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Hugh, 860; J. D., 472; Mary, 162; R., 472; Samuel, 234, 276; Sir William, 283, 294-97; William Samuel, 301-03, 346, 356-63, 365, 368 Jones, Frederick R., 116-17 Journal of Freedom, 521 Journalism, 518, 520-21, 534-35, 537, 549- 51 Journeymen, 86 Judd, Orange, 697
Judges, 348-50, 367, 407, 426-27, 440-41, 459, 525, 638, 645, 752, 827, 874
Judgment, private, principle, 149
Judicial Council, 864; system, 194-95, 348
Judiciary, State, 375, 421-22, 430, 459; independent, 438 Judiciary Act, 195
Judiciary Committee, State Legislature, 750, 832 Judson, Andrew F., 521 Justices, 408-09, 428-29, 459, 769, 772 Justices of the Peace, 160, 196-97, 219, 246, 392, 441-42, 452, 459
Kansas, "Bleeding," 568, 574; settlement, 568 Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 560, 562, 564, 567- 69 Keeler Tavern, Ridgefield (illus.), 177
Keift, Willem, 67, 69
Kelly, J. Frederick, 129
Kemp, G. LeRoy, 882
Kennebec River, 310
Kenney Park, 738; Club House, 858
Kensington, 549 Kensington School Society, 518-19 Kent, 222
Kentucky, 398-99
Killingly, 379, 668
Killingworth, 272, 348
King George's War, 255-58, 267, 273
King Philip's War, 103, 158-59, 173, 180- 84, 207, 214 King William's War, 204-10 .
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Kip's Bay, 312 King's Bridge, 312
Kirby, Ephraim, 350, 400, 407
Kirby family home, one of Middletown Upper Houses, Cromwell (illus.), 131 Kivett's Point, 11 Knapp's Tavern, Greenwich (illus.), 193
Knickerbockers, 548 Knight, Madam, 135
Knight family, 766
Knights of Columbus, 782
Knights of Labor, 688
Know-Nothings, 563-77 Kopplemann, Herman, 866
Kraft's Smithy, Essex (illus.), 75 Kresge stores, 834
Labaree, Leonard W., 93, 215, 367
Labor, 108-11, 481-83, 559, 595, 613-14, 636, 661, 679-92, 707, 713, 768, 778, 787-89, 797, 813-17, 844, 861-62, 877- 79, 886; Bureau, United States, 720; child, 614, 682-83, 690;
Commissioner, 680, 682, 685, 860, 862; contract, 706; disturbances, 482, 680-82, 789, 809-10, 814, 849, 862, 877-79;
Federation, Connecticut, 814-15, 878- 79;
female, 788-89, 830-31, 847;
foreign-born, 691, 815-16;
impressment, 105, 113;
legislation, 619-20, 684, 773-74, 813-15, 848, 861-62, 867;
mobility, 787; organizations, 687-89, 691-92, 797, 814, 877-79;
party, 617, 679-80;
regulations, 108-09; Relations, State Board, 860; shortage, 787;
slave, 525-26; State Commissioner, 849;
State Department, 787;
Statistics, State Bureau, 680, 682, 686, 691, 751, 789, 794; transient, 482; unions, 614, 679, 688, 813, 816, 849, 877-79;
United States Department, 849; unsettled, 794; vagrant, 682 Laboratories, Science, 165 Labor-management relations, 688-89, 813- 15 Laissez-faire spirit, 750-51 Lake, Edward J., 800; Everett J., 768-69, 826; Simon, 786-87
Lake Champlain, 206, 213; George, 260, 262-63; Saltonstall, 739
Lake Torpedo Boat Company, 786-87 Lakes, 5 Lamberton, George, 67, 69 Land, 1-6; auctions, 222;
bank notes, 215; bank scheme, 116;
coalition, 95-96; as collateral, 216-17;
common desire for, 8-9; companies, 176, 384-86; disputes, 24-25, 65-76, 211, 215, 218-22; distribution, 96, 221;
division, 93-96;
