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BOOK 974.67.8789H c. 1 BRONSON # HISTORY OF WATERBURY CONNECTICUT
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WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT;
TIIE ORIGINAL TOWNSHIP EMBRACING PRESENT WATERTOWN AND PLYMOUTH, AND PARTS OF OXFORD, WOLCOTT, MIDDLE- BURY, PROSPECT AND NAUGATUCK.
WITH AN
APPENDIX
OF
BIOGRAPHY, GENEALOGY AND STATISTICS.
BY HENRY BRONSON, M. D.
WATERBURY : PUBLISHED BY BRONSON BROTHERS. 1858.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, BY HENRY BRONSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut.
Printed by T. J. STAFFORD, 88 STATE STREET, (STAFFORD BUILDING,) New Haven.
PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.
THE late financial crisis rendered it expedient to defer for a few months the issue of this volume. The publishers would regret this, had not the delay enabled them to add to the number of engravings which had been previously provided. Subscribers and others, it is hoped, will be more than satisfied. Besides the additions referred to, the work contains over one hundred pages of printed matter more than were anticipated when proposals were issued. In point of mechanical execu- tion, the publishers feel assured the book will occasion no disappointment, unless an agreeable one. They have taken pride in it, and have not been actuated wholly by selfish motives. As a work of art, however, they do not take the chief credit to themselves. Unaided, they could have done little towards providing the numerous and expensive engravings which embellish the volume. The greater proportion of these have been furnished by the liberality of others-those taking a deep interest in the success of the undertaking. The author has sacrificed much time and labor, with the object of benefit- ing his native town, and presenting it with a reliable record of its past history. Of his success, it is unnecessary here to speak. It has been the aim of all interested, to make the book in substance and in form, worthy of the dead, honor able to the living, and acceptable to its immediate patrons.
BRONSON BROTHERS, Publishers.
WATERBURY, May, 1858.
PREFACE.
.
Ir is well known that my father, the late BENNET BRONSON, spent much time in the collection of facts, historical, genealogical and tradi- tionary, relating to the early history of Waterbury. He began this work as early as 1820, and prosecuted it at intervals during the re- mainder of his life. His object was simply information on a subject which had been almost wholly neglected by others. He not only searched the Waterbury records, but he examined the records of Far- mington and Hartford, and opened a correspondence with those suppos- ed to have important knowledge of the old famillies of the town. Thus he gained a large stock of information, and about 1830, wrote a brief historical account of ancient Waterbury, which he delivered to his fel- low citizens, as an evening lecture, in the old meeting house. After- wards, several prominent individuals addressed him a letter, requesting him to write, for publication, a history of the town. He neglected to do this ; but when Barber was gathering materials for the Connecticut Historical Collections, he furnished a sketch of the old town, which, with slight alterations and some abridgment, was published in that work. Two or three years before his death, he re-wrote his lecture, amplifying and correcting it, and bringing it down to the close of the Revolutionary
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war. As left, it would have made, perhaps, fifteen printed pages. He also added to, and perfected in a certain sense, his genealogical tables.
Two years after my father's death, with a design of preserving more effectually what had been done, I undertook myself to write a fuller his- torical sketch, using the papers which have been mentioned, and the notes and extracts from records from which these had been prepared. My labors then had no reference to publication. At this stage, the Messrs. BRONSON BROTHERS proposed to publish a History of Waterbury, and applied to me to provide the manuscript. Knowing the labor and time which would be required, I declined. No one else, however, being willing to undertake the task, I reversed my decision, and reluctantly consented. I soon found, however, that in order to understand the sub- ject-to get hold of its spirit and to construe properly the facts-I must begin at the beginning and go over the entire ground anew. I have done this, and the present book is the result. Those who have been engaged in a similar undertaking need not be told the labor it has cost ; and those who have not would not comprehend me, though I should attempt to tell them.
