History of Connecticut - Genealogy Plus Bonus Books

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History of
Connecticut
By Elias B. Sanford
Published 1922,
450 pages
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Bonus Book #1 –
Once Upon A Time
In
Connecticut
Volumes I and II
By Caroline Clifford Newton
Published 1916,
188 pages
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Bonus Book #2 –
First Puritan Settlers
Of
Connecticut
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Bonus Book #3 –
Ye Names and Ages
Of All Ye Old Folks
In Every Hamlet, City and Town
In Ye State of
Connecticut
1884
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History of
Connecticut
– Table of Contents
I. The Indians of
Connecticut
11
II. The First Settlement of
Connecticut
. . .15
III. The Pequot War 21
IV. First Settlement of
New Haven
. — Adoption
of Constitutions by the
New Haven
and
Connecticut
Colonies 29
V. The Founding of New Towns. — Trouble with
Indians . . .36
VI. The Civil and Domestic Life of the Early
Settlers 40
VII. The New-England Confederacy. — Death of
Miantonomo 44
VIII. Troubles with the Dutch and the Indians. —
The Purchase of Saybrook. —
Farmington
incorporated
49
IX. Discovery of an Indian Plot. —Law regarding
Tobacco. —
New London
founded . . . 55
X. Uncas and the Narragansetts. — Governor
Stuyvesant at
Hartford
. —
Norwalk
and
mlddletown settled 59
XI.
Stamford
and
Fairfield
threatened by the
Dutch. —
Norwich
settled. — John Wintiieop
elected Governor 63
XII. The Story of the Regicides 68
XIII. The
Union
of the New-Haven Colony with
Connecticut
To
XIV. Edmund Andros, Governor of
New York
. —
Andros
at Saybrook. — King Philip's War . 80
Vlll CONTENTS.
XV. Report to the English Board of Trade. —
Boundary Troubles. — Demands of Edward
Randolph
87
XVI. Andros assumes Authority. — Hiding of the
Chapter 93
XVII. Government resumed under the Charter.
— Governor Fletcher at
Hartford
. . 07
XVIII. Colonial Prosperity. — Ashurst defends the
Charter Rights of the Colony. — Mohegan
Controversy 102
XIX. Public Education. —
Yale
College
founded.
—Population and Trade 108
XX. Life of the People 115
XXI. Social Distinctions. —Marriage Customs.—
Funeral Services. — Negro Slavery . . 122
XXII. The Religious Life of the People. — Sabbath
Observance. —Social Pleasures. . 127
XXIII. The Evolution of the Towns . . . .133
XXIV. Period of the Last French Wars, 1714-1748 . 130
XXV. Period of the Last French Wars, 1748-1755 . 148
XXVI. Period of the Last French Wars, 1756-1757 . 156
XXVII. Period of the Last French Wars, 1758 . . 161
XXVIII. Period of the Last French Wars, 1750-1763 . 167
XXIX. Revolt of the People against the Stamp
Act 173
XXX. Determination of the People to resist Taxation.
—
Boston
Port
Bill. — Battle of
Lexington
.
—The Capture of
Ticonderoga
. 181
XXXI. The
Battle
of
Bunker Hill
. . . .188
XXXII. Connecticut Troops at
Cambridge
. — Invasion
of Canada.—Declaration of
Independence
, 196
XXXIII. Battle of
Long Island
. — Nathan Hale. —
Surrender of
Fort
Washington
. — Burgoyne's
Surrender . . . . . . 203
XXXIV. Burning of
Danbury
. —The Fight at
Ridgefield
.
—Surrender of
Fort
Montgomery
.
— The Encampment at
Redding
. . .211
XXXV. Massacre at
Wyoming
. — British attack
New Haven
. — Burning of
Fairfield
and
NORWALK
219
XXXVI. Washington at
Hartford
and
Wethersfield
.
—
Arnold
burns
New London
. —
Massacre at
Fort
Griswold
. . . 225
XXXVI I
Connecticut
at the Close of the Revolition.
— Jonathan Trumbull. — The Adoption
of the United-States Constitution.
—
Sale
of Western Lands. —Death of
Washington
232
XXXVI I
Connecticut
at the Dawn of the Nineteenth-
Century. — The War of 1812. —
Destruction of Property at
Essex
. —
Bombardment of
Stonington
. —The
Hartford
Convention 240
XXXIX. Adoption of the Present Constitution of
Connecticut
. — The Growth of Philanthropic
Enterprises.—Temperance. — The
Anti-slavery Agitation .... 247
XL Connecticut in the Civil War, 1860 . . 254
XLI Spirit of the People. — Enlistment of
Troops. — Capture of
Roanoke Island
,
1862 261
XLII
Battle
of
Cedar
Mountain
. — Call for
Troops. — Antietam and
Fredericksburg
,
1862 264
XLIII
Battle
of
Chancellorsville
. —
Gettysburg
.
— Port
Hudson
. —
Andersonville
. — Reenlistment
of Troops, 1863 .... 269
XLIV.
Battle
of Dbuby's Bluff. — Spottsylva.ma.
— Death of Sedgwick. —
Battle
of Cold
Harbor. —
Petersburg
, 1804 .
XLV Battles of
Winchester
and Cedar Creek. —
Capture of
Fort
Fisher
. — Assault on thi
Forts near
Richmond
. — Surrender of Lee — Close of the War, 1864-05
XLVI. Era of Industrial Progress .
XLVII. Connecticut in Literature
XLVIII. The Public Schools of
Connecticut
XLIX.
Yale
University
.....
L.
Wesleyan
University
....
LI.
Trinity
College
.....
LII. Connecticut in the Life of the Nation .
LIII. Boundary-Lines and Physical Geography of
Connecticut
......
SECOND PART
CONNECTICUT
IN RECENT YEARS
1872 — 1922
I. Religious Life and Church Growth . . . 337
II. Educational Progress in the Public Schools of
Connecticut
....... 352
III. Higher Institutions of Learning . 357
IV. Political and Civic Life 306
V. Connecticut in Literature . . . . .381
VI. Connecticut in the Fine Arts and Music . . 390
VII. Manufacturing, Agriculture. Insurancf and
Banking 390
VIII. Connecticut Xewspapers ..... 405
IX.
State Parks
and Forests . . . . .417
X. State Institutions. Penal. Reformatory and
Philanthropic . . . . . .421
XL Historical and Patriotic Societies . . 425
Index 439
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