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1812
May,
Same.
Daniel Edgerton,
1814
May,
Same.
Eliakim Chapman, Elisha Stearns.
Same
Oct.,
Oct.,
Ephraim West, Elijah Smith.
Oct.,
Samuel Ladd.
Oct.,
Oct., Solomon Wills,
1804
May,
Jeremiah West.
Samuel Ladd.
Jonathan Barnes, Daniel Edgerton.
Same.
Jeremiah West.
1817 May, Oct.,
141
THE EARLY HISTORY OF TOLLAND.
1818
Aug., Ashbel Chapman.
1839
Elisha Stearns.
Oct., Eliphalet Young,
1840
Ariel Ladd, Seth D. Griggs.
1819
William Eldredge,
1841
Ebenezer West,
1820
Calvin Willey, Ashbel Chapman.
1842
Wm. C. Newcomb, Luther C. Anderson.
1821
Calvin Willey,
1843
Same.
1822
Hezekiah Nye,
Benjamin L. Young. Same.
1823
Eliphalet Young,
1846
Obadiah P. Waldo, John P. Brigham.
1824
George M. Hyde,
1847
Loren P. Waldo, William W. Eaton. Same.
1825
Jeremiah Parish,
1848
Joseph Clark,
1826
Cordial Newcomb,
1850
Ashbel Chapman,
1827
Jeremiah Parish. Same.
Chauncey Griggs.
1828
Elisha Stearns,
1851
Sherman Chapman,
1829
George M. Hyde,
1852
William Holman,
Benjamin Fuller.
1830
Rowland Lathrop. Eli Baker,
1853
Joseph A. Strait, Orrin Ward.
1831
Rowland Lathrop. Eli Baker,
1854
Alvin P. Hyde,
George M Hyde.
Lucius S. Fuller.
1832
Loren P. Waldo, Eli Baker.
1855
Benjamin D. Benton,
1833
Loren P. Waldo,
1856
William Clark, 2d.,
Novatus Chapman.
Daniel Grover, 2d.
1834
Loren P. Waldo, Eli Baker.
1857
Joseph Clark,
1835
Novatus Chapman,
1858
Alvin P. Hyde, Elijah Ashley.
1836
Carlos Chapman, John Warren.
1859
Charles Lathrop,
Dec.,
Same.
1860
1837
Same.
1838
Elisha Stearns,
1861
Joseph Bishop, Jabez West.
1839
Loren P. Waldo,
Oct.,
Same.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
By the provisions of the act of the General Assembly, passed in 1711, justices of the peace were to be appointed by the General Assembly, annually, and commissioned by the
Oliver Lord.
Hezekiah Nye.
Hezekiah Nye.
1844
Talmon Cross,
Ezra Chapman.
1845
George M. Hyde.
Cordial Newcomb.
George M. Hyde.
1849
Oliver K. Isham.
Jeremiah Parish.
Ira K. Marvin.
Aner Grover.
Joshua Griggs.
Cordial Newcomb.
Alvin Kibbe, 2d. William C. Ladd, Orson A. Richardson.
Chauncey Griggs.
William Eldredge.
142
THE EARLY HISTORY OF TOLLAND.
Governor for the time being, under the seal of the State. This provision was adopted in the constitution in 1818, but was changed by an amendment adopted in 1850, by which justices of the peace are to be appointed by the electors of the several towns. The statute of 1851 provides that they shall be appointed for two years.
