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Plymouth, 11-12, 24, 381
Plymouth Colony, 41, 57, 183
Poe, Edgar Allen, 548
Poetry, 547-49, 744-45 Poets, 397-98, 547-49, 744-45
Poles, 691, 713, 815
Police, State, 827, 877-78 Political caucus, 463; controversy, 406-07, 443-44; crisis, 421; development, 373-75; imbroglio, unresolved, 764; leaders, 563, 749-53; patronage, 405-08, 453, 576, 614, 798, 864;
transition era, 426-46
Politics, 213, 343, 368, 373-75, 398-400, 405- 63, 531-33, 536-38, 551, 554-77, 580-84, 590-91, 614-27, 642, 679-80, 699-700, 707, 734, 749-74, 797-800, 821-25, 830, 850-54, 862-66, 872-73, 884-87
Poll tax, 116, 197 Pomeroy, Benjamin, 243-44, 246
Pomfret, 187, 307, 379, 739 Pond, Charles M., 642 Ponemah Mills, 668 Pontiac, 285, 307 Poor, relief, 387-88, 515-17, 527, 559, 725- 26,836
"Pope of Connecticut Valley," 236 Population, cities, 707, 718, 736; Connecticut, 217, 419, 667, 704, 765, 778; foreign-born, 704-13, 782, 815-16; shift, 833; towns, 419, 668 Populists, 699 Pork, 99, 134, 268, 271
Port Bill, 301 Port Royal, sack, 206 Porter, Noah, 539 Portland, 604, 879-80 Ports, 101-02, 187, 266, 352, 409, 653; free, 102 Postmaster General, 407
Postmasters, 616
Postoffices, 555 Postwar development, 214-22; readjustment period, 610-27
Potatoes, 134, 819
Potter, William, 116
Poultry industry, 819
Poultrymen, 817
Powder House, Fairfield (illus.), 415
Powder mills, 613 Pratt, Bela L., 742; Francis A., 613; James T., 574-76 Pratt and Whitney Company, 672, 804
Prayers, long, 141-42
Predestination, 168
Premiums, 266-67
Prentice, George Denison, 744
Presbyterian Church, 227 Presbyterianism, 228-29, 237
Presbyterians, 237, 248, 506
Prescott, William, 308
President, United States, 398, 405-06, 408, 411-12, 418-19, 426, 444, 455, 524, 559, 569-70, 575-77, 586, 614, 616, 619, 749, 774, 778, 791, 830, 852, 854, 872-73
Presque Isle, 386 Press, 518, 520, 537, 550-51, 594, 614
Preston, John, 42
Price control, 100, 106-07, 112-13, 331-34 Prices, fixed, 269, 331; high, 33, 267, 271, 419, 613, 788-89, 793, 817, 819, 881; low, 633 Primogeniture, 96, 221 Printing, 155; press, 155
Prison, Federal, Danbury, 858; State, 514-15
Prisons, 524 Privateers, 73, 102-03 Privy Council, 101, 211, 221, 284
Probate Court, 644, 648 Proclamation of 1763, 298
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Procurement investigation, 328 Profiteering, 793 Progressives, 770, 798, 822
Prohibition, 558, 619, 823-29, 831; Act, United States, 826; Connecticut opposition, 824-29;
Department, United States, 827; effect, 827-28; Enforcement, National Committee,
828;
legislation, 563, 824, 826; optional, 728, 824; repeal, 727, 829, 854 Prohibitionists, 554, 558, 562, 753
Promissory notes, 113-14, 215
Promotion, 65
Property confiscation, 306, 323-27, 344-45; tax, 116, 197, 215
Proprietors, town, 93-94, 218-19
Prosperity, 267, 278, 376-81, 590, 602, 636, 692-94, 740, 765, 785, 801, 819-20
Prostitution, 726-27
Protest and petition period, 282-303
Protestant, The, 504
Protestant Episcopal Church of America, 391
Protestantism, 85, 88, 149, 162, 707
Protestants, 241, 250, 563
Providence, 332, 495, 652
Provisions, embargo, 205 Prudden, Peter, 66
Public Works Authority, 872; Commissioner, 882; Department, State, 876; programs, 853, 856-58, 861, 866
