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EZRA HOLMES was " of Winchester " in 1801, and probably became a resident earlier. In 1802 Seth and Phebe Holmes conveyed to him their late homestead above described. Three years after he bought the Luman Munsill place, a little south of the center, which he sold in 1807, and thereafter owned and lived on a farm two miles north of the center on the Danbury burying-ground road, which he sold in 1809 to Birdsey Norton, of Goshen. He is last on the tax list in 1810, and probably that year removed to Ohio. By wife, Grace, he had
CHILDREN.
I. POLLY, b. Oct. 21, 1801.
II. DANIEL, b. Aug. 27, 1804.
SILAS TAYLOR, from Danbury, owned and lived in the shingled house that stood until about 1860 on Taylor's Brook, at the junction of the old highway south from R. M. Eggleston's, with the new road from the cen- ter by Elias T. Hatch's. He died April 24, 1819, aged 67. He had sons, Clark, who died January 22, 1826, leaving a widow. and Ira, who lived on his lands until 1827. He had also a daughter, Clarissa, married, November 28, 1816, Alva Hyde, of Oxford, or Guilford, Chenango Coun- ty, New York.
DOCTOR TRUMAN S. WETMORE,4 whose record has been given, ap- pears on the tax list of this year.
REUBEN TUCKER, JR., a native of this town, is on the tax lists of this and the two succeeding years. He is named of Elmore, Vermont, in a deed dated in 1814.
MILES WILKINSON, son of Jesse, born in this town, is on the tax lists of this and the following years. He married, December 2, 1796, Lydia Ives.
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The tax list shows that there were four licensed taverns in the town this year, to wit : Samuel Hurlbut, in the house that stood at the center on the site now occupied by the house of Samuel Hurlbut ; John Miner, in the house between Winsted and Winchester, lately owned by Mrs. Al- mira Coe ; Zeralı Doolittle, in the old Pease House that stood where North Main street now runs, nearly in front of the house of Isaac B. Woodruff, in Winsted, and Freedom Wright, in the Kelsey house, lately burned down, near the small pond on the Old North Country road.
The freemen admitted and sworn were Abijah Bronson, Leonard Hurl- but, Nathail Elmore, and Zaechens Munsill.
1796.
The town records of this year refer only to routine business ; no free- men were admitted.
In Society meeting, a " Pall or Funeral Cloth" was ordered to be pur- chased and to be kept at the house of Doctor Everitt, when not in use.
A committee was appointed with instructions to contract for the finish- ing off of the interior of the new meeting house, and, if no offer could be obtained more favorable than that of Deacon Dutton, of Watertown, then to contract with him.
By the records of the following year it appears that the work was done, so as to require the appointment of " seaters" to assign to the par- ishioners their respective pews and seats.
This edifice stood near the center of the triangular green nearly south of the dwelling of Theron Bronson. It was nearly square, with a steep roof, - the gables, with a round window in each, facing east and west, and without a tower or steeple, and in all respects conforming to the principles of country church architecture of that period. The pulpit stood in the north, with an alley extending to the south door; another alley from the east to the west doors, gave access to the gallery stairs and wall pews. The pews were square with paneled sides, surmounted with low banisters. The galleries occupied the three sides of the interior in front and at the right and left of the pulpit. The altar had a folding leaf which was dropped down when not in use ; - an unfortunate ar- rangement, as it proved, when, some forty years ago, a self-opinionated and partially deranged parishioner conceived himself divinely commis- sioned to testify against the corruptions of the Church, and took an oppor- tunity to do so by presenting himself at the altar at the close of the com- munion service, and reading the history of the Saviour's overturning the tables of the money changers in the temple ; - and suiting his
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action to the words, knocked away the support of the leaf, and scattered the sacred elements and contribution box on the floor. The culprit was tried for this outrage before two Justices of the Peace, who decided that he was crazy ; but lest an acquittal on that ground should embolden him to commit other acts of the same nature, they found him guilty and im- posed a fine.
The pulpit had the usual decorations of vines and clusters of grapes carved in wood, in humble imitation of the gorgeous adornments of the Jewish Sanctuary, and an imposing sounding-board set into the wall above.
