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SPICES AND COFFEE.
HEBARD, STURTEVANT & CO
260 State Street, HARTFORD, CONN. Wholesale Dealers in
COFFEE, SPICES, &C.
ALSO,
SEGARS & TOBACCO.
A choice stock of goods kept constantly on hand, selected from the BEST IN MARKET, and put up under the direction of
GEORGE W. LYMAN,
Formerly with Shumway & Co. & G. Lincoln & Co. All Goods put up with the word
P U R
printed on the label are
STRICTLY PURE.
and warranted. Orders solicited and promptly filled.
GEO. H. HEBARD. F. C: STURTEVANT. GEO. W. LYMAN.
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SHAWLS.
FASHIONS FOR 1867-8 AT S. W. GRISWOLD & SON'S 418 Main St., Hartford, Conn.
S. W. GRISWOLD & SON
Visits New York very frequently, and have great advantages for secur- ing the latest styles, and have always on hand the most fashionable goods in the market. They have made recent large purchases, for cash, of all kinds of
WHICH THEY ARE PREPARED TO OFFER AT GREAT AND DECIDED BARGAINS. CLOAKS! CLOAKS!
Our variety of CLOAKS is extensive, and very inviting, including as it does all the latest styles and the most fashionable and desirable patterns
BEAUTIFUL WHITE AND BLACK
LLAMA LAGE POINTS. FRENCH LACE MANTILLAS.
Our FRENCH LACE and HONITON MANTILLAS are of the most rich and beautiful importations yet seen in America. Nothing like them has been offered before. Among them are some extremely elegant and fashionable goods, and the variety is great.
IN BLACK SILKS,
Our assortment is very extensive, and have been selected from the very best manufacturers. No larger or better assortment of BLACK SILKS has ever been offered in Hartford.
We would also give notice to Ladies who wish
Garments made to Order,
that we have a splendid assortment of every description of
Summer Cloth, Silks, Berage, &c., which they can have MADE into any of the new shapes, with prompt- ness and dispatch, at very low prices. And every description of MOURNING AND TRAVELING DRESS GOODS S. W. GRISWOLD & SON, 414, 416, 418 & 420 Main street.
OPTICAL .- PRINTER. 433
OPTICAL. J. BURT; MANUFACTURER OF THE
mproved Spectacles, BURT & WILLARD'S PATENT SPECTACLES, Pebble Spectacles, Gold Eye Glasses, &c., 321 Main, Corner Asylum Street, Up Stairs, HARTFORD, CONN.
Calhoun Printing Co.,
ALEX, CALHOUN,
No. 62 State Street,
BETWEEN HARTFORD AND EXCHANGE BANK.
HARTFORD. 37
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SOAP AND WASAING FLUID.
COBURN Soap and Washing Fluid MANUFACTURING CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Coburn's Celebrated Patent CHEMICAL CASTILE & FAMILY SOAPS.
ALSO, MANUFACTURERS OF Highly Perfumed Fancy Soaps, and Crystalline Toilet Fluid, For the Bath and Toilet.
Also, Manufacturers of Coburn's Patent
Crystalline Detersive and. Bleaching Fluid,
A new article, susceptible of a great variety of uses, highly promotive of domestic economy, not attended with any inju- rious consequences, and most important to Printers, Railroads, Painters, Woolen Manufacturers, and others, as it takes the place of Alcohol, Camphene, Benzine, Potash, and Soap, and has been approved and in use by many of the leading Railroad Superintendents, Painters, Printers, Woolen Manufacturers and others.
SEND FOR CIRCULAR. S. COBURN, Sec. and. Chemist, HARTFORD, CONN. ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED.
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SEWING MACHINES. The Improved
SINGER Sewing Machine.
The Strongest, most Simple in Construction, most Durable, and incomparably the best for all Grades of Work.
Machine Needles, Oil, Linen and Cotton Thread, and Silk Twist, ALL OF THE BEST QUALITY. STITCHING DONE TO ORDER. Sewing Machines of all kinds repaired in workmanlike manner, ag No. 5 Allyn House Block. HARTFORD, CONN.
C. SHAFFER, Agent.
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SEWING MACHINES.
WEED SEWING MACHINE COMPANY. 240 Main St., Hartford.
The following testimonial in favor of our NEW SEWING MACHINES is from Rev. HORACE BUSHNELL, D. D., of this city, and is selected from the numerous ones to be seen at the office of the company.
HARTFORD, May 15th, 1867.
