History of Fairfield County, Connecticut : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 188

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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First stewards, elected May 18, 1872, M. L. Scud- der presiding elder : Charles M. Shailer, F. N. Cox, George Batchelor, John Wragg, Wallace Botsford, Henry C. Bennett, Irving C. Peck, Frank Fairehild, Charles Riddle.

Trustees, elected June 3, 1872 : Solomon Batchelor, L. B. Vaill, James Lobdell, Calvin Hall, Smith Lewis, Sylvester Bradley, Gilead T. Andrews, Emmanuel Sciviter, Frank Fairchild.

The corner-stone was laid by Bishop Simpson, April 15, 1872. The first Quarterly Conference was held May 18, 1872, Rev. M. L. Scudder presiding elder. The church was dedicated by Bishop Ed- mund S. Janes, Mareh 16, 1873. Rev. F. S. De Hass preached in the evening.

The Conference held in Brooklyn, April, 1874, ap- pointed A. P. Chapman to this charge, and lie re- mained till April, 1876, when Larmon W. Abbott was appointed by the Conference, which met that year in Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal chureli, in Brooklyn. He remained till April, 1878, when Edward L. Bray, the present pastor, was appointed by the Conference, which met that year in the First Place Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn. Pres- ent membership, seventy.

Officers : Stewards, Jolin S. Fray, Wallace M. Botsford, George Steeples, William H. Curtis, Joseph Lewis, James B. Lobdell, Joseph Johnson, George Batchelor; Trustees, J. S. Fray, George Batchelor, Joseph Johnson, James B. Lobdell, Joseph Lock- wood, Samuel Fray, Elihu N. Lewis, Romeo Bots- ford, Anthony Bennett.

TRINITY MEMORIAL CHURCH, WEST STRATFORD.

On the 20th of September, 1871, the first of a series of Wednesday evening services was held in West Stratford, at the house of Silas Scofield, Esq., Revere Place, by the Rev. Sylvester Clarke, rector of Trinity Church, Bridgeport. On the following Sun- day, September 24th, a Sunday-school was begun in the common school-house of the same (Newfield) district. The corner-stone of a chapel was laid by Rt. Rev. Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, on Wed- nesday, Nov. 29, 1871. The building, after being in- closed, waited through the winter before it was plastered. The first service in it was the celebration of the holy communion on Sunday morning ( Whit- sunday), May 19, 1872. The chapel is in memory of the Rev. Gurdon Saltonstall Coit, D.D., rector for nearly thirty years of St. John's Church, Bridgeport, who died in Southport, Conn., Nov. 10, 1869.

This parish is a mission of Trinity Church, Bridge- port. It contains thirty families, twenty-five com- municants, and nearly a hundred Sunday-sehool scholars, and has a record of great usefulness.

NEWFIELD METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

On the second Sunday of May, 1871, D. W. Cur- rier and Theodore Courtright ealled on the neighbors of the Newfield School District, and gave out that they would open a Sunday-sehool on the following Sunday afternoon in the barn of Nirum Hawley. On the Sunday named two children-ages, six and eight years, names, Charles and Jelleffe ---- came to Sunday-school; on the following Sunday there were fifteen present. Theodore Courtright was elected superintendent. The sehool increased in numbers and interest until the barn became too small, and they moved to larger quarters in a store owned by Jolin French. In the mean time a society was formed and a Sunday-school organized, called a Union Sun- day-school, formed Sunday, Sept. 24, 1871. This school was commenced in the district school-house with twenty-six scholars, and continued until the completion of a ehapel, which was erected and ready for use on the 3d of March, 1872.

Much self-denial and labor was necessary in order to complete the work. The land on which the build- ing rests was leased to the association for the nomi- nal sum of one dollar per year by Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Kingman, they having bought the ground for this purpose, paying therefor cight hundred dollars. The two schools were growing, and it was deeided among the officers of the two schools that whichever society became the strongest, or the first to grow into suffi- cient strength, to organize an efficient ehureh, and Aug. 18, 1872, both schools united, and the whole was turned over to Rev. A. C. Eggleston, pastor of the Washington Park Methodist Episcopal Church, who had charge of the Newfield District, under the New York East Conference. At the joint meeting of said sehools Theodore Courtright was chosen superinten-

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dent, and has held said position up to the present time.

