"They Found Away" INDEX
Adams, John, 250
Adams, John Quincy, 262
"African Trading CO.," 326
Agriculture, 58, 75-76, 8o, 94, 137, 140,
146-147, 256; in Windham County,
194-202
Ajax Blueing Co., 98
Alcott, Bronson, 31, 37
Alexander, Nell, 93
Allen, Ethan, 14, 20-21, 109, 227-232,
245
Allen, Joseph, 227
Allerton, Isaac, 50
A7nerican Cookbook, 269
American flag, 2i
American Revolution, 82, 124, 125,
126, 131, 205, 212, 246, 284; Con-
necticut's part in, 2i6-232
American Turtle, The, 78-79
Amherst, Gen., 2i6
Andover Seminary, i86
Andrew Jackson, the, 23
Andrews family, i86-i87
Anna Pendleton, The, 59
Antarctica, 9
Arctic exploration, 3oi
Antiques, 31
Antiquarians, 36o
Appleseed, Johnny, 13, 328
Argonant, The, So
Arkansas, 139; and Matt Lyon, 251
Arlington (Vt.), 246
Arms, 17, 75, 77, 80, 109, 255, 307-3o8
Arnold, Benedict, 31, 229-230
Art, aboriginal, 22
Artillery. See arms
Artists, 47, 26t-262
Ashford, 208, 233; Church, 200; Co-
operative Assn., i96-202
Ashland, 183
Asia, The, 223
Aspinwall, Nathaniel, 356
Assenisipia, 127
Austin (Texas), 139-143
Austin Grant, the, 140
Austin, Moses, 136-143
Austin, Stephen Fuller, 9, 137-143
Bacon Academy, 137
Bacon, jabez, 58, 244
Bacon, Rev. Sumner, 140
Baker, Remember, 14, 21
"Bangall," 34, 74
Banks, Sir Joseph, 303
Bardstown (Ky.), 293
Barkhamsted, 263
Barry, Bridget, 173-178
Beacon Falls, 84
Bear Mountain, i i 9; Bridge, 151
Beecher, Benjamin D., 76
Beecher, Henry Ward, 17, 3o8
Bell makers, 38
Bennington (Vt.), 228; Battle of, i i
Berlin, 34
Betsey, The, 63
Bickford, Ensign, 76
"Big Basin," 144-159
Bishop, James, 194
Bissell, Daniel, io8
"Bitter Oil," 46
Blackberry River. 254
"Blackball Boys," 257
Blacksmiths, 47
Blackwell, Capt. Samuel, 2i
Blockades, 6i
Blue Glass Cure, 26i, 350-353
Boney, Perry, 147-159
Bonhomme, Richard, 62
Boston, 212; siege of, 217
Bostwick, Joseph, 72
"Boundary fixers," i78
Branford River,271
Brass, 34-35, 72, 73
Breed's Hill, 2i6
Bridgeport, 78, 144
Bridgewater, 88, 332; Post Office, 94
Brintnall, Caleb, 88
Brinton Hill, 115
Bristol, 37, 38
Britannia ware, 34
Brook Farm, i64
Broteet, 6o
Brown Brook, i6q, 178
Brown, John, 17, 207, 304-314
Brown, Owen, 304
Browne, Capt. Francis, 49
Browne, Samuel, i6o
Browne, William, i6i
Brownstone, 59
Buel, Seth, 174
Buell, Abel, 82
Buena Vista, il2
Buffalo, I32
Bulkley, Abigail, 254
Burgoyne, Gen., 246
Burnap, Daniel, 36
Burr, Aaron, 250
Bush, the Hon. Frederic, 65
Bushnell, David, 78
Business, 364
Buttons, 34
Camp Jackson, 236-238
Canaan,254
Canandaigua (N. Y.), 132
Candlewood region, 144-159
Canterbury, 131, 258
Canton, 13, 43
Canton (China), 57
Carrigans, the, 169
Carrigan, Grover Cleveland, 25
Carter family, i87, i8g
Carter, T. W., 311
Catamount Tavern, 228
Catherine, Empress of Russia, 301
Chain stores, 35
Cha Gerald, 25
Cha=li83; burners, 172
Cheney, Benjamin, 36, 283
Cheney, Mary, i87
Cheronesus, 127
Cheshire, 76
Chicken Hill, 230
Chief Compounce, 22
Chief Two Moons, 46
Childs, Thomas, 59
