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Today we face this problem of liberty and authority in
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its most acute form. In Europe the Gordian knot has not been untied; it has been ruthlessly severed. In nineteenth century Germany the philosophy of Hegel seemed to offer a solution; that is, the complete submergence of the individual in the state, which guaranteed protection to every citizen in return for abso- lute loyalty to the State as the highest imaginable entity. More recently the reaction against the failures of democracy, follow- ing the Versailles Treaty, prepared the way for still more authoritarian systems, in Russia, Italy, and Hitlerized Germany. The ever present dilemma of democracy was not solved; it was simply voided by the destruction of one of the elements. Where authority and liberty conflicted the latter was purged at short shrift.
Europe's Turmoil a Warning
The results in Europe have been appalling. Within the authoritarian states individual initiative has been eliminated, freedom of thought and expression annihilated, and blind animal obedience substituted for personal self-reliance. In return for this surrender of independence the individual has been promised security. But the promise can by no means be ful- filled. For as the State is supreme in its dealings with its people, so also in relations with other states the Nazi, Fascist, or Com- munist can admit no higher international law or moral obliga- tion to control its action. The German Government pledges itself at Munich to cease all aggression, and six months later launches an undeclared war that ends in the conquest of Czechoslovakia. It signs a non-aggression pact with Poland, and, when the way is open because of the working of the prin- ciples of such philosophy, it proceeds to the most blatant aggressive action of modern times. Insecurity-modern wars- results more directly from broken pledges than from any economic factors that can be identified. It is from such bad faith that the existing chaotic disaster of Europe proceeds, and for this reason it is that the democratic world cries for redemp- tion from the threat of authoritarian regimes everywhere.
We Americans can never accept a solution of this problem that is based upon the destruction of personal liberty. Our nation is dedicated to the proposition that there is a workable compromise to be found between freedom and authority. But we must contribute to our solution something more than moral determination. If we are active to pursue the implications of that dedication, we must faithfully remember that the freedom of a people depends upon their intelligence, their self-reliance, their sense of group responsibility. Freedom is achieved only at a price. It is worth nothing unless we have acquired by intelli- gent effort the power to use it objectively. "A man may enjoy all the social and political liberty in the world," wrote President
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Hadley, "and yet be hopelessly bound as a slave to prejudice and to passion." He must be self-reliant, not looking to Gov- ernment to provide the individual with the means of life and of happiness; there can be no true freedom in a community where a man expects something for nothing. Finally, freedom depends upon a sense of social responsibility with recognition of the liberties, rights, and the needs of others, for without such sense it degenerates into anarchy, which is the worst of despot- isms. Intelligence, self-discipline, self-sacrifice, such were the qualities that enabled our forefathers to earn their freedom. God grant us power to follow in their footsteps.
MR. MARSH: I want to thank both speakers for the very interesting remarks, which I am sure pleased all of you. We will now sing the first and last verses of the hymn "America," after which Father Blake of St. Thomas Church will offer the benediction.
Rev. William J. Blake gives Benediction
FATHER BLAKE: In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen.
May the blessing of God, and God, the Son, and God, the Holy Ghost, descend upon our people and its glorious institu- tions, and may that blessing always remain with us to protect us from the power of darkness; to protect for us that great heritage that was left for us by our forefathers in 1776.
May that blessing also inspire the heads of our country to listen to the words of wisdom that fell from Washington's lips nearly one hundred and sixty years ago, to guard against foreign entanglements of all kinds, and thus inspire our govern- ment not under any consideration to send our boys across the seas to fight for causes of foreign nations.
This prayer I am sure will find an echo in every American heart tonight. This is the blessing that I wish for our country tonight from the bottom of my heart.
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen.
Appendices
A. Three Centuries of Town Planning in Fairfield
B. Know Settlers before 1700
C. Town Clerks of Fairfield
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APPENDIX A.
Three Centuries of Town Planning in Fairfield
In 1936, the year following Connecticut's Tercentenary celebration, Mr. Oliver Gould Jennings, president of the Fair- field Historical Society, conceived the idea of separating from the land and probate records of Fairfield, all facts pertinent to the property ownership of the early settlements as laid out by Roger Ludlow, town founder.
The work, financed by Mr. Jennings, was commenced under direction of Andrew Sherwood Huntington, who exe- cuted explanatory maps, here reproduced. These show owner- ship of the land at various, stated periods. Each tract is mapped to show first owners on record, owners at time of the burning of the town by the British in 1779, and owners at time maps were made. In some cases additional maps show areas at time of large municipal land divisions, called "devedents" in the old records. Title searching of land, covering a period of 300 years in some cases, was done by Miss Edith Hoyt Allen.
