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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 .
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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