China, 302, John Ledyard in, 302
Chittenden, ThoS., 246
Christmas Island, 62
Cigar-making, 269
Civil War, The, 56, 77, i67, 2o6
Lyon's part itl, 233-243
Clark, Amini, 84
Clark Cutaway Harrow, 76
Cleaveland, Moses, 131-135
Clermont, The, 287
Cleveland (Ohio), 9, 133-134
Clinton, 13, 23
Clocks, 15, 23; Seth Thomas, 30
Clock-makers, 36 ff
Coal, anthracite, 41
Coe, Israel, 73
Coffeemills, 34, 84
Cogswell, Anna, 256
Cogswell, WM., 256
Coin press, 82
Coit, John, 53
Colchester, 137
Colebrook, 43
Colonization, 6i-64. See migration
Colorado, 9
colt, "Peacemaker,
Colt's Armory, 81
Columbia, The, 300 combs, ivory, 34, 75
erce, 16, 42, 55, 48-70
Comm
Concord coaches, i65
Confederate States, 235
"Congress' own," 214
Connecticut:
agriculture in, 127 capitol of, see Hartford colonization of Ohio by, 123-135 congressmen from, 18 conservation in, 117
Connecticut Courant, 224
education in, 125, 254
ex loration, 6i-64
Fishin 117, 145, flood control, 26
food, 18-20 log, lo, i96 foreign population
government ot, 126 hunting in, 149-150 importations by, 48-70
See industries Company, 132
Connecticut Land
land policy of, 138 manufacturing in, 33 -14, 18, 31, migration from, 9-10, 13
,71, III, 124, 125
Missionaries from, 68
navy,205
6; Nazis in, 23
Ohio settlers from, 134
patents by people of, see Inv-t'Olls Yankee population in, 14 real estate, 18
sale of land to, 134 commerce, agri-
See shipping, trade,
culture, education state of, 20, 134, 249 and Texas, 136-143
towns. See listing by towns
women in, 253-272
Connecticut Colony, 353
Connecticut River, i2, 282, 296 Conservation, 117
Constitution, the, iio
Continental Army, 23, log, 255, 3i6.
See Am. Revolution
Continental Congress, 232
Cook, Capt., 298-300
Cooperatives, 194-202
Copenhagen, 302
Cornwall, 44, 228; Cemetery, 68; Foreign Mission School, 68, i8g Cornwall Hills, i83-193
Cotton mills, i84
Counterfeiters, i6q, 315-343
Cove Hill, 12
Cove Pond, 146
Coventry, 221
Cowles, William B., 4R
Cramer, Moll, 273-281-
Crandall, Prudence, 258
Crane & Staples, 324
Crown Point, 14
Cunningham, 226
Custer's Last Fight, 149
Cutler, Manasseh, 126-135
Cutlery, 34, 44, 73
Cyclonic Breeze, 1 i
Dairying, 13, 197-199
Daley & Treat, 76
Dambargo, 6i, 250
Danbury, 32, 144;
beaver hats, 28; Fair, 153; News, 94 Dances (country), 152-153, 171-172 Danforth, Thomas, 35
Dark Entry, i85, 190, 245
Dartmouth College, 296
Davenport, John, 17, 49-51, 194
Davis, Jefferson, 236
Deane Silas, 229
Decatur, Stephen, 70, 2o6
Diamond Match Co., 84
De Forest, John, 270
De Montessus, 12
Derby, i8, 41, 74
Derby Fishing CO., 52
Derby Landing, 52
Diesel engines, 8o
"The Dingle," 174
Doctors, 353
Dogtown, i i 1
Dow, Lorenzo, i6i
Dudley family, i85-186
Dudle , William, 185
Dudleytown, i83-193
Dunn, Father, 194-202
Durham, 136
Durkee, Capt., 2o8
Dutton, Rev., 307
Dwight, Edwin W., 68
Dwight, John S., i64
East Haddam, 12, 222, 351
East Windsor, 36
Eaton, 50
Education, 134, 198, 258, 26o
boy school, 127; see Music Vale
