Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . apt. Dicksgrandfather, who, owning the major part of theriver front in Stepney, refused to sell the same,even Hartford might have bad a rival in this nowobscure town, set off from Wethersfield in 1726as the parish of Stepney; in 1826, by legal enact-ment, it received the less desirable cognomen ofRocky Hill—a name always a misnomer whenwe consider the various villages on the river, whoserocks made the one ston
Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . apt. Dicksgrandfather, who, owning the major part of theriver front in Stepney, refused to sell the same,even Hartford might have bad a rival in this nowobscure town, set off from Wethersfield in 1726as the parish of Stepney; in 1826, by legal enact-ment, it received the less desirable cognomen ofRocky Hill—a name always a misnomer whenwe consider the various villages on the river, whoserocks made the one stone hill of this town appearvery poor and small, even when its tons of granitetowered in all their pristine but sod-covered gran-deur ; and since lovers of good roads have boughtand crushed up the major part of this one rightto the title the name is more incongruous andunwelcome than ever. Nevertheless, Rocky Hillnow stands, a peaceful, restful and picturesquevillage, on the left bank of the Connecticut the birthplace of Capt. Dick—the little housewhere his nine brothers and sisters and himselfwere born—has given way before the march of .. !>- ^r^ W^. ? // , , //// / w.
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