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Attorney General, State, 601, 781, 794, 822, 874, 882
Atwater and Lyon, 379
Auctions, 222
Augur, Phineas M., 752-53
Austria, 787
Austrians, 713
Authoritarianism, 149
Authors, 5-6, 42, 54, 88, 116, 140, 155, 157- 62, 192, 226, 237-39, 286, 391, 398, 504, 547-49, 744-45 Automobile industry, 820
Automobiles, 771, 819
Awakening, Great, 236-52; leader, 237; results, 247-52; Second Great, 503
Babcock, James, 680 Babcock test, 700 Bachelors, 125, 128 Bacon, Ebenezer, 400; Francis, 149, 155; Leonard, 504, 520-21, 523, 557-58, 560, 569, 574
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Bacon Academy, Colchester (illus.), 358, 541
Baldwin, Abraham, 361, 364; David, 284; Henry C., 752; Mrs. Roger Sherman, 556;
Raymond E., 854, 884, 886;
Roger Sherman, 537, 556, 558; Simeon E., 623-24, 749, 753, 769-70, 772-74 Ball bearings, 786 Ballot, secret, 45, 688; short, 458 Bank of America, President, 426
Bank bonuses, 540;
Commissioner, 462, 499, 633-34, 637, 855;
controversies, 498;
dividend suspension, 635;
failures, 445, 631-32, 845-46; fraud, 573;
suspensions, 573
Banking, 375-76, 415, 486, 496-99, 611- 12, 630-38;
Committee, 462;
Holiday, 855; legislation, 461-62, 633, 635, 638, 854- 55;
regulation, 498-99
Bankruptcies, 631-32, 663, 844-45
Banks, 375-76, 427, 462, 477, 496-99, 573, 584, 610-12, 630-38, 664, 819-21, 845; State, 540, 612, 845-86; United States, 498
Banks, Nathaniel, 589 Baptism, 241
Baptists, 229, 232, 235, 248, 392-94, 411, 421, 506-08, 549, 601
Barbados, 100-02
Barber, Jonathan, 244
Barbour, B. P., 468
Barkhamsted, 222 (illus.), 656; Reservoir, 656
Barlow, Joel, 343, 398, 407
Barnard, Henry, 532-35, 539-40, 546
Barnes, Wallace, Company, 671 Barnett, J. H., 828
Barnum, P. T., Statue, Seaside Park (illus.), 818 Barrel stave industry, 267 Barter, 111
Baseball, 739-40, 778
Bassit, Goody, 163
Bates, Edward, 576
Battle Flag Corridor, State Capitol, 791
Baxter, Thomas, 73
Bay Psalm Book, 155
Beach, Miles, 353
Beaches, 4, 6
Bear Mountain, 2
Beards, ban, 86
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 328
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave, 598
Beaver, 13-14, 37, 111; skins, 99, 101
Beckwith, Goody, 128
Beecher, Catherine, 518-19, 541, 830; Henry Ward, 569; Lyman, 503, 506, 508, 510, 518
Beef, 271; salted, 468
Beer, 854
Beers, Clifford, 766; Seth, 538
Belden, James L., 468
Bell, John, 577
Bell Portable Saw Mill (illus.), 656
Bellamy, Joseph, 243
Bellomont, Lord, 209-10
Benedict and Burnham, 475, 479
Benevolences, 179
Bennet, Charles H., 772; M. Toscan, 830
Bennington, 306, 309
Berkshire Power Company, 799 Berlin, 654
Bermuda Hundred, 598
Bernhardt, Sarah, 740
Bethany, 265
Bible, 151-52; societies, 517
Bigelow, Hobart B., 749
Bigelow Sanford Carpet Company, Hart- ford, 814; Thompsonville (illus.), 666
Bilevitz, William, 848 Bill of Rights, State, 432-33, 764
Bill of Rights, United States, 367-68, 433
Billings and Spencer Company, 672 Bills of credit, 215-17, 273-76, 278, 303, 307, 335-36;