Electric Boat Co., 8o
Ellsworth, 183
Ellsworth, Oliver, 2go
Elm City, the, See New Haven
Embargoes, 58, 6o
Enfield Rapids, 52
England, tedyard in, 303
Essex, 59
Exploration, 295-304
Factories, 33
Fairman, Simon, 40
Fallen Timbers, battle of, 131
Fanning, Edmund, 62-64
Fanning Island, 62
Farley, James, 336
Farming, 156, 221, 278-79. See Agriculture
Farmington, 69;
Farmington Canal, 36o; East India Co., 69;
Farmington River, 13, 43
"Father Dunn Country," 194-202
Fayal, 21
Featherstonbaugh, G. W., 36
Feejee Islands, 62
Fenwick, Col., 52
Fiddler's Green, 28i
Fifth Brigade, 132
"Fire Lands," 131, 284
Firth & Hall, 45
Fish and Game Commission, 271
Fishing, i8o-182, 270-271;
shad,222
Fishrod, collapsible steel, to
Fitch, Elizabeth, 257
Fitch, John, 282-295
Fitch, Major Jim, 21
Fitch, Thomas, 2,r7
Flat Rocks Road, i85
Flint, Adam, 115-117
Flood control, 26
Fluteville, 44
Flying Cloud, 23
Foo , 19-20, 155
Forbes, Samuel, 254
Foreigners, i96
Forge Pond, io8
Fort Independence, 133
Fort Riley, 234
Fort Sumter, 236
Fort Trumbull, 70
Fourdrinier papermaker, 73-74
Fowler, Thaddeus, 76
Foxhounds, 150, 172
Frances Ann, The, r8
Franklin, Benjamin, 41, 125, 287
French and Indian War, 208, 2i6, 25-
Fuller, Alfred C., 86
Fuller brushes, 86
Fulton, Robert, 293
Fundamental Orders, the, 15, 24
Furnace Ilillage, iog
Galusha, Beulah, 246
Gamaliel's Den, 317
Garnets, 174
Gaspe, 20
General Assembly, 24, 132, 254, 258
Georgetown, 74
German-American Bund, 23, 24
Cerman immigration, 31
Gilbert, Benjamin, 74
Gilbert Bennett CO., 75
Gildersleeve Ship Yards, 59
Gilman, Marty, 86
Glasgo, 53, 54
Glastonbury, to, 85, 262
Good Hill, 276
Goodspeed's Landing, 222
Goodyear, Charles, 82-83
Goodyear, Nelson, 84
Goshen, 44
Gotham, 115
Government regulation, 364
"Governor's Road," 16o
GranbY,76
Gray, Capt. L. S., 56
Great Fire, i8
Great Lakes, i3i
Great Shippe, The, 51, If)4
Great Swamp Fight, i6
Greeley, Horace, i87
Green, Capt. Daniel, 57
Green Mountain Boys, 21, 228, 245
Green Pond Mts., 145
Greenwich; purchase Of, 31; 219
Greenwood Hill, 148
Gregory, John, 333
Greystone, i83
Griswold, Roger, 248
Griswold Sisters, 257
Groton, 19, 295
Guilford, 184
Haddam jail, 25
Haddam Neck, 59
Hale, Enoch, 226
Hale, Nathan, 70, 221-227
Hale, Samuel, 222, 224
Hale, Samuel, Jr., 225
Hall, Harvey, 307
Hambletonian, 274
Hammerton, iog
Hanks, Horatio, 356
Hannah, Hugh, 244
Hanover, 174
Harland, Thomas, 36
Harney, W. S., 238
Harper's Ferry, 312
Harpooners, 59
Harrison &- Reynold, 42
Hartford, 24, 8i, igg, 292;
Hartford Courant, 145; the Insur-
a-nce City, i8;
Harwinton
Hats;
French leghorn, i o; Danbury Beaver,
28
Hawaii, 298
"Hawley Trout," i8o-i82
Hawleyville, i68
Hayward, Nathaniel, 83
Hazardville, 271
Hebron, 353
Hempstead, Stephen, 225
Henry, Patrick, 288
Hersilia, The, 64
Higganum, 76
Hinman, John, 333
Hitchcock chairs, 31
Hitchcock, Lambert, 45 Holley, L. A., io6, io8
Hollister, Gersham, i88
Holmes, Israel, i i
Holmes, Joseph Warren, ig
