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Voluntown, Connecticut, USA

Voluntown’s interesting name comes from the word volunteers. The town is named for the English volunteer soldiers who died fighting in King Phillips War against the Native Americans.

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  • 1721 - Incorporated in 1721, Voluntown received its name from the fact that, in 1700, the Volunteers of the Narragansett War were given lots in the area to build homesteads—thus creating a Volunteer Town.

    connecticuthistory.org/ towns-page/ voluntown/

  • 1819 - Voluntown
    Voluntown is situated in the southeast part of the county; bounded on the north by Plainfield and Sterling, on the east by Exeter, in Rhode-Island, on the south by North-Stonington, and on the west by Griswold, in New-London county. It has an average length of about 9 miles, and an average breadth...Read MORE...


  • 1839 - Voluntown
    Voluntown, Connecticut
    Windham county. This town was incorporated in 1719. It derived its name from the circumstance that most of its territory was granted, in 1696, to Volunteers in the Narraganset war. The surface is, in some parts, hilly, but the prevailing character of the surface and soil is...Read MORE...


  • 1854 - Voluntown
    Voluntown, a post-township of Windham co., Connecticut, 56 miles £. S. E. from Hartford. Population, 1004.
    A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.

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  • 1906
    Voluntown, a post-village in Voluntown township (town), Windham co., Conn., 13 miles ENE. of Norwich. Pop. of the town in 1900, 872.
    Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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  • 1721 - Incorporated in 1721, Voluntown received its name from the fact that, in 1700, the Volunteers of the Narragansett War were given lots in the area to build homesteads—thus creating a Volunteer Town.

    connecticuthistory.org/ towns-page/ voluntown/
  • 1819 - Voluntown
    Voluntown is situated in the southeast part of the county; bounded on the north by Plainfield and Sterling, on the east by Exeter, in Rhode-Island, on the south by North-Stonington, and on the west by Griswold, in New-London county. It has an average length of about 9 miles, and an average breadth... Read MORE...

  • 1839 - Voluntown
    Voluntown, Connecticut
    Windham county. This town was incorporated in 1719. It derived its name from the circumstance that most of its territory was granted, in 1696, to Volunteers in the Narraganset war. The surface is, in some parts, hilly, but the prevailing character of the surface and soil is... Read MORE...

  • 1854 - Voluntown
    Voluntown, a post-township of Windham co., Connecticut, 56 miles £. S. E. from Hartford. Population, 1004.
    A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  • 1906
    Voluntown, a post-village in Voluntown township (town), Windham co., Conn., 13 miles ENE. of Norwich. Pop. of the town in 1900, 872.
    Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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