The History of Waterbury, Connecticut: The Original Township Embracing Present Watertown and Plymouth, and Parts of Oxford, Wolcott, Middlebury, Prospect and Naugatuck. With an Appendix of Biography, Genealogy and Statistics |
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The History of Waterbury, Connecticut: The Original Township Embracing ... Henry Bronson No preview available - 2015 |
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Abraham Andruss acres afterwards appointed April April 12 Barnes Benjamin Blakeslee Brook Capt church Colony committee common fence Court Daniel Porter David deed died early east Ebenezer Edmund Scott Elizabeth Ephraim Farmington father granted Hannah Hartford haue Haven highway house lot Indian inhabitants Isaac Bronson James John Bronson John Hopkins John Judd John Southmayd John Stanley John Warner John Welton Jonathan Baldwin Joseph Hopkins Judd's Meadow July June land Lieut lived March March 13 March 27 Mary Mattatuck meeting house miles Milford mill Naugatuck Northbury Philip Judd pound propriators propriety record removed Richason river road rods Samuel Hickox Sarah Scovill Sept settled settlement settlers society Southmayd Stephen Hopkins Stephen Upson street Thomas Clark Thomas Judd Timothy Stanley VIII vote Waterbury Watertown Westbury William Judd Woodbury Yale College ye town
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