History of Fairfield County, Connecticut : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 61

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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who was the father of the late Col. N. L. White. He died in 1863. His partner was Timothy B. Keeler. Mr. Keeler died somewhere between 1835 and 1840. Joseph Taylor was a manufacturer in Wildeat, Bethel, now known as Elmwood. He was sueeeeded in busi- ness by his sons, Reuben and Stephen. Reuben Tay- lor still earries on hatting in a small shop in Elmwood, where he makes the now popular napped hat, which is a revival of the old style when his father was in business. Joseph Taylor died in 1874. The Taylor & Dibble mentioned were Elias Taylor and Seott Dib- ble. Their shop was where John Johnson's barn now stands. They died many years ago, leaving no direet deseendants in Bethel.

"Mr. M. H. Griffing was a prominent hatter in 1846. His faetory was in what is now known as Mountain- ville, on a site just south of where Mrs. Betsey Crofut now lives. He continued in business for ten years, and then sold out to Henry T. Robinson. Mr. Rob- inson did not succeed, and soon abandoned the enter- prise. Mr. Griffing learned his trade in 1843 with Elijah Pateh, on Great Plaiu. Mr. Pateh's shop stood near the present residenee of Mrs. Fanny Wood.

"George A. Andrews was another hatter, who ear- ried on business in Great Plain a few years ago. He lives now in Bethel.

" Wolfpits, in Bethel, was also for many years-1824 to 1850-the seene of a flourishing hat-trade. Among the manufacturers then we find Eli Morgan, Abel Hoyt, Leazer Taylor & Son, Charles and Roderick Dart, and Hugh Starr. In Elmwood we find David Sherman and Beers Crofut.

" A summary of the amount of work done in 1859 by all the factories is as follows :

Number of hands employed. 1,294

Hats made (dozens).

123,870

Pay-roll

$320,000

"Now the statement is as follows :

Number of hands employed. 1,800

Hats mado (dozens)

400,000

Pay-roll

$1,000,000"

OTHER MANUFACTURES.

Some time before 1800, Ephraim Washburn and brother built a mill for making paper on or near the site of the old Sturdevant factory. This mill after- wards passed into the hands of two brothers named Ward, and they sold it to Daniel and Seth Comstoek. The latter was father of the late Philander Comstoek. They continued business there for some years, when the mill was burned. The exact date of this destrue- tion we eannot learn, but it was some sixty or more years ago. Among the employees of Comstoek was "Unele" Jerry Wilson, father-in-law of Capt. Ed- wards, who died two or three years ago. Mr. Wilson enlisted in 1812, and Seth Comstoek, being a major, was allowed a servant. He made Mr. Wilson his servant and kept him in the shop, but he got a pen- sion and bounty. After this shop was burned Deaeon Oliver Stone purchased the site and built a hat-shop, which he sold to Elijah Sturdevant.

In 1852, Nelson Flint, Calvin S. Bulkley, and Amzi Wheeler started a mill for air-dried straw-board in Beaver Brook. The firm dissolved after a short time, and Mr. Flint continued alone. In 1867, George MeArthur, with his three brothers, Robert, John, and William, purehased the mill and continued the manufacture of straw-board. The original building was a small one, thirty by thirty feet, and was built for a woolen-mill by Samuel Morris. He was not sue- eessful, and gave up woolen for hatting and then eomb-making. In 1870, MeArthur Brothers built an addition to the first building and, gradually giving up straw-board, made straw wrapping-paper. In 1872 a second addition was built, and in 1875 hard- ware and wrapping-paper were made. Last year more machinery was added, and manilla paper was manufactured.

The first paper-mill, however, was one which stood on the stream baek of the homestead of the late E. S. Hull. It was long before the present oldest inhabi- tant ean remember, but we learn from one gentleman who remembers his parents telling of the mill that it was run by a man named Washburn.

The manufacture of boots and shoes was another industry which onee oeeupied a prominent position in Danbury. It was of reeent birth. In 1869, C. H. Merritt built and oeeupied as a boot- and shoe-factory the briek building now standing at the north end of Main Street. The same year he took into partnership Lueius R. Sprague. In 1870, Mr. Sprague retired, and Mr. Richard W. Cone went into the firm. This firm remained in the business until the latter part of Mareh, 1880, when they elosed up, sold their maehin- ery, and the factory will soon be oeeupied in hatting. The firm in its busiest seasons employed nearly two hundred hands.

