. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. had beenTl founded three and one-halfKS^ >ears, and Windsor and Weth-crsfield about the same time,all three towns began to think theirbroad acres too limited, and applied tothe General Court for some enlarge-ment of accommodation. .-\ committeewas appointed to view the valley of theTunxis and report on the 20th of Feb-ruary, but Windsor was busy buildinga bridge and a meeting house, and theirneighbors of Wetherstield objected totlie wintry weather; so the Court addedto the committee Capt. John Mason, who had recently rid tlic colony
. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. had beenTl founded three and one-halfKS^ >ears, and Windsor and Weth-crsfield about the same time,all three towns began to think theirbroad acres too limited, and applied tothe General Court for some enlarge-ment of accommodation. .-\ committeewas appointed to view the valley of theTunxis and report on the 20th of Feb-ruary, but Windsor was busy buildinga bridge and a meeting house, and theirneighbors of Wetherstield objected totlie wintry weather; so the Court addedto the committee Capt. John Mason, who had recently rid tlic colony of 600or 700 Pequots. and who brought theCourt on the 15th of June following toorder the Particular Court to concludethe conditions for the planting Five years thereafter, in 1645, the vil- lage of Tunxis Sepus, literally the at tile licnd of the little river, be-came by legislative enactment llie townof Farmington. The settlers found the natural fea-tures of the i)lace much as we see theitito-dav. To the east of the street. (1) THE .lonx (_I>Alili IIOUSi:—BUILT IX 171)11—I!A/,i;i) ISSil,
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