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1738

50 YEARS BEFORE CONNECTICUT'S RATIFICATION OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

  1. Chusetown(present Seymour) part of Derby in New Haven County, Connecticut, laid out and named to honor Chief Joseph Mauwehu, nicknamed 'Chuse'.
  2. New Hartford, incorporated in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
  3. Falls Village (present Canaan) established in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
  4. January 21, Ethan Allen born in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Soldier, frontiersman and Leader of the Green Mountain Boys and Connecticut troops.
  5. April 9, John Bacon born in Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut. U.S. clergyman, judge and legislator. A College of New Jersey (Princeton University) graduate (1765), named minister in 1771 of Old South Church in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Died on October 25, 1820 in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
1739
  1. Bethlehem formerly part of Woodbury and originally spelled Bethlem, organized as a parish in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
  2. Falls Village (present Canaan) incorporated in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
  3. Goshen, incorporated in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
  4. October, Reverend Jonathan Marsh, appointed first minister in New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
1740
  1. Behtlehem in Litchfield County, Connecticut, became an Ecclestiastical Society and parish of Woodbury.
  2. First American tinware made by Edward and William Pattison in Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut.
1741
  1. January 14, Benedict Arnold, born in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. Officer serving the American Revolution, shifted to the British in 1779.
  2. November 11, Jonathan Law, appointed governor of Connecticut (1741-November 6, 1750).
1742
  1. May 13, Manasseh Cutler, born in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut. Congretional minister, leader of the Ohio Company of Associates.

  2. May 14, Nathan Brownson, born in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Governor of Georgia (1781-1782).
1743
  1. January 21, John Fitch, born in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. U.S. steamboat transportation pioneer.
1744
1745
  1. The Eccestiastical Society gave people in the Hop Brok section of Manchester in Connecticut, the right to conduct a school.
  2. April 29, Ellsworth Oliver born in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Lawyer, diplomat, politician, College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) graduate. Appointed State attorney in 1777, member of the Continental Congress in 1778, minister Plenipotentiary to France and third chief justice of the United States. Died on November 26, 1807 in Windsor, Connecticut, interment in the Old Cemetery.
1746
  1. East Hampton Parish in Middlesex County, Connecticut, incorporated. Also named as Three Mile Division.
1747
  1. The General Court established the Andover Ecclesiastical Society, in Tolland County, Connecticut.
1748
  1. Andover established in Tolland County, Connecticut.
1749
  1. Enfield in Hartford County annexed from Massachusetts to Connecticut, area 33.8 sq.mi. (13km²). Coordinates 41°58'N-72°36'W.
  2. First permanent schools established in Bolton, Connecticut.
1750
  1. Connecticut Hall, Yale University, a Georgian brick structure constructed in New Haven, New Haven County. Attractions & Recreation : Connecticut Hall National Historic Landmark.
  2. November 6, Roger Wolcott appointed governor of Connecticut (1750-May 9, 1754).
1751
  1. Litchfield County established in Connecticut, seat Litchfield borough.
1752
  1. Puritan refuge Mortlake included in the community of Brooklyn, Connecticut.
  2. Bounderies set for the Parish of Newbury, Brookfield in Connecticut.
1753
1754
  1. Newbury Parish (today Brookfield), settled in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
  2. March 24, Joel Barlow born in Redding, Connecticut. Author and poet 'The Hasty Pudding'.
  3. May 9, Thomas Fitch appointed governor of Connecticut (1754-May 8, 1766).
1755
  1. April 12, The Connecticut Gazette Connecticut's first newspaper, printed at New Haven, in New Haven County by James Parker of New York and his business partner Benjamin Franklin. Mainly a military record reporting the events of the French and Indian War (1754-1763).
  2. June 6, Nathan Hale, born in Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut. Revolutionary War hero of the Continental Army. Captured by the British and hanged as a spy by order of General William Howe. Died on September 22, 1776 in New York City, New York. His last words 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.'
1756
1757
  1. Mount Carmel Society created in Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut.