The Newfield Methodist Episcopal Society thus called assumed all the debts of the church and land and paid all the bills, and bought the land of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Kingman for the sum of thirteen hun- dred and twenty-eight dollars. The following spring, 1873, they applied to New York East Conference for a preacher, and the Rev. R. S. Eldridge was sent, who labored faithfully and earnestly, and many souls were added to the church. The next pastor was the Rev. E. A. Blake, who served one year.

Since that time the church has had no regular pas- tor, but has various supplies from other churches. The Sunday-school has been continued, and has steadily grown in interest and numbers.

ST. JOHN'S LODGE, NO. 8, F. AND A. M.

The following history of St. John's Lodge is kindly furnished by Mr. Nathan Wells, being extracts from a historical address delivered at the centennial an- niversary of the lodge in 1866, by Rev. C. H. W. Stocking :

"The original charter of St. John's Lodge, Strat- ford, was granted by the R. W. George Harrison, Pro- vincial Grand Master of the then Colony of New York, bearing the date of April 22, 1766. On the 7th of May following, a meeting preliminary to the formal opening of the lodge was held, and Monday, the 12th of May, designated as the day for organizing.

"On the appointed evening, there were present Jo- seph Clark, W. M .; James Dunn, S. W .; John Har- pin, J. W., pro tem., and 'visitant' Brother Lemuel Brooks. The lodge having been 'opened in due form and cloathed with all their Honours, after having ded- icated the same to the Holy St. John, they proceeded to raise the following Brethren to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason, to wit : Brother Henry Van Dyck, Brother Ephraim Peet, Brother Abijah Beach, Brother William McIntosh.'

"On the 15th of the same month the four new brethren were appointed to the subordinate offices. Henry Van Dyck, S. W .; Ephraim Peet, J. W .; Abi- jah Beach, Treas. ; James Dunn, Sec.

" The element of discipline early entered into the workings of the lodge. Refusal to obey the Master's gavel was punished by a fine of two shillings, to be paid immediately, or suffer expulsion. Obscenity paid a fine of one shilling ; talking, one shilling ; pro- fanity, two shillings. Initiation fees were £3 to the box and three shillings to the Tyler.

" Twelve successive times Samuel Benjamin repre- sented the lodge at the annual communication of the Grand Lodge, walking the distance with glad though weary feet, that so his candlestick should not be re- moved. Matthias Nichols and Benjamin Fairchild and Rev. Ashbel Baldwin appear as frequently repre- senting their lodge at the grand communications in honest discharge of their Masonic obligations.

"This lodge worked under its old colonial charter as St. John's, No. 1, until Oct. 9, 1792. It then came in under another charter-from the newly-formed Grand Lodge of the State-as St. John's, No. 8. The Nicholls, the Benjamins, the Fairchilds, the John- sons, and others whom we might mention, appear among their fellows as zealous craftsmen who knew their work and wrought it well.

" The following are the names of the Past Masters of this lodge, with their terms of office : 1766-68, Joseph Clarke; 1768-69, Henry Van Dyke; 1769-70, Joseph Clarke; 1770-73, Stiles Lewis; 1773-79, Joseph Clarke; 1779-80, Stiles Lewis; 1780-84, John Thatcher; 1784-86, Peter Nicoll; 1786-88, Matthias Nicoll; 1788-90, John Thatcher; 1790-95, J. L. Wooster; 1795-96, John Thompson; 1796-97, Mat- thias Nicoll; 1797-98, Ashbel Baldwin; 1798-1804, Matthias Nicoll; 1804-7, John Thompson; 1807-8, Nathaniel Kennedy; 1808-11, Ashbel Baldwin ; 1811 -12, George Smith ; 1812-15, Matthias Nicoll; 1815 -21, William T. Shelton; 1821-27, Matthias Nicoll ; 1827-33, Samuel Benjamin; 1833-36, Benjamin Fair- child; 1836-40, John Goulding; 1840-46, Benjamin Fairchild; 1846-60, John Goulding ; 1860-62, 1. B. Judd; 1862-63, N. B. Wells ; 1863-66, George Jewell ; 1867-68, Ezra Whiting; 1868-70, William A. Lewis; 1870-72, Walter J. Bristol ; 1872-73, Melville J. Cur- tis; 1873-75, Henry G. B. Cuzner ; 1875-77, Lasper K. Whitney ; 1877-79, Samuel A. Patterson.

