a blazing woman, came into my house in early morn, begged for cider, then three mugs deep, as I was informed; after some admonitions given him, my affairs pressing my immediate departure, I left him in the house, on which he soon became very boisterous, attempted to pilfer some things which my domestic discovered; finally carried off a brass save-all, of a stand of candlesticks, (then undiscovered;) what else is at present unknown. This, though trifling in its value, intrinsically, but as an ancient patrimonial legacy of high estimation, not only as a standing evidence of their prudent economy, but ex vi termini, a memento to economy save-all. And hereby I beg leave to give warning to all families to beware of such strolling pilferers, if they would save all. I beg leave also to ask the public, whether it would not be of public utility, to have task masters in every town to compel them to labor, as they are passing every day in our streets, and will be probably more and more; or some other similar salutary measure. I ask pardon for one more hint which pops into my head, while my pen is moving, as a supplemental suggestion to economy and save-all. A respectable physician of the city of London, of high renown in the faculty, told the subscriber that he required his servants to save all the rags, not that it was of the least avail to him, but only a specimen of economy-save-all; and withall added, the rags in this city are worth sixty thousand pounds sterling a year. I hope the paper mill manufacturers, will not esteem the foregoing hint burthensome, though the public may what precedes. Gentlemen, if it appear more eligible to save your pains and paper than print this, remember and save all. I am your most humble servant, Wallingford, 5 o'clock, April 27th. E. HALL. From the Connecticut Gazette. At a meeting of a number of the true sons of liberty in Wallingford, in New Haven county, on the evening of the 13th day of January, 1766, after duly formed by choosing a moderator and clerk, the following resolves were come into, viz: Resolved, 1. That the late act of parliament, called the Stamp Act, is unconstitutional, and intended to enslave the true subjects of America. Resolved, 2. That we will oppose the same to the last extremity, even to take the field. Resolved, 3. That we will meet at the Court House in New Haven, on the third Tuesday of February next; and we desire all the sons of liberty in each town in the county would meet then by themselves or representatives; there to consult what is best to be done in order to defend our liberties and properties, and break up the stop to public affairs. Resolved, 4. That this meeting be adjourned to the first Tuesday of February next, then to choose our representatives to attend the aforesaid meeting. A true copy, examined, P. P. CLARK. WATERBURY. WATERBURY is bounded N. on Plymouth and Watertown, E. on Wolcott and Prospect, S. on Bethany and Oxford, and W. on Middlebury. It is 8 miles from north to south, and 4 from east to west. The town center is 20 miles from New Haven, and 28 from Hartford. With the exception of the alluvial lands upon the streams, the surface of the soil is hilly, rough, and of laborious cultivation. But although nature has been sparing of her gifts to constitute its inhabitants a great agricultural people, she has been profuse in the abundance of her waterfalls; and experience has proved that where these two interests are made to bear upon each other, enterprise alone is wanting to produce magnificent results. For thirty years previous to the introduction of manufactures in the community, the population rather decreased. The census of 1800, gave the number of 3256-of 1810, 2784-in 1820, of 2822— in 1830, of 3070, exclusive of about 350, which about that time were ceded to Prospect, when the parish of Columbia was added to form that township. The Society of Salem yet remains a parish. South eastern view of Waterbury, (central part.) The site upon which the borough of Waterbury stands, is situated in a valley which is washed by the Mad river on the east, and the Naugatuc on the west; and in its central part is about a mile in breadth. The main street runs east and west; but since the increase of the manufacturing establishments within the last twelve years, a large share of the new buildings have been erected in their vicinity, which is in the southeast part of the village. On either side of the village, bills gradually rise to a considerable elevation, presenting to the eye the galleries of an amphitheatre, the village forming the area. The number of houses is about one hundred and fifty, and the population fifteen hundred; which it is calculated has doubled itself during the last twelve years; most of the factories having been established within that time. Some of the private dwellings may be called splendid, and a majority of them neat, convenient, with handsome court yards in front. There are four churches in the place; 1 for Congregationalists, 1 for Episcopalians, 1 for Methodists, and 1 for the Baptist Society. The two last have been recently built; and are highly creditable to the congregations, considering the weakness of their numbers. The two former, as the