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CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE HOP BROOK SECTION-EARLY SETTLERS-ON THE ROAD TO MIDDLE- BURY-LEMUEL NICHOLS' TAVERN-A BRIDE'S BROOK-DR. JAMES PORTER-EPHRAIM BISSELL-WATERBURY'S INDIAN RESERVATION- NON-RESIDENT LAND OWNERS.
H OP brook rises east of Lake Quassapaug at an elevation of 750 feet above the sea, runs through Cedar swamp north- ward of the lake and wavers through about fifteen miles of territory, receiving at least fifteen tributaries in its course to the Naugatuck river at Union City.
Mention must be made of the early settlers in this section of the township. The level land along the brook near Carrington's slaughter house was John Barnes' plain. On it Caleb Thompson built a house about 1733. After it was finished it was found that the records were so confused that all rights must be ignored and the land laid out anew. Poor Samuel Barnes was all the way through life the victim of mistakes in some form, notably in the line of his various land records. He sold the land to Thompson, but it had been so recorded to Barnes that it appeared to be on the wrong side of the brook, so that it became necessary to turn the brook around and the hill over, in order to make Thompson the owner of the land. John Barnes began anew and laid out the land. Samuel bought it from his brother and re-conveyed it to Thompson, as being easier than to turn the hill over and the brook around. At this time Samuel Barnes was living farther up the highway to Judd's meadows on the west side of the river against Platt's mills, and shortly after 1733, he had to lay out his own lands anew-the records having been lost or the deeds unrecorded. Silas Johnson, another unfortunate individual, was living just above Samuel Barnes. John Johnson had been the first settler in that spot in 1726, and Silas succeeded him. John had built his house on common land, so that Silas, after his father's death, was compelled to have the spot where his house stood laid out.
On Hop brook, above Barnes' plain and in the vicinity of Brad- leyville, lay George Scott's eight-acre lot, under which name the locality was known for a generation. Near this lot there comes in from the east a branch called Welton's brook, named from John Welton's boggy meadow, which lay in the valley between Malmalick and Oronoke hills. Farther up Welton's brook lay a noted point,
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known as Scovill's boggy meadow, and sometimes as Scovill's and Gaylord's meadow. It is now called the Peat Swamp.
In going from Waterbury to Middlebury the first ascent is upon West Side hill, first so named in a grant made to Samuel Barnes between 1730 and 1733. Next, to the right, is Bryant's hill. Pass Tamarack swamp, and Richards' hill is at your right as you are pass- ing through the swamp. Pass the Boughton place, and Arnold's hill lies to your left. Cross the Peat swamp, and at your right lies Gaylord's hill. Lemuel Nichols' tavern before the "Revolution,"- now an old house-stands on this hill. A quarter of a mile further on, and Oronoke hill is on your left. The Umberfield place is on the north end of this hill. The John Hine place was in the vicinity. Cross Gaylord's brook, and to your right is Two-and-a-half-Mile hill-the southern end of which hill is the rock known as Pine rock -a boundary point between Waterbury and Middlebury. The west- ern slope of the above hill is now known as Mount Fair. Between the Two-and-a-half-Mile hill, and the Three-Mile hill, you pass Bis- sell's hill at the left, which still bears that name. The old Morse road went over this hill, and on it were several houses, and later a blacksmith shop belonging to Joseph Peck. Three Mile hill was named, I know not how early, but it is mentioned in 1720. When you have reached Middlebury-Four-corners, you have passed the southern end of this hill. The village of Middlebury is upon the northern end of the ridge to which the name of Bedlam was applied very early. Beyond Middlebury, and next Lake Quassapaug, lies the hill known in 1686 as the Great Hill east of Quassapaug. In the first formal layout of one of the early roads to Woodbury which passed over the summit of Three-Mile hill-at the boundary line mention is made of the Bride's brook. The language is "at the going down of Wolf Pit hill to the Brid's brook in Woodbury bounds." The brook in question was a branch of Hop brook, now in Middlebury. We find one or more Bride's brooks in Massa- chusetts, as well as in Connecticut, with various traditions attached. In our own case we may venture a suggestion, not only in relation to Brides' brooks in general, but to the one at the Waterbury and Woodbury bound line. The bride for whom this brook was named was, we will say, Miss Sarah Gaylord, whom Thomas Judd, Jr., mar- ried in 1688. The Reverend Zachariah Walker, of Woodbury, was the officiating clergyman on that occasion, and special mention of the fact is recorded with the notice. As he could not legally per- form any of the rites of the church or any civil functions outside of his own parish, the parties in question must have presented themselves within Woodbury bounds. To have complied with the
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law, the clergyman and the contracting parties must at least have met at this brook for the marriage ceremony. The various tradi- tions connected with Brides' brooks undoubtedly had their origin in this custom-practiced at a very early period when passing from place to place was attended with difficulties and dangers. Getting married was not easily accomplished in Waterbury at that period- in fact, it was impossible, for the want of a proper officer. Young Judd's father was two years later appointed Commissioner or Jus- tice of the Peace.
