History of Connecticut By Elias B. Sanford Published 1922, 450 pages - Bonus Book #1 – Once Upon A Time In Connecticut Volumes I and II By Caroline Clifford Newton Published 1916, - Bonus Book #2 – First Puritan Settlers Of Connecticut - Bonus Book #3 – Ye Names and Ages Of All Ye Old Folks In Every Hamlet, City and Town In Ye State of Connecticut 1884 All Books Require Adobe Reader 5 or higher to View History of Connecticut – Table of Contents I. The Indians of Connecticut 11 II. The First Settlement of Connecticut . . .15 III. The Pequot War 21 IV. First Settlement of New Haven. — Adoption of Constitutions by the New Haven and Connecticut Colonies 29 V. The Founding of New Towns. — Trouble with Indians . . .36 VI. The Civil and Domestic Life of the Early Settlers 40 VII. The New-England Confederacy. — Death of Miantonomo 44 VIII. Troubles with the Dutch and the Indians. — The Purchase of Saybrook. — Farmington incorporated 49 IX. Discovery of an Indian Plot. —Law regarding Tobacco. —New London founded . . . 55 X. Uncas and the Narragansetts. — Governor Stuyvesant at Hartford. — Norwalk and mlddletown settled 59 XI. Stamford and Fairfield threatened by the Dutch. — Norwich settled. — John Wintiieop elected Governor 63 XII. The Story of the Regicides 68 XIII. The Union of the New-Haven Colony with Connecticut To XIV. Edmund Andros, Governor of New York. — Andros at Saybrook. — King Philip's War . 80 Vlll CONTENTS. XV. Report to the English Board of Trade. — Boundary Troubles. — Demands of Edward Randolph 87 XVI. Andros assumes Authority. — Hiding of the Chapter 93 XVII. Government resumed under the Charter. — Governor Fletcher at Hartford . . 07 XVIII. Colonial Prosperity. — Ashurst defends the Charter Rights of the Colony. — Mohegan Controversy 102 XIX. Public Education. —Yale College founded. —Population and Trade 108 XX. Life of the People 115 XXI. Social Distinctions. —Marriage Customs.— Funeral Services. — Negro Slavery . . 122 XXII. The Religious Life of the People. — Sabbath Observance. —Social Pleasures. . 127 XXIII. The Evolution of the Towns . . . .133 XXIV. Period of the Last French Wars, 1714-1748 . 130 XXV. Period of the Last French Wars, 1748-1755 . 148 XXVI. Period of the Last French Wars, 1756-1757 . 156 XXVII. Period of the Last French Wars, 1758 . . 161 XXVIII. Period of the Last French Wars, 1750-1763 . 167 XXIX. Revolt of the People against the Stamp Act 173 XXX. Determination of the People to resist Taxation. —Boston Port Bill. — Battle of Lexington. —The Capture of Ticonderoga . 181 XXXI. The Battle of Bunker Hill . . . .188 XXXII. Connecticut Troops at Cambridge. — Invasion of Canada.—Declaration of Independence, 196 XXXIII. Battle of Long Island. — Nathan Hale. — Surrender of Fort Washington. — Burgoyne's Surrender . . . . . . 203 XXXIV. Burning of Danbury. —The Fight at Ridgefield. —Surrender of Fort Montgomery. — The Encampment at Redding . . .211 XXXV. Massacre at Wyoming. — British attack New Haven. — Burning of Fairfield and NORWALK 219 XXXVI. Washington at Hartford and Wethersfield. — Arnold burns New London. — Massacre at Fort Griswold . . . 225 XXXVI I Connecticut at the Close of the Revolition. — Jonathan Trumbull. — The Adoption of the United-States Constitution. —Sale of Western Lands. —Death of Washington 232 XXXVI I Connecticut at the Dawn of the Nineteenth- Century. — The War of 1812. — Destruction of Property at Essex. — Bombardment of Stonington. —The Hartford Convention 240 XXXIX. Adoption of the Present Constitution of Connecticut. — The Growth of Philanthropic Enterprises.—Temperance. — The Anti-slavery Agitation .... 247 XL Connecticut in the Civil War, 1860 . . 254 XLI Spirit of the People. — Enlistment of Troops. — Capture of Roanoke Island, 1862 261 XLII Battle of Cedar Mountain. — Call for Troops. — Antietam and Fredericksburg, 1862 264 XLIII Battle of Chancellorsville. — Gettysburg. — Port Hudson. — Andersonville. — Reenlistment of Troops, 1863 .... 269 XLIV. Battle of Dbuby's Bluff. — Spottsylva.ma. — Death of Sedgwick. — Battle of Cold Harbor. — Petersburg, 1804 . XLV Battles of Winchester and Cedar Creek. — Capture of Fort Fisher. — Assault on thi Forts near Richmond. — Surrender of Lee — Close of the War, 1864-05 XLVI. Era of Industrial Progress . XLVII. Connecticut in Literature XLVIII. The Public Schools of Connecticut XLIX. Yale University ..... L. Wesleyan University .... LI. Trinity College ..... LII. Connecticut in the Life of the Nation . LIII. Boundary-Lines and Physical Geography of Connecticut ...... SECOND PART CONNECTICUT IN RECENT YEARS 1872 — 1922 I. Religious Life and Church Growth . . . 337 II. Educational Progress in the Public Schools of Connecticut ....... 352 III. Higher Institutions of Learning . 357 IV. Political and Civic Life 306 V. Connecticut in Literature . . . . .381 VI. Connecticut in the Fine Arts and Music . . 390 VII. Manufacturing, Agriculture. Insurancf and Banking 390 VIII. Connecticut Xewspapers ..... 405 IX. State Parks and Forests . . . . .417 X. State Institutions. Penal. Reformatory and Philanthropic . . . . . .421 XL Historical and Patriotic Societies . . 425 Index 439