HaddamIn 1660 the General Court received a petition of "Severall members of this Collony prsenting their desires unto this Court of setling a Plantation at 30 Miles Island;" whereupon, a committee to view the land was appointed and reported back favorably. Thereafter, in 1662, two women, Sepunnemoe and Towkishk, with Turramuggus, Unlaus, and others of the Wangunk Indian tribe, sold land (Haddam) to agents of the Colony of Connecticut.
On October 8, 1668, the town was incorporated by this Act: "The Court orders that the plantation of Thirty Mile Island shall ? be called Haddum, and this Court grants them the power and Priuiledg of a Plantation." In the following year the General Court granted "? that the bownds of Haddum shall runn from the great Riuer westward into the wilderness six miles, and from the great Riuer eastward into the wilderness six miles.
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Haddam
The Original ProprietorsNicholas Ackley · Joseph Arnold · John Baiey · James Bates · Daniel Brainerd · Thomas Brooks · Samuel Butler · William Carke · Daniel Cone · William Corbee · Abram Dibble · Samuel Ganes · George Gates · John Hannison · Richard Jones · Stephen Luxford · John Parents · Richard Piper · Thomas Shayler · Simon Smith · Thomas Smith · Gerrard Spencer · John Spencer · Joseph Stannard · William Ventres · James Wells · John Webb · John Wiatt
Erected by the Town of Haddam
The American Revolution Bicentennial Committee of Haddam
and the Connecticut Historical Commission
May 30, 1976
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