The history of Waterbury, Connecticut - citizen hylbom blog

24 HISTOEY OF WATEKBURT.
East is sometimes inadvertently used for west, and north for
south, and vice versa. Tlie settlers often bought and sold, and
exchanged houses and lots, and this circumstance has increased
the diificulty of ascertaing the earliest dwelling places of
individuals.
CIIAPTEE III.
DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS.
Of the thirty original subscribers to the articles of settlement,
thirteen never became permanent proprietors of Water-
bury. Tlieir names follow
:
John Warner, Sen.,
Daniel Warner,
John Andruss,
Abraham Bronson,
Thomas Gridlet,
John Porter,
Richard Seymour.
William Higason,
Samuel Gridley,
John Lankton,
John Judd,
Samuel Judd,
William Judd.
John Warner, Sen,, and Daniel Warner, father and son,
whose names are in the first group, both intended to join the
planters of Mattatuck, but died when about to remove, in 1679,
in Farmington. The place of the father seems to have been
filled by his son, Thomas Warner ; while the death of the son
gave rise to the following action of the committee, which conferred
his rights upon his widow.