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The following copy of a petition by Joshua Wills, now among the archives of the state at Hartford, will give some idea of the inhabitants of those times :
" To the Honorable the Governor and Council sitting at Hartford May 25, 1722: The prayer of Joshua Wills of Tolland humbly sheweth : that your poor petitioner, by the holy providence of God, visiting of him with great sickness and of long continuance, is reduced to very hard and low circumstances in the world : my life is still continued to me, through the mercy of God, by my body and my estate brought very low through the force of my disease. I have thought it my duty to repair of the broken state of my health, but have no means that can possibly enable me thereunto. Therefore my humble request is that [you] would give me liberty of a brief to ask charity from christian friends within places and limits as your Honors in your great goodness shall think most suitable : and your petitioner as in duty bound shall pray." JOSHUA WILLS."
At this time there was a statute prohibiting applications for charitable contributions, without liberty from the governor and council, who were to direct in what towns and societies such briefs should be used. It does not appear what action was had on this petition.
ยท The necessities of the poor and unfortunate were not in those days relieved in this way alone, but they successfully sought relief in other ways. The following extract of a letter
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from Rev. Stephen Mix, of Wethersfield, to Gov. Talcott, dated May 26, 1726, and the action had thereon, will exhibit the character of the people of that generation in its true light.
" We have," he says, " for a considerable time had many needy persons, (from the eastern towns principally,) coming to us for corn; and they are still daily coming; many that come-perhaps the generality seem to be sober, well disposed persons-showing an honest simplicity and freedom as I imagine from the vices, apt to be found in our more populous and fuller towns :- This evening I hear more of their straits," &c., &c.
This letter occupies a page of foolscap paper, closely writ- ten. Gov. Talcott forthwith wrote a message to the Assem- bly, then in session, on a blank page of this sheet, and for- warded the whole for their consideration. A committee was appointed of members of each house who made a favorable report, and the following resolution was adopted in both houses, to wit :
" May, 1726. This Assembly being informed that there are many persons in the towns of Voluntown, Ashford, Willing- ton, Stafford, Tolland, and Bolton, which by frost in the year past were generally cut short in their crops and thereby are reduced to a suffering, almost a perishing condition :- for the relief of whom this Assembly orders thirty pounds, (one hun- dred dollars,) money to be drawn out of the public treasury of this colony and to be delivered to Nathaniel Stanley and Ozias Pitkin, who are hereby ordered to send to the several ministers or selectmen of said towns except in Willington ; and there to send to John Cady and Thomas Jennings, to inform said committee of such persons as are in a suffering condition ; and said committee are hereby ordered to propor- tion said money to the several towns according to their num- ber and necessities; and said poor persons having a certificate from such ministers, selectmen or others as abovesaid, may repair to such committee who is hereby ordered to deliver unto him or them such support out of the money as they shall see fit."
JOSHUA WILLS was one of the very first persons to whom allotments of land were made in the territory afterwards named Tolland, on the 6th day of February, 1711; and he was one of the original grantees in the deed of the committee
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who were authorized and empowered to sell the lands in the north part of Tolland. He had a son also named Joshua, who was born before Tolland was settled-the name of Joshua Wills, Jr., appearing on the petition of May 9, 1713.
Joshua Wills, Jr., married Melicent Yeomans, November 9, 1729. She died March 13, 1737. Their children were:
Solomon,
born October 14, 1731.
Azariah, 66 June 27, 1733.
Elizabeth,
May 18, 1735, died July 2, 1736.
Melicent, 66 March 11, 1737, died March 17, 1737.
Joshua Wills, Jr., married for second wife, Jemima Eaton, August 22, 1739. Their children were :
Elizabeth, born August 14, 1740.
Joshua,
July 15, 1742.
Gideon, 66 February 1, 1743.
Melicent,
January 12, 1747, died November 19, 1750.
Joshua Wills died August 2, 1767. His widow survived to May 3, 1791. Mr. Wills was a captain of the militia com- pany ; a member of the General Assembly thirteen regular and four special sessions ; and was selectman thirteen years.
SOLOMON WILLS, son of Joshua and Melicent Wills, married Elizabeth Lathrop, February 24, 1763. She was the daugh- ter of John Lathrop, one of the first settlers in Tolland. Their children were :
Azariah, born May 30, 1772, went to Franklin, N. Y.
