The first Grand List made in New Milford.
1730. John Noble, 2d, one of the first three settlers in New Milford, sold his house and lot in the village Nov. 6, to William Gillett of Milford, and soon after settled at Gallows Hill, New Milford plains, and resided there during his life. He was the first permanent settler below Gallows Hill.
1733. Capt. Joseph Ruggles was the third or fourth settler at the Iron Works (Brookfield).
1734. A burying place laid out in South Farms, New Milford, called Gallows Hill, lying on the country road to Danbury.
1736. “Capt. Stephen Noble, Dea. John Bostwick, Samuel Canfield, Sergt. Nathaniel Bostwick, and Joseph Ferriss were chosen a committee to order all the prudentials in building a bridge over the Great River in said New Milford at the place the town hath agreed upon, &c.”
This was a free bridge and was partly carried away by the floods in about three years, when a toll bridge was erected in its place.
Rev. Daniel Boardman was granted the privileges of the bridge free of cost.
1737. The Great Bridge across the Housatonic river was built in 1737—the first to be built from its source to its mouth.
1741. The first Quaker Meeting House built in or about this year, on Danbury road west side of river, nearly opposite Little Falls.
1743. Roger Sherman came to New Milford from Newton, Mass.