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

Chapter 43: Transcriber’s Note:

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The volume offers a provincial history that traces early settlement and growth, surveys the country’s geography and institutions, and records many anecdotes and incidents illustrating social and religious practices. It includes an appendix that examines the causes of colonial unrest and the colony’s role in the movement toward separation, along with notes, extracts, and editorial additions presented as documentary support. The author frames the account as corrective to earlier narratives, contesting established portrayals and highlighting laws and customs he regards as misrepresented or concealed.

Transcriber’s Note:

Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences were added.

Footnotes were renumbered in sequence and moved to the end of the section in which the footnote anchor occurs.

Italic “l.” was used to indicate British pounds throughout the book.

Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged, e.g. Qunnipiack, befal, pateroons, and Massachusets.

In the Rate of Taxation table, the numbers are shown as printed, although the total of 65 l. is not the correct sum.