HOMER BLANCHARD, Esq.,
Dear Sir :- Your WEED MACHINE has been sufficiently tried to test its practical merits; its comparative merits also as a piece of machinery have been carefully examined. It has the recommendation,-
1. That it will not embrioder; for it makes the common lock- stitch-the only stitch fit to be made-and no such winrow stitch as embroidering requires, and proper sewing disallows.
2. That it will operate in all possible varieties of fabric, the very heaviest, and the very lightest, in both of which some of our most celebrated machines will not operate; and if we have two or three other machines that will, they are greatly inferior to it in many points of construction.
3. That it is perfectly reliable ; doing always just what it was made to do, and is asked to do; and having no sulking fits, which it forgets the next morning without any assignable reason-a frequent complaint against one, at least, of our most brilliant machines.
4. That the good sense and close severity of the machinery is a very sure pledge of its merit; conceiving exactly the least thing to be done, and then exactly doing it-that and no more -never over-ingenious, or vitiated by surplussage of inventions The timing problem is nicely worked, and the needle, and shuttle, and feed motions play into each other, not jerkily, as if unwilling, but softly and easily, as if belonging to a perfect whole.
5. That it has a beautiful advantage in the new "take-up" improvement lately added by Mr. Fairfield-no rickety, and screechy wire work, or elaborately contrived reel-work, simple as a jewsharp, perfectly still, hitting deftly the exact point, by the cunning forefinger play of its motion. Considering how much this point has been labored, and the overdone contri- vances gotten up to compass it, this little invention appears to be even a stroke of genius.
Having all these advantages, I think it will be found that your machine is practically second to no other, and that it will soon become a favorite with the public.
Very Respectfully Yours,
HORACE BUSHNELL.
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artford Town Officers.
13- Annual Town Election, 4th Monday in November.
Town Clerk and Registrar .- George S. Burnham.
Selectmen .- Allyn S. Stillman, Sylvanus F. Cone, Daniel Phillips, John Barnard, Charles Mather.
Constable and Collector .- Henry T. Sperry.
Constables .- Henry Kennedy, Lorenzo M. Wadleigh, Freder- ick P. Colton, Apollos Fenn, Aner Sperry, Jacob W. Shew, Christopher Reed.
Grand Jurors .- George G. Sill, John D. Tucker, John R. Buck, Cooke Lounsbury, John C. Day, James Nichols, Charles J. Cole.
Town Treasurer .- Flavius A. Brown.
Alms House .- Adolphus F. Lane, Sup't. :
Registrars of Elections .- Lewis B. Hart, George Bodwell. Auditors .- David Clark, John G. Litchfield.
Pound Keepers .- John S. Rood, William Quinn, Alanson D. Waters, Peter Tracy.
Sealer of Weights and Measures .- Hiram G. Loomis.
Fence Viewers .- John Barnard, Henry Boardman, Morgan Lewis, Freeman Seymour, Alanson D. Waters,
[ Annual Election for Assessors, 4th Monday in Nov.
Assessors-Roswell Blodgett, Joseph W. Dimock, Jhomas Gates, Jr.
Board of Relief .- Samuel Dodd, Charles Goodwin, George Seymour.
Justices of the Peace for the year 1866 and 1867 .- Olcott Al len, Heman H. Barbour, Thos. K. Brace, John R. Buck, Geo. Case, Seymour N. Case, Uriah Case, Charles R. Chapman, Goodwin Collier, Moses Cook, Horace Cornwall, Robt. E. Day, John C. Day, Joseph Delliber, Jr., Frederic Eberle, Francis Fellowes, Jr., Henry Fowler, Harrison B. Freeman, George S. Gilman, Wm. Hamersley, Albert N. Hathaway, Alvan P. Hyde, Richard W. H. Jarvis, Elisha Johnson, Sam'l F. Jones, Michael Levett, Theodore Lyman, Seth E. Marsh, Wm. W. McFarland, Thos. McManus, Monroe E. Merrill, James Nichols, Charles H. Owen, John C. Parsons, Charles E. Perkins, John T. Peters, Jr., Henry C. Robinson, Henry Selling, Nathaniel Shipman, George G. Sill, Stiles D. Sperry, Zalmon A. Storrs, Stephen Terry, John D). Tucker, Loren P. Waldo, John Hurlburt White, Levi Woodhouse.
LOCATION OF HARTFORD POUNDS. - Rear of No. 14 South Prospect street. No. 42 Belden street, at junction of Albany avenue New Britain Road, west of stone pits.