Holmes Shipbuilding Co., 85
Hooker, The Rev. Thomas, 15
Hoopskirts, 82
Hopkins, Asa, 44-45
Horses, 109, 273-278, 321-322 Hotchkiss, Andrew, 77
Hotchkiss School, ioG
Hotchkiss shells, 77
Hotchkiss & Sons, 77
Housatonic, 26
Housatonic River, 22, 52, 144, 230 Houston, Sam, 141, 143
Howard, John, 365
Howe, Thos. Ireland, 74
Hudson k Godwin, 269
Hudson Highlands, 2i8
Hull, Chester, 178-179
Hull, Capt. William, 224
Hunting, 114, 149-150, 172
Huntington (Ky.), 129
Huntington, Collis P., 31, 39
Huntley, Lydia, 258
Illinois, 4o, 127
Indians, i6, 22, 50, 123-124;
in Ohio, 132-133, 208
"Indian wickerby," 46
Indian, wooden, i6
Industries: Bell making, 38; clocks,
23; dairying, 13; iron, io6-iig; sawmills, 157; silk, i8; tacks, 39 Industry, 43, 45, 73-74, 183. See inventions
Ingraham family, 38
Insurance,i8
Inventions, 10, 40, 71-87, 26i. See also
John Fitch
Investment trusts, 360
Ipswich Manor, i3O
Iron, 2.54
iron-mining, io6-iig
Ives, Joseph, 38
Jackson, Andrew, 21
Jackson, Claibonne, 235
Jackson, Thomas J., 214
Jackson, William, i87 angling Plains,
Jarvis Island, 62 170 efferson, Thomas, i2g
@eminakins, 266
Jenkins, Ebenezer, 43, 82 [ewett Manufacturing CO., 73 John Brown's Body," 207 ones, John Paul, 62 ones, Zechariah, i86 jordon, Seth, 355
Journal of Music, i64
Kansas, 18, 234, 304-314
Kansas-rifles, 310
Kellogg, Mrs. Waldo, 271
Kendrick, Capt. John, 300
Kentucky, 250-252
"Kettle," The, iO7
Keyes, Anna, 210
Kies, Mary, 270
Kilbourne, Jonathan, 87
Knowlton's Rangers, 70, 214, 224, 231
Knowlton, Thomas, 207-214, 226
Knowlton, William, 208
Knox, General, iio
Krag carbine, 23
Lafayette, i to
Lake Erie, 131
Lake, Simon, 8o
Lakeville, io6, log
Lamb, Thomas, io8
Lamberton, Capt. George, 50 Land, 129;
in Texas, 141
Law, Jonathan, 356
Lead mines, 137
Lebanon, log, 219
Ledyard, John, 295-304
Ledyard, Col. William, 299 Lee, Thomas, 125
Legend, I 1 7 -1 i 8
Lexington, battle Of, 212, 21,-
Liberty Hill Cemetery, 56
Lightning rods, 43
Lime R6ck, io6, io8
Limonite, io8
Lincoln City, io6
Litchfield, 2o, i68, 228, 244
Litchfield-China Co., The, 58, i68
Litchfield County, 26, 332
Little York, 174
"Littlest Store," 147-159
Livingston, Robert, 293
Long Island, battle of, 223
"Long Nines," 269
Long Wharf, 53, 69
Loomis, Mrs. Esther, 263
Louisiana Advertiser, 139
Lumber, i83
Lyman, W- W-, 76
Lyon County, Ky., 251
Lyon, Matthew, 244-252
Lyon, Nathaniel, 233-243
MacClellan, The, 55
Macnete, 43
Machimoodus, 12, i8.3
Madison, Dolly, io, i'70
Mail order business, 88ff
Manhattan financiers, i8
Mansfield, 356
Mansfield Domestic Silk Gro
Manual, 357
Manufacturing, 33, 45, 351. See
dustry
Map, of the Northwest, -ql
Margaret, The, 56
Marietta (Ohio), 129, 132
Marlboro, 86
Mason, Capt. lohn, i6
Mason, Dr-. Lowell, i64
Massachusetts-Kansas expedition, 31
Mast Swamp, 69, 245
Mat@hes, 84
Maxim, Hiram Percy, 86
Medicines, 46, 126
Merchandising, 29, 49, 88ff
Meriden, 35, 44, 76
Mexico, 139
Mexican War, 82, 233
Michigana, 127
Middle Haddam, 59
