 Other towns or plantations in the United Colonies of New England included Milford and
Guilford in Connecticut as well as Southold on Long Island.Shortly after the restoration of Charles II of England, in a session of the Connecticut General Court held on October 9, 1662 the former New Haven "plantations" of Stanford ("sic"), Greenwich, Guilford, and even Southold were to be recognized as Connecticut Colony towns with constables sworn in.The first public schoolhouse in Stamford was a "crude, unheated wooden structure only ten or twelve feet square".