Here worshipped the fathers and mothers of the town and their off- spring, for about fifty years, a race of honest, hard-working, self-denying, pious, rigid Puritans. The like of Deacons Samuel Wetmore, Seth Hills, Robert McEwen, Eliphaz Alvord, Lorrain Loomis, and Levi Platt, to say nothing of other worthies, who here dispensed the symbolic bread of life, and digested the severe doctrines of the Calvinistic creed, is not to be found in these days of diluted orthodoxy.
ROGER BARBER, a blacksmith, plied his trade in the shop vacated by Wait Hills, until 1798, when he gave way to William Bunell, and went to Sandisfield, Mass.
EPHRAIM BOWERS is on the tax list of this and the following year.
LEVI DAW is on the tax list of this and the following years until 1804. He married August 1, 1796, Phebe, daughter of Benjamin Benedict of W.
WILLIAM GRAY, a Scotchman by birth, and a shoemaker by trade, owned and occupied a part of the Nathan Tibball's farm in Danbury Quarter, until 1799.
SYLVESTER HALL, a millwright, is on the tax list of this year. He married May 12, 1797, Lucy, daughter of Captain Samuel Hurlbut, and probably thereafter lived with his father-in-law, until his removal to Burke, Caledonia Co., Vermont, about 1803, where he resided until his death.
Their children, as appears by the Probate Records of Winchester, were :-
I. A DAUGHTER, who married - Lawton.
II. HULDAH, - Bemis.
III. ELECTRA,
- Trull.
IV. DAVID, a resident of Virginia.
V. ELIZA, who married - Bemis.
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VI. SILAS, residing in Winchester.
VII. HARRIS B., died in Vermont.
VIII. A SON, who died leaving two sons, Elbridge and Sylvester.
NATHANIEL HOYT from Danbury, owned and lived on land in Dan- bury Quarter, between the farm late of John J. Fanning and Mad River. In 1811 the Church voted him and Lucretia his wife a letter of dismission to the Church in Locke, N. Y., where they then resided.
DEACON MICAJAH HOYT, son of Nathaniel, owned and lived on the farm in Danbury Quarter now owned by Harry Brooks, until 1844, when he removed, as is believed, to Locke, N. Y. He was chosen Deacon of the Winchester Church in 1825. He was born December 12, 1770; married November 1, 1792, Esther Trowbridge, born October 22, 1773.
CHILDREN.
I. ELIAKIM D., b. May 16, 1794.
II. DELIA, b. October 4, 1796 ; m. November 27, 1814, Robert Andrews of Danbury.
III. JAMES T., b. December 27, 1798.
IV. ORPIIA, b. May 3, 1801 ; married - Curtice of Vernon, N. Y.
V. SIDNEY, b. April 2, 1804 ; m. October 9, 1828, Huldah A. Starkwether. They settled in Barton, Tioga Co., N. Y. Children : Harriet, Julia, Louisa, a son, name not known, and Delia.
VI. LORUIIAMA (fem.), b. January 16, 1806 ; m. November 6, 1832, Charles Dunning of Whitehall, N. Y.
VII. ANSEL, b. October 31, 1809.
VIII. MARIA, b. October 31, 1812.
ZERI W. HOYT, son of Nathaniel, lived successively on the Jacklin farm in Danbury Quarter, next on the Norfolk Road, a little west of the Doctor Wetmore place, then on Lake Street, in Winsted, and last in a house near John W. Fanning. He left the town after 1803.
NATHANIEL HOYT, Jr., lived on a part of the John W. Fanning farm, in Danbury Quarter, from 1799 to 1802. He afterwards lived not far from the old Everitt house in the same quarter, until 1810. In 1816 the Church voted him a letter to the Church in Litchfield, Conn., where he then resided.
GEORGE KINGSBURY is assessed on the list of this year for his faculty as attorney-at-law, being the first legal luminary that shed its light on this benighted town. His stay seems to have been as brief as a comet's visit, there being no other note of him extant, save a record of trial before Justice Alvord, on a grand juror's complaint, setting forth that " Daniel Ward and George Kingsbury did, at Winchester, on the
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27th day of July, 1796, in a tumultuous and offensive manner disturb and break the peace, by quarrelling, beating, and striking each other," &c. Kingsbury pleaded not guilty, but failed to sustain his plea, and was fined one dollar and costs. Ward had been before the Court so often, as Sabbath-breaker, hard swearer, &c., that he thought it wisest to admit his guilt, and was fined two dollars, he probably having fought hardest, or been most blamable. It is to be regretted that our new juris consult had not left this kind of pastime to Ward and his next door neighbor, Coit, who were well matched and thoroughly trained to wordy objurga- tions by years of practice.
