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In June 1636, Rev. Thomas Hooker and about a hundred others, men, women, and children, probably including Nathaniel Ely, made their way through the wilderness to a fertile spot on the Connecticut River and made the first settlement at Hartford. It appears from the early records and a map made in 1640 that Ely owned a homestead there. In 1639 he was one of the constables and in 1643 and 1649 one of the selectmen. The name of Nathaniel Ely is on the monument to the memory of the first settlers of Hartford. He afterward removed to what is now Norwalk, Connecticut, of which he was one of the founders and he is listed on the Founders Stone bearing the names of the founding settlers of Norwalk in the East Norwalk Historical Cemetery. There he remained until 1659 when he sold his property and removed to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he passed the remainder of his life. Here, as at Hartford, he was called to serve the public soon after his arrival and was selectman in Springfield in 1661-63-66-68-71 and 73. His place of residence in that town from 1660 to 1665 is not definitely known, though it is most likely that he lived in what is now Chicopee. In 1665 he became the keeper of the ordinary, or tavern, a business which he continued to follow to the time of his death, December 25, 1675. [1] [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Ely
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ely-136

He is not the son of Rev. Nathaniel Ely and Susannah Dowle whose son died as a baby.