  2. September 28, first Congregational Church building dedicated to the parish of Newbury (present Brookfield) in Connecticut.
1758
1759
  1. Bethel part of Danbury, became a separate parish, the 'First Ecclesiastical Society of Bethel', Fairfield County, Connecticut. Coordinates 41°22'N-73°25'W.
  2. Daniel Burnap, famous clock-maker, born in Andover, Tolland County, Connecticut.
1760
  1. April 14, Town Meeting in Durham in Middlesex County, Connecticut, voted to build a hospital for infectious disease.
1761
  1. Hartland town in Hartford County, Connecticut, incorporated.
  2. Land of the original inhabitants of Connecticut, the Pequots Native Americans, reduced to 989 acres.
1762
1763
  1. Brick State House erected on New Haven Green in New Haven County, Connecticut.
1764
  1. February 23, William Eaton, born in Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut. Dartmouth College graduate, adventurer and U.S. Army Officer, involved in the First Barbary War. Died on June 1, 1811 in Brimfield, Massachusetts.
  2. October 29, The Hartford Courant published by Thomas Green in Hartford, Connecticut. The oldest continuously published newspaper in the U.S.
1765
1766
  1. May 8, William Pitkin appointed governor of Connecticut (1766-October 1, 1769).
1767
  1. East Hampton incorporated, also named Chatham at that time, in Middlesex County, Connecticut.
1768
1769
  1. Ocober 1, Jonathan Trumbull appointed governor of Connecticut (1769-May 13, 1784).
  2. October 13, Horace H. Hayden, born in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Dentist and co-founder of the first dental college.
1770
  1. Congregational Church established in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut.
1771
1772
  1. Great Swamp Society in Connecticut divided in Worthington and Kensington.
1773
  1. Community life began in Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Coordinates 41°05'N-73°28'W. Attractions & Recreation : Weed Homestead(1680).
  2. Old Newgate Prison in East Granby, Connecticut, originally a coppermine, used to house prisoners.
  3. March 9, Isaac Hull born in Derby, New Haven County, Connecticut. Commodore in the U.S. navy. Commander of the frigate 'Constitution' he destroyed in half an hour the British frigate 'Guerrière' in the War of 1812. Died on February 13, 1843 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
1774
  1. Ecclestiastical Societies of West Britain and New Cambridge established in Farmington West Woods, Connecticut.
  2. Frictions between Patriots and Tories in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
  3. Old Stone Congregational Church built in East Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut.
  4. Thomas Griswold House built in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
1775
  1. Town of Derby incorporated in New Haven County, Connecticut.
  2. Town of Bristol incorporated in Connecticut.
  3. April 30, Peter Harrison, died in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. Born on June 14, 1716 in York, the British Tory and self-taught architect was considered as America's 'first architect'. His first work was The Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, Rhode Island, the first neo-classical building in the U.S. After his death all his designs and drawings were burned and destroyed by revolutionaries.
  4. October 12, Lyman Beecher, born in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. Presbyterian clergyman, father of Harrier Beecher-Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher.
1776

JULY 4, INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1777
  1. The British under General William Tryon, burned Danbury town in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

  2. November 30, Nathaniel Pitcher, born in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Governor of New York (1828-1829).
1778
  1. Newbury town, name change into Brookfield and incorporated in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
1779
  1. Barkhamsted town in Connecticut, incorporated.
  2. East Haven area in New Haven County, Connecticut, invaded by British General William Tryon.
  3. Washington incorporated in Connecticut, named after General George - Washington.
1780
  1. First textile mills in America began operations in Westchester, Connecticut.
  2. May, Cheshire incorporated in New Haven County, Connecticut.
1781
  1. 'Blue Laws' purporting to list Sabbath regulations at New Haven in New Haven County, Connecticut. Blue laws were printed on blue paper and forbade regular work on Sundays.
  2. June, four regiments of the French Army, on their way to Virginia, marched through Andover parish in Tolland County, Connecticut, and camped along the Hop River.
  3. July 22, Tories disrupted services at the Middlesex Ecclestiastical Society Meetinghouse and captured the minister and forty seven other men.
1782
  1. November, regiments of the French Army coming from Virginia, camped along the Hop River in Andover, Tolland County, Connecticut.
1783
  1. First dictionary published by Noah Webster, born in West Hartford, Connecticut.
  2. Captain Richard Pitkin was granted a 25-year monopoly by the General Assembly of Connecticut, to manufacture glass.
  3. East Hartford incorporated as town (separated from Hartford) in Hartford County, Connecticut. Coordinates 41°46'N-72°39'W.
  4. July 3, Congregational Church established in Burlington, Connecticut.
1784
  1. First law school in America 'The Litchfield Law School' established in Litchfield, Litchfield County in Connecticut by Tapping Reeve.
  2. May 13, Matthew Griswold, elected governor of Connecticut (1784-May 11, 1786).
1785
  1. Berlin (formerly Kensington) incorporated as town in Hartford County, Connecticut, from parts of Farmington, Middletown and Wethersfield. Coordinates 41°37'N-71°10'W.
  2. Bristol organized as a town in Hartford County, Connecticut. Coordinates 41°41'N-72°57'W.
  3. East Haven in New Haven County, Connecticut, incorporated. Coordinates 41°17'N-72°52'W, area 12,6 sq.mi (4,9km²). Attractions & Recreation : Branford Trolley Museum
  4. Middlesex County, established in Connecticut, seat Middletown. Cities/Towns/Boroughs/Places : Centerbrook, Chester, Clinton, Cobalt, Cromwell, Deep River, Durham, East Haddam, East Hampton, Essex, Fenwick, Haddam, Haddam Neck, Higganum, Ivoryton, Killingworth, Middlefield, Middle Haddam, Middletown, Moodus, Old Saybrook, Portland, Rockfall, Westbrook.
  5. Tolland County established in Connecticut, seat Rockville. Towns/Places : Amston, Andover, Ashford, Bolton, Columbia, Coventry, East Willington, Ellington, Gurleyville, Hebron, Manchester, Mansfield, Mansfield Center, Mansfield Depot, Mansfield Hollow, Merrow, Rockville, Somers, Somersville, Stafford, Stafford Springs, Staffordville, South Willington, Storrs, Storrs/Manfield, Talcottville, Tolland, Turnpike, Union, Vernon, Vernon-Rockville, West Ashford, West Stafford, Willington. Attractions & Recreation : The Tolland Green Historic District.
  6. November 21, William Beaumont, born in Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut. U.S. Army surgeon and first observer of human digestion.
1786
  1. Brooklyn in Windham County, Connecticut incorporated. Attractions & Recreation : Connecticut State Scenic Road, National Scenic Byway.
  2. Ellington, incorporated in Tolland County, Connecticut.
  3. Hamden in New Haven County, Connecticut, incorporated. Area 33 sq.mi (12,7km²). Nickname 'Land of the Sleeping Giant'.
  4. May 11, Samuel Huntington elected Governor of Connecticut (1786-January 5, 1796).
1787
  1. Bethlehem town incorporated in Litchfield County, Connecticut. 