Solomon, 66 January 10, 1775, settled in Pennsylvania.
Wareham, 66 July 27, 1780. do. do.
Roxalana, December 3, 1763, first wife of Col. E. Chapman, died November 24, 1780.
Nancy, September 3, 1765, second wife of Col. E. Chapman.
Elizabeth, 66 November 30, 1767, married Capt. Ashbel Steel.
Melicent, 66 September 12, 1769, married Col. Elijah Smith.
Solomon Wills was very early enrolled in the defense of his country. We find his name first as a private soldier in the year 1756, in the French and Indian war. In 1759 he served as a serjeant, in 1758 as an ensign, in 1759 he was a second lieu- tenant, and in 1762 he was first lieutenant commanding the ill-fated company that went to Cuba, of whom so few returned. In 1775, we find him captain of the volunteer company that performed a tour of duty of eight months, near Boston. The promptness with which this company was formed and made ready for service, speaks well for the character of its com- mander. The exciting cause of this movement, was the skir- mish at Lexington on the 19th of April ; and this company of ninety-eight men were at Roxbury, Mass., and mustered
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into service on the first day of the following May. When we take into consideration the facilities of that day for circu- lating news or for traveling, this transaction will look the more remarkable. In the campaign of 1776, we find Mr. Wills under the command of Gen. Washington, as a Colonel, in which capacity he served at different periods during the war of the revolution, both in the State and Continental lines. Col. Wills was in civil life also, a very active and useful citi- zen. He was a selectman of the town three years ; a justice of the peace five years ; an Associate Judge of Tolland County Court seven years ; a member of the General Assem- bly twenty-three sessions. In 1793 he ceased to act in public life. He died December 10, 1807, aged seventy-six years.
Col. Wills is still represented in Tolland by two ladies, his lineal descendants, viz .: Mrs. Joseph Bishop and Miss Eliza- beth S. Kent; they being all the descendants of Joshua Wills, one of the first settlers, now remaining in Tolland.
The name of SAMUEL HUNTINGTON appears on the list of those who died in the service of their country. He was sec- ond son of John Huntington, Esq., one of the original grantees of the town of Tolland. John Huntington was from Wind- sor ; was one of the petitioners for the town in May, 1713, though his name does not appear on the subsequent petitions. It is certain that he was of Windsor, January 14, 1719, for on that day he took a deed of John Ellsworth of a tract of land in Tolland containing three hundred acres. He had also a lot of land that was Christopher Huntington's, assigned him November 26, 1719. It is not certain when he moved to Tol- land; it is certain, however, he became a resident of this town before April 16, 1723, as there is a record of his mar- riage on that day as follows: "April 16, 1723. Then was John Huntington of Tolland married to Thankful Warren of Windham." The following is a record of his family :
Thankful, born March 16, 1724, died July 14, 1739.
John,
February 22, 1725.
Samuel,
July 24, 1728.
Andrew,
Abigail, 66 September 17, 1730.
October 1, 1732. :
Deborah,
May 21, 1736.
John Huntington, Esq., died January 26, 1737, aged forty- six years, He was the second justice of the peace ever ap-
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pointed for the town of Tolland, and he was the only justice from 1733 to his death. He was commissioned as ensign in October, 1723, on the first organization of the militia in Tolland ; was one year the town-clerk, and two years select- man-departing this life at almost the commencement of his public usefulness. Tradition assigns his place of residence on the farm now owned and occupied by Dea. Nathan Spalding.
JOHN, the eldest son of John Huntington, Esq., married Mehitabel, daughter of Rev. Stephen Steel, March 23, 1749. The following is their family record :
John,
born May 14, 1749.
Thankful,
July 23, 1750, died October 29, 1750.
Mehitabel, 66 January 24, 1752.
Elisha,
December 17, 1754.
William,
September 19, 1757.
Hezekiah, 66 December 30, 1759.
Deborah,
November 21, 1762.
Abigail, 66 March 29, 1767. -
Ruth, 66
May 12, 1769.
Thankful,
October 3, 1771.
