Woodstock: An historical sketchBowen, Clarence Winthrop
History
Woodstock: An historical sketch
Bowen, Clarence Winthrop
Woodstock (Conn. : Town) -- History
---- Settlement of, Sept. 28, 1630, 9
Ruggles, John, 21
---- Samuel, 21
Sampson, Indian teacher at Wabquissit, 15
School-house built 1733, 37
Selectmen, Names of first, 33
---- Names of first, chosen by New Roxbury, 27
Settlement, Arrangements for, 21
---- Committee appointed to find place suitable for, 21
---- Name of, changed from New Roxbury to Woodstock, 28
---- of other towns by Woodstock men, 58
---- Petition for land for, 1683, 21
---- Time granted for, 21
---- ---- extended, 22
Settlers, Ages of first, 25
---- Descendants of, now in town, 26
---- Enterprise of, 27
---- First death among, 25
---- Names of first, 24
---- Original thirteen, 23
Sewell, Capt. Samuel, 29
---- ---- Extract from diary of, 30
Skinner, Paraclete, 26
Stages, Lines of, established between Woodstock and New London
and New Haven, 50
Stiles, Rev. Abel S., 39
Stoughton, Wm., 20
Throop, Rev. Amos, 36
Trees planted by wife of General McClellan, 50
Wabbaquasset, 12
Wabquissit, 16
Walker, Amasa, 57
---- Gen. Francis A., 57
War of 1812, Woodstock men in, 51
West Parish of Woodstock, incorporated 1743, 38
---- called New Roxbury, 38
Williams, Jared W., 57
---- Rev. Stephen, 38, 57
---- Samuel, Sr., 57
Women of Woodstock, 57
Woodstock Hill, 13
Worcester County formed, 1731, 35
Transcriber's note:
Unusual spelling is as in the original.
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