  2. Emma Hart Willard, born in Berlin, Hartfort County, Connecticut. Women's education pioneer.
1788
  1. After the ratification of the Federal Constitution, first State House in America built in Connecticut.
  2. Newbury in Connecticut becomes the town of Brookfield.
  3. January 9, Connecticut CT, 5th state admitted to the Union
    Connecticut Today : one of the 13 original English colonies and one of the 6 New England states. Name origin in Mohegan Indian 'Quinnehtukqut' means 'Long River Place' or 'Beside the Long Tidal River'. Nickname 'The Constitution State', capital Hartford. Area 5,544 sq.mi.(14.358km²), 48th largest state. Counties 8 : Fairfield, Hartford, Litchfield, Middlesex, New Haven, New London, Tolland, Windham. Attractions & Recreation : American Legion State Forests, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Beckley Iron Furnace Industial Monument, Bigelow Hollow State Park, Black Rock Lake, Black Rock State Park, Bluff Point State Park, Burr Pond State Park, Campbell Falls State Park Reserve, Chatfield Hollow State Park, Cockaponset State Forest, Colebrook River Lake, Collis P.Huntington State Park, Connecticut State Route 169, Connecticut Valley Railroad, Day Pond State Park, Dennis Hill State Park, Devil's Hopyard State Park, Dinosaur State Park, Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park, Fort Trumbull State Park, Gay City State Park, Gillette Castle State Park, Haddam Meadows State Park, Haley Farm State Park, Hammonasset State Park, Hancock Brook Lake, Harkness Memorial State Park, Haystack Mountain State Park, Hop Brook Lake, Hopeville Pond State Park, Housatonic Meadows State Park, Hunt Hill Farm, Hurd State Park, Indian Well State Park, John A. Minetto State Park, Kent Falls State Park, Kettletown State Park, Lake Waramaug State Park, Macedonia Brook State Park, Mansfield Hollow Lake, Mansfield Hollow State Park, Mashamoquet Brook State Park, Merritt Parkway, Millers Pond State Park, Mohawk Mountain State Forest, Mount Tom State Park, Natchaug State Forest, Nehantic State Forest, Nipmuck State Forest, Northfield Brook Lake, Osbornedale State Park, Pachaug State Forest, Penwood State Park, Peoples State Forest, Putnam Memorial State Park, Quaddick State Park, Quinebaug & Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor, Rocky Neck State Park, Salmon River State Forest, Seth Point Pierrepont State Park Reserve, Shenipsit State Forest, Sherwood Island State Park, Silver Sands State Park, Sleeping Giant State Park, Southford Falls State Park, Squantz Pond State Park, Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, Stratton Brook State Park, Talcott Mountain State Park, Thomaston Dam, Topsmead State Forest, Wadsworth Falls State Park, Weir Farm National Historic Site, West Rock Ridge State Park, Wharton Brook State Park, West Thompson Lake.
  4. March, pioneer Jedediah Sanger arrived on the Sauquoit Creek, south of the Mohawk River, present site of New Hartford in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
1789
  1. Pioneer Jedediah Sanger built a log cabin settled with his family in Connecticut on the site of present New Hartford in Litchfield County.
  2. Ripton and New Stratford parishes in Connecticut broke off from Stratford to form Huntington town, named for Samuel Huntington.
1790
  1. Population in Connecticut, 237,946 residents.
  2. Connecticut, Fairfield County population, 30,248 residents.
  3. Connecticut, Brookfield in Fairfield County, 1,018 residents.
  4. Connecticut, Danbury in Fairfield County, 3,030 residents.
  5. Connecticut, Fairfield County population, 36,250 residents.
  6. Connecticut, Fairfield in Fairfield County, 4,009 residents.
  7. Connecticut, Greenwhich in Fairfield County, 3,132 residents.
  8. Connecticut, Hartford County population, 38,029 residents.
  9. Connecticut, Huntington in Fairfield County, 2,742 residents
  10. Connecticut, Litchfield County population, 38,755 residents.
  11. Connecticut, Middlesex County population, 18,855 residents.
  12. Connecticut, New Fairfield in Fairfield County, 1,573 residents.
  13. Connecticut, New Haven County population, 30,830 residents.
  14. Connecticut, New London County population, 33,200 residents.
  15. Connecticut, Newtown in Fairfield County, 2,774 residents.
  16. Connecticut, Norwalk/Stamford in Fairfield County, 8,810 residents
  17. Connecticut, Reading in Fairfield County, 1,503 residents.
  18. Connecticut, Ridgefield in Fairfied County, 1,947 residents.
  19. Connecticut, Stratford in Fairfield County, 3,241 residents.
  20. Connecticut, Tolland County population, 13,106 residents.
  21. Connecticut, Weston in Fairfield County, 2,409 residents.
  22. Connecticut, Windham County population, 28,921 residents.
  23. Clockmaking activities begun in Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut.
  24. Newgate Prison in East Granby, Connecticut, a Revolutionary War jail and first state prison in the U.S.
  25. First grist mill and saw mill built by by Jedediah Sanger in New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
  26. March 15, Joseph Morgan Wilcox, born in Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut. U.S. Military Academy graduate, 3rd Infantry lieutenant who fought and died during the Creek War of 1813-1814. Died on January 15, 1814, was tomahawked and scalped by the Red Sticks (Creek Native Americans) on the banks of the Alabama River in present day Wilcox County, buried at Fort Claiborne in Monroe County, Alabama. Wilcox County named in his memory on December 13, 1819.
  27. July 8, Fitz-Greene Halleck, born in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. Poet "Alnwick Castle", "Burns", etc.
1791
  1. Jonathan Edwards, Jr., founded the Presbyterian Church, the First Religious Society of Whitestown in New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
1792
  1. A porpoise fishery started in Madison, New Haven County, Connecticut.
  2. Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy established in Connecticut, one of the first educational institutions for women in the U.S.
  3. August 29, Charles Grandison Finney, born in Warren, Connecticut. Lawyer and president of Oberlin College in Ohio.
1793
  1. Hatting production started in Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
  2. August 19, Samiel Griswold Goodrich, born in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Author, publisher of chlidren's books.
1794
  1. First town hall built in Brookfield, Connecticut.
  2. Congregational Church built by architect Lavius Fillmore in East Haddam, Connecticut.
  3. Eli Whitney of New Haven in New Haven County, Connecticut, invented the cotton gin.
  4. February 8, First insurance business activity started in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.
  5. July 5, Sylvester Graham, born in West Suffield, Connecticut. Clergyman and health advocate 'Graham Cracker'.
1795
1796
  1. January 5, Oliver Wolcott, elected governor of Connecticut (1796-December 1, 1797).
  2. January 5, Samuel Huntington died in Norwich, New London County Connecticut, interment in Old Colony Cemetery. Lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, governor of Connecticut, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court and president of the Continental Congress. Born on July 3, 1731 in Windham (present Scotland)), Windham County, Connecticut.
1797
  1. May 26, Ralph Randolph Gurley, born in Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut. Administrator and spokesman of the American Colonization Society for deporation of Afro-Americans.
  2. October, The Boston Turnpike Company incorporated by the Connecticut legislature, with a franchise to build roads.
  3. December 1, Jonathan Trumble, Jr. elected governor of Connecticut ( 1797-August 7, 1809).
1798
  1. Oxford incorporated in New Haven County, Connecticut.
  2. First town house built in Redding(Reading) in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
  3. Eli Whitney inventor of the cotton gin, started to manufacture muskets in Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut.
1799
  1. A whitefish trade was developed in Madison, New Haven County, Connecticut.
  2. November 29, Amos Bronson Alcott, born in Wolcott, Connecticut. Philosopher, reformer, teacher and member of the New England Transcendentalist group.
1800
  1. Population in Connecticut, 251,002 residents.
  2. Newfield, incorporated as Bridgeport and as a borough of Fairfield County, Connecticut. Coordinates 41°11'N-73°11'W.
  3. May 9, John Brown, born in Torrington, Connecticut. Militant abolitionist.
  4. December 29, Charles Goodyear, born in New Haven, Connecticut. Vulcanization process Inventor.
1801
  1. First Post Office established in Brookfield, Connecticut.
1802
  1. April 14, Horace Bushnell, born in Bantam (present Lichfield), Lichfield County, Connecticut. Yale College graduate, congregational minister and theologian called 'father of American religious liberalism'. Associate editor of the New York Journal of Commerce in 1828-29. Died on February 17, 1876 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.
1803
  1. First town library, tax supported organized in Salisbury, Connecticut.
  2. General David Humphreys built a woolen mill on the Naugatuck River in Chusetown (present Seymour) at the Falls area, in New Haven County, Connecticut.
  3. Architect, Stephen Decatur Button, born in Preston, Connecticut.

