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 Enfield Historical Marker - Enfield, CT Posted by:  neoc1
N 41° 58.622 W 072° 35.530
18T E 699488 N 4650030
The Enfield Historical Marker is located along US Route 5 near the Enfield Historical Society Headquarters and Museum Building which is located at 1294 Enfield Street in Enfield, CT.
Waymark Code: WM16M65
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 08/25/2022
Views: 0
A two sided historical marker gives the history of Enfield, CT. The marker is inscribed:
{Seal of the State of Connecticut}
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
ENFIELD
Settled 1680
Established as the township of Enfield, 1683,
this area was part of the Springfield
Plantation granted to William Pynchon and
others by the Massachusetts General Court.
Springfield was settled in 1636, but no
effectual grants were made here until after
King Philip's War of 1675-1676.
In 1679 John Pease and his brother Robert, of
Salem, Massachusetts, visited the land and
spent the winter alone, in a hut on
the hillside of the present Enfield Street
Cemetery. The next spring, 1680, they
removed their families along with those of
their father John Pease, Sr. and Elisha Kibbe
to Freshwater Plantation. Within three years
thirty more families from Salem and vicinity
joined them.
(Continued on other side)
{Seal of the State of Connecticut}
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
(Continued from other side)
In 1688 a purchase for twenty-five pounds
sterling was made of the Indian sachem
Nottatuck of all lands from the Asnuntuck or
Freshwater Brook to the Umquatuck at the foot
of the falls, and extending eight miles east.
The Springfield Committee governed Enfield
until 1693, when the town began to control
its own affairs.
Enfield became part of Connecticut in 1749
by secession from the royal government of
Massachusetts Bay and union with the charter
government of Connecticut. The groundwork
for such a step had been laid more than a
century earlier by an error of the surveyors
Woodward and Saffery, who in 1642 established
a boundary between the colonies running
southwestward nearly to the site of Windsor.
Erected by the Town of Enfield
the American Revolution Bicentennial
Commission of Enfield
and the Connecticut Historical Commission
1976
Marker Name: Enfield
Marker Type: Urban
Date Dedicated / Placed: 1976
Additional Information: Not listed
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