Publishers, 550-51, 743, 884
Punishment, 125, 139, 142, 229; capital, 125 Purchasing agent, State, 882 Puritan Civil War, 71, 98 Puritan governor, last, 423; justifications, 25, 66, 98, 109-10, 162; persecution of heretics, 158
Puritanism, 9, 18-19, 41-42, 51-53, 69, 85, 88, 125-29, 135-45, 149, 244, 391, 558, 74
Puritans, 12, 17, 25-26, 31, 35-36, 44, 48, 50-51, 65-66, 70, 77-79, 85, 88-89, 96, 98, 127, 140, 148-49, 158, 161-62, 179-80, 188, 196, 206, 208, 238-39, 241, 250; second generation, 156-57
Putnam, 668 (illus.), 689, 709, 821, 858, 862
Putnam, Frank, 724;
Israel, 193, 261, 263, 292, 307-08, 310- 14, 316-17;
Israel, Home, Brooklyn (illus.), 137; Monument, Redding (illus.), 271
Putnam Cottage, Greenwich (illus.), 193, 436
Putnam Memorial Camp Ground, Red- ding (illus.), 271
Putnam Wolf Den and Wolf, Pomfret (illus.), 187 Pynchon, John, 186; William, 34-35, 96-98, 106, 157 Pyquag, 14, 30
Quakers, 143, 158, 229-30, 232, 235, 521 Quartermaster General, State, 587, 601 Quebec, 285, 311;
attack, 206, 213, 310; fall, 264 Queen Anne's War, 204, 210-14, 274
Quinebaug River, 63
Quinebaug Valley, 685 Quinnipiac River, 3-4, 37
Quit rents, 79 Quo Warranto writs, 186-89
Race courses, 738
Radicals, 282, 293, 297-302, 343-44, 441, 532, 590-91, 614-19, 794; rise, 290-93
Radio, 804, 818; operators, ham, 880
Railroad bonds, 630-31; cars, 491-92; Commissioners, 654, 656-58;
consolidation, 605, 652-54, 661-64; construction, 652; expansion, 573; financing, 654-57, 810-12; legislation, 656-61, 822; locomotives, 491; monopolies, 654, 809; regulation, 656-61; safety regulations, 660-61; stock, watered, 655-57;
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strikes, 661; technical development, 661; tracks, 490-91; war, 663
Railroads, 474, 484, 490-96, 605, 612, 652- 64, 693, 720, 729, 739, 765, 808-12, 822 Rains, 868, 879 Ramus, Peter, 148-49, 157 Randolph, Edward, 185, 191 Rangers, 261-62 Rape seed, 273 Rappahannock, bridge, 589 Rates, Duties, and Imposts, Act Establish- ing, 197 Rationalism, 164 Rationing, wartime, 721, 782 Rayon products, 806 Read, John, 230 Reading, 248 Reaffirmation, 241
Real estate, 65, 215, 218-22, 382-86, 415, 573, 633, 638, 820, 833, 881-82; regulations, 194; scandal, 882; tax, 440
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 844 Reconstruction issue, 617-19 Recreation, 738-40, 814, 834; under-age, regulation, 740 Red Scare, 794, 798 Redding, 523, 622, 739, 822 Reeder, Andrew, 570
Reform, 444-46, 449, 458-63, 481-82, 499, 508-12, 527, 532-40, 554, 619-20, 622-27, 734, 754, 862, 886 Reform party, 420-21, 427, 430 Reformation, 88, 148, 162, 226, 244 Reformatory for Men, State, 766; for Women, State, 766 Regicides incident, 77-78 "Register clique," 621
Rehabilitation Corporation, State, 866 Relief, 222, 387-88, 515-17, 527, 559, 599- 600, 772, 821, 843, 846, 849-70, 880-81; agencies, 821, 849-70 passim; associations, 600; Commission, 846-48, 856; tax, 852
Religion, 22-23, 42, 44, 51, 63, 125-29, 135- 45, 168-73, 226-52, 390-93, 421, 503-09, 523
Religious controversy, 23, 226-52, 391-93; effect on literature, 157-62; freedom, 22; modifications, 145; organs, 549, 557; schism, 248-52