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1804
  1. Chusetown (present Seymour) in New Haven County, Connecticut, changed name into Humphreysville in honor of David Humphreys.
  2. Enfield boundary established, in Hartford County, Connecticut.
1805
  1. February 13, David Dudley Field, born in Haddam, Connecticut. Lawyer.
1806
  1. Burlington incorporated, on the Farmington River in Connecticut.
  2. Canton town incorporated in Hartford County, Connecticut. Attractions & Recreation : Canton Historical Museum, Farmington River Trail.
  3. First factory town in America, established in Seymour, New Haven County, Connecticut.
1807
  1. November 26, Connecticut bor Oliver Ellsworth, died in Windsor, Connecticut. Lawyer, diplomat, politician and third chief justice of the United States.
1808
  1. A part of Bolton town in Connecticut set aside to form Vernon town.
1809
  1. Samuel Merritt Comstock, born in West Centerbrook part of Essex, Connecticut. Responsible for making Ivoryton and piano parts center of the U.S.
  2. August 7, John Treadwell, elected governor of Connecticut (1809-May 9, 1811).
  3. October, Chaplin incorporated as an ecclestiastical society in Windham County, Connecticut.
1810
  1. Population in Connecticut, 261,942 residents.
  2. Litchfield central village in Connecticut contained 125 houses, shops and public buildings.
  3. March 9, The New Hartford Manufacturing Co., incorporated, operating the second cotton mill in the state of New york located in New Hartford, Litchfield County.
  4. May 31, a Congregational Church was organized in Chaplin, Windham County, Connecticut.
  5. July 5, Phineas Taylor Barnum, born in Bethel Connecticut, international known circus showman.
  6. December 8, Elihu Burritt, born in New Britain, Connecticut. Peace crusader.
1811
  1. January 24, Henry Barnard, born in Hartford, Connecticut. Educator, jurist and first U.S. commissioner of education.
  2. May 9, Roger Griswold, elected governor of Connecticut (1811-October 25, 1812).
  3. June 14, Harriet Beecher Stowe, born in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Abolitionist, reformer, writer e.g. novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
1812
  1. First post office established in Bolton, Connecticut, postmaster Samuel Alvord.

