The history of Hamden, Connecticut, 1786-1936, Part 31

Author: Hartley, Rachel M
Publication date: 1943
Publisher: Hamden, Conn. [New Haven], [Quinnipiack Press]
Number of Pages: 560


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Tavern, 56-57, 59, 61, 109, 118, 121, 134, 157, 187; church warnings posted at, 119; school classes held at, 62; site of, 364


Belle Dock, 21 I Bell foundry, 122 Benham, Amos, 170


Mrs. Amos, deeded land to church, 171 family, 222; shoemakers, 21 I


477


Index


Benham, "Gib," Hamden postmaster, 343, 355 Jared, 212, 364, 373


, John, 212; as brickmaker, 36 Willis, 329-330, 366, 384


Bethany, town privileges requested by, 88 Bishop, Samuel, 44 , Yale, 59


Blackbirds, a nuisance, 35


Blackley, Ebenezer, 35


Blacksly, Moses, saw mill of, 41


Blacksmith shop, 134, 236


Blake, Eli Whitney, 261; stone


crusher of, 186, 263, 277, 301 , Elihu, brother of Eli W., 263


, Henry Taylor, son of Eli Whitney Blake, 124, 263


Philos, 26 1


Theodore Whitney, 397; wire factory of, 407


, William P., 354; History of Hamden, 291, 322, 346-347, 389; quoted, 331


Blakeslee, Obed, 156


Co., quarry business of, 438


Blizzard of 1888, 357


Block, Adrian, 9


Blockade, of Long Island Sound, 168, 287


Bloomery, erected in 1699, 40


Blue Hills, 19, 35, 358-359; another name for Mt. Carmel, 9; dis- tant from Green, 55-56; land on, granted to Samuel White- head, 36; mining in, 44, 46; road leading to, 28; 6th Divi- sion made in, 54 ; Step a natural formation of, 47


Blue Hills Common Field, 159 Blue Laws, 68


Boats, canal, 3, 192, 203-204; American Eagle, 195; De Witt


Clinton, 195; Enterprise, 195; Fayette, 193; Gold Hunter, 203; James Hillhouse, .. 194, 195, 196; James Ives, 339-340; on Lake Whitney, 359-360; New England, 194, 195; Para- gon, 203; Sachem, 203; steam, 184; Weatogue, 195. See also Canal


Booth, Elisha, 99


Bradford, William, History of Ply- mouth Plantation, quoted, 43- 44


Bradley, Abraham, deacon, mill and bloomery built by, 40-41


, Amasa, 118, 148; Charter Mason, 119; church reader, I20; father of Horace, 154; Hamden supposedly named by, 91; moderator, 175; school visitor, 316


Amos, 56, 270; lieutenant of 15th Company, 74


, Daniel, 48, 50, 56, 59, 158; captain 8th Train Band, 74, 266; estate of, 266


family, early Mt. Carmel settlers, 52-53, 132


, Harvey, 177; on poorhouse committee, 242; store of, 236 homestead, 150, 155


-, Horace, house of, 154


, Joel, 249; father of Seymour, 165; sawmill of, 51


, Joseph, 28; granted privileges on town farm, 35 Lemuel, 78


Levi, freeman, 106


Nathaniel, pound built by, 35


Dr. Samuel, 249


Seymour, distillery lease of, 16


478


Index


Bradley, Sterling, tavern of, 134; tollgate keeper, 265, 314


-, William, 71; mill property acquired by, 38, 39; officer in Cromwell's army, 21, 91


Brady, Rev. Matthew, 423, 441; made Bishop of Burlington, Vt., 450 Brainard, Warren, 437


