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The Bankside Farmers were a group of five men who established themselves along the Long Island Sound south of Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1648. The area is now known as Greens Farms, a section of Westport, Connecticut.
Mar 2, 2020 · Thomas Newton, John Green and Henry Gray were given a land grant to settle the area in 1648 with Daniel Frost and Francis Andrews joining them within a few years. The group later became known as the Bankside Farmers. In subsequent generations, others like Joshua Jennings possessed landholdings encompassing a large parcel of Green’s Farms.
Bankside Farmers, 1648-1711. When Connecticut was a British colony, the area east of the Saugatuck River to the border of Fairfield and west of the Mill River was known as Green’s Farms.
May 19, 2024 · The Bankside Farmers. The first three farmers were Thomas Newton, Henry Gray, and John Green. They were soon followed by Daniel Frost, who occupied land now called Frost Point, and Francis Andrews, who lived near what is now called Sherwood Island.
By the end of 1648, these five pioneers – who came to be known as the Bankside Farmers – had been officially sanctioned by Fairfield to “sit down and inhabit at Machamux”, creating the first white settlement in the Green’s Farms area.
The Bankside Farmers were a group of five men who established themselves along the Long Island Sound south of Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1648. The area is now known as Greens Farms , a section of Westport, Connecticut .
The five original “Bankside Farmers” settled in modern-day Greens Farms in 1648. Caption: The “Bankside Farmers” who settled in the Greens Farms neighborhood in 1648. During the Revolutionary War, battle broke out during the British raid on Danbury.