  2. January 3, Elisha Marshall Pease, born in Enfield, Connecticut. Governor of Texas (1853-1857).
  3. October 25, John Cotton Smith, elected governor of Connecticut (1812-May 8, 1817).
1813
1814
  1. A Methodist meeting house built in Burlington, Connecticut.

  2. April 8, British forces attacked Potapoug Point in Essex, Connecticut and destroyed 28 ships.
  3. Samuel Colt, born in Hartford, Connecticut. Inventor of the six-shot Colt revolver. His revolvers used during the Mexican War(1846-1848) became the most popular pistol in the U.S. He died on January 10, 1862 in Hartford, buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery.
  4. December 15, New England Federalists Convention to protest war policy of U.S. President James Madison, held in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.
1815
  1. Guilford borough, formerly called Menunkatucket, in New Haven County, Connecticut, incorporated. Area 47,6 sq.mi (18km²).
1816
  1. November 4, Stephen J. Field, born in Haddam, Connecticut. Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1817
  1. Foreign Mission School opened in Corwall, Connecticut.
  2. May 8, Oliver Wolcott, elected second-term governor of Connecticut (1817-May 2, 1827).
1818
  1. The Congregational Church in Connecticut was disestablished.
1819
  1. Brooklyn appointed as Windham County seat in Connecticut.
  2. Three tanneries and a woolen mill started in Colchester, Connecticut.
1820
  1. Population in Connecticut, 275,248 residents.
  2. Darien town incorporated in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Area bought from the Siwanoys Native Americans.
  3. Middlesex Parish in Fairfield County, Connecticut was granted independence from Stamford and named Darien.
1821
  1. Bridgeport incorporated as town, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
1822
  1. Frederick Law Olmsted, born in Hartford, Connecticut. Landscape, parkmaker architect.
1823
  1. First Methodist meetings held in Quarryville a section of Bolton in Connecticut.
  2. Manchester incorporated in Hartford County, Connecticut.
  3. New Stratford separated from Huntington to become Monroe town in Connecticut.
  4. Orford Parish, incorporated as the town of Manchester, in Tolland County, Connecticut.
1824
1825
  1. The Connecticut Historical Society established in Hartford.
1826
  1. Madison in New Haven County, Connecticut, incorporated. Area 36,3 sq.mi (14km²), land purchased from the Mohegan Native Americans.

