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calendar
The Founding of New England and Connecticut
1620 Nov. 11. Mayflower reaches Cape Cod.
1629 John Endicott, first acting Gov- ernor under Massachusetts Charter founds plantation at Salem.
1632 Governor Edward Winslow of Plymouth visits Connecticut Valley to consider starting a trading post.
1633 June 6. Dutch purchase Hart- ford land from Pequot In- dians and erect river fort. John Oldham expedition from Watertown, Mass., explores Connecticut valley and trades with Indians.
Sept. 26. William Holmes and men from Plymouth Colony erect trading post and fort at Matianuck or Windsor.
1634 John Oldham and Watertown colonists settle Wethersfield. 1635 October. John Steel and sixty persons from New Town (Cambridge) Mass., settle Hartford. 1636 Reverend John Hooker and con- gregation join Steele.
1637 1638
Pequot Indian War. New Haven founded.
1639 January 14. Fundamental Or- ders of Connecticut adopted by Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield, "the river towns." John Haynes elected first Governor.
1640 John Steel, Thomas Barnes and others found Farmington.
1645 Farmington incorporated inde- pendent of Hartford.
The Founding of Bristol
1663 First western Pequabuck land grant to Thomas Barnes and three others.
1721 Western Pequabuck area (Bris- tol, Forestville and Burling- ton) first surveyed.
1728 First two houses (Daniel Brownson and Ebenezer Barnes) erected in Pequa- buck Great Forest.
1729 March 15. Daniel Brownson, first child of the settlers, born at Goose Corner.
1742 First gristmill and first sawmill erected at Pequabuck, just east of King's Road. November 8. First meeting of
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the "Southwest Winter So- ciety," setting up a separate "winter church" from Farm- ington. Thomas Canfield first minister.
1743 Blacksmith shops set up by Daniel Row and Daniel Mix.
1744 June 4. First meeting of the "New Cambridge Society" setting up an independent all-year church. 1744-48 King George's War.
1745 March 14. Training Band, or militia, voted. First captain, Caleb Mathews, appointed 1747.
June 28. First school commit- tee: Caleb Abernathy, Sam- uel and Benjamin Gaylord. New Survey of Pequabuck set- tlement by Samuel Messen- ger.
Abner Mathews sets up wheel- wright shop south of Pequa- buck.
1747 Elias Roberts, father of Gideon Roberts, the clockmaker, and his wife Susanna Ives settle in New Cambridge.
June. Church of England sym- pathizers secede from So- ciety.
August. Meeting House com- pleted, and Pastor Samuel Newell ordained.
1750
Jabish Roberts, uncle of the clockmaker, starts tannery on the Pequabuck, near site of later Downs mill.
Other tanneries soon started by the Hungerfords and Zebu- lon Frisbie. 1777
1750-60 First woodturning and tin- shops started. Elias Roberts makes first clock. 1754 First Anglican church com- pleted on Federal Hill. First schools completed on Fed- eral Hill and Chippins Hill.
1754-63 French and Indian War. 1755 Connecticut Gazette founded in New Haven.
1764 John Durkee of Norwich forms Sons of Liberty to resist Stamp Tax.
1766 Five school districts set up.
1769 First Forty leave for Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania.
Independence
1770 March 5. Boston Massacre. Second Congregational church built on Federal Hill.
1773 December 16. Boston Tea Party. Federal Hill Green purchased. William Mitchell sets up full- ing mill and first factory looms.
1774 June 14. Boston Port Bill im- posed.
September 5. First Continen- tal Congress convenes at Philadelphia.
1775 April 19. Battles of Lexington and Concord.
May 18. First Farmington- New Cambridge militia com- pany sets out for Boston. May 10. Ticonderoga cap- tured. June 17. Bunker Hill. July 4. Declaration of Inde- pendence. March. Moses Dunbar of
1776
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1782
Chippins Hill hung for trea- son in Hartford. November 30. Preliminary Paris peace articles.
1783 September 3. Treaty of Peace signed (ratified by Congress, January 14, 1784).
Free Town
1785 Town of Bristol (including present Burlington) incorpo- rated.
Gideon Roberts probably made first clocks.