Remarriage, immediate, 129 Remington Arms Company, 778, 785 Remington Rand Company strike, 877 Remington Union Metallic Company, 790 Renaissance, 148 Rents, high, 789 Reorganization Commission, 874 Representation, changed method, 622-25; disproportionate, 754-64 Republican party, rise, 554-77; State Central Committee, 798, 884; years, 749-74 Republicanism, 47-48
Republicans, 398-400, 405-57 passim, 532, 542, 551, 554-77, 580-84, 587, 590, 601, 615-27, 642, 664, 749-74, 794, 797-801, 821-25, 830, 850-54, 862-66, 872-73, 877, 883-87
Reservoirs, 656, 819, 880
Resettlement Administration, Federal, 870 Resort areas, 738-39
Restless, 1-5 Revivals, 241-52, 503, 507
Revolution, War of American, 105, 192, 248, 252, 279, 289, 306-36, 340, 347, 357, 389, 391, 396, 426; move toward, 300-03; permanent fund, 527-28
Revolutionary cannon at Winchester His- torical Society, Winsted (illus.), 308
Rhode Island, 7, 56, 126, 175-78, 181, 183- 84, 211, 214, 229, 277, 314, 381, 475, 477, 506, 537, 718, 793, 809; Agreement of 1703, 220; claim, 175-78 Rich, John, 381 Richards' Bridge over Farmington River (illus.), 709 Richardson, Merrill, 537 Richmond, 592, 597; attack, 597-99; defense, 589 Rights and Grievances Declaration, 302 "Ripper bills," 798 Ripton, 246
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HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT
River plantations, 30; pollution, 722; rats, 869 Rivers, 2-6 Riverside Park, 738 Riverton, 665
Road improvement, 771-72, 844; maintenance, 103, 105, 113; surveyors, 103, 124 Roads, 103, 381-82;
hard-surfaced, 720-22, 806-08; Public, Federal Bureau, 808
Roanoke Island, capture, 588
Robbins, Thomas, 509-10, 513, 532, 547
Roberts, Gideon, 381; Henry, 764 Robertsville, 662 Robinson, Charles, 570; Lucius, 825 Rochambeau, Comte de, 318, 322
Rockingham party, 296
Rocks, 1-2, 4-5
Rockville, 668, 880
Rocky Hill, 4, 249, 508, 510
Rocky Neck Beach State Park (illus.), 835
Rocky River, 800
Rocky River Power Company, 799-800 Rodenberg, 4
Rogerenes, 232 Rogers, Elizabeth, 129; Ernest E., 823-24; John, 143, 229; Robert, 262; Willard B., 794; William, 480
Roller skating, 739
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 854-55, 860, 873
Root, Elisha K., 672; Jesse, 346 Rope industry, 466 Roraback, J. Henry, 767, 798-801, 805, 822, 824, 830, 850, 866, 872-73, 884 Rossiter, Bryan, 167 Rowland, Sherwood L., 882-83
Rowlandson, Mary, captivity, 158
Roxbury village scene (illus.), 701 Royal disfavor, 184-85
Royal Society of London, 78, 165; Philosophical Transactions, 164 Royalism, 161-62 Royalists, 77, 192
Royenberg River, 4 Rubber goods, 675; manufacture, 480, 668, 674-75, 792; synthetic, 669; vulcanizing, 480 Rural area legislation, 798
Russell and Erwin Manufacturing Com- pany, 479, 671, 675, 690, 704 Russell Sage Foundation, 846 Russell's Collegiate and Commercial School, 542 Russia, 787 Russians, 713
Rye, 268 Ryswick, Treaty, 210
Sabbath observance, 658-59; enforced, 139-40
Sabethe River, 724
Sabin, John, 210
Sachem's Head, 738
Sacrament, suspension, 126
Safety, Committee, 326; Council, 329
Saffrey, Solomon, 178
Sage, Russell, Foundation, 788
St. John's Church, Cromwell (illus.), 428
Saint Mihiel bombardment, 791
St. Peters Church (Episcopal), Hebron (illus.), 231 Saint Stephens, 36
