Editing Glastonbury (section)

===Early modern===
[[File:Wenceslas Hollar - Glastonbury (State 1).jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|17th-century engraving of Glastonbury by [[Wenceslaus Hollar]]]]In 1693 [[Glastonbury, Connecticut]] was founded and named after the English town from which some of the settlers had emigrated. It is rumored to have originally been called "Glistening Town" until the mid-19th century, when the name was changed to match the spelling of Glastonbury, England, but in fact, residents of the Connecticut town believe this to be a myth, based on the Glastonbury Historical Society's records.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hsgct.org/Glastonbury_timeline.pdf |title=Glastonbury Timeline |publisher=The Historical Society of Glastonbury |access-date=28 December 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823120940/http://www.hsgct.org/Glastonbury_timeline.pdf |archive-date=23 August 2016 }}</ref> A representation of the Glastonbury thorn is incorporated onto the town seal.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Town |url=http://town.glasct.org/hissoc/Glastonbury/town.html |publisher=The Historical Society of Glastonbury |access-date=6 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726105919/http://town.glasct.org/hissoc/Glastonbury/town.html |archive-date=26 July 2011 }}</ref>

The Somerset town's charter of incorporation was received in 1705.<ref name="gathercole" /> Growth in the trade and economy largely depended on the drainage of the surrounding moors. The opening of the [[Glastonbury Canal]] produced an upturn in trade, and encouraged local building.<ref name="gathercole" /> The parish was part of the [[Hundred (county subdivision)|hundred]] of [[Glaston Twelve Hides (hundred)|Glaston Twelve Hides]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Somerset Hundreds |url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ |publisher=GENUKI |access-date=12 September 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119134349/http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/ |archive-date=19 January 2012 }}</ref> until the 1730s when it became a borough in its own right.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dunning |first1=Robert |title=Glastonbury: History and Guide |date=1994 |publisher=Sutton Publishing |isbn=978-0750904216 |page=63 }}</ref>