First foundry on Pequabuck started by Lament Peck.
Iron mine opened, later op- erated by Luke Gridley. December 25. Candace Rob- erts born.
1788 1789
Constitution adopted. George Washington elected president.
1818 New State constitution. Bristol delegates: Bryan Hooker and George Mitchell.
First mass-produced all metal clocks. Joseph Ives and Thomas Barnes.
1823
Chauncey Jerome sets up clock factory, Pequabuck River, and opens up Main Street. Ephraim Downs makes clocks in Bristol.
1826 Elias Ingraham arrives in Bris- tol, makes clockcases for George Mitchell.
1795 May. School Fund set up, separating schools from Con- gregational Church. 1802 October 12. First turnpike authorized. 1828 Farmington Canal opened.
First Baptist Church, Pequa- 1830
buck at West Street.
Louisiana Purchase.
1803 1805 First stagecoach line. Dan- bury, Litchfield, Bristol, Hartford.
1805-10 Mass production of wooden clocks developed by Gideon Roberts, John Rich and Levi Lewis.
1806 December 9. Candace Roberts died.
1810-15 First clock companies organized by Elias Rob- erts, Titus Merriman, Butler Dunbar, Chaun- cey Boardman, Amasa, Chauncey and Joseph Ives, Elijah Manross.
1812 Postoffice opened. Lott Newell first Bristol postmaster.
1812-14 War with Great Britain.
1813 Gideon Roberts died.
1790 Asa Hooker starts copper mine, soon operated by Luke Gridley.
1791 First Baptist services, Fall Mountain.
1793
1793
April 8. First "Pest House" or smallpox hospital opened. October 10. Public Library organized by Gideon Rob- erts, Josiah Holt, George Mitchell, Lament Peck and others.
1825
Federal Hill Academy started. George Welch and his sons, Elisha, Harmanus and Henry, start foundry near West and Race Streets.
December. Second Baptist church starts services.
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Atkins clock company formed. Harvey Wright makes first springs. August 1. Third and present Congregational Church dedi- cated.
1832
1833 First Bristol band organized. 1851
1834 Alphonso Barnes Southside hotel opened. 1853
1835 First Episcopal Church since the Revolution built on Maple Street.
1837 First Methodist Church built on West Street.
Depression wipes out many clock companies.
1838 1845
First fireworks display.
1855
Elisha Welch buys bankrupt Elisha Manross clock works. St. Joseph's, first Catholic Church, built on Federal Hill.
1856
Welch buys bankrupt Jonathan Brown clock works, and rapidly builds up second largest clock company in the world.
1857
Depression wipes out many Bristol industries.
1858
Dunbar and Wallace Barncs combine to make springs and hoop skirts. 1860
February 8. Crinoline Hall dedicated. Forestville Band provides music.
Civil War and After
1861-65 Civil War.
1868
1863 Wallace Barnes and Edward L. Dunbar set up separate spring factories. Crinoline Hall purchased as Town Hall. John Humphrey Sessions set up
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Bristol clockmakers and Waterbury bankers.
John Humphreys Sessions goes to work for the Winston Brothers woodturning shop in Polkville.
Seymour block built on Main Street.
Bristol Savings Bank and Build- ing Association formed.
Forestville Savings Bank and Building Association formed (perished as a result of 1857 depression).
1854
John Pomcroy makes springs by basic new method. Taken over by A. S. Platt and Com- pany.
New Carpet Society (Congre- gational Church) starts li- brary, taken over by Y.M.C.A. and then to be- come Bristol Public Library. Edward L. Dunbar begins mak- ing springs.
1847
First Forestville postoffice opened. Theodore Terry first postmaster.
Gad Norton develops Lake Compounce as summer re- sort. 1849
William Bainbridge Barnes in- vents marine clock, made by Hendrick Hubbell and Com- pany. 1850 Railroad reaches Bristol. Bristol Brass and Clock Com- pany founded by Elisha Niles Welch, Israel Holmes,
CALENDAR
1870
woodturning shop on North Main Street. Soon turned to making trunk hardware. Bristol Savings Bank started. Henry A. Seymour. Uncas Engine and Hose fire company organized.
