General History of Connecticut, from Its First Settlement Under George Fenwick to its Latest Period of Amity with Great BritainPeters, Samuel
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General History of Connecticut, from Its First Settlement Under George Fenwick to its Latest Period of Amity with Great Britain
Peters, Samuel
Connecticut -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Connecticut -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
Happy will it be for America, if the smiling providence
of Heaven produces gratitude, repentance, and obedience, amongst her
children!
_Lebanon_ lies on the west side of Winnomantic River. The best street,
which has good houses on both sides, is one mile long and one hundred
yards wide. An elegant meeting-house, with steeple and bell, stands in
the centre. The township is ten miles square, and forms four parishes.
This town was formerly famous for an Indian school, under the conduct
of Rev. Eleazer Wheelock, whose great zeal for the spiritual good of
the savages in the wilderness induced him to solicit a collection from
England. Having met with success, his school at Lebanon became a
college in the province of Newhampshire, where he has converted his
godliness into gain, and promises fair to excuse government from the
expense of a superintendent of Indian affairs.
_Coventry_ lies on the same river; the houses are straggling. The
township is ten miles square, and consists of two parishes. Here are
two ponds, the one three and the other four miles long, and half as
wide, well filled with mackerel and other fish.
_Mansfield_ lies east of Coventry, on Winnomantic and Fundy Rivers;
the houses are scattered. The township is eight miles square, and
divided into two parishes.
_Union_ and _Wilmington_ lie on Winnomantic River, forming two
parishes. Each township is six miles square.
_Ashford_ lies on the Fundy, in a township ten miles square, and forms
three parishes. The people of the town have distinguished themselves
by a strict enforcement of the colony-laws against heretics and
episcopalians, for not attending their meeting on the Sabbath.
_Woodstock_ lies on Quinnibaug, and resembles Finchley. The township
is ten miles square, and divided into three parishes. Woodstock had
the honour of giving birth to the Rev. Thomas Bradbury Chandler, D.
D., a learned divine of the Church of England, and well known in the
literary world.
_Killingsley_ lies east of Woodstock. The township, twenty miles long
and six wide, forms three parishes.
_Pomfret_ stands on Quinnibaug River, and resembles Battersea. The
township is twelve miles square, and forms four parishes, one of which
is episcopal. Fanaticism had always prevailed in the county of Windham
over christian moderation: where, about the year 1770, after many
abuses, the episcopalians found a friend in Godfree Malebone, Esq. who
built on his own estate an elegant church, which was patronized by the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, who
appointed a clergyman.
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