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THE 1
HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT
FROM 1700 TO 1800
BY MRS. ELIZABETH HUBBELL SCHENCK
VOL. II
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR NEW YORK 1905
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LIB PRY OF UNDRESS
Two Copies Received FEB 26 1905 Copyright Entry
Thay 19, 1904 CLASS A' AXCI NOI
87331 COPY B.
COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY ELIZABETH H. SCHENCK.
Press of J. J. Little & Co., Astor Place, New York.
PREFACE
In presenting the second volume of the History of Fairfield to the public the author has labored under many disadvantages in delay from ill-health for four or five years after the publication of the first volume. The closely-written State records having proved too severe a strain upon the eyes, the historian has hitherto largely depended upon the published records by the late State librarian, Mr. Charles J. Hoadley.
It is not out of place here to impress upon the Legislature of Con- necticut the necessity of yearly setting aside a liberal sum of money for the publication and preservation of the Connecticut State records, which possess for the historian and the genealogist civil, military and ecclesias- tical documents and records of inestimable value.
The town, probate and parish records of Fairfield, now well worn and faded, ought to be published without delay; a work by which the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Colonial Dames, with their earnest zeal for the preservation of valuable relics and the recorded deeds of our ancestors, would add lustre to their many praiseworthy acts of patriotism.
Having had for many years a copy of the first extant parish records of Christ Church, Fairfield, the author has thought wise to add them to this volume, that many who frequently apply to her for genealogical family records may themselves be able to trace them out. The parish records of Green's Farms, Stratfield, Greenfield Hill, Northfield, Mill Plain and Southport, which follow those of Fairfield, are most interesting and valuable.
In recording the names of the military officers of Fairfield and of its several parishes the reader is requested to bear in mind that the men who composed the army were as worthy of honor as the officers who led them, for they were among the soldiers of the army who won the hard fought battles which made the United States a free and independent country.
It is with deep regret that the author feels obliged with this volume to end her work of compiling the History of Fairfield : as, with advancing yea !.. , the labor of such an undertaking is too great a strain upon her Strength. The years which follow she leaves to some other pen to record and publish
CONTENTS
CHAPTER VII
1700-1710
WAR WITH THE FRENCH AND INDIANS
Dawn of the eighteenth century .- Free grammar schools .- Vale College Charter .- The Gen- eral Assembly to be held at Hartford and at New Ilaven .- Fairfield Village changed to Stratfield and made a parish .- Tornado at Fairfield .- Death of King William .- Acces- sion of Queen Anne .- Smallpox town hospitals and maritime laws for vessels .- Slaves .- Court of Assistants held annually at New Haven in October .- A portion of Fairfield school tax to be paid to Stratfield school .- Grant of grammar school lands .- War declared against France and Spain .- School tax .- Freeman's fine .- Kenzey's Point .- Indian Sasco Neck land .- School at Bankside .- Compo mill .- Grant to John Edwards on Meeting-house Green .- School at Greenfield Hill .- Clapboard Ilill .- Nathan Gold judge of New Haven Court of Assistants .- Peter Burr one of the Court of Assistants .- Surveyors of Fairfield .-- Protection sent to the eastern and western plantations .- Townships confirmed in their patent rights .- Protection to friendly Indians .- Reward for taking Indian enemies .- Com- mittee of Safety .- Preparations for defending the frontier towns .- War tax .- Fairfield military officers .- Queen's Attorney .- Connecticut Charter in danger .- Burning of Rich- ard Ogden's mill .- Demand of England for masts and stores .- Repeal of laws against Quakers .- Fast day .- Ministers and families exempt from taxes .- Drunkenness punished. -Stocks .- Land granted to Rev. S. Wakeman .- Grant of land for Pequot war service to Capt. Richard Osborn .- Renewal of Long-lots .- Efforts of the governors of Massa- chusetts and New York to nullify colony charters .- Sir Henry Ashurst's defense of the Connecticut Charter in England .- Heavy taxes .- Introduction of the Church of England. -Unfriendly Indians sent to Fairfield jail .- Refusal of men and arms to the governors of Massachusetts and New York .- Law of Inhabitants and who to admit .- Charity for Samuel Carter .- Petitioners of New Fairfield .- Nathan Gold elected Deputy Governor .- Church of England at Fairfield. - Governors to be elected by the people instead of by magistrates. - Bankside farmers apply for parish rights .- Grant of parish rights to towns. -Laws for dissenters from Congregationalism .- The Saybrook Platform .- Impost on home and foreign liquors .- Election Sermons in towns .- Thanksgiving Day .- Stock of town guns and ammunition .- Fresh taxes .- Persons exempt from train-band service .- Nathan Gold in charge of military arms, etc .- Dogs .- l'enalty for selling arms, etc., to Indians .- Peter Burr major of Fairfield County Regiment .- Church of England members disheartened .- Expedition against Canada, etc .- Failure of the expedition .- Fairfield sur-
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geon and military officers .- Resolve to renew the expedition. - First issue of paper money. -Petition of Connecticut to the Queen .- Military affairs .- The sick and wounded at Albany .- Laws for encouraging and improving military companies .- Young people not to gather on Sabbath evenings, etc.
