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Charles D. Kelsey, Co. E, 5th Vermont Vols. Mustered in Aug 14th, 1861. Honorably discharged Sept. 16th, 1864.
G. F. Kelsey, Co.C, 115th Ill. Vols., died in '77. Buried in Union Cemetery.
James R. Mathews, Co. I, 27th C. V. Mustered in Sept. 1st, 1862, from New Haven. Honorably discharged July 27th, 1863.
William Morris, Co. F, 12th Conn. Vols. Mustered in from Danbury, Nov. 23rd, 1861. Re-enlisted Jan. 1st, 1864. Mustered out Aug. 12th, 1865.
Richard Pearson, Co. K, 6th U. S. Cavalry. Mustered in Sept. 1st, 1861. Transferred from 3rd Md. in October, 1862. Mustered out Sept. 3rd, 1864.
Benjamin B. Thayer, Co. E, 2nd C. V. Heavy Artillery. Mustered in from Canton, Ang. 6th, 1862. Mustered out July 7th, 1865, at Washing- ton, D. C.
John Wooster, Mass. Battalion, Cal. Cavalry. Buried in Union Cemetery.
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Hotes, 1862 to 1870.
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There was an extraordinarily heavy rain June 4th and 5th, 1862, followed by a high flood. June was remarkable as a very rainy month and the July following as a very dry one.
At the annual town meeting held Oct. 6th, 1862, Henry Bradley, John Davis and Stephen D. Russell were re-elected selectmen; David Betts, Jr., treasurer; Owen Shannon, school visitor.
An old resident of the vicinity of Bladen's Brook says that the greatest freshet ever known on that stream occurred Feb. 7th, 1863.
At the annual town meeting in October, Harvey Hotchkiss, Stephen R. Rider and Nathan Holbrook, were elected selectmen ; B. W. Smith, town clerk ; David Betts, Jr., treasurer; and John Chatfield, school visitor.
A teachers' institute was held in the Congregational Church Jan. 7th, Sth and 9th, 1864, at which thirty-two teachers were present from Ansonia, Bir- mingham, Seymour, Oxford, Naugatuck and Waterbury. Hon. N. D. Camp of New Britain, lectured on Common Schools in the evening.
The Day Brothers' Rubbermill was burned on the night of March 18th, but was immediately rebuilt.
The name of the "Stone Schoolhouse " district was changed to " Cedar Ridge."
At the electors' meeting held April 4th, 1864, H. B. Munson was elected representative, and the following named persons were elected justices of the peace : H. B. Munson, B. W. Smith, J. J. Wilcoxen, C. W. James, Wn. B. Stoddard, E. R. Bassett, Israel French, John Chatfield, Adonijah French, Leonard Wyant.
At the annual town meeting held Oct. 3rd, Stephen R. Rider, Charles A. Wooster and Nathan Holbrook were elected selectmen; B. W. Smith, town clerk ; C. W. James, treasurer ; and Frederick Durand, school visitor. A resolution was adopted instructing the selectmen and school visitors to inquire into the expediency of establishing a graded school, to ascertain if a suitable building could be rented for the purpose, the probable expense of such school, and to report at an adjourned meeting to be held the following Saturday. The report was duly made and accepted, and it was voted that a school of a higher grade be established. Burton W. Smith, Harvey Hotch- kiss and G. W. Divine were appointed a committee to establish and superin- tend the school, and to fix a rate of tuition sufficient to defray the expense. Glendinning Hall was leased for a schoolroom, and Miss Hermance was en- gaged as teacher.
At the electors' meeting held Nov. Sth there were 222 votes cast for the democratic presidential electors, and 124 for the republican.
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[1865-8
At the annual town meeting held Oct. 2nd, 1865, Henry Bradley, Philo Holbrook and Stephen D. Russell were elected selectmen ; B. W. Smith, town clerk ; C. W. James, treasurer ; and O. Evans Shannon, school visitor.
At the spring election, H. B. Munson was elected representative to the General Assembly.
The house of Capt. James Baker on Great Hill, was burned on the night of Nov. 16th.
H. B. Munson was elected representative April 2nd, 1866. The justices elected were J. J. Wilcoxen, H. B. Munson, Israel French, Leonard Wyant, Norman Sperry, B. W. Smith, C. W. James, E. R. Bassett, John Chatfield, Elbert A. Peck.
At a special meeting held April 3rd, action was taken relative to building a town-house with suitable provision for a high school-hoom, and at a subse- quent meeting it was voted to build, not to exceed 40x70 feet ; but at a meet- ing held May 18th, to act on a report of the committee as to plan and specifi- cations, the whole matter was indefinitely postponed.