Deeming the early events of Waterbury in most need of a historian- in most danger of being lost-I have given much time and space to them. Modern history, particularly that which may be called post- Revolutionary, has not engaged so much of my attention. After 1800, the reader will find only items and fragments, with no attempt at a complete history. What I have neglected it is to be hoped some other person, who is willing to labor in a humble way without reward, will undertake.
In what I have written, I have relied mainly on record evidence, and rejected traditional knowledge as untrustworthy. By pursuing this method, I have sometimes sacrificed popular attraction to truth or, in other words, history. It has been no part of my purpose to furnish en-
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tertainment for the readers of legendary tales, though I might have done so with comparatively little labor. I have aimed to be correct in all that I have written and quoted. It cannot be, however, that I have made no mistakes. My anthorities have sometimes been copies of the originals made by others, which in some cases had been re-written, possibly, more than once. Facts and dates given in letters of correspondence may have been relied on too implicitly. It is easier to criticise error in a work of this kind, than wholly to avoid it. It is common to plead " want of time" as an apology for shortcomings in this regard ; but I claim that no man has a right to make a book in haste. In my quotations from early rec- ords, I have preferred, in most cases, to give perfect transcripts of the originals, even to the matter of orthography and punctuation. My ob- ject in this has been to give the truest history, and to preserve portions of the record which might be lost. Thinking it improbable that any one would again go over the ground of my inquiries, at any rate, with equal advantages, I have endeavored to perpetuate what I could with authentic types. If the reader complains that I have introduced trivial subjects, and have spent too much time on things of little importance, I have only to say, that I have occupied myself with the matters which most interested those whose history I have written. They were men who gave their time to their own private affairs-to their individual, social, religious and material interests-and I must needs dwell upon these or be silent.
Of those who have assisted me in the preparation of this work, I must mention particularly Mr. PHILO M. TROWBRIDGE. He has given me important aid in the examination of records and in furnishing me with extracts. He has had charge of the genealogies contained in the Appen- dix, and is chiefly responsible for that portion of the work. I have furnished him my own and my father's collections of materials; and from these and the original records, and his own independent inquiries, he has compiled the tables. These extended genealogies were not
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contemplated in the original plan of the work. I designed to give a somewhat particular account of the orginal proprietors of Waterbury and their children, as I have done in Chapters XI and XII ; but the continuation of the subject in the Appendix was an afterthought of the publishers and others. This will explain how it happens that the gene- alogies of particular families are to be sought for in different portions of the work.
Mr. SYLVESTER JUDD of Northampton has given me much information concerning the first settlers of Waterbury. Rev. WILLIAM S. PORTER of New Haven has kindly allowed me the use of his papers on the geneal- ogy of the early settlers of Farmington.
In the preparation of this volume, I have found it difficult to divest myself of the idea that I am still a resident of my native town. Find- ing this, on the whole, a pleasant delusion, I have taken no pains to dispel it. From many passages in the work, the reader would infer that Waterbury had not ceased to be my dwelling place.
I am mortified to find that there are a few errors which escaped notice till the sheets were printed. They are in part owing to my inexperience in reading proofs. The most important of them, it is hoped, have been corrected in the errata at the end.
NEW HAVEN, December, 1857.
INDEX TO ENGRAVINGS.
VIEW OF THE CITY OF WATERBURY, .Opposite Title Page.
PORTRAIT OF BENNET BRONSON, .Opposite Page 1
PLAN OF THE VILLAGE OF MATTATUCK,
16
PORTRAIT OF SAMUEL HOPKINS, D. D.,
MARK LEAVENWORTHI, . 48
.4
64
PORTRAIT OF J. M. L. SCOVILL, .
80
DR. ISAAC BRONSON
96
ELI TERRY, ١١
112
FAC-SIMILES,
PORTRAIT OF SAMUEL M. HOPKINS, LL. D.,
WILLIAM II. SCOVILL, .
،،
160
4 176
6 4 JOSIAHI BRONSON,
..
192
DR. AMBROSE IVES,.
208
CAPTAIN REUBEN HOLMES,
224
ALMON FARRELL,
..