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of exchange, 113, 215; old tenor, 274, 276-77 Bingham, Hiram S., 800, 822 Binney Park, 743 Birmingham Iron Foundry, 787 Birth control, 831-33 Birth Control League, State, 832-33 Biscuit, 99, 101 Bishop, Abraham, 407-08; James, 198; Samuel, 406-07; W. D., 654 Bishop of London, 18-19, 35-36, 234-35 Bissell, Clark, 539 "Black Law," 521 Blacklist, labor, 684-85
Blackwell, John, 114
Blagden, William, 139 Blaine, James G., 749 Blessing of the Bay, 20 Blind, care, 867 Block, Adrian, 1-6, 10
Block Island, 6, 14 Block signals, railroad, 661 Blodgett, William H., 884 Blue Eagle, 860 "Blue Laws," 140, 192 Boardman, Elijah, 411-12, 443 Boats, 100, 480-81, 786-87 Bolshevik Revolution, 1917, 793-94 Bolton, 348 Bomhoff, Carl, 395 Bonds, 630-31, 634, 637-38, 736-37, 852- 53, 855 Bonus Act, 421-22
Books, 5-6, 88, 116, 155-58, 192, 547-49, 743-45 Bookshops, 155 Bootlegging, 803 Border warfare, 298
Boston, 17, 19, 21, 24, 37, 55, 57, 73, 77, 99, 100-02, 104, 155, 157, 194, 196, 206, 213, 222, 226, 237, 242, 256, 265, 270, 273-75, 285, 295, 301, 306-07, 309, 320, 349, 353, 496, 510, 512, 521, 652, 791; evacuation, 311; fire, 631, 640; Harbor, 24, 35, 75; Massacre, 297; Tea Party, 301 Boston and Albany Railroad, 810
Boston and Hartford Railroad, 654, 661 Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad, 652 Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, 742 Boston Patriot, 423 Boswell, John L., 550;
Boswell, William, 37, 69
Boulder, great, deposited by ice sheet (illus.), 3 Boulders, 5-6
Boundaries, 4, 7, 79, 175-80, 220
Boundary disputes, 175-80, 184, 186-87, 219-20 Bounties, 273, 307, 352, 378, 586, 589-90, 596 Bourne, Nehemiah, 78
Boycotts, 324
Boyd, Julian, 299
Boyle, Robert, 78
Brace, Jonathan, 398
Bradford, William, 12
Bradley, Samuel, Jr., 293
Bradley Memorial Home, Meriden (il- lus.), 737 Brainard, David, 251
Brandegee, Augustus, 600-01; Frank B., 800 Brandywine, battle, 316
Branford, 4, 80
Brass companies, 479, 675; industry, 475, 667-70; production, 479 Brattle, William, 148, 165
Bray, Martin, 726
Bread, 268
Breckenridge, John Cabell, 577
Breckway, Herbert William, 248
Breed's Hill, 307
Brereton, William, 78
Brewer, Emily Field, 541; Josiah, 541 Brewster, James, 479, 858; Jonathan, 63, 165; Madam, trial, 126 Bridge over Housatonic River, New Mil- ford (illus.), 719 Bridgeport, 349, 415, 490, 492, 506, 566, 600 (illus.), 618, 622-23 (illus.), 641, 667, 672, 675, 691, 707, 711, 718, 721- 22, 728, 730, 736, 742, 763, 787-88, 790, 792-93, 818, 846, 866, 874, 884-85 Bridgeport Charities, 726
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Bridgeport Farmer, 582
Bridgeport Hydraulic Company, 730
Bridgeport Times Star, 866 Bridges, 103, 491, 612-13, 661, 720, 868, 880 Bristol, 381, 671, 733, 791-92, 804, 814 Britannia Ware, 674
British, 2, 11-14, 18-19, 22, 27, 30-31, 33, 37, 42, 65-82 passim, 86, 100, 129-30, 155, 176-213 passim, 214, 255, 257-61, 263, 265, 270, 277, 279, 282, 285-86, 296, 307-36 passim, 343-44, 352, 377, 389, 398, 414, 475, 708, 710, 779; claim, 12-14; empire, 194 Broad Brook, 668
Brooke, Lord, 26
Brookfield, 182
Brooklyn, 137
Brooklyn Trust Company, 631 John, 293; Preston, 570
Brown, Arthur M., 872;
John, birthplace, West Torrington
(illus.), 523; John, raid, 574-75; R. S., 786; William, 345
Brown and Elton, 479
Browne, Daniel, 234
Brownson, Stephen, 379
Bruce Park, Greenwich (illus.), 723
