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Edward W. Marsh, Capt. Co. M, ad C. H. A. Wm. H. Maby, Co. D, 17th C. V. Barney Marshall, Co. D, 17th C. V.
John Marshall, Ist Lt. roth U. S. C. A. Albert Mertius, Co. B, Ist C. V.
Moses M. Milis, Co. I, 9th C. V. Frank Miller, Co. I, Ist C. H. A.
Wm. U. Mitchell, Mus. Co. A, 5ad Mass. V.
Philo A. Morris, Co. E. Ist C. H. A.
Charles E. Moore, Ist Serg. Co. B, 6th C. V.
Michael McCormick, Serg. Co. G. 6th N. Y. H. A. Chas. T. Moody, Drummer, Co. H, 5th N.H. V. Wm. H. McNeill.
Byron W. Munsen, Com. Surg. Co. G, Ist C. Cav.
George Munger, Ist Lt. 2d C. Lt. Bat.
Joseph Mott, Co. D, 17th C. V. Fred C. Nicholas, Co. C, 22d C. V.
Sylvester Nichols, ad C. Lt. Bat.
Chas. H. Nichols, Capt. Co. D. 6th C. V.
John Nunhelmer, Serg. Co. A, ro3d Battery, N. Y. V.
Henry North, Ist Lt. Co. D, 17th C. V.
Wm. H. Nordaby, Co. K, 14th N. Y. V.
Wm. H. Noble, Col. 17th C. V., Bvt. Brig. Gen.
Terrance O'Brien, Corp. Co. I, soth C. V. Thomas W. Oatley, Co. F. 2d R. I. V. John O'Conner, Co. I, 27th Mass. V. Charles O'Nell, Co. E, ad Mass. V.
Albert W. Overton, Co. M, Ist C. H. A. William R. Palmer, ad C. Lt. Bat.
William C. Peck, Seaman, U. S. N. Edward Peet, Corp. Co. I, 12th C. V. George L. Porter, Ass't Surgeon, U. S. A. Warren W. Porter, Ist Lt. Co. L, 7th Ill. Cav. Michael Pickett, Co. K, 17th C. V. Edward M. Presbrey, Co. A, 13th C. V.
Granville Platt, Co. I, 6th C. V.
Horace Plumb, Co. D, 17th C. V.
W. E. Parker.
John H. Porter, Serg. Co. K, 17th C. V. - Charles W. Phipps.
- Lyman L. Rose, Serg. Co. E, 46 Mass. V.
Benj. F. Remington, Co. F, roth Mass. V. Charles Rohrback, Corp. Co. B, Ist C. V.
Wm. H. Robertson, Co. A, Ist Cal. Michael Rock, Co. C, 7th C. V. Elbert Ruggles.
Harlan P. Rugg, Capt. Co. 1, 5th C. V.
Bridgeport. 949
William Ryan, Co. 1, 33d C. V. L. H. Russell. Charles H. Russell, Major, Ist Md. Cav. James Reddy. Walter L. Savage, ad Lt. roth C. V. Fred'k O. Seeley, ad C. Lt. Bat. Henry J. Seeley, roth Indep. Lt. Bat. George A. Staples, Ist Serg. Co. I, C. V. Henry W. Stevens, Co. C, 14th C. V. Henry G. Stevens, Co. E, 31st N. Y. V. Charles W. Stevens, Ist Serg. Co. I, 7th C. V. Henry Stephens, Co. H, a5th N. Y. V. Wm. W. Stevens, Corp. ad C. Lt. Bat, George C. Stewart, Co. C, ad C. H. A. Joseph Strasburger, Co. I, 23d C. V.
. Henry Shadt, Serg. Co. G, ad C. H. A. John S. Selden, Co. B, 6th Mass. V. Charles E. Shelton, Corp. Co. I, 23d C. V. John M. Speidel, Lt. Col. Ist and 6th C. V. John H. Sweet, Co. G. 7th C. V. Barnum Slocum, Ist Serg. Co. G, N. Y. V. Samuel B. Sumner, Lt. Col. 49th Mass. V. Henry Stagg. James H. Smith, Ist Lt. Co. H, 43d N. Y. V. Frederick Smith. Co. K, 6th C. V. James P. Smith, Co. K, 15th C. V. Henry H. Smith, Corp. Co. I, 27th C. V. Charles L. Smith, Co. F, 17th C. V. Thomas P. Smith, Co. D. 192d N. Y. V. Seaman Hicks, Mus. Co. C, ad C. H. A. Samuel Thorpe, Serg. Co. K, 17th C. V. Joseph Tyler, Ist Serg. Co. A, Ioth C. V. Frank B. Taylor, Co. E, N. Y. V.
