Source:  
History
of the
Town of Plymouth, Connecticut,
with an account of the Centennial Celebration
May 14 and 15, 1895
Also a Sketch of Plymouth, Ohio
Settled by Local Families
Compiled by Francis Atwater
Printed, Illustrated and Bound by
The Journal Publishing Company
Meriden, Conn.
1895

[Photo of Plymouth Training Ground from a Drawing loaned by George Langdon]

PREFATORY WORDS.
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. - TOWN OF PLYMOUTH	7
- Act of Incorporation, Describing the Boundary Lines and the Stipulations to be Abided By  - Disposition of the Poor of the Old Town  - List of Incorporators  - Grand List  - First Officers  - Full List of Representatives, Judges of Probate and Town Clerks
CHAPTER II. - EARLY HISTORY	19
- The Wilderness of the Naugatuck Valley First Penetrated by a Hunting Party in 1657  - Tunxis Tribe of Indians Original Proprietors  - Part of Waterbury, Later Parish of Northbury, and One Hundred Years Ago Incorporated as Town of Plymouth
CHAPTER III. - CHURCH HISTORY	45
- St. Peter's Episcopal Parish Established in 1740  - Its Ministers and Others Interesting Facts.  - St. Matthew's Church, Now Closed  - Terryville Congregational Society, with Sketches of Pastors  - Roman Catholic Mission  - The Defunct Second Advent Chapel
CHAPTER IV. - THE "WILDERNESS" AND INDIANS *	68
- Most of Litchfield County in 1712 an Unbroken Forest as Absolute as any on the Continent  - Last Deer Shot in Northbury  - Indian Jack and Two Companions Were the Only Indians in Plymouth Within the Remembrance of People Now Living
CHAPTER V. - SOME OF THE PIONEERS *	75
- Sketch of Henry Cook, the First Settler, Together with Other Biographies of His Followers who Petitioned to Make Northbury a Separate and Distinct Parish, Locations of their Homes, Value of Estates, and What Disposition was Made of Them
CHAPTER VI. - REVOLUTIONARY TIMES.	92
- The History More or Less Uncertain  - Hot-Bed of Toryism  - Northbury the Home of the Only Tory Known to Have Been Executed in Connecticut  - Last Pensioner of the War Born in This Parish, With a Sketch of His Life and Enlistment
CHAPTER VII. - THE CIVIL WAR	99
- There Were no More Loyal or Brave Soldiers Than the Sons of Plymouth, Several of Whom Gained Honorable Distinction, while Others Met Untimely Deaths at the Front and in the Very Heat of Battle  - Roster of Those Enlisting or Belonging to the Town.
CHAPTER VIII. - THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS	123
- How They Were Conducted in Early Times  - The Cost Borne by an Assessment on Each Parent, Who was also Required to Furnish Cord Wood and Board the Teacher a Certain Time  - Anecdotes Told About the Old Instructors  - Half of the Present Town Taxes Spent on Education
CHAPTER IX. - CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION	135
- Preliminary Meetings Held and Plans Perfected for the Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Town of Plymouth  - Complete Account of the Exercises, Including the Speeches of Judge A. P. Bradstreet and Other Orators of the Day.
CHAPTER X. - CLOCK MAKERS	219
- Plymouth Made Famous by the Invention of Eli Terry, who was the Founder of the Clock Business of America  - Other Prominent Makers, such as Seth Thomas, Silas Hoadley, Samuel Camp, and Chauncey Jerome, were all Natives of this Town.
CHAPTER XI. - LOCK MAKERS	240
- Troubles Which Beset the Pioneers of the Cabinet and Trunk Lock Business That Was Established in America by Terryville Men of Indomitable Will and Pluck  - Sketches and Portraits of All  - E. L. Gaylord, the Only Survivor
CHAPTER XII. - ANDREW TERRY AND CO.	265
- Sketch of the Founder of This Prosperous Concern which was One of the Pioneers in the Malleable Iron Industry  - The Men who Have Successfully Managed and Kept It Running as Steadily Nearly as Clock Work for Close on to Half a Century.