grants, 26-28, 63-66, 93-95, 98-99, 105- 06, 190, 215, 220, 382-85;
policies, 298-99; problem, acute, 21;
promotion, 183; purchases, Indian, 38;
rights, Indian, 8-9, 31; sales, 63-65, 101, 215, 218, 382-86;
speculation, 63-65, 215, 222, 298, 498, 703; tax, 116-17, 197;
title agreement, 27-29; title disputes, 219-21; title validation, 190, 194, 221;
titles, 63, 383; titles, dubious, 175; waste, 95
Landers, Frary, and Clark, 479, 671 "Landholder" articles, 364
Landon, Alfred, 872 Lane, J. R., 590 Laud, William, 17, 36 Law, common, 349; dependence upon theology, 163-64
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Law, Jonathan, 245, 256, 274-76, 407; Richard, 302, 350, 367
Lawyers, 91, 126-27, 357, 432, 458, 623, 750, 780, 827,862 Lead, black, 14 Leary, Daniel J., 850, 883
Leather processing, 107; tanning, 98 Lebanon, 91, 251, 520
Lebanon Academy, 396
LeCompton Constitution, 574
Lecturers, 18-19, 546
Lectures, 144, 237, 239
Lee, Arthur, 328; Charles, 311; Henry, 312;
Jesse, 391; Richard Henry, 364;
Robert E., 105, 589, 592-99;
Thomas, house, East Lyme (illus.), 124 Lee, Frank H., Company, 674
Leete, William, 77, 80
Leeward Islands, 879
Leffingwell, Thomas, Monument, Mont- ville (illus.), 115 Legal system, 163-64 Legalism, 161-62
Legislation, 20-21, 44-48, 54-55, 79, 86, 100, 103, 106, 108, 111, 126-27, 136, 152-53, 171, 194-97, 220-21, 232, 236, 246-48, 250, 267, 275, 285-88, 292, 294, 317-18, 324-26, 344, 349-51, 373, 377, 385-92, 394-96, 398-99, 409, 418-19, 421, 427-28, 442-45, 451, 454, 456-57, 459-63, 474, 490, 519-20, 526, 535-36, 540, 560, 562- 63, 585, 587, 593-96, 612, 619-21, 633, 638, 640-44, 646, 656-61, 664-66, 682, 684, 686-87, 697-98, 705-06, 727-28, 732, 736, 740, 770-71, 773-74, 801-02, 813-15, 822, 824, 829-30, 848, 854, 860, 871, 874-76, 881-82
Legislative Council, State, 876 Legislature, Colonial, 153, 216
Legislature, State, 375, 384, 391, 419, 421,
427, 430, 434, 448-52, 454, 459, 486, 493- 94, 514, 532, 534, 537, 562, 564, 585, 589, 601, 648, 654, 663-64, 680, 697, 732, 749-74, 802, 809, 832, 844, 855, 861 See also Assembly, Connecticut State General Leisler, Jacob, 198, 206
Leslie, Hugh, 292 Letters of marque, 73 Levin, John, will, 210
Levitt, Albert, 822, 850, 862
Lewis, Milo, 476
Lewis family enterprises, Naugatuck, 476 Lexington and Concord, battle, 303, 306, 309, 317, 329 Liberalism, 453, 531
Liberals, 770, 822, 873
Liberty, legend, 175-200
Liberty loans, 784
Libraries, 155-56, 450, 509, 742-44; private, 155-56, 549, 742-43; public, 742-43; town, 156 Library, Public, New Haven, 740 Library, State, 858;
and Supreme Court, Hartford (illus.), 751 Lieutenant Governor, State, 348, 366, 394, 411, 416, 420-21, 452, 454-55, 768, 823, 850, 862, 883
Light Dragoons, 319
Lighthouse, stone, Stonington (illus.), 441
Lilley, George L., 772
Lime industry, 492
Lincoln, Abraham, 575-77, 583-84, 590-91, 601, 614; assassination, 614
Linen products, 478
Liquor control, 510, 853-54; dealers, 825; legislation, 511-12, 619, 727-28, 854, 864; license law, 727; licenses, 727-28; regulations, 456, 510-11; sale, 125; traffic, illegal, 827
Litchfield, 222, 302, 353, 412, 427, 508, 510, 541, 546, 739; Church (illus.), 374
