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Chatham parish has, From the sale of lands, given by the pro- prietors of Middletown, - 1700 Legacy from Mr. Ezra Bevin, who died Feb. 5, 1792, - -
1000 Money, raised by subscription in 1812, 3300
Appropriation money, 71 96
6071 96
Haddam parish has,
Parsonage lands, estimated at 2000 Avails of parsonage lands, sold, 1117 22
Legacy from Mrs. Elizabeth Brainerd, who died Dec. 1813, 500
Appropriation money, 141 23
3758 45
East-Haddam parish has, Legacy from Capt. Samuel Gates, who died Dec. 1788, - - do. from his widow, received in 1802, 1000 do. from Capt. Sylvanus Tinker, who died Oct. 12, 1815, 300
433 33
Avails of parsonage lands and subscrip- tions united, -
800
Parsonage lot, worth 1
150
2683 33
Millington has,
Avails of Parsonage lands, 516 67 Legacy from Mr. Samuel Gates, who died Aug. 21, 1801, 260
A farm given in the will of Mr. Simeon Chapman, who died March 31, 1813; but to be used by his children during life, - 4286
Notes. 147
Legacy from Mr. Thomas Beebe, who died June 6, 1816, - 1440
Appropriation money, - -
94 90
6597 57
Hadlyme has,
Avails of parsonage lands, -
340
Appropriation money, 48
388
Saybrook parish has, Lands, (including some belonging to the church,) worth - 2400
Legacy from Gen. Wm. Hart, who died Aug. 29, 1817, 1600 -
Pautapoug has, 4000
Parsonage lands, worth 400
Legacy from Mr. Wm. Clarke, who died Sept. 16, 1803, one third of which is for the promotion of psalmody, 281 20
Subscriptions, drawing interest from Jan. 1, 1817, - 6587
Appropriation money, 126 40 1
'The church has,
Donation from Mr. Jeremiah Kelsey, 100
Legacy from Mr. Doty Lord, who died April 25, 1814, - - 100
Gift from a friend, -
10 30
7604 90
Westbrook has,
Lands and a wharf, (part of which is leased,) worth -
- 650
Appropriation money, - -
84 61
734 61
Chester has,
Legacy from Mr. Pardon Stevens, who
died July 2, 1817, 300
Appropriation money, -
63 40
363 40
Killingworth parish has,
Avails of lands sold, - .
525
Lands, estimated at - -
2475
Appropriation Money, -
-
61 90
3061 90
North Killingworth has,
Avails of parsonage lands, 434 76
126 62
Appropriation money, 19 561 38
148
Statistical Account of Middlesex County ;
Durham has,
Lands, estimated at 3500
Appropriation money, - 100
The church has,
Legacy from Mr. David Camp, who died
Oct. 13, 1808,
250
Money otherwise obtained, - - 50
3900
Total of the funds, belonging to Congrega- tionalists, 45,462 41 -
The Strict-Congregational Society in Mid- dletown, has a parsonage house and lands, estimated at 2700
The Episcopal Society in Middletown has, From the sale of a parsonage house and lands, given in 1785, by Philip Morti- mer, Esq. and Mrs. Mary Alsop, 1500 - Capt. Stephen Clay, who died in 1809, gave them a legacy, which is to go into their hands upon the decease of his widow, amounting to about - 13000
-14500
The Episcopal Society of Chatham has, Lands given by Mr. Joseph Blague, who deceased in 1812, estimated at 3300
Total of Episcopal Funds, 17800
The First Baptist Society in Pautapoug has, Parsonage house and lot and other lands, estimated at - 1400
The second Baptist church in Pautapoug has, Legacy from Miss Betsey Heyden, who died in Nov. 1813, 50
Legacy from Mr. Jared Heyden, who died in April 1814, amounting to about $ 5,500; but 1500 of this has been used according to his direction in building a meeting-house, 4000
4050
Total of Baptist funds, - 5450
Total of all the funds now stated, 71,412 41
149
Notes.
Note P, referred to, page 22. DISTRICT SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTY.