Lyman M. Turney, Serg. U. S. Marines.
Frederick D. Tomlinson, Co. E, Ist C. H. A. Elam M. Tongue. Jno. W. Thompson. Horace Treat. Geo. S. Thompson.
John L. Thomas.
Edmund Thompson, Corp. 2d C. Lt. Bat.
Frederick Uschman, Serg. Co. B, 68th N. Y. V. William Van Gasbeck, Co. D, 23d C. V. George C. Waldo, Co. E, 2d C. V.
Patrick Wade, Jr., Serg. Co. K, 17th C. V. Fred L. Warren, Co. A, a3d C. V. Frank J. Warner, Corp. Co. H, ad C. H. A. Henry E. Walte, Co. K, 17th C. V.
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Eugene Ward, Lt. Co. B, Louisiana Engineers.
Wm. N. Walsh, Co. K, 14th Mass. V. Frank M. Welch, Ist Lt. Co. F. 54th Mass. V.
Will H. Weicht, Co. L, 3d Pa. Cav. Osmer B. Wells.
Wm. Wellington, Artificer, 34th Indep. Battery, N. Y. V.
Frank H. Whiting, Ist Lt ad C. Lt. Bat. Wm. H. Whiting.
Chas. E. Williams, Com. Serg. 2d N. Y. Cav.
Geo. E. Williams, Co. A, ad C. V.
Stephen H. Wright, Co. B, 75th N. Y. V.
Daniel Worcester.
Myron H. White, Corp. ad C. Lt. Bat. L. Whittaker.
Wm. H. Wheeler.
Sylvanus Wordin, Co. C, zoth N. Y. V.
Wm. B. Wilcoxson. Frank J. Young, A. A. Surgeon, U. S. N.
List of Physicians in Bridgeport.
Daniel Clifford, was drowned June, 1781. James Eaton Beach, 1778, d. 1838. Dr. Tisdale. Thomas Holman.62 Samuel Simons. William B. Nash. Samuel Beach. David H. Nash. Frederick J, Judson. Hanford N. Bennett. Robert Hubbard. Joseph S. French.
J. R. Cumming. Elijah Gregory. G. Ohnesorg. A. E. Barber.
H. L. W. Burritt.
Brown. Henry H. Davidson. C. E. Sanford. Curtis H. Bill. Francis J. Young.
Robert Lauder.
George L. Porter. N. E. Wordin. Charles W. Sheffrey.
A. A. Holmes. George M. Teeple.
Sidney Bishop. Stanley P. Warren.
Edward T. Ward.
George L. Beers. L. H. Norton. Ed. W. Winslow. G. F. Lewis. A. H. Abernethy. Seth Hill. William H. Hine.
A. J. Smith. Richard W. Bull.
" Doctor Holman, the first missionary physician to the Sandwich Islands, returned to Bridgeport in 1822 and died here in 1826.
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Martin J. Buesch.
Mary J. Rising.
A. M. Lyons.
Byron W. Munson.
W. B. Beebe.
A. N. Phillips.
F. M. Wilson.
W. H. Bunnell.
Jacob May.
John Becker.
J. W. Wright.
C. C. Godfrey.
William J. Wakeman.
F. B. Downs.
W. H. Donaldson.
T. F. Martin.
C. S. Hoag.
Samuel Garlick.
J. W. King.
W. C. Bowers.
Andrew Gilroy.
F. A. Rice.
H. P. Cole.
Henry Blodget.
B. F. Bronson.
W. T. Delamater.
John E. Kelly.
List of the Lawyers who have practiced in Bridgeport, with the date of their admittance to the bar, so far as could be ascertained, at the time.
Thaddeus Benedict, Stratford, 1797; died here Oct. 6, 1799.
Benjamin Hall. Pierrepont Edwards, New Haven about 1771.63
Charles Winton.
Joseph Backus.
Alanson Hamlin.
Joseph Wood.
Charles S. Canfield, 1875.
Frank M. Canfield.
Frederick Chittenden.
Henry Dutton.
