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Church and state, 4, 62, 70, 140; separa- tion of, 181-183, 252-254, 262-264.
Church of England, see Episcopal Church.
Churchman's Monthly Magazine, 39.
Cincinnati, Society of the, 147, 156.
Clap, Rector Thomas, philosophy of, 8; intolerance of, 19.
Clark, Patrick, 238.
Clergy, Congregational, influence of, 16, 123, 136, 137, 151, 191, 195, 201, 233; number and salaries of, 18, 204n; Fed- eralist activities of, 23, 24-25, 125, 184, 195, 196-197, 199-200, 204; aristocratic tendencies of, 49-50; Republican at- tacks, 152, 195, 202-203, 205n, 209-210, 214; lack of patriotism in 1812, 183; as patriots in 1776, 196.
Cleveland, General, 95.
Colchester, 79.
Commerce, decline of, 224.
Comptroller of Currency, 119, 211; un- der the constitution, 248.
Congregationalism, low religious tone of, 7, 55; and Toleration Act of 1784, II; see also Clergy, Congregational.
Congregational societies, strength of, 31; their control of education, 41, 62; un- democratic seating in, 49-50; and the Bonus, 218-219.
Connecticut, no frontier, 3; Bible So- ciety, 24; Missionary Society, 24; peo- ple of, and taxation, 56; intolerance of, 62; Moral Society, 24; characteristics of its people, 66, 180; banks of, 66-67; size of farms, 97-98; population of, 98- 99; Agricultural Society, 106; opposi- tion to War of 1812, 183, 185-187.
Connecticut Valley, 32, 74, 93, 172.
Constitution, demands for a, 5, 115-116, 162, 214-215, 230; Charter questioned as a, 114, 156, 169; characteristics of an American, 167, 169, 143; legislature and towns urge a new, 231-232, 233- 235; provides for two capitals, 244; general résumé of, 257-2 58; ratification
by voters, 257-261; see also Conven- tion.
Convention, call for a, 235; election of delegates, 236; personnel, 237-238; chaplains selected, 238; rules adopted, 239; selection of drafting committee, 239-240; adopts preamble to constitu- tion, 240-241; considers and adopts Bill of Rights, 241-243; separates pow- ers of government, 243-244; debates on Legislature, 244; debates on Senate, 245-246; debates on executive, 246-248; debates on judiciary, 248-251; on suf- frage, 251-252; consideration of reli- gious toleration, 252-254; on impeach- ment, 254; final vote on constitution, 256-257; cost of, 257n.
Cornwall, dissent in, 35, 45, 47, 56, 57; mission school at, 263.
Corrupt practices acts, 138, 252.
Corruption, political, 68, 136, 215, 219- 220; see also Phoenix Bank.
Cotton, manufacturers, 82, 87; prices of, 87.
Council, members, 31, 265-266; defeats Baptist petitions and Episcopal col- lege charter, 42, 53; powers of, 118- 119, 124, 128, 168, 217, 220; attacks upon, 126, 127-128, 162, 216, 257-258; attitude in War of 1812, 129; terms of office, 134; and financial reports, 216; opposed by Lower House, 225, 226, 229, 234; secrecy of debates, 235; men- tioned, 69, 70.
Courts, of errors, 118; common pleas or county, 131, 134; probate, 132; parti- sanship of, 168; see also Superior Court; Supreme Court of Errors; Su- preme Court of U.S.
Cowles, Rev. Whitfield, persecution of, 197.
Coxe, Tench, statistics from, 78, 82, 84. Crewse, Rev. John, 41.
Critical period, character of, 12-13.
Cromwell, 47.
Cromwell, Oliver, 208, 214, 232.
Croswell, Rev. H., election sermon, 232- 233.
Cutler, Rev. Manasseh, 95.
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Cutler, Rev. Timothy, conversion of, 18,
34.
Daggett, David, resigns from Council, 128-129; describes Connecticut gov- ernment 135; political writings, 164- 165; on ministerial influence, 196-197; mentioned, 69, 144, 146, 166, 172, 176n, 200n, 205.
D'Alembert, 15.
Dallas, Alexander, law reports by, 193.
Dana, Rev. James, sermons by, 25, 26; quoted, 29, 61, 117n.
Dana, Senator S. W., mentioned, 204.
Danbury, 219, 231; dissent in, 56; manu- factures in, 78, 85.
Dartmouth College, 93, 213.
Davenport, James, 115.
Day, President Jeremiah, 22, 232.
Day, Thomas, 119, 148, 1931, 204, 206, 232.
Dearborn, General, calls for militia, 129. Declaration of Independence, 37, 76, 113. Declaration of Rights, 115.
Deism, spread to be hindered, 52.
Delaware, 172; Land Company, 92.
Democracy, of Baptist preachers, 49; of banks, 66.
Denison, Charles, 4In, 70, 218.
Denison, Elisha, 70.
Derby, 75, 76; Bank, 67, 69, 71; Fishing Company, 67, 75, 77.
Dickinson, Gov. Daniel, 99.
