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This land was part of the original grant east of the great river made to John Robbins of Wethersfield in 1640. The original lot of 132 acres, 22 rods wide, extended three miles from the river into the hills. With Eleazar Kimberly’s marriage to Ruth Robbins in 1677, the property remained in the Kimberly family for a century. In 1950, the Kimberly Tract became the last of the original land grants to be divided. In 1969, the town acquired this land as open space from heirs of Helen W. Lambert, fifth-generation descendants of Eleazar Kimberly.
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Glastonbury Center, Connecticut · United States
