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Short History of Farmington, CT

Published by the Farmington Committee of the Connecticut Tercentenary Farmington 1935.

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This page was last updated 03 Jun 2010

Book measures approximately 8¼" X 5½" with 31 pages. The book is entirely a product of New England; the author is a resident of Farmington, the typographer a former resident; the paper was made in Massachusetts and the printing has been done in Vermont, with 2000 copies being printed in May, 1935. Book includes a map of Farmington from the 18th Century reproduced from Trumbull's Memorial History of Hartford County.  See below for complete index of names.

Also includes...
*History of the first settlement
*The Mastodon find in 1913
*Tunxis Indian Tribe (sub-tribe of the Saukiogs)
*First Houses
*Eighty-Four Proprietors of Farmington [See below for complete index of names]

*Religion
*Village Green
*Fire of 1866
*The Revolution / Tory Loyalists
*Town people [See below for complete index of names]

*Temperance Movement
*Distilleries of cider
*Anti-Masonic & anti-slavery movements
*House's of Samuel Deming, George Hurlburt, William McKee, Elijah Lewis.
*Stations for the Underground Railroad.
*Hospital Rock & additional town history.

Index of Names

(# Key: 15.4= page 15, paragraph 4)

Adams, John Quincy 15.4
Adams, William 31.1
Andrews, Asa 23.2
Andrews, John 31.1
Barnes, Thomas 30.2
Barney, D. Newton 19.4
Bird, James 31.2
Bird, Joseph 31.2
Blackleach, John 31.2
Brandegee, Robert 16.2, 19.1
Brandegee, Sarah 19.4
Bronson, John (Brownson) 12.5, 22.5, 30.2
Browne, Frances 30.2
Bull, Thomas 31.2
Carpenter, David 31.1
Carrington, John 31.2
Clark, John 31.1
Cole, John 30.2
Coolidge, Calvin 22.6
Corbe, William 31.2
Cowels, Amos 21.5
Cowels, Horace 24.1, 26.3
Cowels, Samuel 31.1
Cowels, Zenas 21.2
Cowles, John 12.5
Cowles, Solomon, Capt. 20.4
Curtis, Lewis 23.2
Curtiss, Peter 20.5
Deming, Edward 15.5
Deming, Samuel 26.3
Demon, Thomas 30.2
Dibble, Abraham 31.2
Dickenson, Captain 25.3
Dickenson, Samuel, Maj. 17.4
Dimona, Paul 20.2
Flood, John 16.3
Foster, Charles 16.2
Gay, Fisher, Col. 13.3, 20.5
Gay, Julius 28.3
Gish, Lillian 28.1
Goodwin, William 30.2
Gridley, Samuel 31.2
Gridley, Thomas 31.2
Griffith, David 28.1
Hancock, Thomas (Hancox) 31.2
Hart, Hawkins 9.2
Hart, John 30.4
Hart, John, Lieut. 9.2
Hart, Simeon, Deacon 17.5
Hart, Stephen 12.5, 30.2
Hawley, Joseph 31.2
Haynes, John 30.1, 30.2
Hitchcock, Willliam (Hecock) 30.2
Hooker, Deacon Edward 17.3
Hooker, Roger 20.5
Hooker, Samuel, Rev. 12.6, 21.2, 27.3, 31.2
Hooker, Thomas, Rev. 12.5, 12.6
Hopkins, Edward 30.2
Hosmer, Thomas 31.1
Hosmer, Timothy 21.1
Howkins, Anthony 27.3, 31.2
Hurlburt, George 26.3
James, Henry 27.2
John, James 16.4
Jones, Inigo 21.2
Jones, Richard 31.2, 31.2
Judd, Thomas, Deacon 30.2
Judd, Thomas J. 12.5
Keep, Robert Porter 18.4
Kellogg, Joseph 31.1
Kellogg, Nathaniel 30.4
Langdon, John, Deacon 31.1
Lawrence, Stephen B. 19.5
Leaming, Mathias 20.5
Leaming, Tory 20.5
Lee, John 31.1
Lee, Seth 21.5
Lewis, Elijah 26.3
Lewis, Phinehas 21.5
Lewis, William 9.2, 21.5, 30.2
Lomes, John 30.2
Marvin, Matthew 30.2
Marvin, Renold 30.2
Mason, H. H. 16.2
Mason, Nicholas 30.2
McKee, William 26.3
Mix, Ebenezer, Capt. 23.3
Moore, Isaac, Deacon 30.2
Newell, Thomas 31.1
Newton, Mr. 12.5
Newton, Roger 12.5
Newton, Roger, Rev. 30.2
North, John 30.4
Norton, John 31.2
Orton, Thomas 9.2, 31.2
Orvis, George 30.2
Palache, James 20.2
Palache, Whitney 20.2
Pantry, William 30.2
Pitkin, Timothy, Rev. 13.1, 13.3
Pope, A. A. 7.4
Porter, Daniel, Dr. 31.2
Porter, Joe, Capt. 21.5
Porter, Noah 13.1
Porter, Noah, Jr. 18.1
Porter, Noah, Sr., Rev. 18.2, 19.4, 20.5, 24.2
Porter, Robert 12.5, 30.4
Porter, Sarah 14.4, 14.5, 17.3, 17.4, 18.1, 18.2, 18.4, 19.1
Porter, Thomas 30.2
Pratt, John 30.2
Rew, John 31.2
Rice, H. C. 27.4
Rice, John, W. 27.4
Richards, Deacon 24.2
Richards, Obadiah 31.2
Richards, Samuel, Deacon 20.5
Richardson, Thomas 31.2
Riddle, Theodale Pope, Mrs. 19.2
Rochmanbeau 21.3
Root, John 31.2
Root, Joseph 20.1
Root, L. C. 26.4
Root, T. L. 26.4
Root, Timothy 23.1
Scott, Edmund 31.2
Scott, Mr. 9.2
Scott, Thomas 30.2
Scovill, John 31.2
Seymor, Richard 31.2
Seymor, Zach. 31.2
Sigourney, Lydia Huntley 10.1
Smith, William 31.1
Smith, Winchell 22.6, 28.4, 29.1
Standley, John 12.3, 31.1
Steele, John 30.2
Steele, John, Jr. 30.4
Steele, Samuel 30.4
Talcott, John 30.2
Thomson, Thomas 12.5, 31.1
Todd, Eli, Dr. 23.4
Treadwell, John, Gov. 15.2, 17.1, 28.3
Treadwell, Justice 24.2
Upson, Thomas 30.2
Ventris, William 31.1
Vorce, Amy, Miss 15.5
Wadsworth, Amos 20.5
Wadsworth, James 9.2
Wadsworth, John 9.2, 27.3, 31.2
Wadsworth, Mr. 9.1
Wadsworth, Samuel, Ensign 9.2
Warner, Andrew, Deacon 30.2
Warner, John 30.2
Warren, Will 24.4
Washburn, Joseph, Rev. 13.1
Watson, Nathaniel 30.2
Webster, John 30.2
Webster, Matthew 30.2
Webster, Thomas 30.2
Weller, Richard 31.2
Welles, Thomas 30.2
Welton, John 31.2
White, John 30.2
Whitman Family 12.3
Whitman, Samuel, Rev. 9.3, 13.1
Wilcock, John 30.2
Wilson, Robert 31.1
Woodford, Joseph 31.2
Woodruff, Judah, Capt. 13.3
Woodruff, Matthew 31.1
Wrothum, Simon 31.2
Wyllys, Mr. 30.1
Wyllys, Samuel 30.2

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Names transcribed by Kelly Miller

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