History of Bridgeport And Vicinity

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE GOVERNMENT OF BRIDGEPORT CITY STRATFIELD?PETITION FOR ECCLESIASTICAL PRIVILEGES?THE FIVE PERIODS?THE FIRST PERIOD THE FIRST COMMUNITY NEWFIELD? THE FIRST MEETING FURTHER FACTS ON EARLY HIGHWAYS. STRATFIELD Although the history of the City of Bridgeport proper does not begin until 1798, when the inhab

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itants of the Village of Newfield, in the Town of Stratford, were recognized by the General Assembly in that they were granted the right to maintain a fire engine company, the founding of the community known as Stratfield must be recognized as one of the first governmental moves leading to the creation of the City of Bridgeport. The locality when first visited by the English was the site of an Indian village, comprising four or five hundred inhabitants. As mentioned before, two families first settled west of the Pequonnock River. The heads of these households were Henry Summers, Sr., and Samuel Gregory. Their first houses were located near the junction of Park and Washington avenues. At that time no highways were laid out in this vicinity. On the east side of the boundary line between Fairfield and Stratford there was a reservation four rods in width which had been made for a highway, but had never been surveyed properly. Also, an Indian trail traversed Golden Hill to the northeast; this latter was made a legal roadway in 1686. In 1687 the King's Highway, now known as North Avenue, was laid out and, some time later, the Toilsome Hill road, now named Park Avenue. Fairfield and Stratford had become communities of good size and naturally the short distance between them soon caused them to merge. It is said that they first met at a point now near the junction of North and Park avenues, where a new village was formed, later taking the ToL I?1 n...

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