General History of Connecticut, from Its First Settlement Under George Fenwick to its Latest Period of Amity with Great Britain

• Allen, Ethan, origin of his fame, 106;
  • joins in the secret expedition against Ticonderoga, 257.
• Amusements, 221.
• Argal, Sir Samuel, compels the Dutch at Manhattan to submit, 12.
• Arnold, Dr. Benedict, attacks Dr. Peters, 268.
• Arran, Earl of, claims part of Connecticut, 27.
• Ashford, 133.
• Assembly, General, chosen by the people, 82;
  • times of meeting, 83;
  • their laws not to be repealed but by their own authority, 85;
  • resolved to settle their lands on Susquehanna River, 96;
  • hold a special meeting to consider the Stamp-act, 232;
  • vote that the Governor do not take the oath required by it, 235;
  • and treat the populace on its repeal, 239;
  • conduct of, in regard to Colonel Street Hall and the revolters, 240-243.

B

• Bays, two principal, 119.
• Beach, the Rev. Mr., joins the Church of England, 167;
  • ignominiously and most cruelly treated, his heroism, 274.
• Bear, a she, and her cubs, killed by General Putnam, 133, 134.
• Beauford, 161.
• Bellamy, the Rev. Dr., some account of, 146.
• Birds, 185, 186.
• Bishop of London’s authority derided by an American judge, 144.
• Bishops, their neglectful conduct in regard to America, 172;
  • animadversions upon, 173;
  • notices concerning, 61, 171, 172.
• Blaxton, the Rev. Mr., particulars relating to, 51, Note.
• Blue Laws, specimens of, 58.
• Bolton, 139.
• Boston, peninsula of, obtained and occupied by the Rev. Mr. Blaxton, 51, Note;
  • town of, founded, 16;
  • its port shut up, 256;
  • attack meditated against it, 258;
  • Neck fortified by General Gage, 258.
• Bostwick, the Rev. Mr., attacked by the mob, 254.
• Boundaries, disputes concerning, 99;
  • of Connecticut, as at present allowed, 114.
• Bribery disallowed, 222.
• Briton, Mr., humourous story concerning him and a deacon’s daughter, 214.
• Brown, the Rev. Mr., declares for the Church of England, 166.
• Brownists set sail for America, and found Plymouth, 16.
• Buckley, the Rev. John, some account of, 141.
• Buckley, the Rev. Peter, character of, 142.
• Bull-fly, description of, 187.
• Bundling, singular custom of, justified, 224-229.
• Byles, Dr. Mather, disingenuous treatment, 218.

C

• Canaan, 147.
• Cansey American Indians enjoy liberty in perfection, 110.
• Canterbury, 135.
• Caterpillars ravage the border of Connecticut River, 131.
• Chandler, the Rev. Thomas Bradbury, where born, 133.
• Charter, petitioned for privately, 66;
  • obtained, 68;
  • claim founded upon, and prevarications concerning it, 36;
  • powers conferred by, 83, 84;
  • strengthens notions of independence, 86;
  • formally surrendered by the colony to Sir Edmund Andros, 89;
  • regained by a mob, hid in a tree, and reassumed, 90;
  • violated by George II., 102.
• Chatham, 139.
• Church of England, the first erected in Connecticut, 163;
  • professors of the, number of, in 1770, 168, 169;
  • reason of their great increase, 166;
  • their zeal, 170;
  • measures adverse to, 171.
• Clergy, Episcopal, in Connecticut, morality of, 171;
  • one punished for not observing the Sabbath agreeably to the notions of Sober Dissenters, 213;
  • acquire immortal honour by adhering to their ordination-oaths, 260;
  • immoral, anti-episcopal, and rebellious conduct of some of them in the southern provinces, 172-174.
• Colchester, 141.
• Colden, Lieutenant-Governor, of New-York, grants lands in Verdmont, 105.
• Coldness of the winter in Connecticut accounted for, 176.
• Comic Liturgy, acted in Connecticut on occasion of the Stamp-act, 231.
• Commerce of Connecticut, 191.
• Company for Propagating the Gospel in New-England, charter obtained for the, and abuse of it, 52, Note.
• Connecticote, his kingdom, 135;
  • his conduct toward the settlers, 53;
  • his death, 57.
• Connecticut, its latitude and longitude, 175;
  • whence named, 15;
  • three parties of English adventurers arrive in, 16;
  • right to the soil of, considered, 31-35;
  • civil and religious establishments and proceedings of the first English settlers, 37;
  • forms a confederacy with New-Plymouth and Massachusets-Bay, 62;
  • obtains a charter of incorporation, 68;
  • divided into counties, townships, &c., 83;
  • sketch of its religious-political free system since the Charter, 97-100;
  • half the territory of, granted to the Duke of York, 75;
  • its consequent loss of territory, 77, 101;
  • dimensions of, as at present allowed, 114;
  • description of, at large, 115;
  • treatment English travelers met with then from landlords, 111;
  • proceedings of, in regard to the Stamp-act, 229-245;
  • to the Tea-act, 251;
  • to that for shutting the port of Boston, 253;
  • commits the first overt act of high treason, 254.
• Connecticut River, description of, 115;
  • astonishing narrows in it, 115, 116.
• Contingencies, extraordinary allowance for, 198;
  • of what sort some are, 220.
• Convention, grand continental, of dissenting ministers at Newhaven, notices concerning, 160.
• Cooper, the Rev. Miles, LL.D., narrowly escapes the fury of the mob in New-York, 258.
• Cornwall, 147.
• Cotton, the Rev. Mr., notices relating to, 50; Note, 138.
• Council of Plymouth, their grant, 12.
• Courts, instituted in Connecticut, 83, 84;
  • cruelty of the ecclesiastical, in New-England, 128.
• Coventry, 132.
• Cuba, description of an animal so called, and extraordinary qualities of male and female, 183.
• Cursette, Mrs., surprising discovery of her will, 153.
• Customs of the people, 211;
  • borrowed of the Indians, 223.
• Cutler, the Rev. Dr., joins the Church of England, 166.