Maria,
October 27, 1774, died August 3, 1777.
SAMUEL, second son of John Huntington, Esq., married Jane West, daughter of Deacon Joseph West, December 26, 1751. He was the Ensign in the French war, and died at Lake Onedia, in 1760. His children were :
Thankful, born December 24, 1752.
Jane,
February 22, 1755.
Diantha,
November 4, 1757, died September 20, 1763.
Jerusha, 66 May 1, 1760, died August 5, 1778.
JOHN, son of John and grandson of John Huntington, Esq., married Rebecca Newell, of Ellington, (then East Windsor,) February 20, 1783. Their children were :
John,
born February 26, 1784, died November 18, 1784:
Mara,
February 12, 1786, died May 18, 1787.
John,
66 Mareh 7, 1788.
Frederick Augustus,
July 14, 1790.
Ephraim Newell,
March 7, 1792, died Feburary 8, 1793.
Rebecca,
66 October 29, 1793.
Mara,
June 6, 1795.
Andrew,
March 23, 1798.
Robert Goodloe, 66 February 6, 1800.
Almira, 66 February 10, 1802.
ELISHA, son of John and grandson of John Huntington, Esq., married Esther Ladd, June 16, 1785. Their children were:
Andrew, born January 25, 1786, died February 8, 1786.
Lucia,
66 May 27, 1787.
66
Samuel, May 9, 1789.
Ambrose, 66 June 8, 1791.
Esther,
66 September 28, 1793.
Elias,
66 June 6, 1796.
Appollos,
November 14, 1798.
Naney,
66 May 31, 1801.
Laura,
66 May 19, 1804.
Ruth,
66 December 20, 1806.
10
Samuel, 66 March 23, 1765.
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HEZEKIAH HUNTINGTON, the fourth son of John Huntington and his wife Mehitabel Steel, was in the war of the revolu- tion. At one time he was in an armed ship that made a dar- ing attempt to escape from New London harbor through the British fleet that blockaded the eastern entrance into Long Island sound, but the ship was taken, and the most formida- ble looking of its men, among them Mr. Huntington, put in irons. He was thus conveyed to New York, and confined in a prison ship, where his sufferings were such as to injure his health during life. He afterwards became an eminent law- yer and politician. For many years he was United States District Attorney for Connecticut, and died in Middletown at an advanced age, leaving children who occupy very promi- nent places in society, viz. : Samuel H. Huntington, clerk of the court of claims, Washington, D. C., and Hezekiah Hun- tington, of Hartford.
I am not aware that any of the descendants of John Hun- tington, Esq., the first settler, are now in Tolland.
Capt. ICHABOD HINCKLEY was the son of Ichabod Hinckley, who came from Barnstable county, Mass., about the year 1732, and settled on the farm now owned by Nathan Pierson. He died May 10, 1768. He was selectman two years. Icha- bod Hinckley, Jr., had six children by his first wife, whose name was Mary, viz. : Anna, Bethiah, Temperance, Ichabod, Benjamin, and Daniel. His wife Mary died January 8, 1769. He then married Hannah Kingsbury, daughter of Dea. Na- thaniel Kingsbury, for his second wife, December 12, 1769, by whom he had four children, viz. : Mary, Hannah, Sarah, and Deborah. He was a captain in the continental army, and performed several tours of duty, besides being otherwise very active in the revolutionary contest. He was twice a member of the General Assembly, and fourteen years a select- man. People who remembered him used to speak with admiration of his integrity and ability as a selectman, and of the dignity with which he used to preside in town meetings. Capt. Hinckley died February 23, 1807, in his seventy-second year. I do not know that any of his descendants are now in Tolland.
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Captain AMOS FELLOWS, of revolutionary memory, was a son of Isaac Fellows, who came from Plainfield, in Windham county, to Tolland about the year 1745. He married Abi- gail Lathrop, daughter of Ichabod Lathrop, and grand- daughter of John Lathrop, who was one of the early settlers in Tolland. The following were his children, viz. :
Ruth, born March 27, 1753.
Ichabod, 66 March 7, 1754, died March 18, 1759.
Stephen,
April 17, 1755, died June 29, 1759.
Isaac,
May 29, 1757.
