History of Fairfield County, Connecticut : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 101

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) comp. cn
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1572

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warden of the borough several years; assessor many years ; postmaster under President Andrew Johnson's administration ; and member of the State Legislature during the years 1870 and '71. The first year lic was in the Legislature he served on the committee of State prisons, and the second year on the humane committee. He has often been a delegate to town, county, and State conventions. Mr. Dayton is a man universally respected; even his bitterest political opponents are among hris warm personal friends. He ,is an honest, upright citizen, and to him, more than to any other man in his town is due the credit of the great interest manifested by the people of Greenwich in the history of Fairfield Co., Conn.

His brother, George Dayton, was a soldier in Com- pany I, Tenth Connecticut Volunteer Regiment, in the great civil war; was in several engagements, and was wounded by being shot through his right lung at Newberne, the ball passing out below his left shoulder-blade, lodging in his coat. At the present time he is connected with the Broadway Fire Insurance Company, New York.

ISRAEL PECK.

Among the early settlers who came from England and settled in the town of Greenwich, Conn., was one Jeremiah Peck, a Presbyterian clergyman, who first settled at Elizabethtown, N. J., and then in Green- wich. He had two sons, Samuel and Theophilus. Theophilus was a cabinet-maker and joiner by trade, married a Miss Mead and had twelve children, one of whom was Israel Peek, who was born in Green- wich, Conn., April 9, 1750. He married Lovina Purdy ; she was born Feb. 9, 1755. Their children were as follows,-viz., Israel, Nchemialı, Elizabeth, Rachel, Levina, Israel (2), and Elizabeth (2).

Israel Peek was a large farmer, a man greatly re- spected in the community. He and wife were regular attendants of the Congregational Church at Green- wich. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war a very short time, but furnished a substitute, which re- leased him. He died Jan. 18, 1819, and his wife died Jan. 12, 1836. Israel Peck, son of Israel Peek, was born on the 7th of December, 1794, married Darinda Peck, who was born Feb. 20, 1796. Their children were Mary, born July 12, 1820, and Jabez, born April 12, 1822, and died April 9, 1847. Mary Peck married Gilbert Shute, and died March 24, 1867. Mrs. Darinda Peek died Oct. 20, 1871, and Aug. 19, 1873, Mr. Peck married, for his second wife, Mrs. Almira M. Platt, widow of Rev. Ebenezer Platt, and daughter of Eben- ezer Mead. Mr. Peck was reared a farmer, which has always been his business until infirmity caused him to sell his farm. He owned the old homestead known as "Peek's Landing," which he sold abont 1866 or 1868, and after residing at Port Chester a few years settled in the borough of Greenwich in 1873, where he has continued to reside until the present time.

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He was a captain of a light militia company some four years. In politics he is a strong Republican. For more than fifty-one years he has been a worthy member of the Second Congregational Church at Greenwich, and one of its main pillars. His wife is also a member.

Mr. Peck is a very strong temperance man, and believes that total abstinence is the only true safe- guard.

DAVID BANKS.

. Among the noble band of worthy men whose names grace the pages of this History none have been more bold in declaring their honest couvictious on all ques- tions of moral or religious reform than the subject of this sketch. He is of English origin, and was born in the town of Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Conn., Aug. 11, 1794. His grandfather, David Banks, was a Revo- lutionary soldier, was a shoemaker by trade, and a man honored and respected. He died at a ripe old age.

David Banks worked on the farm summers and attended the South Stanwich district school winters until he was thirteen years of age, when he com- menced to learn the shoemaker's trade with his uncle, Daniel Banks. The time thus spent at the district school, supplemented with eleven weeks some time afterwards in studying English grammar, laid the foundation for his education. Mr. Banks has been a great reader and quite a logical thinker, and to-day has one of the best-informed minds in the town. At the early age of cight years he received religious im- pressions by the earnest prayers of a faithful school- teacher, which took deep root, the result of which has been an earnest Christian life, devoted to God and the cause of humanity. On the 1st of January, 1815, he united with the Congregational Church at Stanwich, Conn., and at the present time is a member of the Church of the Puritans in New York City.

