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SAYBROOK , a township of See also:Middlesex See also:county, See also:Connecticut, U.S.A., at the mouth and on the W. See also:bank of the Connecticut See also:river, about Too m. E.N.E. of New See also:York See also:City and about 40 M. S. of See also:Hartford. Pop. (woo) 1634; (1910) 1907. The See also:post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of the township is named Deep River. Mainly confined to Saybrook Point, jutting out into the river, is the township of Old Saybrook (pop. in 1910, 1516), separated from the township of Saybrook in 1852, but actually the See also:mother See also:colony; its post See also:village is called Saybrook. It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, the Valley See also:branch of which here separates from the See also:Shore See also:Line branch. It is a beautiful See also:place,with several old buildings, notably the See also:Hart See also:mansion built about 1783 by See also:Captain See also:Elisha Hart, whose seven daughters here entertained See also:Washington See also:Irving, J. R. See also:Drake and Fitz-See also:Greene See also:Halleck. See also:Corn. See also:Isaac See also:Hull and his See also:nephew See also:Joseph Bartine Hull married two of the daughters, and the younger of these in 1874 See also:left the See also:house to the township of Old Saybrook, which refused the See also:gift. See also:Fenwick (pop. in 1910, 34), the smallest See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in the See also:state, is a See also:part of Old Saybrook township, in which there are summer residences. The first See also:settlement was made on Saybrook Point See also:late in 1635 by See also:John See also:Winthrop, commissioned See also:governor for one See also:year by the See also:company of which the See also:principal shareholders were See also:Lord Saye and Sele, Lord See also:Brooke, See also:Sir See also:Richard Saltonstall, John See also:Pym and John See also:Hampden, and which had a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant from the See also:earl of See also:Warwick. The See also:English settlers forestalled the Dutch, who attempted to See also:land here in See also:November. A palisade was built across the narrowest part of the See also:neck of the point by See also:Lion See also:Gardiner, who built a fort (burned in 1647) and planned a settlement, to which for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time it was thought Lord Saye and Sele, Lord Brooke, John Hampden, See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell, and other See also:independents would immigrate. Gardiner called the place Saybrook from the names of its principal proprietors. He had See also:practical See also:control until 1639, when he was displaced by See also:George Fenwick (d. 1657), whose wife, called See also:Lady Fenwick (she was the widow of Sir John Hotelier), died here in 1646, and who in 1644 sold ' to Connecticut the proprietors' rights.
In 1646 the First See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:Christ was organized ; a church See also:building was erected in 1647, and in 168o–1681 another, in which in See also:September 1708, at the See also:call of the See also:General See also:Assembly, met a Congregational See also:Synod of 16 members which reaffirmed the See also:Savoy See also:Confession of Faith and the Heads of Agreement adopted in See also:England in 1691 by Congregationalists and Presbyterians, and See also:drew up the Saybrook See also:Platform of discipline, providing for the promotion of See also:harmony and See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, the See also:regular introduction of candidates into the See also:ministry and the See also:establishment of associations and consociations, the latter being tribunals with final and appellate See also:jurisdiction. This platform was approved by the General Assembly, and churches organized under it were declared to be established by See also:law. This establishment continued in full force until 1784. A See also:granite See also:boulder (1901) marks the site of the first See also:home of Yale University, established here in 1701 as the Collegiate School of Connecticut; until 1716, when it was removed to New Haven, most of the school's commencements were held here and all its exercises after 1707–1708, before which time most of the actual teaching was done in Killingworth, now See also:Clinton, Connecticut. Saybrook was the home of See also:David See also:Bushnell (1742–1824), who devised in 1776 a submarine See also:torpedo and a See also:tortoise-shaped diving See also:boat, the " See also:American Turtle," which were tried without success against the See also:British in the See also:War of American See also:Independence.
The See also:original township of Saybrook contained the See also:present See also:town-See also:ships of Old Saybrook, See also:Westbrook (184o), See also:Essex (1854, taken from Old Saybrook), Saybrook and See also:Chester (1836), and, on the See also:east See also:side of the river, parts of the present Lyme (1665), Old Lyme (1855, from Lyme), and East Lyme (1839, from Lyme and See also:Waterford).
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