The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907

The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907
Address Delivered by Daniel Davenport, of Bridgeport, Conn.

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The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907 by Daniel Davenport

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The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907
Address Delivered by Daniel Davenport, of Bridgeport, Conn.

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o New Haven County. In April, 1706, the first meeting of the proprietors was held at Milford, and it was voted that the town plat and home lots should be speedily pitched and laid out by the committee appointed by the Legislature, according to its own best judgment, following certain rules laid down by the proprietors. During that year and according to those rules, the town plat was laid out.

It was originally intended to lay out the settlement on the hill immediately east of the present village, from this circumstance called Town Hill to this day. In point of fact, it was laid out on Aspetuck Hill, and consisted of the town street and sixteen home lots. The street was twenty rods wide. It began at the south end of the brow of the hill, or at the lower end of what was then called the "Plain on the Hill" and extended northward. Eight lots were laid out on each side of this street, each lot being twenty-one rods wide and sixty deep.

By the rules adopted by the proprietors, these lots were to be ta

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