Bryant, William Cullen, 548
Bryant Electric Company, 675
Buchanan, James, 569, 571, 574
Buckingham, 199
Buckingham, Samuel, house (illus.), 485; William A., 574-77, 580-96 passim, 602, 614
Budget, State Bureau, 852 Buel, Abel, 379 Building construction, 740-42, 86, 858-59, 864; construction restrictions, 789; trades, 711, 816, 821
Buildings, State, damaged, 880
Bulkeley, Gershom, 157-62, 165, 189-90, 193, 198, 200, 207-08, 750; Morgan G., 750-51, 753, 768; Peter, 42, 126, 168 Bull, Thomas, 134
Bull Run, battle, 586 Bullets, 112, 143 Bulloch, J. C., 327
Bunce, James, 539
Bunker Hill, 486
Bunker Hill, battle, 307-08, 314 Burgoyne, John, 316; surrender, 317
Burlington, 757
Burnap, Daniel, 381
Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 589, 592
Burr, Aaron, 406; Alfred, 551; Thaddeus, 292
Burritt, Elihu, Memorial, New Britain (illus.), 526
Buses, 733
Bushnell, Cornelius S., 601; David, 312;
Horace, 537, 560, 569, 720, 737, 744
Bushnell Park, 737-38 (illus.), 739 (illus.), 741 Business, big. See Industry;
Business failures, 667;
in government, 797-803;
man's community, 797-837;
organizations, 802; small, 35, 75, 90-92, 108, 667, 834
Bussaker, Peter, 138
Butler, Ben, 597-98; R. P., 794
Butter, 468, 700
Buyers' strikes, 793
Caldwell, William H., 772
Calhoun, John, 410
Calico printing, 478
Calvin, John, 42, 88, 239
Calvinism, 42, 85, 88, 127, 507
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 17, 155, 306
Camp Devens, 791
Camp meetings, 507
Campbell, John, 4th Earl of Loudon, 260- 62
Camps, transients', 856 Canaan, 222, 346 Canada, 259, 262, 271, 310, 384, 587, 708, 778 Canadian capitulation, 264; expedition, 205-07, 215, 256-57, 262
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Canal boat "De Witt Clinton," on Farm- ington Canal (illus.), 729 Canals, 483-84, 486-89, 729 Candal, William, 379 Candee, L., & Company, 480 Cannon, LeGrand, 293
Canonchet, 183 Canso, 256 Canterbury, 521 Canton, 613
Canton Center, 683
Canvassers board, 753
Cape Breton campaign, 256-57; compensation, 275 Cape Cod, 6, 71-72, 178 Capital, 655-57, 792-93;
banking, insurance, aggregate, 630-49; consolidation, 751; fluid, 713; private, 606, 654; reserve, 605-06; shortage, 101-03, 266, 476, 490, 693-94, 800; surplus, 664 Capital, United States, 416 Capitalism, 86-89, 92 Capitalization, 476-77; requirements, 664-66 Capitol, State, 621-22, 724, 734, 736, 742, 767,791,853
Car inspection protest, 885 Caribbean Islands, 102 Carleton, Sir Guy, 315
Carriage industry, 477, 479; manufacturers, 557, 602
Carrington, Joanna, 162-63; John, 162-63 Catholic Church, 162, 504-06, 708, 711; priests, 707-08 Catholic Press, 504 Catholic Transcript, 549 Catholicism, 504-06, 558, 565, 707, 832 Catholics, 569-70, 708, 825, 832-33
Catskill Mountains, 180
Cattle, 21 Cattle industry, 468; Holstein, 700; milk, 468, 700; tax, 116 Cavalry, Connecticut, 313, 597-99 Cemetery Hill, 592-93
Census, United States Bureau, 848 Census of 1890, 754
Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 668 Center Church, New Haven (illus.), 240 Central Connecticut State College, New Britain (illus.), 536 Central-chimney houses, 130-34
Certificate Law, 392
Chalmers, George, 192
Chamber of Commerce, New Haven, 849