Blue Hills, near A. D. Waters' house.
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LEGISLATIVE ACT MAKING VOTING DISTRICTS. FIRST DISTRICT.
The Town of Hartford, in the county of Hartford, is divided into three districts, for the purpose of accommodating the elec- tors of said Town in voting at the elector's meetings in said Town, as follows, viz: that portion of said Town which is bounded as follows, to wit: eastwardly by Connecticut river, westwardly by the town line, northwardly by a line beginning at the center of Kilbourn street where the same intersects Con- necticut river, thence running westwardly through the center of Kilbourn street to Front street, thence north wardly through the center of Front street to Temple street, thence westwardly through the center of Temple street to Main street, thence northwardly through the center of Main street to Church street, thence westwardly through the center of Church street and of a road and alley beyond to Spring street, thence north wardly through the center of Spring street to Myrtle street, thence westwardly through the center of Myrtle street to Garden street, thence northwardly and westwardly through the center of Garden street and of the road running south of the town house, until the same turns at an angle to the south, thence westwardly in a straight line to the center of the road run- ning by the residence of Elisha Colt, striking said road where the same turns westwardly a few rods east of said Colt's prem- ises, thence westwardly through the center of said road to the west line of the town of Hartford, and southwardly by a line beginning at the mouth of Park river where the same empties into the Connecticut river, and extending up the center of said Park river to the railroad bridge on said river, built partly on the farm of Messrs. Gillette and Hooker, and extending from the middle of said bridge directly west to the town line, shall be nd remain the First District.
SECOND DISTRICT.
That portion of said Town that lies northwardly of said first dist. as above described, shall be and remain the Second District.
THIRD DISTRICT.
So much of said town as lies southwardly of said first dis- trict as above described, shall be and remain the Third District.
VOTING DISTRICTS, AND PLACES FOR VOTING, FOR TOWN, STATE AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS .*
First District, composed of the Second and Fifth Wards. and all those portions of the town west of said wards, vote at the Halls of Record, 42 Pearl St.
Second District, composed of the First and Sixth Wards, and all those portions of the town north and west of said wards, vote at Engine House, No. 2, 5 Pleasant st.
Third District, composed of Third and Fourth Wards, and . all those portions of the town south and west of said wards, vote at Engine House, No. 1, No. 55 Main street.
Eve pages 13; to 487 1or places of voting at City Elections.
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BOUNDARIES OF THE TOWN OF HARTFORD. On the East, by the east bank of the Connecticut river.
On the West, by a line beginning at a stake and stones in the dividing line between the towns of Hartford and Windsor, thence running a course due south 108 chains to the south side of the Talcott mountain turnpike road at its intersection with said line, thence running in the same course 54 chains 68 links to a point on the west side of a highway a few rods north of the dwelling house of Levi Arnold, thence south 21 degrees west 37 chains, thence south 5 degrees west 25 chains 40 links to a maple staddle on the north side of the road called the mid- dle public road, and on the west side of said division line the whole distance from the Talcott mountain turnpike to the last mentioned boundary, runs in the western line of an ancient highway, thence on the last mentioned course to the dividing line between the towns of Hartford and Wethersfield.
