1 ^^ m # i; -f •-^0^ :%:. ^°<. -^- <^'\ '-.^m: J>\. Ifif.' .• v — p ^3 No. IV. 0^ If an apology is I'equired for publishing, at my own expense, a Fourth Number, after having remarked in No. 3, that it was the last to be published, I have only to say that there were several names left on hand which had cost considerable labor, and the 3d No. had cost all for which the numbers sold, and could be made no larger without a loss— I have, therefore, rather than to lose the labor, ven- tured again to trespass upon the pubhc, by publishing a Fourth Number. The following is a copy of the officers of the first organized Gene- ral Court of Connecticut, under the compact of 1638, viz : Record. " April, 1639. A General Meeting. John Haynes, Esq. was chosen Governor for this year, and until .a new be chosen. Mr. Roger Ludlow, Deputy Governor. Mr. George Wyllys, Mr. Thomas Welles, Mr. Edward Hopkins, Mr. John Webster, Mr. William Phelps were chosen to Assist in the Magistracy for the year ensuing ; and all took the oath appointed for them. Mr. Edward Hopkins was chosen Secretary, and Mr. Welles Trea- surer for the year ensuing. Mr. John Steel, of Hartford, John Pratt, of Hartford, Mr. Gaylord, Mr. Stoughton, of Windsor, Thurston Rayner, of Wethersfield, Geo. Hubbard, of Hartford, Mr. Spencer, Edward Stebbins, of Hartford, Henry Wolcott, of Windsor, Mr. Foard, of Windsor, James Boosey, Richard Crabb" of Wethersfield, were the Committee who composed the House of Deputies. Inscription on the Monument erected by the Ancient Burying Chound Association of Hartford, in Memory of the First Settlers of Hart- ford. Jeremy Adams, Matthew Allyn, Francis Andrews, William An- drews, John Arnold, Andrew Bacon, John Barnard, Robert Bartlett, John Baysey, John Bidwell, Thomas Birchwood, William Bloomfield, Thomas Bull, Thomas Bunce, Benjamin Burr, Richard Butler, Clem- ent Chaplin, Richard Church, John Clark, Nicholas Clark, James 21 — 162 Cole, John Cro^v, Robert Day, Joseph Easton, Edward Elmer, Na- thaniel Ely, James Ensign, Zachariah Field, "William Gibbons, Rich- ard Goodman, William Goodwin, Ozias Goodwin, Seth Grant, George Graves, Samuel Greenhill, Samuel Hales, Tho's Hales, John Haynes, Stephen Hart, William Heyden, William Hills, William Holton, Thomas Hooker, Edward Hopkins, Thomas Hosmer, William Hyde, Thomas Judd, William Kelsey, William Lewis, Richard Lord, Tho's .Lord, Richard Lyman, John Marsh, Matthew Marvin, John Maynard, John Moody, Joseph Mygatt, Thomas Olcott, James Olmsted, Rich- ard Olmsted, Wilham Pantry, William Parker, Stephen Post, John Pratt, W^illiam Pratt, Nathaniel Richards, Richard Risley, Thomas Root, William Ruscoc, Thomas Scott, Thomas Sclden, Richard Sey- mour, John Skinner, Arthur Smith, Thomas Spencer, William Spen- cer, Thomas Stanley, Timothy Stanley, Thomas Stanton, Edward Stebbins, George Steele, John Steele, George Stocking, Samuel Stone, John Talcott, W^illiam Wadsworth, Samuel Wakeman, Nath'l Ward, Andrew Warner, Richard Webb, John Webster, Thomas W^elles, W^m. W^estwood, John White, W^illiam Whiting, John Wilcox, Gregory W^olterton, George Wyllys, John Hopkins, William Butler. The following names were also in Hartford as early as 1640 : Andrew Adams, Nathaniel and John Allen, Thomas Allen, Thomas Alcocks, Joseph Aikin, Thomas Burnham, William Butler, Francis Barnard, John Bigelow, John Brunson and Richard, John Barnes, Natlianiel Bearding, John Bliss, sen'r. and jr., Richard Butler, John Bailey, John Cullick, Nathaniel Kellogg, Richard Church, William Clark, Tiionuis Calder, Thomas Catling, John Carter, Nicholas Dis- brough, Davey Fuller, Philip Davis, Nathaniel Eldredge, John Friend, Samuel Fitch, Jonathan Gilbert, Daniel Garriot, John and Thomas Hall, William Haughton, Thomas Hungcrford, John and Nicholas Jennings, John Kirbee, Ralph Keeler, William Lewis, Edward Lay, William Markham, John Meigs, James Northum, Nicholas Olmsted William Phillips, James Richards, Nathaniel Ruscoe, Henry Rowe, Robert Sanlbrd, John Sables, John Savill, Henry and Aaron Stark, James Steel, Samuel Storm, Benjamin Ufford, Thomas Upson, Robert Wade, Henry Wakelee, Henry Walkley, Richard Walkley, Nathaniel W^are, Thomas and Richard Watts, William Webb, William Wcstley, Samuel Whitehead, George Winterton, Thomas Woodford, Samuel Talcott, Matthew Woodrulf, Richard Billings, John Birchard, Thomas Bliss, Robert Boltwood, Richard Case, Thomas Collins, John Jessup, Paul Peck, Henry Stiles, Benjamin Munn, John Holloway, Widow Belts, Clement Chapin, Rev. Thomas Hooker, Gov. John Haynes, and others. — 1G3 First Settlers of Windsor. The very few dates to be found for several years in llie first records )f Windsor, renders it diflicult to designate time in all cases, and for hree or four of the first years of the settlement there was