Litchfield County, 221, 478, 492, 602, 622, 694 Litchfield Law School, 393, 410, 457-58 Literacy, 154; test, 565 Literature, 397-98, 547-49, 743-45; obscene, regulation, 740 Lithuanians, 713
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Litigation, 210-11, 217, 269, 350, 375, 385,
430, 482, 485, 524-27, 640, 642, 772, 882-83 Little Boston School, East Lyme (illus.), 124 Livery companies, 35
Livestock, 95, 99, 101, 111; control, 29
Living cost, 267, 788-89, 793, 817; standard, 831
Livingston, John R., 379
Livingston Manor, 317
Loan companies, small, 820
Loans, 89, 217, 278, 476-77, 631, 633-34, 809, 812
Local option, 511-12, 824
Locke, John, 238-39, 251
Locofoco element, 536
Loewe, D. E., & Company, 674
Logic, Peter Ramus, 148
London, England, 18, 35, 44, 49, 55, 86, 178, 188, 192, 234, 267
London Livery Companies, 92
Long Island, 67, 72, 79, 82, 178-79, 246, 312, 330
Long Island Sound, 1-2, 4, 6, 13, 30, 62, 66-67, 79, 480, 484, 495, 524; bar, 99
Long Lane School, 836
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 549
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 547
Loomis, James C., 581, 583; Samuel, 378 "Loss leaders," 270
Lotteries, 377
Lottery, public, 278
Loudon, Earl of, 260-62
Louisbourg, 256-58, 262-63; capture, 262-63, 274
Louisiana Purchase, 408
Louisiana Territory, 407
Lounsbury, Phineas C., 648, 749-50 Lowland, 2-4
Lowland Valley, 5
Loyalists, 307, 323, 343-45, 352; control of, 324-27 Ludlow, Roger, 24, 27, 29, 44 Lumber, 267, 765; industry, 765, 800
Lung, Peter, case, 430
Lusitania, sinking, 779
Luxury tax, 136, 853
Lyceum movement, 544-46
Lydington, Katherine, 830
Lydius deed, 298
Lyman, John, orchards, Middlefield (illus.), 699 Lyman, Phineas, 262-63 Lynchburg, 599 Lynde Light (illus.), 623
MacDonald, James H., 772
Machine, multiple spindle automatic, 786
Machine guns, 786
Machine shop products, 786, 806
Machinery, agricultural, 692;
electrical, 806; English, 475; precision, 671-72
Mackenzie, Harry, 883
Madeira, 102
Madison, 166
Madison, James, 359, 398, 412, 415
Madison Historical Society, 166
Magistrates, 20, 43-48, 51-52, 57-58, 76, 81, 89, 101, 107, 116, 126, 128, 142, 148, 164, 197-98, 235, 250, 257
Mail trains, 658
Maine, 214
Maine Law, 558
Male registration, 58
Mallory Hat Company, 479, 674
Maltbie, William M., 762, 827
Mamaroneck River, 180
Manassas, battle, 581, 587, 589
Manchester, 4 (illus.), 620, 668, 674, 791, 794; Main Street (illus.), 705
Mandeville, Bernard, 155
Manhattan, 67
Mansfield, 766, 822
Mansfield, Richard, House, Ansonia (il- lus.), 64
Mansfield Training School, 834, 836, 858
Manufactured goods, 101, 106, 296, 478, 499, 600-04, 666-76, 792, 804, 806, 819, 844
Manufacturers, 266, 377-81, 410, 472, 475- 80, 600-04, 668-76, 704-05, 785-86, 790- 92, 814, 849;
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big, 805; organizations, 802, 846
Manufacturers Association, State, 802, 813, 822, 844, 848-49, 867, 879
Manufacturing, 106, 266, 273, 295-96, 377- 81, 410, 468, 471-80, 600-04, 666-76, 778, 784-87, 792, 821, 830; equipment, 765;
Report on, Alexander Hamilton, 473 Marble quarries, 492 March Commission, 26-29, 41, 49
