HISTORY OF ORANGE
Zachariah Whitman
Thomas Welsh
Thomas Wheeler
Edmund Tapp
Thomas Buckingham
Richard Miles
Richard Platt
Thomas Topping
Mr. Peter Prudden
William Fowler
John Astwood
Richard Baldwin
Benjamin Fenn
Samuel Coley
John Peacocke
Henry Stonehill
Nathaniel Baldwin
James Prudden
Thomas Baker
George Clark, Sr.
George Hubbard
Jasper Gunn
John Fletcher
Alexander Bryan
Francis Bolt
Micah Tomkins
John Birdsey
Edmund Harvey
John Lane
William East
Thomas Lawrence
Thomas Sanford
Timothy Baldwin
George Clark, Jr. Henry Botsford
Joseph Baldwin
Philip Hatly
Nicholas Camp
John Rogers
Thomas Uffott
Nathaniel Briscoe
Thomas Tibbals
John Sherman
The following persons are recorded immediately after, but not as free-planters:
Robert Plum
Roger Terrell
Joseph Northrup
John Baldwin
William Slough
Andrew Benton
William Brookes
Robert Treat
Henry Lyon
In his ''History of Connecticut," Hollister says, ''A more substantial company of emigrants never followed a clergyman into the wild woods of America than the fathers of Milford."
Within the palisades which were set up, there were two residential streets, which extended on either side of the Wepawaug River and West End Brook. Sixty-five home lots were laid out, averaging three acres each. Mr. Prudden was assigned twice this amount, about seven acres.
Each man paid his share of the expense of the purchase and settlement of the plantation. All divisions of land were made in exact proportion to the sum paid by each planter. To each planter, a home or building lot was first laid out in the center of the town; and then an equal proportion of land and meadow elsewhere was allotted to him, according to the number of persons in his family. Every child had a division. The place where each man should have his division and proportion of ground was usually determined by casting lots. Rev. Mr. Prudden was reputed to have been a man of wealth when he left
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