Bankside Farmers
The Bankside Farmers were a group of five men who settled south of Fairfield, Connecticut on Long Island Sound in 1648 . The area is now known as Greens Farms , an area of Westport, Connecticut . The five men were: Thomas Newton, Henry Gray, John Green, Daniel Frost and Francis Andrews. This group of early settlers took the name "Bankside" to commemorate the original Bankside in London , England . Some of them had lived in the area before.
Personalities
- Daniel Frost (born January 17, 1613 in Nottingham , England, † February 23, 1682 in Fairfield). A small headland, Frost Point, was named after him.
- Henry Gray (born November 23, 1617 in London , England , † 1658). Together with his brother William, he temporarily ran a tailor shop in London. He came to New England in 1639, married Frost's sister Lydia in Boston , Massachusetts in September , and moved to Fairfield in 1640, where he was deputy from 1642 to 1643. Two streets in the area were named after him: Gray's Farm Road and Gray Lane .
- John Green is the namesake of Greens Farms , where Sherwood Island State Park is now located.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Josephine C. Frost: The Frost genealogy: descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, New York: showing connections never before published with the Winthrop, Underhill, Feke, Bowne and Wickes families . FH Hitchcock, 1912, p. 391 (accessed November 18, 2011).