Dissenters, tithes paid by, 11; grievances of, 61-64; and Republicanism, 64, 199- 200, 207; emigration of, 92.
Districting, of Connecticut, 245-246, 259. Doddridge, Rev. Philip, sermon of, 27.
Domestic Missionary Society, estab- lished, 27.
Duelling, condemnation of, 27, 252.
Duncan, John M., views as a traveller, 22; on the state constitution, 255n.
Dwight, Margaret, Diary quoted, 95. Dwight, Theodore, describes Republi- cans, 152n, 209n; secretary of the Hartford Convention, 186; defense of the Hartford Convention, 187; on po- litical influence of Congregational
clergy, 201; mentioned, 43, 70, 100, 152, 156, 204, 205n, 206.
Dwight, Thomas, 209.
Dwight, President Timothy, campaigns against infidelity, 9, 11, 20; on Catholic Church, 14-15; character, 15, 203; Tri- umph of Infidelity, 16; political ac- tivity, 22, 191, 192, 20In, 202; sermons, 25, 26; opposes duelling, 27; estimates Universalist and Episcopalian strength, 39, 59; on immigration, 101; on the powers of the Legislature, 121; on the judiciary, 133, 251; attacks on, 202-203; on position of clergy, 204n; men- tioned, 12, 15, 21, 22, 23, 30, 70, 91, 137, 149, 155, 175n, 176n, 193, 196, 202, 206, 222.
East Haddam, dissent in, 47.
East Hartford, dissent in, 47, 56, 57; mentioned, 78, 85.
East Haven, dissent in, 40.
East Indies, trade with, 74.
East Windsor, 79.
Ecclesiastical chart, analysis of, 215-216. Ecclesiastical funds, 71.
Edmond, Judge William, 25In.
Education, article in the constitution on, 254; see also School fund; Schools.
Edwards, H. W., 235.
Edwards, Jonathan, 70.
Edwards, Rev. Jonathan, 30.
Edwards, Rev. Jonathan, Jr., 30, 149, 226, 234, 235n.
Edwards, Pierrepont, defends Judd, 166; work in the convention, 237, 239, 240, 245, 256; mentioned, 146, 149, 152, 154, 159, 163, 176, 180.
Edwards, Walter, 204.
Election Day, 117; sermons, 123; cere- monies of, 123.
Elections, of 1790-1800, 147; of 1799, 148- 149; of 1800, 149, 159, 198; of 1801, 152-153, 155; of 1802, 156, 158; of 1803, 159-162; of 1804, 164-165; of 1805, 172- 173; of 1806, 174-176; of 1807, 176; of 1808, 177; of 1809, 179-180; of 1810, 180-181; of 1812-1813, 183; of 1814, 185-186; of 1815, 188; of 1816, 213-214, 217-218; of 1817, 220, 227, 228; method
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of holding, 137-138; reform of, 140; purity and secrecy of, 156; law of, 230. Ellsworth, Henry, 106.
Ellsworth, Oliver, 53n, 69, 135n, 146, 211. Ely, Rev. Zebulon, 202.
Embargo, Connecticut attitude toward, 75, 176-177; and manufactures, 86; Re- publicans support the, 179; mentioned, 80, 96.
Emerson, Rev. Ralph, sermon of, 25.
Emigration, western, 4, 83, 91-103; char- acter of those emigrating, 91, 96, 99; extent of, 98-99; causes of, 100; move- ment to halt, 100; Gov. Wolcott con- siders, 224.
Enfield, 79, 85.
England, industrial and commercial ri- valry of, 86; and War of 1812, 183; judges in, 248, 250; mentioned, 128.
Episcopal Bank, 67; see also Phoenix Bank.
Episcopal Church, 33-44; Toryism of, 8, 37; establishment and growth of, 7, 33, 36-37, 38, 43-44; Act of Toleration favors, 34-35; persecution suffered by, 34, 41, 50; Bishop and Bishop's Fund, 37, 218; literacy of its ministers, 39; and War of 1812, 40; and the Bonus Act, 219; and the tithe system, 225; mentioned, 60, 159, 199; see also Bish- op's Fund.
Episcopal college, opposition of the Standing Order to, 130, 200; men- tioned, 41, 63, 262.
Episcopalians, enter the Republican- Toleration party, 181, 216, 217, 220; position of, 214; support the conven- tion, 237; mentioned, 202, 253, 254. Establishment, the, 7, 34; opposed by Tolerationists, 214; see also Church and state, Tithe system.
European wars, influence on industrial life of Connecticut, 66.
Exports, 74, 76.
Factories, 65, 78-89; social life in, 80, 82. Fairchild, Robert, work in the conven- tion, 243, 244; opposes the constitu- tion, 256.
Fairfield, 76, 126n; dissent in, 56.
Fairfield County, Episcopalians in, 34, 37; manufacturing in, 81, 83, 89, 90; Toleration strength in, 215; vote on the constitution, 259n, 260; mentioned, 165, 172, 226.
Fanning, Col. Edward, a loyalist, 38, 203. Farmington, 166.