As the Woodbury road of 1720 has been mentioned here, it may be added that the ancient road to Woodbury is referred to as early as 1687. It ran over Richards' hill and north of Scovill's boggy meadow. The survey of 1720 abandoned that route and adopted what had been known for a time as the lower way, which ran over Arnold's hill and south of Scovill's meadow. The first mention of Hop swamp-naturally a region of hops-is in 1687, when George Scott received two grants of land there. Dr. Daniel and Richard Porter (brothers) were, perhaps, the first settlers to whom land was laid out at the swamp. Richard moved to New Haven and gave his Hop swamp allotments to his sons about 1726. The first actual settler there was either Ephraim Bissell, or Dr. James Porter.
Dr. James Porter settled at Hop swamp, probably about 1725. The first mention of his house is found in 1730. It stood at the foot of the Bissell hill and west of the present Hop Swamp School-house. Tradition states that when his house was in building the workmen went from the center in the morning and returned at evening,- fearing the Indians. In later years, a new house was so enclosed under the same roof with the old one that the two houses appeared as one building. When, a few years ago, the house was taken down, the workmen were greatly surprised to find that two independent frames were set together. So unique was the work, that a drawing of it was made for preservation. A new house built by the Bough- ton brothers occupies the very site of the house of 1730.
Ephraim Bissell came from Tolland in 1728. He bought land at Hop swamp, and in a little swamp north of Hop swamp, which gave his name to the swamp, and also on the hill still known as Bissell's hill. The old house site lies at the foot of the hill near the north- eastern edge of the Hop swamp basin. The cellar walls still stand and the stones of the big chimney lie fallen in a prominent mound. A large butternut tree has grown out from the cellar bottom and apple trees stand about-decaying as they stand. The old well- place is still to be seen, and the large flowing spring where water was at hand before the well was made. It was here that a hundred
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and fifty years ago young Ephraim Bissell bade farewell to home and family-never to return. July 1, 1740, "being designed into the war in the Spanish West Indies in America," he made his will, leaving to his wife, Abigail, all his "moveable or Personal Estate of every kind Quality and species whatsoever and in all parts and places whatsoever the same shall or may be to her use forever." Besides numerous possessions in Tolland, Bissell owned 200 acres in Waterbury. His will was presented at the Probate Court in Woodbury in 1742 by Mrs. Bissell, who "informed that she had credible information that her husband died in the West Indies," but the estate was not settled until seven years had passed. Bissell is said to have been at the storming of Moro Castle, and to have been among the missing. He left two sons-Ephraim and Thomas. Ephraim died early; for some unknown reason he was placed under a master who managed his affairs and cared for his property and family. Thomas sold early his part of the land and removed to Derby, where he was living at the time of his last sale. His de- scendants are unknown. The last of the Bissells living on the hill was Eunice Webb. She lived in the old house on the top of the hill, and removed with her husband, Reuben Webb, to the "West." That portion of the Moss or Morse road that crossed Bissell hill, became the Webb road. Deacon Timothy Porter, the son of Richard, had a house at Hop swamp very early, which he is said to have sold, after which he removed to New Haven, or Stratford, or perhaps to both places. Later, in 1740, his house is mentioned in the layout of a road at Hop swamp. In the same year he sold out and went, perhaps, to Milford, but a few years later he had returned. The old cellar place of Deacon Timothy's house is still visible a little southwest of Hop Swamp school-house and a few rods from the highway, which formerly ran near the old house, but when changed left it in the field. His son, Mark Porter, built a house (or received the gift of one) quite near his father's house. Deacon Timothy Porter's house and that of his cousin, Dr. James Porter, were about a quarter of a mile apart.