Migration. See Connecticut
Milford, 79
Millington Green, 183
Mi Is,10- 330
mi 18, LY.P@'.: 331
mi IC Hill, 20, 173
Mi ter's Tavern, 222
Minute Men, The, 229, 254
Missionaries, 68
Missouri, 137-138, 233-243
Mizzentop, 146
Mohawk Valley, 126
Monohan, John, i i i
Montauk Point, 53
Montgomery, Richard, 232
Montreal, battle of, 232
Montresor, John, 226
Moodus, i2
Moodus noises, 353
Moosehorn Brook, 317
Morgan ,Capt. Ebenezer (Rattler), 55,
Morgan horse, 109, 273
Mortlake Manor, 21-22
Moss Wood, 2o6
Mt. Riga, io6-iig
Mount Washington, 127
"Mousetrap Headquarters," 72
Mifflin, Thomas, 2go
Mulberry Corners,-172
Muldoon, Father Michael, 140
Munitions. See arms
Munson, Chuck, 150-1.59
Music, i6o-167, 201, 262
Musical instruments, 45
Music Vale'i6o-i67, 2o6;
Music Vale Seminary, 163-i67
Muskinguum, i2g
Mystic Harbor, 53
Naugatuck, 11, 72
Naugatuck Valley, 34
Nazi camp, 23
Negroes, 68, 258;
negro elections, 17
Neptune, The, 56
New Bedford, 5.5
New Britain, 35
"New Connecticut," 123. See West-
moreland; yermont; 1733, 207
New Fairfield, 146;
Gun Club, 153
New Hampshire, 125, 219
New Haven, 51, 56
New Haven Colony, 17, 50, i86, 364,
Green, 13; -Kansas Expedition, 17,
3o6; Mint, 82; Posf Office, 94;
shipping, 53-54, 59
New London, 23, 49, 52, 54, 59, 69,
i62, 222, 335; Coast Guard Acad-
emy, 69; Gazette, 54; harbor, 2o6;
Ship and Engine Co., 8o
New Milford, 93;
Fair, 157
New Preston, 256
New York, 125;
Great fire, i8
New Yorkers, 18, 151-152, 192, 22&, 363
Newgate prison, 337-338
Neversink, the, 146
Noank,59
Northern Farmer, i66
North, Simeon, 8o
Northwest Ordinance, i28-129
Northwest Territory, 123-135
Norwalk, 225, 317
Norwich, 19, 258
Nutmeg State, 15
Obookiah, Henry, 68
Ohio, 9, i8, 123-135;
Company, 125, 128; Purchase, 129;
River, 131
Old Lyme, 26, 257
Old Mystic, i6
Opera. See Music Vale
Ordinance of 87. See Northwest
Ore Hill, 106, 115
Ostranders, 112
Owlsbury, ii8, igo
Ozarks, the, 28, 36
Packersville, 183
Palmer, Capt. Nathaniel B., 64
Palmer, Nathan, 2i8
Palmyra Islands, 62
Panic of i8ig, 139
Paper-making, 73-74, 247
"Paradise," 172
Paradise, i68-i82, 363
Parimaribo, 9
Parmalee, 27
Parsons, Samuel, 229
Patagonia, 13
Patents, 10, 291-292
Pattison, William and Edward, 33
Peabody, Prof., 127
Peace of 1763, 19
Pedlars, 147, 269;
Protective Ass'n, 335; See Yankee
Pelcisipia 127
Pennsylv;nia, i25;
Bill Stuart in, 320
"Penn-Yan," 267-268
Pequot fort, i6
Perseverance, The, 291
Phelps, Oliver, 132
helps & Stafford, 73
ianos, mechanical, to
ins, to
,ioneer, The, 55
,istols, 8i
'IOWS, 43, 76
:Iymouth Hollow, 37
olypotamia, 127
)omfret, 21, 215
omperaug River, 171, 273
orter, Ebenezer, i86
sorter, Joshua, iio
"orter, Thomas, j86
:,ortland, 59
Portsmouth (N. H.), 222
Power companies, 26, 144, 157
Pratt, Phineas, 75
Pratt & Whitney, 23-24, 85
Premiums, 89
Prentiss, Gen., 24o
Prospect, 2o6
Providence Plantations, 17
Provision State, the, 205
"Provisional Constitution," 312
Publicover, Tom, 345-350
Puffingham, 245