He succeeded his uncle Daniel as the proprietor of the shop at twenty-one years of age, having in the mean time become somewhat noted as a first-class shoemaker, making a specialty of good fits ou fine boots and shoes. His business increased, and he was compelled to hire two men to assist him. He com- menced business in the same house where he first saw the light of day, and remained there until 1828 or 1830, when he settled where he now resides.

He built his present house on temperance principles in 1826 or 1828, it being the first house iu the town put up without the use of rum at the raising. As a characteristic of his well-known temperance prin- ciples, even in those early days, we mention that when his head carpenter came to him and said that the men would not work without rum, he replied that the timber could lie and rot before one drop of rum should be brought on his premises. He stuck to his vow, and the result was his house was put up all

right, and no one was injured. He continued at his trade until 1860, since which time he has been a farmer.

On the 10th of May, 1821, he married Matilda, daughter of Rev. David Peck, of Greenwich, Conn. She was born May 7, 1797, and died June 17, 1879. She was a devoted wife and an affectionate mother. Their children were as follows: Zaccheus, Cornelius (deceased), Ann (deceased), David (deceased), Al- pheus (deceased), Augustus, Elethea, Sarah H., and Mary E.

Mr. Banks has always been an outspoken, bold, anti- slavery man, and his own house has often been opened for prayer aud public meetings to discuss the slavery question, eveu when the church was barred against such meetings; but time has wrought a wonderful change, and such a change. In politics he was a Free- Soiler and Whig till 1856, when he became a staunch Republican, aud in November, 1880, voted for Gen. Garfield, of Ohio, for President of the United States.

In 1840 he voted the Liberty ticket, having James

G. Birney for President and a Mr. Earle for Vice-President. There were only about seven thou- sand votes cast for this ticket iu the United States in 1840, but this small party, under different names, at different times, has grown until its principles are well known and felt throughout the length and breadth of our vast domain, and in 1880 elected the ripest scholar and statesman that ever graced the Presidential chair.

Mr. Banks has been very liberal indeed, having given more than two thousand dollars to aid the missionary cause, besides doing his part for home interest.

NATHAN FINCH.

Nathan Finch, son of Reuben Finch and Abigail Reynolds, was born in the town of Greenwich, at or near Stanwich, Fairfield Co., Conn., April 7, 1802. His great-grandfather, on his father's side, was named Nathan Finch, who, together with his brother Jonathan, came from England and settled in the town of Greenwich, Conn. Jonathan Finch soon after left the town and county, and nothing has ever been known of him or his descendants, and it is generally supposed that lie died leaving no family. Nathan (1st) married and had a family of children, oue of whom was named Jonathan, who married and had several children, one of whom was named Reuben, who was born in the town of Greenwich, Conn., July 19, 1773, married Abigail Reynolds, Oct. 5, 1794. She was born in Greenwich, Conn., Nov. 13, 1774. Their children were as follows: Reubeu R. (deceased), Deborah A., Amos (deceased), Nathan, Lockwood (deceased), Mary R., Jonathan (deceased), Hannah M., Julia E., and George G. (deceased). Reuben Finch was a merchant for a great many years, and was moderately successful. He also was engaged in farming for many years, and rearcd his children to

DAathun Finch

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industry and economy. He died on the 28th of April, 1839.

Nathan Fineh (2d) worked on his father's farm summers and attended the district school winters until he was twenty years of age, when he entered his father's store as a partner with his father and remained a few years, when he became a copartner with his brother, Reuben R., in general merchan- dising in the city of New York, where he remained about a year, when he returned to his native town and entered the employ of Joseph Brush, of Cos Cob, Conn., where he remained a short time. During the next five years he was a merchant at Sing Sing, N. Y., and the sueeeeding five years were spent at Peekskill, N. Y., as a merchant with his brother Reuben R., when he again returned home and became a partner with his brother Jonathan in general merchandising, which continued some three years, when he became interested in the stock trade, bought and sold, to- gether, and with butchering, in which business he remained some fifteen years, since which time he has not been actively engaged in any business.

He is regarded as an honest, upright citizen, is a Republican in polities, but never aspired to any official positions, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Stanwich, Conn.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

HUNTINGTON.

Geographical-Topographical-The Pioneers-Extracts from Town Ree- ords-Slavery-Tho Indian Well-List of Selectmen-List of Repre- sentatives-Villages, etc .- Ecclesiastical History.

