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Terry: Andrew, 166, 184; and Andrews, 119; Eli, 96, 113, 115, 120; Eli, Junior, 108, 143; Esther (Ball), 194; family,
118, 128; Franklin Ensign, 191, 237; John Burnham, 121; Ralph Ensign, 115, 121, 138; Samuel, 115, 121, 131, 138, 191; Theodore, 121, 128, 146; William A., 162, 166, 194
Terryville, 201; Road, 237 Texas, 198
Textiles, see Industries: Textile
Thanksgiving, 10, 51, 90, 153
Theatres, 166, 194
Thirteen Colonies, 51, 53, 58
Thomaston, 201
Thompson: H. C., Coek Company, 179, 182, 192, 256; Isaiah, 58; Lydia, store, 87; N. P., and Son, 166
Thorpe, Bill, 91, 125, 127, 184
Thousand Hills, 45
Ticonderoga, Fort, 63 Tiers, land, division of, 4
Time: recording of: devices, 164, 192, 255-56, 258-61; hourglasscs, 47; sun- dials, 47; see also Clocks
Time Magazine, 215
Tin: 94, 95, 128, 138; for pewter, 20; from England, 20; japanned, 90, 94; makers, 79, 86, 87, 89, 117; painting of, 94, 113; peddlers, 62, 94; platc, 94; selling of, 62; shops, 79, 86, 87, 89, 96, 101, 111, 126, 128, 160, 181; trunks, 94; ware, 62, 87, 92, 94, 100, 108, 117, 131
Tinderboxes, 108, 126
Tires, bicycles, 182 Titusville, 154 Tokyo, 217; Rose, 216
Tollhouse, 90
Tompkins, Julia M., 179
Tools: 2, 15, 20, 36, 53, 87, 106, 161, 167, 192, 194, 211, 233, 239, 241; broadax, 5; clock, 74, 75, 111; cutting, see In- dustries; farm, 2, 14, 17, 20, 26, 36, 146; machine, 145-46, 233, 239, 241, 249; pod auger, 6, 74; repairing, 36; shovels, 2, 36, 106, 146; trading, 92
Torics: 62; Chippins Hill, 58, 59, 60, 61, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 77, 84, 89; Danbury, 69; definition, 61; Dcn, 66, 67, 69; New York state, 69; Wyoming Valley, 49, 61, 67, 69, 70, 71
Torrington, 65, 111, 138
Town Hall, 160, 169, 183, 191, 192, 198
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Town Meetings, 61, 75, 77, 78, 90, 97, 177,179
Townsend, Harry, 189 Towpath, 107; see also Canal
Toys, 106, 148-49, 151, 154, 159, 162, 167
Trades: 152; basketmaking, 20, 37; blaek- smith, 13, 31, 36, 46, 79, 80, 86, 101, 112, 127, 137, 148, 160; brieklayer, 191; brickmaking, 5; buteher, 4, 20, 125, 127, 128, 160; eaning, 92; eooperage, 3, 18, 36; glazier, 31; gunpowder, 17, 59, 62, 73, 86, 115; gunmaking, 102, 122, 152, 153; leather, 37, 46, 115, 162; masons, 36; mechanics, 36, 46; metalworking, 86, 101; painting, 94, 95, 113, 174; plowmaking, 26; potash, 16, 17, 46, 77, 94; ropemaking, 2; salt- peter, see Gunpowder; shinglemaking, 86; shipbuilding, 106; shoemaking, 3, 7, 17, 37, 84, 87, 89, 127, 128, 263; storekeeper, 31; surveying, 13, 23, 26; tailoring, 83, 86, 126; tanning, see subjeet; tinware, see subject; wheel- wright, 26, 106; wiremaking, 84; wood- working, 26, 36, 47, 49, 59, 75, 77, 101, 106
Trading: 47, 108, 123, 138; beef, 108; by eanal, 108; cattle and horses, 17, 132, 160; chestnuts, 108; eider, hard, 100, 108; Election Day, 92; export, 17, 18, 21, 37, 46, 87; food, 108; freedom of, 73, 74; grain, 17; hardware, 92, 108; imports, see subject; liquors, 108; meat, 17, 21; mirrors, 89, 106, 115, 126; monopoly, 61; peddlers, 62, 94, 101, 108; pelts and furs, 17; potash, 17; re- strictions, 37, 58, 59; tinderbox, 108; tinware, 62, 94, 108; tools, 92; War (1812), 100; woodenware, 108; woolen, 108; see also Markets
