[79] Killingly.
[80] Vote of First Church passed Dec. 8, 1766.
[81] Letter dated Cambridge, March 24, 1776.
[82] Class of 1776.
[83] Hutchinson’s “History of Massachusetts,” vol. iii., 6-8; vol. ii., 363-396.
[84] July 28, 1749.
[85] Woodstock speaks of Massachusetts’ repeated claims in a memorial to Conn. Gen. Assembly, May 2, 1771.
[86] Gen. Putnam was much interested in this project. A meeting to promote the idea was held at his house in Pomfret, Feb. 11, 1771. The State again refused the application for a new county, when Pomfret applied in 1786 for a new county, “with Pomfret for shire-town.”
[87] Captain Johnson was the father of Nathaniel Johnson, and father-in-law of Lieutenant Henry Bowen, both first settlers of Woodstock.
[88] “The Chandler Family,” by Dr. George Chandler.