Farms, size of Connecticut, 103.
Fast days, 117.
Fearon, Henry B., describes Methodists, 58.
Federal Constitution, religious toleration of, 13, 196; Connecticut ratification of, 146, 242.
Federalist Party, and Episcopalians, 42; character of Federalists, 52, 207; op- poses manufactures, 86, 88; organiza- tion, 147; lack of patriotism in 1812, 183; decline of, 187, 261; and the con- vention, 236.
Field, Rev. David, estimates number of Baptists, 54; quoted, 102.
Financial reports, of treasurer, 216.
Fitch, Asa, 70.
Fitch, Jabez, 176, 178.
Flint, Rev. Abel, quoted, 216.
Florida, 92, 183.
Foote, S. A., 235.
Foreigners, opposition to, 75.
Fourth-of-July orations and toasts, 173.
Freeman, Edmund, in the convention, 239.
Freemasonry, 12, 147.
French and Indian War, marks entrance of infidelity, 7.
French Revolution, effect on Connecti- cut religious life, 13; Connecticut atti- tude toward, 14, 146, 150; and Catholic Church, 14-15.
Friends, persecution of, 60; see also Quakers.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 113, 167, 169, 234, 242.
Gale, Dr. Benjamin, discourses on Con- necticut's constitution, 114; on long tenures of office, 135.
Gales Ferry, Methodists in, 56.
General Assembly, description and
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powers, 117, 118, 119, 120-122; judicial powers of, 202.
George III, 147.
Glastonbury, manufacturing in, 83.
Goddard, Judge Calvin, 70, 153, 16on, 185, 204, 215, 226; and the Hartford Convention, 187; displaced from the bench, 251.
Goodrich, Chauncey, quoted, 198; de- scribes Republicans, 15on; delegate to the Hartford Convention, 186; men- tioned, 129, 162, 176n, 185, 204, 206, 2II.
Goodrich, Rev. Elizur, 37.
Goodrich, Elizur, 129, 173, 204; removal from the collectorship of New Haven, 153-154.
Goodrich, Roger, 70.
Goodrich, Samuel, 206.
Goshen, Methodists in, 219.
Gould, Judge James, 16on, 193, 25 In.
Governing class, 124, 135, 137; see also Standing Order.
Government, working, 113-145.
Governor, powers, duties and election of, 117-118, 134; Foot-Guards, 184n; under the new constitution, 243-244, 246-248.
Granby, dissenters in, 57, 219.
Granger, Gideon, 99, 139, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 154, 155.
Great Awakening, 7, 18, 35, 44, 46, 55; see also Revivals.
Greene, Louise, quoted, 205n.
Greenwich, 231.
Griswold, Rev. John, sermons of, 26.
Griswold, Matthew, 176, 213, 228.
Griswold, Gov. Roger, and militia epi- sode, 129; addresses the Legislature, 182; mentioned, 180, 181, 183, 184, 205. Griswold, Rev. Stanley, clerical perse- cution of, 197; mentioned, 70, 100, 152. Groton, dissenters in, 46, 61; manufac- turing in, 83; mentioned, 219, 231. Guilford, dissenters in, 35, 47.
Haddam, dissenters in, 40, 56.
Hamden, dissenters in, 40, 57; manufac- turing in, 84; call for constitution in, 231.
Hamilton, Alexander, financial policy of, 66; on dependence of judges, 133; mentioned, 27, 69, 168, 211. Hampton, dissenters in, 47.
Hart, Gen. William, 94, 148, 149, 150, 151, 160, 166, 172, 174, 177, 178.
Hartford, Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 24;
Bank, 66, 69, 70; Phoenix Bank of, 67, 68, 70; and New Haven Insurance Co., 73; Fire Insurance Co., 73; manufac- turing in, 79, 83, 85; Toleration-Re- publican strength in, 175, 216, 236; constitutional convention at, 238; elec- tion disorder in, 252; mentioned, 118, 123, 126n, 158, 179, 188, 231, 237, 244. Hartford Convention, delegates from Connecticut, 186; work of, 186-187; mentioned, 129, 183, 207n, 213, 215, 217, 220, 227.
Hartford County, manufacturing in, 81, 83, 89; Agricultural Society of, 106; vote on the constitution, 259n.
Harvard, religious life of, 18.
Haskell, Eli, 70.
Haynes, Gov. John, 221.
Hebron, 83, 240.
Herbert, Lord, philosophy of, 15.
Hillhouse, Senator James, opposition to manufactures, 69, 86; delegate to Hart-
ford Convention, 186; mentioned, 158n, 159, 16on, 165, 176n, 203, 220, 230. Hillhouse, William, 15 In.
Hobart, Bishop John H., sermon of, 25. Hobbes, philosophy of, 15.
Holley, President Horace, of Transyl- vania College, 100.
Hollister, G. H., on the results of the political revolution, 261.
Holly, Israel, pamphlet by, 51.
Holmes, Uriel, 95.
Hooker, Rev. Asahel, sermon of, 25.