D

• Dagget, the Rev. Mr. Naphthali, character of, 160.
• Danbury, 168;
  • burnt, 258.
• Davenport, the Rev. John, arrives at Newhaven, 20;
  • his church-system, 42, 43.
• Dead, buried with their feet to the west, 123.
• Debble, the Rev. Mr., cruelly treated, 274.
• Derby, 162.
• Dixwell, buried at Newhaven, 63, Note.
• Douglas, Dr., some account of, 101.
• Durham, 162.
• Dutch, get footing on Manhattan Island, but are compelled to submit by Argal, 12;
  • revolt, 15.
• Dyer, Mr., takes active part in Stamp-act, 236.

E

• East Haddam, 139.
• East Windsor. See Windsor, 139.
• Eaton, Mr. Theophilus, arrives at Newhaven, 20;
  • chosen Governor, 42;
  • his true character, 150.
• Election, management of, in Connecticut, 222.
• Elliot, the Rev. Mr., some mention of, 129.
• Endfield, 139.
• Expenditure of Connecticut, 196.
• Exports of Connecticut, 191.

F

• Fairfield, 163;
  • burnt, 260.
• Farmington, 142.
• Fenwick, George, Esq., first arrival at Saybrook, 17;
  • his and associates’ right to settle in Connecticut discussed and disproved, 24-28;
  • disposes of his property in America and returns to England, 49.
• Fish of Connecticut, 189.
• Fitch, Governor, his conduct on occasion of Stamp-act, 231, 235, 237, 240.
• Franklin, Dr., notices concerning, 231, 232, 251.
• Frogs, an amazing multitude, humourous story, 129.

G

• Gage, General, arrives at Boston, 253;
  • fortifies Boston Neck, 256;
  • in danger of being surprised, 257.
• Gates, Sir Thomas, and associates, account of their patent, 11.
• Gavelkind, custom of, prevails in Connecticut, 220.
• General Assembly. See Assembly, 82.
• General List, account and specimen of, 206.
• Gibbs, the Rev. Mr., inhuman treatment of, 143.
• Glastonbury, 149.
• Glover, Mr., his concealment of Mrs. Cursette’s will, 152.
• Glow-bug described, 188.
• Goshen, 147.
• Government, some account of, 198;
  • the Clergy, Merchants, and Lawyers, the three grand parties in the State, 201.
• Governments, bad policy of most, 245.
• Graves, the Rev. Mr., cruel treatment of, 274.
• Great Barrington, why obnoxious to the mob, 255.
• Greensmith, Mrs., the first person executed as a witch in America, 136.
• Greenwich, 163.
• Grenville, George, Esq., mobbed, hung and burnt in effigy, 234, Note.
• Grigson, Mr., extraordinary concealment of his will, 150.
• Groton, 122.
• Guilford described, 161.

