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A memorial book of genealogy and ecclesiastical history of New Britain, Connecticut. New Britain was settled and served by ancestry of Waseca County resident Robert Hodgson. Description: brown hard cover detached from contents of book; spine information printed in gold: "New Britain, Andrews"; content: 538 numbered and indexed pages that includes: ecclesiastical history of the territory of Farmington in Connecticut chartered in 1645; handwritten notes inside book by Robert Hodgson of Waseca, Minnesota indicate his line of ancestry. At front of book: a print of a painting of John Smalley, R. E. Hodgson's great, great grandfather. Original owner of this book was Sarah G. Whittlesey who noted that this book was a birthday gift from her sister Lizzie in 1868. Book gifted to R.E. Hodgson of Waseca by Dorothy Colman. Hodgson notes that he read this book in 1967 and found it "most interesting, 100 years after publication". Hodgson ancestry is pencil marked in the book on page 355 where a note card is placed as a marker upon which is written: "Leila Hadassa, my mother. Calista Whittlesey, grandmother. David Whittlesey, great-grandfather. John Smalley, great, great grandfather. R.E.H." On page 55 of the book, a passage indicates that Rev. John Smalley served the church of New Britain beginning in ca. 1758.