CHAPTER VIII
1710-1720
CONTINUATION OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Election of officers .- Bills of credit .- Counterfeiting .- Council of War .- Efforts to capture Canada .- Queen Anne's letter .- Response to the Queen's letter .- Troops ordered out .- Ships and transports .- Officers of Expedition .- Capture of Port Royal .- Military officers of Green's Farms .- Tax for the Expedition .- Parish petition of Green's Farms .- Con- necticut and New York boundary line .- Major Burr's soldiers .- New Fairfield .- Expe- dition against Canada .- Green's Farm a parish .- Educational interests .- Bills of credit and taxes .- Smallpox hospitals .- County Courts .- Superior Courts .- Expedition against Canada .- Punishment of deserters .- Army supplies from Connecticut .- Dr. James Laborie and Dr. Copp .- Troops, supplies, and drums from Fairfield .- Army and Navy leave for Canada .- Failure of the expedition .- Connecticut garrison in frontier forts .- Land grant to heirs of Major Nathan Gold .- Renewed efforts against Canada .- Green's Farms bound- ary .- Laws for tavern-keepers .- Post fees .- Assembly at Fairfield of an Ecclesiastical Court .- Church attendance obligatory .- Public land to be sold for erecting a court-house. -Taxes .- Schools .- Yale college fees .- Grant of land to Green's Farms minister, to Rev. Mr. Webb and Rev. Charles Chauncey .- Perry's grist mill .- Laws for vicious per- sons .- New issue of bills of credit 1713 .- Taxes on imports .- Reward for wolves and panthers .- Peace of Utrecht .- Great expense of Connecticut in the French and English war .- Charters in danger .- Indian deed of Clapboard Hill .- Highways between Long- lots .- County officers. - Preservation of forests .- Duties on wood exports .- Strict religious laws .- Bibles in families required .- Decline of religion .- Custom house at Black Rock. - A long drought .- Death of Queen Anne .- Accession of George I .- Green's Farms allowed to embody in a society .- Schools .- New mills .- Rev. Daniel Chapman called to Green's Farms .- Death of Rev. Charles Chauncey .- Fairweather Island .- Trustees of school lands .- Temperance laws .- Train-band officers of Green's Farms and Greenfield .- Chief Justice Nathan Gold .- Regulations for vessels on Sabbath days .- Parish laws for Sab- bath worship, teaching, and for good morals .- Thanksgiving .- Fast day .- Greens Farms opens its Church and ordains Rev. Mr. Chapman .- Individual land grants to be secured. -Train-band officers for county troops .- Election sermon .- Schools .- Private persons not to purchase lands of Indians .- Taxes on imports, and on peddlers and non-residents of the colony .- Cattle pound laws .- Evangelizing the Indians .- Saw mill on Aspetuck River .- Dr. James Laborie a resident of Fairfield .- Land grant to the heirs of Captain Nathaniel Seeley .- County cavalry officers .- Drainage of Pine creek meadow. - Yale col- lege .- Vagrancy not permitted .- Taxes for bills of credit .- Bills of credit issued .- Mr. Timothy Green of New London the engraver of bills of credit .- Bounds of parsonage lands .- Rev. Samuel Cook minister of Stratfield parish .- Value of estates of Fairfield 1719 .- Fast day
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CHAPTER IX
1720-1730
CHURCH AND STATE
Green's Farms Church .- Court House .- General Assembly officers .- Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly .- Trouble with Indians .- Increased taxes on liquor .- Fast day .- Fairfield school land patent .- Contribution to Yale College .- Beliefs and customs of the Estab- lished Church of the Colony .- A summary of their persecutions .- Church of England vig- orously maintained .- Opposition of the Established Church .- Laws against the Rogerenes. -Tithingmen .- Punishment for non-observance of the ecclesiastical colony laws .- Supe- rior Courts .- Trouble with the eastern Indians .- County troops .- Fast Day .- Yale Col- lege converts to the Church of England .