Chamber of Commerce, State, 802, 806, 813, 821, 823
Chain stores, 834
Chamberlain, Abram, 764
Chance Vought Company, 804
Chancellorsville, battle, 593
Chapin, Calvin, 508, 510
Chaplains, 159
Chaplains' Aid Society, 600
Charities, State Board, 836
Charge accounts, 270
Charles I, King of England, 12, 36, 80
Charles II, King of England, 76-77, 80, 102, 175, 185
Charles Company, 603
Charles River, 178
Charles W. Morgan, 325
Charter of 1662, 76-79, 101, 117, 175, 180, 313, 347, 431 attempt to seize, 186-92, 210, 219-20; defense of, 188-92, 211-12; disappearance, 192; shown and boxed, 190; government, resumption, 198-200
Charter Oak, 486
Charter Oak Company, 644-46
Charter Oak tradition, 192
Chartist faction, 193-94
Chase, Salmon P., 576
Chatham, 348
Chauncey, Charles, 237, 386
Cheap money, 215-17
Cheese, 468, 700
Cheeseborough, William, 63
Cheever, Ezekiel, 153
Cheney, Benjamin, 381 Cheney Brothers, 478, 791; Silk Mills, 668 (illus.), 674
Chesapeake, 409 Cheshire, 400, 507 Cheshire Church (illus.), 233
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HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT
Chester Ferry (illus.), 495 Chicago fire, 631, 638-40 Chicken farmers, 880 Chief Justice, State, 827
Chief Justice, United States, 442
Child labor, 614, 682-83, 690-91, 787-88, 867; labor laws, 774, 788, 815; mortality, 794
Child Labor Act, Federal, 788
Child Welfare, State Department, 836
China trade, 376-77
Chinese exclusion issue, 619
Chisholm vs. Georgia case, 375
Christian Secretary, 549
Christ's Kingdom, 77
Church associations, 227-28, 246; attendance, 142; consociations, 228, 245-46; contributions, 142-43; discipline, 139-42, 169-71, 173, 226-29, 241;
distinctions, 138-39; exclusion, 169-71;
membership requirements, 169-73;
polity, 157-62, 170-73, 227-36; seating, 138-39;
service, 142-43;
and State, separation, 390-91, 393, 405, 411, 427, 435, 453, 542
Church of England, 18-19, 31, 36-37, 196, 230, 234-35, 248-50, 391
Church on the Green, Enfield (illus.), 288
Churches, 36, 54, 141, 144, 154, 171, 199, 226-52, 272, 284, 288, 374, 391-93, 428, 504-08, 523-24, 728;
chapels and synagogue, University of Connecticut (illus.), 538; Negro, 522 Churchmen, 549
Cigar-making industry, 683
Cincinnati, Society of the, 340-43
Cinquez, Joseph, 524
Circuit Court, United States, 426, 524
Cities, 349, 667, 757, 771, 779, 820, 846; deficits, 849; free, 352; growth, 718-45
Citizens, prominent, 17, 46, 117, 343, 353, 507, 532, 593, 768-69, 837
Citizens Bank and Trust Company, New Haven, 845
Civil Service Law, 770
Civil Service system, 866
Civil War, 492, 495, 499, 546, 574, 580-606, 638, 652, 692, 704, 738; active participation, 586-99; casualties, 592-93; home front, 599-606
Civil Works Administration, 856-57
Civilian Conservation Camps, 856
Civilian Conservation Corps, 856, 868, 870
Clarendon, Lord, 78
Clark, Laban, 543
Clark Brothers, 671
Clark Dike, 872
Clarke, John, 175-76
Class distinctions, 122-25, 135-39, 142-43
Clay, Cassius, 576; Henry, 453, 455
Clerk, town, 53
Cleveland, Henry, 616-17; Moses, 384, 537
Clift, William, 692
Climate, 469
Clinton, Sir Henry, 311, 317
Clinton Town Hall (illus.), 582
Clockmakers, 563; family, 476; outstanding, 381
Clockmaking industry, 380-81, 478
Clocks, 380-81; wooden, 381