Marcheville skirmish, 791 Maritime industries, 480-81
Market, Hartford, 104 Marketing, cooperative, 817; procedures, agricultural, 817-19
Markets, agricultural, 692-93, 701-02, 713, 817; trade, 99, 266, 351 Marlborough, 602 Marlin Arms Company, 778, 785
Marriage, 127-28; early, 218 Marshall, John, 442 Martha's Vineyard, 6
Martinique, 269
Mary, Queen of England, 198, 200, 209 Marye's Heights blunder, 589
Maryland, 335
Mason, James, 587; John, 32-33, 46, 80, 211
Mason Cotton Mill, 604
Massachusetts, 17, 20, 22-23, 25-27, 29, 31-
32, 37, 41-44, 51-52, 54, 56-60, 68, 74, 76, 79, 94, 102, 125-26, 130, 148, 152- 53, 161, 175-76, 178, 180-81, 184-86, 189, 191, 197-98, 211-12, 214, 220, 236, 262, 265, 274-75, 278, 303, 343, 367-68, 416-17, 488, 495, 718, 785, 791, 793, 798, 809
Massachusetts Bay Company, 35
Massachusetts Code, 55 Massachusetts Company, 487
Massachusetts General Court, 415 Mast trade, 376
Mather, Cotton, 19, 138, 162-63, 170-71; Increase, 171; Richard, 157 Mauger, Joshua, 268-69 Maverick, Samuel, 78 May, Samuel J., 511, 522
Mayors, 563, 730-32, 877, 883; Committee, 853
McClellan, George Brinton, 588, 614 McClellen, Charles S., 767
McDonough, 486
McIntosh, William, 379
McLean, George P., 754, 756
McLevy, Jasper, 865, 884-85
Meade, George G., 592, 597, 599
Meal, Indian, 134
Meats, prepared, 111-12
Mechanical industries, 821
Mechanics Bank, New Haven, 488, 740
Mechanics' lien law, 461
Mechanics Society, New Haven, 546
Mediation Board, State, 691
Medical Association, Connecticut, 513 Medical practice, 166-67; pastors', 143, 156, 159, 167, 272
Meetinghouses, 141-42, 228 Meigs, Josiah, 356
Mellen, Charles S., 809
"Memorable League" of 1774, 302
Mental Hygiene Movement, 766
Mental illness, care, 766, 834-36
Mercantile background, 90-92
Mercantilistic concepts, 85-86
Merchandise inspection, 106-07;
standards, 106-07
Merchant prince, 268
Merchants, 10, 70, 78, 86, 89-92, 100- 01, 104, 116, 161, 197, 207, 216, 256, 265-66, 268, 270, 274, 277, 285-87, 295- 97, 300-01, 324, 329, 343, 351-53, 406, 522, 539, 800, 868;
foreign, 102
Meriden, 451, 479, 492, 575 (illus.), 626, 667-68, 672, 687, 727, 737, 766; City Hall (illus.), 632
Merrimack, 20
Merritt Boulevard, 844; Parkway, 808, 882; Norwalk (illus.), 721
Merwin, Orange, 454
Metal thread, 786 Metals, light, industry, 803, 806
Metcalf, Joseph, 136
Methodism, 391 Methodist Church, 391, 543
Methodists, 411, 421, 506-07, 543, 728
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 848
Meuse-Argonne battle, 791
Mexican border patrol, 779
Michigan, 819, 878
Middlefield, 699
Middlesex County, 348, 367, 450, 480 Middlesex Gazette, 396, 550
Middleton, Thomas, 78
Middletown, 4, 18, 62, 243, 266, 295, 348-49, 368, 396, 400, 407, 409, 430, 443-44, 472, 476, 486, 496, 514, 540-41, 543 (illus.), 572, 575, 654, 680 (illus.), 712, 735, 785, 877 (illus.), 878, 880; Bank, 375;
Hospital for Mentally Ill, 766; Savings Bank, 631;
Upper Houses, one of (illus.), 131
Middletown Convention, 300, 342
Middletown Manufacturing Company,
410
Middletown Resolves, 295, 297 Migration, 81, 419-20, 427
Milford, 38, 55, 66, 78, 80, 93, 215, 219, 243, 284, 786, 804; Town Office Building (illus.), 859
