year
|
event |
|
1614 |
Adriaen Block sails
up Quinnihticut
River |
|
1631 |
Wahquinaucus and
Jack Straw try to
entice John Winthrop
of Massachusetts Bay
Colony to come to
Pyaug/Nayaug |
|
1633 |
John
Oldham settles in
Pyaug |
|
1635 |
Thomas Hooker comes |
|
1636 |
30
families in Pyaug:
tract of land on
river in Glastonbury
purchased from
Sowheag for 12 yard
of trading cloth |
|
1639/40 |
First
house: cow herder’s
cellar hole,
employee of Matthew
Mitchell of
Wethersfield
|
|
1639 |
Survey show 34
strips of land each
going 3 miles into
wilderness: “Naubuc
Farms” (First survey
in CT) |
|
1653 |
General Court gives
Glastonbury
recognition separate
from Wethersfield
with permission to
drill for military
defense |
|
1667 |
First
sawmill |
|
1670 |
Main
Street laid out
along Indians’ “Long
Path”; called
“Country Road” |
|
1672 |
General Court grants
permission to
Wethersfield and
Hartford to extended
their boundaries 5
miles to the East |
|
1675 |
War
between Nayaugs and
Pequots:
Red
Hill Indians many
centuries before
Christ: Nayaugs,
Naubucs, Wongunks |
|
1684 |
Second survey |
|
1684 |
Boundary dispute:
Glastonbury looses
85 ½ rods to East
Hartford |
|
1689 |
Glastonbury
petitions
Wethersfield to be a
separate township |
|
1690 |
Permission granted
from Wethersfield to
be a separate
township |
|
1690 |
First
Town Meeting |
|
1692 |
Rev.
Timothy Stevens
appointed pastor of
the First Society |
|
1692 |
Town
named Glassenbury |
|
1693 |
40
ft. home built for
Rev. Stevens corner
of Main Street and
Morgan Road |
|
1693 |
First
Meeting House on
Green |
|
1694 |
Eleazer Kimberly
first delegate to
General Court |
|
1700 |
First
shipyard: Naubuc
Ship Yard |
|
1703 |
Fine
of 1 shilling levied
against disorderly
conduct; ½ goes to
complainer, ½ to
help poor of town |
|
1711 |
First
School House
completed; Robbard
Poole hired as
schoolmaster |
|
1731 |
Eastbury established |
|
1731 |
School assessment
for all children 6
to 12 years of age
whether attending
school or no is
often paid in wood
for schoolhouse
stoves |
|
1734 |
Meeting House burns
and is rebuilt on
west side of Main
Street |
|
1740 |
Yellow fever wipes
out men of Eastbury |
|
1747 |
Portion of Eastbury
become Marlborough |
year
|
event |
|
1750 |
Thomas Welles
Shipyard at Log
Landing |
|
1755 |
Wells
Shipman Ward House
built |
|
1760 |
The
Great Gristmill of
Nayaug with oven and
bakeshop erected |
|
1765 |
Last
acreage of Wongunk/Nayaugs
(in Portland) broken
into building lots
and sold. The
Indian population
had dwindled to 12
or 13. |
|
1767
|
Townshend Acts |
|
1769 |
Elisha Treat’s
“Lineet” (linseed)
oil mill in
operation |
|
1770 |
Meeting at New Haven
to discuss
non-importation |
|
1774 |
Portland applies to
be reimbursed 70
pounds for care when
last of Indians dies |
|
1776 |
Declaration of
Independence |
|
1776 |
Dr.
Asaph Coleman
organizes small
hospital between
Knob Hill and Apple
Hill, works with
small pox
inoculations;
hospital includes
“pest house” for
worst small pox
cases |
|
1777 |
Stocking powder
factory explodes
Yale
holds classes in
Glastonbury homes
(including Welles
house) |
|
1780 |
Talcott Camp and Co.
Forge in operation |
|
1780 |
Glastonbury frees
its slaves (over the
decade) |
|
1785 |
Wells
Tavern built by
Joseph Welles |
|
1786 |
Spelling appears as
Glastenbury |
|
1787 |
Tornado kills woman
and her son in Rocky
Hill; her wedding
dress is blown to
barn roof of her
sister who lives in
Glastonbury |
|
1789 |
Bids
for care of poor
solicited by Town
Selectman; selectman
have charge of care
of poor (see 1703) |
|
1791 |
At
least 7 sawmills in
operation to feed
shipping industry |
|
1793 |
Methodist circuit
preacher in Eastbury |
|
1795 |
Public School
governed by
churches:
1.
Mr.
Alger’s (Hopewell)
2.
Mr.
Taylor’s South Part
3.
Mr.
Woodbridge’s South
Village
4.
Mr.
Gideon Hale’s
(Center – Hale House
5.
Mr.
Griswold’s (Green)
6.
Mr.