Branford, geological formation of, 4 Brass Works, founded by James Ives, 290


"Brethren, The," Hamden boulders, 5-6


Brewster, Francis, farm of, 20; lost in Phantom Ship, 2I


Frederick, 417


James, 280, 417; railroad president and carriage manu- facturer, 235


, Rev. Joseph, 300, 301, 400


Mrs. William, 376, 400; gifts of, 420-42 I


Brickmaking, 37, 212, 296, 391; tract reserved for, 22, 36; wood used for, 345


Bridges, 269; aqueduct above Farm- ington River, 189; over brook, 128; covered, 181, 297, 337, 363; expense of, 58, 88, 103; at Lake Whitney, 234; Ober- lin, 448-449; Pardee's, 337; truss construction of, 182-183 Bristol, George Augustus, 118, 247; constable, 99; tax collector, 102 , Simeon, 99, 106, 246, 324; Ist Hamden moderator, 98; re- cording clerk and justice of the peace, 106, 118; slaves of, 127; viewer of highway, 128


Bristow family, landowners, 25 British invasion, of New Haven, 76, 81, 82, 123, 198, 204


Broadbent, Benjamin, 393 Ericsson, 425 Brock, C. Raymond, 425 Brockett, Benjamin, 153


Charles, 162, 283, 284, 292 family, early Mt. Carmel settlers, 52-53


, Fred, teacher, 312, 320 Hezekiah, 150, 162; home of, 98 -, John, New Haven's nine squares surveyed by, 16, 162


Bromley, Joseph, 295


Bronson, Dr. Henry, Early Govern- ment of Connecticut, quoted, 105 Brooks, Enos, 268; terms in will of, 338; widow of, 269


Brown, D. R., architect of town hall, 354 , Rev. Victor, 427


Browne, Francis, 22, 30; ran ferry across Quinnipiac, 42 Francis, 2d, ship captain, 42 Buddington, Edwin, 210 Building Brook, 177


Burke, Michael, 274 Burleigh, Cecil, 364


Burton, John, 342


Buttrick, Charles A., 319


Canal, 184, 187, 188; charter for, 186; difficulties of, 202, 205, 330; enemies of, 190, 191, 205, 206; Erie, 184, 186, 191; ex- cursion on, 194-195; losses of, 199-200; locks of, 187, 208; through New Haven, 187; at Windsor Locks, 197; work be- gun on, 189. See Boats, canal; Farmington canal; stock of, 190; plans made for, 185; tow- path of, used for railroad, 233


479


Index


Canal Company, 187, 190, 192; business methods of, 188


Candee, Leverett, 260, 296; rubber factory of, 258, 388


Cannon, Thomas, 273


Cashman, James, services in home of, 366


Cartpath (present Dixwell Avenue), 24, 27


Case, Wilbur, 178


Catholic families, Hamden, 366; Italian, 401, 429; Irish, 273


Cattle, crossing above Shepherd's Brook, 33, 47; restrictions on, 3I


Cavanaugh, Rev. Charles, 450 Cedar Hill, David Atwater in, 20


Cemetery, 157; Centerville, 151, 220-221, 269; Hamden Plains, 221; Jewish, 228-229; Mt. Carmel Catholic, 228; State Street, 223-224; West Woods, 157,224-227 Centennial, Hamden, 346-350 Centerville Band, 304, 347


Pardee's tombstone in, 47


Hotel (new), 271 House, 240, 244, 354;


as Ives hotel, 319 Trotting Park, 318 Chadwick, Sarah, 287, 288


Chapman, Dr. Elisha, 163; slave- owner, 164 Charles I, tyrannical rule of, 10, 91 ; Charles II, King, 68


Chatfield, George W., Temperance Hall of, 284 Minotte, 178, 284, 300 Chatterton, Abraham, son of Waite, 53 mill, still standing, 53


Chatterton, Waite, 74, 390; mill built by, 53; pound petitioned for, 59; school committeeman, 61


Chauncey, Charles, 149 Cheshire Academy, 12I Band, 302 Society, 54 Turnpike Co., 132-134


Chester, Manley E., quoted, 442-443 Chipfield, Edward, 36


Church, attendance at, 32, 55-56, 63, 66, 67, 110, 180; Congrega- tional, 109, 110, 119, 150, 171, 179, 187; influence of, on town government, 65 ; provisions made for, 54; and school, 71; vs. state, 112; Society, 170; taxes levied for, 54-55; disaffection in ranks of, 115


Churches:


