Bethel, Connecticut, USA
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Where is Bethel, Connecticut, USA? Bethel, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Bethel was first settled around 1700. The first houses built in Bethel were in the 1730s or 1740s; they are located at 27 Grassy Plain Street and 63 Grassy Plain Street. 1759 – church members such as Ebenezer Hickok, Lemuel Beebe, Isaac Hoyt, Thomas Starr, and Phineas Judd found it both difficult to travel to church in Danbury and when there, to get a seat. They petitioned the General Assembly to form two distinct ecclesiastical societies, the First and Second Congregational Societies, creating a new second parish in the eastern portion of Danbury. The new area was called Bethel (which means house of God). 1760 – 71 people were members of the church. Bethel ran most of its affairs through the church.(Bethel's first Congregational minister was Noah Wetmore) 1760 – Captain Benjamin Hickock built the house at 245 Greenwood Avenue and used it as a tavern. 1777 (April) – the city's records were burned by the British in the British raid on Danbury. Late 1700s – P. T. Barnum’s grandfather built one of the town's earliest hotels, the Barnum Tavern.
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Bethel, Connecticut, USA
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Bethel, Connecticut, USA
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The P.T. Barnum Fountain, topped by an 18-foot figure of a triton blowing a conch shell.
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1759 - (Bethel, CT) - Settled as part of Danbury in 1685, the parish of Bethel, which took its name in 1759 for the Hebrew term meaning “House of God” .
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1855 - Bethel, CT incorporated as a town
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1868 - Bethel, Conn., has eighty septuagenarians in a population of 2,000.St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
May 2, 1868
1868 - A ball was recently held in Bethel, Conn., and during the evening a 200 pound hog was thrust into the door by some of the jealous un-invited ones.St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 22, 1868
1869 - A Bethel, Conn., telegram of the 2d says fifteen lives were lost by the flood of the day previous.St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
February 13, 1869
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Bethel, a post-borough of Fairfield co., Conn., in Bethel township (town), on the New York, New...Read MORE...
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Ancestors Who Were Born Here
 
Phineas Taylor (P.T.) BARNUM
(5 July 1810, Bethel, Connecticut, USA - 7 April 1891, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA)
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Joseph BEEBE
(1753, Bethel, Connecticut, USA - 16 June 1844, Bethel, Connecticut, USA)
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Hannah HAWLEY
(6 August 1768, Bethel, Connecticut, USA - 20 September 1834, Bethel, Connecticut, USA)
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Eliza JUDD
(23 December 1804, Bethel, Connecticut, USA - 4 July 1868, Bethel, Connecticut, USA)
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Lyman George PORTER
(03 July 1882, Bethel, Connecticut, USA - 15 October 1955, Bethel, Connecticut, USA)
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Nathan SEELYE
(26 October 1766, Bethel, Connecticut, USA - 4 November 1849, Bethel, Connecticut, USA)
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Eli Taylor TROWBRIDGE
(2 October 1803, Bethel, Connecticut, USA - 3 March 1871, Bethel, Connecticut, USA)
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Jerome B. TROWBRIDGE
(12 May 1846, Bethel, Connecticut, USA - 6 April 1876, Bethel, Connecticut, USA)
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