The Four Squares, the original town center laid out by Ludlow and little changed in actual boundary during three centuries, comprised the first area searched and mapped. Title searches and other pertinent facts were compiled in typed manu- script form by Miss Allen. The volume, bound and fully in- dexed, was placed at the Fairfield Historical Society. In this volume, the system of calling the Four Squares after members of the original band of settlers, first used by Mrs. E. H. Schenck in her "History of Fairfield," has been retained.
After the death of Mr. Jennings in 1937, the work was continued by his sister, Miss Annic Burr Jennings, who suc- ceeded him as president of the Fairfield Historical Society. Fol- lowing completion of the work on the Four Squares, the project was broadened to include surrounding areas.
This material was incorporated in a second volume. The title searching, done by Miss Allen, carries the ownership of the land from the time when it was first set out to individuals up to the period of the Revolution, whereas ownership in the Four Squares had been traced from the earliest on record to the pres- ent.
The Four Squares and much of the outlying territory has been mapped by Mr. Huntington. Eventually, all that has been searched will be so mapped. Such maps as are completed are here printed for the first time, through courtesy of the Fairfield Historical Society, to which organization they belong.
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Peter Maycocke
Thomas Barlowe
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Thomas Nuton
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Thomas Hunford Wakeman
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Job Bartram
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Burr Jennings
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[Charles B Jennings
Kathleen S Johnson
Annie & Jennings
Andrew L Einer, Jr Charlotte L E Perry Edith W. C. Ainsworth
Annie B Jennings
Deborah N
William B.
James T
Samiyl
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The First EcclesiasticaLi Society of Fairfield
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Henry C
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Old Fost Road
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BLOCK NO. 1-
"LUDLOW SQUARE"
Block No. 1 is called Ludlow Square in honor of the town founder whose home lot was Parcel A. Parcel B. early passed into the Burr family. When Capt. Nathaniel Burr, Revolution- ary owner, died in 1786, he divided house and barn neatly in half, one section being left to each of his sons! Parcel C. was first set out to Thomas Newton, one of the five men who accompan- ied Ludlow to Uncowa. In 1648, he was an original settler of Greens Farms, and later died in Long Island, the land being purchased by Andrew Ward. Part of Parcel D. was eventually purchased by Judge Roger Minott Sherman. The house which he built there in 1808 was bequeathed to the First Church in Fairfield, and is now the Sherman Parsonage. At the time of the Revolution, Moses Jennings had a blacksmith shop on part of Parcel E. The shop was burned by the British in 1779, and Jennings claimed 20 pounds damage. Next largest lot to Lud- low's was that laid out to Thoma: Staples (Parcel F.) who also had accompanied Ludlow to Uncowa.
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Livingston & Smith
Owners as of 1936.
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Land pertaining to Teaching Officer
Alexander Briant
Town Grant to Richard Perry 1649
Edmund Harry prior to 1648
1670
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(Lewis Lot)
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Town Grant to
Thomas Bulkley
William Euteman
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to Anthony Gill
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Thomas Bulkley
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Town Grant to
Thomas Bulkley
Georg Squire 1651
formerly Daniell bulkley
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Alexander Briant
Town Grunt to Thomas Jones
formerly
Mrs Sarah Hill
1649.
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Highway
Earliest
Owners on Record
Country Road
Ellen Lothrop
Hzirs of
Ebenezer Burr
Eunka Dennie Bur
Sarah Dennie
Sarah Lennie
Heirs of Capteur Sm Hubthe. Abujail
Jonathan Malibia
Life Tenant
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Nathan Bulkley
John Turney
"Concord Street" (1750)
Ebenezer Bulklay
Thomas Hill
Samuel Squira, Jr.
Nathan Bulkley
Highway
Owners as of 1779, the Burning of the Town.
