The Founders of Hartford
Giles Smith, an inhabitant who received land “by the courtesie of the town;” his home-lot in 1639
was on Main St., on the corner of what is now Charter Oak St., a small lot cut off from the square occupied by
George Wyllys. He sold 20 acres to Thomas Hosmer, March 6, 1642; Philip Davis bought his land and tenement. He was one
of the earliest settlers at New London, but removed from them to Fairfield, where he was in 1651 ; d. there, 1669 ; he
left a second wife, Eunice, not the mother of his children, who had been widow of Jonathan Porter, of Huntington, L. 1.
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