Milford Point, 738
Milford Power Company, 800
Military actions, 255-64; allowances, 586; census, 779-81; corps, special, 412, 416; decorations, 791; service, compulsory, 113; service exemptions, 106; training, universal, 781
Militia, Colonial, 94, 207;
Connecticut, 205, 208-11, 303, 306-07, 312, 314, 317, 345, 412-14, 439, 453 565, 583-87, 779; Continental, 312; Naval, 868
Militia Act, 194, 585-86 Milk, 700, 793, 817, 819; industry control, 864 Milking machine, 700 Mill rate adjustment, 736
Mill Rock, 471
Milldale, 671
Miller, Jonathan, Tavern, Hartland Hol- low (illus.), 182
Miller, Perry, 156, 158, 168, 171, 191, 237- 38, 250 Mills, A. L. (illus.), 683; Samuel J., 520
Milton, John, 47, 148, 155
Minor, William T., 563-64, 568
Minuit, Peter, 12
Misdemeanor charges, 186 Missionaries, 230, 392-93
Mississippi, battle, 593
Missouri Compromise, 556, 567, 569
Moderator, court, 45
Mohawk Indians, 182
Mohawk River, 263
Mohegan Indians, 32-33, 183, 211
Mohegan land controversy, 211, 215
Mohegan Road, 381 Molasses Act, 285
Monitor, 601
Monogamy, Indian, 7
Monopolies, 63, 92, 97-98, 106, 269-70, 377-78, 380, 442, 473, 730-31, 809;
forfeiture, 270;
opposition, 97-98, 157;
restriction, 86; trade, 86, 106
Monroe, 570
Montauk Point, 6
Montcalm de Saint-Veran, Louis Joseph de, 260, 262
Montgomery, J. R., Company, 786
Montgomery, Richard, 310
Montowese Baptist Church, North Haven (illus.), 393
Montville, 115
Monuments, 8, 110, 115, 257, 271
Moosup (illus.), 881
Moral and Theological Society, 507
Morality, 236, 507, 539
More, Sir Thomas, 155
Morgan, J. P., 663-64, 809
Morison, Samuel E., 127, 156
Morrill Act, 697
Morris, Gouverneur, 363; Luzon B., 749, 752-54; Robert, 355 Morse, Jedidiah, 192, 446 Mortgage and investment companies, 637 Mosaic Code, 96, 221
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Motor car industry, 803; transport industry, 807-08, 812; vehicle license fees, 803; vehicles, 807 Mott, Edward, 309 Mount Hope, 183 Mountains, 2-3
Moving pictures, 834 Mowry, James D., 601
Mugwumps, 749
Muirson, George, 230
Mumford, Thomas, 287
Municipal Art Society, 742
Municipal Finance and Unemployment Relief Commission, 855
Municipal improvement, 720-43
Municipalities, Connecticut League, 853
Murders, 14, 31, 125, 389
Murray, John G., 832
Music Hall, New Haven, 740
Mutiny, 320-31
Mutual Aid Unemployment Fund, 843
Mutual Assurance Company of Norwich, 376 Mutual insurance companies, 648 Mystic, 498, 604; seaport (illus.), 325, 485 Mystic Oral School, 834
Naples, 114 Napoleonic wars, conclusion, 416 Narragansett, 176-78, 182 Narragansett, Treaty, 181 Narragansett Bay, 6, 79 Narragansett Indians, 30, 32-33, 96, 181- 84
Narragansett River, 26, 176
National Association of Liquor Dealers, 825
National Defense Council, State, 784
National Emergency Council, 870 National Guard, 791-92, 862, 869, 877, 880 National Industrial Recovery Administra- tion, 858, 860
National Recovery Administration, 860-62 National Republicans, 453-55 Nationalism, 419-20, 615, 709 Nativism, 506, 554, 558-59, 563-64, 569, 571