In 1729 the region about Bedlam meadows had attracted the favorable attention of men from neighboring towns. Eliphalet Bristol and Daniel Mallery of West Haven had laid out nearly a hundred acres at Bedlam meadow and on Bedlam hill; Samuel Umberfield of the same place, Mr. Samuel Whittlesey of Walling- ford and - Briscoe also had lands on the same hill.
Other early settlers may perhaps be mentioned here, without regard to date. John Porter, son of Timothy, settled on Bissell's hill; Timothy Porter, Jr., son of Deacon Timothy, on the same ridge,
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to the westward, near where Mr. Elliott now lives. Captain James Porter built a house west of the swamp-where Charles Boughton last lived. David Porter lived in the old house James built. Deacon Gideon Platt built about one mile from Deacon Porter's house-Charles Nichols now lives at the place; his son Gideon built the house now standing on the opposite side of the road, where L. C. Wilmot lives. Benjamin Bement settled southwest of Hop swamp, between the houses of John and Timothy Porter, Jr .; Gamaliel Fenn west or southwest of the swamp, toward Bedlam hill.
It may be a surprise to our readers to learn that Waterbury had an
Indian reservation. It was on the southeast portion of East mountain and consisted of fifty acres, and was bought by the pro- prietors of the undivided lands of New Haven, May 7, 1731, for "the use, benefit, and behoof of the Indians that now do or hereafter shall be properly belonging to or descending from that tribe of Indians called or known by the name of New Haven or Quinepiag Indians as long as any of that tribe or family shall remain and no longer." The Quinnipiac Indians were evidently moved on, for the consideration was a quit-claim by the proprietors of New Haven of "fifty acres at the upper end of the New Indian field, to John Moris of New Haven." This Indian reservation was undoubtedly occupied, for we find it called "the Indian farm" down to the time of the Revolution.
Else Wooster, a daughter, perhaps, of the first John Welton of Waterbury, as he had a daughter Else, had land on the southeast corner of East mountain; and Stephen Welton, brother of Else Welton (whose marriage is not recorded in Waterbury), had land in the same vicinity. Else Wooster's land was the western bound of this Indian reservation. The above clue is the only link found con- necting Else Wooster with Waterbury. As many indications of relationships are hidden away in land records-in the way of sug- gestion to future genealogists, as well as for the interest of those concerned-certain land transactions connecting inhabitants of other towns with Waterbury for a single decade are introduced. They are not exhaustive of the records, neither are they chrono- logically arranged.
