The Founders of Hartford
Andrew Bacon was an original proprietor of Hartford, and in the distribution of 1639-40, received a lot on
the east side of Main St., immediately south of the Little River. He was chosen townsman, 1641, 1658, deputy, 16421656.
In 1642 Ire, with Captain John Mason and Mr. Clark, was appointed by the General Court to prepare carriages for the
pieces (guns) that came from Piscataqua. In 1643 he, with Mr. Talcott, was appointed to take a record of the debts of
the country. He was also a committee, with Mr. Webster, for Hartford, to join the magistrates in pressing men in each
town for service, in 1654. He was exempted from training, watching, and warding, May, 1656. He was a committee, with
Mr. Steele and Mr. Boosy, “to provide at Hartford for the comely meeting of the Commissioners of the
United Colonies.” In 1658 a complaint was preferred in the General Court against him, Gov. Webster, and others,
who were about to withdraw from the church, and from Hartford. He signed the contract to remove to Hadley, in
1659; freeman, Mass., March 26, 1661. He m. in 1661, Elizabeth, widow of Timothy Stanley, of Hartford ; prob. a 2d wife.
He d. in Hadley, Oct. 4, 1664, s.p. His widow returned to Hartford to live with her son, Caleb Stanley; d. Feb. 23,
1679, aged about seventy-six.1
1 - Gravestone in old burying-ground
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