History of Windham County, Connecticut Volume 1

VOLUME 1: 1600-1760

By Ellen Douglas Larned

Excerpt from Contents

BOOK I. 1670-1726.

I. Massachusetts Boundary Line. Nipmuck and Mohegan Land Transfers

II. Roxbury's Colony

III. New Roxbury

IV. Woodstock

V. Indian Troubles

VI. Important Changes. Final Division of Roxbury's Half of Woodstock

VII. Uneasiness with Mr. Dwight. Second Meeting-house

VIII. Ministerial Troubles. Indian Alarms. Death of Acquitamaug. Land Division. Dismissal of Mr. Dwight

IX. Joshua's Tract

X. Windham

XI. Ponde-town Controversy. Church Organization

XII. Addition of Territory. Scotland Settlement. Town Division

XIII. Growth. Improvements. Second Meeting-house

XIV. Canada Parish

XV. General Advancement. Religions Revival. Death of Mr. Whiting. Settlement of Mr. Clap

XVI. The Quinebaug Country. Peagscomsuck

XVII. Plainfield Agreements. Quinebaug Land Investigation

XVIII. Division of Township. Distribution of Land. Irruption from Norwich

XIX. Quinebaug Land Settlement. Various Improvements

XX. Boundary Quarrels. New Meeting-house. Mortality

XXI. Canterbury

XXII. Major Fitch. Division of Land. General Progress

XXIII. Aspinock. Killingly

XXIV. Land-tax. Chestnut Hill. Church Organization. Settlement of South Killingly

XXV. Quinnatisset

XXVI. Mashamoquet. Mortlake

XXVII. Progress. Petitions. Pomfret

XXVIII. Blackwell's Tract. Adams's Tract. Sale and Settlement of Mortlake. Expulsion of Mary Utter

XXIX. Minister and Meeting-house. Church Organization in Pomfret. Second Land-division

XXX. New Inhabitants. Improvements. South Addition to Pomfret. Peter Davison

XXXI. Ashford. Land Purchase. Settlement. Town Organization. Minister Secured

XXXII. Land Controversies. Church Formed

XXXIII. Land Settlement. Various Improvements. Unhappy Accident

XXXIV. Suffrage Dispute. Schools. New Inhabitants. Famine in Ashford. Chandler's and Corbin's Claim

XXXV. The Volunteer's Land. Division. Occupation

XXXVI. Organization of Voluntown. Meeting-house Site. Interrupted Ordination. Church Formed

XXXVII. Boundary Quarrels. Meeting-house Site

XXXVIII. Erection of Windham County. General Summary. Association of Ministers

BOOK II. 1726-46.

I. Windham Courts Constituted. Jail and Court-house Ordered. Affairs in Windham Town. Outbreaks

II. Third Society Set Off. Scotland Parish

III. Canada Parish. Death of Mr. Billings. Changes in Windham's First Society. First Execution in Windham County

IV. Changes in Canterbury. New Ministers and Meeting-house. Controversy with Windham. Dismissal of Mr. Wadsworth

V. Plainfield Affairs. Growth in Voluntown. . .

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