of thY building facilities, but with the excep- | 7). Business commeficed 1773, in a|Falls. 1791 - ngre e L e e "\.‘F*-‘ in Frankiin are Lathrop, Hyde, Birch- | general impulse which was given- tion of these grants for wharves, ship | /t1ie shop next tg Col. Lefingwell. (No.| Andrew Huntington—Paper mill at s of ihe | William Wattles. Thomas King. Wil- ¢ 1 upon o Ties o ey M and | maritime pursuits by the proclama- yards and warehouses, the land was | 20). ; the Falls, on or near the site of Lef- g e e e e L at 17 years | Waterman, But with the second gen- | tion of -peace. The West India trade held In commeon. The rivers -wove fil- | In this little shop “near the ‘store of | fingwell's old mill. the Declaration Lathrop. 1. by action | svetiaanan ymes appeared, ang It| was & tempting path of adventu it o ons tre s pavers ware fll- | o ristophier LefMngwell” wero probably | Jrom the time of the first settioment.| Served as Many a glowing fale might be told | euftering, he served his Foun- | fron bechute amuisable tat o st ety 1 Back snd forth salied the litt}e vesssl ulous with water fowl. Miss Caalaing | located at different times the follow- |when trade was carried on of the mhr vities of this period. izh the whole war. H (a1 2000 becameagvisalile that & SORRSELS| SRS RRGDE Shlied the Lt PR teMs us that the “young people from | INE K by barter between various individua fgn | Privateer carried-on from this | the famous att Torles\and | fita’ secord OF the divialon ia beer. In| cowa. Brovistons . and . lumiber the farms around Norwich, when hay- | Thomas Leffingwell, 4th. 177. there was g general development o ing port with varying fortuze, but unva- | Sritish on Lon 1, when a_tew we find - this. athtement: “The | Conbecticut, and dringing back molas iflg was over, came in parties to the| John Richards—Wool-cards, in ex-|shops, stords and factories “as the o rying enerzy. A numbér of ships, | Americans cr dle boats from Mo L 1 i bee | new, salt and West India rum from Landing to wander ovef the hiils, cat | change for. well-tanned sheepskins. | growth of the place proceeded, 30 that 82-a | emong them the Gavernor Trumbull, | %y Haven gnd_ reca s ey AN e e A ilahs. Suriuam, Se e oysters, and take a trip down the river | 1775. 2 | by 1800 there had developed the s congress, bu [or23 o 20guny, Rull the Confederhey, | urder ‘and teok ¥ Chufch of eight members wax orgun- | Martinique of Demerara. in canoes and sailboats.” i James Lincoln—Wool-cards, 1785. |of trade whereby certain persons de- in . of 52 guns, were built at Willett's ship in the expedit Y &-bhubie 1 on Mee! | Many of the merchants imported By 1726 the undivided lands ‘which | ' Thomas Morrow-—Weaver. ‘1756, ' | voted thelr time eXciusively to the [aprointed chics vard on the west side of the river and NG ¢ hureh-erected o0 MOSUNE | inelr own goods In thelr own shipe. onderoga) to ese snant governor, in | performed many )y th d tiln lpSugetgies g The fact that the great war governor or and his wife. having o Connecticut, Jonathan Trumbull of their own, adopted a\was connected with Norwich, Goubtle 1ew. children of the Rev, | added to unanimity with whi o neton of Coventry, was supported Norwich citiz This adopied son, also named Sa e son Huntington, wa f Ohio dent of 1808 to 1810, liant exploit e {In 1791 one merchant, Joseph Wil- | liams, owned six trading vessels, kept in the West Indix trade | During the fourtees years prior to the Revolutionary war, goods were - bought here by one merchant, direct from England, to the amount of twen= 3 ty thousand five hundred and sixty seven pounds steriing. As ‘there were, remained. were chiefly included in two | _Daniel Willisms——*Taylor” In Lef-| keeping of stores and the manufactur- sheep walks, the east and the west, | ingwell Row,/ just north of the Lef-1iing of goods for the needs of the parent The East Sheep Walk, of about 900 acres, was divided . into forty-two shares of twenty acres each, the lots extending along the water from the Shetucket ferry to the cove, with a highway through them two rods wide. In the rear of these was a second tier th of lots, and so on. Kach share was | pointed eed [ a part’ of this time divided into tenths, and the tenths in- | ST : : | of the Amgrican army: bt the weight the ylea of | traders (it not wiore), wh "-“rponmfi 5 to eights, and distributed apparentl pied by Mr, W. S. Allis was ownediof care #nd respoMfibility 'connected e k R TEa s Fof bl - by lot. After this, houses and. people about the year 1764 by Azariah I with- thigimuortant office wore higy out