Hooker, Rev. Thomas, quoted, 243n.
Hopkins, Samuel, 30.
Hosmer, Judge Stephen, 251.
Hosmer, Judge Titus, 88n.
Hotham, Admiral, entertained by Hart- ford society, 188.
Hubbard, Elijah, 73.
Hubbard, G., 235. Hudson, Henry, mentioned, 25, 73, 206.
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Hume, David, 10, 15.
Humphreys, General David, founder of Humphreysville Manufacturing Co., 80; address on agriculture, 105-106; sketch of, 108-109; mentioned, 107, 222.
Hungerford, William, in the conven- tion, 239, 240, 252n.
Huntington, Ebenezer, 70, 73.
Huntington, Gen. Jedidiah, 25, 69, 135n, 206. Huntington, Jonathan, 73. Huntington, Gov. Samuel, 39, 100.
Hyde, Elisha, 139, 173.
Illuminati, 12. Immigration, 101.
Impeachment, under the constitution, 254.
Infidelity, at the close of the Revolution, 10; during the Critical Period, 11, 12; in Yale, 18.
Insurance companies, 4, 73-74.
Intemperance, prevalence of, 27, 72n.
Irish, immigration of, 102; juries, 134; Pennsylvania Irish and the War of 1812, 183.
Iron industry, 79.
Jackson, President Andrew, mentioned, 241.
Jacobins and Jacobinism, 14, 15, 16, 23, 147, 165, 168, 174, 180, 198, 199, 208; their clubs, 147, 148.
Jarvis, Bishop Abraham, toryism of, 38; mentioned, 39, 159.
Jefferson, President Thomas, irreligious views of, 17, 23; election of, 23; buys Connecticut homespuns, 80; attacked by Clerical-Federalists, 150, 198; uses patronage, 153; administration of, 162, 178; mentioned, 76, 108, 147, 148, 194, 248, 249.
Jeffersonian party, 146, 151, 216; see also Republican party. Jews, 61, 243.
Johnson, Samuel, religious views and conversion of, 7, 18, 34; mentioned, 36, 42.
Johnson, William Samuel, patriotism of, 37; mentioned, 43, 135n, 146, 155, 218, 227, 228.
Judd, William, controversy over New Haven Address, 163-165; his manu- script defense, 167.
Judiciary Act, federal, 212.
Judiciary department, dependence of, 128, 133; courts, powers, etc., 130-134; reform of, 226; under new constitu- tion, 243, 248-251, 255, 256.
Justices of peace, powers and appoint- ment of, 132-133, 248.
Kant, philosophy of, 16.
Kendall, Edward A., on the powers of the Legislature and Council, 121-122, 127-128; view of Connecticut democ- racy, 136.
Kent, Episcopal church in, 40.
Kentucky, 96.
Kilbourne, James, 95.
Killingly, manufacturing in, 82.
Killingworth, dissenters in, 40, 47, 59. King, Rufus, 215n.
Kingsbury, Treasurer Andrew, 69, 106, II9n, 206, 216, 221, 232.
Kirby, Ephraim, advocates wider suf- frage, 146, 143; appointed judge of Louisiana, 155; legal reports by, 193; mentioned, 147, 149, 153, 158-159, 174.
Laboring class, evidences of, 79, 85, III, 194.
Lanman, James, in convention, 238, 239, 240, 245, 250.
Larned, Amasa, in convention, 239.
Laud, Puritan fear of, 37.
Law, Jonathan, 154.
Law, Judge Richard, 153.
Lawyers, dependence on Federalist courts, 134; Federalist, in politics, 192- 194; in the convention, 240.
Learned, George, in the convention, 239, 240.
Ledyard, Separatists in, 45.
Lee, Rev. Jesse, on religious life of the state, 13-14; his tours, 54, 55, 56.
Leffingwell, William, 69.
Legislature, election of representatives,
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122; reform of the, 229; under the constitution, 244-246; see also Assem- bly; Council; Elections; Stand-up Law.
Leland, Rev. John, estimates Baptist strength, 47-48; sermons of, 76; urges disestablishment, 76-77; quoted, 77, 156-157.
Lieutenant Governor, powers and duties of, 119, 134; under the constitution, 246, 247.
Litchfield, 126n, 212; Republican cele- bration at, 175-176.
Litchfield County, dissent in, 35, 36, 40, 57; Toleration-Republican strength in, 57, 175, 216, 221; manufacturing in, 81, 83, 84, 89, 90; Agricultural Society of, 106; vote on the constitution, 259n; mentioned, 54, 92, 93, 99, 172, 176.
Litchfield Law School, 193, 211.
Literacy of the people, 192.
Livingston, Robert, 108, 109.
Locke, Letters on Toleration, 19.
London Missionary Society, work of, 36, 38.
Long Wharf, of New Haven, 75, 77.
Louisiana Purchase, attitude of state to- ward, 161, 201.
Loyalists, 146.
Lyman, Phineas, land agent, 92.
Lyman, Thomas, 239.
Lyman, Rev. William, sermon of, 175n. Lyme, 231.