256
ALVIN BRONSON.
١١
272
'SETHI THOMAS,
١١
66
304
GREEN KENDRICK,
320
SILAS BRONSON
352
ISRAEL HOLMES,
384
VIEW OF BENEDICT AND BURNHAM MANUFACTURING CO'S WORKS,
..
432
66 WATERBURY BRASS COMPANY'S WORKS, .
464
SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY'S WORKS, .
= 496
BROWN AND BROTHERS' WORKS,.
528
١١ HOLMES, BOOTH AND HAYDENS' WORKS,
560
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3
MAP OF THE OLD TOWNSHIP OF WATERBURY,
128
144
DEACON JAMES BROWN, .
240
DEACON AARON BENEDICT,
288
JOIN BUCKINGHAM,
ADDITIONAL CORRECTIONS.
THE delay in the publication of this work has given the author an opportunity to add to the corrections which will be found at the end of the volume.
Page 13th, 17th line from bottom, after date, insert (May 21, 1677.)
Page 19, 2d line from top, for country, read county.
Page 26, 6th line from top, for 1673, read 1672.
Page 43, 3d line from bottom, after 1686-7, crase the period and insert a comma.
Page 86th, 4th line from bottom, erase the sentence beginning with "It will be noticed."
Page 191, 5th line from top-This John died an infant. A second John Stanley (baptized May 25, 1682,) m. Ang. 1710, Hannah, daughter of Dea. Samuel Porter, and Dec. 9, 1714, Mary Wright. He was made a bachelor proprietor in 1715, (see p. 120,) and died Sep. 8, 1748, having had three children.
Page 191, 24th line from top-The Thomas Stanley who m. Anne Peck was not the son of Lieut. John of Waterbury, but of Capt. Jolin Stanley of Farmington, and died April 14, 1713. It was his widow Anne, and not he, who d. May 23, 1718. (See p. 189.)
Page 239, 13th line from bottom, for school and, read school land.
Page 326, add to the list of those engaged in the old French war, the name of Moses Cook, drummer.
Page 421, 2d and 3d lines from top, for Wealthy U. Upson, read Mrs. Wealthy Hopkins Norton, (whose maiden name was Upson.)
Page 462, 20th line from top, for 1st, Ruth Frisbie, 2d, Olive Warner, read 1st, Olive Warner, 2d, Ruth Frisbie.
Page 486, last line, for David, read Daniel.
Page 487, 15th line from top, for Charles, read William.
Page 490, 6th line from bottom, erase Benjamin and insert Alma, m. Eli Curtis ; IV. Anna Maria ; V. Philomela; VI. Benjamin. Other children d. in childhood.
CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.
DISCOVERY OF THE NAUGATUCK VALLEY : PREPARATIONS FOR A SETTLEMENT, .. 1
CIIAPTER II.
THE SETTLEMENT BEGUN : TOWN CENTER,
12
CHAPTER III.
DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS,
24
CHAPTER IV.
SUBSCRIBERS WHO FINALLY SECURED THEIR RIGHTS, 31
CHAPTER V.
THE COMMON FENCE AND COMMON FIELD,
47
· CHAPTER VI.
INDIAN PURCHASES : INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN: SEQUESTERED LANDS, .... 62
CHAPTER VII.
MILLS,
79
CHAPTER VIII.
ROADS, BRIDGES, &C.,.
93
CHAPTER IX.
INDIAN WARS : THE GREAT FLOOD: THE GREAT SICKNESS,
101
CHAPTER X.
BACHELOR PROPRIETORS,
113
CHAPTER XI.
PERSONAL NOTICES OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF WATERBURY,
129
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CHAPTER XII.
PERSONAL NOTICES OF THE FIRST SETTLERS, CONTINUED, 167
CHAPTER XIII.
ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS : MR. PECK'S MINISTRY. 202
CHAPTER XIV.
ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS : MR. SOUTHMAYD'S MINISTRY, 215
CHAPTER XV.