Clothing industry, 821; shortage, 327-28
Coal shortage, 801
Coast, rock-bound, 4
Coast Guard, 868
Coast Guard Academy, New London (illus.), 783
Coastal attacks, 414, 416
Coastline, 2, 4
Cobalt, 5 Cobble Hill, 310
Code of 1650, 116-17, 150, 152
Code of 1668, 139
Coe Brass Company, 670
Coercive Acts, 301; retaliation, 302 Coffin, O. Vincent, 754, 756
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Cogswell, Mason F., 512; Robert, 67 Coit, Joshua, 398 Coite, G. W., 587 Coke, Tench, 377
Colchester, 358, 378, 541, 757 (illus.), 851
Cold Harbor, 597 Cold Springs, 215 Cole, Ann, 163; Charles J., 642 Colebrook, 222, 488
Collector, New England, 185
Collectors, town, 33, 406-07
Colleges, universities, 148, 150, 250, 456, 469, 536, 538, 542-45, 828; curricula, 544 Collins Axe Factory, 602 Collinsville, 868
Colonial centralization, pull toward, 185- 88
Colonial responsibility for imperial de- fense, 179, 200, 207-10, 212-14, 255, 257, 279
Colt, Peter, 351; Samuel, 479, 601-02, 613
Colt Dike, 871-72
Colt Fire Arms Company, 778, 785, 880
Colt Park, 738
Columbia, 228 Commerce. See Trade
Commerce, State Department, 844
Commercial retaliation, 295-97
Commercial Trust Company, New Britain, 845 Commissaries, 269, 328 Commissary, Army, 206 Commissary General, 323, 363 Commissioners, American, 328; Colonial, 205-06; Connecticut colonial, 26-29, 34, 139, 258; county, 752; New England Confederation, 57-58, 71-74, 79-81, 177, 346; Royal, 178-80, 184; town, 103, 160 Committee for Industrial Organization, 877 Commodities, shortages, 33, 270-71, 613 Commons, proprietary, 93-94; regulations, 95
Commorancy, 387-88 Communion service, 142, 241 Communism, 794 Communists, 853
Community Chest, Hartford, 853
Commutation, 590, 594-95
Company of Puritans, 176 Company stores, 684-86 Comptroller, State, 348, 355, 427, 434, 462, 533, 726, 753, 758, 874; Waterbury, 882-83;
of Currency, United States, 426 Comstock Act, 832 Conciliation and Arbitration, United States Board, 813
Concord, 744
Confederacy, 587-99 passim
Confederates, 586-99 passim Confederation, Articles, 74, 81, 320, 334- 35, 345-46, 354
Confession, public, 241
Confiscation Act, 344-45
Conflagration, fear, 140 Conformity, coerced, 124-29
Congregational Church, 227; and Meetinghouse, Old, Columbia (illus.), 228; and old Meeting House, Warren (illus.), 342; Old, and Burial Ground, Buckingham (illus.), 199; Rocky Hill (illus.), 249; Storrs (illus.), 284
Congregational Churches, General Associ- ation, 390, 508, 520, 832-33
Congregational Ministers, General Asso- ciation, 512-13, 523-24, 658 Congregationalism, 37, 54, 80-81, 89, 148, 157-58, 169, 172, 217, 226, 229, 231, 234, 504, 507, 531, 542-43
Congregationalists, 229-30, 234-35, 250, 391-95, 411, 421, 426, 428, 435, 503, 506-10, 520-21, 523, 532, 537, 542, 549, 554, 557, 560, 569-70, 886
Congress, Continental, 302-03, 309, 313, 320, 326, 328, 332-36, 346, 353, 358-59, 368, 458;
Connecticut delegates, 301-02, 309, 313, 357
Congress, United States, 340-41, 355, 382, 384, 386, 398, 406, 410, 416, 419, 421,
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HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT
Congress, United States, 442-43, 513, 556,
705-06, 774, 781, 815, 822, 828, 872; Connecticut delegates, 357;