Salem, Massachusetts, 68, 512
Sales tax, 853, 864
Salisbury, 222
Salisbury Iron Mines, 471, 484, 492
Salisbury Iron Works, 377-78, 602
Saloons, 727-28, 824
Salt manufacture, 269
"Salt Springs Tract," 383
Saltonstall, Gordon, 227, 229, 231, 287; Sir Richard, 24-26
Sandstone, red, 4, 8
Sanger, Margaret, 832
Sanitary Commission, 600
Saratoga, 738
Sargent, John, 380; Joseph B., 730-32 Sassacus, 31 Satan's Kingdom Gorge (illus.), 491
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Savin Rock, 879 Savings accounts, closing, 845-46 Savings banks, 496-98, 606, 610-12, 631-33, 638-39, 690, 846; deposits, 765, 793, 819-20; regulation, 751 Sawmills, 105 Saybrook, 4, 11, 27, 31-32, 56, 101, 180, 227, 248, 312, 315, 348, 414, 663; invasion, 413; Old, 49; settlement, 27, 37 Saybrook Platform, 227-29, 236, 245, 248, 252, 391, 542-43
Saybrook Point, 738; Light House (illus.), 623
Saye and Sele, Lord, 26-27, 69, 78 Scandal, 877, 882-84 Scandinavians, 710-11
Schaefer's Spouter Tavern (illus.), 325 Schenectady, 263; Frontenac's capture, 205 School attendance, 620, 682, 691; boards, 830; Commissioners, State Board, 533-34, 537;
Commissioners, State Board, Secretary, 537;
curricula, 396, 541; Fund, 235, 386, 394-95, 439, 443, 460, 528, 531, 535; Fund Commissioner, 462, 538;
gardens, 738; Information, State Office, 538;
investigating committee, 537-38; lands, 222;
legislation, 152-53, 394-96, 535-36, 540, 620; reform, 532-40, 545-46, 551; societies, 394-95, 538; visitors, 537-38 Schoolhouse, first in Hartford (illus.), 151; first in New Haven (illus.), 154 Schoolhouses, 124, 151, 154, 535
Schools, 151-54, 159, 222, 250, 350, 507, 509, 518-19, 520-21, 531-40; Church-supported, 541-43; college preparatory, 152; free, 153; grammar, 152; high, 383, 542, 741, 828;
Latin, 152; private, 395, 531, 542; public, 152-54, 383, 395, 534-39, 546; rural, 422; special, 823-36; State Superintendent, 532, 538, 540; State Superintendent, Assistant, 538; superintendent, 518-19 Schuyler, Philip John, 310 Science, 164-67 Scott, John, 80, 176; Winfield, 559 Scoville, James M. L., 475
Scoville Manufacturing Company, 670, 785, 790, 792 Scranton, E. S., Bank, New Haven, 631
Sculptors, 742 Sculptures, 742
Sea cliffs, 2
Seal, Connecticut Colonial, 79
Seaside Park, 818
Sebor, Jacob, 351 Secession, 577, 580; movements, town, 220 Secretary, Connecticut Colonial, 191-92, 195, 289;
of Labor, United States, 794; of State, State, 454, 753, 758, 874; of Treasury, United States, 426, 471-72 Sedgwick, General John, Monument, Cornwall Hollow (illus.), 110
Seed business, 468
Seicheprey, battle, 791
Selectmen, town, 160, 196, 780 Selective Service Act, 781 Seminaries, 250, 469, 518-19, 541
Senate, State, 434, 439, 441, 448, 450-51, 453, 455, 458, 463, 539, 622-25, 642, 660, 734, 749, 753-56, 762-64, 770, 774, 798, 800, 815, 852-54, 863, 865-66, 876, 883 Senate, United States, 822 Senatorial districts, State, 450-51, 463 Senators, United States, from Connecti- cut, 368, 432, 448, 454, 458, 550, 556, 560, 568, 600, 614, 617, 619, 625, 642, 768, 774, 798, 800, 863 Separatists, 248, 251-52, 391 Sermons, 136, 141-42, 144, 157-59, 172, 244, 249 Serra, Antonio, 114
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HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT
Sessions Foundry, 671
Settlement, 4, 8-14, 17-38, 45-46, 62-80 pas- sim, 89-96, 181, 183, 214-22, 298-300, 345-47, 382-88; in boundary determinations, 220; extension, 62-65;
impulses, 17-24; laws, 385-88; requirements, 64; techniques, 63; unauthorized, 63; western lands, 282-85
Settlers, 4, 7-14, 17-38, 42, 44, 53, 56, 62-80 passim, 89-96, 100, 117, 139, 156, 165, 178, 205, 214-22, 282-85, 298, 346-47, 384-88, 419
Sewall, Samuel, 185
Seward, William H., 576
Sewerage, 724, 858
Sewing machines, 672; silk, 478
Seymour, Henry, 443; Thomas H., 443, 556, 558, 560, 575
Seymour clubs, 575
Shad fishing, Connecticut River (illus.), 480; industry, 481
Sharon, 222, 508, 517
Sharpe's, Christian, Rifle Company, 601-02
Sharps, Samuel, 479
Shatucket River, 63
Shaw, Nathaniel, 287
Shays' Rebellion, 367 Sheep, 467-68;
Merino, 410, 468 Shelters, transients', 856
Shelton, 668, 766, 858
Shenandoah Valley, 598; devastation, 597 Shepard, Thomas, 29, 42, 168; Colony, 29-30
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 597-99
Sherman, Roger, 302, 309, 313, 334-35, 344, 350, 356-64, 367-68, 410, 416; William Tecumseh, 597-98 Shetucket Valley, 685 Shipbuilding, 604, 786-87; centers, 376, 604 Shipping, 102, 271, 376, 604-05, 612; distress, 409-10;
inadequate, 99-100; lines, independent, 605
Ships, 6, 73-75, 99-100, 102, 325, 351, 480- 81, 484, 604; British seizure, 377
Shipyards, 604
Shirley, William, 256-57, 274
Shoes, 99, 108
Shore Line Railroad, 492, 494-95, 654
Shorehaven Golf Course, 13
Sibbes, Richard, 42
Siccanamos River, 6
Sigourney, Lydia Huntley, 547
Silk, 668;
culture, 478;
manufacturing, 378-79, 603, 668, 792, 794; products, 806 Sill, Edward Rowland, 744
Silliman, Benjamin, 469, 544, 546, 569; Gold Selleck, 314
Silo, 700
Silver companies, 675; industry, 672-74;
plating, 480; smithing, 479-80; smiths, 379-80, 479-80
Simsbury, 488 (illus.), 875
Singers, 740
Sisisky, Samuel, 832
Sisisky Bill, 832 "Sit down" strike, 878 Sixty and One plan, 782
Sizing, 299 Skating, 739
Slater, Samuel, 475
Slaughter, Henry, 161, 198-200
Slave labor, 525-27; ship, 524-25 Slavery issue, 389-90, 499, 520-27, 554-57, 560-76
Slaves, 135, 389-90, 562-63, 583; Indian, 33, 109-10, 114, 181; Negro, 110-11, 114, 521-27, 557, 583, 590-91
Sleighing, 739 Slidell, John, 587 Slovaks, 713 Slum areas, 834; clearance, 874 Sluman, Joseph, 269
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INDEX
Smallpox, 22 Smith, John Cotton, 412-14, 416, 419-23; Richard, 181, 343; Samuel B., 504 Smoking ban, 140 Smugglers, 73, 268-69
Smuggling, 300
Social changes, 503-28 Smyth, Newman, 768 Snow, 868
Social agencies, private, 836-37; legislation, 860;
problems, 558-59, 725-28, 772-74, 824- 37;
register, 250; reform, 444-45, 460-61, 463; structure, 122-45
structure, initial concepts, 122-27;
welfare, 512-18, 751, 766-67, 801, 834- 37, 863-64, 867; welfare, abuses, 837; welfare, reluctant, 527-28
Social Security Act, 873
Socialist Labor party, 688
Socialist party, 850, 852, 863-66, 884
Societies, 427-28
Society, early, 122-45
Society to Enforce Peace, 779
Society for Improvement of Common Schools, 452
"Society for Mutual Education," 544 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 230, 248 Soil, 469;