Abigail, his wife, died June 25, 1773.
Capt Fellows is reported to have been at New York in the twenty-second regiment, in 1776, where he is said to have been taken by the enemy. Certain it is that he was in cap- tivity awhile, and was confined in a prison ship, where his sufferings were the most cruel, and from which he found re- lief only in the sleep of death. He was said to have been a man of intellect, and of great decision and firmness of character. His death was considered a great loss to the cause, and it was said that had he survived he would have been promoted to a very superior grade. He left only two chil- dren, one of whom, Isaac, married and remained in Tolland to the day of his death.
ICHABOD GRIGGS, Jr., was an ensign in the war of the revo- lution. He was the son of Dea. Ichabod Griggs, who removed from Norwich to Tolland about the year 1744, the year in which his son Ichabod was born. Dea. Ichabod Griggs was representative three sessions, and selectman five years. He died May 9, 1790, aged seventy-two years. His children were as follows :
Joshua, born January 8, 1743, at Norwich.
Ichabod,
June 7, 1744.
Sarah,
June 6, 1749.
JOSHUA, eldest son of Dea. Ichabod Griggs, was, like his father, a deacon in the church and a very respectable man. He was an adjutant in the revolutionary service, and was a selectman five years. He married Joanna, daughter of Dea. Elijah Chapman, December 11, 1766. Their children were:
Roswell, born September 23, 1767.
Joshua,
June 17, 1769.
Susannah,
January 30, 1771.
Daniel, 66 April 15, 1773
Charles,
August 15, 1775.
Sarah, September 23, 1777.
Elijah,
66 September 5, 1780.
Joanna, September 5, 1783.
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Dea. Joshua Griggs died June 9, 1813, aged seventy years.
ROSWELL, eldest son of Dea. Joshua Griggs, married Sarah Dunham, of Mansfield, October 27, 1791. The following are their children, to wit :
Mary, born
May 15, 1792.
Sally,
March 5, 1794.
Minerva,
August 6, 1796, married Doct. O. K. Isham, November 12, 1822.
Charles,
April 14, 1799.
Eunice Hovey,
August 27, 1801.
Elijah Chapman,
September 5, 1803, died January 23, 1806.
Roswell Leonard,
March 11, 1806, died April 6, 1815.
Seth Dunham,
66
May 1, 1809.
Parmela Porter, 66 August 13, 1812, died February 3, 1813.
Julia,
66
March 17, 1814.
Normand Brigham,
June 18, 1816.
JOSHUA, son of Dea. Joshua Griggs, was a physician, and for a short time practiced in Tolland, but removed to the west.
Daniel, son of Dea. Joshua Griggs, married Nancy Pinney, of Ellington, January 19, 1806. The following are their chil- dren, viz. :
Joshua, born October 11, 1806.
Eliza,
February 19, 1808 .*
Lucius,
January 9, 1810.
Harriet,
November 28, 1811, died March 1, 1815.
Daniel, 66 March 2, 1814.
Harriet, 66
May 27, 1816.
Lemuel P.,
May 19, 1818.
Henry O., 66 March 30, 1821.
Charles G.,
November 25, 1823.
James Randolph,
May 7, 1827.
Ensign ICHABOD GRIGGS, son of Dea. Ichabod Griggs, mar- ried Mary Hatch, daughter of Joseph Hatch, the second, De- cember 19, 1765. He died at New Rochelle, N. Y., Septem- ber 30, 1776, aged thirty-two years. His children were :
Joseph, born January 30, 1767.
Samuel. May 10, 1768.
Stephen, 66 October 3, 1769.
Anna,
September 14, 1773, died April 23, 1787.
Matta,
February 12, 1777.
SAMUEL GRIGGS, son of Ichabod and Mercy Griggs, married Mary Hinckley, daughter of Capt. Ichabod Hinckley, all of Tol- land, February 16, 1792. His children were :
Anna, born October 6, 1792.
Ichabod,
February 28.
Chester, 66 April 6.
STEPHEN GRIGGS, son of Ichabod and Mercy Griggs, married Betsey Lathrop, daughter of Solomon Lathrop, and a niece of Hope Lathrop, March 8, 1792. His children were :
Harrict, born December 27, 1792.
