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New Haven County, Connecticut
History & Genealogy

History of the
COLONY OF NEW HAVEN,
Before and After
THE UNION with CONNECTICUT
containing a particular description
of the Towns Which Composed That Government, Viz.,

NEW HAVEN,
MILFORD,
GUILFORD,

BRANFORD,
STAMFORD &
SOUTHOLD, L. I.

With a Notice of the Towns Which Have Been Set Off From
"THE ORIGINAL SIX."
Illustrated by Fifty Engravings.
by Edward R. Lambert
NEW HAVEN:
Printed and Published by Hitchcock & Stafford
1838

PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	PAGE
COLONY OF NEW HAVEN.
Introductory remarks,	13
Voyages of the cabots,	13
Other early voyages to New England	14
The London and Plymouth Companies	14
Puritans: Mr. Robinson and congregation - Plymouth colony,	15
Early settlements in Massachusetts,	16
Proclamation to restrain emigration,	17
First settlements made in Connecticut,	17
Settlement of Saybrook - Progress of settlements in Conn.,	18
War with the Pequots,	19
Indians in New Haven colony	20
formation of New Haven government	21
Agreement relating to Milford,	22
Articles of confederation,	23
First jurisdiction tax,	24
Courts of the colony	25
Union of the New England colonies	26
Danger from the Indians	27
Orders of the General Court for the public defense	27
The Mosaic law adopted for the government of the colony,	28
Governor's oath	28
Freeman's charge - Trouble from the Dutch	29
Ship taken as a prize	29
Gov. Eaton's law book	30
First troop of horse raised	31
Tax and price of produce	31
Charter of Connecticut obtained from Charles II.	31
Union of the colonies of New Haven and Connecticut	32
General officers of the colony	32
General officers after the union	33
End of the Dutch power in America	34
County courts first instituted - King Philip's war	34
Committee of Safety appointed, (extract from records,)	35
Quo Warranto's against the charter of Connecticut	36
French and Indian wars	37
General Court of Connecticut first held at New Haven	38
First paper money issued in Connecticut	38
Territory of Connecticut west of Pennsylvania	39
Remarks on Connecticut	39
Situation of New Haven	40
Quinnipiack Indians - Arrival of the colonists at Boston	41
Mr. Eaton's Letter to the General Court of Massachusetts	42
Arrival of teh colony at New Haven	43
First Sermon preached - Plantation covenant	44
Quinnipiack purchased of the Indians,	44
Second purchase	45
Fundamental articles	46
Churches organized	50
Millinarians,	50
Organization of civil government,	51
New Haven laid out - Gov. Eaton's house, &c.	52
Order concerning the house lots,	53
First meeting-house	53
Order concerning the military	53
Order concerning common fields	53
List of Planters	54
Settlement o9f Greenwich	55
New Haven purchase on the Delaware	56
Southold purchased by New Haven	57
Ship built at Rhode Island,	57
New Haven Phantom Ship,	57
Treaty for Galloway, in Ireland	58
Account of the Regicides,	58
Project of establishing a College	62
Account of the Regicides	58
Project of establishing a College	62
Hopkins' Grammar School	63
Remonstrance of Mass. against a college in New Haven	63
History of the first church and beginning of the second	69
Episcopal society	74
Churches of other denominations	75
Patent of New Haven	75
New Haven incorporated a city,	76
British attack New Haven	76
Celebration of peace	78
Public square or green	79
Site of New Haven	80
Harbor	80
Soil of New Haven	81
Population of New Haven	81
Public buildings, &c.	82
State Hospital	82
Botanic Physicians	83
Fair Haven,	83
Westerville	83
WALLINGFORD	83
NORTH HAVEN,	84
HAMAN,	84
EAST HAVEN,	84
First iron works,	84
MILFORD.
Situation and first purchase of Milford,	85
Manner of transacting the Business - After purchases	86
Indian Neck	86
Quit claim from the Indians	87
Purchase above derby and New Haven road,	87
Two Bit Purchase - One Bit purchase,	88
Settlement of the town,	89
List of first Planters,	89
Number of first planters	90
List of the principal after planters,	90
Removal of fourteen of the first settlers	91
The planters led to Milford by Thomas Tibbals	91
Formation of their civil polity - Five judges chosen,	92
Planters located on Mill river and West End brook	93
Location and quantity of land in house lots	93
Houses of settlers - First mill in the colony,	94
Town named,	94
Meeting-house and bridge built	94
Common fields and divisions of land - Sequestered lands	95
Regulations of common fields and gates - Town flock of sheep,	96
Lands sequestered for the church	96
Lands to be recorded - List of town clerks - Roads	97
Foot paths - Bridges - Ferries	99
Hog Rock legend	100
First church organized	100
Covenant - Record of Mr. Prudden's ordination,	101
Succeeding pastors	102
Provisions for teh support of ministers - Salaries	103
Description of the first meeting-house	104
Second and third meeting-houses of first society,	105
Bell and town clock,	106
Origin of the second society	106
Erect a meeting-house	107
Ministers prosecuted for preaching	108
Society released from taxes to first society	108
Settled ministers of the society	108
Salary of ministers of second society	109
Episcopal society - Church erected	109
Baptist Society	110
Burying Grounds,	110
Hearse - Fevers and small pox - Inoculation house,	111
Mineral physicians - Botanical physicians	112
Schools, First receipt of money from the school fund,	113
School districts	113