Agreeably to an inquiry made for the winter of 1814-15, with the exception of Haddam and East-Haddam, where the inquiry was made generally for the win- ter preceding, there belong to the several parishes in Middlesex the schools follow- ing, having the annexed number of scholars ; viz.
South-School, in two rooms,
160
Middle District School,
72
Center do.
50
Clark's-hill
31
North do.
in two rooms,
125
North
36
Newfield
40
East -
- 25
Staddle-Hill
43
Southeast
40
Moromos
63
West
28
Hubbard's
50
Miller's
80
Total,
- 232
Johnson-Lane
31
South-Farm hill
31
In Waterhole School, -
9
do.
west
36
Total of Chatham, -
904
Total,
734
Lower School,
-
120
Higganum do.
2
83
North do.
51
Punset
3
40
Nook's
16
Lower part of town
4
75
Brick
-
45
Turkey-hill
5
38
Northwest
45
Candlewood-hill
6
35
Southernmost
7
67
Total,
-
277
Walkley-hill
8
19
North-western
9
27
North-School,
-
-
33
Little-city
10
30
East do.
-
38
Beaver-meadow
11
26
South
45
South-western
12
41
Total,
116
Total,
575
First School,
-
-
44
Haddam Neck, -
71
Second do.
36
Third
34
Total of Haddam,
647
Fourth
30
Middle District School,
62
144
Landing
do.
78
South
43
Southeast
45
Bashan
43
Upper
48
Northwest
-
44
Factory -
34
Penfield-hill
50
Over the meadow
60
Total,
397
Ames' District
40
Brown do.
Middle District School,
69
North-western do.
32
Western
51
South-western
40
South -
50
Middle
do.
-
80
East
-
25
Chesnut-hill
30
Northeast
27
Total,
319
-
Total, -
283
Middle-Haddam, Chatham Part.
Total,
380
North-west School,
121
Millington.
East
-
45
Northeast -
32
.
90
1
South-Neck
do.
1
70
North
50
Chatham.
Total of Middletown,
1271
Partof M.
Haddam.
Westfield.
1
Haddam.
Middlefield.
-
25
[Whole school 23.]
Part of
Westchester.
-
Town School,
No. 1 94
--
Upper-Houses.
-
-
-
East-Hampton.
Middletown parish.
Long-Hill, east
-
-
East-Haddam.
First District School,
-
20
150
Statistical Account of Middlesex County ;
31
First District School,
172
Northeast do.
16
Second do. 87
Southeast
7
Third, included in first,
West
15
-
-
Total,
259
Total,
69
-
Total of Saybrook, 1356
Total of East-Haddam,
785
West District School,
110
First Dist. School, in two rooms, 112
East
do.
80
Second do.
-
60
Cow-hill
40
Ferry
50
Mill
14
1
North
30
Totál,
222
Total,
274
Meeting-house School, No. 1
72
Deep-river
do.
2
95
Center District School,
- 70
Comstock
3
43
Southwest do.
29
West 4
45
Chesnut-hill
40
Southeast
5
70
Union
54
Meadow-woods
6
66
Lane
-
75
Point
7
82
Parker's hill
28
Pound-hill
8
80
Nettleton
36
Stone-house
-
36
Total,
553
Black-Rock
20
--
First District School,
145
Total,
388
Second
do.
.
Total of Killingworth, 662
North School,
-
- 10º
Quarry do.
65
Southwest
-
85
South
-
56
Middle
50
Total of Durham,
358
Total of the County,
5,983
Note Q, referred to, page 27.
Deaths in the county from Jan. 1, 1805, to Jan. 1, 1815.
Middletown, about -
441 | Hadlyme, E. H. part,
ʹ 34
Upper-Houses,
123
Saybrook, -
137
Middlefield,
76| Pautapoug, 225 -
Westfield, about
66| Westbrook, 110
Chatham,
130
Chester,
94
Middle-Haddam, .