H

• Haddam, 139.
• Hall, Colonel Street, chosen commander of the mob of revolters against the General Assembly, his conduct, and extraordinary speech, 240-243.
• Hamilton, Marquis of, his title to part of Connecticut proved, 26.
• Hancock, Mr., his opposition to the Tea-act, and artifice in disposing of his own stock, 251.
• Hancock, John, Esq., his dishonourable conduct in regard to Mrs. Cursette’s will, 152, 153.
• Harrington, 142.
• Harrison, Peter, Esq., his spirited and honourable conduct in discovering Mr. Grigson’s will, 151.
• Harrison, Major-General Thomas, hanged at Charing Cross, 141.
• Hartland, 147.
• Harvey, Mr. Joel, receives a premium from the Society of Arts in London, 147.
• Haynes, John, settled at Hertford, 18;
  • chosen Governor, 38, 39.
• Hebron, description of, 139;
  • refuses to contribute to the relief of the Bostonians, on the shutting up of their port, 262;
  • town-meeting for collecting money, 263.
• Hertford, first settlement there by the English, 16, 17;
  • by what authority, 30;
  • description of, 136;
  • curiosities in, 137.
• Hillhouse, William, present at interview with Governor Jonathan Trumbull, 267.
• Hooker, Rev. Thomas, settles at Hertford, 18;
  • his motive for quitting Massachusets-Bay, 29;
  • Church-system, 39.
• Howling wilderness, Connecticut improperly so called, 107.
• Huet, the Rev. Mr., some mention of, 139.
• Humble-bee, description of, 188.
• Humility, a bird so called, described, 186.

I

• Imports, 192.
• Independence, idea of, strengthened by Charter, 86;
  • symptoms of, manifested by the colonies, 229;
  • not the wish of the common people, 260;
  • formally declared by Congress, 274.
• Indians, their mode of counting, 35, Note;
  • number of them killed in Hispaniola, Porto Rico, and South America, and in Connecticut and Massachusets-Bay, 107;
  • in the whole of North America and West Indies, 108;
  • their aversion to the Protestant religion, 206.
• Ingersoll, David, barbarously treated, 254.
• Ingersoll, Jared, Esq., mobbed, and forced to resign his post of Stamp-master, 233;
  • hung and burnt in effigy, 233, Note.
• Inhabitants in Connecticut, 190;
  • their hospitality to strangers, 211;
  • of the men, 223;
  • of the women, 224.
• Insects, 187.

J

• Johnson, Dr. Samuel, character of, 161;
  • declares for the Church of England, 167;
  • treacherous embassy of his son, 258.
• Joshua, a pretended sachem, 32.

K

• Kent, 147.
• Killingsley, 133.
• Killingsworth, 129.
• King’s statue, at New-York, destroyed, 259.

L

• Latitude and longitude of Connecticut, 175.
• Laws, Blue, specimen of, 58-60;
  • other laws, 85.
• Law-suits, amazing number of, 200;
  • remarkable nature of some of them, 211.
• Leaming, the Rev. Mr., cruelly treated, 274.
• Lebanon, 132.
• Litchfield described, 144.
• Little Isaac, a nickname given to Americans, 189.
• Lyme, 124.

M

• Manners of the people, 211.
• Mansfield, the Rev. Mr., tried for high treason, 274.
• Mansfield, town, 132.
• Manufactures of Connecticut, 190.
• Mason, his claim to land in Connecticut, 33.
• Massachusets-Bay, settled by Puritans, 16;
  • loses part of its territory, 103.
• Merret, his singular treatment, charged with incest, 127.
• Middletown described, 138.
• Milford, 161.
• Mill, curious invention of Joel Harvey, 147.
• Minister, Sober Dissenting, manner of settling and dismissing, 217.
• Moodus, a pretended sachem, 32.
• More, Sir Henry, begins to regrant Verdmont, 105.
• Motte treacherously sent against Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 257.
• Moyley, the Rev. Mr., fined for marrying a couple of his own parishioners, 144.

