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Loller, Charles, fire chief, 422
Long Wharf, building of, 204-205 Lothrop, John, 123
Lovell, John, miller, 37
Lowe, Abbott Augustus, 400
Ludlow, Roger, laws devised by, 67 Lydia, last remaining squaw, 13
Lyman, Rev. Asa, III , Norman, 332
Macaulay, Thomas, quoted, 92, 139 Machinery, standardized, Whitney's contribution to, 142-143, 145, 147; almost unknown, 70. See Whitney, Eli
Madison, President James, 161, 168; in Hamden, 180 Mallon, Father Hugh, 273, 348
Mallory, Peter, 32 Maloney, Major Leonard, 449 Mann, Bela, 296
Mansfield, Anna, 187 family, 19, 131
-, Jesse, 271 ; on poorhouse com- mittee, 242
-, Capt. Moses, 28; granted land each of Pine Rock, 35; proposed mill at Beaver Pond, 40; saw mill of, 41 Richard, farm of, 20
Manufacturing, in Hamden, 3, 162, 163, 209, 233-234; imports to Colony, 43
Marine Clock Co., 21 I Marvin, Rev. Mr., quoted, 115 Mather, Warham, 44 Homestead, 310 Mayo Radiator Co., 407
McGrail, James, 273
Mckeon, Andrew, school visitor, 316 House, toll-gate, 187 Mckinley, President, 375
McLane, Edward, 333
McMahon, Rt. Rev. L. S., 274
McMullen, Rev. D., 348
Meetinghouse, New England, de- scribed, 66; Mt. Carmel, 98
Memphremagog, Lake, 185
Merriman, Charles, 305-307; poem of, 369
Merritt Parkway, 447 Meteors, shower of, 213-214 Mexican War, 261, 262
Miles, Amos, 48
, Capt. Richard, 177; farm of, 20, 21, 48; land grant of, 46, 52 Milford, grain ground at, 38, 39 Militia, beginning of, 72; Hamden, 166; at Lake Champlain, 158; responsible for Sunday watch, 73 Mills, 210; bolting, 53-54; burned, 39; competition at, 40; Center- ville, 258-261; Chatterton, 53; cider, turned into sorghum, 304; fulling, 40-41; grist, 37, 49, 150, 364; Mt. Carmel, 59; not prospering, 53; New Haven's first, 135; of James Wyles, 163; Waite's, 279; Hamden, on Grimsden Hill, 164; linseed oil, 150; Job Munson's, 163, 165; Joel Munson's, 109; pa- per, 150, 166, 215, 258, 279; proposed at Beaver Ponds, 38; saw, 41, 49, 364; Bradley's,
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164; as shelter for Regicides, 38; Doolittle's, 390; woolen, 177; Todd's, 41, 50, 55, 142, 143; bought by, 149 Mill Lane, now Orange Street, 26 Meadows, 28 Pond, 2I
Quarter, 28
Rock, 4, 16; mill at, 38-39; Whitney holdings on, 150
River, 28, 33, 35, 41, 49; Alling's land at, 47; mill at, 48; mining near, 45; Whitehead land at, 36 Miller, Gertrude, 424 Homestead, 179, 187
Mary, 405, 424, 433 Phineas, married Gen.