CHAPTER XIII. - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES	273
- Interesting Reading About Past and Present People of Plymouth, Commencing with Judge Augustus H. Fenn, Now the Foremost of Those who Reside Elsewhere, and Many Others who Have Attained Worldly Fame  - Illustrations of Subjects and Buildings.
BIOGRAPHIES	273
CHAPTER XIV. - SOCIETIES	473
- Plymouth Grange, No. 72, Patrons of Husbandry, Organized December 7, 1877  - Sedgwick Council, No. 21, O. U. A. M., Instituted March 16, 1887  - Court Nutmeg, No. 1404, Chartered October 20, 1893  - The Terryville Cemetery, with Views from Several Points
CHAPTER XV.	429
- Offshoot of Its Namesake in Connecticut and the First Episcopal Parish in the State of Ohio  - Descendants or These Early Settlers, Numbering Four Hundred or More, Organize Themselves as the "Mann, Blakeslee and Seymour Re-union Association."
ILLUSTRATIONS:
South Street, Plymouth 8 Main Street, Plymouth 8 Winter Scene, South Street, Plymouth 8 Old Graveyard 12 The _______ 12 Falls at Greystone, Plymouth 12 Gorge, Devil's Backbone, Plymouth 15 Articles used to Seal Weights and Measures.  Supposed to be 100 Years Old 15 Pastoral Scene in Plymouth 18 Circular Dam, Pequabuck 18 Wooden Bridge at Thomaston, Recently Demolished 18 Main Street, Terryville 20 Four Corners, Terryville 20 Terryville School Children, 1860 20 Old Carriage Shop, Plymouth Hill 22 Plymouth Hill School House 22 First Iron Bridge Over the Naugatuck 22 Terryville Watering Trough 24 Main Street, Terryville 24 Street in Terryville 24 Official Sheep Marks 26 Smith Homestead, Plymouth Center 26 Town Buildling, Plymouth Center 28 Town Hall, Terryville 28 Interior of Town Hall 28 Rev. Luther Hart 30 Mrs. Luther Hart 30 First Congregational Church 31 Rev. I. P. Warren 32 Rev. Ephraim Lyman 32 Rev. E. J. Hawes 34 Rev. R. C. Learned 34 Rev. H. E. Cooley 36 Rev. E. B. Hillard 36 Rev. J. S. Zelie 38 Rev. C. H. Smith 38 Rev. Dr. Burhans 44 Rev. Wm. Watson 44 St. Peter's Episcopal Church 45 Rev. David Lunsden 46 Rev. B. Eastwood 46 Rev. Emerson Jessup 48 Rev. J. M. Bates 48 Interior View, St. Peter's Episcopal Church 49 Rev. N. T. Scudder 50 Rev. W. E. Hooker 50 Rev. James Gammack 52 St. Peter's Episcopal Church Parsonage 52 St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, East Plymouth 53 Congregational Church, Terryville 54 Interior, Terryville Congregational Church 54 Rev. Nathaniel Richardson 56 Rev. Merrill Richardson 56 Parsonage, Terryville Congregational Church 57 Rev. Edwin R. Dimock 58 Rev. Franklin A. Spencer 58 Rev. H. B. Mead 60 Rev. L. S. Griggs 60 Rev. W. F. Arms 62 Rev. Wm. Alfred Gay 62 Terryville Congregational Church Clock 64 Interior, Terryville Roman Catholic Church 65 Rev. M. J. Daly 66 Terryville Roman Catholic Church 66 Two