DAVID STRONG, named of Charlotte, Vt., is on the tax list of this year. He was born in Torrington, May 31, 1768, son of Asahel ; mar- ried August 28, 1794, Esther, daughter of Reuben Miner of Winchester, and lived in a house long since torn down, which adjoined the house of his father-in-law, now owned by Joel G. Griswold and wife, at the geographical center of the town. About 1808 he removed to New Pultz, Ulster Co., N. Y., where he died. He had a son, George D. Strong, who was for many years a liquor dealer, prominent politician, and alderman of the City of New York. Another son, Edwin M., was adopted by his grandfather Miner, who left him his homestead, on which he lived until about 1836, when he removed to East New York, on Long Island, where he died after 1850.
EDWIN M. STRONG, born July 25, 1795 ; married September 18, 1816, Deidamia Grant of Norfolk.
CHILD.
I. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. February 7, 1818.
ELIJAH STARKWETHER, son of Thomas of East Windsor, born January 7, 1777 ; married January 21, 1802, Anna Jerusha, daughter of Deacon Samuel Wetmore of Winchester, and received a conveyance of his homestead, and lived in a house that stood between the houses of Abel S. Wetmore and. Widow Allen Blake, until about 1816, when he built a house on the Waterbury River turnpike, about a mile north of the center, in which he died December 3, 1819. His children have abbreviated the family name to " Starks."
CHILDREN.
I. JERUSIIA ANN,
b. November 12, 1802; m. October 31, 1822, Sheldon Miller.
II. LAURA HILLS, b. October 26, 1801 ; d. October 26, 1805.
III. HULDAH ANDREWS, b. August 28, 1806 ; m. October 9, 1828, Sidney Hoyt of Winchester.
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I\ JULIA MARIA,
b. Jannary 6, 1809 ; m. May 10, 1841, Samuel W. Coc of Winsted.
V. SAMUEL WETMORE, b. August 31, 1812 ; m. May 8, 1839, Flora, daughter of Daniel Murray.
CHILDREN.
1. Jane Flora, b. March 18, 1840.
2. Darwin Samuel,* b. August 24, 1843.
3. Huldah Annie, b. December 11, 1846.
4. Hattie Murray, b. March 30, 1856.
VI. SYBIL ANDERSON, b. May 14, 1815 ; m. May 14, 1845, Amos E. Hull of Tolland, Mass.
VII. FREDERICK ELIJAH, b. November 21, 1819.
1797.
The notable event of this year was the success of the Jeffersonian or Democratic party, in electing a majority of the Selectmen, and in dis- placing our excellent town clerk. The violent party feelings and dissen- tions of that day have long been forgotten; but the changed ap- pearance of the records by the substitution of the scrawny hand writing of the new town clerk for the clear and precise hand of Squire Alvord, marks a period of change, but not of improvement.
It is easy to find causes for the growth of Democracy in the forced col- lections by the "Standing Order " of parish dues from disaffected and dissenting members ; the frequent prosecutions for profane swearing, sab- bath breaking, and especially for playing in meeting, not only against young men and boys, but frequently against young women of respectable fami- lies, - all go to show that the reins of civil power were held pretty taut by our worthy old Federal grandfathers, and warrant the conclusion that moral suasion was imperfectly applied for the correction of social evils. That the Democratic ascendency at this time lasted but one year, goes to show that the conservative element was yet too strong to be effectually put down.
The Society records show that by change of prices of provisions, and lax payment of dues, Mr. Booge's salary had become inadequate for his support ; in consequence of which a vote was passed adding fifty dollars to his salary, and increasing his allowance of firewood to thirty cords a year. It was also provided that notes of the society, on interest, should be given him from year to year for such arrearage of salary as should be found due him. Another wise provision was adopted by which the wood.
* The above-named Darwin S. Starks was a private in Company E, 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery, and died in the service, at Alexandria, August 16, 1863.
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contract was taken by some responsible individual, at a fixed price. The contract was taken this year by Col. Brownson, at three shillings a cord. The sweeping of the meeting house for the year was also undertaken by Col. Brownson at three dollars.