As far as we ean traee baek we find an oil-mill on the south side of what is now known as Crofut's Pond, or Oil Mill Pond. In 1812, Friend Starr, father of Mr. C. H. Starr, used to make linseed oil from the flax raised in this seetion. It was quite a prosperous business at one time. The mill was pulled down many years ago,-so many, in faet, that none of our old eitizens remember it. Many of them have indis- tinet reeolleetions of this building in their early youth, but the date of its destruction is lost.

On the north side of the dam stood a saw-mill owned by Friend Starr and Benjamin and Fairehild Ambler. The former was the father and the latter the unele of Rev. E. C. Ambler. Mr. Ambler remem- bers going to the mill to earry his father's dinner, and help about the work at times. He also relates an aneedote of Mr. Starr which we think worth repub- lishing. Mr. Starr was an Episcopalian, but for some reasons he was temporarily offended with the ehureh, and used to go to hear Rev. Mr. Trumbull, the Baptist pastor. One Sunday, after Mr. Starr had come in, Mr. Trumbull arose and gave his text: "Friend, friend, how eamest thou hither not having a wedding-

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garment?" Mr. Starr at first thought this rather per- sonal and manifested his disapprobation plainly. But, the minister proceeding, he saw that the text was not intended for him, and he became ealm.

The manufacture of sewing-machines was another industry for which Danbury was once well known. It was a machine patented by Walker B. Bartram. The first manufacturers were the Bartram & Fanton Sew- ing-Machine Company. They started in the old shirt- factory on Ives Street in 1865. The next year they purchased the brick building on Canal Street now oeeupied by P. Robinson & Son, and moved there. The company continued running with varied success until 1872, when it was reorganized, and many of our people, poor and rich alike, took stock therein. In two years more (1874) the company failed, and the stockholders mourned for the faded dreams of fortune.

In the summer of 1815 (the cold summer) Eli Seger lived in the red house on the Mill Plain road, now owned by the Terry family, which stands on the corner of the old road leading to the fair-ground en- trance, across Fish-Weir bridge. The lower part of this house Seger used for manufacturing nails, living in the upper part. Seger was grandfather to Rev. E. C. Ambler. Soon after this date he moved to Ohio, where he died.

Comb-making was another industry which was once extensively carried on here, and which is now extinet. In 1810, Nathaniel Bishop started a comb- factory on the site or just back of Peck & Wildman's store. He kept a large number of hands at work for twenty-five years.

Foote & Barnum began in 1814, in a shop that stood near the corner of Main and Centre Streets. Otis & Whiting had a shop just this side of St. James' Church, West Street. Alfred Gregory, Peek & Gil- lett, and several others had small shops seattered about town. The comb business-the value of the goods and the number of hands employed-exceeded that of hatting from 1826 to 1831, and continued about equal till about 1837.

In 1847, T. T. Peck occupied the woolen-mill on West Street, near Beaver Street, and was burned out. The shop was rebuilt and the business earried on till 1852, when it was removed to A. T. Peck's old shop, where Beekerle & Co.'s factories now are.

Barnum & Green was another firm who carried on business in 1812, on the corner where Hon. F. S. Wildman's garden now stands.

Daniel Taylor, it is elaimed, was the first man to make combs in Danbury. His factory was in the then Wildcat Distriet, Bethel. In the same locality there were at one time seven shops in operation,- Azarael and Charles Smith, Daniel Taylor, E. Hull Barnum, T. T. Dibble, S. B. Peck, and Ammon Tay- lor; in Bethel Village and Grassy Plain, Daniel Bar- num, George Clapp, Ammon Benedict, and several others. In 1820, and from then to 1837, there were many small shops scattered along the road from

Beaver Brook to Newtown, and from Newtown to Danbury by the Bethel road. In 1852 the business died out, mainly because the comb-makers in Massa- chusetts combined their capital and skilled labor and killed off the small manufacturers in other parts of the country.

