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Clerk, his duties, 140.
Commissioners to carry on mines, 9.
Commitments, 129.
Committee of safety, 30.
Commodities, lawful tender, 18.
Congress, right to slay, 68, 22. convicts urged to slay, 75. paper money of, 19. tyrants, 58.
Connecticut, convicts from, 129. copper company, 24. state prison, 122. only one which pays revenue, 124. great success of, 124. income, 128, 132, 133. historical collections, 77. historical society, 17. history of, 75.
Connecticut Journal, 29. slavery, 20. Contagion, only instance, 97. Continental currency, depreciation of, 20. Contractors for prison labor, 124. Convicts, ages at time of conviction, 130.
exchange food, 87. commodities, 89. dreaded treadmill, 90. escape, 107.
heavily ironed, 91. multifarious, 115. nativity of, 129. removed from Newgate, 127. repeatedly sentenced for same offences, 116.
Cooks, 141.
Copper, destroys juices of body, 106. hill, 6, 7, 24, 119. mines, act respecting, 9.
Corn, price of, 18.
Corson, Samuel, 102.
Cossett, 119.
Counterfeiter, 15, 16. noted, 112. autobiography of, 102. - Counterfeiting, 114, 131. how punished, 26.
County jails (see jails). Coventry, 136. Crimes, list of, 131.
Criminals, sold into slavery, 21. Cromwell, his example worthy to be followed, 74. Crown, shared in profits of mines, 10. Currituck sound, 113. Cutaneous eruptions, 84.
Index. 145
Dagger, use of advised, 48. David, 60. Davis, Abel, 45. Dayton, Ebenezer, robbed, 77, 78. Mrs., 79. Phebe, 78.
Delaware, convicts from, 129. Deputy warden, his duties, 140. Derby, 80. Derry, 126. De Wolf, George, 136. Discipline, 139. Drains, 12.
Drake, Elihu, 28. Dublin, a convict, 107, 108, 121.
Dungeon, lodging in, 115. Duty, daily routine, 137.
East Granby, 7. East Hartford meadows, 107.
East Rock, 6. East Windsor, 19. Eglon slain, 68. Ehud, 56, 57, 68, 69. slew Eglon, 68.
Ellison, Lieut., 103. Employment, mode of, 123.
Engines constructed, 23, 24.
England, convicts from, 129. foreign trade confined to, 17. ore shipped to, 14.
prohibited slave trade in 1807, 20. English channel, ore sunk in, 14. traders introduced slaves, 20. Escapes, 94, 95. desire for, 133. none from new prison, 125. Farming done by convicts, 90, 106. Farmington river, 36. Fascination of Newgate history, iii.
Felony, convictions of, 131. Female convicts, 90, 132, 133. not confined here, 93. Females, their employment, 123. Fetters, 91. discarded, 125.
Fever in prison, 96. Filthy condition of prison, 96. Flogging, 89.
Foreign trade confined to England, 17.
Forest on Copper hill, 7.
Forgery, convictions of, 131, 132. Forward, Dan, 95, 96.
Foster, David, 113. Fowls, price of, 18.
France, convicts from, 129. war with, 17.
Free labor, 23.
French wars, 32. Furnaces built, 23. for smelting, 14.
Gage, Gen., 29.
Gaolers (see Jailors).
Gate keeper's duties, 142.
German miners, 10.
Germany, convicts from, 129.
Gillett, 119.
God save the king, refusal to utter, 28.
Goddard, 120. Goomer, Aaron, 97, 98. Granby, 6, 15. coppers, 15. price of, 16. scarcity of, 16. subdivided, 7. Green Bay, 112. Griswold, Christia, 84. officer, 110. Grotius, 53.
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Index.
Groton, convict from, 112. Guard attacked, 97. changed, 89. day and night, 81. inefficient, 43. none by day, 35. Guards thrust into dungeon, 42. Guinea, an aged convict, 88. Gunntown, 79, 80. Hancock, John, 46. Handcuffs, 91. Hanover, 14.
Harrington, 120.
Hartford, 8, 17, 45, 48, 61, 122.
ore taken to, for shipment, 14.
Harvey, Capt. James, 80.
Hawley, Mr., 79. Healthiness of the mines, 83, 92, 94.
Heath, Emily, 127. Higley, coiner, 15.
Hillyer, 119. Hinson, John, 36, 37.
History of Newgate, fascination of, iii. Holcomb, 119. Michael, 108. Holland company, 10. Holofernes, 56.
Hooker, Dr., 79. Horse stealing, 114, 131, 133. imprisonment for, 112. Hospital, 93, 94.
Humphrey, John, 38. Maj., 107. Hunting grounds, 7. Husband, pretended, 100. Incest, convictions of, 131. Indian hunting grounds, 7.
meal, price of, 18. prisoner escaped, 110, 111.
Indian wars, 32. Indians, defense against, 18. not to do military duty, 21. sold into slavery, 21. Ireland, convicts from, 129. Insane poor, 130. Insecurity of prison, 118.