The following is a list of the justices of the peace in the town of Tolland from the first settlement to 1861 :
Josiah Goodrich, from 1727 to 1733
John Huntington, 1733 to 1737
Samuel Chapman, 66 1737 to 1745
Zebulon West,
1745 to 1770
also, 66 1851 to 1857
John Lathrop, 66 1752 to 1753
Sherm'n Chapman, 1842 to 1847
Elisha Steel,
1761 to 1766
also,
1856
Samuel Cobb,
1768 to 1780
Obadiah P. Waldo, also, 66 1849 to 1851
1842 to 1844
Samuel Chapman,
1772 to 1797
Solomon Wills,
1781 to 1785
also, 66 1852 to 1854
Jeremiah West,
1786 to 1794
Wyllys Gilbert,
1844 to 1845
Samuel Whittlesey,
1795 to 1805
Daniel Grover,
1844 to 1846
Daniel Edgerton,
66 1798 to 1799
Jonathan R. Flynt, "
1845 to 1846
Jonathan Barnes, also,
66 1813 to 1829
Asa Willey,
1846 to 1847
Jabez Kingsbury,
1806 to 1817
Gurdon Isham,
1846 to 1847
Elisha Stearns, also,
66 1834 to 1845
John S. Lyon,
66
1846 to 1847
Daniel Kellogg,
1811 to 1813
John W. Gager,
66
1847 to 1850
John Bliss,
1811 to 1818
Chauncey Griggs, Sidney Stanley,
66
1847
Judah Bliss,
66 1812 to 1814
William W. Eaton,
1848 to 1850
Calvin Willey,
1818 to 1845
Sam'l D. Merrick, 66 1848 to 1851
Ashbel Chapman,
1818 to 1823
Calvin Whiton,
1848 to 1850
Eliphalet Young,
1820 to 1836
John Lyon,
1849 to 1850
Jeremiah Parish,
1821 to 1845
George M. Hyde, 60
1830 to 1853
Alvan P. Hyde, 66
1850
Benjamin Fuller, 66
1850 to 1851
also,
1851 to 1854
George Eaton,
1852 to 1858
Carlos Chapman,
1830 to 1833
Joseph Bishop,
1854
Ezra Chapman, also,
66 1833 to 1837
1811 to 1846
Geo. H. Kingsbury, “ 1854
1854 to 1855
Novatus Chapman,
1836 to 1840
William Sumner,
1854 to 1856
Talmon Cross, also,
66
1838 to 1840
Henry W. West, Edwin E. Marvin, Nathan Pierson, 66
1858
Warren Fitch,
66 1838 to 1843
Orrin Ward,
1858
Seth D. Griggs,
1838 to 1841
James A. Brown,
1860
Stephen Ladd,
1841 to 1843
Elij'h S. Chapman, " 1860
Ebenezer West,
1840 to 1849
Porter Walbridge,
1860
Ralph R. Griggs, also,
1846 to 1847
1847 to 1851
Solomon L. Fuller,
1813 to 1817
Hen'y Underwood, " 1849 to 1850 Alfred Young, 66 1849 to 1853
Loren P. Waldo, John Warren, also,
1842 to 1844
Myron L. Mason,
1851 to 1852
Wm. L. Edgerton, “ 1854 to 1858
Oliver Lord,
1837 to 1842
Jere. S. Parish, 66
Geo. D. Hastings, 66 1856
1856
Ariel Ladd, also,
1836 to 1840
1842 to 1850
1858 to 1860
1842 to 1850
Luth. C. Anderson, "
1846 to 1856
1854 to 1858
also,
1806 to 1819
Jedut'n Gleason, from 1840 to 1841 Zalmon A. Storrs, 1841 to 1853
Ashbel Chapman, 66 1842 to 1847
66 1798 to 1811
1828 to 1833
1824 to 1841
1830 to 1836
143
THE EARLY HISTORY OF TOLLAND.
SELECTMEN.
TOWNS were authorized by the act of 1672 "to choose a convenient number not exceeding seven of their inhabitants, able, discreet and of good conversation, to be selectmen or townsmen, to take care of and order the prudential affairs of their town." By the constitution of the State adopted in 1818, it is made " the duty of each town to elect annually selectmen and such officers of local police as the laws may prescribe."
By the provision of the statutes of 1821, towns were annu- . ally to choose and appoint a convenient number, not exceed- ing seven, to be selectmen, and by the statute of 1852 they are to be chosen by ballot.
The first selectmen chosen in the town of Tolland were chosen in the year 1717. The following named persons have held the office of selectmen in the town of Tolland, during the year prefixed to the names of each respectively :
1717
1718
William Eaton, Jonathan Willis, Daniel Benton. 66 Nathaniel Taylor.
1719
Joseph Benton, 66
1720
John Yeomans, Francis West, Ebenezer Nye, John Stiles, Daniel Benton.
1721 Daniel Eaton, Joseph Hatch, Joseph Park, Shubael Stearns, John Stiles.
1722
Francis West, John Huntington, Noah Grant.
1723
Daniel Eaton, Shubael Stearns, Peter Emmons.
1724 Jonathan Delano, Samuel Benton, Noah Grant. 66
1725
Hope Lathrop, Jonathan Delano, Peter Emmons.
1727
Josiah Goodrich, Hope Lathrop, Peter Emmons, Samuel Ben- ton, Jonathan Delano.
1728
Jonathan Delano, Josiah Goodrich, Samuel Benton, Joseph Baker.
1729 No record to be found.
1730
Josiah Goodrich, Jonathan Delano, Ebenezer Nye.
1731
Jonathan Delano, Ebenezer Nye, Samuel Chapman.
1732
James Chapman, Ebenezer Nye.
1733
Ebenezer Nye, Samuel Chapman.