On the South .- In April 1817, the following division line was run between the towns of Hartford and Wethersfield, under G. Gillett, Surveyor General, assisted by John Hempsted, Jona- than Wells and Elijah Keach, of Wethersfield, and monuments properly placed; beginning at the North East corner of Wethers- field on a line between the towns of Wethersfield and East Hart ford, near a place called pewter pot brook, S. 87º west at a stone monument-thence across Connecticut river, 28 chains 67 links, thence to a stone monument in the middle of Standish's Island 22 chains 61 links-thence to a stone east of Standish's creek 2 chains 60 links-thence to a stone on the west side of Stan dish's creek to the stone N. F. distant from the stone N. F. 16 chains 97 links, thence 8 chains 56 links to the fence on the east side of the main road leading from Wethersfield to Hartford, near the north side of the Folly bridge-thence 1 chain 64 links to the stone monument on the west side of said road, marked H. & W. near the north west corner of said bridge - thence 9 chains 28 links to a heap of stones in the fence run- ning east and west-thence 80 rods to a stone monument in the fence-thence 80 rods to an elm tree marked-thence 80 rods to a stone monument-thence 80 rods to a heap of stones in the fence-encne 28 rods to the east side of the Rocky hill road to at stononcmjement-thence to a heap of stones in the north and southa ebF hetween Buck's and Seymour's land-thence 80 rods to a heap of stones about eight rods east of a large stone standing on the ledge in Major Buck's lot- thence 80 rods to a heap of stones on the north side of a stone wall running west up the mountain-thence 32 rods to the top of the mountain- thence 20 rods west from the top of the mountain to a heap of stones on the side, and on the east side of the road leading un- der the mountain, a stone monument-thence 80 rods to a large white oak stump-stone monument in the stump-thence 80 rods near the east bank of Piper's river to a ditch, and a post in Ezekiel Atwood's lot, thence 80 rods to a ditch and stake in
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the woods, two stones standing upright, east and west of the ditch-thence 80 rods to a ditch west of the woods, near a growth of alders-thence 80 rods to a heap of stones near the west bank of a small stream, also near an elm tree-thence 80- rods to a heap of stones in David Lowry's pasture in marshy ground-thence 68 rods to a stone monument on the east side of the road leading from West Hartford to Newington, and 12 rods to a heap of stones on the hill west of said road-thence 92 rods to a heap of stones in the fence-thence 80 rods to a heap of stones in the fence-thence 80 rods to a stone standing upright in the cleared field-thence 76 rods to a heap of stones on Farmington line. [A portion of the latter part of this boun dary was set off in 1854 to West Hartford.]
On the North .- In 1830 the Selectmen of Hartford and Wind- sor towns, assisted by Chauncey Barnard, Surveyor, followed a former survey made in the year 1808, and erected monuments as follows :- commencing at an ancient and well known monu- ment, being a pile of stones on the East side of the highway leading from Hartford to Windsor, and running as the Needle now stands, N. 41 degs. E. 2360 links to a hickory tree-thence North 50 d. E. 575 1. to a ditch-thence N. 83d. E. 560 1. to a ditch-thence S. 87%d. E. 360 1. to a stone monument near the house of widow Hezekiah Marsh-thence S. 82%d. E. 1409 1. to a maple tree which is marked-thence 1319 1. to the west bank of the Connecticut River .- Commencing back at the aforesaid pile of stones near the highway, and running N. 88 d. W. 1013 1. to an old ditch-thence 1010 1. to a ditch-thence 996 1. to a ditch-thence 1034 1. to a ditch-thence 1000 1. to a ditch- thence 1015 1. to a ditch-thence 2013 1. to a ditch-thence 2038 1. to a ditch-thence 1006 1. to a ditch-thence 895 1. to an an- cient and well known monument, being a large pile of stones in Brick-kiln swamp-thence N. 11/2 d. W. 1000 1. to a ditch- thence 1000 1. to a ditch-thence 1000 1. to a ditch-thence 1075 1. to a hickory tree and a large pile of stones on land of Thos. Moore-thence N. 86 d. W. 1200 1. to a stone monument on the east side of the highway, near the house of Thos. Moore, thence 1873 1. to a ditch-thence 1100 1. to a ditch-thence 900 1. to a ditch-tlience 1990 links to a large pile of stones on Nath'l Terry's farm, being an ancient and well known monu- ment; thence 1175 1. to a ditch-thence 2000 1. to a ditch ; thence 1044 1. to a ditch; thence 1017 1. to a ditch; thence 1590 1. to the east bank of Wood's river ; thence 4061. to a pile of stones ; thence 7751. to the middle of the new road, (so called) leading from Hart- ford to Wintonbury meeting house-thence running along the north side of the old road 275 1. to a ditch-thence 2000 1. to a ditch-thence 2100 1. to near the north-west corner of Mr. Hubbard's lot-thence 4330 1. to a stone monument at the forks of the roads, near the house of Grandison Barber-thence 4401. to a ditch and pile of stones-thence 2017 1. to a butternut tree marked-thence 4388 1. to a pile of stones near a hard maple
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tree, being an ancient and well known monument near the house of Thos. Shepard-thence N. 86 d. W. 100 1. to a stone monu- ment-thence 1000 1. to a stone monument-thence 2000 1. to a stone monument-thence 2000 1. to a stone monument-thence 20001. to a stone monument-thence 1956 1. to a monument, be ing a large pile of stones on the west line of T. Shepard's land- thence 1116 1. to a chestnut tree marked and a pile of stones around the same-thence 1220 1. to a pile of stones on the great or middle ledge (so called) being the north-west corner of Hart- ford. [A portion of the western part of this boundary has been set off as West Hartford.]
