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Note: Residents and Proprietors South of Mortlake and Purchase. Abiel Cheney. Joseph Davison. Henry Bacon. John Williams. Samuel Williams. John Hubbard. Jehoshaphat Holmes. Ezekiel Cady. Ezekiel Whitney. James Holmes. Daniel Cady. Daniel Bemis. Joseph Holland. James Cady, Samuel Spalding. John Adams. Richard Adams. Joseph Spalding. Nathaniel Woodward. Joseph Adams. Zechariah Whitney. William Davison. Isaac Adams. Zechariah Spalding. Ephraim Hide. Daniel Adams. Isaac Leonard, Sen. and Jr. Samuel Shead. Jabez Spicer. David Leonard. Thomas Leonard. Non-Residents or Doubtful. Samuel Holdridge. Joseph Phelps. Robert Bird. James Danielson. Edward Houghton. - Hammond. William Burgess. Samuel Cole. John Wedge. Population, it will be seen, had now diffused itself throughout the township. Thomas Grow's settlement was near the Windham line. A large tract of the wild land, west of the Purchase, was owned and occupied by John Stowell, the "schoolmaster" so prominent in Voluntown controversies. A farm in this vicinity was purchased by Joseph Bowman of Dorchester, in 1731. His step-son, Daniel Trowbridge, a youth of twenty, helped clear up this land and make settlement, receiving six months of his time in payment. Three years later, Trowbridge bought of Abiel Lyon a valuable farm of a hundred acres bordering on the Mashamoquet. A substantial cart-bridge was built over this stream at the sawmill, and a highway laid out from it to Windham village. Benjamin Chaplin, Thomas Durkee and Samuel Kimball, residents of the extreme southwest of Pomfret, were allowed to attend worship in Canada parish. The western part of Mashamoquet Purchase was mostly occupied by sons of the first proprietors. David, the second son of Joseph Chandler, settled on second division land a mile west of Pomfret street. Younger Sabins, Sharpes and Goodells, also, cleared up and occupied farms in this section. History of Windham County, Connecticut, Volume I, 1600-1760, and Volume II, 1760-1880 New Inhabitants. Improvements. South Addition. Peter Davison.
In 1714, the vacant land between Pomfret and Canterbury was divided between these townships, and thus the land south of Mortlake, owned by Adams, Chandler and Stoddard came under the jurisdiction of Pomfret. Richard Adams was chosen selectman in 1715, and, by a very clear vote, the town made over to him all their right and title to his land as to property. The settlement of this section was somewhat quickened by its annexation to Pomfret. Daniel Cady of Killingly, father of Mrs. Richard Adams, bought six hundred acres of land near Tatnick Hill, of Jabez Allen, in 1714, and settled there with a large family of sons and daughters. James Cady of Marlborough, purchased land of Richard Adams in 1716. John, Joseph and Daniel Adams then took possession of their allotments, and threw part of them into market. Sixty acres, now included in Brooklyn village, were sold by Joseph Adams in 1718, to Samuel Spalding. John Adams sold homesteads to Jabez Spicer and John Hubbard; Daniel Adams, a farm to Samuel Shead. The twenty-five hundred acres of land between the Adams and Stoddard tracts were sold by Captain Chandler for �190, to Joseph Otis of Scituate, in 1715. Its eastern half was sold out in farms to the Rev. Ebenezer Williams, Ebenezer Whiting, Samuel Spalding, Jonathan Cady and Josiah Cleveland, in 1719; the western half was purchased by Stephen Williams, Joseph Davison and Joseph Holland, in 1723. The Stoddard tract remained for many years in the hands of its non-resident owner, save a few hundred acres, sold in 1719 to Abiel Cheney, Benjamin Chaplin of Lynn, Samuel Gardner and Samuel Pellet. Chaplin and Pellet also purchased land of Major Fitch, and were the first settlers of the southwestern corner of Pomfret.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Oct 13 1724, Daniel Cady, moved by the same considerations of love, good will and affection and "the necessity of a convenient place to bury ye bodies of the dead among us," did give and grant a certain tract of land, east of Blackwell's Brook, "for ye public and necessary use of a convenient burying-place to the inhabitants of the additions aforesaid, and their heirs and assigns for ever." This gift was laid out as above designated, south of the site of the present Brooklyn village, and still forms a part of the Brooklyn burying-ground. With these improvements achieved, the inhabitants south of Mortlake were forced to rest in patience for further development.
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