1734
Ichabod Hinckley,
1785
. Samuel Chapman, Ichabod Hinckley.
1726
144
THE EARLY HISTORY OF TOLLAND.
Samuel Chapman, John Huntington, Zebulon West. Joseph Hatch,
66 Zebulon West, Timothy Hatch. Joseph Baker, Ebenezer Nye, Samuel Chapman. Zebulon West, 66
Samuel Chapman, 66 Zebulon West.
66 66 66
Ebenezer Nye, John Lathrop, 66 66 66 Zebulon West, Ebenezer Nye, John Lathrop. John Tyler, John Lathrop, Zebulon West. Zebulon West, John Tyler, Joshua Wills.
66 66 66
66 66
Joshua Wills, John Lathrop. 66
66 66 John Stearns.
Ebenezer Nye, Zebulon West. Zebulon· West, Ebenezer Nye, Joshua Wills. Ebenezer Nye, Joshua Wills, Joseph West. 66
Joseph West, 66 Samuel Chapman. Joshua Wills, Joseph West, Solomon Loomis. 6
Joseph West, Solomon Loomis, Ichabod Griggs. 66 66
No record to be found. Ichabod Griggs, Elijah Chapman, Joseph Lathrop.
66
66
66
Elijah Chapman, Joseph Lathrop, Stephen Steel. 66
66 66 Joseph Lathrop, Stephen Steel, Samuel Chapman. Stephen Steel, Samuel Chapman, Solomon Wills. Solomon Wills, Caleb West, Samuel West. Samuel West, Jr., Samuel Chapman, Ichabod Hinckley.
David Lathrop, Ichabod Hinckley, James West. Samuel West, Jr., James Chamberlin, Solomon Wills. 66 Jonathan Wills, Samuel Cobb, Jr. Joshua Wills, Samuel Cobb, Jr., Joseph West, Daniel Edger- ton.
1781
Joseph West, Daniel Edgerton, Samuel Cobb, Jr., Benoni Shepherd. Joseph West, Daniel Edgerton, Samuel Cobb, Jr., Benoni Shepherd, Ichabod Hinckley.
1736 1737 1738 1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745 1746 1747 1748 1749 1750 1751 1752 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 1758 1759 1760 1761 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766 1767 1768 1769 1770 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780
145
THE EARLY HISTORY OF TOLLAND.
Ichabod Hinckley, Samuel Ladd, Joshua Griggs.
66
66
66
66 Simon Chapman.
Joshua Griggs, Daniel Edgerton, Samuel Ladd. Ichabod Hinckley, Elnathan Strong, Daniel Edgerton.
Daniel Edgerton, Elnathan Strong. Daniel Edgerton, Simon Chapman, John Steel. " Samuel Ladd.
Ichabod Hinckley.
65
Ichabod Hinckley, Simon Chapman.
Samuel Ladd, Jonathan Barnes.
66
66
Jonathan Barnes, Daniel Edgerton, Ichabod Hinckley. John Kingsbury, Jabez West. Jeduthan Cobb, Jabez Kingsbury.
"
Jabez Kingsbury, Jeduthan Cobb. Jeduthan Cobb, Jonathan Barnes, Jabez Kingsbury. Jonathan Barnes, Jeduthan Cobb, 66 Jabez Kingsbury, 66 Simon Chapman, Jr.
Simon Chapman, Jr., Ashbel Chapman.
Ashbel Chapman, Ichabod Hinckley.
Eliakim Chapman, Ephraim West, Jabez Kingsbury.
Ashbel Chapman, Samuel Ladd, Ichabod Hinckley, John Warren, Ezra Chapman.
Calvin Willey, John Warren, Ezra Chapman, Aaron Chap- man, Thomas Howard.
John Warren, Ezra Chapman, Aaron Chapman, Shubael Reed, John Stanley.
Ephraim West, Eliakim Chapman, Shubael Reed. 66 Simon Chapman, Jr., Ashbel Steel.
Hezekiah Nye, Ezra Chapman, Ichabod Hinckley. Sylvanus Haynes, Joseph Howard. Eliphalet Young, Ezra Chapman. Eliphalet Young, Ezra Chapman, Aaron Chapman. Stephen Griggs, Ephraim West, John Kingsbury. Ezra Chapman, William Tillinghast, George M. Hyde. George M. Hyde, Hezekiah Nye, Cordial Newcomb. 66 66 Cordial Newcomb, William A. Sumner. Seymour Fuller, Solomon Howe.
1827 1828
. Luther Eaton, Cordial Newcomb. Cordial Newcomb, Eli Baker, Solomon Howe. 19
1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826
146
THE EARLY HISTORY OF TOLLAND.