Purchase, the, 24
Putnam, Israel, 211-220
Putnam, Gen. Rufus, 130
Quaker Hill, i46
Quinnipiac River, 51
"Raggies," The, io6-iig
Rance, Stephen, 315
Real estate, i8, 36o-363
Realtors, 360-5t65t
Redding, State Reservation, 219
Redfield, William, it
Reid, Capt. Samuel Chester, 2i
Ridgefield, 337
Riga Forge,245
Rising Sun, The, 54
Riverton, 45
Roberts, Gideon, 37
Rocky Hill, 35
Rocky River, 145
Roger Sherman Almanacs, 9A,
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 64
Root, George F., 164
Royal Limb, The, 53
Roxbury, 14, 20,94
Roxbury Falls, 173
Rumsey, James, 292
Rural Homestead, 159
Russia, John Ledyard in, 301-302
Sabin, John, 22
St. Clair, Gen., 130, 131, 246
St. Louis (MO.), 243; arsenal, 236
Salem (Conn.), 160-167
Salem (Mass.), 215
Salisbury, 2 i, 69, 106, 245. See Raggies;
Brinton Hill, 115; furnaces, 42, 54;
iron, 20 2ig; Town Farm, 115
Salmon, 117
Sandwich'Islands, 67
Sanford, Thomas, 84
Saratoga, 127
Sargent, Major Winthrop, igg
Satan's Kingdon, i83
Sawmills, 157-i58
Saybrook,52,i6i,i84
Schools. See Education, Conn.
Schuyler, The, 225
Schuyler, Gen. Philip, 231
Scioto Land Company, i3o
Scitico Wallop, 271
"Scourge of Democracy," 247
Scovill Company (D.& H.), 76, 366
Scaling, 56-57, 64
Secession, 235
Sedgewick, Gen., 2o6
Sedition Act, 248
Sessions family, 38
Seymour, 45, 84
Seymour, 45, 84
Shakers of Enfield, 76
Sharon, 42, 72
Sharparoon, ii2
Sharpes rifles, 17, 81, 3o8
Sheffield, Capt. James P., 64
Sheldon's Horse, tog
Shelton, 39
Shenandoah, The, 56
Shepaug Railroad, i68
Shepaug River, i68, 315
Shepaug River Trout, i82
Sherman, 146, 148
Sherman, Roger, 93, 217
Ship Fellowship Co., The, 51
Shipbuilders, 54, 59, 69
Shipbuilding. See John Fitch
Shipping, 48;
in the Ohio River, 285
Shipyards, 24, 52-53
Shoebuckles, 35
Shuckburgh, Dr., 257
Siberia, 9, 298
Sieve-making, 74
Sigel, Col., 240
Sigourney, Charles, 259
Sigourney, Lydia, 259
Silica mines, 173, 176
Silk, i8;
growing, 356-36o
Simmons, Amelia, 269
Skipjack, The, 8o
Skippers, i6, 48-70
Slavery, 128, 142, 234, 259, 262, 304
Smith, Abijah, 41
Smith, Gerrit, 3o5
Smith, Hannah, 26o
Smith, Venture, 59
Smith, Zephaniah, and family, 259
262
Social work, ii6
South Britain, 27
South Killingby, 270
Southbury, 23, 315
Speed, George, 114
Speedwell, The, 49
Spencer, C. M., 8i
Spoons, 43
Spoonville, 43
Squantz Pond, 146
Stafford Springs, 40
Stamford, 35
Standard inch, 24
Standard measuring machine, 85
States' Rights, 237
Steamboats, 286-295
Steel-making, io6
Steele, Dr., i2
Stonington, 53, 55, 62
Stoves, Burnham, 42
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 17, 259
"Straight Heat Moll," 275
Stuart, Bad Bill, 172
Straw hats, 270
Submarine, 78
Sucker Brook, 27
Sundown Corner, 179
Surdam family, i i 2
Surdam, Pete, 114
Slyvania, 127
Swift, Herman, i88
Swindles, 344-363
Taconic Lakes, io6
Talcott Range, 154
Talcott Twins, 153
Tanner, William, i86, i88
Tanning, 74
Tariffs, 50, 58
Taxes, i 6, i i o
Telephone exchange (first), to