- Rev. George Pigot. - Ilis letters to England. -Persecution of Church of England members .- Rev. Joseph Webb's letter .- Rev. Mr. Pigot's and Dr. Laborie's letters. - Duties of upper and lower houses of Assembly .- School money .- Judge l'eter Burr elected Chief Justice .- Death of Justice Nathan Gold. -Public tax .- Land grant to heirs of Justice Nathan Gold .- Value of Fairfield estates. -Rev. Samuel Johnson .- Ilis letters. - State and military officers .- Parliament oath taken. -Sheriff of Fairfield .- Laws for Indians .- Military sent against eastern Indians .- Signal of friendly Indians .- Massachusetts calls for military assistance .- Death of Justice Peter Burr .- Troops sent against eastern Indians .- Greenfield petitions for parish privileges .- Rev. Noah Hobart an assistant to Rev. Mr. Webb .- Captain Samuel Couch's land patent. -Thanksgiving Day .- Opening of the Church of England and location .- Laws against swearing .- Official fees .- Admission of strangers. - Northwest parish (Greenfield) embody in church and state .- Covenant .- Rev. John Goodsell .- Church officers .- How to warn new societies .- Value of Fairfield estates .- Greenfield meeting-house .- Growth of the Church of England .- Taxation without representation .- Rev. Dr. Johnson's letters .- Petition of Church of England officers .- Petition granted .- Northwest parish named Greenfield .- Death of George 1 .- Accession of George II. celebrated at New Haven .- Ilouse of Correction .- Earthquake and its effects .- Lottery evils .- Churchmen persecuted. -Mr. Caner's letters. - Public notifications .- Probate Court of Stamford. - Lotteries for- bidden .- Viciousness of the Indians .- Reading petitions to be made a parish .- Fairfield County enlarged .- Requisites of a freeholder .- Reading made a parish .- Official fees .- Freeman's rights
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CHAPTER X
1730-1740
GROWTH AND PROSPERITY OF FAIRFIELD
State military officers .- Law for slaves .- Settlement of boundary between New York and Con- necticut .- Value of Fairfield estates .- Maintenance and growth of the Church of Eng- land .- Law for erecting meeting-houses .- Vice to be suppressed .- Stratfield military officers .- Canaan meeting-house .- Town taxes .- Death of Dr. Laborie .- Parsonage
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lands .- Reading petitions England for a clergyman. - Rev. John Beach. - Towns not to entertain strangers .- Death of Rev. Joseph Webb .- Rev. Noah Hobart's ordination .- Election ball .- Church customs .- Queen Anne's munificent grant to the Church of Eng- land in America .- Dean Berkeley's visit to America .- His gift of books and scholarship to Yale College .- Diversion of Queen Anne's gift .- Dean Berkeley's mortification and return. - Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown .- Western Lands .- School laws. - Green- field and Fairfield military officers .- Preservation of Forests .- New bills of credit .- Value of Fairfield estates .- Encouragement of silk and linen weaving .- Manner of calling church gatherings .- Epidemic in the colony .- Decline of religious interest in families .- Sale of parsonage lands .- Church of England not allowed to share in the sale of these lands. - Law for gathering church taxes .- Capt. Samuel Couch's patent of Indian land .- New Fairfield to be settled .- Severe laws against theft and burglaries .- Restrictions on tavern keepers .- Military laws. - Magistrates of 1736 -Mutilated bills of credit .- Evangelizing the Indians .- New Fairfield .- Magistrates of 1737 .- Superior Court .- New Fairfield. - Wilton meeting house. - Green's Farm's meeting house. - Western lands. - Greenfield militia officers .- Magistrates of 1738 .- Report of Colony laws and bills of credit .- Reading .- Town privileges of New Fairfield. - Fairfield military officers .- Magistrates of 1739 .- Reading bounds. - Military and naval regulations.
