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Transcriber’s Note:
The work offers a comprehensive look at Connecticut's early years, from its founding by George Fenwick through its development as a flourishing colony. It highlights the landscape, towns, and daily life, interwoven with vivid anecdotes that bring the era to life. The author seeks to set the record straight, presenting a balanced portrait beyond the usual New England narratives.
The volume also includes an appendix that explores the roots of the American rebellion, showing Connecticut's role, and provides letters and notes that support its claims. Readers will find detail on settlement patterns, interactions with Indigenous peoples, and the colony’s political evolution up to its peaceful relations with Britain before the Revolution. This straightforward, well‑researched account offers listeners a vivid sense of the people and places that shaped early Connecticut.
Language
en
Duration
~9 hours (529K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Charlene Taylor, Bryan Ness, Carol Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
Release date
2018-02-21
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1735–1826
An Anglican minister and Loyalist writer, he is best remembered for a sharply critical history of colonial Connecticut that became famous for its colorful — and often unreliable — stories. His life carried him from Yale and the pulpit in Hebron to exile in England during the American Revolution.
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