{"id":2641,"date":"2018-02-11T17:31:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2018-02-11T17:31:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:31:41","slug":"equivalent-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/11\/equivalent-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Equivalent Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A piece of local (New England) history. Did you know? I had never heard<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equivalent_Lands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> this term<\/strong><\/a>, although I was familiar with some of the boundary problems that had existed between Connecticut and Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, I lived in Southwick Mass, which has a block of land that juts into Connecticut, and disrupts the otherwise straight line that is the border between the two states. The story I remember is that all of Southwick was once the property of Lord Southwick, and he didn&#8217;t want it broken up between two states. Now I find that was all hogwash!<\/p>\n<p>I also didn&#8217;t know that Springfield (where I lived for 10 years prior to moving to Southwick) used to be part of the Connecticut colony. My father&#8217;s ancestry traces back to early English settlers of Connecticut, including the first Governor of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hartford,_Connecticut#Colonial_Hartford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connecticut Colony<\/a>. His parents were direct descendants of two of the &#8220;Founders&#8221; of Hartford (where I also lived for a time), John Wilcox (or Willcocks) and John Bidwell.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that things were quite complex over those years of imprecise surveying, compounded by conflicting claims of territory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A_map_of_the_most_inhabited_part_of_New_England_2674889207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2644 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A_map_of_the_most_inhabited_part_of_New_England_2674889207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A_map_of_the_most_inhabited_part_of_New_England_2674889207.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A_map_of_the_most_inhabited_part_of_New_England_2674889207-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A piece of local (New England) history. Did you know? I had never heard this term, although I was familiar with some of the boundary problems that had existed between Connecticut and Massachusetts. In the 1970s, I lived in Southwick Mass, which has a block of land that juts into Connecticut, and disrupts the otherwise &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/11\/equivalent-lands\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}