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Bradley, Joel, 249; father of Sey- mour, 165; sawmill of, 51 Dr. Samuel, 249 Seymour, distillery lease of, 165
Sterling, tavern of, 134; toll- gate keeper, 265, 314
, William, 71 ; mill property ac- quired by, 38, 39; officer in Cromwell's army, 21, 91
Brady, Rev. Matthew, 423, 441; made Bishop of Burlington, Vt., 464
Brass Works, founded by James Ives, 290
"Brethren, The," Hamden boulders, 5, 6 Brewster, Francis, farm of, 20; lost in Phantom Ship, 2 1
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Brewster, Frederick, 417
, James, 280, 417; railroad president and carriage manufac- turer, 235
Rev. Joseph, 300, 301, 400 , Mrs. William, 376, 400; gifts of, 420, 421
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, 279; Oberlin, 452; Pardee's, 337; truss con- struction, 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
British invasion, of New Haven, 76, 81, 82, 123, 198, 204 Broadbent, Benjamin, 393 -, Ericsson, 425
Brockett, Charles, 162, 283, 284, 292 family, early Mt. Carmel set- tlers, 52, 53 Fred, teacher, 312, 320 ,
, Hezekiah, 150, 162; home of, 98
Brooks, Enos, 268; terms in will of, 338; widow of, 269 Brown, D. R., architect of town hall, 354 Building Brook, 177
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 begun on, 189. See Boats, canal; Farm- ington canal; stock of, 190; plans made for, 185; towpath of, used for railroad, 233
Canal Company, 187, 190, 192 ; busi- ness methods of, 188
Candee, Leverett, 260, 296; rubber factory of, 258, 388
Cashman, James, services in home of, 366 Catholic families, 366; Italian, 401, 429; Irish, 273
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 Hotel (new), 271
House, 240, 244, 354; as Ives Hotel, 319 Trotting Park, 318
Chadwick, Sarah, 287, 288
Chapman, Dr. Elisha, 163 ; slave own- er, 164 Chatfield, George W., Temperance Hall of, 284 Minotte, 178, 284, 300 Chatterton mill, 53
Waite, 74, 390; mill built by, 53; pound petitioned for, 59; school committeeman, 61
Cheshire Turnpike Co., 132-134 Child Study & Treatment Home, 459 Church, attendance at, 32, 55, 56, 63, 66, 67, 110, 180; Congregation- al, 109, 110, 119, 150, 171, 179, 187; influence of, on town
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gov't., 65; provisions made for, 54; and school, 71; vs. state, 112; Society, 170; taxes levied for, 54, 55; disaffection in ranks of, 115
Churches, 463, 464
-, Episcopal, 55, 78, 117, 120, 400; Uriah Foote's property sold to, 240; second building of, 174 , Hamden Plains Methodist, 169, 399, 400; burned, 415 Mt. Carmel, 64, 65, 79, 214, 244, 272, 307
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, 272, 402, 464 , Spring Glen, 427, 463
St. Ann's 401
, St. John the Baptist, 16, 366, 450 St. Mary's, 366
St. Rita, organized, 423, 464
St. Stephen's, 402, 464
West Woods Baptist, 174
Whitneyville, 111, 150, 215, 307, 368, 370; centennial of, 435
Churchill, Willis, factory of, 261; manufacturer of surgical instru- ments, 177, 210, 244
Civic Associations, 465
Civil Service, 449, 463
Civil War, 161, 284, 300
Clark, Herman D., 322
-, 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
Coley, Rev. James, 377
Collins, Raymond, chairman of School Board, 416, 436
Colt, Samuel, invention and manu- facture of revolvers, 261-263 "Come outers," 272
Commons, need of, 32; Blue Hills and West Rock, 46 See also New Haven Green
