Records of early Residents in Cornwall

(Taken from Historical Records of the Town of Cornwall, Connecticut
by T. S. Gold, Hartford Press, 1904) 

     Doctor JONATHAN HURLBURT came from that part of Farmington now called Southington, having bought of Timothy Orton 120 acres in 1746. He is thought to have been the first that practiced medicine in the township. It seems that his medical profession was not his only employment. He was also a mechanic, and made plows. His son Ozias lived and died on the same place where his father did, a little south of the Sedgwicks. He had a natural taste for poetry, and published a poem on the great hail storm which occurred in the summer of 1799. He lived to a good old age. His brother, Joab, lived near him, and died some years before him. Both are buried in the old Cornwall Hollow cemetery.

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The following photographs and their captions are taken from
Cornwall in Pictures: A visual reminiscence 1868-1941

 
The Hurlburt homestead sheltered one of the oldest families in town. The first Hurlburt, Jonathan, arrived in 1746 from Farmington.

A picture of school children at the Sedgwick monument shows the Hurlburt garage--built in the late 1930s and razed in 1940 for lack of business.