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Justin Hutort
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William Hill
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Newton Square, Block Nº 2
Did Post Road
Annie 8 Jennings
Annie B Jennings
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St Truls LEMurch
Susan H
Sunnia Hang
Furter Estate
Ånnie B
Jennings
Dona E Wheeler
Deborah A. Glover
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Annie B Jennings
Beach
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Harry-T Nichols
Hangfre Mundos LAvers
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Judann Land
Owners as of 1936
BLOCK NO. 2-
"NEWTON SQUARE"
Block No. 2 is named in honor of Thomas Newton, orig- inal settler, although his house apparently stood across the way, in Ludlow Square. Parcel A. was early granted to William Hill, town Recorder. Parcels B. and C. were originally town grants to William Bateman and George Squire, both of whom apparently came from Concord with the Rev. John Jones, first minister, in 1644. Mrs. Sarah Hill, mentioned as owner of Parcel D. in grant of Parcel E. to Thomas Jones, was widow of Thomas Hill, Sr., father of the Recorder. Parcel F. was in- cluded in the estate of Thomas Bulkley when it was probated in 1649, and much of it remained Bulkley land through the Revolution. Thereon were built two of the four houses, still standing, which were saved when the British burned the town. Two more stand on Parcel G., first known as the Parsonage Lot, which was deeded in 1735 to the Rev. Noah Hobart, fourth minister of the First Church. Parcel H., first noted as property of Alexander Briant, real estate operator of Milford, may previously have been part of the Newton grant. Richard Perry, first of the name in Fairfield, and Edmund Harvey, fa- ther of the first schoolmaster, were granted Parcels I. 1 and I. 2.
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Joseph Rowland 2+ Acres
Deborah word
Henry Mary Ward, Rowland, Sr daughters of 3+ Actas Jacob Joy
Estate of Nehemiah Olmstead 3+ Acres
Town Grant to Cornelius Hull 31 Acres
Town Grant to Georg Hull
John Chapman
Steven Hedges 21 : Acres
Estate of John Brundich
Phillip Pinkny
Nehemiah Juhu Olmstead 4+ Acres
John Burr 2+ + Acres
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John Edwards It & Acres
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Earliest Owners of Record
Burt Square, Block Nº 3.
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Burying Ground
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Nov 24, 1653
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Trinity Church
Prison God Kassens house
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Waksman Burr .
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Court HOUSE
Now School House
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William Dimon
John Smedley The Gate Lott
Mary Cutler
Jonathan Lewis " Hulls Lott lying behind the church "
Mary Cutler ( widow)
Abigail Sturges
Lewis
Thaddeus Burt Home Lot 6 Acres 54 Rode
Samuel Penfield
Jonathan Bulkley, Son of Peter.
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John Bulkley upland and swamp
Highway
Highway up which the enemy marched
Burr Square, Block Nº 3.
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Gershom
Burr
Thaddeus Burr
Ola Burying Ground
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Abigail Thompson
William Dimon Jonathan
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Old Fairfield Academy .
¿Episcopal Church
Mary Ster
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Mads &
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Mary C Curthings
Hansen wormser
A Movie & Calvin Finiscono
Raymond ives
Bradford G Warner
Natala B Rayburn
Town Halt
Ida. J Crossman Cecree R. Mais, Adm. Est Besze D Hair
Loud
Kristine Hansen
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Tenfield
Flora Warner. Life Tenant Dever C Warner Bradford G Warner Margaret W Field
Elizabeth Peck Drake Rolfe
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Peter & Christine Hansen
Kristine Hansen
Anna M Carstensen
Rand
Old Orchard Park
John L Clover
Paulding
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Old Burying. Ground
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Cerath Barnes
Anna M
Mary C Cummings
Anna-14 Carstenser Krist go
Lizabeth A Hillegda
Cersensen
beatrice Downtas
Harigen
Anna M
Catherine A Deck Drake &
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BLOCK NO. 3-
"BURR SQUARE"
This block is called Burr Square in honor of Jehu Burr, first of the name to come to Fairfield. The northeast corner was early set aside as Meeting House Green, as well as the adjoin- ing, southeast corner of Block Four, across the highway. On the plot thus formed stood first church, first school, town house, county courthouse, whipping post, jail and pound, all but the first two mentioned buildings being on the Burr Square side of the highway. On this side of the Green, until about 1870, was a body of water known as Edwards' Pond, in which victims of witchcraft early underwent "trial by water." When the County Seat was removed to Bridgeport, in 1853, the former County Court House became the Town House, which it is today, and St. Paul's Episcopal Church was built on site and foundations of and with material purchased for a new jail. The Academy was built on part of the Green in 1804.
