WETHERSFIELD, a town of Hartford county, Connecticut, U.S.A. Population (1920) 4349; 193o Federal census 7,512. It is a beautiful old town, a residential suburb of Hartford and the seat of the Connecticut State prison. Among the interesting old buildings are the Webb house, in which Washington and Count de Rochambeau met in 1781 to plan the Yorktown cam paign; the First Church of Christ (Congregational), built in 1761; and the old academy building (1804) now used for town offices and the public library. There is a giant elm on Broad
Street Green with a girth of 26.5 feet. Wethersfield was settled in 1634, by colonists from Watertown, Mass., and is the oldest permanently inhabited town in the State. With Hartford and Windsor in 1639 it framed the Fundamental Orders of the Colony of Connecticut.