exhaustion, 204, 217, 271-72 Soldiers Aid societies, 600
Soldiers' pay vouchers, purchasing, 275
Soldiers and Sailors Monument, atop East Rock, New Haven (illus.), 257 Somers, 220, 348
Sons of Liberty, 290-92, 295
South Congregational Church, Hartford (illus.), 141 South Glastonbury Ferry (illus.), 497
South Meadows pumping station, 872
South Methodist Church, Hartford, 728 South Sea, 79 Southampton, 67, 179 Southington, 540, 671 Southold, 67, 79, 179, 245 Southport Harbor, Fairfield (illus.), 603
Southwick, 487 Spain, 255 Spanish Succession, War, 210-14 Spanish-American War, 675
Spanish-English treaty of 1625, 12 Specie, 114, 278, 351, 415-16, 461; circular, Jackson's, 498; payments resumed, 621; payments suspended, 498, 573
Speculation, 63-65, 204, 215, 222, 353, 498, 573, 633, 643, 655, 703, 765; control, 126 Speculators, 204, 215, 275, 353, 384, 420, 643
Spencer, Christopher M., 786; Joseph, 314 Sperry, Nehemiah D., 576-77
Spies, 73
Spinsters, 128
Sports, 738-40
Spotsylvania, 597
Sprague, 757
Sprague Textile Mills, 604, 632, 679
Springfield, 28, 34, 56, 157, 181, 330, 486, 492-93, 654, 662, 722; independent state, 35
Springfield Republican, 567
Squatters, 24-27, 37, 218
Stafford, 348
Stafford Springs, 668, 738 (illus.), 871
Stallings, George, 778
Stamford, 38, 55, 63, 66, 68, 72-73, 79, 105, 187, 244, 249, 379, 670, 689, 707, 814, 827;
first High School (illus.), 383
Stamford Historical Society, Home (illus.), 68 Stamp Act, 287, 290, 292-93, 299, 307; Act Congress, 291-92; repeal, 293
"Stand up law," 428, 430
Standing Order, 392, 397, 431; protection, 245-47 Stanfield, Wentworth and Company fail- ure, 631
Stanley Rule and Level Company, 479, 671 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 830;
Thomas, 33 Staples Academy, North Fairfield, 396
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HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT
Starr, Nathan, 476-77, 479; Samuel J., 680 State control, 86
State House, Hartford, 365, 384-86, 417; new, 622 Statehood, 329-36, 347-48
States' rights issue, 74, 334, 410, 565, 825, 866 States-General of Netherlands, 72
Statutes, State General, 350
Steam power, 477, 484, 804 Steamboat companies, 809; Law, 442; routes, 485-86
Steamboats, 483-86, 605, 662, 739
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 744-45; John W., 643-46, 648 Steel manufacture, 266, 269, 803; workers, 821 Steffens, Lincoln, 734 Stevens, Harry, 726
Stiles, Ezra, 343, 351, 356, 361, 364-65, 379, 390-91, 393-94; Francis, 24-25
Stiles' Colony, 24-25 Stock market crash, 1929, 820
Stock Laws, Joint, Commission, 667 Stockbridge, 492 Stocks, 125, 637-38
Stoddard, Solomon, 226-27, 236-38, 241 Stone, John, 31 Stonington, 183, 222, 245, 441, 481, 494, 880; bombarded, 414
Stony Point, 317 Storrs, 284, 538, 698
Storrs, Augustus, 687; Charles, 697 Stoughton, Israel, 33
Stratford, 2, 63, 66, 230, 234-35, 243, 374, 391 Strawberries, 702 Street railways, electric, 729-30, 732-34 Streets, improved, 720-22; sprinkling, 722 Strike, right to, 813 Strikes, 482, 661, 680-82, 685, 690-91, 789, 809-10, 814, 862, 877-79 Strong, Nathan, 143 Stuart restoration, 76 Sturges, Jonathan, 368
