First European Settlers in Willimantic

First European Settlers in Willimantic

Thomas Hartshorn, a millwright from Charlestown, MA, and his assistant Thomas Davies construct a mill in Willimantic. In 1709, the owners of the mill privilege grant Hartshorn twenty four acres east of their land. In 1710, Hartshorn and Davies build the first house in Willimantic on their tract.

Ellen Douglas Larned, History of Windham County, Connecticut, Volume I: 1600-1760 (Worcester, MA: Charles Hamilton, 1874), 90.

1706

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