Subject of the western lands - Town houses	114
Academy building - Libraries - Public houses,	116
Mills,	118
Trade and commerce	120
Ship building - Early mechanics	121
Ancient Boundaries	122
Encouragement for raising hops,	122
Old patent of the town - New patent	123
Lands owned in various places by planters	125
Planters' estates in England unsold	126
Indian villages - Indian burying places	126
Indian implements, &c. - Indian wampum - Indian counting	127
Measures for security against the Indians,	127
Indians attempt to burn the town,	128
Houses fortified	129
Battle between the Wepowages and Mohawks,	129
Indian fort destroyed	130
Land appropriated for the Indians at Turkey Hill	130
Potatuck Indians - Visit of Champlain Indians	130
Fate of the Indians	131
Military companies, and orders concerning	131
Services rendered by the town in the early wars	132
Proceedings of the town in the revolutionary war	133
Landing of British soldiers at Pond Point	135
Tories banished,	135
Soldiers landed from a prison ship	136
Guard kept in the late war.	136
Leading men of the first planters	136
Notice of Governor Treat	136
Notice of Governor Law	1239
Notice of the Sherman family	141
Notice of Abraham Clark, of New Jersey	143
Notice of Colonel Samuel Eells	143
Notice of Colonel Roger Newton	143
Notice of Gideon Buckingham	144
Persons of collegiate education	144
Regicides secreted	144
Geological Features	144
Milford marble	144
Meadows and Swamps	145
Rivers,	145
Fishing places - Poconoc Point - Oyster acts, &c.	146
Milford Island	147
Milford Island legend	147
Harbor - Proposed breakwater	148
Burwell's Farm	148
Wheller's Farm,	149
Character of Inhabitants, &c.	149
*Towns settled by Milford people*
NEWARK	150
GREENWICH	152
NEW MILFORD	152
NEWTOWN,	155
DURHAM,	155
*Towns which once belonged to Milford*
DERBY,	156
WOODBRIDGE	157
ORANGE,	158
GILFORD
Situation and boundary - Settlement commenced	160
First purchase of the Indians	160
After purchases - List of first planters	161
Agreement between the planters	162
Division of lands - Order for clearing land	163
Plan of organizing their church - Notice of Mr. Whitefield	164
Succeeding ministers - Other congregational societies	165
Episcopal churches - Public officers and courts	166
Early military discipline, &c. - Notice Mr. Desborough	167
Notice of Gov. Leete	167
Mr. Whitfield's residence	169
Mr. Whitefield's estate - Soil of the township	170
Rivers and harbor - Borough of Guilford	170
Watering places - Character of inhabitants	171
Patent of Guilford	171
MADISON	171
BRANFORD.
Situation - First purchase and Indian name	172
Granted to Samuel Eaton- Sold to Wethersfield people,	172
Mr. Pierson and people unite in the settlement	172
Notice of Mr. Pierson	172
Progress of the settlement	173
Planter's displeased with the union of New Haven with Connecticut - Remove to Newark, N. J.	173
Town re-settled and re-invested with town privileges	174
Patent of Branford - Soil and surface of the land	174
Rivers and islands - Public square, churches &c.	174
NORTH BRANFORD,	174
STAMFORD
Situation - First purchase of New Haven people	175
Subsequent agreement	175
First planters - Cause of their removal from Wethersfield,	175
Bought of New Haven - Principal settlers	176
Notice of Mr. Denton	177
Subsequent ministers - Magistrates and other officers	177
Danger from the Indians - Parts of the town fortified	177
Dutch and Indians at war - Notice of Capt. Underhill	177
Indians design a general massacre - Mr. Whitmore killed	178
Town of the point of revolt from New Haven	178
Patent of Stamford - Size of the township, surface, and soil,	178
Borough - Churches and other buildings	179
Sloop canal, harbor, &c. - Southfield and Shipan Point	179
DARIEN.	179
SOUTHOLD, L. I.
Purchased under the authority of New Haven	180
Planters remove from New Haven to the place,	180
Settled in combination with New Haven	180
Some of the leading men - Civil and ecclesiastical affairs	180
First meeting-house - Ministers	181
Notice of the Young family - Attention to religion	181
Difficulty of restricting free suffrage in the church	182
Southold claimed by Connecticut	182
Averse to coming under the government of New York	182
The Corchaug Indians	183
Hostilities of Ninnigrate to the Long Island Indians	183
Indians troublesome	183
Language of Long Island Indians - List of Indians words	184
Situation and extent of Southold - boundaries	184
Patent from Sir Edmund Andross	184
Island belonging to town - Gull Island Light House	184
Public buildings - Seminary	185
Greenport and other villages	185
SKETCH OF OLDEN TIMES
Religious intolerance of first colonists	186
Regard for the Sabbath,	187
Congregational church established by law	188
Announcement of time for meeting	189
Opposition to Romish ceremonies	189
Regard paid to ministers	189
Seating the meeting-house	190
Day of the week and month, reckoned by numbers	190
Belief in witchcraft, prodigies, &c.	190
Fasts and thanksgiving	191
Election	191
Formality of social intercourse	192
Specimen of given names	193
Schools,	193
Method of trade	193
Ancient coin	194
Form of note of hand	195
Form of Connecticut Treasury Notes	196
Description style of dress	197
Style of Architecture	201
Farmer's table fare	202
Table and other furniture	203
Traveling conveyance	203
Farming utensils	204
Principal crops raised	204
Concluding remarks	204
GENEALOGY of the LAMBERT FAMILY	205