152
Killingworth,
123
East-Hampton,
94|
N. Killingworth,
130
Part of Westchester,
14|
Durham, -
156
Haddam,
285
East-Haddam,
93
Total, 2,616
Millington,
133
-
Third
-
-
45
Fourth -
-
47
Fifth
45
Total,
322
-
Durham.
40
Westbrook.
part, two last schools supplied
&partly fr. Lyme.
Center school,
Hadlyme, E. H.
Saybrook.
Killingworth.
.
Pautapoug.
North-Killingworth.
-
-
.
-
.
-
Chester.
151
Notes.
To this I have thought proper to subjoin a list of the grave-yards in the county ; noting the time when they were first laid out or improved. These are as follows ; viz.
The old yard in Middletown, 1650|Yard in the upper part of the town, 1748
Farm-Hill yard, Dec. 16, 1723 Bashan yard, about 1760
West yard,
1740 Landing do. 1773
Town Hill 1774
Old Moromos yard, abandoned, about
1708.Meeting-house 1778
New Moromos yard, 1776 or 7;Yard by Mr. Oliver Warner's, 1793
Tomb-lane yard,
1778 do. by the Long Pond in Millington, 1726
The old yard in U. Houses, Jan. 13, 1713
do. by Mr. Green Hungerford's, 1760
West yard, do.
1802. do. by the meeting-house, 1764
The yard in Middlefield,
1737 Eight-mile river yard, 1769
The old yard in Westfield,
1772 Yard by Mr. simeon Chapman's, 1802
New do.
1794
Old yard in Hadlyme,
1723
The old yard in Chatham, Jan. 13, 1713 Meeting-house yard, 1750
New do.
1767 Old yard in Saybrook, about 1635
New do. 1786
The yard in Middle-Haddam, by the first meeting-house,
do. at Knowles's Landing,
1794 West yard, about
1750
do. at the Rock Landing,
First yard in East-Hampton,
North do.
1787 (abandoned,) 1717
Southeast
1776 do. at the meeting-house, 1750
1813
Town yard in Haddam, (not for-
Killingworth yard,
1663
1741 mally laid out till Jan. 1699,) 1662 Union district yard in N. Killing- Higganum yard,
Punset
1761 Southwest district, do Oct. 7, 1743
Yard in the lower part of the town, 1782 Yard by the Episcopal church, do. at Turkey-Hill, 1815
Nov. 7, 1748
Cove yard in East-Haddam, (aban- doned,) about
Stone-house district yard, May 5, 1806 1700|Durham yard, 1700
Some persons were buried on a knoll east of the dwelling-house of Mr. Joseph Clarke, before any grave yard was laid out in the lower part of Haddam. In 1648, the wife of Col. Fenwick was buried at Tomb Hill on Saybrook Point, where a large stone table, one of the oldest in New-England, still marks the place of her grave.
Note R, referred to, page 31.
LIBRARIES.
In the societies in Middlesex, there were in the summer of 1815, the following public libraries, viz.
Middletown 1st Society,
Middletown Library,
1797
617
do.
M. Circulating Library,
1809
600
Upper-Houses,
Library of M. Upper-Houses,
1792
196
do Friendly Association Library,
1810
136
Middlefield,
Federal Library, 1790
90
Westfield Social Library, (part of an old one,)
1809
70
Chatham 1st Society,
Chatham Library,
1787
322
do.
Republican Library,
1795
200
Middle-Haddam,
Increasing Library,
1793
238
do.
General Library,
1795
238
1734 Westbrook yard,
1738
1743 Yard at l'arker's Point in Chester,
Waterhole
1793|West yard,
worth, March 22, 1738
Formed No. Vols.
1742 Yard at Pautapoug Point, 1715
152
Statistical Account of Middlesex County ;
East-Hampton,
Social Library,
1799
140
Haddam,
Literary Society Library, 1804
80
East-Haddam Ist Society, East- Haddam Library,
1794
266
Hadlyme,
Hadlyme Library, 1790
118
Saybrook 1st Society, do.
Saybrook Library,
1792
150
Ladies' Library,
1792
77
Pautapoug, Library of 2d Society of Saybrook,
1795
30*
do.