1871 March 9. Bristol Press founded by Reverend Charles H. Riggs.
1875 Bristol National Bank founded. Miles Lewis Peck and John H. Sessions.
Bristol Foundry started by An- drew Terry and partner (purchased by John H. Ses- sions).
1876
Pequabuck Valley Gazette founded (later bought by Bristol Press).
1879
Sessions Foundry organized (Terry Foundry).
1881 1883
Telephone service begun.
First high school class organ- ized.
1907
Bristol Public Library moves into present edifice.
1886
Bristol Electric Light Company starts operations.
1911
June 17. First airplane show. August 17. Bristol Charter adopted.
1913 Present post office erected.
1914 Albert Rockwell donates park to city.
1915
Forestville Rolling Mill built by Wallace Barnes Company.
1916
New Departure acquired by United Motors.
1917 June 10. Bristol Red Cross or- ganized.
1917-18 World War I.
1918 New Departure acquired by General Motors.
1895
Borough government set up. Sessions Foundry builds mod-
ern plant on Farmington Avenue.
1896
Photographer Herbert N. Gale buys first automobile.
1898 Sylvia Manross becomes first woman driven in Connecti- cut.
Modern Bristol
1901 New Town Hall built on North Main Street.
1901-1907 Various cars developed by Manrosses and Rockwell.
1903 Fletcher-Terry glass cutting company started. William E. Sessions takes over bankrupt Welch clock inter- ests.
1904 Forestville Public Library branch opened.
1906 New Departure starts making ball bearings.
1885
June 17. First city-wide water system.
1908
Visiting Nurses organized by Mrs. Edson M. Peck.
1888
New Departure Bell Company organized by Albert F. and Edward Rockwell.
1891
1892
First high school erected at Summer and Center Streets. January 1. Bristol Public Li- brary opens with 3,825 vol- umes at 11 North Main Street.
1893
Bristol and Plainville Tramway Company organized.
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1920 New high school on Memorial Boulevard.
1921 Bristol Hospital organized.
1923 Associated Spring Corporation organized. Fuller Forbes Barnes president.
1925 Bristol Hospital built.
1930-37 Depression.
1933 DeWitt Page donates park.
1937 Hayden Manufacturing Com- pany organized.
1940
1938 Superior Electric Company or- ganized.
Outdoor Sports Manufacturing Company of Forestville organized. Bristol Machine Tool Company organized.
1941-46 World War II.
1945 Raytric Knitting Mill moves to Bristol.
1950 Hildreth Press moves to Bris- tol.
1950-53 Korean War.
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index
A
Abernathy: Caleb, 25, 35; Lois (Gay- lord), 25
Academy Street, 167
Adams: John Quincy, 164; Lukc, 85; Ly- man D., 205, 227; Samucl, 59, 60
Adkins: family, 138; Joseph, 31, 41, 46; see also Atkins
Advent Christian Church, 221 Adventists, Second, 132 Africa, 225
Aileron, 197
Albany (New York), 148 Alcok, see Alcott
Alcott: Amos Bronson, 84, 101; Deborah (Blakeslee), 13; John, 13, 84; Louisa May, 84
Alden Tavern (Lebanon), 48
Ale, see Food and Drink
Alighting gear, 197 Allegheny Mountains, 74 Allen, Ethan, 63
Allen and Atkins, 119
Allentown Road, 86 America, 196
American Brass Company, 243 American Silver Company, 187, 191, 204, 205, 212; see also Holmes and Tuttle American Steel and Wire Corporation, 190 American Taximeter Cab Company, 196 Ames Shovel Company, 146 Amherst, 154
Amusements: balls, 90-92, 94; billiard parlors, 162; canal, 108; dancing, 91, 92, 107; fairs, 173, 191, 194; games, 9, 10, 41, 83, 91, 169, 233, 235; gaming, 59; hiking, 91; house-raising bees, 21,
91; housewarmings, 91; magicians, 160; minstrels, 169; parties, 91; picnics, 92, 108; quilting bees, 91; sewing bees, 91; shows, 59, 194; singing, 9, 16, 21, 30, 51, 91, 194; skating and sledding, 108; sleigh riding, 91; swimming, 91; teas, 91; ten pins, 130; theaters, 166, 194; Training Band excreises, 92; vaude- ville, 194; wizard performances, 160; see also Sports
Andover (Massachusetts), 205
Andrews: Asa, 95; Charles F., 167; family, 77; Franklin, 118, 121; Lucius, 118; Obadiah, 58; Roland, 86
Animals: domestic: breeding of, 92, 160, 183; cattle, 14, 27, 92, 125, 128; horses, see subject; mules, 86, 92, 118, 126; oxen, see subject; pound, 26, 75, 77; shecp, 14; swinc, 77, 92, 128.
