Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-18

first grantees. The first grantees were as follows
 John Morris, Philip Leek,
 Isaac Allerton, WU. Payne
 MT. Talmadge, Vim. Preston,
 MT. Hall, John Atwater,
 John Sackett, MT. Trout,
 Henry Glover, Mir. Leete,
 Joseph A1sop, wm. Roswell,
 John Winstone. Joshua Atwell
 Thomas Lamberton, Robert Talmadge. John ii Davenport, TheOphiius Eaton, Richard Perry John Cooper,
 Moses Mansneid. Benjamin King. MT. Tench, Thomas Fugi1l,
 Mr. Punderson, MT. Gibard
 John Osborn, J. Hartman,
 Nathan Gilbert Thomas Gregson, MT. Allen.
 It is well known that the original town plot was half mile square, and was laid out
 between two creeks, entering the harbor by the way of what are now George and State streets respectively. This half mile town plot was divided into nine squares, this seem- ing to be the most advantageous layout, and
 leaving room for expansion. The center plot was what is now the old Green, and was called the market place. There was another
 market place so-called in the earliest days of the colony. This was where now is the junction of George, Church and Meadow streets. It was in the neighborhood of this old or first market place that the party sent by Governor Eaton ito select a site at Quin- nipiac for town" wintered in hut. Their winters sojourn brought them considerable
 of what was monotonous, varied with some 1 hunting occasional visits from the aborigines and they were glad when spring came In the center of the market place close to where Gov. English's building is and the store of l Stone Chidsey, there stood for long time pole bearing the decapitated head of an In | dian who had been beheaded for the murder | of solonist. While it was sight which ] long inspired with awe the young and rising generation of colonists it had, we may SUD- pose, wholesome effect upon the red men | who beheld it. This custom, we need not | some of the colonists could tell of having | seen the heads of criminals exposed on poles on London bridge.
 As some may not know, few rods north of this place, at the intersection of College
 and George streets, is supposed to be the site of the oak under which Davenport preached the first sermon to the colonists in 1889. and
 where also took place the bi-centennial anni- versary exercises of the town in 1889, with T. Hotchkiss, graduate of Yale College and
 lineal descendant from Governor Eaton The town was divided in quarters or dis | tricts, as is shown by the very interesting map prepared frem material taken from the
 early records of the town by the late Hon.
 Henry White and Geographically laid down l by Prof. E. R. Honey, of the Yale Art School. lot !, <,f acfo oa1 l townsman, Rev. E. E. Atwater, and which is
 an accompaniment of his valuable volume, l just published, entitled History of the Colo ny of New Haven to its Absorption into Con- ] necticut." |" This map shows the old part of the town between the two creeks before men | tioned (facing the harbor) and the original town lots of each settler, according to loca- | tion.
 Commencing on the west side we find MT. | Lamberton's quarter next suburb quarter
 next Wm. Gregson's quarter then the Here | fordshire quarter; then Yorkshire quarter l Mir. Tench's quarter Mir. Newman's quar-
 ter; the Governors quarters; Mir. Daven-
 ports quarters, and the oyster shell fields. 1 The people from Herefordshire seem to I l town, about the corner of York and George streets, their leader being the Rev. Peter Pfudden, a Puritan divine, who soon after | seeded from the New Haven colony, and with others went over and settled the town | of Milford. Next the Yorkshire quarter
 seems to have taken the plot bounded by the streets now named York, Elm and Chapel
 and the common, or market place. On this plot half of which is the present site of the
 principal seminary buildings of Yale College,
 resided Joshua Atwater (treasurer of the col
 ony), Edward Wiggleworth, Thomas Fugill l (secretary of the colony), John Punderson 1 Gone of the seven pillars of the church, John | Evans Gone of Davenport's parishioners at l St. Stephens, Coleman street, London, Thomas Yale (son-in-law of Governor Eaton),
 and others In the next quarter, bounded by Elm, York, Grove and College, lived Da- vid Atwater (brother of Joshua) Jeremiah | Dickson Gone of the seven pillars of the
 Church of the Seven Pillars), Mrs. Biggin-
 son (widow of Rev. Francis Higginson, who
 came over with Governor Endicott to the
 Salem colony in 1929; and who was 8 friend
 of Governor Eaton and perhaps connected | with his family). Next is Nr. Tench's quar- | ter, bounded by Elm, College, Grove and ! Church, in which resided John Cooper, Fran cis Brewster, Mrs. Eldred and Mir. Mansfield, | part of whose house lot is where is to-day | the elegant residence of Thomas R. Trow- | bridge, Esq, facing the Green. On Robert | Newman's lot was the barn where the famous plantation covenant was signed in 1889 by | III 1T. r.. ! Newman's, bounded by State, Church, | Grove and Elm, resided Theophilus Eaton, Esq. Governor of the colony, Ezekiel Cheever, the first school teacher in New Eng ! land and William Tuttle an important set I tier, who was from the County Devon, and
 whose original grant of land aside from his
 town lot was on the east side of the harbor | The next quarter, which may be called MT.
 Davenport's quarter, was bounded by the
 streets now Church, Elm, State and Chapel, on which resided the Rev. John Davenport,
 Jasper Crane, Matthew Gilbert, Thomas Kimberly, Thomas Nash, Owen Rowe and others. This quarter, as well as the next south of it, seems to have faced the creek, and, the residences were approached
 easily by boats from the harbor. Next, the southeast quarter, was the
 oyster-feld quarter, in which resided Moses
 Mansfield, Thomas Jeffrey, M. Hitchcock.
 Roger Allen, Robert Seeley and others
 Robert Seeley, we suppose, was the Capt
 Seeley slain in the great fight with the Mar
 ragansett Indians, when the New Haven col
 ony lost heavily from her quota of men sent
 to participate The next quarter was bounded
 by Church, George, College and Chapel sts.,
 in which dwelt Thomas Gregson, (who was
 lost on the phantom ship and whose property
 comprises the Glebe lands of Trinity church),
 and Stephen Goodyear, Deputy Governor of
 the colony, Wm. Hawkins, Richard Mills and
 Thomas Buckingham. This quarter also
 faced the George street creek and was early
 approached by boats from the harbor. This
 was the quarter where the first sermon was
 preached, before mentioned. On the tongue
 of land between the two creeks now bounded
 by George, Fleet, West Water and Meadow
 streets and from which point Long Wharf
 axkends into the harl1or resided John Potter