Chauncey,
April 10, 1796.
Ralph, January 31, 1798.
Solomon Lathrop, 66 April 7, 1800.
Austin,
66 July 26, 1805.
Leverett,
November 6, 1808.
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The descendants of Dea. Joshua Griggs, now residents in Tolland, are Mrs. Mary Cowen, Mrs. Oliver K. Isham, and Mr. Joshua Griggs. They are also descendants of Deacon Elijah Chapman, through Joanna, wife of Dea. Joshua Griggs.
The descendants of Ichabod Griggs, 2d, are descendants of Joseph Hatch, one of the first settlers in Tolland, through Mercy, wife of said Ichabod.
The descendants of Stephen Griggs are descendants also of Hope Lathrop, one of the first settlers in Tolland, through Betsey, wife of said Stephen Griggs.
Ichabod Griggs, 1st, was representative in the General Assembly three sessions, and selectman five years.
Stephen Griggs was selectman one year, and captain of a militia company.
Chauncey Griggs was representative in the General Assem- bly two sesssions, judge of the Probate Court for the district of Tolland two years, and a justice of the peace fourteen years.
Ralph R. Griggs was a justice of the peace five years.
Solomon Lathrop Griggs, was sheriff of Tolland county six years, and selectman four years.
Seth D. Griggs and Joshua Griggs, were each representa- tives in the General Assembly one session.
JAMES CHAMBERLIN commanded a company of cavalry one or two tours of duty during the war of the revolution. He came to Tolland from Coventry about the year 1772, and removed to East Windsor before the year 1782. While in this town he lived at the extreme south-east part of it, on a farm lying east of the one lately owned by Jesse West. He was one of the representatives from Tolland in the General Assembly, October session, 1775 ; otherwise I can learn noth- ing more of him than that he was a revolutionary officer.
The name of JOSEPH BAKER frequently occurs as one who actively participated in the early settlement of Tolland. He was one of the petitioners in 1713, for a charter of the new town, and his name is on various other petitions relative to its settlement ; he also received an early allotment of land. He was one of the fifty-one grantees of the township in 1719. He was of Windsor and was the grandson of Jeffrey Baker,
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from England, one of the early settlers of that town. Joseph Baker finally removed his entire family, (all of whom were born in Windsor,) to Tolland, in the year 1724. He settled on a tract of several hundred acres lying south of Shenipset pond,-he was a large landholder, owning besides other tracts, one in the south-west district, where he settled two or three of his sons, and where their descendants have resided until this day. One of his sons, Jacob, was educated for the min- istry and graduated at Yale College in 1731, being the earli- est graduate belonging to Tolland ; but he was consumptive- never preached except where there was a temporary vacancy, and died early in life. Joseph Baker was two years a select- man, and died in 1784, aged seventy-five years. His son, John, married Sarah, daughter of Dea. Isaac Davis, of Wind- sor ; settled on his share of the original tract, near Shenipset pond, and died in 1802, at the age of ninety-five years. Jeru- sha, his only child who lived to maturity, married Samuel Stanley ;- their oldest son, John Stanley, born in 1752, mar- ried Abigail Gibbs, of East Windsor, in 1771 ;- their oldest son, Roswell Stanley, born in 1772, died in 1850, aged seven- ty-eight years, on the land of his ancestors ;- the farm being now occupied by Col. Sanford Stanley, and was formerly the residence of Sidney Stanley, Esq., now of Hartford, who during his employment at the office of Secretary of State, fur- nished me with copies of documents in the public archives, relative to the history of this town. And I take pleasure in publicly acknowledging my obligations to Mr. Stanley for many of the interesting facts and incidents used in this his- tory, and would recommend those who may desire further information upon this subject, to avail themselves of his exten- sive research and fund of facts relative to the early settlers of Tolland.
JOSEPH BAKER, Jr., married Margaret Gibbs, of East Wind- sor, January, 21, 1731. Their children were :
Seth. born July 2, 1733.
Titus,
June 18, 1736.
Joseph,
November 18, 1738.
Ebenezer, 60 February 8, 1740.
Mary,
August 5, 1745.
Daniel,
66 January 6, 1747, died June 3, 1752.
Ruth, 66 December 25, 1749.