The present manufacturing establishments are as follows :

Hat-Manufacturing Companies .- C. H. Merritt, E. A. Mallory & Son, Tweedy Manufacturing Company, D. E. Lowe & Co., S. C. Holly & Co., Rundle & White, Nichols & Hine, G. M. Hoyt & Co., Crofut, White & Peabody, Gardin & Co., Beckerle & Co., D. W. Meeker, H. M. Senior.

Fur-Manufacturing Companies .- N. A. & A. M. White, Lacy & Downs, P. Robinson & Co.

Paper-Box Manufacturing Companies .- E. S. Davis, Theodore Clark, Abijalı Abbott.

Planing- Mills and Lumber .- D. Stevens & Co., Fos- ter Brothers.

Hat-Box Manufacturing Companies .- Danbury and Betliel Manufacturing Co., Daniel Starr.

Shirt-Manufacturing Company .- Reed, Stevens & Co. Machine-Shops .-- Danbury Iron-Works, Turner Ste- vens & Son, Fanton Brothers, R. A. Belden & Co.

Hot-Air Furnaces .- E. S. Morris & Co.

THE EXECUTION OF ANTHONY.

"There have been two executions in Danbury. Both of these oeeurred within a period of twenty years, and both were of negroes convicted of rape. The first was a man named Anthony, a free negro, living in Greenwieh. He perhaps had no other name, as 'Anthony' is alone used in the indietment and the warrant for execution. His erime was eonimitted on the 7th of March, 1798, and he was hung in Novem- ber following.

"The following is the copy of the indietment from the grand jury, for copy of which and of the warrant that follows we are indebted to Mr. A. B. Hull :

"* The Grand Jurors for the body of said County of Fairfield, on their oaths present and say that at Greenwich, in said Connty, on the night next succeeding the 7th day of March, A.D., 1798, Anthony a Free negro, then residing in said Greenwich with foree and arms wilfully wicked and feloinously did make an assault in and. npon the body of Mary Knapp of said Greenwich, a maid under the age of nineteen years, then and there in the Peace of God and of this State, . . . being against the Peace and contray to the form, force and effect of the laws of this State, entitled " An Act for the Punishment of Rape." On this indictment the said Anthony was arranged before the Bar of this Court, and on such his arraingement was put to plead. Pleaded not guilty and for trial put himself on God and the Country. The issue with the evidence was com- mitted to the Jury, duly impaneled and called upon to pass between the State of Connecticut and the said Anthony the Prisoner at the Bar, which Jurors on their oath do say that said Anthony, the prisoner at the bar, is guilty of the crimo charged against him in the said indictment where- upon it is considered by the court and this court do join sentence and against the said Anthony, the Prisoner at the Bar, that he go from hence to tho Goal from whence he came and from thence to some open and con- venient placo for execution then to be hanged between the Heavens and the earth until he shall be dead.'

" This was at Danbury, Aug. 10, 1798. Anthony remained in the jail here until November Sth, when

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he was called forth for execution. The following is the warrant for the sheriff:

"' To the Sheriff of the county of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut, Greeting :

"' Whereas one Anthony a free Negro Man residing in Greenwich in said county Before the Supreme Court holden at Danbury withiu the said County of Fairfield on the second tuesday of August 1798 was legally convicted of the crime of a Rape Committed on the Body of Mary Knapp of Greenwich aforesaid a maid under the age of ninctecn years. Aud thereupon he the said Anthony was by the consideration of said Supreme Court adjudged and sentenced to be Hanged by his neck be- tween the Heaven and the Earth on the Eighth Day of November next between the hours of Ten o'clock in the forenoon and three o'clock in the afternoon of said Day until lie should be Dead. All of which by the records of said Supreme Court appears. And Execution thereof remains to be done. These are therefore in the name and by the Authority of the State of Connecticut to Will & Command you that on the Eight day · of November next ensuing some time between the hours of Ten o'clock in the forenoon & Three o'clock in the afternoon of said Day you have him the said Anthony forth of the Common Goal in said Fairfield County where he now remains in Custody unto some open & convenient place for execution and him said Anthony then & there Cause to be Hanged up by his neck between the Heavens and the Earth until he shall be Dead. For which purpose this shall be your Legal & sufficient warrant hereof you may in no wise fail & make due return with such your doings thereon Eudorsed.