Animals: wild: 1; bear, 2, 6; beaver, 7; deer, 6; lions, 129; muskrat, 108; wild- cat, 7; wolf, 6, 7, 15, 36
Ann Arbor (Michigan), 206 Ansonia: 152; Clock Company, 166 Antictam, 153
Apple: blossoms, 16; for cider, 192; Johnny Appleseed, 74; orchard, 14, 166; trees, 5, 14, 16, 67, 157; trees, Waterbury sweet, 27; see also Food and Drink
Apprentices: 37; clock, 106, 113, 114; farm, 113
Arbors, clock, 47, 75 Archery, 233, 235
Architecture: 2; Beleden, 194; church, 31, 130, 131, 202; Hayden, Harold A., 200; Jackson, Joseph A., 202; Ro- botham, Richard, 233
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Arkansas, 114 Armistice: World War I, 199, 205
Armory, 191, 215
Arms, George C., 174 Arnold, Benedict, 63
Arrowheads, Indian, 5, 37
Arundel, 216 Asbury Methodist Church, 165, 221 Ashpit, 8
Asheries, 16, 17, 94 Asphaltum, 94
Associated Spring Corporation: 206, 208, 227, 229; Canadian plant, 229; Man- ross, F. N. Division, 229; see also, Barncs, Wallace Company; Springs Asylum, Deaf and Dumb, 133
Atkins: and Company, 119; Clock Com- pany, 119, 166; and Downs, 118; Eunice (Beckwith), 138; family, 101, 118, 137-38; George, 99; Ircne (Bots- ford), 138; Irenus, 101, 117-19, 138, 146, 157, 167, 183; Polly, see Mitchell, Polly (Atkins), Rollin, 101, 118; store, 136; Salvina, see Merriman, Salvina (Atkins); Whiting and Company, 119 Atomic research, 241
Atwood, Anson L., 119
Aube, Harold Nicholas, 217
Auckland, New Zealand, 216
Auction, Plum mill, 18
Auditorium: Bristol Press, 169; library, 226; Odcon, 183
Automobile: Bristol Car, 189; Cadillac, 200; Dodge, 200; effect on industry, 190; first, 185-86; gas engine, 189; Haupt-Rockwell, 194; Law Motor Car, 189; noiseless, 189; Rockwell, 194-96; steam, 189; taxicab, 194, 196; Winton, 189; see also Industries
Avery, James, 160; Sarah, 160
Aviation: 165, 229, 237, 239, 241; Bristol airport, 256; flights, 197; industry, 237, 239, 241, 251; Pagc, Victor W., 197, 200; planes, Curtiss, 197; show, 196- 97; speed, 197
Aviators, 197, 200 Ax: 2, 161; as weapon, 53; broad, 5; handles, 20
B
Baanga, 216
302
Bailey: Abner, 75, 84; Catherine (Rob- erts), 73, 84, 98; Olive, see Roberts, Olive (Bailey)
Bakeries: commercial, first 126; wagon, 126 Baking powder, 17 Baldwin, Joel, 47
Ball: Esther A., see Terry, Esther A. (Ball)
Ball bearings: 196, 200, 211, 213-14, 241, 249, 251, 253; hardwood, 100; see also New Departure Manufacturing Com- pany Bandits, 136
Bands: 129, 136, 160, 165; concerts, 166; Forestville Spring, 149; Phoenix, 107
Banks and Banking: Bristol American
