History of Burlington, Connecticut, USA

In 1640, John Haynes, governor of Connecticut, negotiated on behalf of the Hartford settlers a purchase from the Tunxis of a large tract of land west of Hartford. The newly acquired land, named by the Tunxis as Tunxis Sepus, or "Bend in the little river" was renamed Tunxis Plantation and in 1645 was incorporated as the town of Farmington. The original land area of Farmington included the present-day towns of Avon, Berlin, Bristol, Burlington, Farmington, New Britain, Plainville, Southington and parts of other towns...

Burlington, a post town, is situated on the western border of the county, seventeen miles west from Hartford. It is bounded on the north by New-Hartford and Canton, on the east by Farmington, south by Bristol, and on the west by Harwinton. It is about six miles in length, from north to south, and five in breadth from east to west, comprising an area of thirty square miles. The township is diversified with hills and dales, and the soil is a gravelly loam, being dry and hard. This town lies within the granite region, in the western part of the State, comprising the whole of Litchfield county, excepting a few townships upon the borders of the State of New-York, which constitute the calcarious district of Connecticut. The lands produce grain, particularly rye and oats, and are tolerably well adapted to orcharding, and some parts afford good grazing...

Burlington, Connecticut
Hartford county. An agricultural township, with a soil of gravelly loam, pleasantly diversified by hills and vales, 17 miles W. from Hartford, and 36 N. from New Haven. Population, 1830, 1,301. It is watered by Farmington river, and was taken from Bristol in 1806. This town has some manufactures, and has been noted for the equality of its inhabitants in regard to property.

Burlington, a post-township of Hartford county, Connecticut, on the W. side of Farmington river, 15 miles W. of Hartford. Population, 1161.

BURLINGTON, a township of Hartford co., in the state of Connecticut, 19 m. W of Hartford, watered by the Farmington river and its branches. It presents a diversified surface, but is generally fertile. Pop. 1,201.

The territory of which this town and Bristol were formed, belonged, many years ago, to Farmington, and was called Farmington West Woods. It was part of the land purchased of the Tunxis Indians by the original proprietors of that town, and was by them surveyed, and divided into tiers of lots; the interest of each proprietor therein being determined by the amount of his interest in the whole purchase.

For many years after the "reserved lands" of Farmington were settled, this territory remained a wild, unbroken forest. Hartford and Windsor, by coionial grant in the time of Sir Edmund Andros's attempted usurpation, were the proprietors of Litchfield and Harwinton, which were settled earlier than Farmington West Woods. Credible tradition relates that the path of such proprietors to those towns was through West Woods, and it is possible (as some have claimed) that along this wild path settlers might have been found as early as 1740; but they were very few and widely scattered. it is...