Greene's widow, 137; partner in cotton-gin project, 138 Willis E., 292, 293-294, 392, 424; station agent, 328
Milling machine, invention of, 142 Mining, in New Haven Colony, 44, 45 Mitchell, Donald G., known as “Ik Marvel," 335 Thomas, 21 ; as fence viewer, 32 Mix, Capt. Caleb, 79; charges against, 84; estate of, 266; home a meeting place, 1 1 2 Dwight, 373 -, Jonathan, 77, 263; carriage spring inventor, 160-161 -, Nancy, wife of Elihu Blake, 160 , Norris, 298, 321, 373
Momauguin, 10; number of Indians under, 13 Montgomery, Joseph C., 425 Montowese, II; number of Indians under, 13
Moody, Wilfred, high school princi- pal, 451 Morehouse, Jabesh, 152 Morris, John, 54 , Thomas, 21-22 Morton, Mrs. George, 377
Mosquitoes, along lake, 363; menace of, 407
Mt. Carmel, 5, 9, 74; Dickerman & Ives family in, 51; early set- tlers, 52-53 ; support of bridges in, 88
Axle Works, 208, 292, 433
Children's Home, 357, 417
Church. See Church, Mt. Car- mel
Ecclesiastical Society, 59, 60, 79, 80, 89, 121, 312, 370; first meeting of, 61
Traprock Co., 392
Water Co., 326, 333
Young Ladies Female Seminary. See Young Ladies Female Sem- inary
Munson, Bazel, 75, 77, 89, 110; de- scendant of Joel, 345; viewer of highway, 128 Charlotte, 407
David, 41 Eneas, Jr., 144 family, 112, 160; slaves of, 127
George, 205-207 A
Henry, 309, 323, 408; fam- , ily of, 326
-, Jabez, 73
, John, 118, 164; mill acquired by, 51
Joel, 56, 181, 210, 345; mill of, 48-49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 109, 163; pound keeper, 59; slave owner, 164
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Munson, Capt. John, 41, 132; father of Joel, 48, 50; public wagon of, 129; transportation of, 42 , Judge S. E., 368
Narragansetts, the, 34 Naugatuck Railroad, 197 Nazareth Hill, New Haven, 153 "The Neck," now called Fair Ha- ven, 15, 31 Neilson, Peter, shop of, 236 Nepaupuck, executed on New Haven Green, 13
New Haven, boundaries of, 97; de- pot erected in, 234, 235; roads and bridges a burden to, 103; towns separated from, 88-90 Colony, government of, 67-68; as port of trade, 10; swept away by Connecticut Charter, 68 Colony Historical Society, 179; cotton-gin model in, 140
Green, III, 207; as central mar- ketplace, 15, 16; Gov. Eaton buried on, 19; Franklin Elm on, I24; huckleberries on, 180; Nepaupuck executed on, 13; Sabba-day houses on, 33; trees planted on, 245-246 Country Club, 332, 360 County Agricultural Society, 265; fair of, 301 Court of Common Pleas, 106 Harbor, 187; Dutch traders in, 9 House, on site of Hotel Taft, 234 Institute of Music, 436 Medical Society, 164 Palladium. See Palladium Register, 348; quoted, 191-192 West Association, 214
New Haven Water Co., 149, 278, 279, 283-284, 318, 326, 394; mill razed by, 39; lake property purchased by, 363; library building owned by, 377 Web Co., 296
New Lebanon Mission, 322, 396 Newman, Francis, home of, 21, 22 Richard, 21, 28
, Robert, farm of, 20, 21, 22; meeting in barn of, 14-15; as one of Seven Pillars, 15 Newton, Roger, colonel in Second Regiment, 74, 75 New York Gazeteer, Tory newspa- per, 77 Nicholls, Adam, 21, 24 Niles & Pease Gazeteer. See Pease & Niles Gazeteer Nine squares, 216 Ninth Division, 159
Northampton Gazette, 202
North Haven, 55, 103; Gov. Eaton's land in, 17; and Mt. Carmel, 89; parish of, 59, 60, 61; town privileges requested by, 88-89 North Haven Annals, 19; quoted, 32I
Northrop, E. R., woodcarver, 247 Nugent, Lord, biographer of John Hampden, 91
Oberlin, A. Frederick, 411-412 O'Brien, Rev. E. J., 273 O'Connell shop, 236 Oldham, James, superintendent of schools, 387
Ore, in sides of Sleeping Giant, 7, 44, 45, 46 O'Reilly, Rt. Rev. Bernard, 272 Osborn, Allen, 326 - , John, 302, 325
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Ox pastures, near Beaver Ponds, 15, 22, 27, 31; at Pine Rock, 24; power, 169 Oyster River, 23 Oysters, trade in, 163