Representatives from Connecticut, 368, 373-75, 405, 416, 421, 432, 444, 448, 458, 573, 600-01, 616, 625, 758, 794, 798, 863,866
Congressional districts, redistricted, 770 Connecticut, 484-85
Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sci- ences, 547 Connecticut Act, 385-86
Connecticut Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, 512 Connecticut Brigade, 312
Connecticut Business Men's Association, 768
Connecticut Central Railroad, 662
Connecticut Colonization Society, 520-21
Connecticut Common School Journal, 534- 35, 539
Connecticut Commonwealth, 35 Connecticut Company, 487-88, 730, 733 "Connecticut Compromise," 362 Connecticut Gazette, 396
Connecticut Gore Land Company, 384-86
Connecticut Journal, 396, 550
Connecticut League of Art Students, 742 Connecticut Life Insurance Company, 499, 644
Connecticut Light and Power Company, 800, 804-05
Connecticut Literary Institute, Suffield, 541
Connecticut Literary Society, 506
"Connecticut Mind," 397 Connecticut Missionary Society, 711
Connecticut Mutual Insurance Company, 606, 642
Connecticut Observer, 521, 532
Connecticut River, 3-7, 10-12, 14, 20, 25, 27, 34, 38, 66, 101, 103, 178-80, 190, 415, 480-81, 494, 604, 722, 739, 868-70, 876, 879-80; channel, 486; falls, 25; flood, 868-70; mouth, 4, 25-26, 101, 108; rapids, 5; upper, 262
Connecticut River Steamboat Company, 486, 493
Connecticut Savings Bank, 740
Connecticut School for Imbeciles, 766
Connecticut School Manual, 539
Connecticut Society for Improvement of Common Schools, 532
Connecticut Society of Natural History, 547
Connecticut Society for Promotion of Freedom and Relief of Persons Unlaw- fully Held in Bondage, 390
Connecticut Society for Promotion of Good Morals, 507, 509
Connecticut Society of Social Hygiene, 726
Connecticut State Hospital, 827
Connecticut Temperance Society, 511
Connecticut Theological Seminary, 504 Connecticut Valley, 2, 6, 22, 24-25, 30, 214, 236, 367, 376, 468, 484, 668, 702
Connecticut Valley Authority, 871-72
Connecticut Western Railroad, 655
Connecticut-New Haven union, 65, 79-82
Connecticut-New York Treaty of 1683, 219-20
Conscription Law, Federal, 593-95 Conservation, 95, 765-66
Conservatism, 87, 89, 397, 439, 545, 694, 699, 764
Conservatives, 287, 293, 296, 298-300, 302, 343, 368, 426, 433, 435, 442, 444-45, 449, 454, 457, 521, 523, 591, 615-17, 736, 770, 798, 822, 874
"Consideration on Constitutional Reform in Connecticut," 623
Constables, 29-30, 80, 124
Constitution, Bermuda, 49 Constitution, State, 432-38, 542, 756; amendments, 451, 454, 458, 565, 625, 655, 770-71;
demand for new, 408-09, 430-31;
Preamble, 432-33; ratification, 438-39
Constitution of 1902, State, proposed, 762- 64
Constitution, United States, 353, 364, 367- 68,557; amendments, 367-68, 375, 617-19, 824- 30; ratification, 364-68
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Constitution, Virginia, 49 Constitutional Amendments Committee, 757
Constitutional Convention, proposed, 622- 24 Constitutional Convention, State, 1818, 431-36, 448
Constitutional Convention, State, 1902, 757-63
Constitutional Convention, United States, 340, 356-63;
Connecticut delegates, 356-63
Constitutional reform, need of, 430-31, 622-27
