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Enfield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, first approved by John and Robert Pease of Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. The population was 42,141 at the 2020 census. It is bordered by Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, to the north, Somers to the east, East Windsor and Ellington to the south, and the Connecticut River (towns of Suffield and Windsor Locks) to the west.

Enfield was originally inhabited by the Podunk tribe, and contained their two villages of Scitico and Nameroke. Though land grants were first contracted in 1674, no one attempted to tie in what is known as Enfield until 1679 afterward the Pease Brothers of Robert and John II, settlers from Salem, Massachusetts came in to assent the fruitful lands. They dug a shelter into a hill and camped there for the winter until their families came to help them construct houses. In 1675, a sawmill owned by William Pynchon II was burned in the wake of King Phillip’s War. The first town meeting was held on August 14, 1679 and a committee of five were appointed by men from Springfield as it was the parent town at the time. Enfield was incorporated in Massachusetts upon May 16, 1683 as the Freshwater Plantation, the similar day as the town of Stow, Massachusetts, making them the 52nd/53rd towns in the Colony. The namesake is the Freshwater Brook (Also known as the Asnuntuck Brook) that traverses the town. Five years later, on March 16, 1688, the townspeople purchased Enfield from a Podunk named Notatuck for 25 pounds Sterling. It is uncertain what claim Notatuck actually had to the land, or whether he was selling the land or the rights to use it. Shortly nearly 1700, the town changed its name to Enfield after Enfield in Middlesex, and to go in the heavens of the other “fields” in the Place such as Springfield, Westfield, and Suffield.

In 1734, the eastern ration of town on bad terms into the town of Somers. In 1749, following the agreement of a conflict in which it was Definite that a surveyor’s mistake placed a section of present-day Hartford County (including Enfield) within the boundaries of Massachusetts, the town seceded and became ration of Connecticut.