"'Dated at Windham the 18th day of September, A.D. 1798 & in the 23d year of the Iudepencedence of the United States of America.'

"There is no record of the return from the sheriff called for in the closing paragraph, and there are those who dispute that Anthony was hung here at the time.

" But the execution took place in Danbury on that day. We have the evidence of an eye-witness, and the sermon preached on the occasion.

"At ten o'clock of that morning, November 8th, Anthony was removed from the jail and taken to the Congregational church, late the eoncert-hall building. The church was crowded to overflowing with specta- tors, as, despite the tragic character of the event, the town assumed a holiday appearance. Anthony was placed at the front, under the pulpit, during the preaching of the sermon. Rev. Timothy Langdon was the pastor, and delivered the discourse.

"Upou the close of this he personally addressed the prisoner. He said,-

"' Anthony, it is by your request that I speak on this occasion, and this is the last address which I shall ever make to you. From the sentenee pronouneed upon you by the court, and from the preparations with which you are surrounded, you must see that you have but a very, very short time to live. Your situation is truly deplorable. Whatever your crimes may have been against God and human society, yet, seeing your present condition, I pity you as a man, I pray for you as a Christiau, and am now to address you as a minister of the gospel. I must therefore be faithful, and use great plainness of speech.'

"Then followed a description of the enormity of his sin, committed in the light of knowledge, and after that an earnest exhortation to the sinner to re- pent, to look to Christ, to die 'in a Christian temper.' We judge from these words that Anthony was in an

impenitent frame of mind, and that he was doggedly meeting his wretched fate.

"On the close of the sermon the civil authorities carried the prisoner to the plaee set apart for his ex- ecution. This was at the head of Elm Street, near the pond. The gallows was erected on land belong- ing to Samuel Dibble, and from the fact of this ex- eeution the place took the name of 'Gallows Hill.' There was a great crowd present, of course, as it was a public execution, and the first ever had here. People from quite a distance were in attendance, and nearly all the town-folks were present. Sheriff Di- mon, of Fairfield, was the county sheriff and he offi- ciated.

"The gallows cousisted of two uprights set in the earth, some seveu inehes square, hewn from our native forests, with a cross-timber on the top, and a platform hinged to one of the uprights at a height to make about six feet fall. Suitable steps were provided to pass on to the platform from the ground. Ropes at- tached to the platform passed over the cross-piece and were secured at the foot of one of the posts. Benjamin Griffen, the father of the late E. G. Griffen, seemed to have charge of this department.

"The prisoner was asked if he wished to say any- thing, and shook his head. The usual order from the Governor of the State (required in every ease where life is taken), called the death-warrant, was then read. An appropriate prayer was offered by a elergy- man of the Methodist Church from the vicinity where the crime was committed, he having been Adams' spiritual adviser. He was a good out-door speaker, and was plainly heard, it was said, on the post-office steps on Main Street, near De Klyn's bakery.

"Every condition and requirement of the law having been complied with, the prisoner was assisted up the steps and on to the platform by the deputies. His eyes were covered with his cap, and the rope, previously prepared for the prisoner and worn through the day on his neck, was connected with another sus- pended from the cross-piece.

"The next was a thrilling scene. The hangman had placed a prop under the platform to steady it. It appeared to be a fence rail, or about that size, and his duty now was to remove it. He found some difficulty in doing so, and when he did the victim shuddered and gave a shrug which was felt and involuntarily repeated by a large part of the spectators, even on the other side of the river, on the west. At this instant the voice of the sheriff was heard, 'Deputies, do your duty !' whereupon their swords were seen waving over their heads, the ropes were severed, the drop fell, and the victim, suspended in mid-air, died without any apparent struggle.