Constitutional Reform Association, 623- 24
Constitutions, early, 48-50 Consul, United States, 550 Consumers League, 794; Connecticut Branch, 773 Continental Insurance Company, 645 Cooke, Edward Bronson, 550; Jay, 631; Rose Terry, 744 Cooper, James Fenimore, 547 Cooperatives, 694, 698, 701, 817 Copper industry, 667-68; products, 859-60 Corbin, P. & F., Company, 479, 671, 675 Corn, 101, 271;
currency, 98, 112; Indian, 268; trade regulation, 96-98
Cornwall, 222 Cornwall Hollow, 110 Cornwall Mission School, 542
Cornwallis, Lord Charles, 322
Corporate Law Commission, 664-65 Corporation consolidation, 804-05; control, 797, 804-05; law, 459-60, 664-66; liability, 750; tax structure, 802-03
Correspondence, Committee, 292-93, 301- 02, 309
Corrupt Practices Act, 770 Corset industry, 675 Cost-plus contract, 813 Cotton, 98, 182, 478, 602; gin, 471; goods, 668;
manufacturers, 602, 604;
manufacturing industry, 378, 380, 602- 04, 670, 685, 792; manufacturing industry, exodus to south, 805-06;
mills, 668, 805
Cotton, John, 20, 23, 29, 36, 43, 54, 88-89, 94, 158, 168-69
Cotton Code, 55 Council, Common, 730, 733, 737;
Connecticut Colonial, 190, 196-97, 276, 303, 326;
Connecticut State, 348, 394, 427-30, 439, 463; King's Dominion in New England, 197; Massachusetts Colonial, 198; New England Confederation, 60
Counties, 6, 152, 348
County Commissioner, 854
County homes for children, 836 Court of Appeals, 195; of Assistants, 196; of Common Pleas, 195, 864;
of Election, 45, 47; of Errors, 522;
town, 53; vice-admiralty, 102; of Wards and Liveries, 91
Courts, 20-21, 45-47, 53, 195-96, 198-99, 269, 292, 348, 350, 430, 440-41, 524, 648-49, 737, 752, 827, 854; irregularities, 210-11
Covenant of Grace, 42, 239
Coventry, 315, 348
Craddock, Mathew, 92
Crafts, 108, 135
Crandall, Prudence, 521-22; trial, 522 Cream Hill School, West Cornwall, 469 Creameries, 700; cooperative, 701 Credit, 113, 267, 270, 797, 820; bureaus, 820;
installment buying, 820;
limited, 792; overexpansion, 352; system, 685-86; State, 461 Crime, 125, 728 Crittenden Compromise, 580-81 Croft, James, 475
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HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT
Cromwell, 131, 428, 711, 757
Cromwell, Oliver, 73, 100
Crop rotation, 95, 272
Crop, staple, 98-99, 272-73
Crops, 98-99, 267, 271-73, 465-69, 701-02, 817, 819 Croquet, 739
Cross, Wilbur, 822-25, 843, 850, 852-55, 862-65, 867, 869, 872, 874-77, 881-82, 884-87; service to State, 886-87
Crown Point campaign, 260, 264, 277, 309 Culp's Hill, 592
Culture, 155-56, 397-98, 544-51, 740-45
Culver, Martha, Memorial Library (illus.), 744 Cummings, Homer, 798-99 Curfew, 869
Currency, 111-16, 215-17, 265, 273-79; Currency, commodities as, 98, 111-13; counterfeit, 336; depreciated, 335, 355;
inflated, 323; paper, 336, 461; silver, 275;
unstable, 277 ;. wartime, 273-79, 306
Curtis Memorial Library, Meriden (illus.), 450
Customs Commissioners, American Board, 294 Customs duties, 70, 73, 100-01, 266-67, 365
Customs Searcher, New England, 185
Cutler, Timothy, 234-35, 248
Cycling, 739
Cypress Cemetery, 49
Daggett, David, 408 Daily, Maria Renata, 504 Dairy farmers, 880; industry, 468, 700-01, 817; products, 112, 468, 817
Dairymen, 817 Dairymen's Association, State, 700-01