BOUNDARY LINES OF HARTFORD SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
ARSENAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, commencing at a point on tlie west bank of the Connecticut River due east of the center of the eastern termination of Avon street, and running from thence westerly and southerly by the line of the 2d North School District to the crossing of Edwards street, from thence west through the center of Walnut street to Brick-kiln brook, and from thence northerly by the course of the brook to the present northern boundary, and from thence by the present northern boundary due east to the river, and from thence by said river southerly to the place of beginning.
CENTER DISTRICT, beginning at a point on the west bank of the Connecticut river, due east from the center of the east end of Pleasant street, and running westerly and southerly by the line of the Second North District to the point where the Brick-kiln brook crosses Asylum street, then southerly by said brook to Little river, thence easterly and northerly by Little river and Connecticut river to the place of beginning.
THE SECOND NORTH MIDDLE DISTRICT, sometimes called the NORTH MIDDLE DISTRICT in this town, embraces all the land lying within the following boundaries, viz. commencing on the west bank of the Connecticut River, due east of the east- ern termination of Avon street, running thence west to Avon street, and through the center of said street to Main street, (formerly called Windsor road,) thence across the street last aforesaid to Belden street, thence westerly through the center of Belden street to Albany street, thence across Albany street to Edwards street, thence south through the center of Edwards street to Walnut street, thence east through the center of Wal- nut street to the main track of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, thence south by said track to Brick-kiln brook, and thence by the course of said brook to the center of Asylum street, thence east through the center of Asylum street to Ann street, thence north through the center of Ann street to Church street, thence east through the center of Church street to Trum- bull street, thence north through the center of Trumbull street to Main street, down north side Main street to Village street, all west of the center of Village street to Pleasant street, thence
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east through the center of Pleasant street to Front street, thence east to the Connecticut river, and thence northerly by the river to the place of beginning.
SOUTH SCHOOL DISTRICT .- Bounded on the north by Park river, east by Connecticut river, south by Wethersfield, and west by the hollow which is a little west of Wethersfield road, crossing Maple avenue north of the first house north of south burying ground to the west end of house No. 39 Retreat ave- nue, thence northerly and westerly to 80 Washington street, thence westerly to West Hartford line.
SOUTH WEST DISTRICT, north and east by Washington Dis- trict, south by Wethersfield and west by West Hartford.
WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, north and east by South School District, south by Wethersfield and west by Newing- ton branch of Park river.
WEST MIDDLE DISTRICT, commencing on the Park river at the mouth of the Brick-kiln brook, and running thence north - erly and westerly by the line of the 3d DISTRICT, north to the crossing of Edwards and Walnut street, and thence through the center of Walnut street to Brick-kiln brook, and thence by said brook to the point where the northern boundary strikes the said brook, and thence westerly, southerly and easterly by the present northern, western and southern boundaries and Park river, to the place of beginning.
COURTS IN HARTFORD COUNTY.
HARTFORD COUNTY SUPREME COURTOF ERRORS .- 4th Tues- day of February 2d Tuesday of September. Superior Court .- 2d Tuesday of March, 3d Tuesday of July, 4th Tuesday of September, and 3d Tuesday of December. CHAUNCEY HOW ARD, Clerk; CHARLES W. JOHNSON, Assistant Clerk; RICH- ARD D. HUBBARD, States Attorney.
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS .- Circuit .- Hartford, 3d Tuesday in September ; New Haven, 4th Tuesday in April. District .- Hartford, 4th Tuesday in May and No- vember ; New Haven, 4th Tuesday in February and August. SAMUEL NELSON, Cooperstown, New York, Circuit Judge. WILLIAM D. SHIPMAN, Hartford, U. S. District Judge. HIRAM WILLEY, New London, U. S. Dist. Attorney. LOREN P. WALDO, Hartford, Clerk. JOHN GOULD. Fairfield, Mar- shal. WESTELL RUSSELL, Hartford, Deputy Marshal.
CITY COURT OF HARTFORD .- Regular sessions on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays of the first week of each month- and Mondays and Saturdays the other weeks. WM. W. EATON, Judge. WM. HAMERSLEY, City Attorney.
PROBATE COURT .- Regular sessions, dailv, except holidays, at 42 Pearl st., from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. J. HURLBURT WINITE, Judge. GEO. D. BISSELL, Clerk,
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HISTORICAL SKETCH, ETC.,
OF THE
CITY OF HARTFORD.