Natural setting, 1-6 Naugatuck, 222, 476, 480, 668-69, 804 Naugatuck Railroad, 492, 494, 654 Naugatuck River, 667 Naugatuck Valley, 468, 492, 669 Naval Construction Board, 786
Naval operations, 588
Navigation, 6 Navigation Acts, 73, 76 Navy, English, 74-75; United States, 414
Needle trade industry, 849
Negative Voice, principle, 21, 23, 52-53 Negroes, 110-11, 457, 520-27, 562-63, 584, 590-91, 596, 615, 617-19, 718, 787, 833
Neptune, 376 Netherlands, The, 175
Neutrality Proclamation, 377
New Amsterdam, 20, 70, 73, 78, 100
New Bay Road, 103
New Berne, capture, 588
New Britain, 526, 536, 540, 654, 667-68, 671, 690, 704, 707, 718, 724-25, 735-36, 792, 845, 880; center of city (illus.), 585
New Britain Educational Fund, 540
New Britain Machine Company, 786, 792
New Canaan, 187
New Deal, 843-87; indirect benefits, 859-60
New Departure Company, 791, 804, 814 New England, 17, 25, 54, 78, 81, 89, 127, 129, 144, 148, 157-58, 162, 165, 167-68, 183, 185, 187, 210, 214, 239, 256, 259, 265, 314, 332, 343-44, 381, 412, 414-16, 467, 512, 560, 568, 587, 590, 663, 706, 738, 787, 805, 812, 872-73
New England Almanac, 165 New England Confederation, 35, 55-60, 65, 69-74, 81, 150, 177-78, 282, 345; Massachusetts domination, 58-60, 74 New England Governors' Committee, 810- 12
New England Magazine, 724 New England Transfer Company, 662 New Englander and Yale Review, 753 New Hampshire, 209, 211, 220, 262, 277 New Hartford, 222, 491
New Haven, 2, 4, 31, 35-38, 41, 51, 55, 91-92, 99-101, 103, 106, 108, 112, 126, 130, 139, 143, 152, 155-56, 165, 171,
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New Haven, 240, 243-45, 257, 290, 293, 297,
306, 315, 326, 344, 349, 351-52, 376, 379, 381, 393, 406-09, 420, 445, 457-58 (illus.), 467, 469, 473-74, 480, 484-85, 487-88, 493-94 (illus.), 505, 506, 521-22, 524, 542, 546, 550, 560 (illus.), 561, 563, 565, 569, 575, 585, 590 (illus.), 594, 600, 602 (illus.), 611, 619, 621-23, 631, 643-44, 648, 655, 662-63, 667, 707, 711, 713, 718, 720-22, 724-25, 728-32, 735-38, 740, 742, 763, 768, 779, 781, 792, 827, 843, 845-46, 879; Bank, 375, 462; City Bank, 498;
Harbor, 102; invasion, 317; port area (illus.), 653
New Haven Atheneum, 546-47
New Haven Colony, 35-38, 53-57, 62-82 passim, 113, 117, 150, 153-54
New Haven Columbian Register, 550
New Haven Convention, 332-33
New Haven County, 367, 479-80, 674, 756
New Haven County Courthouse, 740
New Haven Gazette, 356
New Haven Insurance Company, 376
New Haven Lawn Club, 738
New Haven Mechanics Society, 511
New Haven Medical Society, 511
New Haven Palladium, 624
New Haven Railroad, 492, 623, 653-54, 661-64, 730, 767, 734, 772, 798, 800, 809-12, 822, 858, 880
New Haven Water Company, 730-31 New Jersey, 312, 359, 381, 718
"New Lights," 243, 250-51
New London, 22, 34, 63, 99-101, 103, 105- 06, 143, 158, 161, 198, 210, 216, 219, 227, 229, 266, 286-87, 302-03, 315, 344, 349, 352, 375-76, 381, 391, 396, 409, 413, 481, 484, 494, 497-98, 524, 541, 660 (illus.), 695, 738 (illus.), 759, 783, 792 (illus.), 847, 880;
attack, 322-23; Harbor, 102; Harbor Light (illus.), 845; harbor scene (illus.), 615
New London and Northampton Railroad, 605
New London, Willimantic and Palmer Railroad, 494
New London Bee, 397 .
