October 2 or 3 Tuesday – Sam and Livy arrived in Hartford and took possession of the Hooker house on Forest Street in Nook Farm, a small community on the western reach of the city. John Hooker, descendant of Hartford’s founder, Thomas Hooker, began Nook Farm with a 100-acre tract. Hooker and his wife Isabella Beecher Hooker developed the land and chose their neighbors. It was a loose, first name, and friendly island of cultural stimulation. Nook Farm was staunch Congregationalist and Republican, though somewhat progressive in religion tenets. The group raised money to build Joseph Twichell’s church, the Asylum Hill Congregational, a few blocks away from Nook Farm. Note: Andrews claims Oct. 1 as the day they took possession [24].

Livy was expecting again [MTL 4: 462n1; Kaplan 140]. Sam wrote a short note from Hartford to Orion that he would come by in a day or two [MTL 4: 462].