[33] Committee appointed May 14, 1686, and reported to Roxbury June 12th.
[34] Though the name of John Ruggles was on the list of “goers” and a house lot was drawn for him, he did not settle in Woodstock. The family of Ruggles is prominent among the first settlers in Pomfret.
[35] This Jonathan Peake was the father of Jonathan Peake, Jr., born in 1663, who came to Woodstock in April of 1687.
[36] Lot 43 was given to Clement Corbin soon after the drawing of home lots. The inscription of his rude gravestone reads: “Here lies buried the body of Clement Corbin, aged 70, deceast August ye 1st, 1696.”
[37] The inscription on this small gravestone in the burying-ground on Woodstock Hill is read with difficulty and is as follows: “Here lies buried ye body of Lieu. Edward Morris, deceas’d September 14, 1689.”
Many of the first settlers now have no stones to mark their graves, and perhaps never had.
[38] At that time twenty-four years old.
[39] MSS. of Deacon Jedediah Morse, in the possession of Henry T. Child, of Woodstock.
[40] Windsor was first called Dorchester and Hartford was first called Newtown.
[41] Born in England, son of Henry Sewell of Rowley, Mass., and grandson of Henry Sewell, mayor of Coventry, England. In 1684, he became an Assistant.