SCHOOLS,
234
CHAPTER XVI CO
POPULATION INCREASES: IMMIGRATION, 243
CHAPTER XVII.
THE SETTLEMENT EXTENDS : NEW SOCIETIES, 250
CHAPTER XVIII.
MR. LEAVENWORTH'S MINISTRY : THE THIRD MEETING HOUSE, 283
CHAPTER XIX.
EPISCOPACY IN WATERBURY,
292
CHAPTER XX.
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CHURCH AND STATE : OLD FRENCH WAR,. 315
CHAPTER XXI.
REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY,
329
CHAPTER XXII.
AFTER THE WAR : MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, 361
APPENDIX.
I. BIOGRAPHY
370
II. GENEALOGY,.
458
III. LATER ECCLESIASTICAL SOCIETIES : MANUFACTURING : STATISTICS,
553
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HISTORY OF WATERBURY.
CHAPTER I.
DISCOVERY OF THE NAUGATUCK VALLEY : PREPARATIONS FOR A SETTLEMENT.
MORE than a century and a quarter intervened between the discovery of America and the settlement by Europeans of any part of New England. In 1620, a small band of English Puritans, one hundred and one in number, including women and children, planted themselves at Plymouth, on the eastern shore of Massachusetts. For a long time, this feeble colony struggled for existence. At length, however, the English set- tlers became firmly established at Plymonth and the Massa- chusetts Bay. In the course of the years 1634 and 1635, sev- eral parties from Watertown, Dorchester and Newtown, (now Cambridge,) in the neighborhood of Boston, made their way through the wilderness to the banks of the Connectient River, and established themselves at Wethersfield, Windsor and Hartford. Mr. Hooker and his congregation of sixty persons
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came from Newtown and settled in Hartford. These towns, in their early infancy, in 1637, waged a successful war with the Pequot Indians, and conquered their country. Soon after the conclusion of this war, or in 1638, a small colony went from Boston, and settled at New Haven, Milford and Guilford. From 1637 to 1675, thirty-eight years, the inhabitants of Con- necticut, and indeed of all New England, enjoyed almost unin- terrupted peace. During this period of comparative quietness, the settlements in Connecticut were extended through the State, from north to south, on both banks of the Connecticut River, and from east to west in all the towns bordering on the sea-coast. In 1640, the people of Hartford commenced a set- tlement at Farmington, being the first made in Connecticut away from navigable waters. From this time to 1673, small beginnings of settlements were made at Norwich, Derby, Wallingford, Simsbury, Woodbury and Plainfield. Up to the last named date, with the above exceptions, the whole State, as now constituted, was a wilderness, in the possession of the native Indians. It is believed, however, that no Indian settlement existed, at the time of its discovery, within the limits of ancient Waterbury. The nearest wigwams were in Farmington, Derby and Woodbury, where native tribes exist- ed. The territory of Waterbury was claimed by the tribes of the two former towns. It was used as a hunting ground. It was first visited by white men in the pursuit of game.
It appears that as early as 1657, some of the inhabitants of Farmington had become acquainted with a portion of the Naugatuck Valley, and obtained from some of the native claimants, belonging to the Tunxis or Farmington tribe, a deed of a tract of land which secured to themselves certain rights and privileges therein mentioned. The deed, which is copied from the Farmington record, runs as follows :
This Witnesseth that Wee Kepaquamp and Querrimus and Mataueage have sould to William Lewis and Samuell Steele of ffarmington A psel! or A trackt of Land called matetacoke that is to Say the hill from whence John Standley and John Andrews: brought the black lead and all the Land within eight: mylle: of that hill: on every side: to dig: and carry away what they will and To build on yt for ye Vse of them that Labor there: and not otherwise To improve: ye Land In witnes whereof wee: have hereunto set our: hands: and those: Indi-
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ans above mentioned must free the purchasers from all Claymes: by any other Indyans:
Witnes John Steel febuary: ye 8th 1657
WILLIAM LEWIS SAMUEL STEELE
The marke
of Kepaquamp:
The mark
of Querrimus
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The mark of
Mataneage
The above deed is copied into Mr. Woodruff's sketch of the town of Litchfield, published in 1845. Mr. W. makes the fol- lowing remarks : " Precisely where the hill referred to in this deed was situated, I have been unable to discover, but from the subsequent claims of the grantces, from tradition, and from the deed itself, it would seem that it was in the southern part of Harwinton, and embraced that town, and also some portion of Plymouth (then Mattatuck or Waterbury) and Litchfield. This purchase was made by the grantees in behalf of them- selves and a company composed of certain inhabitants of Farmington." It doubtless proved valneless for the purposes for which it was obtained, as we hear nothing further concern- ing the black lead.