Trails: 166; animal, 2; Chippins Hill, 7; Fall Mountain, 7; Indian, 2, 3, 7, 77; moccasin, 2, 37
Training Band: 16, 25, 29, 30, 40, 41, 51, 57, 62, 73; regulations, 26; uniform, 41, 62, 63, 92; see also Militia
Transcendentalist, Alcott, A. B., 101 Transportation and Travel: airplane, 165, 197, 200, 256; automobile, 185, 186, 194, 196, 197; bieycle, 173, 182, 187, 189-90, 200; canal, 98, 106, 107, 108,
109, 134; eanoe, 6; earriage, 80, 91, 96, 99, 106, 127, 133, 157, 160, 161, 166, 181, 184, 185; changes in, 98, 185, 186; Conestoga wagons, 74; con- ditions of, 94, 95; ferry boat, 51; fron- tier, 74; horse and wagon, 24, 62, 91, 92, 94, 96, 99, 100, 108, 111, 133, 201; New Haven-Waterbury, 4; oxen, 2, 5, 17, 26, 27, 80, 102, 108, 131, 141, 162; railroad, 134, 189; river, 17, 74, 94; Sabbath trips, 23, 33; sleigh, 91, 111; stagecoach, 90, 96, 97, 100, 102, 125, 134, 184; teams, 111, 138, 141; trolley ear, 175, 182, 183, 186, 193
Trapping: 7; muskrat, 108; trading pelts, 17; wild eat, 7; wolves, 7, 36
Treadway, Charles Seth, 162, 169, 170, 175, 177, 182, 190, 193; Charles T., 189-90, 193, 196, 198, 199, 247; Charles T., Junior, 217
Treat, Sherman, 101, 118
Treaty: of Paris, 73; peaee, 73
Tredwell, C. A., 187; family, 189; Willie, 187
Trees: 2, 5, 16; apple, 5, 14, 16, 67, 157; apple, Waterbury sweet, 27; basswood, 20; beeeh, 20; birch, 2, 20; button- wood, 20; cedar, 2, 10, 84; cherry, 20, 74, 80, 81, 117, 120, 157; chestnut, 5, 6, 15, 46, 108, 129, 158; elm, 2, 130; hawthorne, 2; hemloek, 2, 5, 7, 46; hiekory, 3, 13, 15, 20, 26; maple, 2; oak, 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 26, 27, 41, 43, 46, 74, 75, 78, 90; pear, 62; pine, 5, 6, 8, 75; spruce, 2; sumae, 7, 48; walnut, 20 "Trifle," see Pewter
Trinity Episcopal Church, see Episcopal Chureh
Trio Club, 183
Trolley: bell, 182; ears, 175, 186, 193; harp, 183, 185
Troy, New York, 132
Trudon and Platt, 217
Truesdell, Joel, 84, 126, 263
Trumbull, Jonathan, 48, 58
Tunxis: Indians, 1, 6; valley, 106 Turkeys, 7, 92
Turner, Elizabeth; see Roberts, Eliza- beth (Turner)
Turnpikes, 125; see also Roads; Trails Tuttle: Abner, 152; and Holmes, 145, 151, 154, 159, 171, 191; Daniel, 125,
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126; Elizabeth (Matthews), 71; George, 126; Gershom, 23; Ichabod, 71; Joel, 67; Nathan, 84; Simon, 25 Typhoid, 71, 97, 158, 169
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U. S. S. Spence, 217
Union Manufacturing Company, 128
Union Street, 121, 122, 126, 146, 149, 166, 235
Unionville, 109, 237
United Motors, 211
United States: 114; growth, 136, 160, 161, 164; naval observatory, 179
Upson: Asa, 33, 41, 59, 62, 65, 77; family,
77, 153; Lydia, see Byington, Lydia (Upson)
Utensils, household, 1, 2, 8, 9, 14, 15, 20, 21, 36, 84, 94 Utter, Hattie O., 174
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V-J Day, 225 Vallcy Street, 126, 196 Vaux, France, 200 Veeder-Root, Incorporated, 217, 233 Vella Lavella, 216
