The history of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut : comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington, and of Glastonbury prior to its incorporation in 1693 : from date of earliest settlement until the present time . long the toj) of the bank south of the Town Reserva-tion. This property was, as we have elsewhere stated, the river-frontof the grant which was made, 16-i9-50, to Samuel Boardman. But,before the death of Jonathan (probably son of James) Smith, whichoccurred about 1730, the Boardman grant had been acquired by Smith,who left tlirec children, viz.: Xathan, Al)iga
The history of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut : comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington, and of Glastonbury prior to its incorporation in 1693 : from date of earliest settlement until the present time . long the toj) of the bank south of the Town Reserva-tion. This property was, as we have elsewhere stated, the river-frontof the grant which was made, 16-i9-50, to Samuel Boardman. But,before the death of Jonathan (probably son of James) Smith, whichoccurred about 1730, the Boardman grant had been acquired by Smith,who left tlirec children, viz.: Xathan, Al)igail and Hannah. Abigailmarried Hezekiah Grimes of Rocky Hill; Hannah married DanielClark of ]\[iddletown; Xathan died, unmarried in 1733 or 34, by willleaving to his sister Abigail Grimes, the use of the estate left him byhis father; the same, at her death, to go to her heirs. Hannah Clarksshare of that part of her fathers estate included in the Boardman grantwas set on the south side, presumably south of what is now HenryStreet, extending to a little north of the south line as it now is, andrunning cast to the river, so as to take in aboiit the south third of theland now covered by the Fierce-Hardware buildings, and west to about. •THE LANDING. 889 the Marsli-lurkct corner, 011 Cross Street, the south line hcing vaguelyup along the little brook, or, perhaps, the Hill road south of it. In 1709,Hannah Clark and her luishand sold out their title to this land to .TacubWilliams, by deed acknowledged in Middlctown before Samuel Hall,?which deed is in possession of ^Mrs. Shipman. In 1754-, he sold thenorth side of this lot, from the Eiver-road west, to Oliver Pomeroy,who built on the nnrtii iialf of the present long house, called AuntPolly Dickinsons. .Vt the time of the sale to Williams, in 1709,and for a long time after. Ferry Street, had not been opened. ThereAvas a barn somewhere a little west of where the Pomeroy house is,and a lane led from the River-road up to it, along which
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