HARTFORD was first settled in 1635, by emigrants from Newtown, now Cambridge, Mass., and from Dorchester and Watertown; many of whom had come originally from Brain tree, in the county of Essex, England. The locality had been explored in 1634, and some huts had been erected, in what is now Wethersfield, where a few men passed the winter of 1634-5. The main body of emigrants, however, came across the country to Chicopee, in Springfield, and thence down the river, traveling by compass. The journey occupied about a fortnight; the same distance is now traveled in four hours !
The present locality of Hartford was called by the Indians, Suckiaug. The first settlers named it Newtown; but in 1636, it was formally named Hartford, after Hartford, now called Hertford, county town of Hertfordshire, England, and birth place of Rev. Samuel Stone.
Mr. Stone and William Goodwin received a deed of the land of the new settlement in 1636, from Sunckquassen or Sequas- sen, sachem of the Suckiaug tribe. This deed was lost, and the settlers repurchased the land of the Indians in 1670, taking a new deed for certainty's sake.
The Dutch had, in 1633, erected a fort which they named the House of Hope, on "Dutch Point," at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut rivers, within the present City of Hartford. But the Dutch were legislated out by the General Court of Connecticut, in 1654, and thus the new colony came entirely into the hands of the English.
The first town organization admitted "inhabitants," and even temporary residents, only by vote of town meeting. The officers were " townsmen," who answered to the present select men, but with more extensive authority; a town court, con stable, town clerk, crier, fence viewers, chimney viewers, and highway surveyors; and a little after were added grand jurors and a jailor. There was a public market semi-weekly, and a public fair twice a year.
The first town meeting was in 1635, the year of settlement, and the first General Court of Connecticut was held the next year, 1636.
A BRIEF LIST OF OCCURRENCES IN HARTFORD.
The first church in Hartford came ready organized, from Cambridge, with its pastor, teacher, and ruling elder, Hooker, Stone and Goodwin, and its first house of worship was erected in 1638, Mr. Hooker's barn having served instead, up to that time,
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The first war was the Pequot war, 1637; for which Hartford contributed forty-two out of ninety men, including command er and chaplain ; besides a large share of provisions, &c. The first flouring mill, date uncertain, was very early erected, near the present jail. In 1638, Ludlow, Haynes, Wolcott, Hopkins and Hooker, set about forming a written constitution, which was finished in 1639; the first ever formed in America, and which embodies the main points of all our subsequent State constitutions and of the Federal constitution; so that Hartford may claim to have been the model for our whole republic. A school was in operation here as early as 1638; and in 1643, sixteen pounds a year were voted to the teacher. A house of correction was in operation in 1640. An inn was ordered by the General Court, and established in 1644, nearly opposite the Center church. It was from this inn that Capt. Wadsworth took the Charter, to conceal it from Andros, in 1687. The first colony emigrated from Hartford in 1645, and founded Farmington. Others succeeded; one founded Middle- town in 1650; another founded Norwalk in the same year; and a third founded Hadley, in 1659. Hartford has sent out innu- merable delegations and single emigrants, ever since, to all parts of the world. Not less than five hundred and fifty of her sons and daughters are now living in the single city of New York. In 1650, our first mission was organized, by order of the General Court; which directed a teaching elder and an inter- preter to go among the Indians twice a year to endeavor to convert them. In 1650, also, our first code of laws was drawn up, chiefly by Roger Ludlow; which reduced the number of capital offences from the hundred and sixty of England, to about fifteen. In 1657, Gov. Hopkins left about £1,000, part of which endowed the Hartford Grammar School, yet in exis- tence as the classical department of the Hartford High School. In 1687, the independent spirit of the colony was shown by the quiet but determined resistance made to Andros, in his attempt to take away the Charter of 1662; when the lights being put out by arrangement, in the room where Andros and the author- ities had the Charter and were discussing it, Capt. Wadsworth carried it off in the dark and hid is so effectually in the hollow of the Charter Oak, that it could not be found. The charter was thus hid from October 31, 1687, to May 9, 1689. In October, 1693, Col. Fletcher came to Hartford to assume command over the Connecticut militia, and attempted to read his commission at the head of the train-band, but was foiled by Captain Wads worth, who commanded the drums to beat, and told Fletcher that if interrupted again, he would make the sun shine through him in a moment. The first printing office was set up here by Thomas Green, in 1764, who established the Connecticut Cour- antin October, 1764. In 1775, a small committee of enterprising men met here and made those arrangements for raising m'en and money, which resulted in the taking of Ticonderoga by Ethan
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