The Fengot Coal Co. was organized in 1866, for the preparation of com- pressed fuel from peat. A large swamp near the Woodbridge line was pur- chased, building erected, machinery obtained, and some of the fuel prepared for use. The venture proved unprofitable and the business was closed up at great loss to the stockholders, one of whom stated that his patent fuel had cost him one thousand dollars per ton.
The Rimmon Water Company was organized July 2nd, 1866, and soon after commenced building a dam at the place where an abutment had been built in 1850. The work was vigorously pushed forward under the direction of Raymond French, and finally completed and the gates closed Oct. 27th, 1867, at a cost of $65,000. The plate or overflow is about 300 feet long and the fall nineteen feet.
The selectmen elected Oct. 1st, were Wm. A. Fairchild, Samuel P. Davis and Charles A. Wooster; town clerk, Edward F. Bassett; treasurer, Na- than R. Wooster ; school visitors, Joshua Kendall and C. W. James ; high school committee, G. W. Divine, Sylvester Smith and S. Y. Beach.
On the 15th of March, 1867, the Nangatnek rose rapidly until at the mouth of the river it was fourteen feet and five inches above low water mark.
At the April election H. B. Munson was again elected representative to the General Assembly.
In October Win. F. Betts was elected town clerk ; Henry G. Hurd, Stephen R. Rider and Adonijah French, selectmen; Henry Davis, town treasurer and school visitor.
A series of revival meetings were commenced in the M. E. Church, Rev. Joseph Pullman, pastor, December, 1867, and continued through Janu- ary and February, 1868, resulting in quite a number of conversions. A series of similar meetings were commenced in the Congregational Church Feb. 9th, under the direction of Rev. Allan Clark.
On the 10th of February, 1868, the Naugatuck rose to thirteen feet and three inches above low water mark at Derby.
At the electors' meeting held April 6th, Carlos French was again elected to representative, and H. B. Munson, Adam Newheim, E. R. Bassett, James Howard, Israel French, Lewis Judd, Matthias Bunyan, C. W. James, Leman Whitlock and Philo Holbrook were elected justices of the peace.
On the 4th of October, 1868, the Naugatuck rose to the highest point reached in fifteen years, while Little river and Bladen's brook were foaming
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torrents. Two bridges on Bladen's Brook were carried away and the new stone bridge by Ames' factory was much damaged. About thirty feet of the wall of the raceway below Kahnia Mills, was also carried away, stopping all the factories on the main stream.
At the annual meeting held Oct. 5th. 1868, Stephen II. Culver, Samuel P. Davis and Geo. W. Divine were elected selectmen; S. H. Canfield, town clerk ; Henry Davis, treasurer ; Joshna Kendall, school visitor; Joshua Kendall and Henry B. Beecher, assessors; Joshua Kendall and Henry Bradley, registrars of electors ; Joseph JJ. Wilcoxen, S .. H. Canfield, G. W. Divine, Ashbel Storrs, Henry P. Davis, Israel French, grand jurors ; Sylvester Smith and Sharon Y. Beach, board of relief. The total vote was 359; average republican majority, 30.
At an adjourned town meeting held Oct. 12th, the following resolutions were adopted :
Resolved, That the selectmen be instructed to cause their annual report to be printed, and have at least five hundred copies, to be left at the town clerk's office on or before the 28th of September in each year, for distribution among the voters of the town. Such report shall contain the amount of each bill and to whom paid, the amount paid for the support of the poor out of the Alms House, and for whom the expense was incurred, the amount paid to each town officer for services, and any other information which they may deem necessary to show the expenses and indebtedness of the town ; to which shall be added the report of the town treasurer.
Resolved, That the school districts of this town be consolidated into one school district, to be known as the Seymour School District, and that chapter 87 of the laws passed May session, 1867, are hereby referred to and made part of this regulation.
At an adjourned town meeting held Oct. 15th, the following named per- sous were elected a committee of the Seymour School District : Eli Gillette, C. W. Storrs, J. W. Bassett, Joshua Kendall, C. W. JJames, Harpin Riggs, Joel R. Chatfield, Peter Worth, Henry Davis. At the first meeting of the school board JJ. Kendall was chosen chairman ; Henry Davis, Secretary and treasurer ; and J. Kendall and Henry Davis, school visitors.
