NEW HAVEN COUNTY, CONNECTICUT
NEW Illustrated Booklet w/ Colored Map
The early days of New Haven County, CT, and its various towns
and townships are recalled through a mixture of colorful tales and factual
data in this NEW 133 Page Booklet reprinted from the 1836 edition of John Warner Barber's Connecticut
Historical Collections.
The spiral-bound booklet, sold exclusively on eBay, is printed one-sided
on 60# paper, with the print enlarged 20% for easier reading. A clear plastic
sheet has been added to protect the front cover.
INSERTED IN THE BOOKLET is a color copy of the
1936 Map of Connecticut which
accompanied the Barber book.
The map is printed on a parchment-like paper to simulate the original, and
could easily be removed for framing.
The communities mentioned include: New Haven, Bethany,
Branford, Cheshire, Derby, Humphriesville, Birmingham, Derby Landing, East
Haven, Gilford, Hamden, Whitneyville, Madison, Meriden, Middlebury, Milford,
North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Oxford, Prospect, Southbury, Wallingford,
Waterbury, Wolcott and Woodbridge.
Among the many and diverse subjects in the booklet
are:
Early settlers; Early churches and early forms of Government; Land purchases
from the Indians; Yale College, and the treatment of President Daggett by
the enemy; the Oyster trade; Hiding the judges of King Charles I; King Philip's
War and other Indian uprisings; insulting Gov. Andross; a Lost ship; Benedict
Arnold; the Invasion of New Haven; Connecticut Silk Society; Epitaphs, Nicknames,
and Religious Controversies; Punishing a Bear; Invasion of a Bethany home;
Disease Epidemics; Chuse, last sachem of the Derby Indians; a Witch story;
the oldest house in the USA; Revolutionary War Incidents; Eli Whitney; Muster
Roll of the 1st Co. in East Plains; Cat Pole Pass; Deer Park; the Perfectionists
Doctrine; Mitchell's Mansion House; and Lyman Hall.
The names of many residents, including a list
of New Haven planters in 1643, are included. Some of the other names mentioned
are Col. John Dixwell; Ezra Stiles, D.D.; Dr. Lemuel Hopkins and Samuel Hopkins,
D.D.
ILLUSTRATIONS include a full
page picture of the Public Square in New Haven, New Haven and Fort Hale, Yale
College, town views of Fair Haven, Branford, Cheshire, Derby Landing, Birmingham,
Humphreysville, East Haven, Hamden, Whitneyville, North Haven and Oxford,
an Ancient House in Guilford, Lee's Academy, Churches in Meriden, Mitchell's
Mansion House in Southbury and others.
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