Below the Green, the Rev. John Jones, first minister, had his home lot, and beyond it was the Burying Ground. Later, Samuel Penfield built his Sun Tavern nearby, where Washing- ton was entertained. Parcels D.1 and D.2 were the original Burr homelots. On this land was built the Burr Mansion, where Thaddeus Burr lived at time of the Revolution, and where Dorothy Quincy was married to John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, in 1775. The British burned the house, and Burr later erected the one which occupies the land today. Early in the present century, Penfield Road was cut through between Parcels E. and F. Parcels F.1 and F.2 were long known as "Joseph's Lott," so called for Joseph Rowland, early owner. From 1723 until 1831, this was Dimon family land.
On part of Parcel G., John Whitear, Junior, Colonial clockmaker, had his shop. Later, with Parcels H. and I., this became part of the Rowland estate. The Fairfield Marine Ho- tel, important 19th century summer hostelry, stood on Parcel 1 during the mid 1800's. Parcels J. and K. were early known as the "Calves Pasture."
The road which extends along the heads of these homelots was first known simply as "the street which runs through the centre of the town." At the head of Parcel J. was the Old Field Gate. In the highway proper, at the head of Parcel H., stood the second edifice of the Church of England, erected in 1738 and burned in 1779.
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John Green
Henry Whelply
Nathan Gold Sumtimes John Foster
Town granted to Thunus Eurlowe prior te 1653
Highway
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John Gray
Nathaniel Baldwin formerly Richard Westcott
Isaac Nichols
Will- Froet
Scool Land or Common
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( Town granted to Richard Burgis, 1680
First Owners as of Record
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Highway
Heirs of Gershom Burr
Peter Jennings
Eunice Dennie Burr, wf of Thaddeus Burr
Highway, Country Road
Trinity Church Glabe Land
Abigail Thompson
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Jonathan Lewis
Estate of Col David Dimon, dec.
Highway
Elizabeth Bootwiek (12 Rod's)
Francis O Forque
Jonathan Lewis
Thomas,
Hezekiah
Sarah Allen Estatu
Andrew Rowland
Thomas HIHI
John Allen
Elisha,
Gold,
Talcott,
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Esther Smedley Rowland
Saml Rowland Jr.
Joseph
inviting house Green
Hawley
David Allan
Meeting House
Highway, Country Road
Owners In 1779, the Burning of the Town.
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Abigail, Ebenezer
Heirs of Canne Wynkoop Je.
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Daniell Frost
Francis Purdy
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Frost Square, Block Nº 4.
New Post Road
Anna
Mary Kost
Alice B Morehouse
The Fairfield Memorial Library Co
Helen F. RIKEN
Florence
Florence'D
Donald Sylvia
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D Foster
roster &
Burr Jr.
Malen 5 Bulkley
The Grail School Inc
Arthur! M & Emilie [ Camley
Old Post Road
Fannie & Hinckley (+) Henryetta A. Hinckley (!) Chrysqula Leonard (1)
William 0
George A. Mills
(1)
Susan E Batte
Burr
The Wakeman Land Co
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Agnes H Havard , Sarah M Freir,
Trusted for Mary Glover MINI & (+) George A. Mills, Jr.
Annie A Moran
The Bridgeport City Trust Co. Trustee (1)
The nest
Ratha Rint Weston
2
Society of
Glendora Flint
Old Fost Road
Owners as of 1936
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BLOCK NO. 4- "FROST SQUARE"
William Frost who arrived here in 1639, shortly after the Ludlow party, is honored in the naming of this, Frost Square. The First Church and the first school stood at the southeast corner, which was a portion of the Green. A tiny section there- of, Parcel A., was granted in 1676 to Richard Burgis, black- smith. Parcel B. was the William Frost homelot, and Parcel D., beyond the Francis Purdy homelot, belonged to Frost's son, Daniel. At the rear of this section stands the house occupied by the Rev. Andrew Eliot after the burning of the town. By 1831, Parcels D., E. and F. had all come into the hands of Charles Bennet who had there his home and shoemaker's shop. In Parcel G. stood the home of Captain Samuel Smedley, com- mander of the Brig "Defense," during the Revolution. The homes of Andrew Rowland, Probate Judge and States Attor- ney, and of Dr. Francis Forgue, Revolutionary army surgeon, also occupied portions of Parcel G. In Parcel H., in the 1770's, lived Henry Marquand, cabinet maker and architect, the father of Isaac Marquand, clockmaker. The Rev. Joseph Webb, third minister of the First Church, had his home in Parcel I.
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Maud & Woodruff
Bertha F. Lewis
Center Street
The First National Bank & Trust Co.
Mary
John E Daran
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C. Samuell Allen & Mary his wife 2/2 Acres prior to July 16 , 163 .
