Putnam patriot., 1928-03-01
Scotland

Scotland. The town was taken from Windhamtown. The first settler was Isaac Magoon. a Scotchman, who gave the name of his native country to his home. This was in 17OO, IL became q town in 1857.
 From i7O0 to 1760 thousands of the red men were killed by the whites and then came the most interesting period of emigration, and the repeti- tion of names of countries and towns.
 The fugue:
 T.. Scotland's burning, Scotlands
 burning,
 .2. Look out, look out!
 3. Firel firel firel
 4. Cast on water, Cast on waterl added fame to it's birthplace and the distinguished Huntington family of Scotland in Windham county as it went round. Sometimes Cast" is re- placed by Pour" on water, but the older version seems to be Cast"
 killingly
 Killinglea. KillingIee. KiIlingly-a corruption of the name killinglea, or, according to another authority, 1t was a township grant in 17OS and named from Killingly Manor near Pontefract, Yorkshire, England. Killingly, large township settled early in colonial times (from which Thompson was talk en in i7S5) was known for it's un- healthful meadows abounding in snakes and venOmOus reptiles above which were the breakneck hills. The commanding eminenee, two miles east of the Quinebaug, was then known as "Rattlesnake Hill," now "killingly Hill" The country was difficult to explore. Lack of roads, swollen streams, deep mosquito infested marshes. tangled forests and trouble some Indians-all was forboding and hazardous and particularly laborlous to clear the wilderness bounding three sides of Rattlesnake Hill. The first white settler probably came in 1893 from "Rehoboth." This Richard Evanses establishment served as q landmark and was subsequently, called the South Neighborhood of Thomp' son." and is now included in Putnam.
 Roads Were Dangerous
 The roads, if such some might be called, were often trod-Outs or Indian trails along the river banks, at times ankle deep in mud and water. The hill roads were made additionally dan gerous by thankyou-ma ans where one went plungsng into holes and pumping over rocks and stumps. Trav- elers in the dark generally bruised themselves; or at the most broke a bone. Hence the name "Breakneek Hill"
 The country or county, or original township in the northeastern part of Connecticut, was owned by the colony of Connecticut and not by individuals or companies, and tracts of it were given by the government in recogni- ton of civil or military services rem dered it. Its first white proprietors were the leading men of the colony. The grant of Governor Haynes was given in 1642, that to Reverend John Whiting in 1862, and later many oth- CTS. These grants were not located, but simply conveyed portion of land to be selected by the grantee according to his pleasure, so long as it did not prejudice any particular township or former grant"
 The opening of 'gangway," which was there when the town was organ ized, in 1709, leading from Plainfield Co Boston, extended through the whole length of the town, making a cross with the ways" to Hartford and Woodstock, at the fording place be- low the Great Falls, now known af CargiIl Falls. of the Quinebaug. When James Danielson's negro slave was sent to Boston with an oxioad of pro duce," he had made so little progress after a days journey that he went home to sleep the first night. This legend tells us the condition of thu road.