Community Center, Mt. Carmel Childrens' Home absorbed by, 357 Community Field Day, 420, 426, 428 Congregationalists, strict, 112, 17I
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 265
Charter, defined, 68
, Colony, government of, 67, 68
River, influence of Hobbamock on, 7; known as Long River, 6 Silk Society, 245 Western Reserve land, 120 Connolly Parkway, 455
Connor, Walter, 452
Cook, Judge Willis, 358, 392 -, Mrs. Willis, 433 Cooper, Ellsworth, 325 ; school visitor, 316; town clerk, 364 Ezra, blacksmith, 236, 325
, family, 132
, Jared, 239, 240
-, Jesse, 309; Whitneyville post- master, 343
, Joseph, house of, 178; land ex- changed by, 48; ensign in charge of Train Band, 73
-, Justus, 192 ; proprietor of Old Red Tavern, 122, 126 Cooperage business, of Hezekiah Brockett, 162 Coopers Quarters, 28
Cooper, imported from West Indies, 210; ore, 196; in Blue Hills, 160 Cotton gin, invention and patent of, 135, 138-140, 209
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Crafts, Capt. Samuel, brickmaker, quoted, 287, 323, 361
Cushing, John P., Hamden Hall or- ganized by, 417, 432
Dana, Arnold G., devotion of, to Sleeping Giant, 433, 434
Davenport, Rev. John, 32, 33, 71; delivered first New Haven ser- mon, 14; land tract of, 17, 26, 36 ; in purchase of tract including Giant, 9; as one of Seven Pillars, 15
Davis, Edward, horsecar line of, 331 , William E., 21; home of 24, 332, 347, 437 Brick Co., 332
Day, James, store of, 236, 237
-, boathouse, 237, 297, 359, 360 Day Spring Masonic Lodge, 117, 321, 354; Bellamy a master, 157; Temple built by, 437
Dead Man's Cave, 319, 320
Deane, Almon J., death of, 437; Mt. Carmel station agent, 357, 393, 425; town clerk, 413
DeNicola, John, 463, 465
Dickerman, Abraham, land tract of, 46, 48, 71, 178 ; of New Haven Colony, 51, 52 , Caroline, 25I
, Charles, 309, 365; Centerville House owner, 303, 354
. Edward, 236
Elan, 328; station agent, 330; slaughterhouse, 328 Eli, 243, 270, 342
Elias, 315, 316 , Elihu, on poorhouse committee, 242, 348 Elizabeth, founder of Female Seminary, 256; quoted, 257 Emma, daughter of Leverett, 317
Dickerman, Ezra, 175, 251, 256, 288, 289, 290
family, 131, 132, 160, 222
Rev. George S., 23, 365; , quoted, 308
, Hezekiah, 77; ensign in 12th Company, 75; house of, 133, I34
, Isaac, 99, 106, 159, 178 ; mod- erator, 57; ensign, 44; 6th Di- vision land acquired by, 51 John, 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
Robert, 372, 388
Samuel, selectman, 99, 102; Mt, Carmel settler, 52 Seymour, 305; oyster business of, 163 , Sue, teacher for 50 years, 404 Dick's Pond, 454
Divisions, Fifth, 53; First, 16; Fourth, 46, 48, 53; Second, 16; Sequestered Lands bought, 52; Sixth, 51, 53, 54; Third, 16, 19 Dog Lane Court, 155, 156, 162
Doherty, James P., 462, 466
Dorman family, 23, 24, 112, 222; lane through land of, 28; home of, 27, 54, 462 -, Jerome, 332 Doolittle, A. C., 302 Andrew, 295, 309
, Caleb, highway surveyor, 99; famed wrestler, 156
, family, early Mt. Carmel set- tlers, 52, 53 Heman, 390
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Doolittle, James, mill of, 390 , Reuben, famed wrestler, 156
Downes, Father, 402, 411, 416 Ducey, Charles, 454 Dullard, Father, 386
Dunbar, Giles, freeman, 177
, Chapel, 375
-, Community Club, 422
Hill, Indian grinding stone at, I2 Dwight, Dr. Timothy, 78, 144, 177, 209; Statistical Account of New Haven, 45
