Excerpt from A Statistical Account of Several Towns in the County of Litchfield
In 1718, a Company purchased of the Colony of Con necticut, a tract of land, called by the Indian name Bantam, intended to cover 10'miles square The prop erty was divided into sixty shares, under the name of Proprietors' Rights, and was valued, at £5 per right. By the survey, it was distributed into equal lots, of a certain number of acres in each lot. The proprietors, who made the purchase and the first settlement, were principally from Hartford, Windsor, and Lebanon. In the years 1720 and 1721, several families began to set tle on the tract. Nothing appears on record to show that the proprietors purchased any of the lands in this town, of the Indians the title having been previously extinguished by the Colony. The lands in this town afforded better hunting ground for the Indians, than ex tensive intervals. Many of the hills were nearly cleared of trees by fires, kindled for the purpose of hunting. To this remark, however, many valuable tracts, con taining excellent pine and other forest trees were an important exception.
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