"The present officers are Nathan F. Wilcoxon, W. M .; John W. Beach, S. W .; Henry F. Meechan, J. W .; Charles D. Curtis, Treas .; Joseph W. Dufour, Sec.

"The number of members is one hundred and forty-four."

" The following is the roll of members up to 1800 :

" Joseph Clark, Henry Van Dyke, Ephraim Peet, Abijah Beach, James Dunn, Joseph Prince, William McIntosh, Abel Beach, David Osborn, charter mem- bers; George Benjamin, Abram Tomlinson, John Rut- gers Marshal, Elisha Wilcox, Samuel Jones, Stiles Lewis, Isaac Brown, Thomas Selby, David Brooks, Edward Nicols, Ephraim Nicols, Purson Hawley, Philip Jacobs, William Sidney, Richard Samnel Breant, Dr. George Hurd, John Forrister, Hamilton Ballantine, Isaac Brooks, Agur Booth, Rev. Dr. Kneeland, James Clow, James Ward, Jonathan Burn- ham, John Thatcher, James Sherman, John Barlow, Stephen Burritt, Benjamin Brooks, Philip Wells, John Fitz, Matthias Nicoll, Aaron Eliott, Nehemiah Gorham, Philip Nicols, Jonathan Prindle, G. Jen- nings, Oliver Davison, Philo Perry, Elna Hoyt, John Richards, James Wade, Joseph Brooks, Stephen Titus Hosmer, Richard Salmon, G. Kettlas, Isaac Bateman, B. Burnett, Isaac Whippo, George Burroughs, Tread- well Jackson, David Barlow, Joseph L. Wooster, John C. Fairchild, John Benjamin, Jr., David C. Wain- wright, Charles Johnson, Elisha Treat Mills, John Thompson, Zalmon Clinton, Isaac Mills, Benjamin

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Barlow, Daniel Judson, Jr., Jabcz Beers, Hezekiah Clark, Joseph De Forest, Joseph Allen, Joseph Thompson, Eli Judson, James W. Allen, Samuel William Johnson, Russell Edwards, Joshua Poor, William Thompson, Lyman Edwards, Gidcon Ben- jamin, Nathaniel Burton, William Curtis, Peter H. Robinson, William Walker, Peter Clark, David Seelcy, Philo Lewis, Ezra Curtis, Ephraim Beardsley, Rev. Aslıbel Baldwin, Jasper Jones, Daniel De For- rest, Benjamin Ufford, Lewis Beers, Asa Curtis, Ephraim Burritt, James Beach, William Kettlas, Benjamin Hall, Joseph Tomlinson, Philip Benjamin, Jr., John Curtis (3d), Prosper Wetmore, Enoch Foot, Gidcon Booth, George Haley, Lewis Wakelcy, An- drew Lyon, Nathaniel Lewis, Daniel Booth, Thomas Scott, John Wells, M. A. Marks, Robert Fairchild, Abel Judson, A. McDonald, Stephen L. Booth, Stc- phen Morse."

ORONOQUE LODGE, NO. 90, I. O. O. F.

This lodge was instituted by Grand Master A. W. Phelps, in the old Masonic Hall. The first officers installed were J. W. Dufow, N. G .; G. T. Lewis, V. G .; Charles D. Curtis, Treas .; H. A. Sutton, Sec.