Early, Bernard, World War II hero, 412
East Rock, 4, 16, 35; called "Rood- enbergh" or "Red Hills," 10; colonists fled to, 8 1 ; copper found at, 45; monument on, 353; as part of David Atwater's farm, 20; road to, 28, 39; traprock at, 97; Whitney holdings on, 150 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
Eighteenth Amendment, 414
Eli Whitney Park, 236, 396, 465 Eli Whitney School, 459
Epidemics, caused by Lake Whitney water levels, 317; infantile paralysis, 410; influenza, 416; measles, 389; small pox, 151
Everest, Rev. Charles, 400; founder of Rectory School, 252, 296, 321 ; waterworks charter obtained by, 326
Fair Haven, called "the Neck," 15, 16; formation of, 32; found- ing of, 71
Fairs, Centerville, 302; County, on New Haven Green, 265, 266; Hamden, agricultural, 301 Farmington stage line, 235, 236 Canal, 181, 184; stock of, 190 Federal government, inaugurated in New York, 117; Constitution, 104, 1IO
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, postmaster, 343 , R.W., high school designed by, 436
Ford family, 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 Franklin elm, 124, 125
Freeman, 105, 176, 177, "admitted inhabitants," 104, 105; first meeting of, 14; of Hamden, 98 Fulton, Robert, 148; steamboat in- vention of, 161 Fundamental Orders, 67
Galpin & Robinson, manufacturers of carpets, 258 Gaylord, Alling, 224, 225 , Benjamin, Jr., 99 "Giant's Kettles," 6 Gilbert family, 131, 132, 222 Griswold, 270, 388; milk producer, 267
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Gilbert, Sgt. John, 44, 81; captain 17th Company, 82
Matthew, 108, 221, 388; deacon, magistrate, deputy gov- ernor, 26; farm of, 20, 36; sold, 21; Seven Pillars, 15, 26 Gilbert farms, 47; formerly Shep- herd's Pen, 25
Golf courses, Giant Valley and Meadowbrook, 424, 452, 455 Goffe, Regicide, sheltered, 19, 38 Goodyear, Charles, 258
family, keepers of school records, 251
Jesse, Jr., bell manufacturer, I22 Jesse, 3d., 102, 187, 250; Centerville House of, 122, 240, 271, 303, 354 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
Hall, 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't of, 90, 97, 99, 109, 110 -, Airport, 427, 462
Hamden, Bank & Trust Co., 424-426; closing of, 430, 450
Chamber of Commerce, 425
Chronicle, 454
Grange, 370, 371
Hall Associates, 432
, High School, plans for, 403,
436. See Schools Historical Society, 179, 442
Times, weekly, 437
Hampden, John, Puritan patriot, 399; town named for, 91-93
Harris, Malcolm, mill converted into home by, 53
Marshall, 454 Richard, 454
Harrison, Gov .. Henry B., 347, 348; quoted, 100 Hart, Father Matthew, 273
Harte, Charles Rufus, 189
Hartford Turnpike Co., 132, 181
Haywards, or pounders, 31
Health, 453 , officers, 362, 374, 453, 457 Heaton, John E., 358, 423
Henry, John T., 360; manufacturer of pruning shears, 295
Highways, division of town into, 102; laying out of, 15; macadamiz- ing of, 371, 372, 387; used by Ezra Kimberly, 164; Whitney Ave. paved, 452. See also Roads Highwood, previously called Ham- burg, 343; school, 315, 395 Fire Co., 396, 459 Italian-American Club, 416
Hillhouse, James, 144, 150; asked Federal grant for canal, 198 Hiscock, Dr. Ira, 426
Hitchcock, Leverett, 270, 321; post- master, 343; town clerk, 324; town treasurer, 312 Horsecar line, 309; Davis', 331, 332