Center, 19-20; gravestones in rear of, 26; Ithiel Town, architect, 182


Episcopal, 55, 78, 117, 120, 169, 170, 400; Uriah Foote's prop- erty sold to, 240; second build- ing of, 171, 174


Fair Haven, III Hamden Plains Methodist, 399, 400; burned, 415


Mt. Carmel, 64-65, 79, 214, 244, 272, 307 Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, 272, 402 Spring Glen, 427


St. Ann's, 401


St. John the Baptist, 16, 366, 450


St. Mary's, 366


St. Rita, organized, 423


St. Stephen, 402


West Woods Baptist, 174


480


Index


Churches: Whitneyville, 150, 215, 307, 368- 370; centennial of, 435 Churchill, Joel N., 271 T. H., 244 -, Willis, factory of, 261 ; manu- facturer of surgical instruments, 177, 210, 244


Churchman's Magazine, 174


City Point, 16


Civil War, 161, 284, 300


Clark, George L., History of New Haven County, quoted, 123


Herman D., 322


Joseph, fulling mill of, 41 , R. S., sleighbells made by, 298, 322; silk made by, 322 Clark's Pond, 298, 322


Clarke, Charles F., secretary of School Board, 379, 385; pastor of Whitneyville Church, 368


Clay pits, 5, 323; at foot of West Rock, 27; along the Quinnipiac, 26, 36 Clinton, Gov. De Witt, 191 Coe, Ward, 296


Coleman, Eliphalet, Mt. Carmel pastor, III Coley, Rev. James E., 377


Collins, Jonathan, 59


Raymond, chairman of School Board, 416, 436


Colt, Samuel, invention and manu- facture of revolvers, 261-263 "Comeouters," 272


Commerce, in Connecticut, 127; in New Haven, 43 Commons, need of, 32; Blue Hills and West Rock, 46. See also New Haven Green


Community Center, Mt. Carmel Children's Home absorbed by, 357


Community Field Day, 420, 426, 428


Congamond Pond, 188 Congregationalists, Strict, 112, 17I Connecticut, soil deposits in, 5 Agricultural Experiment Station, 265 Charter, defined, 68


Colony, government of, 67-68


Forestry Association, 423


Gazette, quoted, 87


Herald, quoted, 165


Quarterly, 124


River, influence of Hobbamock on, 7; known as Long River, 6


Silk Society, 245 Western Reserve land, 120


Connelly Parkway, 447


Consociation, upholders against Say- brook Platform, 64; voted dis- missal of Rev. Nathaniel Sher- man, 65 Cook, Judge Willis, 358, 392 -, Mrs. Willis E., 433 Cooley, Rev. George, 441 Cooper, Alfred, 152


Ellsworth, 325; school visitor,


316; town clerk, 364 Ezra, blacksmith, 236, 325 family, 132


Jared, 239, 240


Jesse, 309; Whitneyville post- , master, 343


, John, 28; fence viewer, 30 Joseph, house of, 178; land exchanged by, 48; ensign in charge of Train Band, 73


, Justus, 192 ; proprietor of Old Red Tavern, 122, 126


Thankful, wife of Jonathan Ives, 52 Cooperage business, of Hezekiah Brockett, 162


48I


Index


Coopers' Quarters, 28 Copper, imported from West Indies, 210; ore, 196; in Blue Hills, 160


Cotton gin, invention and patent of, 135, 138-140, 209 "Covenanters," of Wallingford, 19 Cow pastures, 25, 31; near Beaver Ponds, 15, 22 Crafts, Capt. Samuel P., brickmaker, quoted, 287, 323, 361


Crosley, Tully, 118


Crows, bounty paid for extermina- tions of, 36


Cushing, John P., Hamden Hall or- ganized by, 417, 432 Cutting, Dr. Charles, 227


Daggett, David, 144 Dairies, Hamden, 406, 424. See Cattle


Dam, feeder, near Unionville, 194; Whitney, 278-279, 359, "pot- holes" Near, 6


Dana, Arnold G., devotion of, to Sleeping Giant, 433-434 Rev. James, in Wallingford, 64