John C. Chamberlain, Olmstead Co., Minn., 1874 ; Fairfield Co., 1876.
James C. Loomis, 1832.
Elisha S. Abernethy.
James H. Cooney.
Richard C. Ambler, 1878.
Joseph H. Collins.
Oswald P. Backus, 1883.
William H. Comley, 1884.
Frank E. Baldwin.
Howard J. Curtis, 1883.
Sidney B. Beardsley, 1843.
Daniel Davenport, 1875.
Morris B. Beardsley, 1872.
Robert E. DeForest, N. H. Co., 1869.
Alfred B. Beers, 1871.
Charles A. Doten, 1872.
William D. Bishop, 1875.
William D. Bishop, Jr., 1886.
Theodore W. Downs, Litchfield Co. to Fairfield Co., 1874.
Henry T. Blake, 1851, Fairfield Co .; Hartford Co. 1850. John A. Boughton.
Stephen S. Blake, N. H. Co., 1872.
Ebenezer Burr, 1874, N. H. Co .; 1874, Fairfield Co.
Israel M. Bullock, 1866 ; died Oct., 1879.
Fitch Wheeler.
Mark Moore.
68 Judge Pierrepont Edwards, son of the metaphysician, born at Northampton, Mass., April 8, 1750 ; died at Bridgeport, Conn., April 14, 1826, was graduated at Princeton College in 1768. His father being a missionary to the Stockbridge Indians, his youth was passed among them, and he acquired their language per- fectly. He commenced the practice of law in New Haven in 1771 ; took an early and efficient part in the councils of Connecticut in favor of Independence ; served in the Revolutionary army, and was in two hard fought battles, including that of Danbury. He was a member of the old Congress, 1787-8, and an able advocate for the Constitution of the United States, in the convention held to ratify it. He was judge of the United States district court of Connecticut at the time of his decease. He was the founder of the "Toleration party" in Connecticut, and by his ability and perseverance drew upon himself the animosity of the Calvinists. He was the first Grand Master of Masons in Connecticut, and was the father of H. W. and Ogden Edwards.
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Frederick J. Fox. VanRensselaer C. Giddings, Litchfield Co., 1861 ; Fairfield Co., 1869. Louis K. Gould, 1882. Frederick B. Hall, 1871. Edwin F. Hall, 1881. William T. Haviland, 1882. David F. Hollister, 1851, Litchfield Co .; Fairfield Co., 1854.
Gideon H. Hollister. Henry Hugins. William H. Kelsey, 1880. Frank L. Holt, 1877. Sherman H. Hubbard, 1881. Frank J. Hughes. Francis Ives, 1848. Joseph A. Joyce, 1878. Bernard Keating, 1880. Jacob B. Klein, 1883. Howard H. Knapp. Frank G. Lewis. David B. Lockwood, 1851. Michael C. McGuinness, 1878. Hugh D. McGee. Edward F. Meeker, 1877. Louis N. Middlebrook.
Eugene Morehouse, 1882. Dwight Morris, 1841. William H. Noble. Frank P. Norman, 1879. Wilfred E. Norton, N. H. Co., 1867. J. Wilbur Parrott. Eugene B. Peck, 1875. John J. Phelan, 1878. Charles Bostwick."
Patrick Phelan, 1886. Frank L. Rodgers, 1881.
Joseph J. Rose, 1885. Henry S. Sanford, Litchfield Co., 1854.
William K. Seeley, 1852.
Morris W. Seymour.
Edward W .. Seymour, 1856 ; Fairfield Co., 1876. Cyrus M. Shelton, 1886.
Henry T. Shelton, Jr.
William R. Shelton, 1872.
Charles Sherwood, 1875.
Lucius M. Slade, N. Lond Co., 1861 ; Fairfield Co., 1863.
Friend W. Smith, Jr., 1882.
Ernest L. Staples, 1883.
William H. Stevenson, 1878.
Goodwin Stoddard, 1868.
Isaac M. Sturges, 1837.
E. Stewart Summer, 1878.
Samuel B. Sumner, Mass., 1852 ; Fair- field Co., 1863.
Albert M. Tallmadge, 1877.
Curtis Thompson, Middlesex Co., 1864 ; Fairfield Co., 1864. Amos S. Treat, 1843 ; died 1886.
Morris Tuttle.
George W. Warner, 1848.