Verges, clock, 79, 122, 160 Vermont, 108, 119, 235
Veteran's organizations, 154, 220
Victory Fund Committee, 217 Victory gardens, 218 Victory Heights, 220 Villa, Pancho, 198
Virginia, 46, 101, 120
Visiting Nurse Association, 194, 201 Vosges Mountains, 199
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Wade, John F. (Mayor), 190, 198, 200 Wag, see Pendulum
Wages: brass workers, 144; canal, driver, 108; clergyman, 29, 159; clock ped- dlers, 101; clock workers, 119, 120; glaziers, 31; nurses, 158; policy, 259;
sweeping Meetinghouse, 31; tin indus- try, 95; see also Rates: labor
Wagon: 94, 108, 173; Conestoga, 74; lumber boxes, 111; makers, 120, 125, 152, 153, 194; shcd, 113; wheels, 166; see also Carriages Wallabout, 71
Wallingford, 13, 14, 23, 25, 51, 68, 90, 91
Walnuts, 20, 129 War bonds, 217
Warming pans, 8
Warner: A. H., & Company, 192; Albert, 122, 160; Alonzo, 127, 130; Henry A., 146; Strcet, 89, 128, 146; Winthrop, 122
War: Austrian Succession, 25; (1812), 100, 113, 116; Franco-Prussian, 159; French and Indian, 25, 41; Mexican, 120, 136; Seven Years, Europe, 41; Spanish-American, 187, 189; see also Civil War; Revolutionary War; World War
Washburn Wirc Company, 206
Washington: city, 100, 153, 258; George, 63 Watches, 208, 212, 256, 258-60; see also Clocks
Water: Bristol Water Company, 169-71, 191, 198; domestic, 15, 171; effect on industry, 169; for Forestville, 191; municipal ownership, 198; power, 17, 96, 109, 112, 115, 125, 127, 145, 146, 169, 182; reservoir, 147, 149, 169; Street, 127, 160, 167, 177; supply, 90, 158, 169-71, 202; well, 97, 157, 158, 202; wheels, 17, 113, 162, 179, 181, 182, 187, 189
Waterbury, 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 16, 18, 45, 87, 91, 95, 96, 111, 114, 138, 141, 143, 144, 145, 149, 160, 162, 243 Waterbury Buckle Company, 148 Watertown, 40, 201, 235
Weapons, 53; see also Firearms Weather vane, 131
Weaving: 18, 20, 83, 92; for Continental Army, 65, 66; see also Textiles Weddings, 9, 10, 91, 94
Weights: clocks, 75, 108, 122, 138; Seal- ers of, 77
Welch: Clock Company, 191; Drusilla (Mitchell), 177; Elisha Niles, 126, 149,
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153, 154, 164, 167, 177, 192; E. N.,
Company, 137-46, 149-55, 184; George, 126, 137, 138; Harmanus M., 108, 109, 138, 144, 151; Henry, 144; Jane (Buckley), 137, 138; Spring and Company, 154; Thalia (Wildman), 137; Zelinda (Niles), 137
Wells, Joseph A., 119
West Britain, 75 West Hartford, 91
West Indies, 14, 15, 18, 21, 37, 46, 87, 109, 141
West Side, see Cemeteries
West Street, 7, 21, 31, 37, 59, 65, 77, 84, 86, 89, 99, 101, 116, 126, 132, 137, 141, 158, 194
West Virginia, 251
Western Reserve, 36
Western Union cloek, 179
Westmoreland County, Pa., 66, 67
Wethersfield, 1, 47
Wewak, 216
Wheat: 14, 17, 59; export of, 17
Wheels: 20, 125-36; carriage, 106, 166; cart, 26; clock, 47, 112, 119, 120; cut, 194; quilling, 8; spinning, 8, 36, 192; steel-bearing, 126; "tub," 46; wagon, 166; water, 17, 113, 162, 179, 181-82, 187, 189; wright, 26, 106 Whig Party, 129, 130
Whigville, 130
White, George A., 192