THE town of Huntington lies on the castern border of the county, and is bounded as follows: On the north by the town of Monroe and the Housatonie River; on the cast by the Housatonie River, which separates it from New Haven County ; on the south by the towns of Stratford and Trumbull; and on the west by Trumbull and Monroe. The surface of the town is uneven, being diversified with numerous hills and valleys. The soil is generally fertile.

THE PIONEERS.

Prominent among the pioneers of Huntington was Daniel Shelton, of honored memory, the common ancestor of all who bear the name of Shelton in this portion of the United States. The following sketeh of this pioneer is taken from a discourse delivered by the Rev. William Shelton, D.D., June 14, 1877 :

"That he came from England, and from the town of Rippon (or, as we call it, Ripton), in about 1687; was married in Stratford in 1692 ; was a vestryman of that venerable parish, which is among the oldest in the country ; that he was a merchant and farmer ; that ho had seven chil- dren, and that he was a large landowner, as appears by the town records and by the traditional knowledge of his descendants ; that he was a de- voted and intelligent churchman and suffered for his attachment to the holy principles of the Book of Common Prayer,-are among the chiefest

of our rendniscences of him, But to these there are sequents which are dear to all of ns, as I shall endeavor to show.

" It is well known that he was devoted to and was governed by thoses great and grand principles of the Church of England inherited by her from primitive antiquity ; that he did what in him lay to propagate and to defend them in this then new and hostile country ; that he was thrown into prison some eight miles from Ils home, and carried there in an igno- minious manner, for refusing to pay his money to support the preaching of doctrines and a system of theology In which he had no belief or con- fidence,-are among the traditions of his life .* This must have been an astonislament to a man who had crossed the ocean to settle himself In a country regarding which it had been publicly proclaimed that all men were born free and confd worship God in their own manuer, provided they did not infringe apon the rights of others. He had come from his nativo land, which had been distracted by conflicting parties ou all re- ligious subjects, the Independents on the one hand, and the corrupt Church of Romo on the other, both equally hostile and equally assailing aud persecnting the Church of England. He had looked, doubtless, for peace, and bad sought quiet in a new country, where, as he thought, party animosity did not exist. It minst have surprised him, I say, to find himself imprisoned and evil treated because he would not pay for the support of a system of religion in which he did not believe. He was really in the condition in which this country claimed to be, many years after, when the war-cry was raised against the mother-country because she exacted a tax without representation.

"He was a member of the Church of England, and yet a religions so- ciety rudely took him from his farm and thrust him into prison, whero ho was confined at least one night. It is not stated that he refused to contribute to the support of divine religion, for ho was at one time a vestryman of lis parish church, which he would not have been had he proved himself so far forgetful of his duty as not to promote the temporal as well as spiritual interests of religion ; and it is recorded that on All Saints' day, in 1722, sixteen Episcopalians, inhabitants of Ripton, ad- dressed a paper to the secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, asking for a pastor of their own, or for stated supplies every third Sunday from the ministers settled in Stratford and New Ilavon. 'We are emboldened,' they state, 'to hopo this, both be- canse we design to set apart a glebe for our spiritual guide when he comes, and also because we suffer great persecution for the Church's sake from those who have the civil power here, and who have made that a handle to grasp the ecclesiastical,' The second signature to this docu- ment was that of Daniel Shelton, and the fifteenth was undoubtedly that of lis son, Joseph, then twenty-four years of age and ripening into tho fortitudo and manliness of defending the principles in which he had been educated by his father. It is recorded, also, that the elder died be- fore a church had been built in Ripton, under the ministrations of Dr. Johnson ; but bo left a name, it is said, and an influence behind him which lived and was fruitful in good works.