N

• Neal, the Rev. Mr., his representation about Sunksquaw, Uncas, Joshua, Moodus, &c., exploded, 32-34, 56;
  • refutation of his doctrine concerning synods, 125;
  • a sacramental test, 202;
  • the loyalty of New-Englanders, 204;
  • his enmity against the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel exposed, 205;
  • notice concerning, 33, 107.
• Negro tried for castration, 85;
  • negro slaves, 108.
• Nell, Mr., 164.
• New-England, the Massachusets county, first so called by Charles, Prince of Wales, 11;
  • divisions of, 13;
  • cause of its first settlement discussed, 107.
• New-Fairfield, 147.
• Newhampshire deprived of territory, 108.
• Newhaven, first settled by the English, 20;
  • totally without authority, 31;
  • early proceedings, 56;
  • Blue Laws, 58;
  • state of, after the death of Cromwell, 62;
  • accedes to the Charter, 69;
  • particular description of, 147;
  • a ship fitted out to secure a patent, and wonderful consequences, 149.
• New-Hertford, 147.
• New Lights, notices concerning, 99, 202-204.
• New-London, described, 120;
  • port of, well calculated for the grand emporium of Connecticut, 194.
• New-Milford, 146.
• Newtown, 168.
• New-York, gains land from Connecticut, 77, 101;
  • from Massachusets-Bay and Newhampshire, 103, 104;
  • constitution of, subverted by the Sober Dissenters, 258.
• Nichols, Colonel, deprives Connecticut of Long Island, 77.
• Nichols, the Rev. Mr., cruelly treated, 274.
• Norwalk, 163;
  • burnt, 260.
• Norwich, description of, 123.

O

• Old Lights, notices concerning, 99, 202-205.
• Oneko, King of Mohegan, 32.
• Onions, vast quantity raised in Weathersfield, 188;
  • beds of, weeded by the females, 138.
• Osootonoc River, description of, 119.

P

• Parsons, Hugh, found guilty of witchcraft, 137.
• Penderson, Rev. Mr., joins the Church of England, 167.
• Peters, the Rev. Hugh, account of himself and family, 50.
• Peters, the Rev. Samuel, account of, 140;
  • interview with Governor Trumbull, 266;
  • escape from Portsmouth and Boston, 270;
  • reward offered by John Hancock for his capture, 270.
• Peters, Rev. Thomas, his arrival at Saybrook, 17;
  • Church-system, 37;
  • school, 49;
  • character, 50;
  • some particulars of his life, 50, Note.
• Peters, William, particulars relating to, 50-52, Note.
• Phelps, treacherously sent upon an expedition against Ticonderoga and Croton Point, 257.
• Pitt, Mr., a Churchman, whipped for not attending meeting, 208.
• Plainfield, 135.
• Plymouth, New, founded, 16.
• Pomeroy, Rev. Dr., character, 140;
  • sent for by the Windham mob, 265.
• Pomfret, 133.
• Population, 190.
• Pork, unfair dealing in, 193.
• Potter, Deacon, unjustly convicted of bestiality, 154.
• Poultry of Connecticut, 185.
• Powwow, ancient Indian rite, celebration of, at Stratford described, 164.
• Prayer of some of the Episcopal clergy in the southern provinces before Congress, 275.
• Presbyterians, disliked and ill-treated by Sober Dissenters, 135, 199.
• Preston, 123.
• Produce of Connecticut, 178.
• Pumpkin, hair cut by the shell, 153, 154.
• Pumpkin-heads, a name given to New-Englanders, 153.
• Putnam, General, curious anecdotes of, 133;
  • kills a bear and cubs, 134;
  • his narrow escape from Indians, 134;
  • terrible to them, 135;
  • alarms the country in a letter concerning Admiral Graves and General Gage, 262.

Q

• Quackery triumphant, 145.
• Quaker, shrewd retort of one upon his judges, 99.
• Quinnipiog, kingdom, 147;
  • refuses to grant land to the settlers, and is murdered, 56.

R

• Rattlesnake, some account of, 188;
  • use of skin, 223.
• Reading, 168.
• Rebellion, true sources of, in America, 247.
• Religion, the established, 84, 85.
• Reptiles, 188.
• Revenue, 196;
  • objections against raising, in America, 244.
• Rhode-Island, infamous law of the General Assembly, 169.
• Ridgfield, 168;
  • burnt, 259.
• Rivers, the three principal, described, 114-118.
• Rivington, Mr., plundered, 258.