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Houses, first New Haven project, 149; old Hamden, 65, 177-181 ; along the Quinnipiac, 2 I Hume, Herbert, 463 Humiston, Alva, 428, 429 -, family, 131, 132 Hurd, "Doctor" Daniel, healer, 333- 335 Hurricanes, 462
Ice Age, glacers in, 5; Connecticut River's course deflected in, 6 Ice houses, in Whitneyville, 297-298, 365, 366 Incinerator, 457 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; purchase of land from, 9-12; settled along sound, 12; traits of, 27
Industries, Hamden, 391. See Manu- facturing Ives, Chauncey, sculptor, 247-248 , Eber, 52; Mt. Carmel store of, I26
Mrs. Eber, 151
Elam, 52, 168, 169 A
Mrs. Eli, 181
family, 132, 340-342
Frank G., funeral account of, 340
Frederick, 392; and Co., 292 Henry, 210, 292 ,
, 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; president of Bolt Co., 333 ; son of Elam, 209; Water Co., organized by, 326 , Jason, 168, 169, 208, 210 , Jonathan, 61, 99; settler in Mt. Carmel, 52
Ives, Lazarus, 56, 77, 177; builder of Ives homestead, 177; Seques- tered Lands bought by, 52
Lucius, 211, 323, 340, 348, 365 ; Mt. Carmel postmaster, 343 Ivesville, settled by Jonathan Ives, 52
Jackson, President Andrew, 242; in New Haven, 212, 213 J. Frederick, 411 Rev. William, 441 Jewish Center, 464 Joslin, Dr. George, 208, 382; health officer, 363, 406, 453 Judges' Cave, on West Rock, 5 ; Regi- cides sheltered in, 19, 38
Keefe, Margaret L., 432; quoted, 403, 404; superintendent of schools, 395, 458
Kelly, J. Frederick, designer of Eaton Centotaph, 20
Kenyon, Mae, tax collector, 430
Walter, 393, 394, 396, 397; death of, 429, 430; Boy Scout master, 394; president Hamden Bank, 425
Kimberly, Ezra, 118, 307; charter Mason, 119; mill of, 164 family, early Mt. Carmel set- tlers, 52, 53
Hobart, 308, 309
, mills, 210 Roderick, 164, 187, 243, 308 store, 307-309; Mt. Carmel, 236 Kingsbury, Fred B., 425 Kossuth, Louis, 280-282
LaFarge, Rev. John, quoted, 274-276 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;
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viewers of, 16; on western sec- tion, 21. See also Third Divi- sion allotments; property owners Larson School, 150, 459
Lay, Dr. Walter S., 389; health officer, 390; telephone exchange in home of, 408; in World War 1, 405, 406, 453
Leeke, Horace, 257, 258; a freeman, 177 Russell, 236, 237, 250, 257, 309, 428 ; in charge of canal lock, 200; a freeman, 177
Legion Field, 44; naming of, 420, 461
Library, free public, 377, 378, 408, 424; in Hamden, 154, 379; Mt. Carmel, 376; Dixwell Ave. branch, 432, 454
Association, 376, 378 Linton, William J., engraver, 310, 3II
Liquor, 123; license for, 354; prohi- bition of, 319; sale of, 338; spirituous, 244
Little Quarter, 26, 28 Loller, Charles, fire chief, 422, 460 Lydia, last remaining squaw, 13
Lyman, Norman, 332
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 Mann, Bela, 296
Manufacturing in Hamden, 3, 162, 163, 209, 233, 234; imports to Colony, 43. Marine Clock Co., 21 I Mayo Radiator Co., 407 Mckeon, Andrew, house, tollgate, 187 McKinley, President, 375
McNerney, John, 463 Meadowbrook, 23, 455
Meetinghouse, New England, de- scribed, 66; Mt. Carmel, 98
Merriman, Charles, 305-307; poem of, 369
Meteors, shower of, 213, 214 Mexican War, 261, 262
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; paper, 150, 166, 215, 258, 279; proposed at Beaver Ponds, 38; saw, 41, 49, 364; Bradley's, 164; as shelter for Regicides, 38; Doo- little's, 390; woolen, 177; Todd's 41, 50, 55, 142, 143; bought by, 149
