Tolland Co., CT, 1713 Petition
Extracted from The Early History of Tolland
An Address Delivered Before the
Tolland County Historical Society
At Tolland, Conn.,
On the 22d day of August & 27 day of September, 1861
By Loren P. WALDO
p. 8-9
"To the Honorable the General Assembly in Hartford, May 14, 1713.
The petition of us the subscribers humbly showeth: That whereas your petitioners being inhabitants of this colony, and the descendants of those that have for a long time contribured to the support of the same, being through the numerous increase of our families much straitened for want of land whereon to make improvement and get our livelihood: and being encouraged by your honors' wonted goodness to encourage the settling of plantation i the waste lands within the colony, and having viewed a township of land on the east side of the great river, ordered by the town of Windsor and the heirs of Mr. Thomas BURNHAM, deceased, to be settled into a plantation bounded as in their agreement doth fully appear; -- many of us having already been out with the committee and taken up lots in the same, and shall with those that are desirous to settle with us, speedily settle a fair town there if the government discourage us not; we therefore humbly pray your honors would garnat that a township may be made of said land, and that they may be patented to and holden by such inhabitants as shall be admitted by the comittee appointed by the town of Windsor, and heirs of Mr. Thomas BURNHAM, deceased, and your petitioners shall ever pray." Dated, May 9, 1713
This petition is signed by the following persons, viz:
BAKER, Joseph GRANT, Samuel PORTER, Nathaniel BARBER, Benjamin GRANT, Noah PORTER, Joseph BIRGE, Cornelius GRANT, Nathaniel ROCKWELL, Joseph BISSELL, Josiah GRIDLEY, John ROCKWELL, Samuel CHAPMAN, Henry HOSKINS, Anthony STILES, Thomas CHAPMAN, Simon HOLCOMB, Benaiah STILES, Henry Jr. COOK, Nathaniel HUNTINGTON, John SKINNER, Joseph COOK, Ebenezer LOOMER, H. STOUGHTON, Israel COOK, Daniel LOOMIS, Stephen SMITH, Philip DRAKE, Nathaniel LOOMIS, Ichabod WOLCOTT, Roger ENO, John LOOMIS, David WATSON, Nathaniel ELLSWORTH, Samuel LOOMIS, Joshua WOLCOTT, Charles EDGAR, Thomas MARSHALL, Samuel WOLCOTT, Henry EGGLESTON, Thomas MILLS, Jedidiah WILLES, Joshua, Sen. FARNSWORTH, Joseph PHELPS, Joseph WILLES, John GILLETT, Cornelius PHELPS, William WILLES, Joshua GAYLORD, Jonas PINNEY, Humphrey WILLES, Samuel GRISWOLD, Daniel, Jr. PINNEY, Jonathan WARREN, Robert GILLETT, Nathaniel, Jr. PINNEY, Nathaniel LOOMIS, Daniel GRISWOLD, Thomas PORTER, Daniel 59 in all