BRISTOL, an industrial city of Hartford county, Connecti cut, U.S.A., in the central part of the State, 16m. S.W. of Hart ford, on the Pequabuck river and served by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. It is co-extensive with Bristol township and has an area of 27 sq. miles. The population in 1920 was 20,620, of whom 5,638 were foreign-born white; and was 28,451 in 1930 Federal census. Bristol has been noted for its clocks since the 18th century, and they are still one of its lead ing products. It has many other manufactures, including sheet brass and sheet steel and a great variety of steel and brass articles. The aggregate factory product in 1925 was valued at Tobacco is grown in the vicinity. Bristol was settled about 1727. Before and during the revolution it had a strong loyalist faction. The rector of the Protestant Episcopal church, the Rev. James Nichols, was tarred and feathered by the whigs; and Moses Dunbar, a member of the church, was hanged for treason. Chippen's Hill was a favorite rendezvous of the Loyalists, and a cave there is known as "the Tories' den."