The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . ????A ?;??; -.,;? A. CONNECTICUT STATE PRISON AT WETHERSFIELD. HILL. BY SHERMAN W. ADAMS. THIS townsliip was incorporated in May, 1843, at which time itsboundary-lines were defined substantially as follows : Begin-ning at the Connecticut River ; thence extending- due west to abutton-ball tree in the fence on the east side of the highway abouttwo rods north of Goffes Bridge; thence to the Four Corners, socalled (where the road from Griswoldville to Rocky Hill crosses theold road from Berlin to Hartford), intersecting


The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . ????A ?;??; -.,;? A. CONNECTICUT STATE PRISON AT WETHERSFIELD. HILL. BY SHERMAN W. ADAMS. THIS townsliip was incorporated in May, 1843, at which time itsboundary-lines were defined substantially as follows : Begin-ning at the Connecticut River ; thence extending- due west to abutton-ball tree in the fence on the east side of the highway abouttwo rods north of Goffes Bridge; thence to the Four Corners, socalled (where the road from Griswoldville to Rocky Hill crosses theold road from Berlin to Hartford), intersecting the northeast angle;thence along the east side of said old road to the Hang-dog road,so called, on which [Amos] Benson resides; thence, westerly, par-allel with two-rod highway, to twenty-rod highway, to a point threedegrees north of east of the monument, in the northeast corner ofBerlin ; thence, westerly, to said monument; all the Wethersfield terri-tory south and east of this line. As thus laid out. the new townshipwas bounded north by Wethersfield (now partly by Ncwington), east


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