Book/Printed Material The history of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the settlement of the town in 1639 to 1818, Volume 1 - Copy 2
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Image 1 of Volume 1 - Copy 2- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 2 of Volume 1 - Copy 2- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 3 of Volume 1 - Copy 2- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 4 of Volume 1 - Copy 2- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 5 of Volume 1 - Copy 2- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
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Image 6 of Volume 1 - Copy 2- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
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Image 7 of Volume 1 - Copy 2- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
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Image 8 of Volume 1 - Copy 2- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
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Image 9 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 THE HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT FROM THE SETTLEMENT OF THE TOIVN IN i6}9 TO iSi8 k-W^ BY r^i Mrs. ELIZABETH HUBBEL^^ SCHENCK VOL. I PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR NEW YORK- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 10 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 Copyrighted, 1889, by ELIZABETH H. SCHENCK. Press of J. J. Little Co., Aster Place, New York.- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 11 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 PREFACE The Centennial commemoration of the burning of the town of Fairfield on the 8th of July, 1879, revived many recollections of interest in the minds of the oldest inhabitants of the…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 12 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 IV PREFACE In accepting the task of compiling the history of a town, rich with historic lore, the author was fully sensible of the labor connected with it but she resolved to…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 13 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 PREFACE V thoughts uppermost in their minds. Idleness alone was disgrace. Antici- pating the hardships to be encountered in their venture to a new country, many of them, before they left England…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 14 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 vi PREFACE ended only when the Declaration of the Independence of the United States secured to all men the rights of life, liberty and happiness. It was no wonder therefore that all…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 15 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 PREFACE vii as a brother. Particularly has this been the case since the Southern rebel- lion, when New England proved to the world, as she did in the days of the Revolution,…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 16 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 viii PREFACE The author has endeavored to give an accurate account of the histori- cal events which for many years made Fairfield the shire-town of the county, and one of the prominent…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 17 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER In the spring of 1636, the General Court of Massachusetts commissioned Roger Ludlow and seven other gentlemen, to govern the colony of Con- necticut for the space of one year.…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 18 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 X HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD Mohcgan and river Indians under Uncas, sailed from Hartford in a pink, a pinnace and a shallop, down the river to Saybrook. The Rev. Samuel Stone accompanied the…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 19 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER xi Many of his men were opposed to this plan. They had already been longer from home than they had anticipated and thought the attack, as ordered by the General…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 20 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 xii HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD march till about one hour in the night and coming to a little swamp between two hills, wc pitched our little camp much wearied with hard travel, keeping…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 21 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER xlil 6r» Thotnas Barber, with some others, where seven of them were slain, as they said. The Captain facing about, marched a slow pace up the lane he came down,…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 22 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 xiv HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD are needful in such a case especially our Chirurgeon* wslS much wanting, whom we left with our barks in Narragansett Bay, who had orders to remain until the…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 23 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER XV by Lieut. Lion Gardiner with many great guns. Tiiey remained over Sunday at the fort, spending the day in praise and thanksgiving for their great and wonderful dehverance from…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 24 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 xvi HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD after relating the story of their defeat, and the havoc made by the Eng- lish, they charged all the misfortunes which had befallen them to his haughtiness and…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 25 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER XVll The Sachems were spared, upon promising that they would conduct Stoughton to Sassacus, the women and children numbering about eighty, thirty of whom were given to the Narragansetts and…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 26 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 xviii HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD like a careful! Commander, one Captaine Davenport, then Lieutenant of this company, being diligent in his place to bring up the reare, coming up with them, followed with…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 27 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER xix English any harm, and expressed a desire to make peace with them. The haughty Pequots, however, disdained all overtures of peace, exclaiming: We will fight it out to the…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 28 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 XX HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD It was reported that the Mohawks were bribed by the Narragansetts to commit this act. In the month of October following, the Mohawks sent the scalps of Sassacus,…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 29 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER Xxi that a tax of six hundred pounds should be levied, to defray the charges of the late design against the Pequots, Agavvam £S6, i6% Windsor ;i^i58, 2% Hartford £2^,1,…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 30 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 xxii HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD sa alary of ten pounds pr. annum. The Court also passed a law, that when a company of Indians set down near an English plantation, they should declare…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 31 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER xxiii they were also to pay a tribute annually of a fathom of wampumpeag for every man, half a fathom for every young man, a hand s length for every…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 32 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 xxiv HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD moral citizens. Even the humblest toiler among them saw how, with that sturdy ambition, which has always characterized the people of Connecti- cut, he could rise to the…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 33 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 CONTENTS CHAPTER I 1639-1650 DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT Discovery of Uncoway. Its natural advantages Roger Ludlow s commission to settle Pequonnock. Indians of the country. First purchase of Indian lands. Character of the…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 34 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 xxvi CONTENTS CHAPTER II I 650- I 660 WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS Original plats of Fairfield and Pequonnock.— Planters and heads of families.— Assistant and deputies of 1650.— General laws.— Election…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 35 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 CONTENTS XXVll debts. Bears. Fairfield to prepare troops, militia and vessels for the war. Peace between England, France and Holland.— Public thanksgiving.— Strangers not to live in Fairfield. Town notes. County prisons.—…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 36 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 XXviii CONTENTS Mary.— Andros imprisoned.— Connecticut magistrates restored to office.— William and Mary proclaimed in New England towns.— Address to the King and Queen.— Major Gold ambassador to New York.— Connecticut troops…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 37 of Volume 1 - Copy 2- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 38 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 Ij o ft o Is L a 77 f7. S o rvjv i^ A MAP OK EARLY FAIRFIELD.- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 39 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD CHAPTER I 1639— 1650 DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT Discovery of Uncoway. Its natural advantages. Roger Ludlow s commission to settle Pequon- nock. Indians of the country. First purchase of Indian…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
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Image 40 of Volume 1 - Copy 2 2 HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD [1639 diction of the colony by beginning plantations along the coast of Long Island Sound. In noting the many providences of God which overshadowed them during this war,…- Contributor: Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey)
- Date: 1889
About this Item
Title
- The history of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the settlement of the town in 1639 to 1818,
Names
- Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell (Godfrey) Mrs. 1832-
Created / Published
- New York, The author, 1889-1905.
Contents
- v. 1. 1639-1700,--v. 2. 1700-1800 [i. e. 1789]
Headings
- - Fairfield (Conn.)--History
Notes
- - Title of v. 2 reads: The history of Fairfield ... from 1700 to 1800.
- - No more published.
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 2 v. map. 25 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F104.F2 S3
Library of Congress Control Number
- rc01003235
OCLC Number
- 2561693
Online Format
- online text
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