" His name stands among the earliest churchmen of Stratford, which then included Huntington, and next to the head of the list of those who petitioned the Bishop of London, in 1707, to aid them in the midst of the most rigid Presbyterians and Independents. Violeut opposition and threatened imprisonment followed the ministrations of a church mis- sionary who had visited the town of Stratford and othiciated and admin- istered tho sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper. These peti-

*" They (the Independents) still persisted with vigor to continue their persecution, and seized the body of Daniel Shelton at his habitation or farm, being abont eight miles distant from the town, hurrying him away towards the town, in order to carry him to the county gaol. Passing by a house, ho requested of them that he might go in aud warm him and take some refreshments, which was granted ; but they, being in a Inirry, bid him come along, but, ho desiring a little longer time, they barba- rously laid violent hands on his person and thing his body across a horse's back and called for ropes to tie him on the horse ; to the truth of which several persons can give their testimony and are ready when therenuto called; and, having brought him to the town, they immediately seized the bodies of William Rowlinsou and Archibald Dunlap and carried them all threo to the county gaol, it being the 16th day of January, 1709, and there contiued them until such time as they disbursed sneh sums of money as the gnoler demanded of them, which money was Inst in the hunds of the Lieutenant-Governor, Nathaniel Gould, Esq., he promising them that the next General Conrt should hear and determine the matter and that the money left in his hands should be disposed of as the conrt should order ; and they were nt present released, being the 17th day of tho same inst."-Documentary History of Connecticut, edited by the Rer. Dr. Hawks and the Rer. Mr. Perry.

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tioners cspecially desired of the bishop that he would send over, with a missionary allowance from the society, 'an exemplary man in conversa- tion, fluent in preaching, and able in disputation, that he might silence the cavils of their enemies.'"

The following were here in 1789: Stiles Nichols, Abigail Beardsley, Stephen Babbitt, Abial Babbitt, John French, Eli Smith, Daniel Bassett, Thaddeus Beardsley, Lemuel Beardsley, Curtis Tomlinson, Joseph Tomlinson, Benajah Mallory, Ebenezer Hide, Elnathan H. Bostwick, Nathan Clark, Elisha Mills, Capt. Deodate Silliman, Maj. Agur Judson, Capt. David Judson, Joseph L. Wooster, Abel Lewis, Eph- raim Lewis, Henry Curtis, Joseph Fairchild, David Thompson, Lewis Judson, Isaac Judson, Timothy Wilcoxson, Wells Judson, Capt. John Judson, Lem- uel Judson, Nehemiah De Forest, William Beardsley, Eli Blackman, Thomas Lattin, Daniel Leavenworth, Ephraim Blaekman, James Dunning, E. Johnson, William Edwards, Joel Blaekman, John Wooster, Nathan Fairchild, Capt. Ephraim Curtis, Levi Cur- tis, Daniel Shelton, Gideon and David Tomlinson, Capt. Beach Tomlinson, Capt. Zachariah Lewis, Abel Hawley, Hezekiah Beach, Samuel Shelton, Isaiah Northrops, Samuel Beard, S. L. Judson, William Blackman, Ebenezer Beard, Everril Lewis, Nathan Clark, Josiah Whetmore, Caleb, Benjamin, Thomas Whitmore, and Nathaniel Beardslee, Josiah and Nichols Wakelee, Lieut. Elijah Curtis, James Mc- Cune, Nathaniel Lewis, Moses Platt, John Gilbert.

The following were here prior to 1793: Daniel Shelton, Jr., Samuel Shelton, Andrew Shelton, Agur Shelton, Beach Tomlinson, Abraham Brinsmade, Jolin Humphries, Thomas Darling.

EXTRACTS FROM TOWN RECORDS.

" Feb. 11, 1789. Mr. Ebenezer Beach ear-mark, crop on the near ear and half-penuy,-the uper side of the same. Transferred to William Beachı."

" Huntington, Jan. 6, 1795, personally appeared Ebenczer Beaclı, Esq., and declared that Amos, a negro boy, was born in his house on the 20thi day of August, Anno Dom. 1786."

"Feb. 11, 1789. Mr. Stiles Nichols' ear-mark, two half-pennys under the near ear, and a hole in the same."

"February, 1789. Mr. Abijah Beardsley ear-mark, swallow Fork on the end of each ear, and a half-penny fore-side the near ear."

"1789. Lieut. Curtis Tomlinson ear-mark, a slit in the end of the off ear, and a nick under the same, and a half-Tarmant under side of the near ear."

"James Dunning ear-mark, swallow fork on the near ear" (a small piece of colored paper illustrating the said 'swallow fork' is pinned to the page of the old town book).

