History of Windham County, Connecticut Volume 1

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.