CHAPTER II.

Branford, Connecticut, Purchased by the New Haven Colonists from the Totokett Indians in 1638--First Settlements Were Made in 1644--First Church of Logs Surrounded by Stockade to Protect from Indians--Guards at the Gate during Service--Church and Town Records Preserved at Branford--John Plum, the First Town Clerk--Style of the Second Church Building and Character of its Services--Rev. Timothy Gillett its Pastor--He Taught an Academy in Addition to his Pastoral Work--Prominent Families of Branford--Intelligent Character of the People--De Tocqueville’s High Estimate of this “Leetle State”--Branford in 1779.....15-22