Editing Hartland, Connecticut (section)

==History==
Originally referenced as the "Western Lands," the unsettled area was the subject of a 37-year controversy over competing claims by the [[Connecticut Colony]] and the towns of [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]] and [[Windsor, Connecticut|Windsor]].<ref name="HHS History">{{Cite web| url=https://www.hartlandhistoricalsociety.com/history-of-hartland| title=History of Hartland |publisher=Hartland Historical Society| access-date=December 16, 2023}}</ref> After the Colony's General Court was petitioned in 1724 to settle the dispute, it divided the lands among the three parties, which was followed by a confirming patent issued by Governor [[Joseph Talcott]] in 1729.

After another division agreement, Hartford's proprietors were granted a patent in 1732 for four parcels encompassing the lands now known as Hartland, [[Winchester, Connecticut|Winchester]], and [[New Hartford, Connecticut|New Hartford]]. Land in Hartland was proportionally granted on the basis of Hartford's 1720 Grand List. In 1733, the 67 landowners organized the Proprietors of Hartland association, and received a decree from the General Court for "Hartford land," then shortened to Hartland.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.hartlandct.org/|title=Town of Hartland, Connecticut|publisher=Town of Hartland, Connecticut| access-date=December 16, 2023}}</ref>

In 1754, Captain/Deacon Thomas Giddings Jr II (1723 -1790) and his wife Mary Coult became the town's first permanent settlers.<ref name="HHS History" /> In 1761, the 44 families of Hartland petitioned the General Court, and Hartland was incorporated as an independent town that same year.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hartford Courant |title=Hartland |url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1996-07-25-9607200445-story.html |access-date=September 15, 2019 |publisher=Hartford Courant |date=July 25, 1996}}</ref>