Long Hill was originally and entirely settled as a part of Stratford, Connecticut, settled in 1639. By the mid-1650s, the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation began to petition the Court of the Colony of Connecticut for compensation for lost territory taken by the encroaching English settlement at Stratford. This legal action led the court to set the town boundary on May 15, 1656, to include all of the territory 12 miles (19 km) inland from Long Island Sound between the Housatonic River and the Fairfield town line, including all of Long Hill.
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History of Fairfield county, Connecticut1881 · page 784Read the page →
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now grown into the present parish of St. John's, Bridgeijort, and its daughter churches ; while the North Stratford parish embraced the ground now covered by the Tashua and Long Hill parishes, and by i)art of that at Monroe, no ]iarish having been formed there till 1800. There are now on the same ground at the very least two liundred and twenty-five or two hundred and fifty coniniunicants, while the
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In .Tunc, 1841), there was held a meeting of the parish of Chri.st's Church, at which it was resolved to divide the parish. The Long Hill portion immediately organized under the name of Grace Church, and was admitted into union with the Convention the same month.
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