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wethersfieldct.gov. Wethersfield (/ ˈwɛð.ərsfild / WEH-thers-feeld) is a town located in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. [2] It is located immediately south of Hartford along the Connecticut River. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region. The population was 27,298 at the time of the 2020 census.
The witch trials in Connecticut, also sometimes referred to as the Hartford witch trials, occurred from 1647 to 1663. [1] They were the first large-scale witch trials in the American colonies, predating the Salem Witch Trials by nearly thirty years. [2] John M. Taylor lists a total of 37 cases, 11 of which resulted in executions. [3]
Number. 169. Populations. 785 (Union) – 148,654 (Bridgeport) Areas. 4.98 square miles (12.9 km 2) (Derby) – 61.59 square miles (159.5 km 2) (New Milford) Government. Council-manager, Mayor-council, Representative town meeting, Town meeting. The U.S. state of Connecticut is divided into 169 municipalities, including 19 cities, 149 towns and ...
He was baptized on August 28, 1584, at Pitminster, county of Somerset, England, the son of Robert and Honoria Trott, and died on April 27, 1669, at Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut. He was an early New England settler who emigrated from Pitminster, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637. [1][2]
The Connecticut General Statutes, also called the General Statutes of Connecticut and abbreviated Conn. Gen. Stat., is a codification of the law of Connecticut.Revised to 2017, it contains all of the public acts of Connecticut and certain special acts of the public nature, the Constitution of the United States, the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of ...
Andrew Warde was born in Sheffield, England, in 1597. [1] He emigrated to New England with the Winthrop Fleet, arriving at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1633. [2] In Watertown, Warde assumed early prominence as a man of affairs; he was made a freeman of the town on May 14, 1634. His name is recorded in the second book of inventory, as ...
Connecticut Department of Correction. The Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) is the government agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The agency operates 18 correctional facilities. It has its headquarters in Wethersfield.
Under Connecticut's Home Rule Act, any town is permitted to adopt its own local charter and choose its own structure of government. The three basic structures of municipal government used in the state, with variations from place to place, are the selectman –town meeting, mayor – council, and manager –council. [5]