History of Fairfield County, Connecticut : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 144

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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Hezekiah Platt appears in Redding as early as April 4, 1762, when his son Justus was baptized. His other children recorded were Hezekialı, Jan. 16, 1764; William, May 18, 1766; Griswold, Dec. 1, 1767; Robert, Sept. 1, 1771.

John Read, perhaps the earliest settler of Redding, was one of the most eminent men of his day. He was born in Connecticut in 1680, graduated from Har- vard College in 1697, studied for the ministry, and preached for some time at Waterbury, Hartford, and Stratford. He afterwards studied law, and was ad- mitted an attorney at the bar in 1708, and in 1712 was appointed queen's attorney for the colony. In 1714 he bought of the Indians a large tract of land in Lone- town and settled there. He continued to reside in Redding until 1722, when he removed to Boston, and soon became known as the most eminent lawyer in the colonies. He was attorney-general of Massachu- setts for several ycars, and also a member of the Gov- ernor's council. He died in February, 1749, leaving a large cstate. His wife was Ruth Talcott, daughter of Licut .- Col. John Talcott, of Hartford, and sister of

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Governor Joseph Talcott. They had six children : Ruth, born (probably) in Hartford in 1700, dicd in Redding, Aug. 8, 1766 (she was the wife of Rev. Na- thaniel Hunn, first pastor of the church in Redding ; they were married Sept. 14, 1737); John, born in Hartford in 1701, lived in Redding at the "Lone- town Manor," and was a leading man in his day in the colony ; was much in publie life, both civil and military, and was noted for his public spirit, patriotism and piety. He married twice. His first wife was Mary -, a Milford lady ; his second wife was Sarah Brad- ley, of Greenfield Hill. His ehildren were William, who married Sarah Hawley, of Redding; Zalmon, who married Hulda Bradley, of Greenfield; Heze- kiah, who married Anna Gorham; John, who mar- ried Zoa Hilliard; Mary, wife of John Harpin ; Sarah, wife of Jabez Hill, and afterwards of Theodore Monson; Ruth, wife of Jeremiah Mead; Deborah, wife of Thomas Benediet, a lawyer; Mabel, wife of Levi Starr; and Esther, wife of Daniel C. Bartlett, son of Rev. Nathaniel Bartlett. One of his children, a lad of four years, fell into a burning coal-pit in 1739, and was so badly burned that he survived but a few hours. His father wrote a letter to his father in Bos- ton, informing him of the melancholy event, and his father sent back a letter in reply. Both of the letters are yet preserved, after a period of one hundred and forty years, and are both remarkable for the piety and Christian resignation manifested in them. The other children of John Read were William, born in Con- neetieut about 1710 (was a lawyer in Boston, and afterwards a judge in several of the courts there; he lived a bachelor, and died in 1780, aged seventy years) ; Mary, born (probably) in Reading, Conn., April 14, 1716 (married Captain Charles Morris, of Boston, afterwards of Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was for many years chief justice of the courts; they liad nine sons and two daughters); Abigail, married Joseph Miller, of Boston ; Deborah, married a Mr. Willstead, and, afterwards, Henry Paget, of Smith- field, Rhode Island.

To the above sketch we add that Col. John Read, son of the Mr. John Read mentioned, appears as one of the original members of the First Society in 1729, and was the Col. John Read so often referred to in the town records. His "manour" comprised nearly all of what is now Lonetown, and his manor-house stood on the exact site of Mr. Aaron Treadwell's present residenee. He had a fenced park, in which he kept deer, nearly opposite the present residenee of William Sherwood.

