In October 1663, the Legislature of CT resolved that there should be a town at Hammonnasset and the same month 12 planters moved there. This town was called the Plantation at Hammonasset and the Plantation between Guilford and Saybrook until May 1666/7 when it was named Kenilworth. Apparently by the method of creative spelling, the town evolved to its present name Killingworth. Town vital records begin 1667. Barbour collection records cover 1667-1850.
Settled as the plantation of "Homonoscitt" (Hammonasset)
Date:
1667
Description:
Name changed to Kenilworth
Date:
1687/8
Description:
Land dispute with Saybrook was settled
Date:
1701
Description:
The Rev. Abraham Pierson was chosen to take care of instructing and governing a collegiate school that would become Yale University, after being moved from Killingworth to Old Saybrook and finally settling in New Haven.
Date:
1703
Description:
Town voted to a schoolhouse on Meetinghouse Hill
Date:
1735
Description:
The boundary line between Killingworth and Clinton was drawn
Date:
1816
Description:
The second Eccesiastical Society voted to build a new meeting house, which is the present day Congregational Church building, completed in 1820.
Town Historian (1)
Name:
Thomas Lentz
Contact Data:
126 Schnoor Road
Killingworth, CT 06419
or contact the
Killingworth Historical Society
P.O. Box 707
Killingworth, CT 06419 www.killingworthhistorical.com