The funeral of Carl Zurcher, junior agent of the Kalmia Mills, Dec. 10th, was attended by a large concourse of his friends. He had resided in Seymour four and a half years, and was highly esteemed by those who knew him best.
The rebuilding of Smith's papermill, which was burned Jan. 11th, 1869, was completed in March. The Kahnia Mills Co. contracted for three dwel- ling houses of four tenements each to be erected on Third street. Business was thriving and the place grew rapidly, the grand list of the town exceed- ing $1,000,000. Messrs. Hendryx & Peek purchased the old car shop north of the depot and remodelled it into a store and several tenements.
At the April election Philo Holbrook was elected representative to the General Assembly of 1869.
The second meeting of the Seymour School District for the election of members of the board, was held in the High School room Sept. 25th, and Elliott R. Bassett, Samuel A. Beach and Henry Davis were elected for three years.
In October the town clerk and selectmen were re-elected : S. II. Can- field was elected treasurer ; Joshma Kendall and Henry Bradley, registrars of voters ; Joshua Kendall and W. W. Smith, assessors ; Ashbel Storrs, G. W. Divine, N. R. Wooster, Eli Gillette, J. W. Smith and Norman Sperry,
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grand jurors ; and John W. Bassett, registrar of births, marriages and deaths.
Kalmia Mills were closed the following winter, and in its failure seemed to betoken decreased prosperity for the ensuing decade; yet the place has continued to grow, and in 1877 the population was at least five hundred more than in 1870. The debt of the town, which in 1869, was over twenty-three thousand dollars, has virtually been paid, only two bonds, not yet due, being outstanding, and these more than balanced by the assets of the town. The various industries of the town are now improving and there seems to be no reason why the season of depression through which we have just passed should not be followed by prosperity and renewed growth.
TOWN CLERKS, TREASURERS AND REPRESENTATIVES.
TOWN CLERKS.
1850-Charles B. Wooster.
TREASURERS. Sylvester Smith. Burton W. Smith.
1851
1852 66
66
66
1853
1854
66
66
66
1855
66
1856
66
Hiram W. Randall.
1857
Burton W. Smith.
1858
1859
66
66
Henry S. Johnson.
1860
66
66
1861
16
66
David Betts, Jr.
1862
66
1863-Burton W. Smith.
1864
יר
Cornelius W. James.
1865
1866-Edward F. Bassett.
Nathan R. Wooster. Henry Davis.
1868-Samuel H. Canfield.
1869
66
Samuel H. Canfield.
Carlos Freneh. Philo Holbrook.
1870
66
66
66
66
Virgil H. MeEwen. Smith Botsford.
1872
60
James Swan.
1873
66
66
66
Horatio N. Eggleston. Edmund Day.
1875
66
66
66
66
Lewis A. Camp.
1876
Henry P. Day.
1877
66
Samuel A. Beach.
1878
Albert B. Dunham.
* For Town of Derby. Joshua Kendall represented the town of Derby in 1849.
REPRESENTATIVES. *Sylvester Smith. Bennett Wooster. Sylvester Smith. Harris B. Munson. 66
Luzon B. Morris. 66
Henry C. Johnson. Charles B. Wooster. Samuel L. Bronson. Carlos Freneh. Clark Wooster. Abel Holbrook. Harris B. Munson. יו
66 66
66
46
1867-William F. Betts.
66
1871
1874
66
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SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF SEYMOUR.
1850-51, Leman Chatfield, Daniel L. Holbrook, Thomas Cochran.
1852, Isaac B. Davis, Sharon Y. Beach, Harpin Riggs. 1853, Leman Chatfield, Harpin Riggs, Jabez E. Pritchard. 1854, Harpin Riggs, Jabez E. Pritchard, Henry Bradley, 1855, Jabez E. Pritchard, Henry Bradley, Philo Holbrook. 1856, Sheldon Church, Miles Culver, Daniel L. Holbrook. 1857-8, Henry Bradley. Edwin Smith, Abel Holbrook. 1859-60, Henry Bradley, Edwin Smith, Stephen D. Russell. 1861-2, Henry Bradley, John Davis, Stephen D. Russell. 1863, Harvey Hotchkiss, Stephen R. Rider, Nathan Holbrook. 1864, Stephen R. Rider, Charles A. Wooster, Nathan Holbrook. 1865, Henry Bradley, Philo Holbrook, Stephen D. Russell. 1866, Wm. A. Fairchild, Samuel P. Davis, Charles A. Wooster. 1867, Henry G. Hurd, Stephen R. Rider, Adonijalı French. 1868-9, Stephen H. Culver, Samuel P. Davis, George W. Divine. 1870, Sharon Y. Beach, Nathan R. Wooster, Samuel P. Davis. 1871, Edwin Smith, Frank C. Gerard, Edwin Buckingham. 1872, Edwin Smith, Frank C. Gerard, Roswell N. Kinney. 1873, Lewis A. Camp, Frank C. Gerard, Roswell N. Kinney. 1874, Lewis A. Camp, Cornelius W. James, Samuel P. Davis. 1875, Lewis A. Camp, Cornelius W. James, Frederick M. Clemons. 1876, Lewis A. Camp, Frank E. Steele, Frederick M. Clemons. 1877, Lewis A. Camp, Frank E. Steele, Edward L. Hoadley. 1878, Horace A. Radford, Frank E. Steele, Edward L. Hoadley.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. For lists previous to 1870 see foregoing pages.
