Connecticut Historical Collections: Containing a General Collection of Interesting Facts, Traditions Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc., Relating to the History and Antiquities of Every Town in Connecticut, with Geographical Descriptions, Volume 2Durrie & Peck and J.W. Barber, 1837 - 560 pages |
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... roads and fields , and kept the whole colony in a state of alarm . The settlers could neither hunt , fish or cultivate their fields , but at the peril of their lives , and their prospects were dark and gloomy in the extreme . In this ...
... roads and fields , and kept the whole colony in a state of alarm . The settlers could neither hunt , fish or cultivate their fields , but at the peril of their lives , and their prospects were dark and gloomy in the extreme . In this ...
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... road , you gently rise the acclivity of a hill , for perhaps three or four hundred yards , and as you reach its summit you discover the trap ridge , breaking through the soil on your right and left , and stretching away northeast and ...
... road , you gently rise the acclivity of a hill , for perhaps three or four hundred yards , and as you reach its summit you discover the trap ridge , breaking through the soil on your right and left , and stretching away northeast and ...
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... road- one leading to Wethersfield , the other to Farmington . The garrison could see from one fort to the other . The land east of Front street was called the Little Meadow , and being cleared or more valuable than the upland , it was ...
... road- one leading to Wethersfield , the other to Farmington . The garrison could see from one fort to the other . The land east of Front street was called the Little Meadow , and being cleared or more valuable than the upland , it was ...
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... road . REV NATHAN STRONG Dr. Strong's Monument . Beneath this monument are deposited the remains of the Rev. NATHAN STRONG , D.D. Pastor of the Church in the First Ecclesiastical Society in Hartford . Endowed with rare talents , and ...
... road . REV NATHAN STRONG Dr. Strong's Monument . Beneath this monument are deposited the remains of the Rev. NATHAN STRONG , D.D. Pastor of the Church in the First Ecclesiastical Society in Hartford . Endowed with rare talents , and ...
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... road which passes over Talcott mountain , is " Wadsworth's Tow- er , " so called from Daniel Wadsworth , Esq . of Hartford , who erected it , and also a summer - house and other buildings in the immediate vicin- * " I once attended ...
... road which passes over Talcott mountain , is " Wadsworth's Tow- er , " so called from Daniel Wadsworth , Esq . of Hartford , who erected it , and also a summer - house and other buildings in the immediate vicin- * " I once attended ...
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