James Dwight, Yale professor, quoted, 434-435


Davenport, Rev. John, 32-33, 71; delivered first New Haven ser- mon, 14; land tract of, 17, 26, 36; in purchase of tract includ- ing the Giant, 9; as one of Seven Pillars, 15


Davis, Edward, horsecar line of, 331 Col. Jefferson, 262 , William E., 21; home of, 24, 332, 347, 437 Davis Brick Co., 332 Day, James, store of, 236-237; Whitneyville postmaster, 323


Day, William, 297


Day's boathouse, 237, 297, 359, 360 Day Spring Hamden Masonic Lodge, 117, 321, 354; Bellamy a Ma- . sonic Master, 157; Temple built by, 437


Dayton, Goodman, 29 Dead Man's Cave, 319, 320


Deane, Almon J., death of, 437; Mt. Carmel station agent, 357, 393, 425; town clerk, 413 Delevan, Rev. George, 215, 216


Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 42


Dextone Co., fire at, 420 Dickerman, Abbie, 256


-, Abraham, land tract of, 46, 48, 71, 178; of New Haven Colony, 51-52


Alfred, house of, 181, 187 Arba, 244; on poorhouse com- mittee, 242; farm of, 21I Caroline, 251


Charles, 309, 365; Centerville House owner, 303, 354


Edward, 236


Elam, 328; station agent, 330; slaughterhouse, 328


Eli, 243, 270, 342


Elias, 315, 316 Elihu, on poorhouse commit- tee, 242, 348 Elizabeth, founder of Female


Seminary, 256; quoted, 257 Emma, daughter of Leverett, 317 Ezra, 175, 251, 256, 288, 289, 290 family, 131, 132, 160, 222


Fannie, founder of Female Seminary, 256 Rev. George S., 23, 365; quoted, 308


482


Index


Dickerman, Hezekiah, 77; ensign in 12th Company, 75; house of, 133, 134


Isaac, 99, 106, 159, 178; moderator, 57; ensign, 44; 6th Division land acquired by, 51


Jason, 187


Jesse, 174


, John H., 344, 358, 364


, Jonathan, 59, 110, 160, 344, 358; fence viewer, 99; Old Red House of, 179; settler in Mt. Carmel, 52


Laura, librarian, 424 ,


, Leverett, 311, 315


Orrin, 303, 328, 433; spring on property of, 52 Mrs. Philos, 305


, Samuel, Hamden selectman, 99, 102; Mt. Carmel settler, 52


, Seymour, 305; oyster business of, 163


Sue, teacher for 50 years, 404


Dillon, Commander John, 449


Dinsmore, Rev. Charles A., speech of, 368


Divisions, Fifth, 53; First, 16; Fourth, 46, 48, 53; Second, 16; Sequestered Lands bought, 52; Sixth, 51, 53, 54; Third, 16, 19


Dixon, Jeremiah, one of the Seven Pillars, 15


Dog Lane Court, 155-156, 162


Dorman, Benjamin, saw mill of, 41 , Edmund, 24, 25, 33, 35 , Ezra, 59, 116


family, 23, 24, 112, 222; lane through land of, 28; home of, 27, 54 Jerome, 332


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Dorman, Joseph, 389


Rebecca, 170


Roger, 177, 389


Samuel, highway surveyor, 99 Doolittle, A. C., 302


, Andrew, 295, 309


, Caleb, highway surveyor, 99; famed wrestler, 156 Eunice, 107 family, early Mt. Carmel settlers, 52-53


Heman, 390


, James, mill of, 390


, Reuben, famed wrestler, 156


, Sylvia, 287


Douglass, Attorney Benjamin, orchard of, 267


Downes, Father, 402, 411, 416


Doves, a nuisance, 35


Downs, Laban, 312


Dullard, Father, 386


Dummer, Capt. Stephen, 126


Dunbar, Giles, freeman, 177


Chapel, 375 Community Club, 422


Hill, Indian grinding stone at, 12 Durand, William, and wife, 328 Dusinberre, Rev. George, 369, 399


Dutch traders. See Traders


Dutton, William, of Cheshire, 108 Dwight, Dr. Timothy, 78, 144, 177, 209; Statistical Account of New Haven, 45


