In 1673, the General Court granted the petition of some residents of Farmington for a new township to be called Mattauck, and shortly thereafter a committee of proprietors was established to regulate the affairs of the new community which was to become the present city of Waterbury. This volume contains complete transcripts of all the extant records of the original proprietors of Waterbury as extracted from their record books and the early towns record books. Chapter headings are: Orders and Letters of the Grand Committee, 1673-1687; The First Proprietor's Book, 1677-1722; Later Proprietors' Records, 1722-1761; Grants of Land, 1682-1709; Report of Committee on Mill Lands, 1851. Here you will find recorded all the acts of the proprietors including their election of officers, appointment of committees, grants of land, laying out of roads, regulations regarding fencing, clearing of land, etc. Of particular genealogical value are the lands which name great numbers of residents over the extended time period covered by these records.
Katharine A. Prichard
(1911), 2008, 5.5" x8.5", paper, index, 278 pp.
ISBN: 9781556132025
101-P3202