ELI FRISBIE, son of Joseph, this year bought land near Torrington line on the third ticr road, which he sold in 1799, and soon after removed to Vernon, N. Y. He m. April 17, 1794, Sarah Hills ; had dan. Lucia, b. Sept. 1, 1794.
CLARK MCEWEN, son of Samuel, is on the tax list of this year. He removed with his father to Vernon, N. Y.
STEPHEN GAYLORD owned a house and land near where the two chimney school-house stood, at the parting of the third tier road from the old country road, which he sold in 1806. He m. May 12, 1797, Mary Rhodes.
CHILDREN.
I. SALLY, b. Nov. 11, 1797.
II. ANSON, b. July 30, 1799; d. May 18, 1803.
The assessment of Trades and Professions this year, were Josiah Ev- eritt and Joseph B. Elmore, Physicians, in Old Society.
Fyler & Marshall and Holmes & Riley, Traders, 66
Samuel Hurlbut, Tavern-keeper, 66
Lloyd Andrews and John McAlpine, Joiners, 66
Roger Barber, Blacksmith, 66
Amasa Wade and Daniel Wells, Tanners and Shoemakers,
Isaac Wheeler and Freedom Wright, Taverners, in Winsted.
Hine Clemmons and Wait Hills, Blacksmiths, 6.
Jenkins & Boyd, Scythe Makers, 66 Asher Loomis, Tanner,
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John Sweet and Chauncey Mills, Millers, 66
The freemen admitted and sworn, were Daniel Corbin, Thaddeus Loomis, Daniel Wells, Sylvester Hall, Asahel Bronson, Asher Loomis, Eli Frisbie, Israel Douglass, Roger Coe, Amos Tolles, Seth Lucas, and Daniel Eggleston, Jr.
1798.
Inoculation for small pox was regulated this year, by vote in town meeting, " that Doctors or other men may have liberty to carry on inoc-
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ulation for the small pox in this town, from the 20th of February to April 10th, under such regulations as shall be agreed on by the Civil Authority and Select Men ; provided they shall give a Bond of One thousand Pounds, with sufficient surety, to carry on the business in such a prudent manner as not to expose any inhabitant of the town to said disorder, and to be continued at the houses heretofore occupied, and within the same limits." The location of the " pest houses," as they were called in Winchester Society, is not known. In Winsted, a house was built for this purpose, near the large spring on the old Pratt Road, which was used for a time, and afterward the farm house of Mrs. J. R. Boyd on East Lake Street was appropriated to that purpose. The head and foot stones of the graves of several persons who died of the disease, at the latter place, are still standing in an adjoining field.
The Pest Houses, remote from other dwellings, were established by the civil authorities, who prescribed certain limits around them, within which the patients should confine themselves, and all other persons not authorized to enter, were excluded therefrom by fines and penalties.
JOHN BISSELL, supposed from Litchfield, succeeded Fyler & Mar- shall as a trader, and continued in town but one year. The last record found of him is a complaint of the Grand Jurors and Tithing Man against him, dated May 9, 1799, for unnecessarily and unlawfully travel- ing on the Sabbath, to which he pleaded guilty, and paid a fine of $2.50, and costs.
ELIJAH BLAKE, a native of Middletown, came to Torrington in early life, and removed thence to Winchester, in February of this year. He was by trade a tanner, and lived and died in the house afterwards occupied by his son-in-law, Samuel Hurlbut, 2d. He d. Oct. 2, 1833, aged 77. He m. Sept. 27, 1779, Sarah Hamlin, of Middletown, who d. Oct. 27, 1811, aged 53.
CHILDREN.
I. SALLY, b. Tor., Dec. 12, 1780; d. June 17, 1798.
II. POLLY, b. " Sept. 15, 1782; m. Feb. 2, 1803, Timothy Loomis, of Riga, N. Y.
III. ELIJAH, b. June 26, 1784.
IV. JONATHAN, b. Aug. 13, 1786.
V. HARRY, b. " June 29, 1788; m. Oct. 28, 1812, Hannah, dau. of Adna Beach.
VI. ITHUEL, b. Aug. 1, 1790; m. March 17, 1812, Wealthy, dau. of Benj. Benedict.
VII. ALLEN, b. May 19, 1792 ; m. July 9, 1817, Mabel, dau. of Adna Beach.
VIII. SALLY, b. " Dec. 16, 1794 ; unmarried.
IX. MARIA, b.
" Oct. 18, 1797 ; d. Sept. 21, 1805.