Lyon, Matthew, 149.
McClellan, Col. John, work in the con-
vention, 235n, 237, 243, 245, 2550, 256. McClure, Rev. David, 176n.
McDonough, Commodore, 88n.
McNeille, Rev. R. C., views on Congre- gationalism, 263n.
Madison, James, 154.
Maine, emigration to, 94.
Mansfield, Separatists in, 45.
Manufactures, development of, 4, 78-90; aided by the state, 88, 224, 226.
Manwaring, Christopher, 237-238.
Marlbone, Col. Godfrey, 36.
Marlborough, manufacturing in, 83.
Marsh, Rev. Ebenezer, sermons of, 25.
Massachusetts, religious system of, 55; Agricultural Society, 105, 106, 109; and the Embargo, 179; in the Hartford Convention, 187; mentioned, 60, 62, 180.
Mayors, 133, 135.
Medical School, 43.
Meigs, Jonathan, 95.
Meigs, Prof. Josiah, 191.
Meriden, 79, 178.
Merino sheep, introduction of, prices, etc., 79, 108-III.
Merwin, Orange, in the convention, 239. Methodist-Episcopal church, growth of,
40, 54, 57n, 58-59; persecution suf- fered by, 57; primitive ministry, 58, 152; and Bonus Act, 219; its college, 262.
Methodists, in New England, 48; be- come Republicans, 57, 59; demand disestablishment, 252; mentioned, 7, 31, 33, 34, 44, 50, 53, 54-59, 153, 219, 225.
Middlesex County, dissenters in, 44; manufacturing in, 81, 83, 89, 90; Tol- eration strength in, 216, 259n.
Middletown, dissenting churches in, 35, 45, 47, 57, 59; Bank of, 66, 70; Marine Insurance Co., 73; Manufacturing Company, 81; mentioned, 61, 67, 76, 231, 26on.
Milford, Methodist church in, 56.
Militia, officers of, 118; controversy, 217. Miller, Asher, 88n, 166.
Mississippi, constitution of, 240.
Mitchell, Senator Stephen Mix, in the convention, 239, 241; favors the con- stitution, 256.
Monroe, James, visits the state, 226.
Montesquieu, 121, 168, 193.
Moor, Roswell, 70.
Moral Society, 26, 206.
Morgan, John, 69, 73, 75. Morris, Robert, 69.
Morse, Rev. Asahel, 253.
Morse, Rev. Jedidiah, his Geography, 192, 201.
Mystic Manufacturing Co., 81.
Napoleon, defeat of, 183.
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National Bank, 66, 67, 69; second, 72, 73, 212.
Negroes, 59. New Britain, 9.
New England, 75, 92; Tract Society, 24, 206; Primer, 64; and Embargo, 177; Republicanism of, 177.
Newgate prison, 229.
New Hampshire, disestablishment, 62; emigration to, 93, 94, 100; mentioned, 180.
New Haven, Congregationalists in, 19, 31; dissenters in, 31, 36, 40, 47, 56, 57; bank of, 66, 69; Eagle Bank of, 67, 69, 70, 71, 73; Marine Insurance Co., 73; shipping, 74, 75, 76; manufacturing in, 84, 85; Republican convention at, 159- 160, 163; and the Embargo, 178; Mon- roe at, 226; a capital city, 244; Ad- dress, 249; vote on the constitution, 259, 260; mentioned, 38, 61, 67, 74, 75, 126n, 154, 191, 219, 231, 236, 237, 240, 245n.
New Haven County, manufacturing in, 81, 83, 89-90; Agricultural Society, 105; vote on the constitution, 259n, 260; mentioned, 194, 216.
New Lights, see Separatists.
New London, dissenting churches in, 39, 47, 56; Union Bank, 66, 69; Bank of, 67, 70; Union Insurance Co., 73; mentioned, 60, 74, 75, 76, 126n, 226, 231.
New London County, manufacturing in, 81, 83, 89, 90; Republican strength in, 159, 216; vote on the constitution, 259n, 260.
New Milford, dissenting churches in, 45, 61.
Newspapers, Republican, 151; Federal- ist, 191, 192, 201; attack clergy, 201n. Newtown, dissenters in, 37, 59, 231.
New York, banks of, 67, 71; emigration to, 93, 94, 99-100; Merchants Bank, 212; mentioned, 74, 93, 96, 150, 208. Nicoll, John, 73.
Niles, John M., on the constitution, 256n.
Non-Intercourse Acts, 75, 78, 179; see also Embargo.
North America, Bank of, 69. North Haven, 202.
Norwalk, Methodists in, 56.
Norwich, dissenting churches in, 40, 45, 47, 57, 59; Bank, 67, 70; Marine In- surance Co., 73; Mutual Assurance Co., 73; mentioned, 78, 83, 85, 126n, 213.
Nott, Rev. Samuel, 180.
Numa, articles by, 169.
Ohio, emigration to, 94, 95; description of frontier, 111; mentioned, 96, 97, 98, 250.