Early, Bernard, World War hero, 412


East Haven, 32, 103; founding of, 71; separated from New Ha- ven, 88


East Rock, 4, 16, 35; called "Rood- enbergh" or "Red Hills," 10; colonists fled to, 81; copper


483


Index


found at, 45; monument on, 353; as part of David Atwater's farm, 20; road to, 28, 39; traprock at, 97; Whitney hold- ings on, 150


East Rock Park, layout of, 335-336 Eaton, Theophilus, buried on New Haven Green, 19; mansion of, 148; land tracts of, 9, 10, II, 17-19, 36; as one of Seven Pil- lars, 15


Eaton Brook, 163, 165


East Plains Society, 110, 113, 114, 312 East River, land allotments along, 17 Ecclesiastical Council, and East Plains Church, 110, 113, 114 Ecclesiastical Embroidery Society, changed to Thimble Club, 378 Edwards, Henrietta, wife of Eli Whitney, 148


Gov. Henry, 216


, Jonathan, 148


, Hon. Pierpont, 144, 148, 150 Eighteenth Amendment, 414


Eighth Division, in Blue Hills, 159 Eighth Train Band, 74 Eli Whitney Park, 236, 396 Eliot, Dr. Aaron, 151 -, Jared, 245 , Dr. Joseph, 151 Enfield Falls, 184, 197 English, James, 152 , Capt. Philip, 449 Epidemics, caused by Lake Whitney water levels, 317; infantile paralysis, 410; influenza, 416; measles, 389; smallpox, 151 Episcopalians, 118; joined by desert- ing Congregationalists, 119.


See Church, Episcopal Estes, Rev. William, 399


Everest, Rev. Charles, 400; founder of Rectory School, 252, 296, 321; waterworks charter ob- tained by, 326


Fair Haven, called "the Neck," 15, 16; formation of, 32; founding of, 71


Fairs, Centerville, 302; County, on New Haven Green, 265-266; Hamden, agricultural, 301 Farmington, proposed plan at, 185; stageline, 235, 236 Canal, 181, 184; stock of, 190


Farnam, Henry, 205


Farrell, Michael, 338


Federal Government, inaugurated in New York, 117; Constitution, 104, IIO


Federalist party, 176


Ferris, James, mines leased by, 44 Peter, mines leased by, 44 Fifteenth Company, 74; as alarm company, 76


Fifth Company, 75; in support of Caleb Mix, 84


Division, land grant, to Kirby, 53 Firearms. See Whitney Armory


Fire Companies, 396-399, 414-415; Centerville, 397, 419; Hum- phrey, 397, 398, 415; Seagrave engine of, 414


Firehouse, Mix District, built, 422 Flight, Samuel, 375, 396; ice busi- ness of, 298 Foote, Chauncey, Hamden postmas- ter, 343


Robert, 24; sold property, 35 R. W., high school designed by, 436 Uriah, 240; church land pur- chased from, 174


484


Index


Forbes and Adams, iron tool manu- facturers of Canaan, 143 Ford, Cornelia, 178 -, Elias, 244, 303 family, 131, 132


house of, on Waite Street, 178, 179 Moses, 113, 178, 222


Stephen, 150; fence viewer, 99; lieutenant, 75, 76; on school committee, 114


Foster, Judge Carl, quoted, 434


-, Jonathan, 59 Timothy, 59


Fourth Division property, 48; land grant, to Kirby, 53


Fowler, Mark, 33


- -, Sgt. William, grist mill of, 37, I35


Foxes, bounty offered for, 29 Franklin Elm, 124-125


Free planters, 176, 177; or "admit- ted inhabitants," 104, 105; first meeting of, 14; of Hamden, 98 Frisbie, Judah, 210


