The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . 358 MEMORIAL HISTORY OF HARTFORD COUNTY. subscribed, and the distribution began. It was a beautiful manifes-tation of patriotic sympathy. Then the town took up the benevolentwork, and voted bounties to its volunteer soldiers. At the close of the war Simsbury had fur- 1. nished about twohundred youngmen to maintainthe integrity ofthe Union. Under the Colo-nial Governmentmanufacturingwas not encour-ao-ed. In 1728Samuel Higleypetitioned theGeneral Court forthe exclusive right to manufac-ture steel for aterm of years, set-ting fort
The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . 358 MEMORIAL HISTORY OF HARTFORD COUNTY. subscribed, and the distribution began. It was a beautiful manifes-tation of patriotic sympathy. Then the town took up the benevolentwork, and voted bounties to its volunteer soldiers. At the close of the war Simsbury had fur- 1. nished about twohundred youngmen to maintainthe integrity ofthe Union. Under the Colo-nial Governmentmanufacturingwas not encour-ao-ed. In 1728Samuel Higleypetitioned theGeneral Court forthe exclusive right to manufac-ture steel for aterm of years, set-ting forth thathe hath, withgreat pains andcosts, found outand obtained acurious art bywhich to convert,change, and trans-mute commoniron into goodsteel. The Gen-eral Court grant-ed a patent, givinghim the exclusiveprivilege of mak-ing steel for theterm of ten years,conditioned thathe should bringit to a good andreasonable per-fection within two years. With these terms he complied, as to quantity and quality;but on the whole the experiment was not a success. Twelve yearsafterward Thomas Fitch ^ ^-a—-/3and others obtained a ifWtu^Tilike privilege ; but by U^^ ^ ^reason of the death ofthe Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, who was their scientific man, the busi-ness was given up, thoughit had been partially successful. Their
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