LIST OF ENGRAVINGS

Map of New Haven and vicinity - 1
Seal of Connecticut - 1
South view of New Haven and Fort Hale - 40
Signature of Governor Eaton, &c. - 43
Indian marks, Momauguin's and others - 45
Indian marks, Montowese, &c. - 46
Southwest view of Gov. Eaton's house - 52
Plan of the city of New Haven - 52
Southeast view of Yale College - 63
View of the first College - 65
Seal of Yale College - 66
Signature of Gov. Winthrop - 75
East View of the Public Square in New Haven - 79
Eastern view of Trinity Church, New Haven - 79
View of Connecticut State Hospital - 82
South view of Fair Haven, (western part) - 83
West view of East Haven - 84
Indian marks, Ansantaway and others - 86
Indian marks, Toutonomac, &c. - 87
Milford town seal - 92
Plan of the town of Milford - 93
Ground plan of the first meeting-house - 104
South view of the first meeting-house - 104
South view of Congregational Churches, - 106
South view of the Episcopal Church and Town House - 115
Signature of Gov. Saltonstall, - 124
Southwest view of Gov. Treat's house - 138
Gov. Treat's signature - 138
Gov. Law's signature - 140
East view of Poconoc, or Milford Point - 146
South view of New Milford - 153
Indian marks, and sketch of Wiantinoque purchase - 53
Southern view of Gilford - 160

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