White House Café, 189
Whiting, I. Hawley, 108
Whitney, Eli, 102
Whittling, 15, 20, 74, 75
Wiard, Darius, 84; Seth, 77
Wicket, 129-30
Wicks: candle, 18; lamp, 154; tinder boxcs, 126
Wilcox: Albert B., 101; Algernon, 190; and Judd, 162; Emerson, 166; family, 108; James, 134 Wildcats, bounties for, 7
Wildman: Daniel (Reverend), 83, 84, 99, 117; family, 89; Thalia, see Welch, Thalia (Wildman)
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 54
Williams, A. F., 173
Wilson: Albert D., 243; park, 247; John (Captain), 57, 66
Windham, 47, 48, 49
Windlasses, 20
Windows: 90; boarding up, 10; church, 31; glass in, 15; house, 2; Newell house, 29; oiled paper, 9
Windsor, 1, 47, 115
Wing, Leonard F. (Major General), 216 Winstcd, 113, 147
Winston Brothers, 146
Wintergreen, 7
Winton: Alexander, 185; car, 189
Wire: 75, 251; combs, tuck, 126; hoop- skirt, 148; making, 75, 84, 143, 174-75; steel, 121
Wisconsin, 235
Wismer, E. L. (Reverend), 199 Witchcraft, 86
Witches Rock Road, 86
Wolcott: 13, 48, 75, 84, 86, 92, 101, 116, 147, 173; Green, 84; Oliver (Governor), 102; Road, 61, 84, 86, 166; Spindle Top, 13; Street, 21, 46, 59, 71, 79, 80, 83, 84, 86, 112, 121, 166, 179, 202 Wolcottville, see Torrington Wolf: 6, 7, 15; trapping, 7, 36
Wood: 20; ball bearings, 100; barrels, 3, 9, 36, 37; blanking of, 237; bottles, 2, 6, 20; bowls, 16; bread trough, 16; bucket, 15; cabinets, 115, 122; coffins, 115; combs, 84, 106; cutting, 167; "darling cradle," 16; dowel pins, 21; export of, 17; finishing of, 113; for fuel, 13-15, 128, 145, 158; handles, 146; mahogany, 107, 111; nutmegs, 100; paddles, 15; pegs, 6, 8; piggins, 15; pine, 5, 8, 9, 15, 111, 147; spells, 15; spouts, 15; tubs, 14; uscs of, 80, 86; water mains, 158; whittling, 15, 20, 74, 75; working, 3, 20, 26, 47, 49, 59, 75, 77, 80, 87, 101, 106, 115, 121-22, 127, 130, 146, 162; see also Cloeks; Furni- ture; Lumber; Trees
Woodford, M. N., 164
Wooding, Alva L., 130; Charles L., 179, 198, 199, 225 Woodstock, 58
Woodward, Edward Prindle (Doctor), 177 Wool: 128; spinning, 8, 15, 20, 83; ex- port, 17; carding, 83
World War I: Bristol in, 198-205, 208.
211, 230, 251; military supplies, 200, 204, 205, 208, 211, 230, 251
World War II: Bristol in, 215-31, 243;
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military supplies, 227, 229, 230, 237, 239, 243, 247, 249, 253, 255, 256, 258, 260
Wozenski, Edward (Colonel), 215-16 Wright: Company, 148; Filbert, 147; Harvey, 146, 147; Julius, 147, 148 Wyoming Valley, 47-55, 60, 61, 67, 69- 71, 77,80
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Yale: Abel, 139; Benjamin, 48; Eli, 89; family, 77, 153; Job, 48; mills, 89, 112; observatory, 181; Sarah, 80;
Thomas, 89; University, 24, 26, 69, 133, 171, 189, 205, 214
Yellow Taxicab Company, 196 Yokohama, 217 Young Brothers, 192
Y.M.C.A., 161, 166-67, 179; World War I, 199
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Zanana Beach, 216 Zbikowski, Edmund P. (Captain), 221 Zinc, 138, 145, 159
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 221 Zurowski, Bronislaw William, 217
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