"Soon the hangman climbed the upright, and, sit- ting on the plate, so adjusted the ropes that the body was gently lowered into his coffin and buried on the ground near by, a grave being previously prepared. It was only about eighteen inches deep. The next

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morning it was found to have been opened, and the body was gone, leaving the box in the ground. A fresh wagon-track on the road was traced out through White Strect towards New Haven. It was said our authorities were privy to this arrangement."

TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF AMOS ADAMS."

An execution of another negro for the same crime as that for which Anthony was executed, took place in Danbury on the 13th day of November, 1817. These two are the only judicial executions that have ever taken place within the limits of Fairfield County, with the exception of that of Hoyt, hanged in Bridge- port in the summer of 1880. There have been three military executions in the county,-two at Redding and one at Newtown.

At a court holden at Danbury within and for the county of Fairfield, on the third Tuesday of Septem- ber, 1817, before Chief Justice Hon. Zepheniah Swift, and Associate Justices Hon. Calvin Goddard and Hon. James Gould, came on trial Amos Adams, a black man, charged with having committed a rape on the body of Lelea Thorp, of Weston, in said county.

On Wednesday, the second day of the term, the grand jury, consisting of the following persons, was summoned by the sheriff pursuant to an order of court, and the oath administered in the usual form : Thomas Tucker, Forcman, Eliakim Benedict, Russel White, Elijah Gregory, Samuel H. Phillips, Samuel Tweedy, Jr., Moss White, Ezra Wildman, Elias Starr, Darius Starr, Elijah Sanford, David Foote, Comfort Hoyt, Andrew Beers, John Rider, Abel B. Blackman, Horace Bull; Amos Hoyt. His Honor the Chief Justice then charged the jury in a somewhat lengthy address, in which he portrayed in forcible language "the dreadful effects of this detestable crime," and closed with the usual instructions to the grand jury as to the manner in which their proccedings were to be conducted. The grand jury retired, and after a short absence brought into court a bill of indictment.

On Thursday, the 18th day of September, the pris- oner was arraigned, and to this indictment plead " Not guilty." He was then informed by the court that if he desired counsel he could have any gentleman of the bar assigned for that purpose. He answered that he wished to have Moscs Hatch, Esq. Mr. Hatch then observed to the court that the prisoner was ready for his trial, and requested that Asa Chapman, Esq., be associated with him. The court immediately as- signed him. The attorney for the State requested that R. M. Sherman, Esq., might be appointed to as- sist him on the part of the State, which was accord- ingly done.

Two of the panel were challenged by the prisoner, when the following jurors were sworn: Seth Sher- wood, Foreman, Billy Comstock, Samuel Stebbins, Clark Gregory, Abcl Sınith, Noah T. Ferry, Ebenezer

Nearing, David Osborne, Thaddeus Abbott, Sher- wood Fanton, Isaac Wilson, Robert Platt.

Samuel B. Sherwood, Esq., attorney for the State, then proceeded to the examination of the witnesses in behalf of the State.

The trial was short. There being but little defense for his counsel to offer, they confined themselves to asking a few questions of the witnesses, and the case was submitted to the jury without argument. The jury retired, and after a few minutes brought in a verdict of "Guilty."

On Thursday, the 25th of September, the prisoner was brought into court and sentenced to be hanged on the 13th day of November.

On the day appointed for his execution he was brought from the jail, guarded by the military, and taken to the Congregational church (afterwards Con- cert Hall), where a sermon was preached for the occasion, by Rev. Mr. Andrews, from the text, "One sinner destroyeth much good." After the services at the church were concluded he was again placed in charge of the military and conducted to the gallows, which had been crected at the junction of what are now called Elm and Beaver Streets, on the slight ele- vation of ground on the west side of the last-named street.

After the requirements of the law had been fulfilled the body was buried in a shallow grave at the foot of the gallows. The morning after the execution it was noticed that the grave had been disturbed, and inves- tigation showed that the body had been dragged out of the coffin and taken away. But little effort was made to discover the resurrectionists, and the excite- ment soon abated. It is said that the skeleton is now in the medical college at New Haven. A few years since, as workmen were digging for the cellars of tencment-houses on this ground, small portions of the coffin were found.

In this connection it may be proper to state that, several years after, another negro was arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged for the same offense in Danbury, but by an act of the Legislature changing the law he escaped execution.

