Historical sketches of the town of Milford . restored and removed within the recollection of manyof the present day to the south side of Peacock Lane (nowMaple Street) a short distance from West River Street. It is in a good state of preservation and the outline of themain house may readily be recognized. This house originallystood on the site of the present central school house. Lambertsays it stood on plot 15. Stiles says, The Judges took up anasylum in the house of Mr. Tompkins thirty or forty rodsfrom the meeting house; that Governor Law afterwardsbought this house and lot and built his se
Historical sketches of the town of Milford . restored and removed within the recollection of manyof the present day to the south side of Peacock Lane (nowMaple Street) a short distance from West River Street. It is in a good state of preservation and the outline of themain house may readily be recognized. This house originallystood on the site of the present central school house. Lambertsays it stood on plot 15. Stiles says, The Judges took up anasylum in the house of Mr. Tompkins thirty or forty rodsfrom the meeting house; that Governor Law afterwardsbought this house and lot and built his seat on that lot a rodor two from it. He, Stiles, was frequently in the Tompkins HISTORICAL SKETCHES 41 house in the Governors time. The building was about twentyfeet square, two floors on a stone wall and considered as astore : the top floor used by the Tompkins family as a spinningroom. The Judges were here in concealment for two years,1661-2. Roger Newton was the minister. Mr. Treat, and a few others were said to be in the The Judges also lived for a time at Judges Cave and atProvidence Hill, Amity, Woodbridge. The hill is said tohave acquired its name in connection with the Judges.* Stiles states that Mr. George Clark, a very intelligent man,pointed out to him the Providence Hill and in a deed executedby this Mr. Clark in 1716 in deeding land to his son hedescribes it as being at a place called the Lodge. A brookof water running westward was called Bladen Brook. Thisplace is now on the farm owned, I think, by Mr. Peck. Whileliving here Richard Sperry of Woodbridge furnished theRegicides with food. The Lodge is sometimes called HatchetHarbor.* See History of the Judges, President Stiles, 1794. 42 HISTORICAL SKETCHES TOWN CLERKS The following is a list of the town clerks, from the settle-ment of the town to the present time, with the year they werechosen: Robert Treat 1640, Richard Baldwin 1648, SamuelEells 1680, Daniel Buckingham 1685, Thomas Oviatt (orOffat)
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