Levi Warner.
George W. Wheeler, Jr., 1883.
Mark D. Wilbur, Fairfield Co., 1877. William C. Wildman. James A. Wilson, 1865 ; N. H., 1874. Albert M. Wooster, 1883.
" Hon. Charles Bostwick was graduated at Yale College in 1796, studied law under Judge Reeve at Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the bar of Fairfield county in 1799. He continued in the practice of the law at Bridge- port until 1810, when he removed to the city of New York, where he was exten- sively engaged in mercantile business until 1837, when he retired from business and resumed his residence at Bridgeport.
In 1840 he was elected mayor of the city and chief judge of the City Court.
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HUNTINGTON
CHAPTER XXIII.
HUNTINGTON.
R ESPECTING this town a whole volume might be written,' and probably will be; but it would require years of time to do it. The territory was originally a part of Stratford and was owned by Stratford inhabitants seventy-eight years before the ecclesiastical society of Ripton was organized, and hence all of its history during that time-whether little or great-was connected with Stratford, and whatever public records there are con- cerning it are mingled with those of Stratford township. After this the society continued seventy-two years before the privileges of a town were granted. These things, with others, make the task of securing a complete history more arduous but not less interesting.
Philip Denman and Daniel Collins are the first persons found as actual settlers in what is now the town of Hunting- ton. These persons leased some land of John Hurd and located on it to work it and fulfill their agreement, but as they had not been accepted as inhabitants by the vote of the town, an effort was made to send them out of the town, although it did not succeed. The act of the town meeting November 12, 1697, says: "Voted that Philip Denman and Daniel Collins should not have liberty to live and dwell at Pagassutt on Stratford side the river during their lease of land with John Hurd; the townsmen to use their discretion
1 For Indian deeds of this territory see pages 21 to 25, and for some plans for dividing the land see pages 283 and 284 of this book. For the tract of land owned by Joseph Judson in this locality see page 251.
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in prosecuting the law against them." In January, 1679-80, the town voted to carry this matter before the General Court ; and afterwards some further trouble arose out of it, but the parties did not go at that time, for John Hurd's farmers con- tinued to improve his land.
A little before the year 1700 Abraham Wooster settled on the north side of Farmill river, near its mouth, where in 1710 General David Wooster was born. On this farm, just in the rear of the present paper mill on Farmill river, on the bluff, was a burying-place of considerable extent. A few grave stones are there now standing. There were probably quite a number of the earliest inhabitants of the locality buried there.
Ecclesiastical societies were often the forerunners of town- ships in the colony of Connecticut, as in the case of Hunting- ton, where the society existed seventy-two years before the town was organized. Upon its organization, which made the third society within the township of Stratford, the privileges and responsibilities of such societies were more definitely established by the General Court than they had been before,' it being a necessary precaution against neglect as well as arbitrary assumption of power.
The petition which secured the privilege of a separate ecclesiastical society for the inhabitants of the northern part of the town of Stratford was dated April 29, 1717, and had only three names attached to it at the end, and although the request of the petition was granted the next May, yet the old Stratford society required these northern settlers to pay their ecclesiastical tax for the support of the minister at Stratford village for six months after the grant, until by the Assembly they were regularly released.
Petition for Ecclesiastical Privileges.ยช
"To the Hon'ble Gourr and Representatives of his Majesties Coliny of Conetecut to be conuend at Hartford on the 2 Thursday of May next.
" The humble petition of Jonas Woster in the behalf of himself and the inhab- itants of the northen parts of Stratford humbly sheweth
"That whereas the aforesaid inhabitants by reason of there distance from Stratford canut haue the benifite of the publick ministry some liueing 8 miles
? See Colonial Records, VII, 34.
" Book, Ecclesiastical Papers, State Library, vol. II, 189.
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some 6 miles and some 10 miles of from the town and by reson cannot santifie the Sabbath as they ought to do and considering that faith comes by hearing the word preached and how can wee hear without a preacher, do pray this HonTable Court that they may haue a minister amonge themselus at there own charges and that they may be freed from paying to the town of Stratford.
"They do allso pray this HonTable Court that they may be a Village by them- selves and that they may haue the priuieledges belonging to a vilage.