Bank and Trust Company, 212; Bristol Bank and Trust Company, 212-13, 218; Bristol Building and Loan Association, 213; Bristol Federal Savings and Loan Association, 213; Bristol National, 161- 62, 170, 212; Bristol Savings, 159, 161; Bristol Trust Company, 193, 212; Forestville Savings and Loan Company, 151; New Haven Mechanics Bank, 102; New York, 193; Savings Bank and Building Association (Bristol and For- estvillc), 146
Baptist Church, 47, 83, 84, 86, 87, 89, 95, 96, 99, 100, 117-18, 130, 137, 157-58, 164, 221
Barbour, Thomas F., 161 Barlcy: 14, 17; water, 46
Barncs: Abigail, 16, 17; Abijah, 1, 41; Alphonso, 114, 125, 127, 129-30, 133, 134, 146-47; Amos, 59, 62; Anna, 2, 8, 9; see also Neal, Anna (Barnes); Anna (daughter of Stephen), 36; Arthur S., 193; Asahel, 62; Azubah, 36; and Bartholomew, 119; Brothers, 183; Carlyle Fuller, 183-84, 190, 205; Danicl (son of Thomas), 87; Daniel (grandson of Ebenczcr), 25; David, 10, 40, 41; Deborah (daughter of Ebe- nezer), 15; Deborah (Orvis), 3; Ebe- nczer, 1-43, 51, 77, 87, 123, 134, 144, 169, 185; Ebenezer, Junior, 4, 16, 17, 24, 30, 35, 40, 51; Elizabeth Janc (Fuller), 147; Esther, 16, 17, 20; Esther (Peck), 87; Eveline, see Byington, Evelinc (Barnes); family, 147, in Civil
INDEX
War, 153; in Revolution, 65, 67; Fuller Forbes, 201, 205, 206, 226; - Gibson- Raymond, Inc., 206; Gideon, 2, 15, 40; Harry, 183-84; Jedidiah, 2, 3, 5, 15; Judah, 77, 78; Lena (Forbes), 184; Lucy, 10, 17; Mabel (Hancox), 1, 3, 8- 10, 16, 17, 20, 40; Mary (Gaylord), 21, 36, 40; Mary (daughter of Ebenezer), see Naughton, Mary (Barnes); Rodney, 121-22, 128; Rosanna (Lewis), 102; Sally (Jerome), 87; Stephen (son of Ebe- nezcr), 1-43, 45, 51, 62, 79, 80, 91, 92, 175; Stephen (son of Thomas), 80, 87; Stephen, Junior, 59; tavern, see Tav- erns; Thomas, 1, 3, 4; Thomas (son of Ebenezer), 4, 35, 40; Thomas (son of Stephen), 21, 36, 62, 87; Thomas, Junior (son of Thomas), 86, 87, 90, 102, 108, 112, 114-15, 120, 123, 126-27, 130-31, 138, 147-48; Thomas III, 148; Wallace, 121, 129, 147-49, 160, 183-84; Wallace, Company, 149, 160, 165, 183, 190, 200, 205-6, 208, 212, 218, 227, 229, 247, see also Dunbar; William, 25, 87; William Bainbridge, 121, 122; Wise, 58
Barnum, P. T., 129
Barrel, 3, 9, 20, 37; clock, 47, 75
Barrett: and Bartholomew, 208; Richard, 235; Robert, 235; William L., 181-82,
191, 208, 235, 237; William L., Com- pany, 235-36
Bartholomew: Asa, 75, 97; Asa (Major), 160; Barrett and, 208; Eli, 112; factory, 208; family, 107, 153; George, 112, 128, 136, 138, 146; Harry I., 237; Harry I., Company, 208; Harvey S., 146; in Revolution, 65; Jacob, 75, 77; Lemuel, 75; tavern, 75, 78; William, 115 Baskets: making, 20, 37
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