societies are more numerous and able, will soon give place to edifices corresponding with the growth and prosperity of the place. The above is a south eastern view of the central part of the village, and shows its appearance from the summit of a gentle elevation, about five or six rods east from the road to New Haven. The Baptist Church with a square tower is seen in the central part of the engraving; the spire of the Episcopal Church appears on the left, that of the Congregational Church on the right. Öf the articles manufactured in the village, those of gilt buttons and the rolling of brass and copper metals for a great variety of uses, constitute the greatest business. There are three factories of this kind upon an extensive scale, two in the village, and one about two miles north, connected with which is a gold refinery. There are likewise two factories of gilt buttons upon a considerable scale, unconnected with rolling mills. One extensive rolling mill connected with the brass wire and tubing manufacture, two satinet factories, one woolen factory, besides a great number of minor establishments, in which buttons of various kinds and other articles are manufactured to a considerable extent. The number of persons in the village of both sexes, who are employed in the manufacturing establishments, is between six and seven hundred. It is not precisely known what amount is manufactured yearly, but it has been estimated by good judges to exceed a million of dollars, and is upon the increase. The route has been surveyed by a practical Engineer, for constructing a canal to bring the Naugatuc on to the bank at the west end of the town, which will, when completed, afford a supply of water power, capable of employing as much or more capital than has been already invested. In consequence of the favorable reports relative to the interval lands bordering upon the river Naugatuc, in this vicinity, a number of the inhabitants of Farmington, in the autumn of 1673, petitioned the Assembly for a committee to view Mattatuck, (the aboriginal name of Waterbury,) and report upon the expediency of locating a plantation at that place. A committee consisting of Lieut. Thomas Bull, Lieut. Robert Webster, and Daniel Pratt, were appointed, who reported to the Assembly in May, 1674, that Mattatuck would probably afford sufficient means to sustain a population of thirty families. Upon the reception of this report, a committee of five, consisting of John Talcot, Robert Webster, Nicholas Olmsted, Samuel Steele, and John Wadsworth, were appointed to manage and order the affairs of the settlement. This committee entered immediately upon their duties, and drew up a plan to regulate and establish the settlement, which document consisted of eight articles, bearing date the 30th day of May, 1674, in the following words: Article I.-Every person that is accepted for an inhabitant shall have eight acres for a home lot. Article II.-The distribution of meadows shall be proportional to each person according to estate-no person to have exceeding £100 allotment, excepting two or three allotments, which the committee may make according to their best discretion. Article III.-Taxes for public charges to be according to meadow allotments, this article to be in force five years-at the end of five years rates to be on polls and estate, according to the law of the colony. Article IV.-Every person that takes up an allotment, shall, within four years after the date hereof, build a good, and fashionable dwelling house, 18 by 16, and 9 feet between joints, with a good chimney. Article V.—In case any person shall fail of building as aforesaid, he shall forfeit all his allotments at Mattatuck, and all his right and title, buildings only excepted, to be disposed of by the committee to others, who shall be accepted according to the condition of these articles. Article VI.-All who have allotments, shall personally dwell as inhabitants of Mattatuck, or forfeit as aforesaid. Article VII.-Each person who has an allotment at Mattatuck, shall dwell there four years from the time he enters upon dwelling there, or forfeit as aforesaid. Article VIII.—All who shall have allotments shall sign these articles. John Andrews, The articles were subscribed to by the persons whose names are an nexed. * John Laughton, Thomas Judd, 100 Obadiah Richards, Edmund Scott, 100 Thomas Newell, John Welton, 80 John Stanley, Senr. Abraham Andross, 80 Daniel Warner, Isaac Bronson, 90 Samuel Gridley, John Stanley, 100 John Warner, jun. Samuel Hickox, 85 John Judd, • Richard Seymour, • Abraham Bronson, 80 John Bronson, Senr. * John Porter, 80 Thomas Gridley, Thomas Handcox, 100 Daniel Porter, John Warner, Thomas Richason, 50 William Judd, Note. The names of those designated by a star, afterwards declined joining the settlement, and the names of the following individuals were added to the list of subscribers to supply the vacancy, to wit: John Scovil, Benjamin Barnes, John Stanley, jr. Edmund Scott, jr. Joseph Gaylord, John Hopkins, Timothy Stanley, and Thomas Warner. Thus, the propriety, or ownership of the town, was by the committee divided into an indefinite number of shares, leaving it optional with the settler to