The Newtown bee., 1897-01-22

miles, to the site of the said B Jund Rock, the point or place of beginning-con- taing three thousand eight hundred and forty acres of land, equal to six square miles, and including nearly all of the l Center, Obtuse, Whisconier and DOT tion of Iron Works school districts, as at present constituted.
 The entire Township of Brookfeld, according to this survey. contains eleven thousand three hundred and eighty and two thirds acres of land, equal to seven- teen and forty y-seven-sixtieths square square mile less than one half of the size uf the usual modern, or ordinary township, in most of our states and territories, which are generally laid out six miles square and contain thirty-six square miles each-though many vary greatly in magnitude in some of the older states.
 The longest straight line that can be drawn, in any direction, within any boundary limits of our township is six and four-twenty fiftls miles long, and it runs nearly due North and South, and almost coincides with the geographical meridien-
 STARTING AT THE VIEWPOINT BOUNDARY LINE,
 about fifty rods South of the house of the late HubbelI Smith, running thence due North through the West side of the dwelling house of Brother J. Wesley Wells, striking the westerly side of the the South Cemetery, and thence cutting Brother Arthur s. Mansfield, and con tinuing through point sixty. four rod ds eastwardly from the cupola of our Town Hall, and passing near the house of J. l Homer Merwin, in Hop Brook, and thence continuing through the easterly section of Long NJ adow School Dis trict, to the homestead of the late Lemuel B. Wildman, near the New The former dwelling houses of the said Wildman and Smith, were the most widely separated of any in our town, and it is curious coincidence that each of said residences should have stood on the same meridian, in the same town, and should be the furthest apart, and should also be respectively the north and south pole to each other-while they themselves probably never realized this relationship during their sojourn on this planet.
 So much for the metes and bounds, distances, dimensions. and locations, of the "earlier" (and other) lines of our township, it's School Districts, acres and square miles
 WHAT LOTS OF WORK, AND WORRY, and weariness, have they caused us, fearing too that our brethren and sisters of the Grange might suffer with us in the bare recital-excepting always our worthy and ingenious Lecturer, who is primarily responsible for "all these tears," or in the version of Virgil, hine illa lachryma-but the Lecturer him. self is as stoical, i. mot as heartless, as Nero, who is said to have fiddled while Rome was on fire.
 Brookfield has Town Hall, with 8 Probate and Justices (civil and eFimi- l nab court room, and vault for public records, etc.; seven public school houses, and seven and one.half school districts. five church buildings, with q seating capacity sufficient for every in- habitant of the town-St Paul's Episco- pal Church, with two free Chapels, has membership of attendance of 32o indi- viduals. See Paroehial Report in lssDiocesan Journal of Connecticut. : pages E9 and le0, published at Hart ford in June last. This church 2 s organized on January al, 17s5, when 5