EAST HARTFORD CONNECTICUT: Its History and Traditions. Cet article n’est pas disponible.EAST HARTFORD CONNECTICUT: Its History and Traditions

This 1879 narrative contains a wealth of information for anyone interested in seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century history and lifestyles. Beginning with histories of the various local Indian tribes, it continues with the early white settlement in 1635, recording the names of the settlers and the establishment of meeting houses and businesses. It describes voting, the care of the poor, the pest house and inoculation, public houses and sale of liquors, burying grounds, church history, industries, schools, forts, whipping posts, roads, bridges and ferries, military affairs, old houses, and customs and laws, including "bachelors not tolerated," "excess in apparel forbidden," and "a case of witchcraft." The author researched DeForest's History of the Indians of Connecticut, the published volumes of the Colonial Records of Connecticut, manuscripts and files of the State library, and records in the Town Clerk's offices in Hartford and East Hartford.

OoHT iNUBD. 1670-1774. Main Street. Bounds extended five miles. Garrisons. Bounds with Windsor. Pounds. East-side officers. First meeting house. Hockanum Bridge. Progress of the settlement, 1700 Forts, 1704. Names of residents. The Five Miles. Burial place. Public houses. Line between the Three and the Five Miles. Bolton line. Draining Eason sH ollow. Diyident lines of lots. Lister this side. Sign-posts or whipping-posts. French war, names of our company toG rown Point. Neutral French. Glastonbury line. Preaching in Five Miles. Line ofO rford Parish, 68 CHAPTER v. DURING THE REVOLUTION.-1770 -1783. Our town no suburb. Hartford votes. Company forB oston, 1775. Exploit of Gideon Olmsted. Names of soldiers. Battalion inH artford. Soldiers provided for. Prisoners of war. Confederation. Embargoed provisions. Bounties. Men in service, and drafts.V rhe debt Distrust, 81 CHAPTER VI. THE FRENCH ENCAMPMENT. Rochambeau and Washington meet here. Barbecues. A gay time, etc. Silver Lane. Boats impressed. Lafayette stour, 1824, .88 CHAPTER Vn. TOWN HISTORY. Town privileges asked. Petitions. Town incorporated. Bounds. First meeting. Officers. Accounts with Hartford. Guns sold. Meetings in Orford Parish and in meeting houses. Manner of voting. Town officers, 1784-1878, 93 CHAPTER Vra. THE TOWNS POOR. Division with Hartford. House for. House sold, and poor let out. A new house. Burned. Out-door poor, .... 102 CHAPTER IX. PEST HOUSE AND INOCULATION. House built 1761. Inoculation set up 1791. Private house. Privilege taken away. Hospital described, and methods, .104 CHAPTER X. PUBLIC HOUSES AND SALE OF LIQUORS. Ordinaries. Abuse in resorting to. Sadler sordinary. Philip Smith spublic house. Thomas Olcott s. Wells stavern. President Monroe. Phelps stavern. Lafayette. Daniel Pitkin s. John P. Jones s. Joseph P. Jones s. Cotton s. Other taverns. A mysterious disappearance. Sale of
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