Mr. George Read, of Redding Centre, has a very interesting collection of old papers belonging to the eolonel, such as wills, deeds, aecount-books, ete. In one of them directions are given his inen about feed- ing the deer, letting thie cattle into the long meadow, ete. Another is Mr. Read's commission as colonel, and is of sufficient interest to warrant its insertion here. It is as follows :

"THOMAS FITCH Esq., Governor and Commander In chief of his Maj- esty's Colony of Connecticut In New England, to John Read Esq., Greet- ing :

" Whereas you aro appointed by the General Assembly of said Colony to bo Colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Ilorse in said Colony. Reportng special trust and confidence in your Loyalty, courage, and good conduct, I do by these presents constitute and appoint you to be Colonel of said Regiment. You are therefore to take the said Regiment into your Care and charge as their Colonel, and carefully and diligently to discharge that Care and Trust in Ordering and Exercising of them, both Officers and Soldiers in Arms according to the Rules and Discipline of War, keeping them in good Order and Government, and commanding them to obey you as their Colonel for his Majesty's service, and they are con- manded to obey yon accordingly, and you are to conduct and lead forth the said Regiment, or such part of them as you shall from time to time receivo orders for from me, or from the Governor of this Colony for the time being, to Encounter, Repel, Pursue, and Destroy by force of Aring, and by all fitting ways and means, all his Majesty's Enemies who shall at any time hereafter in a llostile manner, attempt or enterprise the In- vasion, Detriment or Annoyance of this Colony. And you are to observe and obey such Orders and Instructions as from timo to time yon from Me, or other your Superior Officers, pursnant to the trust hereby Reposed in you and the laws of this Colony.

"Given under my hand and tho seal of this Colony, in New Haven, tho 3d Day of November, in the 31st year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, King of Great Britain &c. Annoque Doms. 1757.

" By His Honor's Command.

" Tuos. Fircu.

"GEORGE WYLLYS, Secty."

James Rogers was a prominent man in his day, and filled many responsible offiees in town. He appears as early as 1762. His children were Joseph, born Oct. 31, 1762; Chloe, born Oet. 24, 1766; James, born April 28, 1768; Haron, born Aug. 22, 1770 (town record).

Joseph Rumsey appears in Redding as early as 1747. His will, dated Dec. 27, 1754, mentions his wife, Sarah -, and children, Isaae, Sarah, Joseph, Dan- iel, William, and Ephraim.

The will of Daniel Rumsey, of Reading, probated March 10, 1761, mentions his father, Robert, and brothers, Jolin Rumsey and Seth Hull.

John Rumsey settled in Redding. His children by wife Esther were Abigail, baptized Feb. 19, 1751; Rachel, baptized Feb. 25, 1753; Mary, June 5, 1755; Nathan, Aug. 8, 1756; David, Jan. 28, 1759; Mary, June 15, 1761; Esther, May 13, 1764; Eben, Feb. 4, 1768.

Isaae Rumsey married Abigail St. John, May 23, 1761. Children : Abigail, boru Dec. 25, 1761; Jere- miah, born May 23, 1762; Ruth, born Dec. 29, 1763; Noah, born March 28, 1768.

The Sanford family is one of the oldest and most numerous in the town, having been founded by four persons of the namnc, who removed here from Fair- field when the country was first opened to settlers. The names of these four settlers were Nathaniel, Lemuel, Samuel, and Ephraim.

The first two were original members of the church ; the last two joined it during the first year of its ex- istenee,-viz., in 1734. According to Savage, Ephraim Sanford, who settled in Milford, and marriel Mary Powell, of New Haven, in 1669, had children,-Mary, Samuel, Ephraim, Thomas, Nathaniel, and Zacariah.

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Samuel, Ephraim, and Nathaniel are no doubt iden- tieal with those who settled in Redding, as they were elderly men with families when they removed here.

According to the above-named authority, Ezekiel, eldest son of the above Thomas Sanford, was freeman in 1669 and died in 1683, leaving a widow, Rebecca, and children, Ezekiel, Thomas, Sarah, Mary, Rebecca, Martha, and Elizabeth. Ezekiel,“ eldest son, settled in Fairfield, and in his will, dated Jan. 29, 1729, men- tions two sons, Lemuel and Ezekiel. Lemuel settled in Redding, as above stated. Thomas Sanford, father of Ezekiel and Ephraim, was the first of the name in America.

We shall traee the families of these aneestors in Redding in the order of their arrival here. Nathan- iel Sanford settled in Umpawaug. His children re- corded were Abel H., baptized March 25, 1733; Ruth, baptized May 12, 1737; Esther, baptized May 27,1744.

We have no further record of this family.