Pageant, Hamden sesquicentennial, 441 Palladium, New Haven, 294, 301, 302; reference to, 6 Pardee, Benjamin, 220, 287 Enos, 47, 56 family, 220
Hannah, 220 Stephen, 309; church services in home of, 119 Thomas, 220
Pardy, Joseph, freeman, 105-106, 239
Parmeter, Riley, railway agent, 328 Pattison, Edward, 208
Payne, Deacon James, 342, 368; hymn written by, 347, 350 , Samuel, early hunter, 8
Pease & Niles Gazeteer, 135, 153, 166
Peck, Alice, house of, 179 Amos, 59, 179 family, early Mt. Carmel settlers, 52, 53 , Florence, Hillfield School of, 405 Friend, 384
Heil, 98
Henry, 179, 211, 280-28 1 ›
Joseph, 77, 79, 127
Lois, 180
Lorenzo, 272, 329 Samuel, land granted to, 47
Peckham family, 131
Perkins, Ellen, teacher, 312 -, Sherlock, 244 Perry, Rev. Joshua, IIO
Perry, Samuel, 297 Phantom Ship, 2I Phelps, Timothy, 144
Pierpont, Rev. James, 53, 246, 390 family, 132; home, 246 Russell, 87, 187, 242, 324 Pigg, Robert, 22, 24, 25 Pine Brook, saw mill at, 4 1
Pine Rock, 4, 438; Indian cave in, 12; road at, 16, 24, 28 ; ox pas- ture at, 24, 3 I
Pinney, E. W., superintendent of town farm, 338
Pitkin, Hon. Timothy, 189
Planters Covenant, 15
Plumley, Lauretta, pageant presented by, 441
Poole, Rev. Harry, 441
Poor farm. See Town farm
Post-office, Hamden, 343
"Pot-holes," or "Giant Kettles," 6
Potter, David, 150
, Edwin, 329, 375, 384
Eli, 150
family, 131, 132
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Jabez, 302
, Horace, 270
Moses, 108 ,
› Rev. Rockwell, 44 1
Timothy, 213, 223 , William, land of, 21
Property owners, Hamden, 59, 60,
133, 187; along canal, 190, 191 Punderson, John, one of the Seven Pillars, 15 Putnam, Rev. Austin, 216, 227, 270, 307, 347, 385; anniversary of, 342-343; quoted, 348-349
Quinn, Major James, 449 Quinnipiac Indians, 10, 16; friendly to white man, II; along New Haven Harbor, 12-13
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Railroads, as canal competitor, 205, 207; chartered, 233; difficulties of, 330; as means of transpor- tation, 206, 367; nonexistent, 184 Read, Ezra, 280
Rectory School, 252-253, 302, 321, 369, 400; bell of, 382; Center- ville, 4
Regicides, sheltered in Judges' Cave, 19; in grist mill, 38 Reilly, Rev. John, 441
Revolver, Colt, 261. See Whitney Armory Reynolds, Julia, visiting nurse, 416 Rice, John, 388 Riley, Edward, slaughterhouse of, 325 Rivington, James, 77
Roads, 26-28, 337, 361; bonds for, 414; care of, 103, 127-134, 298; early, 57; widening of, 430. See also Highways Roaring Brook, 163
Roberts, Charles, livery business of, 318; owner of Roberts House, 319 , "Jim," 318 Robertson, Hon. A. Heaton, 348 Rochford, F. Raymond, first select- man, 437, 441, 442, 445, 449; proclamation of, 439-440 Roe, Prof. Joseph, quoted, 183, 260 Rogers, E. W., 300 Root, Joel, 132 , Josiah, 13I Rowe, John, 48 Matthew, 37; miller, 25 Rowland, Capt. George, 190, 193, 195; grist mill of, 204 Russell, Edward, 74 family, landowners, 25 - Will, 22
Sabbath, colonial, 14, 33, 46, 62 Sabin, Col. Hezekiah, 74, 123; landowner, 25, 27, 28
Sackett, John, 29, 30; as fence view- er, 32 Hobart, livery stable of, 319 Sackett's Brook, 38 Sanford, Edward, 444 , John, 343 , Peleg, 144
Schools, Hamden, 248-252, 367-368, 416-417, 451-452; compulsory attendance at, 315; evening, 428; in early days, 71 ; expense of, 337, 414; growth of, 436- 437; high school, 379, 404, 408; Larson Secretarial, 432; Margaret L. Keefe, 451; visit- ors, 270, 316, 317, 367, 378- 387
School Board, Hamden, 315, 316; vs. town officials, 312, 380-382, 383 Districts, formation of, 250, 251, 313, 314, 363, 395 Fund, 176, 249, 312, 384
Schuetzen Park, 327 Scranton, E. C., 280 Seabury, Bishop Samuel, 117 Sequestered Lands, 23, 177; mounds of, 46, 51
Sesquicentennial, Hamden, 438-446 Seven Pillars, the, 15, 26 Shannahan, Constable Malachi, 366