Fugill, Thomas, one of the Seven Pillars, 15, 22


Fulton, Robert, 148; steamboat in- vention of, 161 Fundamental Orders, 67


Gallitius' report, on production of arms, 147


Galpin & Robinson, manufacturers of carpets, 258


Gaylord, Alling, 224-225 Benjamin, Jr., 99


General Court, 15, 19; meeting of, in re burned mill, 38


"Giant's Kettles," 6


Gibbard, William, estate of, 266 Gilbert, Amos, 127


Gilbert, Asa, 152; on school commit- tee, 114


family, 131, 132, 222 , Griswold, 270, 388; Hamden milk producer, 267


Jesse, 128 Sgt. John, 44, 81; captain 17th Company, 82


, Matthew, 108, 221, 388; as deacon, magistrate, deputy gov- ernor, 26; farm of, 20, 36; sold, 21; one of the Seven Pil- lars, 15, 26


Matthew, Jr., 73, 221 Moses, Hamden selectman, 99, 102 Sackett, 99


Solomon, paper mill of, 150 Farms, 47; formerly Shep- herd's Pen, 25


Gill, Capt. John, 75, 109; house of, I28 family, 131


Gillett, Rev. Timothy, at Branford, I3 Gillies, James, chairman Board Fire Commissioners, 419


Gilson, Judge John L., quoted, 445 Glebe House, in Woodbury, 117


Golf courses, Giant Valley and Mea- dowbrook, 424 Goffe, Regicide, sheltered, 19, 38 Goodrich, Elizur, 144


Goodyear, Andrew, 56


Asa, freeman, 106; Hamden selectman, 99 Charles, 258 Chauncey, 309 family, keepers of school records, 251 -, Jesse (Ist), Revolutionary sol- dier, 75, 122 .


485


Index


Goodyear, Jesse, Jr., bell manufactur- er, 122


-, Jesse (3d), 102, 187, 250; Centerville House of, 122, 240, 271, 303, 354 Joel, 99, 106


, John, 46, 77, 239; son of Stephen, 56 patent for rubber shoes, 258 Ruth, 22I


, Simon, 118


, Sgt. Stephen, 63, 75, 99; Deputy Governor of New Ha- ven Colony, 259; early New Haven settler, 56


Timothy, 22 I


, Theophilus, 56, 77, 99, 104, 239; church warnings at home of, 119; selectman, 102 Gorham family, 112, 222


, Julius, 301 Nathan, 368 Governor's Foot Guard, 198


Granniss, Joseph, 291, 292; maker of carriage parts, 297 & Russell, kegs made by, 327


Grave, Frederick D., 360, 395, 397 Gravestones, old, 151, 157; in Mt. Carmel, 217-219 Great Awakening, 55 Ship, 30 Swamp Fight, 34


Green, the. See New Haven Green Greene, Gen. Nathaniel, widow of, I37 Grove Street Cemetery, 19


Hadley, President Arthur T., 420 Haggerty, Gen. James, 449 Hale, Nathan, monument of, 235 Hall, Andrew, 210


Franklin, 260 -, Henry F., 398, 425


Hall, Samuel, pastor in Cheshire, 56, 65


William D., 303; fertilizer business of, 263-264 Hamburg. See Highwood


Hamden, 91-93, 102, 153; brick- making in, 37; five villages in, 330-331; main route to, 27; poor of, 106-108; road and bridges to, 103; separate gov- ernment of, 90, 97, 99, 109, IIO Airport, 427 Athletic Association, 397


Bank & Trust Co., 424-426; clos- ing of, 430 Chamber of Commerce, 425


Free Public Library. See Library, Hamden


Grange, 370-371


Hall Associates, 432


High School, plans for, 403, 436. See Schools, Hamden


Historical Society, 179, 442


Manufacturing Co., 364


Meadowbrook Country Club, 23


Plains Church. See Church, Ham- den Plains Post-Office, 425


Times, weekly, 437 Town Hall, 417, 418, 419 War Bureau, 410-41I


Hampden, John, Puritan patriot, 399; town named for, 91-93 Hampshire & Hampden Co., 186, 199 Hansen, Soren, 376 Harper's Ferry, 148 Harris, Malcolm, mill converted into home by, 53 Harrison, Gov. Henry B., 347, 348; quoted, 100 Hart, Father Matthew, 273


