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Note: "History of the Plantation of Menunkatuck", by Bernard Christian Steiner
Page 196: Madison Chapter: Bezaleel Bristol was one of the first settlers in the neighborhood called " the Quarter" (East Guilford)
Page 197: Madison Chapter: " The first permanent settlement was made about 1725. The first families were, in the south part,...Bezaleel Bristol...
Page 362: Chapter on the 5th Church & Society in Guilford, or the Church & Society of North Bristol, now the 2nd Church & Society in Madison or the Church & Society in North Madison: As early as December 19, 1727, the 1st Society voted to "dismiss" the Black Rock farmers from paying their proportion of the rate, a year later that privilege was extended for five years more, at the expiration of which time it was indefinately extended. It was a long distance and but seldom could the farmers get to church. In November, 1743, six (one of them Bezaleel Bristol) of these Black Rock farmers send a petition to the "Pastor & Church of the 1st Society." It reads as follows: "Reverend and Dearly Beloved. We the Subscribers (all of us under your watch & care), living at a great distance from the house for Public Worship, are desirous for 10 Sabbaths in the winter Season, in concurrence with a few neighbours of the East Society, to hire some Young man to preach to us in some of our houses (Zachariah Field's house used 3 times), if we can have liberty from our Pastor & Church & the Pastor & Church of the East Society; for we have no desire to be disorderly." ... This was granted November 20th, 1743.
Page 363: In May 1753, the Society in North Madison was incorporated and called North Bristol, after Bezaleel Bristol- an early and respectable settler. The present name (Madison) was given to it in 1830, since the incorporation of the town of Madison.
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