Lemuel Sanford settled in the eentre. He was one of the first committee-men of the society, and promi- ment in public affairs. He married - Squire, of Fairfield. Their children were Hezekiah, probably born in Fairfield; Sarah, baptized Sept. 19, 1734; Anne, baptized Nov. 1, 1736; Lydia, baptized June 4, 1738; Lemuel, baptized April 20, 1740; Ezekiel, baptized July 4, 1742; Anne, baptized Oct. 7, 1744; Roda, baptized Feb. 26, 1749.

Hezekiah married Hannah -, and settled in the ecntre, on the farm now owned by Mr. Delavan. His children were Aaron, baptized May 29, 1757; Han- nah, baptized Aug. 26, 1759; William, baptized Oet. 14, 1764; Eunice, baptized June 7, 1772; Huldah, baptized May 18, 1777.

Aaron, his eldest son, settled in the eentre, and lived in the house now owned by Mrs. Connors. He was the first male member of the Methodist Church in New England, and was the leader of the little class organized in Redding in 1790. The Methodist preach- ers in their rounds always found a home with him, and often held their meetings in his house. Later in life he became an acceptable local preacher in that church. He married Lydia Hawley, daughter of William Hawley, Nov. 2, 1780. Their children were Betsey, born Oct. 5, 1781; Hannah, born May 31, 1784; Aaron, born July 8, 1786; Hawley, born July 16, 1789; Jesse Lee, born July 27, 1791; Eunice, born Aug. 10, 1793; Walter, born Feb. 18, 1796; Charlotte, born Jan. 8, 1800; Lydia, born Sept. 23, 1803; Wil- liam A., born Jan. 15, 1807.

Aaron Sanford, Jr., settled on Redding Ridge, in

the eastern part of the town. He married, Dee. 19, 1813, Fanny Hill, daughter of Andrew L. Hill. Their children were eleven in number: Andrew H., Dan- iel, Mary, Clara, Henry, Aaron, Fanny, Jesse L., Mary, Elizabeth, John, and Julia H.

Hawley, the second son, married Betsey Stow, Nov. 2, 1814, by whom he had two children, Russell and Betsey. On the death of his wife he married, second, Sarah Ketehum, Nov. 20, 1823. The children of this marriage were Francis A., Aaron K. (now presiding elder on the Poughkeepsie Distriet), Hawley, Lydia, David, Morris, and Mary. Walter, the third son, married, Dee. 6, 1821, Harriet M. Booth. They had one son, Charles. Walter Sanford married, second, Emily Gorham. William Sanford, the fourth son, married Harriet Tuttle, May 2, 1832. Of the daugh- ters, Betsey married John R. Hill. Hannah mar- ried the Rev. Aaron Hunt, a Methodist elergyman, celebrated in his day as being the first to sueeess- fully contest the old colonial law which forbade all ministers except those of the "standing order" to perform the marriage ceremony. Mr. Hunt was at one time located and resided for several years in Red- ding. Charlotte married Thomas B. Fanton ; Lydia married Aaron Sanford Hyatt.

Lemuel Sanford, second son of Lemuel Sanford, settled in the centre, near his father. He married, Sept. 20, 1768, Mary Russell, of North Branford, Conn. The circumstances attending his marriage are thus narrated : He left Redding on horseback early on the morning of his wedding-day, but was delayed on the road, and did not reach Branford until midnight. By that time the wedding-guests had dispersed and the family had retired ; but he roused them up, collected the guests, and the ceremony was performed. The next day bride and groom returned to Redding, travel- ing on horseback. The children of Lemuel and Mary Sanford were Lemuel, born July 18, 1769; Rhoda, born March 4, 1773; Mary, born May 18, 1776, mar- ried Dr. Thomas Peek; Abigail, born 1779 (died in infancy) ; Jonathan R., born Feb. 11, 1782; Abigail, born April 18, 1784; Lucretia, born May 4, 1786.

Mr. Lemuel Sanford died March 12, 1803, at Dan- bury, in the performance of his duties as judge of the County Court, leaving a most honorable record. He had filled all the positions of honor and trust in his native town, and during the Revolution had been a member of the committee of supply, the duties of which kept him absent in Danbury and Fairfield nearly the whole period of the war. He several times represented the town in the General Assembly, and also held the office of associate judge of the County Court.