George M. Hyde, Eli Baker, Solomon Howe.
Eli Baker, Hezekiah Nye, Samuel Kent.
Samuel Kent, Cordial Newcomb, Loren P. Waldo.
John Lyon, Loren P. Waldo, Ira K. Marvin. Loren P. Waldo, John Lyon,
Novatus Chapman, Charles Fish.
66
Oliver Lord, Carlos Chapman, Ebenezer West. Solomon L. Griggs, Warren Fitch, Joseph Burnham. Loren. P. Waldo, Solomon L. Griggs,
John W. Gager.
66 66
66 Novatus Chapman, Luther C. Anderson. Luther C. Anderson, John W. Gager, Levi Drake.
Sherman Chapman, Wm. C. Newcomb.
Loren P. Waldo, Nathaniel K. Sibley, Lucius S. Fuller.
Joseph Clark, Sheldon Eaton, Orrin Ward.
Moses Underwood, John W. Gager, Samuel D. Merrick. William C. Newcomb, William Holman, Alvan Kibbe, 2d.
John P. Brigham, Obadiah P. Waldo, Seth Brown.
Benjamin L. Young, Orson A. Richardson, Wm. Clark, 2d. 66 Alvan P. Hyde, Charles Lathrop, Jabez West.
Charles Underwood, Anthony M. Weaver, George Eaton. Lucius S. Fuller, Edward P. Kellogg, Edmund Joslin.
Sherman Chapman, Elijah S. Chapman, Porter Walbridge. 66 66 66 1860
Charles Underwood, James M. Babcock, James I. Andrews.
1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859
GENERAL INDEX.
Abbot, John Aborn, Samuel
Page. . 7,128
Grant, Noah and family,
122, 123
131
Barnard, John
88
.
Baptist Church, 43
. Baker, Joseph 77
Benton, Samuel 80
Indian tribes, 12
Indian names, 17
Isham, Gurdon 127
Burying-Grounds, 101
Incorporation, act of
10
Burres, Jonathan 94
Bliss, John
129
Kent, Samuel
126
Kingsbury, Jabez
65
Center of town, 5
Controversy concerning Title, 14
Location of Town, 18
Louisburg, expedition to 44
Church, when organized,
Ladd, Samuel 66, 123
Crown Point, expedition to
44
Ladd, Doct .. Ahijah .
125
Loomis, Solomon 134
Classes to obtain soldiers,
55
Lathrop, John and family, 44-46
Chapman family,
61-68
Chamberlin, James
77
Meeting-house,
.
21
Ministers, 28
Marsh, Rev. Abram 41
Methodist Church, 42
43
Deed to first proprietors, .
10
Nash, Rev. Ansel
39
Donation to Boston, 48
to New London, .
49
Domestic Manufactures, 60
Delano, Jonathan 114
Eaton, William, &c.,
84-82
Edgerton, Daniel, &c., 99-101
Fishing in Willimantic river, 16
Fort William Henry, 45
Fellows, Amos 75
Griggs, Ichabod and family, 75,76
Grover, Leonard ·
Petition for new town, 8
by town of East Windsor 9
de Coventry lands, 18
Prisoners in Tolland,
60
Persons who died in army, 57,58
Post-office, 103
Paulk, Samuel 131
Patent,
19
94
Quota of Troops,
54
Page.
Highway, first location of, 4 Huntington, John, &c., 72-74
Hinckley, Ichabod 74
Hatch, Joseph and family, 89
Bell, how procured, .
24
Bounties to Soldiers, 51-55
Coventry town line, 17 29
Cuba,
46
Crandall, Constant
86
Cobb, Amos 97
Cobb family, 97-99
Census, 135
Military, .
Nye, Ebenezer and family, 129
Officers in the Wars,
57,58
148
GENERAL INDEX.
Page.
Page.
Rolls : Capt. Samuel Chapman, 45
Stimpson, Noah
87
66 Samuel Stoughton, 45
Stimpson, Doct. James 87,88
Solomon Wills, .
50
Lieut. Solomon Wills,
47
Town-Clerks, 109
Steeple, when built, 24
Williams, Rev. Nathan
31-34
Steel, Rev. Stephen and family
31-34
Will of Joshua,
13
Stearns, Shubael
42
Willey, Calvin
105
Stearns, John
113
West, Zebulon and family,
115-121
Separatists,
42
Wills, Jonathan and family, 69-71
Settlement of Town,
15
Waldo, Ezra 93
Shepard, Benoni
103
Smith, Elijah
104
Yeomans, Oliver
. 92
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