The second Congregational meeting-house was built.
The Newbury Society was incorporated.
1755. The bridge was carried away by flood, and a new bridge built by the taxpayers of the town, and the Assembly granted the privilege of taking toll of all persons except taxpayers.
Ezekiel Payne settled on the east side of the Housatonic, at Gaylords Ville.
Lazarus Ruggles settled at Lanesville and erected the Iron Works.
1756. “Voted: that the old meeting-house which belongs to this Society shall be disposed of as follows, viz.: three-quarters of the body seats and two pews shall be given to the Church of England, and the remainder of the body seats to the Quakers in this Society, and the pulpit to those of Newbury (Brookfield),