Charter members: Joseph W. Dufow, George T. Lewis, Francis S. Avery, Lucius E. Hendic, H. A. Sutton, John Cradduck, Charles D. Curtis, William Shilston, Perry Beardsley, C. Lister Young, Laspore K. Whitman, Lewis S. Hubbull, Abram T. Peck.

The following is a list of Noble Grands from organ- ization to present time: Joseph W. Dufow, George T. Lewis, John Cradduck, Francis S. Avery, Laspore K. Whitney, John Kugler, Charles E. Curtis, A. S. Allen, D. W. Judson, A. C. Ellis, William Young, Lewis S. Hubbull, A. C. Ellis, A. McEwen, George Cradduck, William Blormy.

THE STRATFORD ACADEMY.

The Stratford Academy was founded in 1805, and in the following year received its charter from the Legislature of Connecticut. It soon won and has since uniformly maintained a high stand as an Eng- lish and classical school, making little display of superficial knowledge and partially learned accom- plishments, but furnishing a solid basis of education, and from year to ycar sending its pupils to take the highest rank in the best colleges in our land, and to fill places of honor and trust in the largest cities. Never has its reputation as an institution of learning bcen higher or better sustained than during the quar- ter of a century which has elapsed since, in 1847, Mr. Frederick Sedgewick, A.M., entered upon the duties and responsibilities of its management. He resigned as principal of the institution in 1872, and has since conducted a select school. Mr. Sedgewick has been, and still is, a very successful teacher, and during the years he officiated as principal of the academy more than one thousand pupils received in- struction at that institution.

The Stratford Institute, Mrs. E. E. Clark, Principal, is a flourishing school and justly merits its present popularity.

SCHOOLS.

For the present condition of the schools, see Gen- eral History.

CHAPTER LXXVIII. STRATFORD (Continued).

CIVIL AND MILITARY, ETC.

Original Name and Area-Representatives-Selectmen-Extracts from Records-Ear-Marks-Borough of West Stratford-Organization-First Officers-Officers from Organization to Present Time-Stratford of To- Day-Military.

THE original name of Stratford was Cupheag, and it embraced the present towns of Bridgeport, Trum- bull, Huntington, and Monroe.

LIST OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The following is a list of representatives from 1646 to 1880 :

REPRESENTATIVES FROM 1646 TO 1880.