  2. May 4, Frederick Edwin Church, born in Hartford, Connecticut. Landscape painter, member of the Hudson River school.
  3. May 31, John William DeForest, born in Humphreysville(present Seymour) in Connecticut. Author and first American fiction writer, works e.g. 'Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty'.
1827
  1. Newgate Prison in East Granby, Connecticut, ceased operating as a prison and re-opened as a mine.
  2. April 12, New Hartford in Litchfield County, Connecticut, became a village separate from Whitestown.
  3. May 2, Gideon Tomlinson, elected governor of Connecticut (1827-May 4, 1831).
1828
  1. A hatter started in Colchester, Connecticut.
  2. Carpet industry begun in Connecticut, by Orrin Thompson at Thompsonville in Hartford County.
  3. December 25, Theodore Low De Vinne, born in Stamford, Connecticut. Autho of scjolarly books, works e.g 'The Practice of Typography'.
1829
  1. October 15, Asaph Hall, born in Goshen, Litchfied County, Connecticut. Astronomer, discoverer of the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos (Source Encyclopedia Britannica).
1830
  1. Population in Connecticut, 297,675 residents.
  2. Avon, incorporated as a separate town in Connecticut. Named for the Avon River in England.
  3. The Tolland County Bank started activities in the Tolland Board of Education Building in Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut.
1831
  1. Phineas Taylor Barnum, circus showman, published The Herald of Freedom in Bethel, Connecticut.
  2. Prudence Crandall, American educator and reformer, invited to open a school for young women in Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut.
  3. Wesleyan University founded in Middletown, Middelesex County, Connecticut.
  4. May 4, John Samuel Peters, elected governor of Connecticut (1831-May 1, 1833).
  5. July 6, Daniel Coit Gilman, born in Norwich, Connecticut. Educator and first president of the John Hopkins University.
1832
  1. Bethany town in New Haven County, Connecticut, separated from Woodbridge and incorporated.
  2. American educator and reformer, Prudence Crandall admitted a black girl Sarah Harris in the school for young women in Canterbury in Windham County, Connecticut.
1833
  1. Colonel A. G. Hazard developed a powder industry near Enfield in Hartford County, Connecticut.
  2. The Prudance Crandall House, first private school for Afro-American girls opened in Canterbury, Connecticut. 
  3. Windham in Sussex County, Connecticut, chartered as a borough.
  4. May 1, Henry Waggaman Edwards, elected governor of Connecticut (1833-May 7, 1834).
1834
  1. New town house built in Redding(Reading) in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
  2. First friction matches made by Thomas Sanford in Beacon Falls, Connecticut.
  3. May 7, Samuel Augustus Foot, elected governor of Connecticut (1834-May 6, 1835).
  4. September 9, Prudence Crandall, American educator and reformer closed the school for young women in Canterbury, Windham County Connecticut, outraged parents ransacked the school because a black girl had been admitted.
1835
  1. Wintonbury, renamed Bloomfield and incorporated as town in Hartford County, Connecticut.  Coordinates 41°50'N-72°44'W.
  2. 'School Societies' Kilinworth and Clinton established, Connecticut.
  3. May 6, Henry Waggaman Edwards, elected second-term governor of Connecticut (1835-May 2, 1838). Born in October 1779 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) graduate. Lawyer, Connecticut Representative and Senator. Died on July 22, 1847 in New Haven, interment in Grove Street Cemetery.
  4. September 10, Torrey William Harris, born in North Killingley, Connecticut. Educator, lexicographer, philosopher.
1836
  1. Bridgeport incorporated as city in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

  2. Town of Chester incorporated in Middlesex County, Connecticut.
  3. The first tack company in the U.S. founded in Derby, New Haven County, Connecticut by Edward Shelton.
1837
  1. Iron Works Aqueduct Company formed in Brookfield, Fairfield County, to supply water from the local mountain springs in Connecticut.
1838
  1. Educator and jurist Henry Barnard, founded the 'Connecticut Common School Journal and Annals of Education' in Connecticut.
  2. Killingworth southern portion incorporated as Clinton town in Connecticut.
  3. The Cheney family in Manchester Connecticut started the world's largest silk mill activity.
  4. April 10, Frank Stephen Baldwin, born in New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Inventor of the Monroe calculator, was awarded in 1874 the John Scott medal by the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.
    Died in 1925 in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey.
  5. May 2, William Wolcott Ellsworth, elected governor of Connecticut (1838-May 4, 1842).

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1738-1838 HARTFORD COUNTY Timeline 13 Topics

   
1761
Hartland town in Hartford County, Connecticut, incorporated.
1764
  1. October 29, The Hartford Courant published by Thomas Green in Hartford, Connecticut. The oldest continuously published newspaper in the U.S.
1769
  1. October 13, Horace H. Hayden, born in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Dentist and co-founder of the first dental college.
1770
  1. Congregational Church established in Farmington, Hartford County, CT.
1783
  1. First dictionary published by Noah Webster, born in West Hartford, Connecticut.
  2. East Hartford incorporated as town (separated from Hartford) in Hartford County, Connecticut. Coordinates 41°46'N-72°39'W.
1785
  1. Berlin (formerly Kensington) incorporated as town in Hartford County, Connecticut, from parts of Farmington, Middletown and Wethersfield. Coordinates 41°37'N-71°10'W.
  2. Bristol organized as a town in Hartford County, Connecticut. Coordinates 41°41'N-72°57'W. Attractions & Recreation : American Clock and Watch Museum.
1787
  1. Emma Hart Willard, born in Berlin, Hartfort County, Connecticut. Women's education pioneer.
1790
  1. Clockmaking activities begun in Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut.
1794
  1. February 8, First insurance business activity started in Hartford, Hartford County, CT.
1804
  1. Enfield boundary established, in Hartford County, Connecticut.
1814
  1. December 15, New England Federalists Convention to protest war policy of U.S. President James Madison, held in Hartford, Hartford County, CT.
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1738-1838 LITCHFIELD COUNTY Timeline 21 Topics