New London County, 367, 450, 478, 622, 872
New London Gazette, 396, 550
New London Society for Trade and Commerce, 216-17, 274
New Milford, 319, 492, 719
New Netherlands, 10, 65-82 passim, 178 New Orleans, 592;
battle, 420; fall, 588
New Plymouth, 25
New York, 65, 102, 130, 160-61, 180, 186- 87, 191, 198, 207-08, 222, 230, 237, 262, 266, 270, 277, 295, 297, 311, 313, 317, 329, 333, 344, 353, 359, 365, 368, 376, 442, 484-86, 490, 492, 495, 522, 594, 621, 631, 654, 663-64, 701, 711, 718, 750, 809, 849, 879, 882
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, 492, 653-54, 658, 661-64, 767, 772
New York Agreement of 1700, 220
New York Central Railroad, 663
New York and Harlem Railroad, 492
New York and New England Railroad, 492, 653-54, 661, 663-64
New York and New Haven Railroad, 623, 730
New York and Northern Railroad, 663
New York Society Library, 156
Newfield, 381
Newfoundland, 99, 101
Newgate Prison, 351, 439, 515
Newhall, George T., 477
Newington, 490, 766
Newman, Robert, 54
Newport, 318
Newspaper families, 550
Newspapers, 286, 297, 341, 356, 396-98, 407, 420, 423, 473, 504, 518, 520-21, 531-32, 549-51, 560, 567, 624, 642-43, 884
Newton, Sir Isaac, 238-40
Newtown, 17, 19-20, 29-30, 248
Niantic (Nehantic) Indians, 6-7, 30, 33; Eastern, 7; Western, 7 Niantic River, 7 Nicholas, Sir Edward, 78 Nicoll, Mathias, 374-75
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Niles, John Milton, 443-46, 448, 451-52, 532, 536, 550-51, 555 Ninnicroft Indians, 183 Nipmunk Indians, 6 Non-importation agreements, 295-97, 409 Non-Intercourse Act, 377
Nook's Hill, 311
Noonan, Carroll John, 565
Norfolk Arms Company, 601-02 Normal School, State, New Britain, 540, 751; Principal, 540 North, Sarah, 128; Simeon, 472, 479
North Branford Church (illus.), 144
North Canaan, 798
North Canton Post Office (illus.), 555 North Castle, 319
North Fairfield, 396
North Haven, 393, 744
North and Judd Company, 479, 671
North Stonington, 694
Northampton, 182, 226, 236-37, 241-42, 493
Northampton, New Haven Railroad, 663 Northwest Ordinance, 386
Northwest territory cession, 382, 385-86
Norwalk, 13, 187, 243, 508, 721, 882; destruction, 317; school built about 1835 (illus.), 350 Norwalk Islands, 68 Norwalk River, 2 Norwegians, 710
Norwich, 103, 306, 319, 349, 353, 376, 381, 407, 496, 541, 546-47, 565, 575, 601, 614, 668, 745 (illus.), 755, 792; Bank, 375; Free Academy (illus.), 407, 541; State Hospital, 766 (illus.), 767
Norwich Advertiser, 643 Norwich Arms Factory, 602
Norwich Aurora, 595
Norwich Bulletin, 642
Norwich Courier, 397
Norwich Lyceum and Mechanics Insti- tute, 546 Norwich Packet, 396 Norwich and Worcester 494 Railroad, 492,
Nova Scotia, 256, 259
Noyes, Benjamin, 643, 645
Nullification party, 567 Nurseries, 711 Nurses, 833 Nutmegs, wooden, 135
Oath of allegiance, 231-92 O'Brien, Sheehan, and McHale, 691 Occum Cotton Company, 604 Office Building, State, Hartford (illus.), 790
Officers, military, 110, 115, 137, 181, 183- 84, 198, 260-64, 306-36 passim, 341, 383- 84, 583-99 passim, 616, 791; naval, 593
"Ohio fever," 419-20
Ohio Territory, 419
Old Age Assistance, State Bureau, 867
Old age pensions, 823, 867
Old Bay Path, 30
Old Post Road, 381
Oldham, John, 13-14, 31 Oliver Ellsworth, 485-86
Onions, 465
Open shop, 813; organizations, 813
Opera houses, 740
Orchard products, 702
Orchards, 713, 880
Ordinaries, 125