Shares, D. W., farm tools invented by, 294 , Horace, 364; brickmaker, 296, 391 William, 216 n
Sheffield, Joseph, 205 Shepherd's Brook, 23, 27, 33, 46, 47; Pen, changed to Gilbert's Farms, 25
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Sherman, Howard, 302
- -, Rev. Nathaniel, 65, 79, 110; house of, 178, 293
"Shunpike," 1 34 Silk, cultivation of native, 244-245 Sixth Co. Train Band, 73
Slaves, in Hamden, 127
Sleeping Giant, 3, 154; origin of, 4, 6, 7, 14; highway cut through, 47; scalping of, 405, 433 Park, 51, 423-424
Association, 179, 423, 433, 434 Smith, Abraham, 22
Andrew, needles made by, 297
Dr. Henry, report of, 374 , H. D., sleighbells made by, 298
, John, saw mill of, 41
Nehemiah, sheepraiser, 23, 26
Samuel, saw mill of, 41 William, 75; brass castings made by, 210
Soldiers, Hamden, 410-414, 418, 450; Continental Army, 76, 77; drafts of, 284-285; memorials to, 413, 418; monument to soldiers and sailors, 353
Sperry, Caleb, 75 -, Daniel, 47, 56, 59
-, Elihu, 236 John, 236
Spring Glen, 264-265, 331-332, 423 Stagecoach, travel by, 129, 184, 235- 236, 332, 367. See also Travel Starr, Rev. Harris, 41I
Steinert, Morris, 397
Steps, the, or Blue Hills, 46-47, 211 ; mill at, 49 Stewart, Milton J., 335-336
Stiles, Ezra, Yale president, 78, 81, 137; quoted, 87, 102, 109, III-112, 117, 129, 140; silk cultivation sponsored by, 245
Stiles, Rev. Isaac, engaged in law suit, 64, 102
Stone crusher, invention of, 186 Sullivan, Father Thomas, 403 Swift, Dr. Edwin, 333; health officer, 338; quoted, 362, 363
Tallman, David, mined on Ridge Hill, 45
Talmadge, Daniel, house, blacksmith shop, and paper mill of, 150 family, 131, 132
Josiah, 150
Robert, fulling mill of, 41, 54 Taxes, church, 110, 118; first Ham- den, 102; for highway, 128; rate, 425-426; school, 314; ship money, 92; town, 299 Thayer, David, 270 Thimble Club, 378
Third Division allotments, 26, 32, 34, 46; land grants in, 47; Se- questered Lands bought, 52, III. See also Land, allotments Thomas, John, 32 , Samuel, 150
Wilber H., 425 family, 13I Thompson, John, 2 I
Joseph, 51
Thomas, 376
Timothy, 151 , William, land exchange of, 46
Thorp, Nathaniel, land grant to, 35 Tobin, Richard, superintendent of schools, 387, 395
Todd, Christopher, 22; bakehouse built by, 50; mill property of, 38, 39; sons of, 40 H. Irving, prize dairy farm of, 424 Ithamar, 51, 181 -, John, miller, 40-4I
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Todd, Josiah, copper found by, 45; sawmill of, 41
family, migration of, 132, 158; mill, 41, 50, 55; purchased by Eli Whitney, 142, 143 Obed, waterpower utilized by, 18I Orrin, 181, 187 'Samuel, miller, 33, 40-41, 236 Simeon, forge of, 181
Toll, 53, 184, 195; bridge, 19; churchgoers exempt from, 130; gatehouse, 130, 131, 133, 180; as matter of dissension, 134 Toumey, Prof. James, 405, 423, 433 Town, Ithiel, architect, 181, 234; bust of, 247; covered bridge of, 279, 363 ; patent of, 182
Deposit Fund, 242-243, 250, 268 Meetings, 238-242; described, 356, 452
Farm, care of, 35, 54, 107, 241, 242, 268-269, 338, 406 Townshend, Charles, Quinnipiac In- dians, 13
Trade, English monopoly of, 69-70, 129; rivalry in, 184; with South, 209
Traders, Dutch, first white men in New Haven Harbor, 9; transac- tions with Indians, 10
Traprock, formation of, 4, 5, 47; Hamden's continued use of, 97; on Mt. Carmel, 405; last of, 438
Travel, canal, 196, 211; by horse- back, 177; omnibus, 300-301; stagecoach, 184; steamboat, 184 Treadwell, Oliver, 315, 316, 343 Tree, Rev. Edward O., 400
Trowbridge, Thomas, bloomery built by, 40
Trumbull, Rev. Benjamin, 12, 81, 102; Complete History of Con- necticut, 60-61
Brother Jonathan, 80; bust of, 247 Turner, Capt., 24, 30; Colony mili- tary commander, 19, 20, 36 , Jabez, 75, 113 , Seth, 335
Turnpike, called "Dog Lane," 156; charter surrendered by, 236; company, 130; difficulties of, 330 Tuttle, Aaron, 77 --- , Ambrose, 238; captain, 167, 270 family, 158, 160; early Mt. Car- mel settlers, 52-53