Welles’ (No.
Glastonbury at
current center)
7.
Mr.
Smith’s (Pratt’s
Ferry) |
|
1796 |
Methodist Parish
organized |
|
1798 |
Academy on the Green
between Welles
Shipman Ward house
and Hopewell Street
is best high school
in Hartford Area |
|
1800 |
John
W. Purtill Papermill
in Wassuc near Smut
(late 1800’s); he
moves to old
Hartford Mfg.
Building @ Cotton
Hollow |
|
1801 |
Oswen
Welles wooden ware
shop in operation |
|
1803 |
Dr.
Asaph Coleman et.
al. library that is
short lived because
of lack of books |
|
1806 |
Tavern is first
official Post
Office; Joseph
Welles is Post
Master |
|
1806 |
Episcopal Society
formed |
year
|
event |
|
1808 |
Wells
Tavern bought by
Azel Chapman |
|
1808 |
Nayaug school
district added |
|
1810 |
Methodist church in
Eastbury; Rev.
Jeremiah Stocking
pastor – he also
carries Connecticut
Courant and mail as
far as Saybrook from
1799 – 1824 |
|
1813 |
Episcopal church
built |
|
1814 |
Hartford
Manufacturing Co.
built at Cotton
Hollow |
|
1814 |
Cotton mill in South
Glastonbury |
|
1816 |
Glastenbury Glass
factory in operation |
|
1818 |
Legal
separation of church
and state |
|
1819 |
New
Eastbury
Congregational
Church |
|
1820 |
Blome’s Cigar Mfg.
And Tobacco Pkg. in
operation |
|
1822 |
Samuel Welles
organizes Eagle Mfg.
Ct. to produce
woolen goods |
|
1828 |
Methodist Church on
High Street built
(current So.
Glastonbury Library) |
|
1836 |
Second meeting house
is demolished and
rebuilt on present
site of First
Congregational
Church |
|
1836 |
Azial
Goslee’s Hoe and
Farm Implement
Factory in operation |
|
1836 |
South
Congregational
Church built |
|
1837 |
First
Congregational
Church built |
|
1837 |
Joseph Wright et.
al. Establish
library that last
three years |
|
1839 |
Glastonbury votes to
construct Town House
(town hall) at
corner of Main and
Hubbard Streets |
|
1840 |
James
B. Williams has
drugstore in
Manchester,
experiment with
shaving soap. He
and his brother take
over Hubbard’s Grist
Mill |
|
1840 |
Connecticut frees
its slaves |
|
1840 |
Irish
immigrants to escape
potato famine |
|
1845 |
Charcoal is
Glastonbury’s sixth
largest industry |
|
1845 |
Glastonbury Seminary
burns |
|
1846 |
Blome’s Cigar Mfg.
And Tobacco Pkg
acquired by
Frederick Curtis of
Curtisville German
Silver |
|
1848 |
Eagle
Mfg. Fails |
|
1850 |
Strong anti-slavery
sentiments in town |
|
1850 |
German immigrants
establish St. Mark’s
Lutheran Church |
|
1854 |
School tax mandatory |
|
1855
|
Eagle
building bought by
Glastenbury Knitting
Mills |
|
1856 |
18
autonomous school
districts (until
1906)
|
|
1857 |
St.
James Episcopal
organized |
|
1859 |
Cornerstone for St.
James laid |
|
1861 |
Gideon Welles serves
as Secretary of the
Navy under two
administrations
through 1869 |
|
1861 |
Confederate troops
fire on Fort Sumter |
|
1862 |
Eastbury
Congregational
becomes renames
itself East
Glastonbury
Congregational |
|
1862 |
So.
Glastonbury Academy
School is high
school until 1884 |
year
|
event |
|
1865 |
Mandatory months of
school operation
increased from 4
mos./year to 6
mos./year |
|
1865 |
Roaring Brook Paper
Company established |
|
1865 |
Peace
at Appomatox Court
House |
|
1866 |
First
Congregational
Church burned and
rebuilt |
|
1866 |
Larger Eastbury
Congregational
Church built next to
first |
|
1866 |
John
and George Hale
begin fruit business
with strawberries |
|
1868 |
Railroad bridge
spans Connecticut
River at Middletown |
|
1870 |
Spelling officially
changed to
Glastonbury |
|
1870 |
Geo.
S. Andrews feldspar
mine and mill’
builds Old Maids’
Lane to get ground
feldspar to river
for transport |
|
1873 |
Eastbury
Congregational
renames itself 1938 |
|
1873 |
Smith
Sisters, Julia (77)
and Abby (72) stand
up against
Glastonbury taxation
of widows and single
women; petition that
women be exempt form
taxes until they are
able to vote |
|
1876 |
Last
Glastonbury built
ship completed |
|
1876 |
Case
Brothers’ paper mill
on Salmon Brook |
|
1878 |
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