X. LOVINA, b. Winchester, Oct. 16, 1799 ; m. Samuel Hurlbut, 2d, of W.
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ELIJAH BLAKE, JR., m. Amelia Bronson, dau. of Benoni, and early re- moved to Springfield, Mass., where he still resides. He had four sons and two daughters. Both of the daughters are dead. The sons, William and Charles, are in trade in Boston, and Marshall and Hamlin, in New York.
JONATHAN BLAKE, EsQ., resided during his married life on the east side of the old Waterbury River turnpike, in the first house south of its part- ing from the Old Country road at the center. IIe was for some years a Justice of the Peace, and represented the town in the General Assembly in 1851. He married, May 12, 1808, Sabra Bronson. He died May 14, 1868, aged 81 years and 9 months. She died March 30, 1870, aged 86.
CHILDREN.
I. INFANT SON, d. Ang. 19, 1809.
II. INFANT DAUGHTER, d. Nov. 30, 1810.
III. MARCIA, b. Feb. 13, 1812; m. Jan. 24, 1845, Silas B. Crocker, of Ver- non, N. Y.
IV. MARY ANN, b. Jan. 17, 1814; m. Sept. 8, 1835, Lorenzo Mitchell, of Col- linsville; he d. Sept. 17, 1838, aged 26. Their son, Ward Blake, d. July 31, 1837, aged 1 year and 1 month.
V. CHARLES HAMLIN, b. Oet. 17, 1817 ; m. May 11, 1842, Jane, daughter of James C. Cleveland.
CHILDREN.
1. James Cleveland, b. Feb. 9, 1847 ; d. Jan. 24, 1848.
2. James Cleveland, b. July 12, 1849. 3. Lorenzo Mitchell, b. April 26, 1851.
VI. A SON, b. ; d. Feb. 17, 1822.
ILARRY BLAKE, lived for twenty years or more on the west side of the north and south road in the third tier, in the second house south.of the Dugway. He moved to New Britain about 1867, where he soon died. He married Oct. 28, 1812, Hannah Beach, daughter of Adna.
CHILDREN.
I. SARAH HAMLIN (twin), b. July 21, 1813 ; m. Aug. 12, 1847, Giles L. Gay- lord, of Tor.
II. MARY STANLEY (twin), b. July 21, 1813; m. Dec. 17, 1851, John Moore ; d. Aug. 5, 1854.
III. REV. HENRY BEACH, b. May 20, 1817 ; graduate of Williams College and East Windsor Theological Institute. He settled in the ministry at South Coventry, 1845 ; afterwards in Belchertown, Mass., and now lives in Newbern, N. C. He m. Sept. 23, 1845, Mary R., daughter of Harvey Wolcott, of West Springfield. He delivered the historical sermon at the Centennial Celebration, in Winchester, Aug. 16, 1871.
IV. LUCIUS DODDRIDGE, b. Sept. 9, 1819 ; m. March 29, 1843, Susan Griswold, resides in W. Hartford. 27
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V. HANNAN H. (twin), b. May 6, 1824.
VI. HARRIET H. (twin), b. May 6, 1824 ; d. April 4, 1825.
VII. GEORGE, b. April 16, 1826 ; m. July 8, 1856, Lucy Case; lives at Indiantown, Iowa.
VIII. DEA. ELIJAH F.,
b. May 22, 1830; m. May 1, 1856, Julia M., daughter of Jared Clark.
IX. HUBERT, b. Aug. 31, 1832 ; d. June 18, 1841.
ITHUEL BLAKE, removed in 1818 to Coventry, N. Y. He has for many years been deacon of a church in that place. He married, March 17, 1812, Wealthy, daughter of Benjamin Benedict, and had ten children.
DEACON ALLEN BLAKE lived at the parting of the road running north by Abel S. Wetmore's from the Old Country road, until his death, March 10, 1850, aged 58. He succeeded his father in the tanning busi- ness, which he carried on in the tannery on the stream southeast of his dwelling. He was Deacon of the first Congregational Church for several years before his deatlı. He married, July 9, 1817, Mabel Beach, daugh- ter of Adna.
