Waterford the early years - Bob Nye

Waterford: the 
early years
ROBERT NYE
JUNE 24, 2026
WATERFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY   

Waterford’s incorporation, October 8, 1801

Thomas Hooker, 1583-1646
(as he is imagined to have appeared)

The Fundamental Orders

The Rev. John Davenport 
(1597-1669/70)

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John Winthrop, Jr. 
1606-1676

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Charter of 1662

Governor Edmund Andros
The Charter Oak

William and Mary 

Fort Hill, site of “Pepperbox” church

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Site of Darrow Meeting 
House, Mullen Hill Road
Darrow Meeting House

Benjamin Franklin, woodcut, 
May 9, 1754.

Treaty of Paris, February 10, 1763

An Emblem of the Effects of 
the STAMP, a warning 
against the Stamp Act. 
(Published in the Pennsylvania 
Journal, October 1765; 
From the New York Public Library)

Jonathan and Faith 
Robinson Trumbull
Sons of Liberty

Boston Tea Party

Lexington & Concord

Washington and Lafayette at Valley 
Forge (painting by Dunsmore)

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American Revolution 
Veterans Memorial,
Waterford
Signing of the Treaty of 
Paris, September 3, 1783

Copyrighted Material
The Peopling
of New Connecticut
From the Land of Steady Habits
to the Western Reserve
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Quasi War, 1798-1800
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Chesapeake-Leopard 
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(Getty Images)

Jefferson’s embargo, 1807

Town meeting, 
March 17, 1809

President 
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Old State House, Hartford

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