Osborne, Selleck, imprisoned Republi- can editor, 175.
Osgood, Rev. Thaddeus, 199n.
Paine, Thomas, Age of Reason, 16; death of, 24.
Panic after 1815, 71, 77, 86, 96. Parliament, 120.
Party life, 174, 187, 188-189; prior to 1800, 147-148; see also Elections; Fed- eralist party; Republican party; Tol- eration party.
Patronage, federal, 153.
Patten, Nathaniel, 73.
Pearson, Rev. Eliphalet, 204n.
Pennsylvania, emigration to, 94, 98; mentioned, 150.
Perkins, Elias, 70, 228.
Perkins, Enoch, 95, 204, 206.
Perkins, William, 206.
Peters, Rev. Hugh, 37.
Peters, Dr. John S., in the convention, 239, 240.
Pettibone, Judge Augustus, in the con- vention, 239.
Phelps, Anson, 197n.
Phelps, Elisha, 239.
Phelps, Oliver, land agent, 69, 94, 99.
Phelps, Samuel, 99.
Philadelphia, Agricultural Society, 105; character of elections in, 237.
Phoenix Bank, 43, 67, 68-69, 218.
Pierpont, R., 256.
Pitkin, Samuel, 25, 70, 204, 206.
Pitkin, Timothy, hostility to Jefferson,
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232; in the convention, 237, 238-239, 240, 245, 254. Pittsfield cattle show, 106.
Plainfield, 82, 213.
Politico-religious societies, 129, 205; po- litical preaching, 198.
Pomfret, dissenting churches in, 36, 47, 61; Manufacturing Co., 82.
Population, racial character of, 102.
Porter, Rev. Noah, sermons, 26, 32; on revival of 1821, 264.
Porter, Gen. Peter Buel, 100.
Presbyterians, 32, 33, 35.
Prices, 1774 to 1816, 111-112.
Priestley, Dr. Joseph, religious influence of, 17, 30.
Probate courts, 132.
Providence, R. I., 82.
Provincialism of Connecticut leaders, 172.
Public schools, secularized, 264.
Puritans, ideals, 4, 28, 64; repel immi- grants, 101.
Quakers, complete toleration for, 235; mentioned, 33, 46, 60-61.
Redding, 56, 231.
Reeve, Judge Tapping, quoted, 192n; mentioned, 25, 149, 193, 204, 206.
Republican party, opposed by clergy, 16, 197; character of members, 16, 150, 207, 223, 228n; attacks Yale, 22; ap- peals to dissenters, 23, 57, 64, 181; sup- ports Baptist petitions, 53-54; supports manufactures, 85-86, 88; favors suf- rage extension, 140; organized, 149; hostility toward clergy, 151, 209-210; convention at New Haven, 163; and Toleration success, 211.
Revivals, 21-22, 23, 25, 32, 41, 57, 58, 263; see also Great Awakening.
Revolution of 1817-1818, 5, 135, 221, 222, 230, 251, 261-264.
Rhode Island, no written constitution, 114, 163; dependent judiciary in, 249; mentioned, 85.
Richards, George H., on Yale, 63; po- litical essay by, 232.
Roads, construction of good, 107. Robbins, Rev. Thomas, describes Bap- tists and Methodists, 47, 58; opinion of Jefferson, 198; describes Republicans, 209; views on the Revolution of 1817- 1818, 222, 228, 258n, 26In; on universal suffrage, 237; quoted or mentioned, 95, 110, 137, 15 In, 175, 180, 2000, 216, 233n, 238n.
Rochefoucauld, Duke de la, on Connec- ticut intolerance, 62.
Root, Ephraim, 69, 73, 95.
Root, Jesse, 193n; in the convention, 237, 238, 239, 241, 243, 249.
Rousseau, 15, 20.
Rum industry, 79, 85; see also Intemper- ance.
Salisbury, dissenting churches in, 31; emigration from, 93; iron mines in, 79. Saltonstall, Gov. Gurdon, 22 I.
Sampson, Rev. Ezra, 192.
Saybrook, Methodists in, 57.
Saybrook Platform, 12, 63, 238.
Scantick, 236.
School fund, 51, 71, 215, 254, 262.
Schools, 4; dissenters oppose, 62; school- teachers, 63-64; Sunday schools, estab- lished, 64, 264; Congregational, 192, 195.
Scioto Land Co., 95.
Seabury, Bishop Samuel, toryism, 37; made bishop, 38; mentioned, 35.
Secretary of State, powers and duties, 119, 134, 246, 247.
Selectmen, 132, 135.
Senate, under the constitution, 245; pres- ent-day position, 246n.
Separatists, persecution of, 44-45; com- pared to Baptists, 48; mentioned, 34.
Seymour, Horatio, 99.
Seymour, Methodists in, 57.
Shaftesbury, Lord, 11, 15.
Shakers, 61.
Sharon, dissenting churches in, 38, 57; mentioned, 221.
Sheep breeding, 108; see also Merino sheep.
Sheriffs, duties, powers, etc., 118, 119- 120, 135, 248.
