History Of The Town Of Windham Conn

Author : Ellen D. Larned
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ISBN 13 : 9781628451887
Total Pages : 596 pages
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Download or read book History of Windham County, Connecticut written by Ellen D. Larned and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HISTORY OF WINDHAM COUNTY, CONNECTICUT VOLUME 1: 1600-1760 By Ellen Douglas Larned Excerpt from Contents BOOK I. 1670-1726. I. Massachusetts Boundary Line. Nipmuck and Mohegan Land Transfers II. Roxbury's Colony III. New Roxbury IV. Woodstock V. Indian Troubles VI. Important Changes. Final Division of Roxbury's Half of Woodstock VII. Uneasiness with Mr. Dwight. Second Meeting-house VIII. Ministerial Troubles. Indian Alarms. Death of Acquitamaug. Land Division. Dismissal of Mr. Dwight IX. Joshua's Tract X. Windham XI. Ponde-town Controversy. Church Organization XII. Addition of Territory. Scotland Settlement. Town Division XIII. Growth. Improvements. Second Meeting-house XIV. Canada Parish XV. General Advancement. Religions Revival. Death of Mr. Whiting. Settlement of Mr. Clap XVI. The Quinebaug Country. Peagscomsuck XVII. Plainfield Agreements. Quinebaug Land Investigation XVIII. Division of Township. Distribution of Land. Irruption from Norwich XIX. Quinebaug Land Settlement. Various Improvements XX. Boundary Quarrels. New Meeting-house. Mortality XXI. Canterbury XXII. Major Fitch. Division of Land. General Progress XXIII. Aspinock. Killingly XXIV. Land-tax. Chestnut Hill. Church Organization. Settlement of South Killingly XXV. Quinnatisset XXVI. Mashamoquet. Mortlake XXVII. Progress. Petitions. Pomfret XXVIII. Blackwell's Tract. Adams's Tract. Sale and Settlement of Mortlake. Expulsion of Mary Utter XXIX. Minister and Meeting-house. Church Organization in Pomfret. Second Land-division XXX. New Inhabitants. Improvements. South Addition to Pomfret. Peter Davison XXXI. Ashford. Land Purchase. Settlement. Town Organization. Minister Secured XXXII. Land Controversies. Church Formed XXXIII. Land Settlement. Various Improvements. Unhappy Accident XXXIV. Suffrage Dispute. Schools. New Inhabitants. Famine in Ashford. Chandler's and Corbin's Claim XXXV. The Volunteer's Land. Division. Occupation XXXVI. Organization of Voluntown. Meeting-house Site. Interrupted Ordination. Church Formed XXXVII. Boundary Quarrels. Meeting-house Site XXXVIII. Erection of Windham County. General Summary. Association of Ministers BOOK II. 1726-46. I. Windham Courts Constituted. Jail and Court-house Ordered. Affairs in Windham Town. Outbreaks II. Third Society Set Off. Scotland Parish III. Canada Parish. Death of Mr. Billings. Changes in Windham's First Society. First Execution in Windham County IV. Changes in Canterbury. New Ministers and Meeting-house. Controversy with Windham. Dismissal of Mr. Wadsworth V. Plainfield Affairs. Growth in Voluntown. . . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.