Lemuel Sanford, eldest son of Judge Sanford, after being educated at President Dwight's famous aead- emy on Greenfield Hill, returned to Redding, married Mary Heron, daughter of 'Squire Heron, and settled in the centre, on the farm now owned by Albert Gor- liam. He was a man of mueh ability, and quite prom-

* Mr. E. J. Sanford, of Knoxville, Tenn., sends me the following ac- connt of Ezekiel Sanford, which he derived from Rev. Thomas F. Davies: Ezekiel Sanford was an English engineer, and had charge of the erection of the stockade fort at Saybrook, at the mouth of the Connecticut River, for protection against Indians. He afterwards removed to Fairfield and built the first mill in the county, at Mill River, for which he received a large grant of land from the English government .- TODD.

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inent in town affairs. He had but two children, Julia and Mary. The eldest, Julia, married Rev. Thomas F. Davies, who for a time was settled in Green's Farmns as a Congregational minister. Mary married Dr. Nehemiah Perry, of Ridgefield, the father of the present physician of that place.

Jonathan R., the second son, married Maria, daughter of Dr. Thomas Davies, Oct. 17, 1808. Their children were Amanda, Maria (who died in infancy), Lemuel, Jonathan R., and Thomas. Mr. Jonathan Sanford died Aug. 20, 1858.

In an account of the death of Jonathan R. Sanford, published in Crosby's "Obituary Notiees" (1858), the writer says of the deceased, "Through a long life the deceased enjoyed in an eminent degree the confidence and respect of his fellow-citizens. In 1808 he was appointed to fill the office of town clerk and treasurer of his native town, and held those offiees by eonsec- utive annual appointment from that time to his death, -a period of half a century,-besides filling for sev- eral years the office of judge of Probate for the Dis- triet of Redding. Representing at different periods his native town in the State Legislature, he discharged the duties of various trusts, both of a publie and pri- vate nature, exhibiting in all his acts a sternness of integrity and purity of purpose seldom equaled. The consolations of that religion which ehecred and eom- forted him through life were his solace and comfort in death."

The children of Jonathan R. Sanford now living are Lemuel, Jonathan R., and Thomas. Lemuel married Abby M. Hill, daughter of Bradley Hill; their chil- dren are Mary Russell, Lillia, Abby, Martha, Alice Lulu, and Jonathan B. Jonathan R. married Clar- issa, youngest daughter of Deacon Samuel Read; their only child, Hannah Maria, died at the age of twenty- four. Thomas married Charlotte A. Hewitt, of Corn- wall, Litehfield Co .; their children are Thomas F. and May A.

Ezekiel, third son of Lemuel Sanford the first, mar- ried Abigail Starr, Nov. 21, 1773, and settled in Boston District, in the western part of the town. His children were Mollie, baptized Dec. 18, 1774; Rebecca, bap- tized April 24, 1777; Ezekiel, baptized Nov. 1, 1778; Abigail, baptized March 19, 1780; perhaps others. He is called captain in the old records. Some of his descendants are now living in Amenia, N. Y.

Samuel Sanford the first settled in Umpawaug. He is called captain in the records. His children were Daniel, baptized April 22, 1734; Seth, baptized Aug. 23, 1735; Mary, March 19, 1738; David, Dec. 2, 1739; Abigail, Jan. 30, 1743; Samuel, May 5, 1745; Sarah, May 10, 1747 ; Esther, April 16, 1749; Ezra, March 25, 1751; Rachel, Feb. 25, 1753; Peter, May 23, 1756. Capt. Samuel Sanford died Nov. 6, 1768, aged sixty- two years.

Daniel married Esther Hull, April 18, 1758. Chil- dren : Eli, baptized Ang. 16, 1761; Chloe, July 5, 1767; and others. Seth married Rebecca, daughter

of Deaeon Stephen Burr, April 25, 1759. Her chil- dren, as named in Deacon Burr's will, 1776, were Elias, Ebenezer, Joel, Elijah, Samuel, and Seth. Mary married Timothy Sanford, son of Joseph ; Abi- gail married John Hawley, Dec. 21, 1762; Samuel, Jr., married Sarah Ohnsted, July 23, 1767 (town record). His children recorded were Uriah, bap- tized Feb. 14, 1768; Thomas, Dec. 17, 1769. l'eter married Abigail Keeler, June 1, 1780.

