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'''Lordship''' is a small waterfront neighborhood located in [[Stratford, Connecticut|Stratford]], [[Connecticut]], [[USA]]. It is a peninsula that juts into the heart of [[Long Island Sound]]. |
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| ⚫ | The first inhabitants of Lordship were the [[Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation|Paugussetts]] who had a large village at Fresh Pond and smaller encampments at Stratford Point and at Indian Well. Indian Well was a fresh water pond where the old trolley line crossed Duck Neck Creek just north of the rotary near the firehouse. When the first settlers arrived in 1639, they found that Indians were using this area to plant corn, so there was little clearing necessary. Originally Lordship, called Great Neck, was a “Common Field” worked and owned by settlers who returned home to the safety of the palisade fort at Academy Hill at night. Richard Mills was the first to build a farmhouse in Great Neck in the western end near present day Second Avenue. He sold his estate to Joseph Hawley in 1650 and moved. It is in connection with his name that the term “Lordship” is first found, as applied to a meadow on what is still known as the Lordship farm. It is said in deeds of land - 1650 to 1660 – several times, “Mill’s Lordship” and the “Lordship Meadow.” Richard Beach came to Stratford with a family and in 1662, he purchased one of five acres “on west point of the Neck,” butted south upon the meadow called “Mill’s Lordship”. |
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Revision as of 20:46, 18 May 2008
Lordship is a small waterfront neighborhood located in Stratford, Connecticut, USA. It is a peninsula that juts into the heart of Long Island Sound.
The first inhabitants of Lordship were the Paugussetts who had a large village at Fresh Pond and smaller encampments at Stratford Point and at Indian Well. Indian Well was a fresh water pond where the old trolley line crossed Duck Neck Creek just north of the rotary near the firehouse. When the first settlers arrived in 1639, they found that Indians were using this area to plant corn, so there was little clearing necessary. Originally Lordship, called Great Neck, was a “Common Field” worked and owned by settlers who returned home to the safety of the palisade fort at Academy Hill at night. Richard Mills was the first to build a farmhouse in Great Neck in the western end near present day Second Avenue. He sold his estate to Joseph Hawley in 1650 and moved. It is in connection with his name that the term “Lordship” is first found, as applied to a meadow on what is still known as the Lordship farm. It is said in deeds of land - 1650 to 1660 – several times, “Mill’s Lordship” and the “Lordship Meadow.” Richard Beach came to Stratford with a family and in 1662, he purchased one of five acres “on west point of the Neck,” butted south upon the meadow called “Mill’s Lordship”.
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