1870, HI. B. Munson, J. J. Wilcoxen, B. W. Smith, Israel French, Na- than Holbrook, Matthias Bunyan, Samuel Roselle, David Betts, Jr., Adam Newheim, S. Y. Beach.
1872, H. B. Munson, Geo. A. Rogers, Wm. S. Cooper, Henry P. Davis, Edwin Tomlinson, Geo. W. Divine, Wilson Wyant, Henry B. Beecher, C. W. James, Sheldon Tucker.
1874, G. W. Divine, James Swan, L. A. Camp, Ebenezer Fairchild, W. N. Storrs, S. Y. Beach, S. P. Davis, W. S. Cooper, F. M. Clemons, C. W. JJames.
1876, F. M. Clemons, Wmn. R. Tomlinson, G. W. Divine, W. S. Cooper, H. S. Chamberlin, J. W. Rogers, Samuel Butler, S. Y. Beach, Ashbel Storrs, Theodore S. Ladd.
1878, Edwin Buckingham, Gustave Becker, John W. Rogers, Frederick M. Clemons, William R. Tomlinson, James Buckley, Horatio S. Cham- berlin, Ashbel Storrs, John Smith, William S. Cooper.
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2
NTIL 1856 the schools were managed by districts and school societies. The districts on the east side of the river constituted the First School Society, and those on the west side the Second School Society. The meetings of the latter were held in the meeting house on Great Hill from 1824 to 1851, when the whole of the districts of Seymour were united in one Society. The Naugatuck river was made the division line between the two societies by an act of the Assembly in 1832. (Pr. Acts, Vol. 2, p. 1086.) In 1841 the boundaries were defined as follows :
We the School Committee of the Second School Society in the Town of Derby have laid and established the fourth Day of June, A. D., 1842, the following described bounds and limits to the 2d School Society in Derby, viz., commencing at the Town bounds between Derby and Oxford, on the west side of the highway a few rods - of the House now occupied by Oliver Nettleton, thenee proceeding in a direct line south-westerly to the former site of the old District School House at the center of which site we have laid bounds; theucc proceeding in a direct line a little south of west to bounds laid by us near an old cellar about three rods south of a large pine tree, said bounds on the highway near the fence, thence proceeding in a direct line a little south of east to a large roek a little off the road near the house of Jube Weston, by a spring, on which rock we have laid bounds ; thence proceeding in a direet line south easterly to bounds laid by us on the highway about two rods -- of small house now occupied by the widow of Ephraim Allen and James Harding ; thence proceeding in the same direction until the line strikes Naugatuck river; from thence said district is bounded on the east and separated from the first society by Naugatuck river until it meets the line between Derby and Oxford, when it strikes the west side of the said river ; from thence said distriet is bound- ed on the north by said town line, running west until it strikes the bounds on the highway first com- menced at. Said boundaries of the above named district, so far as they have not been legally settled and defined before, are hereby settled and defined by us.
ANSON DAVIS, SOCIETY JAMES C. TOMLINSON, S COMMITTEE.
At each annual meeting of the Second Society were elected a moderator, clerk, treasurer, a society's committee of three, a visiting committee of nine, and nntil 1840 the district committees were elected at the Society's meetings. The Shrub Oak district appears to have been first included in the Second Society in 1831.