In 1724 Josiah Rogers, a blacksmith, of Branford, bought of Ephraim Warner "a {20 right in the commonage, and seven acres of third Division land to be pitched for and laid out to him," and Henry Toles of New Haven bought Samuel Barnes's £40 right. In 1728 Richard Porter of New Haven, sixty acres at Meshadock meadow; Mr. Whittlesey of Wallingford obtained 282 acres; Deacon John Stanley of Farmington, 309 acres, afterward called Stanley's farm; Phineas Towner, 21/2 acres west of the Little brook; Joseph Nichols of Derby buys of Thomas Porter and other heirs of Daniel Porter 10 acres on the Long Boggy meadow (in Watertown),
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and lands to be taken up; Thomas Hopkins of Hartford, 92 acres on the east branch of Hancox brook, the north side of Taylor's Meditation; Bartlett's swamp is first mentioned-originally laid out to George Scott, Jr .; the Rev. Samuel Hopkins of Springfield had land laid out in the Great "Hallow" in the Southeast quarter, near Wallingford; Daniel and Henry Toles laid out lands on Barnes's right; Mr. Samuel Hall of Wallingford received lands; Isaac Hotchkiss of New Haven began buying in the southeast part of the township, and William Gillitt (Gillet) of Milford sold to Freegift Coggeshall of Milford, 35 acres not laid out, originally granted to William Scott.
In 1729 Jonathan Garnsey of Milford bought Stephen Hopkins's house with a highway on every side on Union Square-"four acres more or less," and nine on the Farmington road for £250; Charles Lane, of Ripton, Fairfield county, a lot in the village; James Blakeslee sold the Irving Block corner to Abraham Utter of East Haven; Daniel Holbrook of Derby became a landholder; Abraham Hodges secured sixty acres to be laid out; Abraham Utter bought of John Bronson, Jr., his house and all his lands-103 acres at Scott's mountain; Moses Bronson sold to Ebenezer Bronson a house at Bronson's meadow in Middlebury; "Tolles' Farm" became Joseph Nichols' farm, and James Johnson of Wallingford bought lands near it; Henry and Daniel Toles of New Haven sold to Joseph Osborn of the same place "one-half of all their lands and rights in land in Waterbury, obtained from their father, who bought said lands of Samuel Barnes and James Brown;" Abraham Hodges had removed to Waterbury and bought lands up the river; Daniel Hol- brook (blacksmith) bought lands, and Stephen Pierson of Derby bought of Holbrook 90 acres, with a house, on Strait mountain near the Derby line, and Pierson's son Thomas, then in Woodbury, sold to his father 41 acres in Cotton Wool meadow; Robert Johnson of Stratford bought 20 acres west of Welton's brook, by John John- son's farm; Caleb Thompson built his first house near David's (Scott's) swamp; Deacon Stephen Hotchkiss of Wallingford took 50 acres in the undivided land, and laid out about one hundred acres next Wallingford; Nathaniel Peck of Walling- ford, farmer, with the consent of his wife Sarah, sold 64 acres at Tailor's meadow to Dr. Jeremiah Hulls of the same place; Thomas Lee of " Oosatonuck," province of Mass. Bay, sold land to Joseph Hurlburt; Samuel Umberfield of West Haven laid out 74 acres west of Cranberry pond; Eliphalet Bristol and Daniel Mallery possessed lands in "Bedlam " meadow; Mr. Timothy Johnson of Derby had 30 acres in the undivided lands laid out to him; and William Lamson of Stratford began his ownership of lands by buying in present Middlebury 20 acres, which he added to from time to time for twenty-five years.
In 1730 Mr. Southmayd and Samuel Hikcox sell to James Johnson 30 acres in "Ouze Bass swamp, east of Mad river and north of Farmington road;" Caleb Clark and Daniel How buy, for {220, 220 acres on the western side of Lothrop hill, westward from the Long Boggy meadow, and northwest from the Round meadow -in Watertown; Captain John Wells owns 85 acres at "Twich Grass Brook;" Joseph Gaylord, Jr., at Buck's Hill, where his dwelling house now stands, receives from Ephraim Warner three acres of land in exchange for Gaylord's land at Ash swamp; John Wetmore of Middletown sells to Nathan Hubbart (Hubbard) 80 acres in Tailor's meadow; Joseph Harris buys near Round meadow; James Hull of New Haven, on the south end of the old Town Plot; "Samuel Hikcox Fulling Mill" is gone, for land is bought "a little above where it stood," and the Rev. Samuel Hopkins of Springfield sells land to Joseph Noyes.
