The history of Waterbury, Connecticut - citizen hylbom blog

234 niSTOKT OF wateebury.
troversy," witli full power " to relincpisli siicli part of oiir
claim to said property as they sliall judge prudent,"or to agree
to leave the question to referees, or arbitrators.
In April following, the committee reported that they could
not agree, eacli party thinking right was on its side. In December,
1788, a vote was taken and passed to choose a commit-
tee " to negotiate the matter with Watertown," and to settle
it in such manner as they might think prudent, lyrovided
they could obtain favorable terms, &c.
When Farmingbury came to apply for town privileges, in
1787 and subsequently, the people of the old town took the
same position as they did in the case of Westbury and North-
bury, and w^ere met by the same opposition.
In October, 1793, pending an application to the General Assembly
for an act of incorporation, the town voted that if the
society of Farmingbury would within eight days give the old
town " a legal acquittance of all their right in the public min-
isterial and school moneys and other property," &c., then the
town would not appear against the memorial of Farmingbury.
CHAP TEE XA".
SCHOOLS.
Connecticut has been long distinguished for its common
schools. The Code of Laws established by the General Court
in 1650 recognized their importance.
It being one chiefc project of that old deluder Sathan [says this Code] to keepe
men from a knowledge of the scriptures, as in former times keeping them in an unknowne
tongue, so in the latter times by perswading them from the use of
Tongues, so that at least the true sence and meaning of the originall might bee
clouded with false glosses of saint seeming deceiuers ; and that learning may not
bee buried in the graue of o"' Forefathers, in Church and Common wealth, the Lord
assisting our endeauors—It is there fore ordered by this Courte that euery Town-
shipp [&c.]—[Trumbull's Col. Records, Vol. I, p. 554.]