The Development of Religious Liberty in ConnecticutGreene, M. Louise (Maria Louise)
History
The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut
Greene, M. Louise (Maria Louise)
Connecticut -- Church history
Caulkins, Frances M. History of New London, Connecticut. New London,
1852.
----History of Norwich, Connecticut. Norwich, 1845.
These two histories are readable, reliable and full of detail,
culled from original records, many of which are now deposited with
the New London Historical Society.
Clap, Thomas. Annals or History of Yale College. New Haven, 1766.
Cothren, William. History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut,
1669-1879. (Including Washington, Southbury, Bethlehem, Roxbury, and
part of Oxford and Middlebury.) Waterbury, 1854, 1872, 1879. 3 vols.
Vols. i and ii, history, with considerable genealogy. Vol. iii,
1679-1879, births, marriages and deaths.
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Thomas Clap and his Writings. See New
Haven Historical Society Papers, vol. v.
----Sketch of the History of Yale University. New Haven, 1887.
Dwight, Theodore. History of Connecticut. New York, 1841.
----History of Hartford Convention. Hartford, 1833.
Of the 447 pages, 340 are devoted to recounting the events which led
to the calling of the convention, and, with much political bias, to
the history of Jefferson's political career from 1789, quoting from
official correspondence and his private letters. Pages 340-422 deal
with the convention proper, giving, pp. 383-400, its "Secret
Journal." The Appendix, pp. 422-447, has brief biographies of the
members.
Dwight, Timothy. Travels in New England and New York. New Haven,
1831. 4 vols.
Dodd, Stephen. The East Haven Register in Three Parts. New Haven,
1824.
A rare little book of 200 pages compiled by the pastor of the
Congregational Church in East Haven. Part i contains a history of
the town from 1640 to 1800; part ii, names, marriages, and births,
1644-1800; part iii, account of the deaths in families, from 1647 to
1824.
Field, David Dudley. A History of the Towns of Haddam and East
Haddam. Middletown, 1814.
A book of some forty-eight pages, of which six are devoted to
genealogies "taken partly from the records of the towns, and partly
from the information of aged people" by the pastor of the church in
Haddam. Though largely ecclesiastical, its author-- a college
A. M.--realizes the value of statistics in references to population,
necrology, taxes, militia, farming, and other industries, and weaves
them into his rambling story.
----Statistical Account of the County of Middlesex. Middletown, 1819.
Fowler, William Chauncey. History of Durham, 1662- 1866.
Includes in chapter xii--pp. 229-443--extracts trom Town Records,
Ministerial Records, Proprietor's Eecords.
Gillett, E. H., Rev. The Development of Civil Liberty in
Connecticut. In Historical Magazine, 2d series, vol. iv (1868),
pp. 1-34, Appendices, pp. 34-49. Morrisania, N. Y., 1868.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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