In 1731 John Hurd of Stratford gave to his son Nathan Hurd 50 acres on the road to Wooster swamp, and a little later 50 acres to his son John; Joseph and
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Martha Smith sold to Noah Tuttle of Branford the home place of Mr. Henry W. Scovill; James and Eunice Johnson conveyed to Mr. John Punderson the land and house where now stand the "Arcade" building and the buildings occupied by Miller & Peck, and by T. F. Judson. The Irving block corner had a house and a " smith shop " upon it, for Jan. 25, 1731, Joseph Harris sold it to Obadiah Scott, and March 25th, Obadiah sold it to James Blakeslee, having added the "smith shop;" Mr. John Peck of Wallingford bought of George Welton 75 acres "about two miles east from Judd's meadows-this was probably at the Quinnipiac reservation; Stephen Kelsey bought the house and numerous lands of Thomas Andrews, and Andrews bought Kelsey's house next Woodbury line-at Middlebury, probably.
In 1732 "Dr. Thomas Thompson, Phisstian," bought the big farm of over 300 acres of Nathaniel Stanley of Farmington. Samuel Umberfield of West Haven sold a lot in the village; Benajah Stone of Wallingford secured land "up the River"; Noah Tuttle conveyed to Joseph Smith "one Mesuage and tenement of House Barn and three acres of home Lott" adjoining thereto-the Henry Scovill homestead; Timothy Stanley of Farmington sold to Isaac Curtice, "living at a place called North Haven," lands at and near Popple meadow; James Johnson lost thirty acres in Ouze Bass swamp by reason of an execution taken out against him by Thomas Marks of Middletown; Thomas White of Stratford bought of Johnson two tracts of land; John Hurd, who declares himself a yeoman, sold to his son Ebenezer Hurd, "who is a Post-rider," 150 acres-a part of it south of the head of Roaring brook (a branch of Hancox), and the remainder at "Patuckahs " ring; William and Mary Parsons of Farmington resigned their rights in land to Samuel Hikcox; Mr. Jonathan Baldwin, Jr., of Milford became the sole owner in "the Gristmill and Mill place and mill dam, lying east from the town," together with the thirty acres belonging to the mill, consisting of "fifteen acres on the Mill plain, eight acres over the Mad river by the common fence, two acres over against the mill, and one acre on this side of the river by the mill," and four acres up the river -this was obtained by virtue of £350 money, and a deed from Stephen and Tim- othy Hopkins, executors of the will of John Hopkins, the miller. Baldwin bought the next month of Thomas and Rachel Upson a house and lot of three and a half acres on the south side of East Main street. It was one of the two house lots at that time on that street between Exchange Place and the eastern street called the path to the mill-present Cole street. A portion of this land is still in the Baldwin family as represented by Mrs. Harriet Peck, Mrs. Catharine Smith and Miss Mary Cook. Stephen Pierson of Derby gave the life-use of 90 acres on Scott's hill to his son Job Pierson; Thomas Wooster of Derby secured 23 acres toward the southerly bound; Joseph and Martha Smith again sell the Henry Scovill place, this time to "Samuel Camp the third of that name of Milford," described as lying in the middle of the town near the meeting house-beside " the house and barn and orchards and gardens and trees and fruit trees "-Smith had added during his ownership a "Syder mill"; Jonathan Foot obtained an order for 30 acres in the undivided land; Ebenezer Baldwin of Woodbury bought land in Buck's meadow, just now prominently before the public, because of the action of the city of Water- bury in condemning land in it and on Buck's Meadow mountain for the laying of water-pipe lines from its reservoir, into which the waters of the West Branch and Moose Horn brook are to be received; Samuel Thompson of Farmington bought sixty acres in Watertown; Matthew Woodruff of Farmington land east of Judd's meadows "about a mile east from Samuel Warner's house"; Mr. James Prichard of Milford bought 70 acres with a house " west of the river, near David's swamp," of Caleb and Rebecca Thompson.