CHILDREN.
I. HERVEY VINCENT, b. June 29, 1818; m. Nov. 20, 1844, Catherine E. Caul ; she d. July 13, 1845, aged 24.
II. MARIA ELIZABETH, b. April 16, 1822 ; m. Hopkins Barber.
III. SAMUEL A., d. Dec. 6, 1847, aged 23.
IV. CELIA C., m. Denison Lambert; d. Sept. 7, 1849, aged 23.
V. LOUISA, d. Nov. 16, 1851, aged 18.
CAPT. WILLIAM BUNNELL, this year, succeeded Roger Barber as blacksmith at the center. He resided in the house at the parting of the Norfolk road and the old Waterbury turnpike, west of Theron Bronson's store, until his death, July 27, 1820, aged 46.
CHAUNCEY HUMPHREY, a native of Simsbury, came from Torrington this year, and first lived on the Deacon Seth Hills place near Torrington line. In 1802 he bought the Jonathan Blake place, and built a tinner's shop at the south parting of the Old Country and Waterbury River roads. In this shop he afterwards went into trade in partnership with the Samuel Hurlbuts, Senior and Junior. From 1810 to 1813 he kept tavern in the yellow store building recently torn down, that stood in front of the new store of Theron Bronson. During the war of 1812 he was connected with the introduction of British goods to the States from Canada, a quantity of which were seized at Hartford, as smuggled, thereby reducing him to poverty. He removed to Ohio in 1816. He was a man of great activity, - of fine personal appearance and address, - and filled a large space in the society where he lived.
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ASAHEL WELLS, from Farmington (now Bloomfield), a tanner, this year bought from Daniel Wells, the house west of the center, recently owned by Sage W. Grant, and the tannery on the north side of the road, a little west of the old parsonage, now owned by Leonard B. Hurlbut, which he occupied until 1807, when he returned to Farmington. He afterward removed to Winsted and lived some three or four years on the hill road to Colebrook, near David N. Beardsley's, and again left the town. He married, January 27, 1799, Mine Loomis, daughter of Ichabod.
CHILDREN.
I. ALMIRA,
b. Nov. 1, 1799.
II. SIBYL, b. Jan. 25, 1801 ; d. May 3, 1807.
III. ASAHEL HARLOW, b. Feb. 16, 1805.
The freemen admitted and sworn were Benjamin Whiting, Jr., Giles Russell, Asahel Wells, Vine Utley, Phineas Miner, Timothy Benedict, Jr., Benjamin Wheadon, Ichabod Loomis, Benjamin Carter, Chauncey Hills, William Crocker, John Miner, Jr., Miles Wilkinson, and John Alvord.
1799.
The Winsted settlement had this year assumed such proportions, as to induce a vote of the town "that the Select men be directed to appoint one third of the town meetings to be holden at the house of Horace Hig- ley during the pleasure of the town."
The opening of the Green Woods turnpike, this year, from New Hart- ford to Sheffield, Massachusetts, by a new and more direct route, avoiding as far as practicable the high hills, and following the course of the streams diverted all the long travel from the old north road over Wallen's hill and the old south road through old Winchester.
The only new comer of the year was
JOHN BEECHER, "of Cheshire," who bought a house and lot on the Brooks street road next north of Nelson T. Loomis, which he owned un- til 1807, when the Church granted him a letter of dismission to the Church in Waterbury.
1800.
The town votes of 1800 present no matters of special interest. Joseph Preston, Jr., had died, leaving it to the towns of Torrington and Win- chester to decide by litigation, which of the towns was liable for his sup- port while living, - and a committee was appointed to compromise the litigation or bring it to a final issue. The two towns had also a boundary
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question which Major Wetmore was appointed to settle. Phineas Miner, Esq., was directed to oppose, or stave off, the appointment by the County Court of a committee to lay a road from Winsted to Colebrook ; - and rams were prohibited running at large from August to November.
The Republican, or Jeffersonian party, was again in the ascendant this year in the election of Town Officers. The veteran 'Squire Alvord, how- ever, breasted the storm and was re-elected Town Clerk. A three per cent. highway tax was laid. The tax for town expenses, - other than roads, - was five mills on the dollar, which, if fully collected, would have raised $171.94.
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