Sturgis, John, 293 Stuyvesant, Peter, 70-73, 81-82, 180 Submarine construction, only plant in world for exclusive, 787; inventor, first American, 312; warfare, 779 Submarines, 787 Subsidies, 105, 473 "Sufferers' Lands," 382 Suffield, 220, 468, 541, 763
Suffolk Bank, Boston, 496
Suffrage, 50, 435, 437, 458, 615; Negro, 617-19 Sugar, 268
Sugar Act, 285-86
Summer boarders, 739
Sumner, Charles, 570
Sumter, fall, 584
Sumptuary Laws, 136-37
Sunderland, Earl of, 191
Superior Court, State, 348, 350, 367, 440- 41, 459, 638, 771-72, 874, 882, 886
Supremacy, oath, 79
Supreme Court, State, 348, 427, 816, 822, 883-84, 886
Supreme Court, United States, 375, 385, 484-85, 525, 879 Supreme Court of Errors, State, 441, 769, 821, 864
Surgeons, 159 Surplus, State, 885
Surplus Commodities Corporation, Fed- eral, 870
Surveyors, 176, 185
Surveys, 93, 178, 220, 384, 488
Susquehanna Company, 282-84, 286, 298; controversy settled, 345-47, 357
Sussex, sinking, 779 Sutlers, 269
Swan, Roswell, 508
Swane, Samuel, 105
Sweden, 65 Swedes, 56, 69, 710-11
Swift, Nathaniel, 416; Zephaniah, 416
Swindles, 881-84
Synagogue, University of Connecticut (illus.), 538 Synod of 1646, 170; of 1662, 170
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Taft, Lorado, 742 Taftsville Textile Mills strike, 680-82 Taille, 117 Talcott, John, 184; Joseph, 96, 232, 235 Talcott Mountain, 3 Tan bark mill, Bethany (illus.), 265 Talmadge, B., Company, 353
Talmadge, Benjamin, 319, 343, 353, 410; Herman, 866 Tappan, Arthur, 522 Tappan, New York, 319 Tariff, 473, 702; intercolonial, 278; program, 352-53
Tax benefits, 605, 803; Commission, 802-03, 863; Commissioner, 734, 820, 852;
controversy, 285-90; evasions, 640; exemptions, 106, 143, 235-36, 377-79, 440, 456, 473, 488, 606, 634; fight, 642; revision, 440; Revision Commission, 636; on tea, 300; structure, corporate, 802-03 Taxation, 116-18, 197, 248, 430, 534, 647- 48
Taxes, 96-98, 101-02, 112, 116-18, 136, 205, 220, 222, 235, 276, 303, 307, 345, 365, 391, 395, 423, 440, 528, 606, 634, 637, 734, 770, 808, 852-53, 864; corporation, 802-03; and imports, 293-98 Taylor, Nathaniel, 504
Teachers, 152-53, 272, 518, 520-21, 531-44 passim; certification, 532, 535-36; education, 539-40, 545; female, 518; Institute, 539-40; salaries, 152, 535
Telephone companies, 880 Temperance Convention, Statewide, 558; movement, 508-12, 558; party, 554, 563-64; restaurants, 728 Temple, Sir Thomas, 78 Templeton, Charles A., 800-02, 825 Tenements, 686, 719-20, 725, 789, 833, 866
Tennent, William, 245 Tennis, 738; clubs, 738 Tercentenary Log Cabin (illus.), 18 Terry, Eli, 381; Nathaniel, 419
Texas, 599
Textbooks, school, 396
Textile industry, 377-80, 466, 475, 602-04, 613-14, 631, 668-69, 706, 788, 803, 821, 862 Textiles, 378-79, 478, 602-04, 668-69
Thames River, 4, 6, 494, 668
Thayer, Eli, 568
Theaters, 740
Theologians, 158-62, 168-73, 238
Theological controversy, 168-73
Thomas, Norman, 850
Thomas clockmakers, 476
Thompson, 668
Thompsonville, 666
Thompsonville Carpet Works suit, 482
Thorne, Angus, 850
Thread manufacture, 668
Thresher, Francis, 106
Thunderbolt, 879-80
Ticonderoga, battle, 263-64, 309, 316
Tilson, John, 822
Timber, 95, 98, 105-07
Time, standard, 657-58
Tires, pneumatic, 675
Tithingmen, 125
Tobacco, 273; broadleaf, 468;
harvesting, 787; industry, 468, 702; scene, 1902 (illus.), 683; sheds, 880