486


Index


Harte, Charles Rufus, 189 Hartford Turnpike Co., 132, 18 1 Hartley, Thomas, president Center- ville Fire Co., 397 homestead, 178 Haugh, Rev. John, 399 Hawley, Mary, 247 Mary Bellamy, wife of Steph- en, 247 Stephen, 247; called to Mt. Carmel ministry, 64 Hayes, Samuel, 326


Hayward, Nathaniel, 259


Haywards, or pounders, 31


Heaton, James, 33 -, John E., 358, 423


Henry, John T., 360; manufacturer of pruning shears, 295 Rene, 296 Hickocks, Samuel, 302 Higgins, Rev. L. H., 348 Highways, division of town into, 102; laying out of, 15; ma- cadamizing of, 371-372, 387; used by Ezra Kimberly, 164; Whitney Avenue paved, 448. See also Roads


Highwood, previously called Ham- burg, 343; school, 14, 315, 395 Italian-American Club. See also Catholic families, Hamden Volunteer Fire Co., 396 Hill, William, 295 Hillhouse, James, 144, 150; asked Federal grant for canal, 198 Hindinger, William, 422 Hiscock, Prof. Ira, 426


Hitchcock, Albert, 21 I , Capt. Amos, 75 family, early Mt. Carmel settlers, 52-53 Isaac, 324 , James, 125, 130


Hitchcock, Leverett, 270, 321 ; Ham- den postmaster, 343; town clerk, 324; town treasurer, 312 -, Lydia Thompson, letter to, 152; quoted, 151 Hoadley, David, 148; house of, 246-247 Hobbamock, Indian spirit of evil, 7 Hooker, Rev. Thomas, sermon of, 67,


I90 Carriage Co., 294 Hopkins, Daniel, part owner, 40


Horsecar line, 309; Davis', 331, 332


Horsecars, 309. See Travel


Hoskins, Burton, 371


Hotchkiss, Henry, 260, 280 Augustine, 108. Caleb, "clark" of company, 73


Ezekiel, 73 Hezekiah, 73


, Jacob, in Proprietors' Records, 49 Lucius, 260 Houses, first New Haven project, 149; old Hamden, 65, 177- 181; along the Quinnipiac, 2 I Howell, Nicholas, 150 Hubbard family, 131


-, John, 89, 148, 151; Hamden selectman, 99, 102; on school committee, 114 Hubbell, Mrs. Harriet, 271 Hume, David, quoted, 92 Humiston, Alva, 428, 429 family, 131, 132 Hummerston, Henry, 2 1 Hungary, and Louis Kossuth, 282 Hurd, "Doctor" Daniel, healer, 333-335 Huston, Wills, 126 Hyde, Rev. John, pastor in Mt. Car- mel, III


487


Index


Ice Age, glaciers in, 5; Connecticut


River's course deflected in, 6 Icehouses, in Whitneyville, 297-298, 365-366


I Company, 24th Regiment, 286 Ik Marvel. See Mitchell, Donald India rubber, development of, 259 Indians, cave of, in Pine Rock, 12, 438; in Connecticut River Val- ley, 6; estimated number of, 12-13; legends of, 7-8, 44; paid for wolf's head, 29; pur- chase of land from, 9-12; set- tled along Sound, 12; traits of, 27 Industries, Hamden, 391. See Man- ufacturing


Innkeepers, importance of, 122 Ives, Alfred, 296


-, Allen, captain of 12th Com- pany, 63, 75 Alling, 80 , Brainard, stage of, 367


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Chauncey, sculptor, 247-248


, Dan, ensign, 60


, Ebenezer, father of Lazarus, 52 ,


Eber, 52; Mt. Carmel store of, 126


Mrs. Eber, 151


Elam, 52, 168, 169


Mrs. Eli, 181 family, 132, 340-342


Frank G., funeral account of, 340


Frederick, 392; and Co., 292


,


Henry, 210, 292


Hobart, captain, 340


, James, 169, 292, 340, 357; Brass Works founder, 290; fac- tory of, 269, 290, 291, 292, 309, 329; father of Eber and Elam, 52; house of, 180; presi-


dent of Bolt Co., 333; son of Elam, 209; Water Co. organ- ized by, 326


Jared, teacher, 250


, Jason, 168, 169, 208, 210


Jesse, invited to Mt. Carmel as minister, 64


Jonathan, 61, 99; settler in Mt. Carmel, 52


-, Julius, 348


Lazarus, 56, 77, 177; builder of Ives homestead, 177; Se- questered Lands bought by, 52 , Loyal, 296