Another deed, bearing date the 11th day of August, 1718, from Petthuzso and Toxcrunuck, successors of the grantors, conveyed to the Farmington people the whole title to the above lands. The two deeds were the ground of a claim on the part of the grantees to the lands described ; but it was truly said that the territory north of Waterbury and west of Farmington had been conveyed by the Colony in Jan., 1686, to
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the towns of Hartford and Windsor. Besides, there seems to have been a colonial statute in operation, in 1718, and previ- ously, declaring that "no person or persons in this colony, whether inhabitants or not, shall buy, hire or receive a gift, or mortgage any parcel of Land or Lands, of any Indian or Indi- ans for the future, except he or they do buy or receive the same for the use of the Colony, or for some plantation or vil- lage, or with the allowance of the General Court of this Col- ony." Nevertheless, the Farmington company, in 1718, re- ceived from the towns of Hartford and Windsor a grant of one sixth of the township of Litchfield, in consideration of their making over to said towns their interest in the disputed terri- tory.
In process of time, certain hunters or explorers from Farm- ington, in their excursions into the western forests, discovered the flats or interval on the Nangatuck River, where the city of Waterbury now stands. They told their friends what they had seen. So favorable was their report, and such the disposi- tion of the early settlers to push out further into the forest, that they began at once to think of emigration. But at that period, according to the laws of the Colony, no person could acquire a title to Indian lands, or make a settlement upon them without the permission of the General Conrt. Having there- fore sent out from among themselves a committee to view the place for a new plantation, and obtained from them a favorable report, the Farmington people petitioned the "honered gen- cral court " for liberty to make a settlement. This was in the fall of 1673. The following is the petition referred to, preced- ed by the report of the committee spoken of :-
We whos names are here under writen partly for our own satisfaction and for the satisfaction of some others haue bene too uieu matitacoocke in refarans to a plantation doo Judge it capable of the same.
thomas newell Seanr John warner Sean Richard Semar
Octtober: the 6: 1673
Octobr 9, 73
To the honerd generall court now siting In Hartford
Honered gentlemen and fathers we being sensible of our great need of a comfort- able Subsistence doe hereby make our address to your selfs In order to the Same
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Not Questioning your care and faithfulness In ye premisses: allso hoping of your freeness and readyness to accomidate your poor suplicants with yt which we Judge to be: In your hands: acording to an orderly proceeding we therefore whose names are hereafter Inserted to humbly petitiom your honors to take eog- nicance: of our state who want Land to Labor vpon: for our subsistance & now hauing found out a track at a place called by se Indians matitacoocke: which we aprihend may susfetiently acomidate to make a small plantation : we are therefore bould hereby to petetion your honors to grant vs ye liberty of planting ye same with as many others as yt may be: capable comfortably to entertain and as for the purchasing of ye natives with your alowance we shall take care of: & so not to trouble with father Inlargements * only desireing your due consideration & a return by our Louing ffreind John Lankton
Thomas Newell
Daniell waner
Jolın Lankton
abraham andrews
John andrews
Thomas hancox
John warner seineor
John Carrington
Daniell porter
Daniell andrews
Edmund scott
Joseph hancox
John Standly Junior
Thomas standly
Abraham brounson
Obadiah richards
Richard semer:
Timothy standly
John waner Junior
william higgenson
Isack brounson
John porter
Samuell hacox
Thomas barnes
John welton
John Woodruff
[State Records-Towns and Lands, Vol. I, p. 162.]