   
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Litchfield County organized in 1751, seat Lictchfield. Area 920 sq.mi. (2,383km²). Cities/Towns/Boroughs/Villages : Bakersville, Bantam, Barkhamstead, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Canaan, Colbrook, Colebrook, Cornwall, Cornwall Bridge, East Canaan, Falls Village, Gaylordsville, Goshen, Harwinton, Kent, Lakeside, Lakeville, Litchfield, Marble Dale, Morris, Nepaug, New Hartford, New Milford, New Preston, New Preston-Marble Dale, Norfolk, North Canaan, Northfield, Northville, Oakville, Pequabuck, Pinemeadow, Pleasant Valley, Plymouth, Riverton, Roxbury, Salisbury, Sharon, Sharon Valley, South Canaan, South Kent, Taconic, Terryville, Thomaston, Torrington, Twin Lakes, Warren, Washington, Washington Depot, Washington Green, Watertown, West Cornwall, West Woods, Winchester, Winchester Center, Winsted, Woodbury.
1738
  1. New Hartford, incorporated in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
  2. Falls Village (present Canaan) established in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
  3. January 21, Ethan Allen born in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Soldier, frontiersman and Leader of the Green Mountain Boys and Connecticut troops.
1739
  1. Bethlehem formerly part of Woodbury and originally spelled Bethlem, organized as a parish in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
  2. Falls Village (present Canaan) incorporated in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
  3. Goshen, incorporated in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
  4. October, Reverend Jonathan Marsh, appointed first minister in New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
1740
  1. Behtlehem in Litchfield County, CT, became an Ecclestiastical Society and parish of Woodbury.
1742
  1. May 14, Nathan Brownson, born in Woodbury, Litchfield County, CT. Governor of Georgia (1781-1782).
1751
  1. Litchfield County established in Connecticut, seat Litchfield borough.
1777
  1. November 30, Nathaniel Pitcher, born in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Governor of New York (1828-1829).
1784
  1. First law school in America 'The Litchfield Law School' established in Litchfield, Litchfield County in Connecticut by Tapping Reeve.
1787
  1. Bethlehem town incorporated in Litchfield County, Connecticut. 
1788
  1. March, pioneer Jedediah Sanger arrived on the Sauquoit Creek, south of the Mohawk River, present site of New Hartford in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
1789
  1. Pioneer Jedediah Sanger built a log cabin settled with his family in Connecticut on the site of present New Hartford in Litchfield County.
1790
  1. First grist mill and saw mill built by by Jedediah Sanger in New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
1791
  1. Jonathan Edwards, Jr., founded the Presbyterian Church, the First Religious Society of Whitestown in New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
1802
  1. April 14, Horace Bushnell, born in Bantam (present Lichfield), Lichfield County, CT. Yale College graduate, congregational minister and theologian called 'father of American religious liberalism'. Associate editor of the New York Journal of Commerce in 1828-29. Died on February 17, 1876 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.
1810
  1. March 9, The New Hartford Manufacturing Co., incorporated, operating the second cotton mill in the state of New york located in New Hartford, Litchfield County.
1811
  1. June 14, Harriet Beecher Stowe, born in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Abolitionist, reformer, writer e.g. novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
1829
  1. October 15, Asaph Hall, born in Goshen, Litchfied County, Connecticut. Astronomer, discoverer of the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos (Source Encyclopedia Britannica).
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1738-1838 NEW HAVEN COUNTY Timeline 27 Topics

 
New Haven County organized in 1666, seat New Haven. Area 606 sq.mi. (1,570km²). Cities/Boroughs/Towns/Places : Allingtown, Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Branford, Centerville-Mount Carmel, Cheshire, Derby, East End, East Haven, Fair Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Meriden, Middlebury, Milford, Mount Carmel, Naugatuck, New Haven, North Branford, Northford, North Haven, Orange, Oxford, Plaza, Prospect, Seymour, South Britain, Southbury, Union City, Wallingford, Waterbury, West Haven, Westville, Whitneyville, Wolcott, Woodbridge, Woodmont, Yalesville.
1738
  1. Chusetown(present Seymour) part of Derby in New Haven County, Connecticut, laid out and named to honor Chief Joseph Mauwehu, nicknamed 'Chuse'.
1755
  1. April 12, the Connecticut Gazette printed by James Parker at New Haven, in New Haven County, Connecticut's first newspaper.
1757
  1. Mount Carmel Society created in Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut.
1763
  1. Brick State House erected on New Haven Green in New Haven County, Connecticut.
1773
  1. March 9, Isaac Hull born in Derby, New Haven County, CT. Commodore in the U.S. navy. Commander of the frigate 'Constitution' he destroyed in half an hour the British frigate 'Guerrière' in the War of 1812. Died on February 13, 1843 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
1774
  1. Old Stone Church erected in East Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut.
  2. Thomas Griswold House built in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
1775
  1. Town of Derby incorporated in New Haven County, Connecticut.

