The Newtown bee., 1904-09-09
HON DANIEL N. MORGAN.
GIVES INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT EAR
 L,Y HUNTINGTON HISTORY.

Your committee in extending the invitations for this gathering suggest ed "reminiscences of Huntington. So much of his tOric interest attaches to an ancient town like this that it is quite impossible to condense what
 might prove of interest to those pres. ent in a reasonable space or limit of
 time by those who may respond to the request. Huntington was originally a
 part of the town of StratfOrd, and in
 i66l Joseph Judson of that town pur.
 chased of the Indians tract of land
 containing 5000 acres lying between
 the two branches of the Farmill river,
 extending in length. five miles by two
 miles wide, bounded on the northwest
 by Moose hill, Ion ye west with ye
 nere sprayne of ye Far Mill River ,on ye south at ye parting of ye spraynes of
 ye Far Mill River, called by ye Englsh
 west sprayne of ye Far Mill River, soc running to ye pine Swamp at ye head of ye river, this parcel of land called by ye English ye Mohegan Hills" 1 Shortly before the year 17O0 Abraham l Wooster lived on the south side of
 Far Mill river where in ITO General
 David Wooster, of the Revolutionary
 tion was presented to the -'Eon' 'ble
 Court and Representatives of his
 Majesties' Colony of COneteGat"' D. for a
 religious society and to s'he a; village
 by themselves, to begin at the mouth
 of the Far Mill River and run westerly l to the six mile bounds at Trap, Fall 1 Hill below the Beardsley house, and sc six miles from the sea till they come I to the west side of Strattordi bounds or I to Stratfield bounds'' Daniel Shelton I was one of the signers of the petition .I nd ho ri 1s f.. erward Ripton, it being the name of Il the place in England from which MI il Shelton came. \ John Wooster, a son of Edward l Wooster, the first settler of Derby H where he had hop garden, in 171I \ purchased the grist mill on the south l side of armill river of William Smith
 with three acres of land, and his des- l cendants remained in the vicinity fl M., who was the first minister of the
 gospel of Christ at Riptoa, as inscribed
 on tombstone in the village cerne
 tery, ''fell on sleep the 18th of January;
 1776, in the 18th year of his age, and
 ,52d year of his ministry" His son,
 Elisha Mills, Esq.,, was horn March 26
 l732, old style, and died April ', 181ssin the 85th year of his age. For a long
 period of years, including the Revedn
 !
 eral store on the premises SC long OG
 cupied by the late Reuben w. Lin sl4ey In those days slaves were owned i'll tn } Center and doubtless one used to at , company MT Mills when he rode f Boston on horseback to purchase go' oo which were shipped to Derby land: i1 in sloops and brought to the Cen ta l with ox-teams. The inha bitants ca lr l from long distance in those days , purchase their modest supplies, fl c7 as far west as Norwalk, passing U Fwhat is now Bridgeport, which u he I had but very few residents, g6 in e around to Derby landing and so VI n to Ripton Center. MT Mills left an ( :, tate valued at about $75,00O, WI it u u was then great fortune.
 l In the early history of the DN e those who rode to church here cam (, S horseback, and many walked long d h tances to attend the services at t o Congregational church. as befor 5 e ferred to, or at St Paul's church frt d 1753, when the Rev Christopher Ne 2 ton was rector at Riptoa parish. M 0 largely is the village cemetery a e}os y book of history. With muchV gne > tion and seriousness of thought ShO e we pass from one silent tomb tO' s other. How many valuable les BDnf W life we might learn could tho se V e have gone before speak to us tod