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Title: 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.

Author: Daniel Davenport

Release Date: December 29, 2008 [EBook #27651]

Language: English

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THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY

OF THE SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWN OF

NEW MILFORD, CONN.

June 17th, 1907.

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ADDRESS
DELIVERED BY
DANIEL DAVENPORT,
Of Bridgeport, Conn.

Press of
The Buckingham, Brewer & Platt Co.
Bridgeport, Conn.

ADDRESS

DELIVERED AT NEW MILFORD, CONN., JUNE 17TH, 1907,
BY DANIEL DAVENPORT OF BRIDGEPORT, CONN.,
ON THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWN.

The settlement of New Milford began in 1707, exactly a century after
that of Jamestown, Va. At that time, although Milford and Stratford at
the mouth of the Housatonic had been settled almost seventy years, and
the river afforded a convenient highway into the interior, for much of
the distance, this place, only thirty miles from the north shore of Long
Island Sound, was still beyond the extreme northwestern frontier of New
England, and indeed of English North America.

The inhabitants of Connecticut then numbered about fifteen thousand,
settled in thirty towns, mostly along the shore of Long Island Sound,
and upon the banks of the Connecticut and Thames Rivers. During the
thirty years next before, a few families from