Terry, Eli, 37
Terry, Eliphalet, i8
Texas, 9, 18, 138-143;
population of, 141-142
Tharnes River (Conn.), 55
Thomas, Seth, 30, 38
Thompson, Charles B., 88-105
"Tick-on-the-wall," 37
Ticonderoga, 14
Tinware, 34, 72, 74
Tioga (Pa.), 267
Tobacco growing, 94
Tolland County, i96
Tolman, Pete, 114
Tontine Hotel, 41
Tools, 43;
precision, to
Tophet, i6g
Torrington, 73, 304, 314
Totten's Battery, 240
"Town M," io6
Townsend, Capt., Ebenezer, 57-58
Trade, 125. See Commerce
Traders, 42
Trade routes, 63
Trading, 300
Transportation, 284
Trans-Siberian Railway, 13
Transylvania Academy, 139
Trumbull, The, 300
Trumbull, John, 2ig
Trumbull, Jonathan, tog
Tryall, The, 52
Tyron, Gov., 2i8
Tullar, Capt. T., 342
Tunney, Gene, 273
Turbines, 24
'I'urner, Capt. Nathan, 50
Twin Lakes, 117
Uncle Tom's Cabin, 259
Underground railroad, 312
United States Army, 8i
United States Congress, 63-64, 127,
128 131 247
United States Naval Atlantic Sub
marine Base, 70
United States Navy, 21, 79, 109
United States Patent Office, 10, 71, 73
United States Senate, i8
Union, The. See Civil War
Vermont, 18, 20, 125, i86, 227, 232;
and Matt Lyon, 247-248
women and, 262; in Conn., 17
Voting;
Voyages to the South Seas, 63
Wabbaquasset Country, 2i
Wagner, Richard, i65
Wa lingford (Vt-), 245
Walpole Company, 125
War of i 8 i 2, 2 i, 58, 205, 251, 364
War of Jenkins Ear, 211
Waramaug's Lodge, 22
Ward, Montgomery, go
Warehouse Pt., 52
Warming pans, 48
Warner, Seth, 14, 21, 230
Warrenville, 197
Warwick Patent, 123, 124
Washington, 127
Washington, George, 214, 2i8, 224
Washington Heights, 22i
Washington, Lawrence, 125
Waterbury, 11, 35
Watertown, 194, 270
Wayne, Anthony, 131
Weaver family, i i 2
Welles, Gurdon, 270
Wells Woods, i 83
Western Reserve. See Northwest Ter
ritory
Westmoreland, 126, 255
Westmoreland Township, 123, 124
West Point, 233
Wethersfield
52 76 256 342;
Cove, 44; Massacre, i6
Wequetequock River, 62
Whaling, 54
Wheelock, Eleazar, 296
White, Capt., 48-49
White Plains, 219
Whiting, Mr., 53
Whittlesey, Oramel, i62-i67
Whittlesey, Rev. John, i6i-i62
Whitney, Eli, 11, 76, 8o
Wilkinson, lemima, 266-267
Willard, Emma Hart, 259-260
Willard School, 259-260
Williams, L. B., 85
Williams, Roger, 17
Wilton, 316
Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 8o
Windham, 74;
Band, 336; County, 217; 357;
power mills, 2ig
Windsor, 132, **
Winsted, 27
Winthrop, John, 52, i6o
Wire-drawing, i i
Witchcraft, 256
Witches, 17
Witch of %VoodbUry, 273-28i
Wochocastigook Brook, 107, 114
Wolcott, Oliver, 255
Women, 253-272;
women's rights, 262
Woodbridge, 84
Woodbury, 58, 230, 273
Wooster, David, 229
Work, Henry Clay, 207
Works Progress Administration, 27
Wright, Asher, 221, 225
Wyoming Massacre, 125
Yale College, 37, 68, 126, 131, 222, 310
Yale, Linus, 85
Yale locks, 85
Yankee Doodle, 257
"Yankee notions," 31, 35
Yankee Pedlar, 7, 15, 23, 29ff, 72
Yankees, 14 .
Yazoo question, 250
zephyr, The, 48, 66
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