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In 1733. Samuel Frost of Wallingford bought of Mr. Southmayd land to be laid out; Mr. Samuel Beecher of New Haven, a {20 right in Waterbury lands; Thomas Robinson and Joseph Tuttle, Jr., of New Haven, 60 acres on Scott's mountain and its vicinity; Mrs. Abigail Wright of Wethersfield, 40 acres against Judd's Jercho; Captain Theophilus Munson of New Haven, land lying in and about Cotton Wool meadow; Mr. James Prichard of Milford, for {110 in money, of Stephen Upson, five acres with a house on it, "lying near the South meadow gate"-this was virtually the square bounded by Bank, Meadow, Grand and Field streets; Samuel and Dorothy Camp sold the Henry Scovill homestead-this time it was sold to an owner who would retain it-Lieut. Thomas Bronson; Dr. Ephraim Warner gave to his son Ebenezer 20 acres, half of his own dwelling house, and his "smith's shop, and the tools for smith work." all on Buck's Hill; Thomas Levensworth of Strat- ford for 475 obtained 75 acres adjoining John Johnson's farm, and on the hill on the east side of Welton's Meadow brook; Thomas White of Stratford sold to Joseph Peat of Stratford, two parcels of land-once James Johnson's; " Alexander Woolcot and Lydea Woolcot, Husband and Wife, which Lydea is the only daugh- ter and issue of Mr. Jeremiah Atwater, late of New Haven, deceased," conveyed to Abraham Utter, for {250, numerous lands, including the Johnson house, and the hill on which Mr. Hiram Hayden's house stands-in this deed and other deeds called Welton s hill, from Ephraim Welton who built the first house on it; Thomas Brooks, merchant, of Boston, mortgaged to John Wass of Boston, " Distiller," more than 1500 acres of land in Waterbury and Farmington; Abraham Utter sold to Nathan Beard, the Johnson house and ten acres, and Welton's hill " of about four or five acres," bounded by Grove, Willow and Pine streets, with Samuel Scott's land on the east; Nathaniel Gunn of Derby bought of John Andrews 157 acres with a house on it, northwardly of Twelve Mile hill; Abraham Andrews of Saybrook deeded to his brother Joseph Lewis, lands and rights in lands in the township; John Scott had a house at Meshadock, mentioned here, because not recognized elsewhere; and Ezekiell Welton, who is said to have gone to Nova Scotia, was living in Milford.
In 1734 Isaac Bronson gave to his son Isaac the new house he had built, and the glass he had provided for it, and four acres of land on the south side of the Wood- bury road, in Middlebury; John and Nathaniel Griffin and Joshua Holcomb of Symsbury, grandsons of John Welton, the planter, sold their rights of inheritance, to James Blakeslee, including 10 acres "westwardly of a hill commonly called Malmalick down southwardly upon the brook that runs through Scovill's and Gay- lord s boggy meadow"; Samuel Graves of Sunderland, "Hamsheir " county, in Massachusetts Bay, sold land "laid out to the hiers of Israel Richardson"; Joseph "Gearnsey" of Milford bought lands at The Village; Joseph Mix of New Haven conveyed land which seems to have descended by inheritance from Sergt. Samuel Hikcox; Amos Camp of Wallingford expended £100 in land and habitation at Plymouth; John and Hannah Scott of Sunderland, Mass., conveyed land to Samuel Graves of Sunderland. This John Scott is a surprise ! He does not seem to be accounted for, except upon the remote possibility that he may have been the long lost son of Jonathan. This deed was signed in 1732, recorded in 1734. Joseph Guernsey of Milford sold a village lot to his brother; Thomas Marks sold " Oze- Bass" swamp to Nathan Hubbard; the village lots flitted from owner to owner like birds from twig to twig; the Rev. Samuel Hopkins was busied with his land sales and exchanges and the laying out of land; Samuel Hull of Derby bought land at a place called Bear plains, on the west side of the river at Derby bounds; Samuel Scott was living in Derby; Dr. Jeremiah Hulls bought lands freely; John
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