1646, Thomas Fayerchild; 1650-52, Will Beardsly; 1653, Philip Graues, Will Beardsly ; 1654-55, Phill Graues, Tho. Fairechild; 1656-57, John Wells; 1658, Will Beardsley ; 1659, Thomas Fairechild, Joseph Jud- son ; 1660, Philip Groues, Tho. Fairchild; 1661-63, Philip Groues, Joseph Judson ; 1664, Mr. Tho. Fayrechild, Ens. Judson ; 1665, Mr. Thomas Fayrechild, Joseph Judson, Philip Groue; 1666-67, Mr. Fairfield, Ens. Judson ; 1668-71, Lieut. Wm. Cnrtice, Mr. Jos. Haw- ley; 1672, Licut. Wm. Curtice, Mr. John Brinsmead; 1673, Capt. Wm. Curtice, John Picket ; 1674, Capt. Wm. Curtice, Mr. Jos. Haw- ley ; 1675, Capt. Win. Curtice, Mr. John Picket, Sr .; 1676, Francis Hall, Jehicl Preston ; 1677-78, Capt. Wm. Curtice, Mr. Joseph Haw- ley ; 1669-80, Capt. Wui. Curtice, Mr. Francis Hall ; 1681, Mr. Joseph Hawley, Ens. Stive Burrett; 1682-83, Capt. Wn. Curtice, Mr. Joseph Hawley, Sergt. Jehiel Preston, Mr. Samuel Sherman ; 1684, Capt. Wm. Curtice, Mr. Jos. Hawley ; 1685, Capt. Wm. Curtice, Francis Hall ; 1686, Sergt. Joseph Curtice, Mr. Robert Lane ; 1687, Mr. Jos. Hawley, Mr. Sam. Sherman ; 1689-90, Mr. Joseph Curtis, Mr. Josiah Niccols ; 1691, Ensign Stephen Buret, Mr. Joseph Curtice ; 1692, Capt. Wm. Curtice, Mr. Joseph Curtice; 1693, Mr. Joseph Curtice, Mr. Sam. Sherman ; 1694, Mr. Joseph Curtice ; 1695, Mr. Ephraim Stiles, Mr. Nath. Sherman ; 1696, Mr. Richard Blackleech, Mr. Eph Stiles ; 1697, Mr. Ambrose Thomson, Mr. Ephraim Stiles ; 1698, Mr. Richard Blackleech; 1699, Mr. Richard Blackleech, Capt. James Judson ; 1700, Capt. James Judson, Mr. Nathan Sherman : 1701, Capt. James Judson, Mr. Ben. Beach, 1702, Lieut. Thomas Knowis, Mr. Nathaniel Sherman ; 1703, Capt. James Judson, Lieut. Tho. Knowles; 1704, Mr. Jno. Burrett, Mr. Ephraim Stiles ; 1705, Mr .. Ambrose Thouson, Mr. Ben. Curtis ; 1706, Capt. James Judson, Mr. Benjamin Curtis; 1707, Mr. Benjamin Curtis, Lieut. John Hawly; 1708, Capt. James Judson, Mr. Samuel Hawly ; 1709, Capt. James Judson, Mr. Ephraim Stiles ; 1710, Mr. Ambros Thomson ; 1711, Mr. Samuel Hawly, Mr. Benjamin Sherman ; 1712, "Capt. John Hally, Mr. Ambrose Thomson; 1713-14, Capt. James Judson, Capt. John Halley ; 1715, Lieut. Jeremiah Judson, Mr. Edmund Lewis; 1716, Capt. John Hawley, Capt. Josiah Curtice; 1717, Mr. Ambrose Tomp- son, Mr. John Wells ; 1718, Capt. James Judson, John Tompson ; 1719, Mr. Jeremy Judson, Mr. Edmund Lewis; 1720, Capt. John Hawley; 1721, Capt. John Hawley, Mr. Benjamin Curtice; 1722, Capt. James Lewis, Mr. John Wells; 1723, Mr. Edmund Lewis, Mr. John Thompson ; 1724, Capt. John Hawley, Mr. Eben. Curtice ; 1725, Capt. James Lewis, Mr. John Wilcoxon ; 1726, Mr. Edmund Lewis; Mr. Danl. Hawley ; 1727, Mr. Edmund Lewis, Mr. Jos. Judson ; 1728, Mr. Edmund Lewis, Mr. Ephraim Curtice ; 1729, Mr. Edmund Lewis, Mr. John Thompson ; 1730, Mr. Edmund Lewis, Capt. John Wells;