Insurrection, 94, 95, 96, 97, 107, 108. investigated, 43. of prisoners, 36.
Itch cured in the caverns, 83. Jael, 56, 57. Jails, county, 124. filthy, 83. insecure, 109.
Jailer's house, 91, 92, 93.
Janizaries, 68.
Jared, senior, 119,
Jehoida slew Athaliah, 68, 69.
Jesuits resorted to murder, 66, 67. Jollification, 121. Judd, Chauncey, 80.
Judith, 56, 57. Keeper of Newgate, 35.
Kendall's travels, 90.
Keys made of buttons, 97, 98.
Labor for hire allowed, 88.
Lamb, price of, 18.
Levels, 12. dug, 23. Library, prison, 123.
Lilly, Serg't, bribed, 44. Litchfield, 29.
Lodging, solitary, 89. London company, 10. hewed out prison for their friends, 26. prison of, 5. Londonderry, 126.
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Index.
Longevity promoted in the caverns, 83. Loyalists maltreated by British, 71. Lunatics, 130. Machiavel on tyrants, 63. Management of prison described, 86. Manslaughter, 131. Maryland, convicts from, 129.
Massachusetts, convicts from, 129. Mattick, alias Young, 44. Matron, her duties, 141. Middlebury, 79.
. Midnight revels, 117. Milton on tyrants, 69. Mines pronounced a secure prison, 26. expense of fortifying, 26. convicts to work, 81. lease of, 9. wrought by slaves, 20.
per cent yield, 24. purchased, 23.
abandoned, 23, 24.
proposed for prison, 76.
Miners engaged, 40. first company, 7. Mining, 7. carried on, 23. unsuccessful, 10. excitement of, 11. why unprofitable, 13. Ministers, rebel, 51. Money, still uncoined, 17. Mortimer, Prince, 100. family, 101. Moses, 54, 57, 58, 68, 69, 70, 74. slew Egyptians, 68.
Mountains, range of, 6. Murder, convictions of, 131. Murderer, 106. Munsell, Hezekiah, 19. Mutton, price of, 18.
Nail making, 90, 107.
Nails wrought in prison, 80. Name of prison, whence derived, 5.
National debt, 33.
Negar servants not to do military duty, 21. Nero, 70, 71.
Newbury, 125.
Newel escaped, 94.
Newgate, engraving of, 81. formidable character of, 25. expense to the state, 133. of London, 5.
New Hampshire, convicts from, 129. state prison, 126, 127.
New Haven, 6, 12, 98.
New Jersey, convicts from, 129.
New London convicts, 39.
Newman, prison breaker, 104.
New Milford, 29.
New York, convicts from, 129. company, 10, 23. police, 134. ore shipped from, to England, 14.
Norfolk, 113. Nova Scotia, 47, 80.
Officers, duties of, 140. of Bastile, prisoners, 86.
Ohio, convicts from, 129. Ordination, articles furnished at, 18. Ore, cargoes lost, 14. character of, 13. first dug, 8.
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Index.
Overseers, their duties, 140. Oxford, 80. Paper money, first issued, 17. above par, 19. Parker, convict, 99. Parliament closed Boston port, 27. Partrige, William, 10. Patrick, 121.
Peas, price of, 18. Penitentiary, model, 127.
Pennsylvania, convicts from, 129.
Pension papers, forging, 131. Perjury, convictions of, 131.
Peters, Gov., 128.
Petition of Davis to be released, 45. Pettibone, 119. Phelps, Capt. Roswell, 97. Nathan, 43. N. A., iv.
Orson P., 118.
Phenix mining company, 23. Pickled pork, 93.
Pilsbury, Amos, 126. Moses C., 125, 128.
Pirate, barbarous, 112. Pits, numerous, 12.
Plato on tyrants, 63, 67. Plattsburg, 102. Plutarch on usurpers, 67.
Poem by Boston lady, 25.
Poetry in derision of patriots, 46. Poisoning, 131. Polybius on tyrants, 67. Poquonock, 84.
Pork, price of, 18.
Priest, pretended, 99.
Prison designed to be a terror, 91. house built, 39.
Prison house burnt, 41, 44. Prison labor, 23. model, 129. property purchased, 23. Prisoner returned voluntarily, 101. first, 36. Prisoners (see convicts) all escaped, 40, 42, 43. nearly suffocated, 41. of war held as slaves, 21.
Produce legal tender, 18. Protestants resorted to murder, 66, 67.
Provision pay, 17.
Public expenses, taxes for, 19.
Pumps worked day and night, 13. Quarrying stone by convicts, 106. Railway, convictions of obstructing, 131. Rape, convictions of, 131. Rations, daily, 142.
divided by matron, 141. how served, 87, 93.
Reaping by convicts, 110.
Reed, Lieut., 120.
Refractory ore, 13. Reformation not attempted, 117.
Relics, interesting, 85.
Religious services, 141.
Report on prison, 37, 39.