Ephraim Sanford the first settled in Sanfordtown and was a large landowner there, as is shown by sev- eral deeds now in the possession of his descendants, some of which date baek as far as 1733. His children by his wife, Elizabeth Mix, according to the parish record, were Rachel, baptized July 29, 1733; Abi- gail, baptized May 18, 1735; John, April 29, 1739; Oliver, Sept. 20, 1741 ; Lois, Sept. 17, 1743; Huldah, May 5, 1748; Augustus, July 15, 1753; Esther, April 27, 1755. His will, dated Jan. 30, 1761, mentions also Ephraim, Elizabeth, and Tabitha.

Ephraim Sanford, according to the family tradition, was the first man having a store of goods in Redding. His goods were brought from Boston. Of his chil- dren, Abigail married Daniel Jackson, Oct. 2, 1755. John married - -, and settled in the Foundry Distriet, in Redding. His children were James, Stephen, Ephraim, John, Eli, Huldah, Lois, Betty, Elizabeth, and Annie. James, the eldest son, settled in the Foundry District, near his father. He was a teamster in the Revolutionary army, and was present at the execution of Jones and Smith on Gallows Hill. He married Sarah, daughter of Jolin Beach, and granddaughter of Rev. John Beach, the faithful mis- sionary of the Church of England. He was the father of 'Squire James Sanford. John, Jr., the fourth son of John Sanford, settled in Redding, and was the father of John W. Sanford, a well-known citizen.

Oliver Sanford, son of Ephraim, married, in April, 1767, Rachel, daughter of Deacon David Coley, of Weston. Their children were Mary, baptized July 31, 1768; David, Ang. 20, 1769; Ephraim, Sept. 15, 1771; Abigail, May 29, 1774; Enoch A., April 28, 1776; Levi, Dec. 14, 1777 ; Oliver C., Abigail, Mary, Betsey, and Loraine.

Anna Smith, daughter of Samnel Smith, of Redding, was baptized July 6, 1740, and Seth Samuel, son of Samuel and Lydia Smith, Sept. 28, 1760. The latter was the first lawyer who located in Redding. He had an office in the centre, where also he kept a select school. He was town clerk for a term of years, and wrote a most elegant hand, as will be remembered by those familiar with the records of his times. He also filled many other important positions in the town. He married Huldah -. Their children were Zalmon, baptized Feb. 3, 1780, and probably others.

Robert Stow, the first of the name in Redding, settled in Lonetown, on the farm now owned by his grandson, Sumner Stowe. He married Anne Darrow, Jan. 26, 1775. Their children were Daniel, born

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July 4, 1779; Abigail, born April 11, 1776, married Israel Adams; Sarah, born Oct. 4, 1777; Saralı, born Aug. 11, 1781 ; Sumner, born Sept. 17, 1783; Huldah, born Feb. 6, 1787, married Andrew Andrus, of Dan- bury; Abraham, born March 4, 1792; Polly, born Sept. 20, 1794, married Moses Parsons, of Newtown. Robert Stow died Nov. 5, 1795. Danicl Stow married Lucy Hoyt, of Bethel, and settled in Redding, near his father. His children were Robert, Almira, Saralı, Harriet, Lucy, Sumner, Mary, and Polly. Abrahamn settled in Bethel ; Sumner died when a young man.

Other settlers in the town at an early date, but who do not appear to have been permanent residents, were Daniel Bradley, Thomas Williams, Thomas and William Squire (of Fairfield), Ebenezer Ferry, George Cowden, Nathaniel Booth, Edmund Sherman, Jona- than Squire, John Whitlock, John Truesdale, Fred- erick Dikeman, and John. The families of Byington, Chapman, Hamilton, Knapp, Osborne, Dennison, Bennett, St. John, Gilbert, Johnson, Abbott, Dun- comb, Edmonds, Olmstead, Rider, Treadwell, and Todd figure in later records of the town.