Toleration, 177, 196, 232, 252, 391, 437
Toleration Act, 161, 227, 229, 231-32, 248, 391-92 Tolerationists, 420-21, 429-31 Toll, 382, 486
Tolland, 348
Tolland County, 6, 348, 450, 478, 756, 868 Tomlinson, Gideon, 445-46, 448-50, 452, 454, 458 Tone, Joseph M., 862 Tonnage duties, 197, 278 Topography, 2-6
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HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT
Tories, 213, 306, 323, 340, 343-45, 455, 542; extreme measures against, 324-27, 344- 45
Torpedo boats, 786-87
Torrington, 668-69, 671, 675; business district (illus.), 885; Main Street (illus.), 597 Toucey, Isaac, 538-39, 560, 562, 568 Towle, Sarah, 128
"Town grants," 93
Town meetings restricted, 196-97
Towns, 30, 62-63, 66-67, 117, 208, 214-22, 299, 348-49, 367, 387, 433, 466, 667-68, 733, 739, 754, 757, 763, 771-72, 780, 784, 843
Townsend Savings Bank, New Haven, 631-33
Townshend, Lord Charles, 293-94
Townshend Acts, 294-97;
repeal, 297, 300
Tracts, 155, 158-61
Trade, 10-14, 22, 30, 35, 66-67, 70, 73-74, 86, 99-103, 114, 116, 185, 207, 216, 256,
264-70, 376-77, 383, 412, 414, 575;
Board, 211, 283, 289, 296;
carrying, 100; centers, 274, 353;
coastal, 99; dependence, 266;
depredations, 398; embargoes, 268, 307, 318, 329, 377, 409- 11, 415; free, 102, 331;
grants, special permission, 268-69;
illicit, 102-03, 267, 271, 330-31;
Indian, 63, 71, 96, 98, 104, 111, 207;
intercolonial, 102, 266;
internal, 103-04, 419;
interstate, 442;
partnerships, 270;
postwar, 351-53; unregulated, 474
Traders, 11-14, 62, 96, 266-70, 330, 352, 474
Trading companies, 35, 86, 92; houses, 63, 67, 72, 100
Tramp law, 682
Transportation, 381-82, 483-96, 605, 612- 13, 652-64, 713, 720-21, 729, 806-12; inadequate, 103-04; water, 99-100, 483-89, 664-65
Travel, early, 103-04, 135
Travelers Insurance Company, 606; Building, Hartford (illus.), 639
Treadwell, John, 416, 433, 438
Treason, 318-19
Treasurer, Connecticut colonial, 33; Connecticut State, 454, 462, 587, 642, 655, 821, 874; United States, 355
Treasury, British, 275;
Connecticut Colonial, 190, 277-78;
Connecticut State, 421, 439, 515, 826 Treat, Robert, 161, 184, 191, 198-99, 208 Trees, 28
Trent, 587
Trenton decision, 346-47
Trial by jury, 44
Trials, theological, 246; witchcraft, 162-63 Trinitarians, 50-51
Trinity College, Hartford (illus.), 456, 542- 43 Trolley, last, on Bristol-Plainville Line (illus.), 733
Trolleys, electric, 729-34
Troops, British, 75, 213, 262-64, 307-23 passim; colonial, 75, 181-83, 206, 212-13, 256, 259, 307-23, 327-28;
Confederate, 586-99 passim;
Connecticut, 32-33, 184, 205, 207-09, 212-13, 255-56, 260-62, 264, 307-23 pas- sim, 327, 583-99 passim, 781-92 passim; Massachusetts, 32, 256;
New Hampshire, 256;
Union, 586-99 passim;
United States, 412-14, 781-91 passim, 869; volunteer, 264, 583-84, 592, 596, 781
Trucking, 807-08, 812 Trucks, 807-08
Trumbull, Benjamin, 214; John H., 800-01, 844, 850;
Jonathan, 214, 256, 268-70, 275, 287, 290, 293, 296, 299, 303, 306-07, 309, 311, 315-17, 322, 324, 329, 332-35, 353, 389, 396, 400;
Jonathan, Jr., 321-22, 343, 353, 368, 397-98, 405, 410, 515; Joseph, 302, 323, 556 Trumbull Electric Company, 675, 800
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