Identifier: historyofwaterbu03pape (find matches)
Title: History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Pape, William Jamieson, 1873-
Subjects: Waterbury (Conn.) -- History Waterbury (Conn.) -- Biography Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) -- History Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, New York The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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WATERBURY AND THE NAUGATUCK VALLEY 323 there spent tlie period of his boyhood and youth but on the 18th of July, 1788, when twentyyears of age, removed to Raynham, Massachusetts. He was married by Josiah Dean, Esq.,to Mary (or Rachel) Hewitt, wlio Avas born March 27, 1769. They became residents ofHartland, Connecticut, in 1790, at which time William French purchased one hundred andtwenty acres of land from Samuel Beach and began the develjppment of a farm whichcontinued to be his home throughout his remaining days. His labors wrought a markedtransformation in the appearance of tlie place, to which he added many modern improvements,and there he carried on general farming and stock raising, his well defined plans andpurjioses bringing him a gratifying measure of prosperity. In politics lie was a demociatof the Jeftersonian school and was ever a loyal and progressive citizen. His religious faithwas that of the Methodist Episcopal church, which found in him an earnest supporter andlielpfu

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