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The Bankside Farmers were a group of five men who established themselves along the Long Island Sound south of Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1648. The area is now known as Greens Farms, a section of
History of Green's Farms
The Bankside Farmers were a group of five men who established themselves along the Long Island Sound south of Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1648. The area is now known as Greens Farms, a section of Westport, Connecticut
Westport is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, along the Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast. It is northeast of New York City. The town had a population of 27,141 according to the 2020 U.S. Census.
History
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They were: Thomas Newton, Henry Gray, John Green, Daniel Frost and Francis Andrews.
Daniel Frost was born January 17, 1613, in Nottingham, England
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, and died February 23, 1682, in Fairfield. A small coastal promontory, Frost Point, is named for Daniel Frost.
Henry Gray was born November 23, 1617, in London
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, England
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. He worked as a tailor
A tailor is a person who makes or alters clothing, particularly in men's clothing. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the term to the thirteenth century.
History
Although clothing construction goes back to prehistory, there is evidence of ...
with his elder brother William in London for a time. He arrived in New England in 1639. He married Daniel Frost's sister Lydia in Boston, Massachusetts, in September 1639. He came to Fairfield in 1640 and was a deputy from Fairfield from 1642-43. He died in 1658. Two roads in the area are named for him: Gray's Farm Road and Gray Lane.
Greens Farms is named for John Green.
This group of early settlers adopted the name "Bankside" to commemorate the original Bankside
Bankside is an area of London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark. Bankside is located on the southern bank of the River Thames, east of Charing Cross, running from a little west of Blackfriars Bridge to just a short distance befo ...
located in London, England
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, the district in which several of them had previously resided.
External links
History of Green's Farms
References
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