Fo wlution | Shete, omn; oods, this maE SR increased rapidly, and in a few years rop. The house may have been built | and in July, at his fa- 3 ) 1% fullof RLIeied 8 an extensive DU R ing. trading paat,generally satlog The | ea and enlirged from an older > | The story of Norwich in the Revolu- one of our old s e bl sar. il i, Landing, but gradualiy coming % be | built by W n Morgan between 1745 | tion cannc RS il amount received i one year. ace rd- known as New Chelsey, or Chelsca So- | and 1752, (No. 120) | mention of Gen. Jabex Hu on and hant, was In 1361—the Importation: i sons. When Governor Fitch, slety. The West Shee: Walk, or some Involzes being three thousand one | f , 700 acres, was. likewise divided ,and The early courts had met in private | il decided to su; the Stamp |1 cred and fif(y ds o confirmed to' thirty-seven propricfors, houses, op in the. mesting. house, buc| Att, and wished his coancil tn udminz,| ¢ ¢ i e By g Al W + ““The first housetoiders of whom s in 11735 Norwich was mude a half- | ister to him the ocuth to that effect | Vil wil oices, comprising six hundred and know were Daniel Tracy, , Benejah shire town, and & court hose whip- |Seven of the.eleven .miembers ' with- it or. by th forty-six pounds. During the vears Bushnell and Nathaniel Backus, . | ping post and pillory w built. Cap- | drew, refusing to witness the cere- | We 1766-69 nothing was received. =Most of gy o B g v | tain Joseph: Tracy-was:sfven ehatse of| mMony.” One of thess men:wad- ¢ those goots were brought out in Eng- N tunate as to secure land at the wa- the key of the court house, and the |Jabez Huntington, and another b by 1 ships ‘o Boston and New York— i ter's cdge, entered into commercial town’s stock of ‘ammunition w Hezekiah, = In- 1976 Ge breadth P ',':",.‘,,' B e e vt s pursuits. By 1720 four sloops were |in & room in the attic, a fine of igton and General Wooster we <clf inie). for tk one Involte was brought to [ owned in Norwich and engaged in the | ing imposed on any man “who ppointed mwajor sencrals of the Con- POSE « . readers, ard Phode Island (Ncwport, probably). " West Indiag trade. Soon after this smoke it in the time of sessions of any militia, <nd en the death of | of leaving behind hiy prded ev:- After that time the lmpor.ere were Norwich traders sent a sloop and a. | 7 Wooster the -following year, | éence of his patriotism and moral awners of the siips as well as the car- Huntington becam E Lo i neral of the state d to eall out the n of this and the tha " sole | worth."—Norwi and wa = 10--us they paid the jrsurcnce on the v sgels—and ‘we find them commanded " men bearing, in this community e facaillar names of Allen, Rilllrgs, achooner to Ireland, where the sloop was probably sold, the crew return- ing in the schooner, The business of ship building was at the foundation of This buflding became so dilapidated that in 1762 a new one was built on { the southeast corner of the plain, in | front of the first one In Norwich and some other towns | town meeting.” | the defe the presperity of West Chelsea, still In this second court house was read | IDg states. He was In corre in the eastern pa Connecticut Che and Purker. The goods wers known as the West Side, | the Boston tircular of 1767, and a com- | during-the war with many influential | were often quartered torics and other D i Taaae et N Between ' 1740.and 1750 two high- OLD TOWN HOUSE, mittee was appolnted to draw up al Datriots the time, among them | .jgoners of war. Here, too, were kept pudon. The Jagest part came from ‘ways were opened to the Landing, oue - 4 . 4 ’ report for another meeting. This re- | washington, Lafavett Hancock, | ~ - © % ondon, though In 1788, & aftor- on each side of the central hill. The| ¢ =7 ™ 17 Built in 1735, Used as School, 1886. port consisied of an agreement mot to | Sherman, Trumbull and Samuel Hunt- j St0res of grain, molasses, t Aol ds, a full molety was shipped from o p eastern road coincided with the pres- ° A\ . import or use artivies of foreign pro- | Ingten. The homestead of Gen. Jabez 1 and other suppiles for t rmy CENERAL JABEZ HUNTINGTON, | Bristol. At (st time, Liverpool, now ent Crescent street, but - continued | fingwell Inn. 1784. (No, 18). settlement and the surrounding vil- | duction. Ome clausg read nd it is | JTuntington is gtill standing on Hunt- | 7he city was also well situated to 5 | so famons for its share In the Ameri- ° aoross Broad street, and came into| Alexander McDonald — Bookbinder, |lages. strongly recommended to tre worthy | IDEton lane—a large, square house, | scrve as a port of refué for <| Commander-in-Chief of Connecticit | can trge, was not (howght of ¥ Broadway at the point now occupied | Lefinzwell Row. 1788, By this time a system of reads had |ladies of this town that for the future | With projecting upper story and stand- | they couid safely retire and dis- Forées in Revolutien. city having then only 18,500 by the residence of William A. Nor- | Thomas Hubbard & Christ Lef- | been estiblished leading from Oid Nor- | they- would omit tea-drinking in the | "€ With its side to the str 1t is | cl s their cargoes. 