Views of Jack's Ledge 72 Lemuel Cook, Last Pensioner of the Revolutionary War. 94 Gen. Erastus Blakeslee 98 Capt. Eugene Atwater 100 Redoubt B. Near Fort Alexandria, Va. 102 Officers, Second Conn. Heavy Artillery 102 Surprise at Cedar Creek 104 Explosion of the Mine at Petersburg 104 The Battle of the Crater 106 Upton's Brigade at Bloody Angle 106 Burying the Dead 108 Cemetery at Andersonville 108 Dorence Atwater 110 Andersonville Stockade, Showing the Dead Line 110 The Battle of Winchester 112 Union Breastworks at Cold Harbor 112 Pequabuck School House 128 Terryville Institute 128 Interior Congregational Church, Plymouth, where Centennial Services were held 170 Tent on Baldwin Park, Terryville, where Centennial Services were held 170 Loan Exhibit, General View 198 Exhibit of Furniture 198 Clock Exhibit 202 Exhibit of Paintings 202 Miscellaneous Exhibit 204 Copy of Patent Granted Eli Terry 222 Profile Portrait of Eli Terry 224 Profile Portrait of Mrs. Eli Terry 224 Home of Eli Terry, Jr. 226 Eli Terry, 226 Henry Terry 228 Henry K. Terry 228 Henry K. Terry, Jr. 230 Dwight H. Terry 230 Silas Hoadley 232 Samuel Camp 232 Hiram Camp 234 Seth Thomas 234 The Seth Thomas Clock Works 235 Stephen G. Bucknall 242 John C. Lewis 244 Sereno Gaylord 244 William E. McKee 246 Mother of William E. McKee 246 James Terry 248 James Terry's Cottage 248 E. L. Gaylord 250 Joseph H. Adams 250 Ansel Gaylord 252 Deacon R. D. H. Allen 252 Warren Goodwin 254 James Mix 254 Elisha Mix 256 James C. Mix 256 Frank W. Mix 258 Willard T. Goodwin 258 Edward H. Mix 262 Henry T. Wheeler 262 The First Lock Shop 264 The Old Foundry - Front View 266 The Old Foundry - Rear View 266 Andrew Terry 268 J. W. Clark, Secretary 268 N. Taylor Baldwin 270 O. D. Hunter 270 J. W. Clark's Residence 272 O. D. Hunter's Residence 272 Judge Augustus H. Fenn 274 Homer E. Cook 276 J. W. Pond 276 Marshall W. Leach 278 Jason Clemence 278 Augustus Von Martensen 280 Mrs. Rosina Martensen 280 Louis C. Scheuing 282 Julius G. Beach 282 James Hunter 284 J. B. Baldwin 284 George H. Plumb 288 Gaius Fenn Warner 288 Junius Preston 292 Henry A. Minor 292 Dr. R. S. Goodwin 296 Dr. S. T. Salisbury 296 Dr. F. J. Whittemore 298 Dr. C. W. Bull 298 Sarah E. Tolles Plumb 300 George Pierpont 300 Mrs. Joseph C. Alcox 302 A. Bronson Alcott 302 Louisa M. Alcott 304 Milo Blakesley 304 Mrs. Milo Blakesley 306 A. M. Blakesley 306 A. P. Bradstreet 308 Frank W. Etheridge 308 Captain Leavitt Darrow 312 Aaron D. Wells 312 Riley Scott 314 Edwin M. Talmadge 314 W. W. Bull 316 Mrs. Betsy Bull 316 Residence of Wm. W. Bull 318 Quiet House, Plymouth 318 Edward Langdon 320 Birthplace of Edward Langdon 320 Residence owned by Mrs. George Langdon 322 George Langdon 322 Mrs. Timothy Atwater, Jr. 324 Wyllys Atwater 324 Henry Atwater 326 