![]() Prudden took up his residence in Milford. Peter Prudden who had ministered there between the formation of his own church at New Haven, August 22, 1639, and his ordination as pastor of the Milford church, April 18, 1640, after which Mr. Some came from New Haven, others from Wethersfield, following Rev. There were fifty-four heads of families or approximately two hundred settlers. ![]() ![]() Most of them were from the English counties of Essex, Hereford and York. The Milford men came in two bodies, those of 1639 and those of 1645. First named Wepowage, the Indian name for the river that flowed through the settlement, by indigenous tribes, Milford was purchased by William Fowler (lot 41), Edmund Tapp (lot 35), Zachariah Whitman (lot 32), Benjamin Fenn (lot 3), and Alexander Bryan (lot 23) from local tribes for "six coats, ten blankets, one kettle, twelve hatchets, twelve hoes, two dozen knives, and a dozen small looking-glasses." The town, one of the original six plantations of New Haven Colony, was established in 1639, two years after the Pequot War, by Reverend Peter Prudden (lot 40). Milford lies in New Haven County on Long Island sound and is separated from the township of Stratford on the west by the Housatonic river, and about 10 miles S.W.
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