Not to mention, “oh no I’ve cut myself, now I’m going to die “

I mean I guess so. I mean it seems to me @ 50 yrs old your pretty well set in your little routine in life , and to just up & go to what was to them people back then a new world is a Huge life change. Honestly I can’t say I would. Nothing like that exists today and I’m exuding outer space. But back then I guess it was a promise of sorts , untold wealth & Fortune, and land await all in the new world. I suppose if I hated the king, maybe even the king had it out for me, no work, living under the kings army’s rule, hungry all the time? Maybe I would go. Just seems to us here & now a huge gamble.

Not a then & now photo but.a very cool view of old new Haven.

I’ll post another picture here right now

Funny!! Great point!! Honestly I always thought any age person jumped on a ship and came here. Probably sick as hell of king stupid over there, & the main driving force was money, and land.I believe like them my biggest worry would have been the natives..

Thank you as I do to! Stay tuned I have a cpl more good ones coming.

I can post then vs now pics if you’d like. Yes there are changes every where. It’s all interesting to say the least. I really like the green and how far it used to come up to water as well as the Wooster street area.

I just think these are cool. I love the large tract each person has at this time. I got to get back into my ancestry again. I have multiple descendants from new haven.

That area in my day used to be so chill. There would be some dude walking down chapel by the old mall smoking a joint & you might ask him if he had any, he would quickly serve you up right then & there much to the oder peoples shock! Then quickly we’d go to the green and smoke ourselves, inevitably someone would come over and next thing u know it would be a small smoke fest. Always watching for 5-0. New haven cops didn’t play and we would avoid them at any cost.

A John Brockett laid out the original town plan of 9 squares & who possibly made this map or at best helped someone make this. My apologies I’m freaking getting old I guess, I once was able to rattle this stuff off the top of my head. Actually I try to blame it on the internet. I read or see so much online that it’s information overload..

Yes that’s right! Roughly 4 thousand maybe 5 remaining still & I remember that storm exposed a body!! I can’t help but wonder if the guys who moved the graves… but left the body’s are damed now. I imagine no living family members were alive by the 1800s when they moved them..

The water used to come up to chapel street. To this day there is still 4-5k dead body’s under the green. Still.I believe the green is 16 acres . The green was original design was to hold 144k people who would be saved by god during the 2nd coming, They built a church over a small part of the cemetery and in the basement of the church you can see the tombstones. Lee court house when they dug in the basement to install pumps, clamshells we’re found. I will post a source later as I can’t just find it this at the moment, however Thee new haven historical society does have this map. Stay tuned as I’ll find my source later & possibly tomorrow I may post up another interesting new haven green story. Personally I love new haven.

Pepe’s! For me.

My guess isJohn Fitch