Woodstock: An historical sketchBowen, Clarence Winthrop
History
Woodstock: An historical sketch
Bowen, Clarence Winthrop
Woodstock (Conn. : Town) -- History
---- Thomas, Letter of, to Countess of Lincoln, March 12, 1630-1, 8
Dwight, Rev. Josiah, first minister, installed October 17, 1690, 32
Eaton, General William, 56
Education, progress of, 53
Eliot's visit to Woodstock, Narrative of, by Gookin, 15
Families represented in French and Indian War, 47
Fines imposed for non-attendance at town meeting, 33
Fox, Jabez, 49
---- John, 49
French and Indian War, Woodstock families represented in, 47
Frizzel, William, 49
Frontier service, Twenty men impressed for, 1724, 46
General Court, First, in America, Boston, September 28, 1630, 9
Gookin, Major Daniel, magistrate of all Indian towns, 1656, 14
Grant, General U. S., Visit of, to Woodstock, 59
Gravestone of Edward Morris (oldest in county--1689), 25
Holmes, Abiel, 56
---- Doctor David, 56
---- Oliver Wendell, 56
Home lots, Drawing lots for, 23
Indian church, First, in America, established by Eliot at Natick
in 1651, 14
Indians, Religious instruction of, in 1629, 14
---- Troubles with, 33
King Philip's war, Consequences of, 18
Leonard, Rev. Abiel, installed pastor, 1763, 40
---- ---- appointed chaplain of Third Regiment of Connecticut, 41
---- ---- death of, 41
Longevity of some of the present inhabitants, 26
Lots drawn for home lots, 23
Lyman, Rev. Eliphalet, ordained in 1779, 42
---- "Old Priest," 42
Lyon, Captain Daniel, 49
---- Stephen, 49
McClellan, Captain Samuel, 48, 49
---- Gen. Geo. B., 51
Manning, Ephraim, 49
Marcy, Captain Nathaniel, 49
---- Hon. Wm. Leonard, 56
---- John, 56
Massachusetts Bay, first organized settlement on, 8
"Middlesex Gore," 45
Military renown of men of Woodstock, 46
Minister, appointment of first, 32
Morris, Asa, 49
---- Commodore Charles, 55
---- George N., 55
---- Edward, 21
---- Hon. J. F., 56
Morse, Jedediah, 48, 56
---- Rev. Jedediah, D.D., 56
---- Samuel F. B., 56
---- Sarah, 26
Nipmuck country, Derivation of name, 12
---- Description of, 12
---- Desertion of, after King Philip's war, 18
---- Purchase of, from Indians, 20
"Notable Meeting," 59
Oldman, John, 12
"Old Thirteen," Names of, 23
Perry, Saml., 49
Praying Villages, 14
Pulpit Rock, 18
Putnam, Capt. Israel, 47
Pynchon, William, 10
Quinnatisset, 15
Rebellion, Services of Woodstock, men in, 51
Refusal to send representatives to General Court at Boston, 60
Religious services among Indians, Description of, 15
Revolution, Company of one hundred and eighty-nine men formed
for service in, 48
---- Service rendered by town during the, 47
Roxbury--Deputies sent to Boston Assembly, 1634, 9
---- Early settlers' names, 10
---- Eliot, Rev. John, pastor of First Church, established 1632, 10
---- First settlers, where from, 9
---- Founders' names, 10
---- Prominent in organizing settlement of Woodstock, 11
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