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1654 Hartford Town Votes 15 Mar. 81, in Coll. Connecticut Hist. Soc. (1897) VI. 107 At the Same meatinge it was agread that Joseph easton should be hayward for the south side to pound all Hogs un Ringed of that side of the riverlett.

1674 W. Cornwell Will 12 June in C. W. Manwaring Digest Early Connecticut Probate Rec. (1904) I. 294 I give..to my Son John Two Acres of ye meadow & swamp at ye Riverlet at the Western end of that meadow and swamp, to begin next to the Riverlett at the end next unto the Boggy meadow.

1704 Hartford Town Votes 8 Apr. 211 in Coll. Connecticut Hist. Soc. (1897) VI. 272 Lay out to Each person their part or proportion of the fortyfications agreed on to be made on the south side the Riverlet.

1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 18 Oct. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1988) V. 298 A Small riverlet falls in.

1883 R. Broughton Belinda I. i. vii. 110 Here by the riverlet sits the floury mill.

1918 Geogr. Rev. 5 326 The remnantal pre-glacial stream was turned out over the Idaho lava fields as the diminutive riverlet that we find today as Snake River.

1967 Times 20 Oct. 11/5 In sheets, [the rain]..washed riverlets of dirty black water past the doors of the drab little terraces.

2007 M. Tarcici Crescent Moon 131 Many underground riverlets converged from the mountains to form a large spring down in the valley.