Presented to

Gorse H. black, 2 ry

with the Kind

regards of
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The Author)

HISTORY

OF

ANCIENT WOODBURY,

CONNECTICUT,

FROM

THE FIRST INDIAN DEED IN 1659 TO 1872,

INCLUDING THE

Present Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlehem, Roxbury,
and a part of Oxford and Middlebury.

BY WILLIAM COTHREN.

"I love thee, oh! my native land!

I love thy sons, a brother band!

Thy rocks, and hills, and vales, to me,
Are temples of the truly free!'

VOL. II.

WOODBURY, CONN.:

PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM COTHREN.

1872.