{"product_id":"history-of-windham-county-connecticut-ellen-d-larned-9781628451887","title":"History of Windham County, Connecticut Volume 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eHISTORY OF WINDHAM COUNTY, CONNECTICUT \u003cbr\u003eVOLUME 1: 1600-1760\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBy Ellen Douglas Larned \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpt from Contents\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBOOK I. 1670-1726. \u003cbr\u003eI. Massachusetts Boundary Line. Nipmuck and Mohegan Land Transfers \u003cbr\u003eII. Roxbury's Colony \u003cbr\u003eIII. New Roxbury \u003cbr\u003eIV. Woodstock \u003cbr\u003eV. Indian Troubles \u003cbr\u003eVI. Important Changes. Final Division of Roxbury's Half of Woodstock \u003cbr\u003eVII. Uneasiness with Mr. Dwight. Second Meeting-house \u003cbr\u003eVIII. Ministerial Troubles. Indian Alarms. Death of Acquitamaug. Land Division. Dismissal of Mr. Dwight \u003cbr\u003eIX. Joshua's Tract \u003cbr\u003eX. Windham \u003cbr\u003eXI. Ponde-town Controversy. Church Organization \u003cbr\u003eXII. Addition of Territory. Scotland Settlement. Town Division \u003cbr\u003eXIII. Growth. Improvements. Second Meeting-house \u003cbr\u003eXIV. Canada Parish \u003cbr\u003eXV. General Advancement. Religions Revival. Death of Mr. Whiting. Settlement of Mr. Clap \u003cbr\u003eXVI. The Quinebaug Country. Peagscomsuck \u003cbr\u003eXVII. Plainfield Agreements. Quinebaug Land Investigation \u003cbr\u003eXVIII. Division of Township. Distribution of Land. Irruption from Norwich \u003cbr\u003eXIX. Quinebaug Land Settlement. Various Improvements \u003cbr\u003eXX. Boundary Quarrels. New Meeting-house. Mortality \u003cbr\u003eXXI. Canterbury \u003cbr\u003eXXII. Major Fitch. Division of Land. General Progress \u003cbr\u003eXXIII. Aspinock. Killingly \u003cbr\u003eXXIV. Land-tax. Chestnut Hill. Church Organization. Settlement of South Killingly \u003cbr\u003eXXV. Quinnatisset \u003cbr\u003eXXVI. Mashamoquet. Mortlake \u003cbr\u003eXXVII. Progress. Petitions. Pomfret \u003cbr\u003eXXVIII. Blackwell's Tract. Adams's Tract. Sale and Settlement of Mortlake. Expulsion of Mary Utter \u003cbr\u003eXXIX. Minister and Meeting-house. Church Organization in Pomfret. Second Land-division \u003cbr\u003eXXX. New Inhabitants. Improvements. South Addition to Pomfret. Peter Davison \u003cbr\u003eXXXI. Ashford. Land Purchase. Settlement. Town Organization. Minister Secured \u003cbr\u003eXXXII. Land Controversies. Church Formed \u003cbr\u003eXXXIII. Land Settlement. Various Improvements. Unhappy Accident \u003cbr\u003eXXXIV. Suffrage Dispute. Schools. New Inhabitants. Famine in Ashford. Chandler's and Corbin's Claim \u003cbr\u003eXXXV. The Volunteer's Land. Division. Occupation \u003cbr\u003eXXXVI. Organization of Voluntown. Meeting-house Site. Interrupted Ordination. Church Formed \u003cbr\u003eXXXVII. Boundary Quarrels. Meeting-house Site \u003cbr\u003eXXXVIII. Erection of Windham County. General Summary. Association of Ministers \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBOOK II. 1726-46. \u003cbr\u003eI. Windham Courts Constituted. Jail and Court-house Ordered. Affairs in Windham Town. Outbreaks \u003cbr\u003eII. Third Society Set Off. Scotland Parish \u003cbr\u003eIII. Canada Parish. Death of Mr. Billings. Changes in Windham's First Society. First Execution in Windham County \u003cbr\u003eIV. Changes in Canterbury. New Ministers and Meeting-house. Controversy with Windham. Dismissal of Mr. Wadsworth \u003cbr\u003eV. Plainfield Affairs. Growth in Voluntown. . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWindham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ellen D. 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