The history of Waterbury, Connecticut - citizen hylbom blog

100 HISTORY OF WATERBUKY.
according to tlie record, " where the highway is laid to the
river, east from Mr. John How's house." Five pounds were
granted in February, 1759, to the society of Northbury for
their encouragement in constructing a cart bridge over the
river at that place. Probably the old bridge had been de-
stroyed by a freshet, and the balance of tlie cost of replacing
it was borne by individuals.
In 1761, eleven petitioners applied to the General Court for
relief, saying that they had built a bridge over the river near
the center of l^orthbury, at an expense of £70, and that the
town refused to pay for it. The town was ordered to pay £30
and keep the bridge in repair.
In January, 1748-9, a grant of twentj^-two pounds money,
old tenor, was made, for the first time, apparently, for con-
structing a bridge over the Mad River, a little below Mr. Jonathan
Baldwin's mill, on the road to Judd's Meadow.
On the report of a committee, March 5th, 1753, the town
"voted that Judd's Meadow men should draw one hundred
pounds money, old tenor, out of the town treasuiy towards
the building a bridge over the river at the mouth of Toantick
[Long Meadow] Brook," provided " that there shall l)e no far-
ther demands on the town for building or repairing a bridge in
that place." In February, 1759, however, the town gave
Capt. Thomas Porter five pounds for building a bridge " in
that place;" and in September, 1761, twenty pounds for the
same or another bridge.
Five petitioners, in 1767, applied to the General Assembly,
and asked that the town might be ordered to pay for and keep
in repair a bridge which they had erected over the Kaugatuck
at Judd's Meadow, at an expense of £50. The town paid
twenty-five pounds for a cart bridge ; and four years afterwards,
or in December, 1771, accepted the bridge as a town
bridge. Before the close of the winter, it was again carried
away by a flood, as w^as the Northbury bridge.
December, 1757, the town voted to pay Mr. Joseph Bron-
son five pounds " towards y^ building a cart bridge over y«
river near the upper end of Manhan Meadow, provided he
shall complete such bridge by y® first of December next."
There are still remaining slight traces of the eastern abutment