Dams, 105, 799, 868, 880
Danbury, 62, 389, 479, 546, 659, 668, 681, 780, 858; raid, 314-15 Danbury Hat Company, 688-89
Danbury State Teachers College, Admin- istration Building (illus.), 545
Danes, 710 Danielson, 658 (illus.), 693, 862
Danna, James, 343; Samuel, 444-45
Darien, 187
Dartmouth, Lord, 303
Daughters of American Revolution (D.A.R.), Eunice Dennie Burr Chap- ter, 366
Davenport, James, 244-45, 251;
John, 35-37, 54-55, 63, 70, 77-78, 92, 157, 165, 171, 243, 246
Deacons, 134, 142
Deaf and dumb, care, 512, 527, 836; education, 532
Deane, Barnabas, 352;
Silas, 302, 309, 323, 328, 352
Death rate, high, 234, 718, 792, 794
Debt, cities, 736-37;
Connecticut colonial, 33, 112, 190, 216;
Connecticut State, 354-56, 527;
Revolutionary War, settlement, 354-56;
State, 606, 610, 751; United States, 335-36
Decatur, Stephen, 412-13
Deeney Lane pumping station, 872
Deep River Bank, 540
Defectives, care, 834
Defense Council, Connecticut, 275
Deficit, cities, 853; State, 852, 885
De Forest, John W., 9
De Laet, Johannes, 5-6
Delaware Bay, 100
Delaware Company, 282-83
Delaware River, 62, 67, 71-72, 76, 179
Delinquents, care, 834-36
Democrats, 448-62 passim, 498, 521, 532-
33, 536-38, 551, 554-77, 580-84, 587, 591, 615-27, 642, 664, 679, 707, 749-770, 798-99, 821-25, 828, 850-54, 862-66, 872- 73, 883-87; National Chairman, 799
Dennison, Captain, 139; George, 183, 551
Department stores, 834 Depression of 1787, 352; of 1819, 496; of 1833-34, 457, 461;
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of 1837, 461; of 1857, 573; of 1873, 631-35, 680; of 1893, 676, 690; of 1907, 765; of 1918-19, 792; of 1929-30, 812, 820, 828, 843; of early 1930's, 843-57; of 1937, 858, 884
Deputies, General Court, 46, 52, 63, 74, 79, 124 Derby, 468-69, 787 Derby Bank, 445, 498 Desertion, military, 596 Devon, 492 Diamond Ice Company, 670 Dickinson, Anna, 830 Dikes, 870-72
Director General, New Netherlands, 69; New Sweden, 69 Disease, 718; epidemics, 22, 792 Dissent, 126-27, 161-62, 226-52
Dissenters, 42-43, 54-55, 162, 172, 205-06, 236, 248, 391-94
Distilleries, 143, 510 District Attorney, United States, 524 District Court, United States, 524-25 District Bill, 451
Dividend restrictions, 638; tax, 864 Divorce, 128-29, 390; case, 442; Indian, 7
Dixon, David, 379; James, 563, 568, 600, 614, 618
Domestic service, 830, 833
Dominion of New England, 160, 205, 208
Donemah Cotton Mill, 604
Dongan, Thomas, 186-87, 189, 191
Dorchester, 30, 89 Dorchester Colony, 24-25, 27, 89-91
Dorchester Heights, 311
Dorchester Peninsula, 310-11
Douglas, Stephen A., 560, 574, 576-77 Downing, Emanuel, 109
Draft, military, 583, 587, 590; dodgers, 590; failure, 595-96; riots, 594 Draftee substitutes, 590, 594-95
Drainage, 2-6 Drake, Francis, 18 Drama, 740 Dred Scott case, 571-73 Dress, early, 136-38 Drewry Bluff, 598 Drugs, 167; retailing, 143 Drunkenness, 728 Dudley, Joseph, 211-12; Thomas, 17, 19-20, 23
Dummer, Jeremiah, 234
Dunster, Henry, 155
Du Pont de Nemours and Company, 785 Durham, 326
Durkee, John, 292
Dutch, 2, 4, 6, 10-12, 14, 20, 32, 56, 65-76, 100, 179-80, 184-85;
claim, 10-11; claim, opposition, 11-12; rivalry, 65-76
Dutch Point, 69
Dutch War, 179, 184
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