At a special meeting of the voters of the Great Hill School Society held Sept. 30th, 1851, it was voted that the fund of the Great Hill School Society be divided equally between the four districts, and that the first meeting of the
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School Society of Seymour be held in the Congregational Church in Ilum- phreysville. At the said first meeting Daniel L. Holbrook was elected chair- man ; B. W. Smith, elerk; G. F. DeForest, treasurer; Sylvester Smith, S. Y. Beach and Harpin Riggs, society's committee; John B. Steel, collector ; and Joshua Kendall, visiting and examining committee. The numbers of the districts were continued the same except that the Falls district, now the Center district, which had been known as the eighth, was made the sixth.
At a special meeting of the Seymour School District held Feb 1st, 1869, it was voted to purchase a lot in the Pines and to build thereon a school-house of sufficient capacity to accomodate 160 scholars. A tax was to be laid suffi- cient to raise the sum of $6,000 to defray the expenses. The lot was pur- chased at a cost of $700 and is still held by the town, but on account of ob- jections to the location the school-honse has not been built.
SCHOOL VISITORS OF THE TOWN OF SEYMOUR.
ELECTED IN SCHOOL SOCIETY MEETINGS.
1850 to 1855, Joshma Kendall. 1855-6, Sylvester Smith.
ELECTED IN TOWN MEETING, FOR THREE YEARS EACH. The stars indicate those elected each year.
1856-7, George F. De Forest,* Philo B. Buckingham,* Luzon B. Morris, 1857-8, Joshua Kendall,* Sharon Y. Beach .*
1858-9, Joshua Kendall, Sharon Y. Beach, Philo B. Buckingham,* 1859-60, Joshua Kendall, Sharon Y. Beach,* Philo B. Buckingham. 1860-1, Joshua Kendall,* Sharon Y. Beach, Philo B. Buckingham. 1861-2, Joshua Kendall, Sharon Y. Beach, Charles B. Wooster .*
1862-3, Joshna Kendall, Charles B. Wooster, Rev. Owen E. Shannon .* 1863-4, Rev. Owen E. Shannon, Frederick Durand, John Chatfield .*
F. Durand elected by the other visitors to fill vacaney eaused by the resignation of C. B. Wooster. 1364-5, Rev. Owen E. Shannon, Frederick Durand,* John Chatfield. 1865-6, Rev. O. Evans Shammon,* Frederick Durand, John Chatfield. 1866-7, Rev. O. Evans Shannon, Frederick Durand, Cornelius W. James .* F. Durand resigned May 21, 1867, and J. Kendall was elected to fill the vacancy. 1867-8, Joshua Kendall, Cornelius W. James, Henry Davis .*
ELECTED BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
1868-9, JJoshua Kendall, Cornelius W. James, Henry Davis. 1869-70, Joshua Kendall, Cornelius W. James, Henry Davis. 1870-1, Joshua Kendall.
1871-2, Joshua Kendall, Edmund Day, Harpin Riggs.
1872-3, Joshna Kendall, Samuel P. Davis.
1873-4, Joshua Kendall, Norman Sperry.
1874-5, Joshua Kendall, Virgil HI. McEwen, Norman Sperry.
1875-6, Joshua Kendall, Virgil H. MeEwen, William C. Sharpe. 1876-7, Joshua Kendall, Virgil H. MeEwen, William C. Sharpe. 1877-8, Joshua Kendall, William C. Sharpe.
1878-9, Joshua Kendall, William C. Sharpe.
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MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. ELECTED IN UNION SCHOOL MEETING.
1868, elected for one year-Cornelius James, Henry Davis, Eli Gillette. For two years-Harpin Riggs, John W. Bassett, John R. Chatfield. For three years-Joshua Kendall, Peter Worth, C. W. Storrs. 1869, Elliott R. Bassett, Samuel A. Beach, Henry Davis.
Carlos French was elected by the board June 6th, 1870, to fill the vacancy caused by the re- moval of Henry Davis. 1870, Harpin Riggs, Wilbur W. Smith, John W. Bassett. 1871, Joshua Kendall, Edmund Day, Thomas James. ELECTED IN TOWN MEETING.
1872, Carlos French, A. Y. Beach, Samuel P. Davis.
A. Y. Beach resigned Nov. 12th and S. H. Canfield was appointed by the Board to fill the vacancy.
1873, Sharon Y. Beach, Norman Sperry, H. N. Eggleston.
1874, V. H. McEwen, Joshua Kendall, Edmund Day.
1875, S. H. Canfield, Carlos French, William C. Sharpe.
1876, Sharon Y. Beach, Frederick M. Clemons, Nathan Holbrook.
1877, Edmund Day, Joshua Kendall, Norman Sperry.
V. H. McEwen elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Norman Sperry, until the next town election.
1878, S. H. Canfield, W. C. Sharpe, David Tucker, James Howard. James Howard to fill vacancy for two years.