Lucius, 211, 323, 340, 348, 365; Mt. Carmel postmaster, 343 Pardee Mfg. Co. (later Ives & Woodruff), 291, 328 & Woodruff Co., 291, 328, 329 Ivesville, settled by Jonathan Ives, 52


Jackson, President Andrew, 242; in New Haven, 212, 213 , J. Frederick, 41I -, Rev. William, 441 Jacobs, Russell, 270


James, William, 37


Jefferson, Thomas, 161; cotton gin patent sought after, 138; influ- ential in Whitney's firearms con- tract, 142 Jensen, Carl J., 436


Jepson, Benjamin, lieutenant, 287


Jersey Prison Ship, Jonathan Mix a prisoner on, 77 Jocelyn, S. S., engravings by, 183 Johnson, Alphonse, 270


, Hezekiah, 150, 243


, Horace, 345


Jones, Isaac, fulling mill of, 40-41


William, landowner, 19; hid the Regicides, 38


488


Index


Joslin, Dr. George, 208, 382; health officer, 363, 406 Judge, Thomas, 273 Judges' Cave, on West Rock, 5; Regi- cides sheltered in, 19, 38


Keane, Miss, director of sesquicen- tennial festival, 442


Keefe, Margaret, 432; quoted, 403- 404; superintendent of schools, 395 Kelly, J. Frederick, designer of Eaton Cenotaph, 20


Kennedy, Daniel, 274


Kenny, John, 273


Kenyon, Mae, tax collector, 430


, Walter, 393-394, 396, 397; death of, 429-430; Boy Scout master, 394; president Hamden Bank, 425 Kidd, Captain, buried treasure of, 204


Kiehtan, Indians' good spirit, 7; leg- end of, 8


Kimberly, Burton, 308


-, Ezra, 118, 307; charter Ma- son, 119; mill of 164


family, early Mt. Carmel settlers, 52-53 Hobart, 308, 309 -, Leverett, 118 mills, 210


Roderick, 164, 187, 243, 308 store, 307-309; Mt. Carmel, 236 Kingsbury, Fred B., 425


Kirby, Joseph, original land grant to, 53 Kirk, Fred, 422 , Lucy, 422 Kirsted, Cornelius, mines leased by, 44 Kossuth, Louis, 280-282


LaFarge, Bancel, 423


, Father John, quoted, 274-276 Lamson, Thomas, 32


Land allotments, 15, 20, 31, 35, 48, 186; bases for, 17; brickmakers, 22, 36; along the Quinnipiac, 22; on the Plains, 25; records of, 106; Third Division, 26; viewers of, 16; on western sec- tion, 21. See also Third Divi- sion allotments; Property own- ers


Landry, Dr. Herbert, high school principal, 436, 451


Larimore, George, 37


Larson, George V., secretarial school of, 432 School, 150 Lash, Daniel, 73


Law, Bryant, Hamden teacher, 249- 250


Lay, Dr. Walter, 389; health officer, 390; telephone exchange in home of, 408; in World War I, 405-406


Leavenworth, Joseph, 296


Leddy, James, 273


Leek, Horace, 257-258; a freeman, I77 Philip, 24


Russell, 236, 237, 250, 257, 309, 428; in charge of canal lock, 200; a freeman, 177 Stanley, 428 Thomas, 47, 222


Legion Field, 44; naming of, 420 Library, church, 376; Free Public, 377-378, 408, 424; in Ham- den, 154, 379; Mt. Carmel, 376; Dixwell Avenue Branch, 432 Association, 376-378


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Lines, Ralph, fence maintained by, 58 Linton, William J., engraver, 310- 3II


Liquor, 123; license for, 354; pro- hibition of, 319; sale of, 338; spirituous, 244 Little Quarter, 26, 28 Livestock, in New Haven Colony, 266




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