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Sherman, Charles, 69.
Sherman, Rev. John, 60.
Sherman, Roger, 25, 127, 135n, 146, 206.
Sherman, Roger M., religious experi- ences, 21; delegate to the Hartford Convention, 186; mentioned, 70, 184, 218, 228.
Sherwood, Samuel, 129.
Shipman, Elias, 69.
Shipping, 74, 96, 106; statistics of, 77n.
Silliman, Prof. Benjamin, 20, 22.
Skinner, Gov. Richard, 99.
Smith, Gov. John Cotton, on failures of shipping, 77; on manufactures, 86, 88; attitude toward War of 1812, 186, 187n; mentioned, 24, 29, 16on, 184, 185, 187n, 188, 204, 206, 213, 214, 215, 220, 221, 222, 26In.
Smith, Nathan, in the convention, 238, 239, 240, 249; mentioned, 228.
Smith, Nathaniel, resigns from Council, 128; delegate to Hartford Convention, 186; mentioned, 25In.
Society for Propagation of the Gospel, 36.
Somers, dissenters in, 59.
South America, prospective trade with, 89.
Southington, dissenting churches in, 40, 47.
Spalding, Asa, mentioned, 149, 162, 179, 180, 181.
Spencer, Isaac, 185.
Spencer, Isaac, Jr., II9n, 232.
Stafford, 231.
Stamford, dissenters in, 35; Republican strength in, 202, 244.
Standing Order, ministers of, 58, 63; rulers of the, 206; passing away of the, 242, 254; mentioned, 23, 33, 35, 39, 48, 55, 61-62, 70, 91, 127, 146, 156, 192, 205. Stand-up Law, 125, 139, 156.
Stanley, George W., political pamphlets of, 144, 173; on position of the clergy, 201.
Sterling, 82.
Stevens, James, in the convention, 237, 244, 250, 256; mentioned, 235.
Stiles, President Ezra, religious views
and labors, 8, 10, 11, 18n, 28, 31; char- acter, 15, 19-20; on the Baptists and Methodists, 46, 49, 56; views on Epis- copalian Church, 36, 37, 38; on immi- gration, 102; mentioned, 30, 35, 50, 63, 78, 194, 213.
Stonington, 47, 231.
Storrs, Lemuel, 95.
Stowe, Joshua, in the convention, 237, 239, 240, 252, 253.
Stratford, dissenting churches in, 33, 34, 55. Street, Titus, 73.
Strong, Dr. Nathan, sermons of, 26; mentioned, 15n, 207, 222.
Sullivan, Gov. James, 202n.
Superior Court, 131, 226, 248, 251.
Supreme Court of Errors, 130, 134, 248.
Supreme Court of the U.S., veto of leg- islation by, 250.
Swift, Judge Zephaniah, on constitu- tional reform, 116-117; defines powers of the Legislature, 121-122, 127; dele- gate to the Hartford Convention, 186; on dependence of judges, 131, 133, 251; mentioned or quoted, 12, 28, 35, 70, 130, 135-136, 137, 155, 193, 1940, 25In.
Talcott, Gov. Joseph, 119.
Tallmadge, Benjamin, 155, 16on.
Tammany tribes, 208.
Tariff of 1816, 88.
Taxation, system of, 68, 220, 227; Gov. Wolcott recommends reform in, 225; legislative report on, 230; reforms in, 262.
Tea tax, 47.
Terry, Henry, in the convention, 244, 249, 256.
Terry, Nathaniel, and Hartford Con- vention, 187; in the convention, 237, 238, 244, 254, 256; mentioned, 69, 73. Thanksgiving, 117.
Thayer, Father John, 6ın.
Thompson, manufacturing in, 82.
Tindal, philosophy of, II.
Tithe system, 34, 35, 59, 97; abolished, 262-264.
Todd, William, in the convention, 239, 256.
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Toleration, Act of 1784, 11, 34, 45, 47, 50; under the constitution, 28, 243, 252- 254; Party, 32, 60, 70, 195, 211, 2 16, 2 17; Act of 1791, 55; Wolcott on, 223; see also Baptist Church; Elections of 1816- 1818; Episcopal Church; Methodist Church; Quakers.
Tolland County, manufacturing in, 81, 83, 89, 90; Toleration strength in, 2 16; vote on the constitution, 259n, 260.
Tomlinson, David, 69, 2 18, 237, 238. Tomlinson, Gideon, 239, 240, 252.
Tomlinson, Isaac, 73.
Tories, 37, 97; see also Loyalists.
Towns, population of, 98n; town meet- ings, 137; representation of, 244-245; vote on constitution, 26on.
Tracy, Senator Uriah, quoted, 148; men- tioned, 158n, 161.
Treadwell, Gov. John, 24, 86, 153, 180, 181, 182, 186, 204, 206, 214; in the con- vention, 237, 238, 239, 241, 243, 245, 252, 254, 259; and the passing of the old order, 262n.
Treasurer, duties and election of, 119, 134; under the constitution, 246, 247- 248.