CHAPTER XXIV. DANBURY (Continued). CIVIL AND MILITARY.

Representatives from 1697 to 1880-Danbury in the Rebellion-The Sol- diers' Monument-Military Record.

REPRESENTATIVES FROM 1697 TO ISSO.

1697-1701, Thomas Taylor; 1702, Ensign Thomas Taylor, Sergt. Josiah Starre ; 1703, Josiah Starr, John Cornell ; 1704-6, Sergt. Josiah Starr; 1706-7, Ensign Thomas Taylor, Josiah Starr; 1708, Josiah Starr, James Beebee; 170), James Beebee, Wakefield Dibble ; 1710, James Beebee, Josiah Starr; 1711, Francis Barnum, Josiah Starr, Capt. James Beebee ; 1712, Josialı Starr, Abraham Wileman, James Bene-

* Contributed by A. B. Hull.

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dick ; 1713, Capt. James Beebee, Lieut. Josiah Starr, Fraucis Barn- ham ; 1714-15, Capt. Josiah Starr, Francis Barnbam, Capt. James Beebe ; 1716, John Gregory, Samuel Knap, Francis Barnum, Richard Barnum ; 1717, Francis Barnum, Abraham Wildman, John Gregory, Richard Barnum ; 1718, James Beebe, John Gregory ; 1719, John Gregory, Israel Curtice, James Beebe ; 1720, John Gregory, Israel Curtice, Abram Wildman ; 1721-22, Samuel Knapp, Richard Bar- num, Johu Gregory ; 1723, John Gregory, Abram Wildman ; 1724, John Gregory, Abram Wildman, James Benedict ; 1725, John Greg- ory, Capt. James Bcebe; 1726, Jolin Gregory, Capt. James Beebe, Joseph Gregory ; 1727, Capt. James Beebe, John Gregory ; 1728, Capt. James Beebe, Eben Z. Hickox, John Gregory ; 1729-30, Thomas Benedict, Capt. James Beebe, John Gregory ; 1731, John Gregory, Capt. James Beebee, John Starr, Thomas Benedict ; 1732, John Greg- ory, Capt. James Beebee ; 1733, John Gregory, John Starr, Thomas Benedict; 1734, James Beebe, John Starr, Jolin Gregory, Thomas Benedict; 1735, John Gregory, John Starr, James Bebee ; 1736, James Beebe, Thomas Benedict ; 1737, John Gregory, Thomas Bene- dict, James Beebe ; 1738, John Benedict, Thomas Benedict, John Gregory, James Beebe; 1739, Capt. James Beebe, Thomas Benedict, John Benedict ; 1740, Capt. James Beebe, Thomas Benedict; 1741, Capt. James Beebe, Thomas Benedict, Nathaniel Stephens; 1742-43, Capt. James Beebe, Thomas Benedict ; 1744, Thomas Benedict, Capt. Ebenezer Hickox, Capt. James Beebe, Capt. Thomas Stephens; 1745, Capt. James Beebe, Thomas Benedict ; 1746, Thomas Benedict, Capt. Josiah Starr, Capt. James Beebe ; 1747, Capt. Jolin Benedict, Daniel Benedict ; 1748, Capt. James Beebee, Thomas Benedict ; 1749, Capt. James Beebee, Capt. John Benedict, Joseph Peck ; 1750, Thomas Benedict, Capt. John Benediet, Benjamin Sperry ; 1751, Thonias Benedict, Comfort Starr, Daniel Benedict, Samuel Gregory ; 1752, Samuel Gregory, Comfort Starr, Thomas Benedict, Capt. . Josiah Starr; 1753, Capt. Daniel Benedict, Comfort Starr, Thomas Benedict; 1754, Thomas Benedict, Ebenezer Hickox, Capt. Daniel Benedict ; 1755, Capt. John Benedict, Capt. Daniel Taylor, Capt. Daniel Bene- dict; 1756, Thomas Benedict, Comfort Starr; 1757, John Starr, Coul- fort Stair; 1758, Comfort