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CHAPTER XI
1740-1750
WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND, FRANCE AND SPAIN
Religious awakening .- Rev. George Whitefield. - New Lights .- Revivals .- Assistants and deputies of 1740 .- Proclamation of war .- Soldiers raised .- Bills of credit issued .- Taxes laid. - Stratfield exempt from Fairfield school and ministers' taxes .- New Fairfield meeting-house .- Incorporated a town .- Hemp, canvas, and linen. - Bills of credit .- Volunteers for war .- Deserters punished .- Military officers .- Colonial laws sent to Eng- land .- 1741 .- Expedition against West Indies .- Colony and military officers. - Embargo on grain, etc .- Military preparations .- Sale of western lands for schools .- Prayers for King and Royal family .- Fresh troops sent to Cuba .- Sloop Defence .- Invasion of Georgia .- Rev. Daniel Chapman's death .- 1742 .- Colony and military officers .- Probate seal .- College license .- License for ministers .- Old Lights and New Lights .- Church of England convention at Fairfield .- Green's Farms meeting-house, seatings, and bell .- Reading meeting-house .- Greenfield Hill meeting-house .- 1743 .- Colonial and military officers .- Ecclesiastical law for dissenters .- Fourth Regiment officers .- P'reparations for war .- Fairfield taxes .- 1744 .- Political and military officers .- Superior Court at Fairfield. -War between England and France. - Military officers and troops raised to assist New York .- Powder money tax .- Friendly Indian badges. - Punishment for officers and soldiers. -Fairfield doomed .- 1745. - French expedition against Louisburg .- Assembly of Febru- ary .- Expedition against Cape Breton and neighborhood .- Volunteers raised .- Sloop De- fence and transports prepared .- Major Andrew Burr .- Colonel of forces .- April 3d a fast day .- Bills of credit issued .- Political and military officers .- Reinforcements .- Bills of credit issued .- Commanding officers .- Commodore Warren's course .- Expedition sailed. -Orders from England .- Louisburg and Cape Breton taken .- Great rejoicing in colonies. -Valuable prizes .- Fisheries preserved .- Col. Andrew Burr's regiment maintained at Louisburg .- Connecticut requests share in prize money, etc .- 1746. - England resolved to
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conquer Canada, and France to retake her possessions .- Officers of the civil and military appointments .- Care of disabled soldiers .- Fresh officers and soldiers raised to attack Canada. - Day of fasting and prayer ordered .- Bills of credit .- Troops to protect frontier towns .- Expedition against Crown Point .- French fleet .- Alarm on New England coast. -Disasters and failure of French fleet .- New England dissatisfied and alienated from England .- Enterprise and bravery of Fairfield men and women .- Political and military officers .- Protection of currency, trade, and lumber .- Bounty to Indian allies .- Oath of allegiance and supremacy .- Estates of Fairfield .- AAgreement to defend English colonies. -French attack on English possessions and failure .- Indian depredations .- Ecclesiastical affairs .- 1748 .- Political and military officers. - Rev. Henry Caner goes to Boston. - Rev. Joseph Lamson .- Death of Rev. Samuel Cook. - Rev. Lyman Hall .- New church .- Cross- highway .- St. John's Church, Stratfield .- Reading meeting-house .- Rev. Mr. Beach .- Death of Rev. Mr. Hunn .- New Fairfield's tax for church .- Tax for Vale College .- Ecclesiastical laws .- 1749 .- Political and military officers .- Treaty of peace between England, France, and Spain .- Louisburg ceded back to France .- Depreciation of cur- rency .- England called upon for assistance and reimbursement .- Taxes raised to pay England's war expenses .- Heavy tax on Fairfield .- Indian Sagamore Chicken deeded his land at Reading
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CHAPTER XII
1750-1760
FRENCH AND ENGLISH WAR IN AMERICA
Connecticut soldiers .- Religious dissensions .- Civil and military officers of 1750 .- Money from England .- English laws introduced .- Reply to English Board of Trade and Plantations. - Peter Penfield's Mill .- Death of Col. John Burr .- Religious Controversies .- The Church of England .- New Congregational Church .- Death of Bishop Berkeley .- Civil and military officers of 1751 .- French projects in America. - Persecution of English trad- ers .- Connecticut alliance with Six Nations .- Form of prayer for King. George II .- Baptists at Stratfield .- Stratfield bounds enlarged .- Civil and military officers of 1752 .- Grammar Schools .- School lands .- Law for Sabbath Day .- Civil and military officers of 1753 .- Tax for Colony expenses .- llouses of Correction .- Epidemic .