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1731, Capt. James Lewis, Mr. Ephraim Curtice ; 1732, Mr. Ephraim Curtiss, Mr. Abell Birdseye; 1733, Mr Joseph Judson, Mr. Ephraim Curtiss; 1734, Mr. Ephraim ('utiss, Mr. Joseph Booth ; 1735, Mr. David Judson, Mr. Daniel Ilalley ; 1736, Mr. Theophilus Nichols, Mr. Ephraim Curtiss; 1737, Mr. David Sherman, Mr. Joseph Black- Ieach; 1738, Mr. Joseph Blackleach, Mr. Theophilus Nichols; 1739, Mr. Daniel Ilalley, Mr. Joseph Booth ; 1740, Capt. Theophilus Nickols, Mr. David Sherman ; 1741, Capt. Theophilns Nickols, Capt. David Judson ; 1742, Capt. Theophilns Nickols, Mr. Joseph Booth ; 1843, Capt. Theophilus Nichols, Capt. Joseph Blackleach ; 1744, Capt. ! Theophilus Nickols, Col. Edmunud Lewis ; 1745, Mr. Robert Walker, Capt. Theophilus Nickois: 1746, Capt. Robert Walker, Capt. David Judson ; 1747, Capt. Theophilus Nichols, Mr. Joseph. Booth; 1718, Capt. Robert Walker, Mr. Elnathan Wheelor; 1749, Capt. Robert Walker, Capt. Joseph Black leach, Elnathan Wheeler, Ephraim Judson ; 1750, Capt. Theophilus Nickols, Elnathan Wheeler, Capt. Samuel Addams; 1751, Capt. Robert Fairchild, Capt. Samuel Ad- dams, Capt. Theophilus Nickols; 1752, Capt. Samuel Adams, El- nathan Wheeler, Agur Tomlinson; 1753, Capt. Theophilus Nichols, Capt. Stiles Curtis, Hezekiah Gold, Capt. Robert Fairchild; 1754, Capt. Daniel Porter, Capt. Samuel Adams, Capt. Theophilus Nichols, Capt. Robert Fairchild; 1755, Capt. Daniel Porter, Capt. William Pect, Agur Tomlinson, Capt. Theophilus Nichols ; 1756, Col. Joseph Worster, Joseph Nichols, Capt. Isaiah Brown. Samnel Adams; 1757, Agur Tomlinson, Capt. Robert Fairchild, Capt. Theophilus Nichols; 1758, Agnr Tomlinson, Capt. Theophilus Nichols, Ichabod Lewis; 1759, Col. Robert Walker, Capt. Samnel Adams, Ichabod Lewis; 1760, Col. Robert Walker, Ichabod Lewis; 1761, Capt. Wil- liam Samuel Johnson, Capt. Samuel Adams, Col. Robert Walker, Ichabod Lewis; 1762, no record ; 1763, Col. Robert Walker, Capt. Ichabod Lewis ; 1764, Capt. Robert Fairchild, Capt. Theophilus Nickols, Joseph Curtiss, Capt. Ichabod Lewis; 1765, Capt. William Samuel Johnson, Joseph Curtiss; 1766, Capt. Robert Fairchild, Capt. Ichabod Lewis; 1767,. Capt. Robert Fairchild, Capt. Ichabod Lewis, Capt. T. Nickols, Capt. A. Tomlinson ; 1768, Capt. T. Nickols, Capt. A. Tomlinson ; 1769, Capt. Theophilus Nickols, Capt. Samuel Adams, Capt. Agnr Tomlinson ; 1770, Capt. T. Nickols, Capt. Samuel Adams, Nathan Birdsey; 1771. Capt. Theophilus Nichols, John Brooks; 1772, Capt. Theophilus Nichols, Capt. Robert Fairchild ; 1773, Capt. Robert Fairchild, John Brooks, Abner Judson ; 1774, Capt. Robert Fairchild, Abner Judson, Capt. Daniel Judson ; 1775, Capt. Robert Fairchild, Capt. Ichabod Lewis; 1776, Capt. Robert Fairchild, Capt. Ichabod Lewis, Capt. Daniel Judson ; 1777, Capt. Abraham Brins- made, Capt. Daniel Judson; 1778, Capt. Abraham Brinsmade, Capt. Stephen Burroughs, Daniel Bennet; 1779, Capt. Abraham Brins- made, Elisha Mills, Capt. Samuel Blackman; 1780, Capt. Robert Fairchild, Elisha Mills, Stephen Burroughs, Daniel Bennett; 1781,$ Elisha Mills, Daniel Bennett, Capt. Daniel Judson; 1782, Elisha Mills, Capt. Daniel Judson, Maj. Agur Judson, Stephon Middlebrook ; . 1783, Maj. Agnr Judson, Capt. Joseph Walker, Capt. Robert Fair- child; 1784, Maj. Agur Jackson, Capt. Robert Fairchild, John Black- leach, Elisha Mills; 1785, Daniol Bennet, Capt. Daniel Judson, Samuel Bennet, Abijah McEwen ; 1786, Abijah MeEwen, Daniel Bennett; 1787, Abijalı McEwen, Capt. Beach Tomlinson, Maj. Joseph Walker, Abraham Brinsmade; 1788, Elisha Mills, Capt. Nathaniel Wheeler; 1789, Abijah MeEwen, Maj. Aaron Ilawley, Capt. Robert Walker; 1790, Capt. Mathias Nicholl, Jabez II. Tomlin- son, Samuel William Jolison ; 1791, Jabez Il. Tomlinson, Aaron Hawley, Mathias Nicholl, Samuel William Johnson ; 1792, Abijalı McEwen, Jeremiah Beardsley, Abijah Starling, Samuel W. Johnson ; 1793, Abijalı McEweu, Zachariah C'oe, Jabex II. Tomlinson, Joremiah Beardsloy ; 1794, Jabez II. Tomlinson, Jolm Thompson, Samuel Wil- liam Jolinson ; 1795, Samuel William Johnson, Abijah Brooks, Jabez H. Tomlinson, John Thompson ; 1796, Mathias Nicholl, Jabez II. Tomlinson, Sam'l Wm. Jolinson; 1797, Sam'l Win. Johnson, Jabez H. Tomlinson, J. Thompson ; 1798, Jos. Lacey, Jos. Walker, Abijah Sterling; 1799, Roswell Judson, Jos. Walker, Abijah Sterling, John : Thompson ; 1800, Roswell Judson, J. Walker, J. Thomson ; 1801, J. Walker, A. Sterling, J. II. Tomlinson, Roswell Judson ; 1802, J. Il. Tomlinson, Robert Fairchild, Roswell Judson, Matthias Nicholl ; 1803, Jabez II. Tomlinson, Robert Fairchild, Samuel Wheeler; 1804, ! Elnathan Wilcoxson, Robert Fairchild, Jabez H. Tomlinson, Roswell Judson ; 1805, Jabez II. Tomlinson, Robert Farchild, Pixley Judson,