subscribe for any portion, not exceeding one hundred pounds-the committee reserving to themselves the right to make two or three special allotments of one hundred and fifty pounds each. These reserved rights were subsequently appropriated-one of £150 value for the benefit of the ministry, and another of equal amount for the use of schools. In the summer of 1674, the committee purchased of the native Indians (in trust for the settlement) by deed, bearing date August 21st, for the consideration of divers good causes, and thirty eight pounds, a tract of land at Mattatuck, bordering upon both sides of the Naugatuc river, ten miles long from north to south, and six miles wide from east to west; butting east on Farmington, south on Paugasset, (now Derby,) west on Paugasset, Pomperaug and Potatunk, (now Woodbury and Southbury,) and north on wilderness. The breaking out of what was called King Philip's War, in 1675, and the distresses attendant upon it, for a time retarded the designs of the settlers; little else being done than exploring the country. After peace was established with the Indians, the subscribers to the articles determined upon settling Mattatuck without delay. Accordingly, in 1677, the State's committee assigned their purchase of the Indians to Thomas Judd, John Stanley, and others, inhabitants of Mattatuck, and in the January following, made regulations about the fences around the meadows on the east side of the river, and ordered the work to be finished by the last of May succeeding. It was at this time that those signers designated in the preceding note declined joining the settlement, and the other individuals were admitted in their stead. The committee likewise extended to the subscribers one year more than the articles originally allowed, in which to erect their dwellings in Mattatuck. In 1684, the Indian owners of the town, for the consideration of divers good causes, and £9, conveyed to the English proprietors a parcel of land to run eight miles north from Mount Taylor, to extend west to a north and south line eighty rods east of Quassapaug pond, butted north on wilderness, east on Farmington bounds, south on the former grant, and west on the aforementioned north and south line. In December of the same year, a number of Indians conveyed to said proprietors a number of pieces of land lying within the bounds described within the deed of 1674, probably other claimants to the same lands. Thus the ancient limits to the town of Waterbury, as deeded by the Indians, and patented by the State to the proprietors, extended about eighteen miles from north to south, and about ten from east to westnow comprehending the towns of Waterbury, Watertown and Plymouth, most of Middlebury, half of Wolcott, and a small part of Oxford and Prospect. This extent of territory, which was estimated by a committee of the Assembly as capable of accommodating thirty families, now contains a population of about eight thousand souls. In the summer of 1677, the proprietors, without their families, came on to their purchase to lay out the foundation of the future capital of their little colony. The site first pitched upon was on the ridge of a considerable eminence, which ascends from the western bank of the Naugatuc, about a mile from the present location of Waterbury village -and which to this day is called "Town Plot." Streets were laid out, (nearly as they now remain,) and building lots of eight acres each were apportioned to each settler, agreeable to the original articles of agreement. But before any buildings were erected on the spot, considerations both of expedience and safety induced a change from their primitive design. The disastrous events of King Philip's War, admonished them of the necessity of maintaining a ready communication with their friends and allies at Farmington, and other eastern settlements; and as the Naugatuc was subject to frequent inundations, this intercourse would consequently be cut off, should they be attacked by a savage foe during flood time. And as the produce from the meadows, which was chiefly to constitute their future means of support, must be attended with great labor and inconvenience in its transportation up so long and steep an ascent, this consideration likewise had no slight influence in turning the scale in favor of a location in the valley. A few temporary huts were therefore erected for the season, on the east bank of the Naugatuc, near "Sled Hall;" and the following year (1678) streets were laid out, and dwellings erected upon the present site, with a view to a permanent settlement. House lots of from one and a half to four acres were set off to each individual, according to eligibility of situation, and extent of proprietors' rights. In the latter part of the year some of the settlers moved their wives and families into their new habitations. The first English child born in Waterbury, was Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Mary Richardson, April 27, 1679, in a house which stood upon the site of the old "Judd House," well known as a tavern stand for more than half a century, having been kept by Capt. Samuel Judd, previous to the Revolutionary war, until his death, in Sept. 1825, in the |