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Pages in category "Settlers of Norwalk, Connecticut" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The two first settlers, Richard Olmsted and Nathaniel Ely, arrived from Hartford in 1649. They were followed by fourteen others. They were followed by fourteen others. Norwalk was incorporated on September 11, 1651, when the General Court of the Connecticut Colony decreed that "Norwaukee shall bee a townee".
Settlers of Norwalk, Connecticut (33 P) Pages in category "Settlers of Connecticut" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Thomas Hanford (July 22, 1621 – 1693) was a founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut.He was the first minister in Norwalk, and continued in charge of the settlement's church for forty-one years, until his death in 1693.
Richard Holmes (earlier spelled Richard Homes) (c. 1633 —1704) was a founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut.. Holmes was born about 1633, in York, England, the son of Francis Holmes and his first wife, whose name is unknown.
After founding Seville in 1509, Spanish settlers moved to a healthier site which they named Villa de la Vega. The English renamed it Spanish Town when they conquered the island in 1655. 1536 San Pedro Sula: Cortés: Honduras: 1539 Zuni Pueblo: New Mexico: United States Ferguson, T.J. (1985). A Zuni Atlas. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma ...
The Norfolk Historic District encompasses the historic civic and commercial center of Norfolk, Connecticut. Centered around a triangular green at the junction of United States Route 44 and Connecticut Route 272 , it is a well-preserved late 19th to early 20th-century town center, with a number of architecturally distinctive buildings and ...
A new Norman town was built west of the Castle, in an area known as Mancroft. [1] [note 1] The new town at Mancroft included a market of its own to provide for the Norman settlers and merchants moving into the area, and possibly also to supply the castle's garrison. [1]