On its three hundredth anniversary in 2015, the town of Tolland honored fifty-nine pioneers who first petitioned the colony on May 9, 1713, to create the town, which was granted a charter on May 12, 1715: Loseph Baker, Benjamin Barber, Cornelius Birge, Josiah Bissell, Henry Chapman, Simon Chapman, Daniel Cook, Ebenezer Cook, Nathaniel Cook, Nathaniel Drake, Thomas Edgar, Thomas Eggleston, Samuel Elisworth, John Eno, Joseph Farnsworth, Jonas Gaylord, Cornelius Gillett, Nathaniel Gillett Jr., Nathaniel Grant, Noah Grant, Samuel Grant, Daniel Griswold Jr., Thomas Griswold, John Gridley, Benaiah Holcomb, Anthony Hoskins, John Huntington, H. Loomer, Daniel Loomis, David Loomis, Joshua Loomis, Ichabod Loomis, Stephen Loomis, Samuel Marshall, Jedidiah Mills, Joseph Phelps, William Phelps, Humphrey Pinney, Jonathan Pinney, Nathaniel Pinney, Daniel Porter, Joseph Porter, Nathaniel Porter, Joseph Rockwell, Samuel Rockwell, Joseph Skinner, Philip Smith, Henry Stiles Jr., Thomas Stiles, Israel Stoughton, Robert Warren, Nathaniel Watson, John Willes, Joshua Willes, Joshua Willes Sr., Samuel Willes, Charles Wolcott, Henry Wolcott, and Roger Wolcott.