In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers that he would complete every 34 days, for almost six years. His circuit took him through at least 41 towns in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York, sleeping in caves, accepting food from townspeople, and ...

Manufacturer: Wesleyan
Written By: Dan W. DeLuca

Spanning the shores of Connecticut and Long Island, New York, the Long Island Sound is one of the most picturesque places in North America. From the discovery of the Sound in 1614, to the adventures of Captain Kidd, to the sinking of the Lexington in the sound in 1840, the Long Island Sound also holds a unique place in American history. The Long Island Sound traces ...

Manufacturer: NYU Press
Written By: Marilyn Weigold

The years from 1690 to 1765 in America have usually been considered a waiting period before the Revolution. Mr. Bushman, in his penetrating study of colonial Connecticut, takes another view. He shows how, during these years, economic ambition and religious ferment profoundly altered the structure of Puritan society, enlarging the bounds of liberty and inspiring resistance to established ...

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Written By: Richard L. Bushman

Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour's celebrated collection ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Lorraine Cook White

This book tells the story of how Westporters from all walks of life share one common characteristic: a generations-old love of community. A town settled by farmers and fishermen, diversified by immigrants from many countries and varied economic backgrounds, Westport was modernized by professionals in all fields and enriched by international celebrities from around the nation and the world. ...

Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
Written By: Woody Klein

288 pp. Bibliography and index, plus 72 maps, photos, and other illus; printed endsheets. 2nd ed: 1994. This important work presents in masterful detail the English ancestry from 1400 to 1632 of the four Fitch brothers who settled in Connecticut in the 1630s. The book contains the complete English genealogy, a Glossary of terms used in old English documents, and complete transcriptions of ...

Manufacturer: Picton Pr
Written By: John T. Fitch

The history of the witchcraft trials of Colonial Connecticut from original documents including, in some cases, depositions to court and letters not previously published. Covers the period from the first execution for witchcraft in America (Alse Youngs of Windsor, CT 1647)to the Fairfield Witch Panic of 1692 (contemporary with the Salem, MA trials). Contains the Great Hartford Witch Panic of ...

Manufacturer: Connecticut Research, Inc.
Written By: Richard G. Tomlinson

Volume 19 of this series, devoted entirely to the city of Hartford, names approximately 45,000 people. Entries are in strict alphabetical order by town and give, typically, name, date of event, names of parents, names of children, names of both spouses, and items such as age, occupation, and residence. As in all volumes published to date , entries are keyed to the volume and page number ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Lorraine Cook White, Lorraine Cook, Christina Bailey, Wilma J. S. Moore

"This is a kind of folk archeology that I love. In a nation now nearly catatonic from the ravages of suburbia, Leff does a fine job of recovering the lost memories, textures, rhythms, flavors, and feelings of authentic town life." -- James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere "[David Leff] moved to ...

Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press
Written By: David K. Leff

From 1,500 manuscript volumes of church, state, town, and society records, and from many thousands of rare manuscripts consulted during the course of seven years' labor, Mr. Cothren succeeded in developing an exhaustive chronicle of the persons, places, and events which most accurately characterized Woodbury's history up to the middle of the 19th century. Where the book succeeds to an ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: William Cothren