" 1791. Samuel L. Hurd's ear-inaik, crop on the near ear, and a ha'penny foreside the off ear."

SLAVERY.

Under date of 1791, Mr. Daniel Shelton "Declares that Peter, a negro boy, was born on the 15th day of September, A.D. 1786, and that a negro boy named Tobe was born the 20th day of March, A.D. 1791." The following advertisement is from an old paper :

"Ran away from the subscriber sometime last month, a negro slave, named Sampsou. All persons are forbid harboriug or trusting him, and all masters of vessels are forbid carrying him away on penalty of the law.

" HUNTINGTON, Oct. 21, 1798."

JAMES DUNNING.

THE INDIAN WELL.

The old Indian well is one of the attractions of this town, and is indeed, to those who love the strange and curious in nature, a place well worth visiting. It is a secluded spot in the mountain-gorge where the rays of the sun seldom penetrate. "Silence reigns here supreme, broken only by the soft murmur of the stream falling a distance of twenty-five feet. Tra- dition says the Indians fathomed the well to the depth of one hundred feet and found no bottom, and that they held some superstitious awe and veneration for the place. It is an enchanting spot, and thousands of pleasure-seekers visit it in the summer to enjoy its romantic scenery and scek recreation from the busy routine of daily avocations."

CIVIL LIST.

Huntington was incorporated as a town in 1789, and included that portion of the old town of Stratford known as the parishes of Ripton and New Stratford. The area of the town was decreased in 1823 by the setting off of the parish of New Stratford, which was incorporated as the town of Monroe.

REPRESENTATIVES FROM 1789 TO 1880.

1789, Danlel Bennett, Capt. Samuel Blackman, Elijah Curtis, Joseph L. Wooster; 1790, Elisha Mills, Ezra Curtiss, Elijah Curtiss, Beach Tomiliuson ; 1791, Beach Tomlinson, Nehemiah De Forest, Elihu Curtiss, Agur Judson; 1792, Joseph L. Wooster, Elihu Cur- tis, Eliphalet Curtiss, Elisha Mills; 1793, David Judson, Ebenezer Beach, Elihu Curtiss; 1794, Elisha Mills, David Nichols, Elias Hawley ; 1795, Elisha Mills, David Nichols, Ebenezer Beach, Agur Judsou; 1796, Joseph Birdsey, Henry ' Curtiss, Stephen Babbitt, Thaddeus Beardsley; 1797, George Healy, Le Grand M. Lewis, Henry Curtiss; 1798, Othniel De Forest, Le Grand M. Lewis, Ebenezer Beach, Gideon Leavenworth; 1799, Agur Judson, Henry Curtiss, Ebenezer Beach ; 1800, Ebenezer Beach, Agur Judson, Henry Curtiss, David Hawley ; 1801, Othniel De Forest, Henry Curtis, Le Grand M. Lewis, William Shelton ; 1802, Agur Judson, Elijah Curtis, Elisha Beardsley, Daniel B. Newton; 1803, Agur Judson, Elijah Cur- tis, L. M. Lewis, Othniel De Forest ; 1804, Elijah Curtis, Agur Jud- son, Samuel Beardsley, William Shelton ; 1805, Agur Judson, Jolin Wilcoxson, Elijah Curtis, Agur Shelton ; 1806, Samuel P. Mills, Nathan Wheeler, Le Grand M. Lewis, David Hawley; 1807, Samuel Hawley, Samuel Wheeler, Timothy S. Wells, David Hawley; 1808, David Hawley, Abill Hawley, Abel French, John Curtiss; 1809, Samuel Judson, Stephen Babbitt, Ebenezer Beardsley, Joseph Shel- ton ; 1810, Othniel De Forest, Deodate Silliman, Philo Sherman, Silas Wheeler ; 1811, David Hawley, Ebenezer Beardsley, Andrew Leaven- worth, Lemuel Judson ; 1812, Elisha T. Mills, Stephen Babbitt, Gideon Beardslee, John Curtiss; 1813, Lemnel Judson, Nehemiah Gray, Ephraim Sherwood, Joseph Shelton; 1814, John Curtiss, Elisha Mills, Jr., Elisha Mills (2d), Joseph Wooster ; 1815, Lemnel Judson, David B. Hubbell, Abel French, Joseph Sbelton ; 1816, David B. Newton, Israel A. Beardslee, David Sherwood, William Shelton ; 1817, Clark Elliot, William Clark, Eli L. Hawley, Heze- kialı Marks ; 1818, Abner Hyde, Samuel Wheeler, Samuel Beards- ley, Nathan G. Birdsey ; 1819, Nathan G. Birdsey, John Peck ; 1820, Samuel Wheeler, David B. Newton; 1821, Nathan G. Birdsey, Andrew Leavenworth ; 1822, Samuel Beardsley, David B. Newton ; 1823, Abner Hyde, Levi Edwards; 1824, Lemuel Beardsley; 1825, Christopher N. Shelton ; 1826, Donald Judson ; 1827, Nathan G. Bird- sey; 1828, Hezekiah Marks; 1829, Thaddeus Beardslee, Jr .; 1830, Hezekiah Marks; 1831, Thaddeus Beardslee ; 1832, Edwin Shelton; 1833, Sylvester Post ; 1834, Lewis Downs; 1835, Thaddeus Beardsley, Jr .; 1836, Lucius Gilbert ; 1837, William M. Ilubbell; 1838, Thad- deus Beardsley, Jr .; 1839, Elisba Shelton; 1840, William L. Ben- nett ; 1841, Elisha Beardsley ; 1842, Ebenezer Wakelee; 1843, Peter Beardslee; 1844, William A. Judson ; 1845, Lemuel Beardslee ; 1846, Thomas Burlock ; 1847, Stephen Beardslee ; 1848, William A. Judson ;