Barnabus W. Root 326 Jonathan Pond's Homestead 328 Alexander Pond 328 E. I. Pond's Residence 330 Andrew Stoughton 330 John M. Wardwell 332 Residence of W. G. Barton 332 Joseph C. Barthe 334 Alfred B. Renfree 334 Algelon H. Taylor 336 Dr. W. W. Wellington 336 Gaius Fenn 338 Jason Fenn 338 Elam Fenn 340 Mrs. Elam Fenn 340 Old Todd Apple Tree 342 Elam A. Fenn 342 The Fenn Homestead 344 Jason C. Fenn 344 Rev. Leverett Griggs 348 J. C. Griggs 348 Thomas Bunnell 352 Lyman Tolles 352 Milo Tomlinson 354 Rev. Moseley H. Williams 354 Thomas F. Higgins 356 William Robinson's Residence 356 Philip C. Ryan 358 The Ryan Homestead 358 William B. Ells 360 Richard Baldwin's Residence, Terryville 360 Henry E. Hinman 362 Andrew Gaylord's Residence 362 Bennett H. Sutliffe 364 Bennett H. Sutliffe's Residence 364 Joel Blakeslee 366 Gen. Erastus Blakeslee 366 Oliver Smith 368 Pyton Tuttle 368 Residence of Byron Tuttle 370 Byron Tuttle's Birthplace 370 Store - W. H. Scott & Co. 372 Storehouse W. H. Scott & Co. 372 Saw Mill W. H. Scott & Co. 374 Coal and Wood Yards, Waterbury  W. H. Scott & Co. 374 Walter H. Scott 376 W. H. Scott's Residence 376 Z. F. Granniss 378 Residence of Z. F. Granniss 378 Beach & Blackmer's Store 380 Nathan Beach 380 D. W. C. Skilton 382 Porter Sanford 382 B. B. Satterlee 384 Hiram Pierce 384 Henry S. Minor 388 Hiram Minor 388 Burr S. Beach 390 Dr. William Woodruff 390 R. G. Johnson 392 F. T. Cook 392 Philo Lewis 394 Lyman Baldwin 394 T. J. Bradstreet 396 George T. Cook 396 E. L. Perkins' Residence 398 Prosper Warner 398 David D. Warner 400 Markham Scott 400 Residence of Mrs. G. H. Bates 402 F. H. Kellogg 402 J. S. Hemingway 404 Enos Blakeslee 404 Hon. John  Birge 406 John Henrey Wood 406 A. B. Curtis 408 Chloe Cook Barnes 408 Elias Smith 410 Elias Smith Homestead 410 Joel Griggs 412 Martin Griggs 412 Franklin P. Wilcox 414 Wilbert N. Austin 414 A. S. Kelsey 416 Andrew Fenn 416 Andrew Fenn Homestead 418 Mrs. Benjamin Fenn 418 L. H. Ploucquet, Master, Pllymouth Grange 420 General Sedgwick 420 L. W. Belden, Chief Ranger 422 Terryville Cemetery, View from Southeast Corner 422 Soldiers' Monument 424 View from Northeast Corner 424 New Addition to Westward 424 View of Center of Cemetery 425 St. Matthew's Church 430 St. Matthew's Church Parsonage 432 Plymouth School 434 First Store and Post Office 436 View of Plymouth Cemetery 438 Mrs. Olive M. Isbell 440 Sugar Camp, Plymouth Ohio 442
