The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907
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The riveritself was alive with fish and every spring great quantities of shad andlamprey eels ascended it. Strawberries, blackberries and huckleberrieswere extremely abundant in their season. The winters were usually of great severity. In 1637 the snow lay on theground three feet deep all over New England from the third of Novemberuntil the 23rd of March and on the 23rd of April it snowed for severalhours in Boston, the flakes being as large as shillings. The springswere very backward, the summ...ers extremely hot and often dry. Upon the petition of the people in Milford, in May, 1702, the GeneralAssembly granted them liberty to purchase from the Indians a township atWyantonock, the Indian name of this place, and directed them to reporttheir doings to the Assembly. The next March they made an extensivepurchase of the natives, and a patent for the same was granted by theAssembly. In October, 1704, the Legislature enacted that the tract sopurchased should be a township by the name of New Milford, and that itmust be settled in five years, --the town plat to be fixed by a committeeappointed by the General Assembly.
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