Rhode Island, convicts from, 129.
Rivers named from those of England, 5. Roaster, transformed, 103. Robbery, how punished, 26. Robbing U. S. mail, 131. Roe, officer, 109, 110. prison guard, 98. Rogue, brand of, 106.
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Index.
Roxbury, 114. bill of fare, 20. Rum, price of, 18. Rye, price of, 18. Sackett, Peter, 46. Salary of keeper, 35. Samson, 52, 53, 57, 58, 59, 69, 74. slew Philistines, 68. Samuel, 56, 57, 60, 64, 68. slew Agag, 68.
Saul, 60.
Scenery, grandeur of, 6. School, revenue from prison, 124.
Schoolmaster, 7. Scotland bridge, 36.
Scott, convict, 130.
Scourging, 116.
Sentences, average length, 132. Sermon in prison, 49, 52. Seymour, Thomas, 61. Shafts, numerous, 12.
Shaylor, Ephraim, 110, 111, 112. Sheldon, Gad, 42. Capt. Thomas, 95.
Sherman, Roger M., 132. Shoemaking, 90.
Sick, measure for relief of, 140. Simsbury, 8, 23.
committee of safety, 77. history of, iv. town of, 6. copper mines, 6. mines discovered, 9. act concerning, 9, 17. tory shot in, 29. Sing Sing, 130. Sisera, 56. Slavery tolerated, 20.
Slavery abolished, 21. Slave labor in prison, 23. Slaves in Windsor, 21, 22. Sledgehammers crowned, 16. Smelting furnaces, 14. prohibited by mother country, 13. done by clergymen, 8. prosecuted, 23. Smith, James, 112, 113. officer, 97. Samuel, 102. Soldiers drawn up, 91.
Solitary lodging a punishment, 89.
Solon on tyrants, 67.
South Windsor burials, 21. Southwell, Jacob, 43.
Specie, import prevented, 17. premium on, 18.
Spectators, 141. Springfield, 8, 19. Starkey, Abel N., 114.
State prison permanently established, 81.
Statistics, 129, 130, 131.
St. Jago, convicts from, 129. St. Oliver, 63. Stiles, Dr. Henry R., 21, 28. Stocks, 99. confinement in, 89. Stone Jug, 94.
Stratford, 80.
Student killed, 85.
Suffield, 112.
Sugar, price of, 18.
Suicide recommended to congress, 49. Tacitus on tyrants, 62.
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Index.
Tar and feathers, 29. Taxes for military defence, 18. to meet paper issues, 19. Taylor, Benjamin, 113, 114. Teapots run into musket balls, 27. Tea thrown into sea, 27. Teller, convict, 130. Temperature of caverns, 84. Tennessee, convicts from, 129. Tertullian on traitors, 66. Texas, convicts from, 129.
Theft, convictions of, 131. Theologians, how regarded, 8. Toasts, 121. Tolland jail, 136. Tom, anecdote of, 22. Tories imprisoned, 25, 42. first confined, 26. patience of, 64. sent to Newgate, 30. sympathy for, 47. tarred and feathered, 29. shot, 29. vindictive cruelty of, 77. Tory clergyman in prison, 47. Towns named from those of Eng- land, 5. subdivided, 7.
Travelers resort to mines, 85. Treadmill, 90. Trumbull, Gov., 76.
Tuller, Capt., 109. Tully on laws, 65. Tunxis river, 36. Turkey hills, 43. Tyrannicide proved lawful, 49. Tyrants, lawful to destroy, 58. United States criminals, 132.
Usurpers to be put to death, 65. Valerian law against tyrants, 67. Vein, rich, 13. Venison, price of, 18. Vermont, convicts from, 129. Vessel sunk by pirates, 112. Viets, John, 35, 44. Roger, 47.
Viets's tavern, 88.
Visitors, numerous, iv.
Vulcan forged thunderbolts, 15.
Walk the plank, 114.
War expenses, 17. with England raged, 42. Watchman, duties of, 139, 141. Water, accumulation of, 13. cistern, 122.
Waterbury, 80. Washington, Gen., 48, 49, 101. letter from, 77. sent convicts, 76. Webster, Daniel, 128. Welles, Gen., 134. Martin, 118.
Wells in caverns, 82, 92. Wethersfield, 61, 101, 114, 115, 122, 127, 129, 130. Wheat, price of, 18.
Wheelbarrows, 91.
Whig and tory animosity, 42. Whigs, faith of, 64.
Whipping introduced, 26. Whitewashing daily, 123. Whiting, Joseph, petition for loan to work mines, 11.
Windham convicts, 39. Windsor slaves, 21, 22. slave record, 20.
Index. 151
Wolcott, Erastus, 38. Henry, 20. Woodbridge, Dudley, 8. John, 8. Timothy, jr., 8, 10. Woman liberated convict, 37, 42.
Workshops erected, 82. Xenophon on tyrants, 66. Yale college, 7. Young, convict, 42. John, 44. Zophar on tyrants, 75.
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