GREAT HILL SCHOOL, No. 1.
This is probably the oldest school in the town. An abstract of a volume of the earlier records is given on pages 19 and 20.
At a meeting of the Second Society held Nov. 7th, 1831, Wm. Smith, Samuel Wire and Samuel Meigs were appointed a committee to designate a location for a new school-house in the First or Great Hill District, and decided upon the north-east angle of the roads below the present location of the church.
The district line was changed by vote of the school society Oct. 12, 1843, as follows :
Resolved, That so much of the Ist school district, 2d society in Derby, be and hereby is, set off to the 5th school district in Oxford, as lies north and west of a liuc beginning at the Oxford line, by the dwelling-house of Andrew S. Graham, running southeasterly to the corner of road leading to Rock-house Hill ; thence by said road to the corner of land of Abel and Benjamin English, near the house of Christopher Smith ; thence northwesterly to Oxford line, including the house of Abel and Benjamin English.
The lines were laid out anew Nov. 1st, 1843, as follows :
Whereas, The record defining the lines of the Great Hill School District in the second school society in Derby being lost, and the undersigned committee being empowered by an act of the legis- lature of the State of Connecticut, passed 1841, to lay out new and establish old lines, do make and establish the following lines, which shall constitute the school district of Great Hill, viz : Begin- ning eighty rods from the mouth of Toby Brook on 2d brook; thence in a straight line to the north- east corner of Monroe Scranton's farm ; thence in a straight line to Josiah Bassett's saw mill; thence in a straight line to the west side of the highway, running by the dwelling-house formerly belonging to Truman Hawkins, now Anson Davis: thence on the west side of said highway until opposite a pine tree standing near the Rowe place, so-called ; thence in a straight line to the town bonds lying in the highway some thirty or forty rods south of Stephen Baldwin's dwelling-house; thence on the town line until it comes in a parallel line with the road sonth of Abel and Benjamin English; thence following the lines of that part of said English farm lying north of said road to the town line; thence
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on town line to a stone bridge near the dwelling-house of widow Ammon Tomlinson; thence on the town line to the northwest corner of Bennet Lum's farm, adjoining Simeon Hinman's land ; thence in a straight line to the place of beginning. The above lines shall constitute aud define the school district of the Great Hill.
Done in Derby, Nov. Ist, 1813.
LUTIIER FOWLER, EPHRAIM SMITH, SOCIETY COMMITTEE. WM. D. LUM,
In 1852, by joint action of the School Society and the 1st and 4th dis- tricts, the Squantuck district was consolidated with the Great Hill district, and the lines were defined as follows :
Whereas, The legal voters of the school society in the town of Seymour, at a meeting warned and held on the 3rd day of July, 1852, voted to annex the Squantuck School District to the First School District in said school society; Therefore, We, the undersigned Society's Committee, hereby establish the following described lines and boundaries annexed, viz: Beginning at the Ousatonic river, at the mouth of the Old Field brook at the boundary of the school society line between Derby and Seymour, running easterly on said line to the late dwelling-house of Philo Lum, deceased, leaving said dwelling-house in the North District in Derby School Society; thence running easterly on school society line to a heap of stones on a rock at the west corner of Asa Bassett's land, about thirty rods southerly of the house occupied by Miles Bronson ; thence running northerly by the Bunga School District to Josiah Bassett's saw mill ; thence northerly in a straight line to the west side of the highway at the east side of the Beard land, so called, southerly of the dwelling-house of Marcus Davis; thence on the west side of said highway till opposite a pine tree standing near the Rowe place, so called ; thence north-westerly to the old town bounds in the highway, about thirty rods south of the house of Stephen Baldwin; thence west on society line between Oxford and Seymour to the west side of highway in front of the dwelling-house of Andrew S. Graham; thence south- westerly to the corner of the road leading to Rock-house Hill; thence by said road to the corner of land of Abel and Benjamin English, near the house of Christopher Smith ; thence north-westerly to the school society line between Oxford and Seymour; thence on said line to stone bridge on Rock- house Hill road, north of the Ammon Tomlinson place, so called ; thence on society line to the north-west corner of Bennet Lum's farm, adjoining Simeon Hinman's land; thence straight line to the south end of Otter Rocks on the Ousatonic river; thenceby the east side of the Ousatonic river to the first-mentioned bounds ; and the above-described lines and boundaries hereby constitute the boundaries of the First School District in Seymour.
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