Mill Rock, 4, 16; mill at, 38, 39; Whitney holdings on, 150
River, 28, 33, 35, 41, 49
Miller, Gertrude, 424
, homestead, 179, 187
Mary, 405, 424, 454 , Willis E., 292, 293, 294, 392, , 424; station agent, 328
Milling machine, invention of, 142 Mining, in New Haven Colony, 44, 45 Mix, Capt. Caleb, 79; charges against, 84; estate of, 266; home a meet- ing place, II 2
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Mix, Jonathan, 77, 263; carriage spring inventor, 160, 161
, Norris, 298, 321, 373 Momauguin, 10; number of Indians under, 13 Moody, Wilfred, high school prin- cipal, 451, 459
Mt. Carmel, 5, 9, 74; Dickerman and Ives family in, 51 ; early settlers, 52, 53 Axle Works, 208, 292, 433
Childrens' 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 Semi- nary
Munson, Bazel, 75, 77, 89, 110; descendant of Joel, 345; viewer of highway, 128
, family, 112, 160; slaves of, 127
, Henry, 309, 323, 408; family of, 326
, Joel, 56, 181, 210, 345; mill of, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 109, 163; pound keeper, 59; slave owner, 164
Capt. John, 41, 132; father of , Joel, 48, 50; public wagon of, 129; transportation of, 42
"The Neck," now called Fair Haven, 15, 31
Neilsen, Peter, shop of, 236
Nepaupuck, executed on New Haven Green, 13 Nettleton, Elwood T., 454
New Haven, boundaries of, 97; depot 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 marketplace, 15, 16; Gov. Eaton buried on, 19; Franklin elm on, 124, huckleberries on, 180; Ne- paupuck executed on, 13; Sabba- day houses on, 33; trees planted on, 245, 246
Country Club, 332, 360
, County Agricultural Society, 265; fair of, 301
, Water Co., 149, 278, 279, 283, 284, 318, 326, 394; mill razed by, 39; lake property, pur- chased by, 363
New Lebanon Mission, 322, 396
North Haven, 55, 103; Gov'n. Eaton's land in, 17; and Mt. Carmel, 89; parish of, 59, 60, 61; town privileges requested by, 88, 89
Oberlin, A. Frederick, 411, 412, 452 O'Connell shop, 236
Oldham, James, superintendent of schools, 387
PAL, 461 Pardee, Benjamin, 220, 287 family, 220 Pardee Manufacturing Co., 291, 328 Stephen, 309; church services in home of, 119 Parente, Dr. Leonard, 453, 457
Parmeter, Riley, railway agent, 328 Payne, Deacon James, 342, 368; hymn written by, 347, 350 Peck, Alice, house of, 179 -, Amos, 59, 179
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Peck, family, early Mt. Carmel set- tlers, 52, 53 Florence, Hillfield School of, 405 Friend, 384
Henry, 179, 211, 280, 281 ,
, Joseph, 77, 79, 127
Lois, 180 Lorenzo, 272, 329
Pensions, 449, 463
Pierpont, Rev. James, 53, 246, 390
family, 132; home, 246
Russell, 87, 187, 242, 324
Pine Rock, 4, 438; Indian cave in, 12; road at, 16, 24, 28; ox pasture at, 24, 31 Pinney, E. W., superintendent of town farm, 338 Plaza shopping center, 455
Police, 455
Population, 331, 457
Post Offices, 343, 454
Potter, Edwin, 329, 375, 384
Probate Court, 462
Property owners, 59, 60, 133, 187; along canal, 190, 191
Putnam, Rev. Austin, 216, 227, 270, 307, 347, 385; anniversary of, 342, 343; quoted, 348, 349
Quinnipiac College, 459
- , Indians, 10, 16; friendly to white man, II; along New Haven Harbor, 12, 13 River, 464
Railroads, as canal competitor, 205, 207; chartered, 233; difficulties of, 330; as means of transporta- tion, 206, 367; nonexistent, 184 Recreation, 461 Rectory School, 252, 253, 302, 321, 369, 400; bell of, 382; Center- ville, 4 Red Cross, 460
