The Land

The History

The Hammonasset Indians once considered this property home. Their village was on the northern edge of Someday Farm where Wolf Meadow and Roast Meat Hill Roads meet, though they ranged from the Aigicomock (now the East River, then the Ruttawoo or as the Mohegans knew it, the Moosamuttuck) in Guilford and the Connecticut River on their western border.

In the mid-1600s the New Haven colony was bounded on its east by the Hammonasset River where its most eastern town was Guilford. The Connecticut Colony’s most western town was Saybrook and its boundary was the Menunketesuck River. Over fifty square miles remained unsettled between these two settlements. The southern portion of this un-settlement was what is now Clinton while the northern portion is now Killingworth. Killingworth is at a higher elevation and is more hilly, forested, and rocky.

In 1663 the town of Killingworth was officially settled, though not officially named until 1667. At a Court of Election held in Hartford on May 9, 1667, it was ordered that “ye towne of Homonoscit shal for ye future be named Kenilworth, & for yr brand of horses they shal have ye letter V on ye near buttock.” Kenilworth was most likely chosen as it is the English town name from which Killingworth’s first delegate to the General Court (then both the general Assembly and Court), Edward Griswold, was born in 1607. Through corruption of spelling, Kenilworth became Killingworth which was used exclusively after 1707.

The above-mentioned ‘town’ included present day Clinton and thus extended to the Long Island Sound at its southern edge. On May 8, 1735 an Act of Organization was passed by the General Assembly which divided Clinton and Killingworth “in the County of Newlondon into two Distinct Ecclesiastical Societies.” An ecclesiastical society could tax its inhabitants and was obligated to tend to its members cemetery, religious, and schooling needs. Town meetings and other secular governmental needs continued to be met in Clinton. In 1838 Killingworth fully separated from Clinton though it retained a right to the town dock and beach.

The oldest cemetery in Killingworth is the Union District Yard, laid out March 22, 1738 just north of Wolf Meadow Rd. Hermann Broch died in 1951 in New Haven, Connecticut. He is buried in Killingworth, Connecticut, in the cemetery on Roast Meat Hill Road. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Reginald Frye was a prior owner of Someday Farm.

Pat Worth was a prior owner of Someday Farm.