S

• Sabbath, rigidly observed, 213;
  • how broken by an Episcopal clergyman, 213.
• Salary of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Treasurer, &c., 198.
• Salisbury, 147.
• Sandeman, Rev. Mr., doctrine of, 168.
• Sassacus, Sachem of the Pequods, his kingdom and character, 119, 120.
• Saybrook, founded, 16;
  • described, 124;
  • its civil and religious establishments, 37;
  • early proceedings, 46;
  • enters the confederacy, 62;
  • refuses to send agents to England to oppose the king, 49;
  • forms an alliance with Hertford, 49;
  • and joins in a secret application for a Charter, 64.
• Saybrook platforms, some account of the, 155.
• Scovil, the Rev. Mr., cruel treatment of, 274.
• Sealbury, Rev. Dr., taken prisoner, 258.
• Sects, religious, in Connecticut, some account of the, 198.
• Sharon, famous for a mill, 147.
• Ship, wonderful story of one fitted out in Newhaven, 149.
• Sick, horrid mode of visiting, 219.
• Skunk, description and wonderful property of the, 184.
• Smith, Rev. Mr., notices of, 53, 138.
• Smith, William, notices concerning, 100-102, 105, 113, 175.
• Sober Dissenters, religion of, in Connecticut, 85;
  • their uncandid conduct toward Episcopalians, Anabaptists, Quakers, &c., in regard to parish rates, 207;
  • and their severe treatment of Mr. Gibbs for refusing to pay them, 148;
  • their humanity to sick strangers and persons shipwrecked, 219;
  • partial support, 219.
• Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, notices concerning, 52, Note, 105, 167, 170-175, 205.
• Soil, 178.
• Sommers, 139.
• Stafford, the New-England “Bath,” 142.
• Stamp-Act, proceedings and opinions relating to, in Connecticut, 229.
• Stirling, Earl of, his claim in Connecticut, 25.
• Stonington, 122.
• Stratford, description of, 163.
• Stratford River, 118.
• Strong, Rev. Nehemiah, 160.
• Suffield, 139.
• Sunksquaw, a pretended sachem, 32.
• Superstition, striking instance, 200.
• Symsbury mines, account of, 142.

T

• Tarbox, Capt. David, remark on leaving Governor Trumbull’s house, 267.
• Tea, act of sending, to America opposed, 251.
• Temple, Mr., seditious letters imputed to, 251.
• Test, sacramental, unnecessary in New-England, 202.
• Thames River described, 114.
• Ticonderoga, secret expedition against, 258.
• Tolland, 139.
• Torrington, 147.
• Travellers, English, how treated by landlords, 111.
• Tree-frog, agility of, 189.
• Trumbull, Governor, furnishes a dress for the effigy of Mr. Grenville, 233, Note;
  • writes an insidious letter to General Gage, 256;
  • adds to an alarming one of General Putnam’s, 262;
  • and spirits up the mob against the loyalists, 264;
  • writes the eighteen articles for Dr. Peters to sign, 264;
  • his reply to Dr. Peters when asking protection from the Windham mob, 266.
• Trumbull, David, in command of the Windham mob, 264;
  • handing Dr. Peters the document containing high treason, to sign, 264;
  • his remark upon Dr. Peters refusing to sign it, 265.
• Tryon, Governor, his character, 113;
  • escapes the mob at New-York, 258;
  • leaves Danbury, 258;
  • Ridgfield, 259;
  • releases the prisoners at Newhaven, 260;
  • leaves Fairfield and Norwalk, 260.

U

• Uncas, a pretended sachem, 32.
• Union, 132.

V

• Verdmont, account of, 106.
• Viets, Rev. Mr., tried for high treason, 274.
• Visey, Rev. Mr., suppresses the powwow at Stratford, 164.
• Voluntown, 135.

W

• Wallingford, description of, 162.
• Warwick, Earl of, his title to the soil of any part of Connecticut disproved, 23-26.
• Waterbury, 162.
• Weathersfield, description of, 138;
  • singular industry of the females there, 138.
• Wentworth, Benning, Esq., grants townships in Verdmont, 104.
• Whapperknocker, description of, 182.
• Wheelock, Dr. Eleazer, notices concerning, 53, Note, 132.
• Whippoorwill, description of, 186.
• Whitefield, Rev. George, anecdote of, 121;
  • and character, 161;
  • attempts to work a miracle at Saybrook, 128;
  • his character of the people of Norwich, 124;
  • of those of Hebron, 140;
  • of Guilford, 161;
  • of Connecticut in general, 170, 212.
• Whitemore, Rev. Mr., joins Church of England, 166.
• Will, scandalous concealment of Mr. Grigson’s, 151;
  • of Mrs. Cursette’s, 152.
• Willington, 132.
• Winchester, 147.
• Windham, 129;
  • inhabitants alarmed by frogs, 130.
• Windsor described, 139.
• Wolcott, Oliver, treacherous embassy of, 258.
• Woodbury, 146.
• Woodchuck, 183.
• Woodstock, 133.
• Wooster, General, attacks Dr. Peters, 268;
  • mortally wounded, 259.
• Wright, Major, his actions with the Windham mob, 266.

Y

• Yale College, account of, 155-161.
• York, Duke of, obtains a grant including half of Connecticut, 75.