Matthias Nichols ; 1806, Jabez H. Tomlinson, Robert FalschIld, Ros- well Judson, Samnel Hawley ; 1807, Jabez Il. Tomlinson, Elijah Uf- foot, Jr., Samuel Wheeler ; 1808, Samuel W. Johnson, Jabez II. Tom- linson; 1809, Samnel W. Johnson, Jabez II. Tomlinson, Elijah Uf- ford, Jr., John S. Cannon; 1810, Joseph Walker, Daniel Sterling, Jabez Il. Tomlinson ; 1811, Jabez II. Tomlinson, Daulel Judson, Jr., Samuel Wheeler ; 1812, Daniel Judson, Jr., Daulel Sterling, Jabez Il. Tomlinson, John S. Cannon; 1813, Victory Wetmore, Salmon Hubbell, Elijah Ufford, Jr., Daniel Sterling ; 1814, Jabez II. Tomlin- son, David Peant, John S. Cannon, Elijah Ufford; 1815, Jabez II. Tomlinson, Levi Curtis, Matthias Nicholl ; 1816, Levi Curtis, Nathan'l L. Wheeler, Joel Curtiss, Jeremiah W. Beardslee ; 1817, David l'eant, David Minott, Isaac Burroughs ; 1818, David Peant, Ephraim J. Wil- coxson, James K. Beach ; 1818, David Peant, Renben Tweedy; 1820, David Peant, Noah Plumb; 1821, Wilson Hawley, Asa Curtiss; 1822- 23, Robert Fairchild; 1824, Josiah Gorham; 1825, Silas Burton ; 1826, Joel Curtiss; 1827, Elijah A. Booth ; 1828, Nathaniel L. Wheeler ; 1829, Robert Fairchild; 1830, Edwards Jolison; 1831, Nathaniel L. Wheeler; 1832, Robert Fairchild ; 1833, Josiah Gorhom ; 1x34, John Welles, Jr .; 1835, Charles Gilbert ; 1836, Stiles Judson ; 1837, Nathan- iel L. Wheelor; 1838, Stephen Curtiss; 1839, Lewis Wells; 1840, Da- vid Gorham; 1841, Judson Peck; 1842, - -; 1843, EIl W. Lewis; 1844, Philo Curtiss; 1:45, Gould Blakeman; 1846, John Wilcoxson ; 1847, Everett Wheeler ; 1848, David l'eant; 1819, Levi Curtiss, Jr. ; 1850, Jolin Coe; 1851, John Wilcoxson; 1852, I. Wells; 1853, Alfred Barritt; 1854, Gould Blakeman ; 1855, Charles Gilbert; 1856, Josiah Gorham; 1857, William M. Perry; 1858, J. W. Stagg; 1859, William R. Ilubbell ; 1860, Ilenry Dikeman ; 1861, Jolin Mitchi- ell ; 1862, A. B. Judd ; 1863, Henry Peant; 1864, C. D. Wheeler; 1865- 67, Curtis Thompson ; 1868, Charles L. Beach ; 1869, Lewis W. Bur- ritt : 1870-71, J. W. Knowlton ; 1872-71. A. B. Judd; 1875, Nathan B. Wells; 1876, Charles B. Curtiss; 1877, Edmund B Peck ; 1878, Daniel C. Wood; 1879, Charles C. Wells ; 1880, Stiles Juds ar.