3 l nts, and was wholly: engrossed by the ton. Thence it ran -through Union | fingwell—Manufacture clothing.s 1787 | wich to the surrounding towns, and at | afternoon; and tp commission officers | Said that Lafayette vas entertained in people were ver In’ fear of a|House Hill, the intarior paneling, to-|slave trame. B street and lower Broadway, terminat- | (No. 18) the close of the eigiteenth century and | to,be moderate and frugal in their ac- | thi8 house during one of his ViSits t0 | direct Imvasion of tie cmem gether “the pulpit, seats and| The insurance from London to Bos- ing at the house of Nathaniél Backus, Roswell Gaylord—Hats and furs. For | the beginning of the nineteenth the set- | knowledgments to their companies, for rwich. (No. 110.) at the time of the burn ) canopee® being relies of the old church | ton, of ording where the Central building now | several years from 1788, (No. 15) tlement of Old Norwich was at the|making cholce of them as officers —_— London, iy September, 1381 1t was | in the town-plot. Pautipan~ or iignun | to. the risk of b the ene %, stands, ‘ Henry Strong-—lLaw office in+Leffing- | helght of its prosperity as)u business | which at this distressing time wil © His oldeet son, Jedediah Huntington, | tfen feared that Arnold, with hatred | Societ hich ded In the | emy (France), ranging from five to The waslern road. Miss Caulking | wel) Row, and later agross the street. | center. more honorable than the usual lavisk | served in many of the most import- | toward his native town, might proceed t ¥r . had its n.K|.,-| teen guineas per cent ially with thinks, colncided withythe greater part | ('vo. 18 o map of 1813.) — and extravagant entertainments here- | ant battles of the war, including Bun- [ up the river and bring destruction to [ning in a small company that went out | an nt to return a part of the * — Drug The 4ntroduction of mail stages and | tofore giver The report closes wilh | ker Hill and Long Island. He was a | the homes of his former neighbors, | from the West Iwrms church, forming | premium if the vessel took convoy. In s of Wuhluyn streef, and ended at| Dr. Daniel Lathrop “Capt. Bughnell's-old warehouse.” But | North of Gen. Harland's. About ihe development of taverns as describ- | the ‘determination to reffain “loyal | member of the —courtmartial which | Freparations were even made to re- | new nization beiween 1345 and | 1739 and 1761 the ship had gunpowder numnmthn 1t follpwed $he | ~tferwards in company with his broth- | ed elsewhere was an important factor | subjects to our Sovereign Lord the | tried Gen. Charles Lee and one of the | cove him: goods were packed. and | 175 % {on board, and the insurance g - guineas per cent. in one . case and. e (now Lafayette | er Joshua. .(No. 46.) in the development of this community, | King, holding firm and inviolable our | court of inquiry to which was referred men and' children made veady for eight In the other—"to return two for course of “at | {Ugkt. but Arnold, if he had the_will. { The church aPound which grew up street), and the present Yantic street Lathrop & Eels—(JosHua Lathrop | two miles from tidewater. Leflingwell's | attachment to and dependence on our | the case of Major Andre. In nL and Cushing Eels.) Cotton goods man- | tavern (Ne. 17 on map of 1795 | wer to the ,at the Falls. and estab- | mother country General- Washington's request,” he was | wi€ too prudent to venture so far*from | the town of New Concord. or Bozrah, | Chanfel convoy. three for & North then, c stern edge of the | ufactory. Norih of Miss Gilmanis:|lishted in 1701; Peck's tavern (No. 114),| During all the vears of the Revolu- | made a brigadier seneral, and at the | the coast, and Norwich was left in |was orgawized in 1733. The rorthern | American convey, or four for alore, Mmm a and - 1793, (No. §9.) established in 1784; the Lathrop tav-{tion numerous and enthusiastic meet-'end of the war received the brévet!peace | part of the present town, the portion for Boston or Piscstus and”