Here is the action upon this petition :
Oct. 1673
In answer to the petition of Seueral of the Inhabitants of the Town of Farm- ington that Mattatock that those lands might be granted for a plantation. This Court haue Seen cause to order that those lands may be viewed sometime between this and the Court in may next and that reporte be made to the Court in may next whether it be Judged fitt to make a plantation. The committee appointed are Lnt: Tho: Bull, Lnt: Robt webster and Daniel pratt.
[Nicholas Olmsted was afterwards substituted for Daniel Pratt, as a member of the Committee.]
April 6, 7, 8, 9, 1674.
We whose names are underwritten (according to the desire and appointment of ye honoured court) hane ueicwed ye lands upon Mattatuck riuer in order to a plantation, we do apprehend that there is about six hundred aeres of meadow & plowing land lying on both sides of ye riuer besides upland convenient for a towne plot, with a suitable out let into ye woods on ye west of ye riuer, and good feed- ing lands for cattell.
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The meadow & plowing land above written a considerable part of it lyeth in two peices near ye town plot, ye rest in smaller parcels, ye farthest of which we judge not aboue fower miles from ye towne plot ; and our apprehensions are that it may accommodate thirty familyes
THOMAS BULL NICHO: OLMSTEAD ROBERT WEBSTER
The " two pieces near ye. town plot " alluded in the above report, are probably the level river lands on the east side of the river afterwards called Manhan, or Mahan, Meadow, near which a final settlement was afterwards made, and the tract of meadow on the west side of the river near the mouth of Steel's Brook. The most distant piece " not above fower miles" was most likely the tract which at a later period was called Judd's meadow, now a part of Naugatuck. These natural meadows were looked upon with much favor by the early settlers, and were regarded not only as convenient but necessary to the ex- istence of a new plantation. On them they depended for fod- der for their " cattell" during the long and severe winters. Artificial meadows are prepared with difficulty and require much toil and time. They absorb capital, and appear only in the more advanced stages of society.
The foregoing report of the committee showed the reason- ableness of the request of the "supplicants." The petition was granted, "and the Court appointed Major John Talcott, . Lieut. Robert Webster, Lieut. Nicholas Olmstead, Ens. Samuel Steel, Ensign John Wadsworth, a committee to regulate and order the settling of a plantation at Mattatuck." This com- mittee was composed of men of note, who bore honorable names, well known in the history of the Colony. Their titles attest the high consideration with which they were regarded.
Major Talcott of Hartford was one of his majesty's justices of the peace, and assistant from 1662 to 1688, and treasurer of the Colony for nineteen years. He was distinguished for his gallantry and success in King Philip's war, in 1676. He commanded a body of five hundred and fifty English and Mohegans in several successful expeditions in that year. He died, leaving children, July 23d, 1688. The inventory of his estate amounted to £2,272.
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Lieut. Webster of Middletown and Hartford was a son of Gov. John Webster, and married a sister of Gov. Treat, by whom he had many sons and daughters. He was a respecta- ble man, though not distinguished like his father. He died in 1676, making his widow, Susannah, executrix of his will. His son Jonathan married a sister of John Hopkins, an early settler of Mattatuek.
Lieut. Olmstead of Hartford was a son of James Olmstead, (who died in 1640,) and married a daughter of Joseph Loomis of Windsor. He was a Pequot soldier and apparantly a wild youth. In 1640, for his moral delinquencies, he was " ad- judged " by "the Prticular Court" "to pay twenty pownd fyne to the country and to stand vppon the Pillery at Hartford the next lecture day, during the time of the lecture. He is to be sett on, a lytle before the beginning and to stay thereon a litle after the end." He was a deputy in 1672, and in active service, as a lieutenant, in King Philip's war. Ile died in 1684, and was the father of several sons and daughters.
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