Starr, Thomas Benedict ; 1759, Comfort Starr, Capt. Lemuel Bebee; 1760, Comfort Starr, Daniel Benedict ; 1761-62, Comfort Starr, Thomas Benedict; 1763, Capt. Daniel Bene- dict, Joseph Platt Cook, Sammuel Dickinson, Samuel Taylor; 1764- 65, Samuel Dickinson, Capt. John Benedict, Daniel Taylor, Jr. ; 1766, Capt. Daniel Taylor, Samuel Dickman, Thomas Benedict ; 1767, Joseph Platt Cook, Capt. Dauiel Taylor; 1768, Capt. Daniel Tay- lor, Joseph Platt Cook ; 1769, Capt. Daniel Taylor, Capt. Daniel Bene- dict, Joseph Platt Cook ; 1770, Joseph Platt Cook, Capt. Dauiel Tay- lor, Daniel Starr; 1771, Joseph Platt Cook, Daniel Starr; 1773, Capt. Daniel Starr, Capt. Thomas Stephens, Col. Joseph Platt Cook, Capt. Daniel Taylor; 1774, Col. Joseph Platt Cook, Capt. Daniel Taylor; 1775, Col. Joseph Platt Cook, Thomas Taylor, Jr., Capt. Daniel Starr; 1776, Col. Joseph Platt Cook, Capt. Daniel Taylor; 1777, Richard Shute, Capt. Eli Mygatt, Maj .. Eli Mygatt ; 1778, Col. Josepli Platt Cook, Capt. Daniel Taylor; 1779, Col. Joseph Platt Cook, Capt. Daniel Taylor, Capt. Noble Benedict, Capt. James Clarke; 1780, Col. Joseph Platt Cook, Capt. Daniel Taylor, Col. Ely Mygatt; 1781, Col. Josepli Platt Cook : 1782, Col. Joseph Platt Cook, Col. Ely Mygatt ; 1783, Col. Joseph Platt Cook, Capt. Daniel Taylor, Dr. Sallu Pell; 1784, Col. Joseph Platt Cook, Maj. Ezra Starr, Col. Ely Mygatt ; 1785, Col. Ely Mygatt, Maj. Benjamin Hicock, Capt. Daniel Taylor; 1786, Capt. Daniel Tay- lor, Joseph M. White, Col. Ely Mygatt, Maj. Benjamin Hickox ; 1787, Capt. Daniel Taylor, Capt. James Clarke, Col. Eli Mygatt; 1788, Col. Eli Mygatt, Josepli M. White; 1789, Col. Eli Mygatt, Capt. James Clarke; 1790, Col. Ely Mygatt, Zadock Benedict, James Clark ; 179I, Ely Mygatt, James Clark ; 1792, Eli Mygatt, Elisba Whittelsey ; 1793, Elisha Whittelsey, Justus Barnum, Ely My- gatt; 1794, Elisha Whittlesey, Eli Mygatt, Joseph M. White, Ben- jamin IIicock; 1795, Elisha Whittlesey, Eli Mygatt, Timothy Taylor, Isaac Joes; 1796, Eli Mygatt, Isaac Joes, Thomas P. White; 1797, Thomas P. White, Daniel M. Carrington, Elisha Whittelsey, Ben- jamin Hickock ; 1798, Justus Barnum, Benjamin Hickock, Elisha Whittlesey, Thomas P. White; 1799, Elisha Whittlesey, Thomas P. White; 1800, James Clark, Thomas P. White, Elisha Whittlesey, Comfort S. ,Mygatt; 1801, Elisha Whittlesey, Epaphras W. Ball, Timothy Taylor, Eli Mygatt; 1802, Elisha Whittlesey, Comfort S. Mygatt ; 1803, Thomas P. White, Daniel B. Cook, James Clark ; 1804, Samuel W. Phillips, Epaphras W. Bull, Daniel N. Carrington, James Clark ; 1805, Epaphras W. Bull, Noalı Hoyt, Thomas P. White, Na- than Seeley ; 1806, Epapliras W. Bull, Benjamin W. Heacock, Eliakim Benedict, Amos Cook; 1807, Eliakim Benedict, Morse White, Ely

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History of Fairfield County, Connecticut : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 61

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