Regicides, sheltered in Judges' Cave, 19; in grist mill, 38 Revolver, Colt, 261. See Whitney Armory
Reynolds, Julia, visiting nurse, 416 Relief, 450
Riley, Edward, slaughterhouse of, 325 Roads, 26, 28, 337, 361; bonds for, 414; care of, 103, 127-134, 298; early, 57; widening of, 430, 455, 464 Roberts, Charles, livery business of, 318; owner of Roberts House, 319
Rochford, F. Raymond, first select- man, 437, 441, 442, 445 ; proc- lamation of, 439, 440; judge of probate, 462, 466 Roe, Prof. Joseph, quoted, 183, 260
Sabbath, colonial, 14, 33, 46, 62 Sabin, Col. Hezekiah, 74, 123; land- owner, 25, 27, 28 Sackett, John, 29, 30; as fence viewer, 32 Brook, 38 Sanford, Edward, 444 , John,. 343 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, 457; high school, 379, 404, 408, 459; Larson secretarial, 432, 459; Margaret L. Keefe, 458; visitors, 316, 317, 367, 378, 387, 458 School Board, 315, 316, 449; vs. town officials, 312, 380-382, 383 , Districts, formation of, 250, 251, 313, 314, 363, 395 Fund, 120, 176, 249, 312, 384
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Schuetzen Park, 327
Sequestered Lands, 23, 177; mounds of, 46, 51 Sesquicentennial, Hamden, 438-446 Sewers, 407, 456
Shannahan, Constable Malachi, 366 Shares, D. W., farm tools invented by, 294 -, Horace, 364; brickmaker, 296, 391
Shepherd's Brook, 23, 27, 33, 46, 47; Pen, changed to Gilbert's Farms, 25 Sherman, Rev. Nathaniel, 65, 79, IIO; house of, 178, 293
"Shunpike," 134
Silk, cultivation of native, 244, 245 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, 451 , Association, 179, 423, 433, 434 Sleeping Giant Junior High School, 459
Smith, Andrew, needles made by, 297 , Dr. Henry, report of, 374
, H. D., sleighbells made by, 298 , Nehemiah, Colony shepherd, 23, 26
Williams, 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, 451 Spring Glen, 264, 265, 331, 332, 423 Stage coach, travel by, 129, 184, 235, 236, 332, 367
Steinert, Morris, 397
Steps, the, or Blue Hills, 46, 47, 211 ; mill at, 49
Stiles, Ezra, Yale president, 78, 81, 137; quoted, 87, 102, 109, III, 112, 117, 129, 140; silk culti- vation sponsored by, 245
Rev. Isaac, engaged in law suit, 64, 102
Stone crusher, invention of, 186
Swift, Dr. Edwin, 333; health officer, 338; quoted, 362, 363 Swimming pool, 460
Tallman, David, mined on Ridge Hill, 45 Taxes church, 110, 118; first Ham- den, 102; for highway, 128; rate, 425, 426, 450; school, 314; ship money, 92; town, 299 Television, 455 Thim, John R., 467 Thimble Club, 378
Third Division allotments, 26, 32, 34, 36; land grants in, 47; Seques- tered Lands bought, 52, III
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
Todd family, migration of, 132, 158; mill, 41, 50, 55; purchased by Eli Whitney, 142, 143 Obed, waterpower utilized by, 181
, Samuel, miller, 33, 40, 41, 2 36 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
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Town, Ithiel, architect, 181, 234; bust of, 247; covered bridge of, 279, 363 ; patent of, 182
, Deposit Fund, 242, 243, 250, 268
Government Study Committee, 449
, Meetings, 238-242; described, 356, 449, 466
Plan Board, 456 ,
, Farm, care of, 35, 54, 107, 241, 242, 268, 269, 338, 406, 461
Hall, 354, 417, 451, 465 Trade, English monopoly of, 69, 70, 129; rivalry in, 184; with South, 209