Union Library,
1813
28
Chester,
Fraternal Library,
1789
101
Killingworth Ist Society, Killingworth 1st
Society Library,
1790
208
Durham, Book Company Library, two united,
1789
210
do.
Durham Library,
1788
206
Total of books belonging to the above libraries,
4,471
A library was formed in Haddam in 1791 and dissolved in 1808. A library has been dissolved in Millington, another in Westbrook, and three in North-Killingworth. Saybrook library is a part of a library, formed in 1736, in the towns of Saybrook, Lyme, Killingworth and Guilford.
-
The following Notes, though not distinctly referred to in the body of this work, are subjoined.
Note S.
Lists of the several parishes in Middlesex, the dwelling-houses and merchant-stores.
Lists for 1814. Dols. Cts. D. Houses. M. Stores.
Middletown parish, in the city, without the city,
39,785
299
37
Upper-Houses,
18,356 94
121
5
Middlefield,
14,477 87
81
Westfield,
14,420 48
89
1
Chatham,
24,260 54
203
2
Middle-Haddam, Chatham Part,
14,669 72|
135
4
E. Hampton, (with Waterhole,)
18,380 74
147
2
Haddam,
32,320 19
340
7
Haddam-Neck,
6,722 66
44
East-Haddam,
27,599 26
167
8
Millington,
27,762 33
172
1
Hadlyme, in E. Haddam,
7,310 78
53
Saybrook,
19,910 44
135
4
Pautapoug,
25,186 72
275
7
* Were formerly 100 volumes.
247
1
32,027 81
1733
150
153
Notes.
-
Lists for 1814. Dols. Cts. D. Houses.
M. Stores.
Westbrook, Chester, Killingworth, North-Killingworth, Durham,
18,977 61
141
3
12,504 23:
105
2
26,300 69
152
6
31,645 65
212
3
29,531
158
3
Total of the County,
442,150 66
3,276
96
Note T. MILITARY COMPANIES, &c.
The circumstances of our ancestors compelled them to learn the use of arms. Military companies were formed in all the plantations. Where these contained 60 soldiers, they were allowed to have a captain, lieutenant, ensign and 4 serjeants ; where they contained 32 soldiers, a lieutenant, ensign and 2 sergeants ; and where they contained 24, two sergeants. The oldest companies in the towns in Middle- sex were formed about the time that the settlements in them commenced; and the companies in the parishes, about the time of their incorporation. At the organiza- tion of the Connecticut militia in Oct. 1739, the companies within the bounds of Middlesex, constituted parts of the sixth, seventh, tenth and twelfth regiments.
The companies in Weathersfield, Middletown, (inclusive of Chatham,) Glasten- bury, and the parish of Kensington, were the sixth. This regiment was com- manded by Thomas Wells of Glastenbury, John Chester of Weathersfield, Jabez Hamlin and Matthew Talcott of Middletown, and perhaps by some others, pre- vious to May 1775. At that time, the companies in Middletown and Chatham were formed into the 23d regiment, and thus remained until the organization in 1816.
The companies in Saybrook, Killingworth, Guilford and Haddam, constituted the seventh regiment. From this, Guilford was detached in May 1782, and with Bran- ford formed into the 27th, or as it was called at the time of its formation, the 28th regiment.
The companies in Wallingford, Waterbury, Durham and the parish of Southing- ton constituted the 10th regiment. This was first commanded by James Wads- worth of Durham, and has been since commanded by Elihu Chauncey, Gen. James Wadsworth, James Arnold, Samuel Camp, John Noyes Wadsworth and Seth Se- ward of the same town.
The companies in Lebanon, Hebron and East-Haddam, constituted the 12th re- giment. This was commanded by John Bulkley of Colchester, Jonathan Trumbull and Joseph Fowler of Lebanon and Gen. Joseph Spencer of East-Haddam, perhaps by others, before May 1776 ; when East-Haddam and Colchester were formed into the 24th, or as it was then called, the 25th regiment. The 23d, the 7th and the 24th regiments have been under the command of the following persons ; viz.
