On the 8th day of June, 1749, James Brown, then of Norwalk, Conn., sold to Solomon Close, of Greenwich, Conn., for one hundred and sixty-three pounds, current money of New York, " a tract of land which is part of the southermost ten miles of said oblong, and is situated north of and near unto the pond called and known by the name of Long Pond, and is bounded as follows, viz : Beginning at Jonah Keeler's northwest corner and running south seventy-seven and a half degrees west, one hundred and twenty rods, then south twelve degrees and a half west, three hundred and twenty-five rods: -- then north seventy-seven and a half degrees east one hundred and eighty rods : -- then north, eight degrees east, three hundred and twenty-five rods ; the whole containing 326 acres, be it more or less; botinded north by Daniel Sherwood's land; west by the twenty mile line ; south by Common land; and east by Jonah Keeler's land."0

One of the principal proprietors of the oblong portion of this town, was the Rev. Thomas Hawley, the first pastor of the Congregational church of Ridgefield, son of General Joseph Hawley, of Northampton, Mass., who was a representative of that place as early as 1683, and a graduate of Harvard College in 1674; descended from the Hawleys^of the counties of Somerset and Dorset, England. The Rev. Thomas Hawley, who was settled as pastor at Ridgefield, in 17 13, was born at Northampton, September 10th, 1689, and died at Ridgefield, November 8th, 1738, and by his wife Abigail, who died April 17th, 1749, had six sons. Joseph Hawley, the second son, was a distinguished scholar and antiquarian, and father of Ezekiel Hawley, one of the Proprietors of the oblong in 1753 ; also a commissioned officer in the Continental sen-ice, and chairman, throughout the Revolutionary war, of the Committee of Public Safety.