Benjamin and Isaac Rumsey were early settlers at Georgetown. In 1721, Robert Rumsey, of Fairfield, purchased a tract of land where now is located the village, and subsequently willed it to his three sons, Benjamin, Isaac, and Robert, the two former of whom became actual settlers.

CHAPTER LVIII. REDDING (Continued).

THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION.

Extracts from Town Records-Tryon's Invasion-Hollister's History of the Invasion-Gen. Putnam-Execution of John Smith for Desertion, Barber's Account-Gen. Putnam's Orders-Revolutionary Pensioners -Capt. William Judd's Company-Revolutionary Accounts-William Lynes-" Uncle Barney Keeler, the Hessian"-Boston School District.

THE first reference in the town records to the war of the Revolution is under date April 2, 1777, when a committee was appointed "to hire a number of sol- diers to serve in the Continental Army." At the samc meeting "Hezekiah Sanford, Seth Sanford, Daniel Mallory, S. Samuel Smith, William Hawley, Stephen Betts, Jr., Jonathan Couch, Stephen Gold, and Hezekiah Read are appointed a committee to take care of the families of those soldiers that are in the service of their country." May 5, 1777, "David Jackson, Seth Sanford, Thaddeus Benedict, and John Gray are chosen Selectmen, in addition to and to sup- ply the place of Stephen Betts and James Rogers, taken prisoners by the enemy in their expedition to Danbury." Dec. 17, 1778, the following committee was appointed to care for soldiers' families : Nehemialı Hull for Nathan Coley's, Elijah Burr for Stephen Meeker's, Ebenezer Couch for Elias Bixby's, Nehe- miah Sherwood and John Read for Jeremiah Ryan,

and William Hawley for Samuel Remnong. April 16, 1781, it was voted "to divide the people into eight classes, according to their several lists, in order to raise seven soldiers and one Light Horseman to serve for one year as coast-guards." Voted "that the sixth class (for procuring men to serve in the guards at Horse Neck till ye first of March next) shall procure a light-horseman and horse, and that the town shall pay said class all it shall cost them more to procure a man and horse than it shall cost the other seven classes on a medium."

Aug. 11, 1783, the following vote appears, and Seth Sanford, James Rogers, Stephen Betts, Hezekiah San- ford, and John Gray, the selectmen at the time, were instructed to carry it into effect :

" Voted, That the select men of this town be desired to move out of this town all those persons that have been over and joined the enemy, and have returned into this town, and that they pursue the business as fast as they conveniently can according to law."

The following Revolutionary history and incidents is taken chiefly from Todd's "History of Redding":

"Two years had passed since the opening of the War of Independence,-years of alternate victory and defeat to the colonists,-when a hostile armament of twenty-five vessels bearing two thousand men, the flower of the British army, appeared off Compo, in Westport, on the Connecticut shore. It was the 26th of April, 1777. A few days before, news had come to Lord Howe, commanding in New York, that a maga- zine of munitions of war had been formed by the rebels in Danbury, which afforded him a pretext for a descent on Connecticut,-a step which he had long meditated. The region of country covered by the proposed campaign had been swept of its able-bodied men, who were in the Continental ranks keeping a careful watch on His Lordship's regulars, but that there might be no balk in the operations an over- whelming force of two thousand picked men was de- tailed for the expedition. For commanders, Howe chose a nondescript genius, one Governor Tryon, and two military inen of ability, Gen. Agnew and Sir Wil- liam Erskine. Tryon had been Governor of New York; he had the further merit of being intimately acquainted with Connecticut, and of being consumed with an inveterate hatred for, and thirst for revenge on, the Yankees ; he had a special grudge, too, against Connecticut, the sturdy little colony having thwarted him in a variety of ways. Her dragoons had scattered the types of his newspaper organ through the streets of New York ; her 'Sons of Liberty' had plotted against him even in his own city; and she had treated with contempt his proclamations inviting her to return to her allegiance, even printing them in her gazettes as specimens of the Governor's pleasant humor.

"Furthermore, he was well acquainted with the country to be traversed. He had been as far inland as Litchfield, had probably visited Danbury, and had been dined and fêted at Norwalk, Fairfield, and New Haven. He seems to have acted as a guide to the

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History of Fairfield County, Connecticut : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 144

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