The Founders of Hartford
John Friend, Salem, 1637, was at the River's mouth (Saybrook), with John Winthrop ; he owned a lot in
Hartford, on the east side of the river, eight acres, which he sold to William Gibbons before Jan. 7, 1639-40,
and he sold part of his house-lot to George Wyllys before that time. Savage says that
he was an inhabitant of Boston in 1640. In 1651, May 14, he was plaintiff in an action for debt at Hartford, Thomas
Bull being his attorney ; d. 1656.
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