Ordnance Department, United States, 600
O'Sullivan, Patrick J., 827
Otis, Harrison Gray, 417 "Owning the Covenant," 241 Oxford, 164
Oyster Bay, 72
Pacific Iron Works, 672 Paget, John, 19, 36
Paintings in State Library, 858
Palatinate, Protestants of, 36
Palmer, Alexander M., 794
Palmes, Edward, 161, 198-200, 210 Panic of 1819, 496; of 1837, 461; of 1857, 573, 604; of 1873, 631-35, 680, 710;
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HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT
Panic of 1893, 636, 676, 690; of 1907, 765, 772 Panunzio, Constantine, 825 Pape, William J., 884 Paper money, 115-16, 215-17; accounting, 276-77; money question, 273-78; redeeming, 275-76 Park Dike, 871
Park River, 724
Park River Conduit, 872
Parker, Moses, 350 Parks, 115, 723-24, 737-39, 743, 818-19, 834; State, 880;
and Forests, State Department, 843 Parliament, 268, 274-75, 277, 289, 292-94, 296, 300-01, 347 Parrington, Vernon Louis, 157, 397-98 Parsons, Samuel, 314, 321, 383; William Samuel, 344
Pastors, 18-24, 29, 36-37, 63, 68, 70, 89, 92, 126, 128, 136-44, 140-44, 150, 154, 156, 158, 161, 165, 167, 171-72, 196, 215, 222, 226-52, 272, 276, 278, 307, 390-95, 456, 503-11, 513, 520-24, 532, 537, 542- 43, 554, 557, 560, 569, 692;
itinerant, 245-47; salary, 143
Pasturage, 105
Patents, 667
Patrick, Daniel, 32-33, 66
Patrons of Husbandry, 687
Paving, 721-22
Pawcatuck, 63
Pawcatuck River, 6, 176
Paxtang Boys, 298
Peace movement, 580-82
Peck, Stowe and Wilcox Company, 671 Peddlers, 104, 474-75, 479;
licenses, 475 Peekskill, 316
Penal administration, 766; Code, 350-51, 388;
establishments, 351, 389, 766
Penalties, 350-51, 388-89
Peninsular Campaign, 588-89
Pennsylvania, 282-84, 298-300, 328, 345-47, 381 Pennsylvania Railroad, 662 Pennsylvanians, 298, 320
Pequannock, 66 Pequot country, 176
Pequot Fort, 32
Pequot Indians, 7-8, 11, 30-35, 66, 183-84 Pequot River, 7, 32
Pequot War, 30-35, 41, 73, 96, 98, 158
Percival, James Gates, 548-49
Periodicals, 534-35, 539, 544, 724, 753
Perkins, William, 135
Perry, Joseph, 307
Pershing, John Joseph, 791
Personnel Department, State, 876
Peter, Hugh, 37, 68
Peters, John S., 452, 454-55; Samuel, 140, 192, 347, 455
Petersburg, 597-98
Pettipauge harbor, 414
Phelps, Almira, 518, 830; Noah, 452
Philadelphia, 302, 309, 333, 342, 356, 362, 364, 565, 631-33, 668, 800
Philip, Indian King, 181-83
Phipps, Sir William, 205-06
Phoenix Bank, Hartford, 427
Phoenix Insurance Company, 639
Physicians, 166-67, 432, 512-13, 549, 675, 726, 827, 832
Pierce, Franklin, 559, 569
Pierpont and Tolles Factory, 602
Piers, three, where Farmington Canal crossed Farmington River (illus.), 487 Pierson, A. N., 711; Emily, 830
Pig, fatted, affair, 19-20
Pilgrims, 25
Pioneers, 12-38, 479
Piper's Brook, 724
Pipestaves, 98-99, 107-08
Pirates, 73, 102-03
Pitkin, Elisha, 379-80; Henry, 380;
James F., 380;
John O., 380;
Joseph, 380;
Richard, 380;
Samuel, 380;
Walter, 380; William, 171, 289, 293, 379-80
Pittsfield, 493 Place names, sources, 4, 6, 176
925
INDEX
Plainfield, 668; Academy (illus.), 159, 396 Plainville, 493, 733 Plant, A.P., Company, 671 Plantation agreements, 63-64 Plantation duty of 1673, 102 Plantations, 30, 66-67, 78, 81, 180 Planters, 14, 54-55
Plantsville, 671 Platonism, Christian, 148-49 Platt, John David Ronalds, 364; Orville H., 550 Plurality principle, 753-54
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