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THE EARLY HISTORY OF TOLLAND.
JOSEPH BAKER, son of Joseph Baker, Jr., married Lois Car- penter, March 25, 1762. He was the father of Alvin Baker and Eli Baker, who lived and died in the south-west part of Tolland. Eli Baker was three years a selectman and four years a member of the General Assembly.
Heman, son of Joseph Baker, senior, settled on his father's homestead, married Lois Gilbert, of Hebron, and died in 1805, aged eighty-six years. The children of Heman and Lois Gil- bert were :
Heman, born October 11, 1748.
Ann,
April 24, 1750.
Deborah,
January 12, 1752.
John, 66 January 26, 1754.
Oliver,
October 5, 1755.
Abigail,
November 5, 1757.
Lois,
66 November 14, 1760.
Delight,
66
December 21, 1762.
Lydia,
February 4, 1765.
HEMAN BAKER, Jr., was a sergeant in Capt. Solomon Wills' company of volunteers at Roxbury, in 1775. The next year he was taken prisoner, together with his brother-in-law, Joel Smith, near New York, and after being kept in the usual severe confinement, they were exchanged or released, and having been unnecessarily and maliciously exposed to the small pox, they were permitted to return to their homes. On their way they became ill, and were unable to proceed farther than East Hartford, where it was discovered that they both had the small pox in the most malignant form, and where they both died. Heman Baker, Jr., died January 21, 1777. He was a single man. Joel Smith left a widow and two small children. Their grave-stones yet remain where they were buried,-not in the public burying ground, but in a field near the house in which they died. No one of their friends in Tol- land could be present during their sickness or burial.
Oliver Baker became a physician and settled in New Hamp- shire.
NOTE ._ This family should not be confounded with that of a Mr. Heman Baker, who moved into Tolland from Massachusetts, and some of whose descendants for a generation or two, continued in the eastern section of the town.
JOHN BAKER, son of Heman Baker, Sen., married Elizabeth Dimick, July 22, 1779. Their family record is as follows :
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THE EARLY HISTORY OF TOLLAND.
Celinde,
born
April 22, 1780, married Hon. E. Stearns, November 4, 1800.
Nancy,
May 5, 1782.
Almira, 66 April 16, 1784.
Amelia,
June 10, 1786.
Seymour,
June 25, 1788.
Lydia,
66 October 25, 1790.
Chauncey,
66
September 18, 1794.
Florilla,
66 October 17, 1797.
John Baker married for his second wife, Alice Jewett, December 25, 1806. They had one child, Juliana, born September 10, 1809.
The name " Joseph Baker," which was the name of the first Baker who settled in Tolland, has been continued in a direct line for more than two hundred years, and is now borne by a young man who is the seventh in unbroken succession.
Two persons by the name of BENTON died in the service of their country in the French and revolutionary wars, viz. : WILLIAM BENTON, who died at Oswego in August, 1760; and AZARIAH BENTON, who died in captivity in a prison ship in Long Island sound, December 29, 1776. They were lineal descendants of Samuel Benton, Sen., who was formerly of Hartford, in this state.
Samuel Benton, Sen., was one of the grantees in the deed of the committee to the first proprietors of Tolland. There were in that deed four grantees by the name of Benton, viz. : Samuel Benton, Sen., Samuel Benton, Jr., Joseph Benton, Sen., and Joseph Benton, Jr. The name of Daniel Benton appears first as one of the twenty-five petitioners respecting the Coventry lands in May, 1718. On the 20th day of Feb- ruary, 1719, Samuel Benton, describing himself of Hartford, gave a deed of land situated in Tolland, to Daniel Benton, also of Hartford, which deed is expressed to be " in consid- eration of love and good will I have and do have unto my loving son Daniel Benton," &c., &c. The land is described as' containing forty acres ; be the same more or less, &c., &c. On the 23d day of May, 1719, he had a lot of land surveyed to him, north-westerly from Skungamug pond. On the 20th day of June, 1719, he had another tract set to him which had a highway across it, leading from the highway that run west from James Stimson's. This tract was doubtless on both sides of the highway that runs from the south burying ground south- westward to the saw mill. July 25, 1721, he had other lots
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