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The Birth of Milford Township. It is believed the name Milford arose from the large number of mills and fords located on the several streams of the township. The area’s first settlers, aside from the Indian tribes, were Mennonites who came here around 1712 or earlier from Germany. William Penn sent English and Welsh people to live here and ...
Many years ago the late James Crawford prepared for a pioneer meeting the following list of the first settlers on each section, taking the data from county and family records. Section 1—Daniel Houghton—1834 Section 2—Aaron Phelps--1835 Section 3—Calvin Eaton—1832 Section 4—Stephen Armstrong—1834 Section 5—Wm. Corgill—1832 ...
CONNECTICUT TOWNS IN THE ORDER OF THEIR ESTABLISHMENT; WITH THE ORIGIN OF THEIR NAMES. Until 1700 almost the only official action of the colonial government (General Court) in regard to town organization, was to authorize the town name, usually chosen by its leading man, from his home in England.
Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2007. The city of Milford, located in New Haven County, is in the southernmost part of the state on the Long Island Sound. The land, purchased by English settlers in 1639, originally included what would become the towns of Orange and West Haven. By 1822, Orange separated and what remained of Milford was a successful ...
Dec 23, 2019 · 1:07. How time flies! The Village of Milford turned 150 years old this year, as of March 30. And while the village incorporated in 1869, the township, which surrounds the 2.43-square-mile village ...
Sep 9, 2015 · Each New England state has a town named Warren, though two different heroes of distinctly different eras inspired the place names. Warren in Rhode Island, with colonial roots back to 1621, and Warren, N.H., which welcomed its first English settlers in 1767, were named for Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Warren.
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Only two white settlers resided in the township at this time, one by the name of Ayres, who occupied the Captain Abel Peck farm, in the south part of the township, and the other, named Allport, lived in a log house between the Fuller house and the river, on that forty acres of the Fuller farm next to the farm known as the Hoagland place, now owned and occupied by Mr. Whiting, on section 9.