- Tobacco .- War preparations .- Flax water-machine .- New Style calendar .- Congregationalism at Vale College .- Religious controversies increase. - Civil and military officers of 1754 .- English traders murdered by French .- Fort Du Quesne taken .- Colonel Washington .- Connecticut petitions England for assistance and protection .- Grand council of war at Albany .- Com- bination of colonies under one president .- Plan of Great Britain for taxing colonies .- Re- ligious controversy .- Donations of Bishop Berkeley and Governor Vale to Vale College. -King's College .- President Johnson .- Liberal response to King's requirements .- Bills of Credit .- War tax .- Fairfield War Committee .- Troops for war .- Reimbursement from England .- Bounty money .- Chief officers .- Colony's full power to call out troops .- Eng- land's act against paper money .- Colony act for paper money .- Civil and military officers, 1755 .- Fast day .- Call for troops from New York .- Expeditions planned against the French .- French army and navy .- Troops for Crown Point .- Bills of Credit. - Connecticut officers of Fourth Regiment .- Increase of Bills of Credit and taxes .- Ebenezer Silliman commissioner to New York .- Arrival of English fleet .- French prizes taken .- l'repara-
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tions of Gens. Johnson and Lyman on Lake George .- Attack on Johnson's camp .- Defeat of the French .- Colonel Moncton's victory at Nova Scotia .- General Braddock's defeat at Fort Du Quesne .- Bravery of Colonel Washington .- Governor Shirley's forces against Niagara disheartened .- Erected Fort Ontario .- Bravery of Connecticut forces rewarded by King .- Fairfield parsonage and school lands .- Secret council against the French .- Appeal to King for money .- Gratuity to Connecticut forces .- Act to preserve Indian friendship .- French prisoners sent to Fairfield .- Commissioners sent to New York to prosecute the war .- Connecticut preparations .- Crown Point .- Connecticut borrows inoney .- Taxes to repay it .- Call for arms and ammunition .- Fairfield Council of War .- Jonathan Trumbull sent to England .- Civil and military officers of 1756 .- Law against bribery in elections .- Long lots .- Loans to private individuals .- England sends timely money .- Fast day .- War declared against France, May 18th .- Preparations to defeat the French at all points .- Inefficient British generals .- Loss of fort at Oswego .- General Webb's incompetency .- Abercrombie's humiliating delay .- Industry of colonial troops .- Earl of Loudon in Connecticut .- French and Indian. atrocities .- Gold and silver from England .- Embargo on grain and provisions .- Fast day .- Fresh troops for Lake George. -Officers of Fourth Regiment .- Earl Loudon's vexatious orders .- Fairfield parishes .- Weston parish .- Stratfield Baptists .- New Bridge .- Jail bounds .- Commissioners to meet at Boston on war, January, 1757 .- Collections taken in churches .- Public lottery for colony expenses .- Civil and military officers of 1757 .- Preparation of troops to march .- Norfield bounds .- Public, shipping, and tea taxes on merchandise and peddlers .- Lieut .- Col. John Read .- Connecticut's noble response for troops .- Change from Crown Point to Louisburg .- Large forces sent from England .- Expedition relinquished .- French achieve- ments .- Fort William Henry reduced .- Albany threatened .- Connecticut sends large rein- forcements .- Great distress on frontiers .- English officers disgraced .- Fourth Regiment troops at Fort Edward .- General Council of War at New York .- Officers promoted .- Fairfield war taxes .- English soldiers at Fairfield .- Rev. Seth Pomeroy minister at Green- field .- Baptists at Stratfield .- King's orders for large army to invade Canada .- Fresh troops raised and Bills of Credit .- Heavy taxes .- Commissioners .- Embargo on ships .- Military and civil officers of 1758 .- British activity .- Connecticut agents to England .- Fairfield agent to Albany. - Fast day .- British troops at Fairfield .- Lottery .- Supplies for troops at Fort Edward and Station No. 4 .- Roads to Albany .- Bell Foundry .- Troops from England .- Louisburg and St. Johns taken .- Forts Du Quesne and Frontenac taken. -Abercrombie's defeat at Fort Ticonderoga .- Besieged and taken by General Bradstreet. -Connecticut raises more forces and money .- Fairfield officers .- David Rowland to assist in counting seven chests of English money .- Civil and military officers of 1759 .- More troops raised .- Brigade major .- English troops quartered at Fairfield .- Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Isle Aux Noix taken .- Surrender of Quebec .- Preparations to take Montreal. -Fairfield taxes .- Old Lights and New Lights.
