Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
Written By: Vicki S. Welch

Manufacturer: New London County Historical
Written By: Barbara W. Brown, James M. Rose

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 general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour's celebrated ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub Co
Written By: Lorraine Cook White, Christina Bailey

Manufacturer: Heritage Books
Written By: Jeanne Majdalany, Edith M. Wicks

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

Manufacturer: Infinity Publishing
Written By: Jean E. Perreault

The authors explore the symbol of the American melting pot and other concepts in an oral history comprising the voices of European immigrants to Connecticut.

Manufacturer: UPNE
Written By: Bruce M. Stave, John F. Sutherland

Manufacturer: Heritage Books
Written By: Edward A. Cohen, Lewis Goldfarb

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