Voices of the New Republic: Connecticut Towns 1800-1832
Volume I: What They Said
CHRISTOPHER P. BICKFORD, Editor
CAROLYN C. COOPER and SANDRA L. RUX, Associate Editors
Table of Contents
Foreward
Acknowledgements
Note on Text, Annotations and Maps
Solicitation Letter January 1, 1800
Introduction: Taking the Measure of Human Happiness: The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Statistical Account Project, Christopher P. Bickford
The Town Reports, Grouped by County and County Reports
FAIRFIELD COUNTY
Ridgefield, 1800, Samuel Goodrich
Stratfield, 1800, Philo Shelton
HARTFORD COUNTY
East Windsor, 1806, David McClure
Farmington, c. 1810, John Treadwell and others
Wintonbury, 1802, William F. Miller
LITCHFIELD COUNTY
Bethlem, 1812, Azel Backus
Cornwall, 1800 and 1801, Elijah Allen
Cornwall, 1812, Oliver Burnham
Goshen, 1812, Lewis M. Norton
Kent, 1812, Barzillai Slosson
Litchfield County Report 1815, James Morris
Litchfield
South-Farms parish
Northfield parish
Milton parish
Norfolk, facts by Ammi R. Robbins
Washington, facts by Ammi R. Robbins
Sharon, 1807, John Cotton Smith
Washington, 1800, Daniel N. Brinsmade
Watertown, 1801, Chauncey Prindle
Winchester, 1813, Eliphaz Alvord
Winsted, 1813, anonymous author
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
Haddam, 1808, Levi H. Clark
Middlesex County Report, 1819, David Dudley Field
Introductory and General Observations
Middletown
Chatham
Haddam
East Haddam
Saybrook
Killingworth
Durham
Saybrook Third Society,1800, John Devotion
NEW HAVEN COUNTY
Cheshire, 1803, John Foot
Guilford and Madison, 1832, David Dudley Field
Milford, 1816, Erastus Scranton
New Haven, 1811, Timothy Dwight
Wallingford, 1811 and 1812, George W. Stanley
NEW LONDON COUNTY
Franklin, 1800, Samuel Nott
Lisbon (Hanover), 1800, Andrew Lee
Lisbon (Newent), 1801, David Hale
New London, c. 1812, anonymous author
Preston, 1801, Levi Hart
TOLLAND COUNTY
Bolton (North), 1800, Ebenezer Kellogg
Coventry, 1806, Joseph Strong
Coventry, 1809, Jesse Root
Tolland, 1804, Nathan Williams
Union, 1803, Solomon Wales
Willington, 1805, Samuel Dunton
WINDHAM COUNTY
Canterbury, 1801, Hezekiah Frost
Lebanon, 1800, Elkanah Tisdale
Pomfret, 1800, Aaron Putnam
Windham, 1800, Hezekiah Ripley
Appendices
Population 1790-1830 of Towns That Responded
Maps
Biographical Sketches of Authors, Sandra L. Rux
Biographical Sketches of Editors
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Index to Volumes I and II
Volume I: What They Said ISBN 1-878508-24-5
493 pp., cloth, 8.5 x 11, illus., $31.95
Volume II: What We Think ISBN 1-878508-25-3
338 pp., cloth, 8.5 x 11, illus., $31.95