XXIII. Reg't. Gen. Comfort Sage, of Middletown, John Penfield, of Chatham, Nathaniel Brown, of Middletown, Gen. George Phillips, do. Joseph Blague, of Chatham, Gen. Samuel W. Dana, of Middletown, Lemuel Storrs, do. Gen. Seth Overton, of Chatham,
Elisha Coe, of Middletown, Enoch Huntington, do. Daniel White, of Chatham.
VII. Reg't. Samuel Lynde, of Saybrook, Samuel Hill, of Guilford,
Samuel Willard, of Saybrook, Timothy Stone, of Guilford, Audrew Ward, do. Aaron Elliott, of Killingworth,
Hezekiah Brainerd, of Haddam, Gen. Andrew Ward, of Guilford, William Worthington, of Saybrook, Sylvanus Graves, of Killingworth, Abraham Tyler, of Haddam,
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Edward Shipman, of Saybrook,
Gen. Joseph Willcox, of Killingworth, Asa Lay, of Saybrook,
Daniel Brainerd, of Haddam,
Williarı Tully, of Saybrook,
George Morgan, of Killingworth,
Joseph Hill, of Saybrook,
Elisha Sill, do.
Gen. John Brainerd, of Haddam. XXIV. Reg't.
Henry Champion, of Colchester,
Gen. Dyer Throop, of East-Haddam,
Jabez Chapman, do.
Elias Worthington, of Colchester, -
Eliphalet Bulkley, do. David B. Spencer, of East-Haddam, Gen. Henry Champion, of Colchester, Gen. Epaph. Champion, of E. Haddam, Daniel Waterhouse, of Colchester, Jonathan O. Mosely, of East-Haddam, Daniel Worthington, of Colchester, Josiah Griffin, of East-Haddam, John Isham, of Colchester, Jonah Gates, of East-Haddam, Joshua Bulkley, of Colchester.
The above mentioned regiments, had, from this county, in the autumn of 1815, at the last review before the late organization, the following number of companies. commissioned officers, &c. viz.
Com.
Com. Officers.
Non. Com. Officers.
Musicians.
Pri- vates.
Totul.
The 23d Reg't.
11
33
84
39
488
644
7th Reg't.
11
34
87
29
435
585
10th Reg't.
2
6
14
3
66
89
24th Reg't.
4
12
26
5
102
145
Total,
28
.85
211
76
1091
1463
To these must be added a company in Hadlyme, (E. Haddam part,) some years since annexed to the 33d regiment, a company of State Corps in Haddam and Kil- lingworth and a part of a State Corps in Durham, having in 1815 the officers, &c. following, viz.
Com. Of
Non. Com. Of.
Musi- cians.
Privates.
Total.
Hadlyme Company,
3
6
1
20
30
Com. in Had. and Kil.
4
8
3
40
5.5
Company in Durham,
1
2
3
15
21
Total,
8
16
7
106
Besides these, there are 4 or 5 Companies of Cavalry, rørtly or wholly within the county.
ERRATA.
Page 8, 3 1. from bottom, for 31,956 read 22,580; p. 13, 11 1. from top, before may be insert the words young trees ; p. 50, 26 1 for 1773 to 1777 or 8 read 1758 to 1767 ; p. 50, 36 1. for 1783 read 1773, and next 1. for two read ten ; p. 52, 22 1. for 16th of August 1816 read Aug. 20 1815 ; p. 62, 11 1. for care read cure ; p. 67, 15 1. for granite quarries read quarri s of Gneiss stone ; p. 83, 39 1. for sir read eight ; p. 84, 11 1. for become read became; p. 84, 20 1. for Budds read Rudds ; p. 89, 41 1. for Bork Hill read Book Ilill, p. 94, 38 1. for Middletown read Middlesex ; p. 98, 19 1. for Norfolk read Nory th ; p. 101, 36 1. for horses read teams ; p. 114, 21 1. for Darid read Caleb ; . 130, 10 1. for do. read Oct. 1813; p. 136, against West- brook, for June 25 read June 29.
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