Windsor,
A town in
Hartford county, Conn., on the
Connecticut and
Farmington rivers, containing several villages, and principally engaged in agriculture and the manufacture of paper,
spool silk, cotton warps, and machinery.
The town was settled under the leadership of
Roger Ludlow, a distinguished jurist and the reputed author of the constitution adopted by the towns of
Windsor,
Hartford, and
Wethersfield, the union of which constituted the commonwealth of
Connecticut, in 1639 (see
Connecticut). The settlement dates from 1637, the place receiving its name in February of that year.
The first Congregational church here was erected in 1644.
Windsor contains the home of
Chief-Justice Oliver Ellsworth, of the United States Supreme Court, and many valuable colonial relics, and was the burialplace of
Capt. John Mason, who conquered the
Pequod Indians,
Chief-Justice Ellsworth,
the Rev. Ephraim Hewit,
Gov. Roger Wolcott, and other colonial and Revolutionary celebrities.