Trinity College, Hartford, 42.
Trumbull, Judge John, and the reform movement, 228n, 25 In, 261; mentioned, 204.
Trumbull, Gov. Jonathan, Jr., 75, 107, 1350, 151, 153, 158, 161, 162, 172, 177, 178, 179, 180, 18In.
Tryon, the raider, 203.
Tudor, William, on the Methodists, 58; views of Connecticut intolerance and people, 124n, 18on.
Turnpike companies and roads, 107-108.
Union, 245n.
Unitarians, status of, 31, 33, 60, 243; Tol- erationists, 60.
United States bonds, 72; see also Na- tional Bank.
Universalists, 33, 59-60.
Vermont, religious system and its dis- establishment, 55, 62n, 205n; emigra-
tion to, 93, 94; dependence of judici- ary in, 249; governors of, 99; men- tioned, 149.
Virginia, 208; disestablishment in, 11, 51, 249; and Kentucky Resolutions, 149.
Voltaire, 11, 15, 20.
Vose, Thomas, 80.
Votes, increase in number, 161, 188-189; system of counting, 246; see also Con- stitution; Elections.
Wadsworth, Daniel, 25, 73, 206. Wadsworth, Gen. James, 146.
Wadsworth, Col. Jeremiah, promotes woolen industry, 79; mentioned, 69, 73, 115, 146.
Wages for labor, 97.
Wallingford, 202, 231; Republican cele- bration at, 152.
Wansey, Henry, quoted, 124.
War of 1812, effect on manufactures, 82; Connecticut's attitude toward, 129, 183; West and, 183; Wolcott supports,
2 12; mentioned, 39, 40, 86, 94, 95, III. Warren, Moses, in the convention, 239, 246, 250.
Washington College, 42.
Washington, George, mentioned, 79, 108, 161, 211, 217.
Waterbury, dissenting churches in, 35, 47, 56, 57, 61.
Waterman, Rev. Elijah, quoted, 29. Watson, Elkanah, 105.
Wealth, men of, 65, 69.
Webb, Peter, in the convention, 238, 239, 240.
Webster, Noah, writings of, 25, 192; op- posed to democracy, 136, 144; quoted, 148, 15In; hostility to Embargo and Jefferson, 176n, 177n; his study of the Hartford Convention, 187n; men- tioned, 53n, 6In, 146, 147n, 160, 175n, 201, 222.
Wells, Dr. Sylvester, 239, 240.
Welsh, John, 239.
Wesleyan University, 57.
Western emigration and lands, 4, 91-103. Western Reserve, sale of, 51; emigra- tion to, 94, 95, 96.
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West India trade, 65, 74, 77. Westville, 79. Wethersfield, 126n.
White, Rev. Mr., on religious life of the state, 13.
White, Judge Hugh, 93, 99. Whitfield, Rev. George, 18. Whiting, Joseph, 119n.
Whitney, Eli, 79. Wilcox, Gen. Joseph, 139, 174. Wiley, Asa, 239. Williams, Rev. Samuel, sermon quoted, 30.
Williams, William, 127, 146, 155. Windham, town of, 10.
Windham County, dissenting churches in, 32, 40, 47, 59; manufacturing in, 81, 82, 89, 90; Toleration strength in, 2 16, 221; vote on the constitution, 259n. Windsor, 56, 126n, 231. Wines, Rev. Abijah, sermon of, 25. Winthrop, John, 117, 221.
Wolcott, Alexander, appointed collec- tor, 154; organizes Republican ma- chine, 173-174; in the convention, 237, 241, 242, 246, 248, 249, 250, 256; men- tioned, 88n, 149, 158, 171, 176.
Wolcott, General Erastus, 115. Wolcott, Frederick, 70, 212, 228. Wolcott, Gov. Oliver, 148.
Wolcott, Gov. Oliver, Jr., a manufac-
turer, 81; sketch of life and candidacy, 2II-212, 220; addresses, 223, 229, 233- 234; views on toleration, 223; views on judicial reform, 226, 251; presides over the Convention, 238; mentioned, 80, 106, 107, 117, 135n, 1470, 177, 221, 222, 224, 225, 227, 232, 238, 248, 251, 252, 257, 262.
Woodbury, 231.
Woodstock, dissent in, 47; manufactur- ing in, 82.
Wool growing, see Merino sheep.
Woolaston, Religion of Nature, 8.
Woolen manufacturing, 79-80, 87; aided by tariff, 109. Wyllys family, 119. Wyoming Valley, 92.
Yale College, religious life of, 18-23, 62- 63; political opposition to, 18, 192, 200; Separatists in, 19; Bishop Berkeley do- nation, 19; Federalist politics of, 22- 23, 191-192; Episcopalians in, 41; aris- tocratic system of, 50; Commence- ments, 96, 191; charter and corpora- tion, 129-130, 160, 254; bonus given to, 2 18; mentioned, 8, 32, 39, 99, 193, 198, 200, 211, 212, 240; see also Dwight, President Timothy; Stiles, President Ezra; Medical School.
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