Traders, Dutch, first white men in New Haven Harbor, 9; tran- sactions 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 horseback, 177; omnibus, 300, 301; stage- coach, 184; steamboat, 184
Treadwell, Oliver, 315, 316, 343
Trumbull, Rev. Benjamin, 12, 81, 102; Complete History of Con- necticut, 60, 61
Brother Jonathan, 80; bust of, 247
Turnpike, called "Dog Lane," 156; charter surrendered by, 236; company, 130; difficulties of, 330
Tuttle, Ambrose, 238; captain, 167, 270
family, 158, 160; early Mt. Carmel settlers, 52, 53
Fred, layman judge, 373 ; post- master, 343
Henry, 270, 272, 348, 360, 361
Leverett, 166, 167, 238
Tuttle, Nathaniel, 19, 56, 238
, Sybil, wife of Amasa, 170, 222, 399, 415
Vanden Heuvel, Charles, owner of sugar estates, 162, 163 ; estate of, 265
Viewers, of land, 16, 22; of fences, 30, 31, 99; road, 181 ; haywards, 160
Visiting Nurse Association, 416
Wadsworth, Capt. Decius, quoted, 145 Wakefield, Harmon, 332; Mrs. 405 , John, miller, 32, 37
Warner, Benjamin, first settler of Warnertown, 48, 77
A Ebenezer, 48, 77, 418
Eneas, 325, 371
family, 222
Frank, 384, 393, 425
A Lewis, 270
Mansfield & Stiles Brick Co., 296
George W., 411, 425, 444; first selectman, 436; schoolhouse erected by, 382, 383, 462
Warning of meetings, 33, 61, 119; of the poor, 106; of strangers, 98, 99
Water power, 177, 279, 280; from canal, 204; factor in production, I35
Webb, Darius, 227
family, 162
, James H., 411 ; tallyho of, 367 Webb, James J., 227, 264, 265, 284, 302, 315, 332, 342, 348 Web Shop, bought by American Mills. Co,, 408 Western Reserve, 120
West Rock, 4, 37; Judges' Cave on, 5; claypits at, 27, 97; roads to, 28; copper found at, 45; boun- dary at, 46; colonists fled to, 8 1
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West Woods, formerly Warnertown, 48 School, 459 Whalen, Michael J., 397; town clerk, 437, 462
Whiting, Capt. Jared, 167
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 Blake Co., 407, 453
Eli, 240; biographical account of, 135; house of, 148; letter to Wolcott, 141, 142; standardized machinery developed by, 142, 143, 145, 147
Eli, 2nd, 148, 215, 261, 278, 282, 348; dam erected by, 279; death of, 369; manufacturer of Whitney - Walker - Colt, 262; quoted, 288 Eli, 3rd, 383 Rifles, 148, 149, 262, 288, 289, 408
William, Elijah, airport manager, 427 Richard, 419 Wilmot, Benjamin, 22, 31, 41 family, 22
, Goodman, requested use of claypits, 37
-, Brook, 40, 388; between Pine and West Rocks, 41
Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 364 Wolcott, Oliver, 140, 147, 189; Eli Whitney's letter to, 141, 142; aid given to Whitney, 142 Woodin, Benjamin, 99, 388, 389 family, 23, 112, 222 ; home of, 27 Javin, 108, 152; account book of, 123, 126; quoted, 212, 249; old schoolhouse purchased by, 250 Woodruff, Arthur, 300, 366, 444
Mrs. 420 ,
-, & Miller, 339 World War II, 45 1
WPA project, adult education, 430, 431, 446, 451
Wright, Walden, 42 I
Wyles, James, 163 ; grist mill of, 160
Yale College, Lake Whitney used by, 359, 360; library of, 234; Con- gregational powers at, 55; Eli Whitney at, 136; preachers sup- plied from, IIO, III; removed from Saybrook, 6
Young Ladies Female Seminary, 256, 258, 288, 311; residence of James Ives, 357
Zelatrices, Missionary, of the Sacred Heart, 464 Zoning Board, 449, 456, 457
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