Historical address in commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Norwalk, September eleventh, 1651. Delivered in the armory in Norwalk, September eleventh, 1901, by Augustus Field Beard . (Still Image)

Historical address in commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Norwalk, September eleventh, 1651. Delivered in the armory in Norwalk, September eleventh, 1901, by Augustus Field Beard .

Beard, Augustus Field, 1833-1934

30 p. 8vo

Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
The first recorded European contact with Norwalk took place in 1614. Dutch navigator Adriaen Block, trading fur with Native Americans along the Connecticut coast in the North American built vessel Onrust, mentioned a visit to the Norwalk Islands, which he called "The Archipelago" Norwalk was purchased Norwalke Indians in two separate transactions in 1640 and 1641 by Daniel Patrick and Roger Ludlow. The two first settlers, Richard Olmsted and Nathaniel Ely arrived from Hartford in 1649. They were followed by fourteen others. Norwalk was incorporated on September 11, 1651, when the General Court of the Connecticut Colony decreed that “Norwaukee shall bee a townee”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Norwalk,_Connecticut

The author of this volume Augustus Field Beard (1833 - 1934) was a Congregationalist clergyman and secretary of the American Missionary Society. He was born and died in Norwalk.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1934-35.pdf

Norwalk (Conn.) -- History

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F104 N9 Bxx 1901

[Norwalk, Conn.] Norwalk Historical Assoc. [1901?]

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