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX   Adams, Joseph H. 251 Allen, Rollin D. H. 253 Atwater, Henry 323 Atwater, Timothy, Sr. & Jr. 321 Atwater, Wyllys 323 Austin, Wilbert N. 415 Baldwin, James Burgess 287 Baldwin, Lyman 393 Baldwin, N. Taylor, Hon. 271 Barthe, Joseph C. 331 Barton, W. G. 331 Beach & Blackner 379 Beach, Burr Smith 389 Beach, Julius G. 283 Beach, Nathan 379 Birge, John, Hon. 405 Blackner - see Beach 379 Blakeslee, Enos 403 Blakeslee, Erastus, Gen. 367 Blakeslee, Joel 365 Blakesley, Augustus Milo 307 Blakesley, L., Rev. 309 Blakesley, Milo 305 Bradley, Chauncey 357 Bradstreet, A. P., Judge 309 Brandstreet, Thomas J. 395 Bronson, Amos, Capt. 303 Bucknall, Stephen G. 240 Bull, C. W., Dr. 299 Bull, William W. 315 Bunnell, Thomas 350 Butler, Calvin 317 Camp, Samuel 233 Carrow, Leavitt, Capt. 310 Clemence, Jason 279 Cook, F. T. 393 Cook, George T. 397 Cook, Homer E. 277 Cook, Zenas 409 Curtiss, A. B. 317 Ells, W. B., Major 361 Etheridge, Frank W. 310 Fenn, Aaron, Capt. 417 Fenn, Andrew 417 Fenn, Augustus Hall 273 Fenn, Elam 337 Fenn, Elam Atwater 339 Fenn, Gaius 335 Fenn, Jason C. 346 Fenn, Samuel 419 Gaylord, Ansel 253 Gaylord, Edward L. 249 Gaylord, Sereno 245 Goodwin, Ralph Schuyler, Dr. 295 Goodwin, Warren 255 Goodwin, Willard T. 257 Granniss, Z. Fuller 377 Griggs, John Cornelius 350 Griggs, Leverett Stearns, Rev. 349 Griggs, Leverett, Rev., D. D. 346 Hemingway, J. Street 403 Higgins, Thomas 355 Hinman, Henry E. 363 Hoadley, Silas 236 Hunter, James 285 Hunter, O. D. 271 James Coley 313 Jerome, Chauncey 237 Johnson, Robert Graham 391 Kellogg, Frederick H. 403 Kelsey, A. S. 417 Langdon, George 319 Leach, Marshall W. 279 Lewis, J. C., Hon. 243 Lewis, Philo 393 Luddington-Potter Family 413 M'Kee, William E. 247 Markham, Jeremiah 293 Minor, C. M. 335 Minor, Emma J. 293 Minor, Henry A. 293 Minor, Henry S. 387 Mix, Edward H. 264 Mix, Elisha 259 Mix, Frank W., Major 261 Mix, James 257 Mix, James C. 260 Perkins, E. L. 399 Pierce, Hiram 387 Pierpont, George 301 Plumb, George H. 289 Plumb, Sarah E. Tolles 299 Pond, Jonathan 325 Pond, Jonathan Walter 277 Preston, Junius, Mr. & Mrs. 293 Renfree, Alfred B. 333 Robinson, William 357 Root, Barnabas W. 323 Ryan, Philip C. 359 Salisbury, Samuel T., Dr. 297 Sanford, Porter 381 Satterlee, B. B. 383 Scheuing, Johann Peter 281 Scott, Markham 401 Scott, Riley 313 Scott, W. H. & Co. 373 Scott, Walter H. 375 Shelton, Augustus C. 357 Shelton, Joseph 371 Skilton, D. W. C. 379 Smith, Elias 411 Smith, Oliver 369 Stoughton, A. 329 Sutliffe, B. H. 363 Talmadge, Edwin M. 315 Taylor, A. H. 333 Terrell, Samuel R. 335 Terry, Andrew 267 Terry, Andrew 281 Terry, Eli 219 Terry, Eli, Jr. 223 Terry, Eli, 3d 233 Terry, Henry 227 Terry, James 247 Terry, Silas Burnham 231 Thomas, Seth 236 Tolles, Lyman 351 Tomlinson, Milo 353 Tuttle, Byron 371 Wardwell, John M. 329 Warner, David Dutton 401 Warner, Gaius Fenn 290 Warner, Prosper 399 Wellington, W. W., Dr. 335 Wells, Aaron D. 311 Welton, Hiram & Heman 238 Wheeler, Henry T. 264 Whittemore, Franklin J., Dr. 297 Wilcox, Franklin P. 415 Williams, Cornelius R. & Family 353 Wood, John Henry 407 Woodruff, William, Dr. 389