New Britain herald., 1922-04-11


 datc Of his marriage to Elizabeth i Royce, October l. lG9o, It was the ! fashion for young men who con- | tempaicd marriage to provide a home and Ia have the house ready for oc- ! cupaney about the date Of their mar piaEo, or very soon thereafter This practice was SD common, that in the lbscnee of other data. the time of marriage ean hc generally relied upon
 < approximately the date of erecting
 young mans first house, stephen tee died January :, l1h3, aged S7, having lived here with the wife of his youth for siytY-throe years, She died l May 2, 7GO in the alst year Of her | ge,
 | second House Holder rcuiamin Judd. our second house i holder married a daughter of John North on June S, 1894 and located on East street less than half mile north of Lees. He was the first man 'o erect q house here which was less | 'hnn two miles from another mans | Nouso, He died March 2, 1764 aged l4 having lived here with his wife l for 70 years, ] month and 21 days. | ;he died April 93. l764, aged sS, MT, md Mrs. Judd and their next neigh l DOTS, Mir and Mrs. Lee. reached the 'vcrage age of ninety years. Daniel Dewey. our third house older married Catherine Beckley on 'ortember 27. 17o6 and located the ,ast side of Stanley street opposite In to R-cf oreiGner, having been born in Vest lcld, Mass. while all our other early 'cttlers were born in Connecticut. nd with the exception Of Robert Booth of Stratford, were born in
 'arminston. Dewey d, ed in l1l7 aged '7, the first of our m, n to pass away. Anthony Judd
 Anthony Judd our fourth house holler married Susanna Woodford on '''''e 2G. 17o7 and settled on Stanley 2 little north of Dewey's about He was deacon of the Great swamp church and the first resident 1, of New Britain to serve in the General Assembly, of the Colony. He first ,crved at the May session Of 1717 and ast in the May session of 1741, serv- 'nG in all thirteen sessions. His first wife" Susana, was the first adult in New Britain to depart this life, the late of her death being unknown. but it was probably before the kensington church was organized in 1712.
 Joseph Smith, our fifth house hold ar married January IT, 1708, Mary Royce, a sister of Mrs Stephen Lee. He located on the east side of East street a little south of stephen Lee about 170S. His place was occupied by Joseph after Joseph for five gen rations John Woodruff. our sixth house holder married Elizabeth Thompson lbont 1896 She died on December 90. 17o5 and he married Mary, his residence then being in Pennington In the month of January. 170S, he sold his house there and about that imi removed here with his second wife and four children. three of them were by his first wife. These three children were the first in this place to have a step-mother. Woodruff's house in New Britain was on the hill east of our present Town Home. A pair of twin boys were born to him on March 5. 17o9. probab the first twins born in this place
 seventh House
 Isaac Lewis. our seventh house holder married Abigail Curtis on May 4. 171O, and located about that time on the north side of South street, a little west of tho bridge over the main line of the Consolidated railroad, near the upper end of Christian Lane. He | rel eyed to Southington with his family prior to 17So. It was the first family to remove from this place Certain statements concerning the age of Isaac and Jonathan Lewis houses will be hereinafter considered.
 Robert Booth, our eighth house holder married Anna Hollister on No Sember 21, 17l2. and located on South | ;treet a little westerly from the Isaac Lewis house on the opposite side Of ! the road. He bought his land on Feb 'uary 26, 1712-13, the deed therefore giving his residence as of Stratford, Andrews states that he held office in Great swamp society as early as l115 while Orcutt's History of Stratford states that he removed here in 1716. He was the first to come here from mother part of the state. all of. the others having been residents of Farm ington before they settled in this place.
 First in stanley Quarter
 Thomas Stanley, our ninth house |