Extracts from the Records of Colchester with Some Transcripts from the Recording of Michaell Taintor of Brainford, Connecticut

The beginning of the settlement of a Township is an important and interesting epoch in the history of a country; and its gradual progress is marked by events.  To come nearer to the Township to which the following pages chiefly relate, Colchester was a primeval wilderness, with nothing to disturb its profound solitude but the Red man in quest of his game and fish.  The Connecticut State Records at the Office of the Secretary of State furnish us with the date of the Grant and settlement of Colchester, and contain much in relation to the troubles that the planters of Colchester experienced, and the difficulties they met with in establishing the boundaries of the Township.

In conclusion, the compiler would say that Colchester and its history present more than ordinary attractions to him, inasmuch as it was the home and the birth-place of many of his ancestors.

Michaell Taintor

(1864), 5.5" x 8.5", paper, index, 172 pp.

ISBN: 9781556130236

101-T3023