The Founders of Hartford
William Blumfield prob. came in the “Elizabeth” from Ipswich, in Suffolk, in 1634, aged 30,
with wife, Sarah, aged 25, and dau. Sarah, aged 1 ; freeman, Mass., Sept. 2, 1635. He fought in the Pequot War,
1637. An original proprietor at H., and his house-lot in 1639-40 was on a portion of what is now Bushnell Park; in
1641 he was given “the ground whereon the pound standeth and to be made up of ground about it fewer acres”
over and above his share in the division. (In the map of 1640 the pound is on Centinel Hill.) He was freed from
training, March 11, 1657-8. He removed prob. ab. 1650 to New London, and in 1663 to Newtown, L. I.
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