, Fred, layman judge, 373; Hamden postmaster, 343 , Henry, 270, 272, 348, 360- 361 Joseph, land grant to, 46 Leverett, 166, 167, 238 Levi, 118, 164 Nathaniel, 19, 56, 238 Sybil, wife of Amasa, 170, 222, 399, 415
Vande Bogart, Carle, 425 Vanden Heuvel, Charles, owner of sugar estates, 162-163 ; estate of, 265 Vangoodenhausen, farm of, 20, 24 Viewers, of land, 16, 22; of fences, 30, 31, 99; road, 181; hay- wards, 160 Vincent, John, 22, 30 Visiting Nurse Association, 416
Wadsworth, Capt. Decius, quoted, 145 Waite, Dudley, 365
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Wakefield, Harmon, 332; Mrs., 405 John, miller, 32, 37 Walker, Capt. Sam, promoter of Whitney-Walker-Colt revolver, 262
Warner, Almon, 292
, Benjamin, first settler of War- nertown, 48, 77 , Ebenezer, 48, 77, 418 , Eneas, 325, 371 family, 222
Frank, 384, 393, 425
, Mansfield, & Stiles Brick Co., 296
, Norman, manufacturer of wagons, 208
George W., 411, 425, 444; first selectman, 436; schoolhouse erected by, 382, 383
Warning, of meetings, 33, 61, 119; of the poor, 106; of strangers, 98, 99
Warren, Rev. Isaac, quoted, 256-257 Water power, 177, 279, 280; from canal, 204; factor in production, I35 Webb, Darius, 227 family, 162
James H., 411; tallyho of, 367 , James J., 227, 264-265, 284, 302, 315, 332, 342, 348 Web Shop, bought by American Mills Co., 408
West Rock, 4, 37; Judge's Cave on, 5; claypits at, 27, 97; roads to, 28; copper found at, 45 ; boun- dary at, 46; colonists fled to, 81 West Woods, formerly Warnertown, 48 Whalen, Michael J., 397; town clerk, 437 Whitehead, Isaac, 19
Whitehead, Samuel, granted land, 36 Whitham, John, president Mt. Car- mel Fire Co., 398
Whitney Armory, 181, 280, 300, 325; dam at, 278; site, 408; Whitney-Walker-Colt manufac- tured by, 262; water for, 318 Arms Co., 135, 164, 166, 233, 261, 280; absorbed by Winches- ter Arms Co., 364
Whitney, Eli, 240; biographical ac- count of, 135 ; experiment of, 3, 139; house of, 148; letter to Wolcott, 141-142; standardized machinery developed by, 142- 143, 145, 147. See Eli Whit- ney Park
, Eli, 2d, 148, 215, 261, 278, 282, 348; dam erected by, 279; death of, 369; manufacturer of Whitney-Walker-Colt, 262; quoted, 288
-, Eli, 3d, 383 Capt. Jared, 167
Rifles, 148, 149, 262, 288-289, 408 Wilbur Cross Highway, 447 Williams, Elijah, airport manager, 427 , Richard, 419
Wilmot, Benjamin, 22, 31, 41 family, 22 -, Goodman, requested use of clay pits, 37 Thomas, lieutenant, 73 , William, 23, 24, 28 Brook, 40, 388; between Pine and West Rocks, 41 Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 364 Winter, Rev. John, 274, 367 Winthrop, Gov. John, Jr., Connecti- cut charter obtained by, 68 Wolcott, Elijah, 77
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Wolcott, Oliver, 140, 147, 189; Eli Whitney's letter to, 141-142; aid given to Whitney, 142 Wolves, depredation of, 23; bounty offered on, 29; great black, 29 Woodhull, Richard, paper mill of, 150 Woodin, Benjamin, 99, 388-389 family, 23, 112, 222 ; home of, 27 , Javin, 152; account book of, 123, 126; quoted, 212, 249; old schoolhouse purchased by, 250
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Lieut. Javin, 75, 76
Woodruff, Arthur, 300, 366, 444 Mrs. A. E., 420 & Miller, 339 WPA project, adult education, 430- 431, 446
Wright, Judge Benjamin, 186 -, F. Walden, 42I Wyles, James, 163; grist mill of, 160
Yale, David, father of Elihu, 19 Elihu, 19 , Thomas, 19; highway, through land of, 28
Yale College, Lake Whitney used by, 359, 360; library of, 234; Congregational powers at, 55; Eli Whitney at, 136; preachers supplied from, IIO, III; re- moved from Saybrook, 6 York, Sgt. Alvin, 412
Young Ladies Female Seminary, 256- 258, 288, 311; residence of James Ives, 357
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