little or no ecord. The following list of names are found in the land record of Windsor, n the hand writing of Bray Rosseter, Town Clerk of Windsor until 1G52. Those names which have no date annexed, arc entered 1052, though many of them were probably much earlier. Thomas Marshfield, 1642, Thomas Newell, '42, William Hayden, '42, John Banks, '44, Thomas Gibbard, '44, Richard liyman, '44, James Eno, '46, Lawrence Ellison, '46, Anthony Dorchester, '49, John Wayt, '49, Owen Tudor, '49, John Bennett, '52, Peter Tilton, '52, Samuel Pond, '52, Thomas Orton, '52, Robert Howard, '40, Jasper Raulins, '52of Roxbury before '46, Thomas Parsons, '50, Jeffery Ba- ker, '52, John Osborn, '52, Robert Sanford, '52, Richard, Church, '52, John Strong, '51, Edward Griswold, '49, John Browton, 49, Miles Merwin, '49, St. John Nicholas, '49, Matthew AUyn, %7, George Alexander, '46, Thomas Huntington, '50, Walter Lee, '55, Edward King, (an Irishman) '62, Timothy Hall, '64, John Pettibone, '00, Jo- seph Skinner, '66, George Jeffries, '69, John Millington, '70, John Bartlett, '49, John Case, '04, John Griffin, '48, Humphrey Hydes. '45, Arthur Henbury, '09, Robert Sanford, (Rossiter) '52, Richard Saxton, '53, Josiah Ellsworth, '54, John Moses, '51, John Brooks, '50, John '58, Owen, '57, Henry Curtice, — , John Bancraft, '58, Peter Brown, Edward Elmer, '60, Jonas Westover, '01, Simon Miller, '51, Edward Messenger, '61, Robert Watson, '65, Samuel Wilcoxson, '04, Christo- pher Crow, '06, Edward Chapman, '07, Samuel Forward, '70, John Maudesly, '04, John Fitch, '43, Robert Haywart, '43, Michael Hum- phrey, '43, Tho. Rowley, '62, Ambrose Fowler, '50, John Pettes, '66. The foregoing persons appear at the dates given as land holders in Windsor. Hayden. Many of these persons are known to have been in the colony sev- eral years before the above dates. Location of some of the Settlers of Windsor. Some of the following persons were located v/ithin the Palisado at the Windsor trading house, and others on the " common street" north, and many of them on the road leading west from Dr. Pierson's house and Joel Thrall's to sandy bank. Tradition says, that as late as 1700, there were more dwellings upon the two roads mentioned than upon main street, viz : — 104 William Gaylord, sen'r., Stephen Terry, John Hoskins and his son, Thomas Hoskins, Thomas Stoughton, Thomas Gunn, Thomas Holconib, Humphrey Pinney, Josiah Hull, John Rockwell, Thomas Buckland, Joseph Clark, Thomas Dibble, Michael Fry, Philip Randall, Robert Winchell, Joseph Carter, William Hanmer, Eddy Filley, Richard James, George Hull, George Phillips, John Hawkcs, Anthony Hawkins, David Wilton, Walter Filer, William Hill, Thom- as Ford, Nicholas Denslow, Capt. Mason, Giles Gibbs, Abraham Randall, Ephraim Huit, Henry Fawkes, Matthew Grant, William Hosford, William Hubbard, John Taylor, Eltwed or Edward Pome- roy, Aaron Cook, Elias Parkman, Brigget Egglestone, Francis Gibbs, Richard Weller, Simon Hoyto, Thomas Dewey, Thomas Bassett. Those who settled south of Little River in the vicinity of the mill, and between the mill and the foot of stony hill, were—Rev. John Warham, William Phelps, sen'r., Nathan Gillett, Jonathan Gillett, George Steeaky, Richard Voar, Bray Rossiter, Roger Williams, Tho. Bascome, Nicholas Palmer, William Thrall, John Hillier, Wm. Buell, Henry Wolcott, sen'r., Henry, jr., John Moore, Thomas Moore, John Branker, Thomas Marshall, Richard Birge or Birdge, Benedict Alford, Christopher Wolcott, John Witchfield, William Phelps, jr., George Phelps, John Porter, Joseph Loomis, Thomas Barker, William Filly, Simeon Mills, Arthur Williams, John Youngs, Joseph Newbury, Ben- jamin Newbury, John Newbury, Sarah Newbury. Hayden. The First Settlers of WetJiersJield. Richard Belden, Jacob Waterhousc, William Boarman, John Roote, Richard Wastecoat, Jeremiah J agger, Samuel Barrett, Robert Bur. rows or Barrows, John Northend, William Bramfield, Robert Beedle, Enoch Buck, John Bishop, Joseph Bennett, John Brundish, Wm. Pal- mcr, Enoch Buckley, Hon. James and Joseph Boosey, Wm. Bascum, Jasper Rawling, Dorothy Chester, Robert Abbott, Leonard and John Chester, Richard Crabb, Robert Coe, Thomas Coop, Amos Williams, George Chappell, Josiah or Joseph Churchill, John Whitmore, Mr. Chaplin, Matthew Mitchell, John Coltman, William Colefax, Richard Park, John Curtice, Tliomas liflbrd, William Dickinson, Rev. Rich- ard Denton, Rev. Peter Pruddon, John Edwards, Rev. Henry Smith, Fracis Kilbourn, John Deming, Joseph Edwards, Abraham Elson, Nathnicl Foster, Daniel and John Finch, Nathaniel Foot, Richard Gildersleve, John Johnson, Richard Harris, John Tinker, Thomas Hurlbut, Thomas Hubbard, John Gibbs, Joseph Hollister, John Har- rison, Richard Smith, John Kilbourn his father and family, Samuel Ireland, Richard Laws,