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CHAPTER XIII
1760-1770
SEVEN YEARS' WAR AND REVOLUTION
Quebec taken .- 1760 .- Political and military officers .- Bills of credit and taxes .- Boston fire collection in churches .- Renewed attack on French possessions .- Montreal taken .- Con-
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gratulations to the King and to General Amherst .- Money sent from England .- Thanks- giving day throughout Connecticut. - War with Indians .- 1761 .- England calls for more troops .- Troops raised .- Officers .- Bills of credit and taxes .- King's proclamation .- Ecclesiastical laws sent to towns .- Money from England .- Bridge across Saugatuck river .- Pitiless war against Indians. - Peace declared .- England's drain upon American colonies .- Answers to England about trade, etc .- General Amherst calls for troops to protect forts .- Industry of troops .- Taxable estates .- Ecclesiastical controversies and taxes .- Northfield parish .- New meeting-house at Greenfield Ilill, and call of Rev. Mr. Pomeroy .- 1762 .- England calls for more troops .- Troops raised .- Bills of credit and taxes .- Military officers .- Colonial forces take the place of English regulars .- More troops raised. - Civil and military officers .- Large bounty offered .- Embargo on food and grain. -Attack on West Indies .- War against Spain declared .- Attack on Havana .- Great mor- tality among troops .- General Amherst reinforced .- Officers from Fairfield .- F'all of lla- vana .- Fatality of the New England troops .- Money from England .- Abatement of taxes .- Officers commissioned .- 1763 .- Peace declared and concessions made .- Great rejoicing .- Men of Connecticut .- Fairfield's brave course .- Wave of great prosperity .- Affection and pride of the colonies for England .- Honored men of Fairfield .- Law for debtors .- Bills of credit issued to pay officers and soldiers .- Taxes levied .- Money granted by England used for billeting her soldiers, etc .- A day of thanksgiving appointed. - Col. Andrew Burr inspector of army accounts .- 1764 .- Fresh Indian conspiracy .- Civil and military officers .- More troops ordered out .- Bills of credit .- English taxation burden- some .- Check upon industrial prosperity .- Protest against stamp duties, etc .- Peace with western Indians .- Intellectual impetus .- Stamp Act .- Benjamin Franklin's discovery of electricity .- Church officers .- Protest against Stamp Act .- Jared Ingersoll's English ap- pointment of Stamp Distributor .- Colony expenses laid before parliament .- 1765 .- Ac- count of war and colony taxes sent to England, etc .- Civil and military officers .- Golden Hill Indians .- Congress of colonies held in New York. - Resolution .- Treatment of Stamp Act Commissioner .- Public protests .- Rise of Sons of Liberty .- Great excitement .- Re- fusal to use English importations .- Home industries used only .- Proceedings of Congress indorsed by General Assembly .- Petitions to king and parliament signed and sent to England .- Golden Hill Indians .- A public fast .- Stamp Act ignored .- 1766 .- Stamp Act repealed .- Ecclesiastical controversies at Fairfield .- Connecticut refuses Stamp Act Oath .- Governor Fitch and four others take the oath .- Their mistake .- Civil and mili- tary officers .- Repeal of Stamp Act .- Letter of gratitude to king and parliament .- Public day of thanksgiving .- Oath of allegiance to George III, rejecting pretensions of James III .- Taxes for schools .- Act to preserve shell-fish .- Church of England convention at Stratford .- Petition for bishop .- 1767 .- General Gage requested British troops to be quartered in Fairfield and towns adjacent .- Civil and military officers .- Increase of school money .- Reading petitions for a distinct township to be named Redding .- King's troops quartered in the colony .- Mile-stones .- 1768 .- Civil and military officers .- Guar- dian of Golden Ilill Indians .- British renewal of taxes .- Resistance, riots, and indigna- tion .- American patriots .- Non-importation .- Rise of Sons and Daughters of liberty .- Petition to the King and Colonial Secretary .- Letter to Massachusetts Assembly .- Death of David Rowland, Esq .- Fairfield jail and court-house burned by Frazer .- New court- house and jail on the Meeting-house Green .- Draining salt marsh at Green's Farms .- Church of England purchased Glebe land .- 1769 .- Separate troops of horse in Fourth Regiment .- Civil and military officers .- Effort to remove court-house and jail to Norwalk defeated .- New military exercises .- Death of Governor Pitkin .- Jonathan Trumbull elected governor .- Resolutions to sustain colonial rights and liberties .- Search for land titles .- Death of Col. John Burr .- Powder-house.
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