" They do allso pray this HonTable Court that whereas the township of Strat- ford is 12 miles northerly from the sea that they might haue the northermost 6 miles belonging to there village : so as to begin at the mouth of the Furmill Riuer and run westerly to the 6 miles bounds at Trapfall Hill below The Beardly hous and so 6 miles from the sea till they come to the west side of Stratford bounds or to Stratfeild bounds.
" Wee pray this Hon'ble Court if it is with reason as we are now begining with this great concern we hope for the glory of God and the good of the publick and being at great charges if this Hontable Court would please to remit our publick charges for some certain time would be great incoragment to us and your petioners shall euer pray.
"Stratford 29 Aprill 1717.
Daniel Shilton. Peter Malyde. ? Samuell Walker."
The Grant for Ecclesiastical Privileges.
" May, 1717. Upon consideration of the petition of the farmers inhabiting the northern parts of the town of Stratford : This Assembly do now grant to the said farmers the liberty and privilege of a parish and a society by and of themselves within the said town of Stratford, for the settling, upholding and maintaining of the public worship of God amongst them, with all such liberties, powers and privileges, as other societies and congregations in this Colony generally have and do enjoy by law ; and that the bounds of the said parish or society shall be as fol- lows, viz : to begin at the mouth of the Far Mill river, and from thence the line to run to a Six Mile bound, near Mr. Stiles' mill, and from thence to a Six Mile bound near Thomas Beardsley's house, and from thence westward as far as Peter Burr, Esq., Capt. Joseph Wakeman and Lieut. Richard Hubbell, upon their view of the circumstances of the land, shall think is necessary for the said parish ; and that all the lands northward of the aforesaid line within the bounds of said town of Stratford shall be one entire parish until this Assembly shall see meet to divide the said lands into two distinct parishes. Provided always, that no person who is owner of any lands northward of the aforesaid line and doth not dwell there, shall or may be taxed or rated for his said lands for or towards defraying the charge of the said society."4
This grant was not complete in the powers and privileges needed, and the General Court in the next October, 1717, enacted the following :
"This Assembly having granted in May last, to the farmers inhabiting the
4 Col. Records VI., 8.
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northern parts of the town of Stratford, the liberty and privilege of a parish and society, by and of themselves, for the settling, upholding and maintaining the public worship of God amongst them, with all such liberties, powers and privi- leges as other societies and congregations in this Colony generally have and do enjoy by law. Upon consideration of the petition of the said farmers now pre- sented, praying they may be enabled, by allowing them their country rates for four years, to pay parish charges : This Assembly grant that the inhabitants of said parish shall be and are hereby discharged from paying country rates during the time of four years next ; provided they pay the like sums as their county rates shall amount to, unto Mr. Benjamin Curtice and Mr. Daniel Shelton of Stratford, to be disposed of towards the promoting and settling the public worship of God within the said parish ; and that the said parish be called and known by the name of Ripton.""
This was the society of Huntington, still known as the Congregational, and the above acts constituted its organiza- tion, when its officers had been elected. The name " Ripton " is said to have been chosen because it was that of the place in England from which Daniel Shelton came, and this evidences that Daniel Shelton had a leading influence in the organiza- tion of the society.
As may be seen by the act of incorporation of this society, a large proportion of the land within its bounds could not be taxed for the support of a minister because the owners resided out of its bounds, that is, in Stratford village, and hence it was very difficult to secure a minister. The proprietors of the common lands residing in the old village saw the import- ance of securing a resident minister in Ripton, and hence in 1719, appropriated 56 acres' as settlement for a minister who- ever he should be, to which in 1720-21 they added 44 acres more for the same object ; and in April, 1723, a town record says, that Ripton having prevailed with Mr. Robert Treat to settle with them, the town of Stratford voted to give him the
5 Col. Records VI., 29.
" September 15, 1719. For the encouragement and settlement of the ministry in Ripton Parish the proprietors by vote did grant for the settlement of a Presby- terian minister amongst them ten acres of land for a home lot and sixteen acres of pasture land and twenty acres of upland and ten acres of swamp land for meadow, all to belong to said minister that shall settle in the work of the ministry among them and continue with them in said work to his death then said lands to be his own forever-the committee for laying out land, to measure it and bound it at the charge of Ripton Parish."-See Town Acts.
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100 acres of land upon his ordination. But Mr. Treat for some reason or cause, unknown, did not settle here.