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1849, Elly Lewis; 1850, William A. Judson; 1851, Ebenezer Wake- ley ; 1852, William L. Bennett ; 1853, Orville Booth; 1854, Willlam A. Judson ; 1855, Wells Hubbell; 1856, John C. Buckingham ; 1857, David Lewis; 1858, Jolmn M. Beardsley ; 1859, Eli N. Baldwin ; 1860, Samuel P. Buckingham ; 1861, Joseph E. Field; 1862, Z. L. Shelton; 1863, Christopher U. Shelton ; 1864, Ebenezer Wakeley; 1865, Joel Beard; 1866-68, William L. Bennett; 1869, Charles Judson ; 1870, James Byington ; 1871, Smith Wheeler; 1872, Erustus Bennett; 1873-74, Sandford B. Cocks; 1875, Gideon M. Wakelee ; 1876, Horace Wheeler; 1877, Charles Beard; 1878, Horace Wheeler; 1879, Fred- erick G. Perry ; 1880, Selah G. Blakeman.

SELECTMEN.

The record of the proceedings of the annual town- meeting cannot be found prior to 1845. The follow- ing is a list of the seleetmen from that year to the present time :

1845, Elly Lewis, Wm. L. Bennett; 1846, Daniel Bennett; 1846-48, David Beecher; 1847-49, lIenry B. Lake; 1849-50, Orville Booth ; 1850-52, 1854, 1861, Charles C. Tomlinson ; 1851-53, David Lewis; 1853-55, Wm. A. Judson ; 1855-56, 1864, John M. Beardslee; 1856-60, 1862-64, 1867, Wm. L. Bennett; 1857-60, Elly Lewis; 1861, Eli N. Baldwin; 1862-63, Wells Hubbell; 1865-66, Lewis B. Gray, James Il. Beard ; 1867, Orville Booth ; 1868, Stephen Beardslee; 1869-71, 1873, 1878-79, F. G. Perry ; 1869, S. P. Buckingham ; 1869-71, Ambrose Shelton; 1870, Edgar S. Wooster; 1871-72, James Mills, David N. Lane; 1872, Lewis J. Shelton; 1873, 1878-79, Charles Bean ; 1873, S. G. Blakeman ; 1874-75, James W. Wheeler; 1874, S. M. Wakelee, Jolm Fran- ley ; 1875, 1879, Erastus Bennett; 1875, Isaac Birdseye; 1876- 77, James H. Beard, Wells Hubbell, Horace S. Lyon ; 1878, John C. Buckingham.

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History of Fairfield County, Connecticut : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 101

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) comp. cn Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co. Number of Pages: 1572

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) comp. cn
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1572