In 1671 John Curtis, Henry Tomlinson, Francis Hull, Richard Battlen (?), and Robert Clark were chosen townsmen.

In 1686 -+ Sherman, Thomas Wells, James Judson, Robert -- ,t Samnel Hawley were chosen townsmen.

LIST OF SELECTMEN.

1768, Joseph Curtis, Capt. Isaiah Brown, Le Grand Cannou, Elisha Mills, Jolin Middlebrook, Jr., Capt. Ezra Hawley, David Wilcoxson : 1774, Nathaniel Wheeler, Joseph Lewis, Joseph Curtis, Maj. A. Judson, Zachariah Coe, Edward Burroughs, John Judson; 1780, Nathaniel Wheeler, Capt. Ebenezer Coc, Lient. Stephen Wells, Capt. Joseph Birdsey, Stephen Summers, Stephen Middlebrook, Silas Nichols; 1790, Jabez Curtis, Jabez II. Tomlinson, Nathan -, Zacharialı Coe, Benjamin Burton, Aaron Hawley; 1800-2, ISOG-S, ISIO, Roswell Judson; 1800-4, 1808, Elnathan Willcoxson; 1800, Amos IInbbell; I801, Elias Wills, Josiah Lacy ; 1803, Samuel Warden; 1802-3, John Bootlı; 1802, Aaron Hawley; 1803-4, Jolin G. Coc; 1804-7, Jabez W. Tomlinson ; 1804-5, William Walker ; 1804, Pixlee Judson, Samuel Warden; 1804-9, Joel Curtis; 1805-8, 1810-14, Samuel Hawley ; 1806-7, Lewis Lo Grand Cannon ; 1808-9, Samuel Ufford; 1809-13, Charles McEwen ; 1809, Abijah Hawley ; 1811-19, 1822-23, Levi Cur- tiss; 1811, Daniel Judson, .Ir .; 1811-13, Agur Curtis, Jr .; ISI3, Stephen Booth; 1814-18, David Plant; 1815-16, Ezra Gregory ; 1817, Enoch Footo; 1818-20, Reuben Tweedy; 1819, Asa Curtis; 1820-23, Elijah Booth ; 1821, E. J. Wilcoxson; 1821-22, J. Gorham; 1823, Samuel Curtis, Jr .; 1824-31, Eli W. Lewis ; 1824-25, Stephen Booth; 1824-26, 1829, Abner Indson; 1826, Abram C. Lewis; 182%, Abner Booth, Henry Ufford ; 1828, John Wells, David B. Brooks; 1829-31, 1837, Judson Peck, dr .; 1830-35, Elijah Curtis; 1831, Lewis Wells; 1832-34, Stiles Judson, Jr .; 1832-38, Lewis Wells; 1835, Daniel Williams ; 1836, Joseph Ufford, Job Peck ; 1:37, Lewis Wells,

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History of Fairfield County, Connecticut : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 188

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