The difficulty of raising sufficient funds or salary to sup- port a minister was so great after being released from paying country rates the resort to the Assembly by petition was again employed, and resulted in making Stratford village people pay back double and treble what they had collected of Ripton society for the first six months of this society grant.
" May, 1722. Upon the petition of the parish of Ripton : It is granted and ordered by this Assembly, that it may and shall be lawful for the society of the parish aforesaid to levy a tax of two shillings on every hundred acres of land within the bounds of their parish which are laid out to particular persons living in the town of Stratford and not lyable by the law to be put into the publick list ; and that the unimproved lands belonging to those who do not dwell in the town of Stratford shall pay a tax of one penny an acre for four years next coming ; and that all the lands which ought to be put into the public list shall be paid for to the said parish by those who live out of the parish as by those who dwell in it ; and all the improved lands within said parish to pay to the parish till this Court shall order otherwise ; and all the money granted to said parish to be improved for a minister settled according to the establishment of this government.""
The settlers in Ripton were, many of them, the children of Stratford land proprietors and these proprietors were all interested in having a minister settled in Ripton, and schools established, in order to the further settlement of the place as well as their religious improvement.
But few of the Ripton settlers were middle-aged, wealthy men, yet the society soon attained a large influence in the county, and its ministers quite celebrated in the Colony.
Jonas Wooster's name is mentioned in the beginning of the first petition, as the leader of the petitioners, although his name was not among the signers at the end of it. He was the son of Edward Wooster, the first settler at Derby, born about 1675, and perhaps had been living near his brother Abraham at Farmill river some years. In 1717 he purchased the grist mill on the south side of Farmill river of William Smith, with three acres of land, and his descendants remained in the vicinity many years.
" Col. Records VI., 314.
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Daniel Shelton is said to have come from Ripon, a village on the river Ure in Yorkshire, England. He arrived in Stratford apparently in the early part of the year 1686, for in a town vote May 6, 1686, he was granted the privilege of building a warehouse and wharf, and improved the grant, for his warehouse is mentioned the next December in a town vote and he continued a merchant of the place about twenty years.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Samuel Wells of Wethersfield, April 4, 1692; and purchased a house and lot of the Rev. Zechariah Walker, the deed being dated the day after his marriage, April 5, 1692. This house stood south of the green on Watchhouse Hill, a little way from the meeting house. The Rev. Mr. Chauncey's house stood on the corner of the green next east from Mr. Shelton's, and James Judson's next west on the Judson place.
, Mr. Shelton's first piece of land was purchased in 1689, ten acres "upon Pagassett river above the White Hills." In 1691, he received deeds for 230 acres of land not laid out, they being pieces he purchased of several parties, called division land, that is, land that had never been located.
A peculiar record is made by the town clerk of Stratford immediately under the deed of the first ten acres, as follows :
" May 2, 1692. The Marshall of the county of Fairfield by virtue of a writ under Governor Treat's hand bearing date 23 April, 1692, arrested the body of Mr. Daniel Shilton, who was his prisoner above one hour and said Shilton pre- sented these ten acres of land bought of Josiah Nichols, above recorded and the Marshall accepted thereof as security for his appearace to enforce said writ.
Test. JOSEPH CURTISS, Recorder.
"Samuel Squire, Marshall of the foresaid county of Fairfield appeared before me this 25th of Aprill, 1693, and released the above said land.
JOSEPH CURTISS, Commissioner."
No definite information is given as to the occasion of this arrest, but it being by order of the Governor, it was probably something connected with his business as an importing mer- chant, such as duties on goods, for it could not have been town matters. His having a warehouse and wharf shows that he was a shipping, as well as a retail merchant, and about a year later the sheriff released the land, showing that Mr. Shelton cleared himself from all claims.
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A little over four years later Mr. Shelton lost a horse, apparently by the neglect of the town, for which he entered suit, but the town voted him a certain amount of damages, which the record says was to his satisfaction.8
Another item shows how he obtained some of his land. Having furnished various articles and provisions for the Indian war in 1693, and waited seven years for his pay-debts did not outlaw then-he petitioned the General Assembly for some land in remuneration for his goods and loss by delay of payment, and the Assembly gave him 200 acres, to be located outside of the claims of individuals and towns." This land he sold to Mr. John Reed, who preached in Stratford four years from 1703, and Mr. Reed located it near "Hogg Ridge, be- tween Danbury and Fairfield," and which afterwards consti- tuted a part of the town of Redding.
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