Extracts From the Records of Colchester: With Some Transcripts From the Recording of Michaell Taintor, of "Brainford," Conn (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Extracts From the Records of Colchester: With Some Transcripts From the Recording of Michaell Taintor, of "Brainford," Conn

The lands, of little value comparatively, at the beginning of the settlement, gradually increased in value as the population and de mand for land increased: and those of the proprietors and their descendants and heirs, who retained their rights in the divisions of lands, became substantially wealthy and prosperous. Colchester was a highly popular settlement...