  2. April 30, Peter Harrison, died in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. British born architect.
  3. October 12, Lyman Beecher, born in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. Presbyterian clergyman, father of Harrier Beecher-Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher.
1779
  1. East Haven area in New Haven County, Connecticut, invaded by British General William Tryon.
1780
  1. May, Cheshire incorporated in New Haven County, Connecticut.
1781
  1. 'Blue Laws' purporting to list Sabbath regulations at New Haven in New Haven County, Connecticut. Blue laws were printed on blue paper and forbade regular work on Sundays.
1785
  1. East Haven in New Haven County, Connecticut, incorporated. Area 12,6 sq.mi (4,9km²).
1786
  1. Hamden in New Haven County, Connecticut, incorporated. Area 33 sq.mi (12,7km²). Nickname 'Land of the Sleeping Giant'.
1790
  1. July 8, Fitz-Greene Halleck, born in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. Poet "Alnwick Castle", "Burns", etc.
1792
  1. A porpoise fishery started in Madison, New Haven County, Connecticut.
1794
  1. Eli Whitney of New Haven in New Haven County, Connecticut, invented the cotton gin.
1798
  1. Eli Whitney inventor of the cotton gin, started to manufacture muskets in Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut.
1799
  1. A whitefish trade was developed in Madison, New Haven County, Connecticut.
1803
  1. General David Humphreys built a woolen mill on the Naugatuck River in Chusetown (present Seymour) at the Falls area, in New Haven County, Connecticut.
1804
  1. Chusetown (present Seymour) in New Haven County, Connecticut, changed name into Humphreysville in honor of David Humphreys.
1806
  1. First factory town in America, established in Seymour, New Haven County, Connecticut.
1815
  1. Guilford borough, formerly called Menunkatucket, in New Haven County, Connecticut, incorporated. Area 47,6 sq.mi (18km²).
1826
  1. Madison in New Haven County, Connecticut, incorporated. Area 36,3 sq.mi (14km²), land purchased from the Mohegan Native Americans.
1832
  1. Bethany town in New Haven County, Connecticut, separated from Woodbridge and incorporated.
1836
  1. The first tack company in the U.S. founded in Derby, New Haven County, Connecticut by Edward Shelton.
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1738-1838 NEW LONDON COUNTY Timeline 4 Topics

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New London County organized in 1666, seat New London. Area 666 sq.mi. (1,725km²). Cities/Towns/Boroughs/Places : Baltic, Borough, Bozrah, Center Groton, Chesterfield, Colchester, East Lyme, Exeter, Fitchville, Franklin, Franklin Hill, Gales Ferry, Gilman, Glasgo, Griswold, Groton, Groton Long Point, Hadlyme, Hamburg, Hanover, Hopeville, Jewett City, Jordan Village, Jupiter Point, Lebanon, Ledyard, Lisbon, Lords Point, Lyme, Mashantucket, Masons Island, Millstone, Montville, Mystic, Naval Submarine Base, New London, Niantic, Noank, North Franklin, North Lyme, North Stonington, North Westchester, Norwich, Norwichtown, Oakdale, Occum, Old Hamburg, Old Lyme, Old Mystic, Pawcatuck, Point O Woods, Poquetanuck, Poquonock Bridge, Preston, Quaker Hill, Salem, Shawondassee, South Lyme, Sprague, Stonington, Sub Base New London, Taftville, Uncasville, Versailles, Voluntown, Waterford, West Mystic, Yantic.

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1741
  1. January 14, Benedict Arnold, born in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. Officer serving the American Revolution, shifted to the British in 1779.
1785
  1. November 21, William Beaumont, born in Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut. U.S. Army surgeon and first observer of human digestion.
1796
  1. January 5, Samuel Huntington died in Norwich, New London County Connecticut, interment in Old Colony Cemetery. Lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, governor of Connecticut, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court and president of the Continental Congress. Born on July 3, 1731 in Windham (present Scotland)), Windham County, Connecticut.
1797
  1. May 26, Ralph Randolph Gurley, born in Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut. Administrator and spokesman of the American Colonization Society for deporation of Afro-Americans.
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1738-1838 WINDHAM COUNTY Timeline 2 Topic

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1738
  1. April 9, John Bacon born in Canterbury, Windham County, CT. U.S. clergyman, judge and legislator.

1742
  1. May 13, Manasseh Cutler, born in Killingly, Windham County, CT. Congretional minister, leader of the Ohio Company of Associates.
CONNECTICUT STATISTICS - COUNTY (LAND) AREA
626
1.621km² - CT Fairfield
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CELEBRITIES & FAMOUS PEOPLE
1946

- July 6, George W. Bush, born in New Haven, Connecticut. 43rd President of the United States (2001-)

 

1961

- November 19, Meg Ryan (real name Margaret Mary Emily Hyra), born in Fairfield, Connecticut. Film actress


1971

- September 8, Brooke Lisa Burke, born in Hartford, Connecticut. Model, TV personality


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