Town grant to Thomas Pell 5+ acres, commonly called the none such' June 25, 1669
Toren grant to John Gruman Book B. Page 82 16631
Town grant to
Goodman Jennings
See Back B. Page 82, Town
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" Swamp "
somtimes was Knaps
Town grant to Thomas Dickinson 22 + Acres February 16, 1656
In Jan 11, 16 53 Richard Lettin sold to
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In Jan 11, 1653 Richard Letto
Timothy ffords
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Town grant to Thomas Basset 2f + acre 3 Aug. 10, 1653.
- In Jan 11, 1653
John Gruinman 22 + Acres
BLOCK 5.
John Grumman 22 + Acres
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Harvey's Pond
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Estate of Ebenezer Jennings dec 22 ucre, homelot
Apparently Samuel Burr
Isaac Jennings
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Thomas Staples
BLOCK 5.
Owners as of 1779, the burning of the Town.
Highway
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John Grumman 22+ acres
Richard Lettin sold to
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Claro
Louise
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What Youts
whitney
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Edward Tierney
William O Burr
ROAD
Mary B & Huntington
ROAD
Andrew 5 Huntington
Raymond G & Margaret 5 Beach
Joseph & Albing Moraret
Josephe AllIn
horario
Raymond G :
Margaret & Bear
Marguerite M Wall
Mirarct €
Milling 00
John W Barr
Estate Niels Mortensen, dec & Annie Mortensen
BLOCK 5.
Owners as of 1937.
New York, New Haven & HartFord
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BLOCK NO. 5-
The majority of the early settlers had homelots in the Four Squares and also pasture lots in the outlying sections. Soon these outlying lands commenced to be taken up as home- lots, and houses were erected thereon. The north corner of Block 5 was known as "the none such" for some long forgotten reason, and was granted by the town in 1669 to Dr. Thomas Pell, later founder of Pelham. This was sold by Pell's heirs to Joshua Jennings, joiner and builder, who was also granted an adjacent section for "the worke about the meting house." Parcel. C. also came into the Jennings family, and at the time of the Revolution was owned by Isaac Jennings, whose house is said to have been the first fired by the British in 1779, and the first to be rebuilt. By this time, Parcels B., D. and E. were the property of John Allen. Some he acquired by purchase, and some by inheritance from his father, Lieut. Gideon Allen.
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The greater part of Block 6 remained municipal or "com- mon" land until 1750, when a large land division or "deve- dent" took place, property owners elsewhere in the town receiving land in proportion to their taxable holdings. However, some portions had been set out to individuals previous to 1653. In 1670, Parcel A. was granted to Josiah Harvey, the school- master, and here he built a stone house. An adjacent pond bore his name until it was drained, about 1749, by David Allen.
Parcels B., C., D., E. and F., fronting on what is now the New Post Road, were early grants. Parcel E. belonged to Roger Ludlow, and a portion is now included in the grounds of the High School which was named in his honor. Northwest of this strip of lots, paralleling them, was a section which by the time of the Revolution was almost entirely owned by the Jennings family. The west end, containing a 1690 grant to Peter Coley, was owned by the heirs of Jeremiah Jennings. It was Jere- miah's son, Levi, who in 1814 quitclaimed to the town of Fairfield the land on which the Powder House stands, for its accommodation. The east end of the strip belonged, at the period of the Revolution, to Moses Jennings, son of Isaac who was cousin to Jeremiah. Both Isaac and Moses were black- smiths and had their shop in their homelot.
The central portion of Block 6 was set out to Ephraim Burr in 1750, excepting a portion which was already his home- lot, and which had been granted to Henry Cassle and Peter Nor- ton in the 1670's (Parcels 4a and 4b). Ephraim Burr's son, Peter, was in residence at the time of the Revolution.
The northern corner of Block 6, a tract of over 25 acres, was set out to John Gould in the distribution of 1750, and by him bequeathed to his daughter, Sarah, who married David Allen.
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Andrew Word
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John Tompkins Prior to 1673 21: Acres
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Laid out in 1750 to Mr John Gold 25 Acres, three quarters and Is rods
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Laid out in 1750 to Ephraim Burr 33 Acres, one quarter and 19 rods
Ephraim Burri Homelot 4+ Acres
Town to teurs of John Gropies
Jeremiah Jennings Homelot and house 14 -Acres
Town to Isaac Jennings Oct 28, 1750 on Ibanez" Meakers right 27 Acres
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