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    History of Norwich Connecticut From Its Possession By the Indians, To the Year 1866 (1660-1866) (on microfiche)
    by Frances Manwaring Caulkins, pub. 1866.

    Norwich, Connecticut was purchased from the Indians in 1659.   The book is another good reference for this area of Connecticut.  It has several families written up in the various parts of the book.  A list of proprietors name early settlers and there is a land ownership map.

    This work contains history with genealogical information, a general index and a surname index.

     
    Contents:
    1- Introductory and Descriptive.
    2- Aboriginal History of the Nine-Miles-Square.
    3- Early History of Saybrook; Purchase and Deed of Norwich.
    4- Proprietors and House-Lots
    5- Name of the Town.   First Things and Early Customs.
    6- Earliest Town Officers.   Courts.  Train-Bands.  Magistrates and Schools.
    7- Town Affairs.  Grants.   Prudential Regulations.
    8- Indian History.   Attempts of Mr. Fitch to Christianize the Indians.  Philip's War.
    9- Church History.  The Meeting-House on the Hill.  Mr. Woodward's Settlement.  Grave-Yards.
    10- Town Clerks.  Patent.   Neighboring Towns.  Major Fitch.
    11- Brief Memorials of the Proprietors and Their Descendants.
    12- Second Class of Proprietors; Reckoned Among First- Comers.
    13- Early Inhabitants
    14- Settlers in Long Society, or East Norwich, Afterwards included in Preston.
    15- Newent, or Between the Rivers, Now Lisbon.
    16- Mohegans and Their Sachems. Mason Controversy.
    17- Town Affairs. Justices' Courts.
    18- Ecclesiastical Affairs.   Ministers Woodward and Lord
    19- The Rogerene Episode. Paper Currency
    20- Animals.
    21- Beginnings at the Landing.
    22- Commerce and the French War.
    23- The New Light Excitement.   Separatist Churches.
    24- Miscellaneous Gatherings.
    25- Ministers.  Rev. Dr. Lord.  Rev. Dr. Strong.
    26- Bridges and Freshets.
    27- First Newspaper, the Norwich Packet.
    28- The Stamp Act and the Call for Liberty. Manufactures.
    29- Preparing for Independence.
    30- Birds-eye View of a Scene in Norwich. 1775.
    31- Norwich During the Seven Years War for Liberty. 1775-1783.
    32- Marine Affairs. 1776-1783.
    33- Arnold, the Traitor. Soldiers of the Revolution.
    34- Inoculation. division of the Town. Review of West Farms, Pautipaug, New Concord, Newent, Hanover, and Long Societies.
    35- The Episcopal Church.
    36- Sixth, or Chelsea Society; Now the Second.
    37- The West India Trade.
    38- European and other Foreign Trade.
    39- Memoranda of Disasters.
    40- Emigration.
    41- Miscellanies. Bean Hill. The Town Plot. Biographical Sketches. (Griswold Spaulding Lathrop Cleveland Hubbard Coit)
    42- Court-House. Masonry. Washington's Death. Prisoners From St. Domingo. First Society Arriars. Fires. Turnpikes and Railroads.
    43- Chelsea. The Parade. First Houses and Old Inhabitants.
    44- Schools and Academies.
    45- The Largest Fire. congregational Societies and Churches.
    46- War, and after the War.
    47- Miscellanies.
    48- Religious Denominations.
    49- Manufactures.
    50- Mayors of the City.
    51- Norwich in connection with the War for the Union.
    APPENDIX.
    INDEX OF NAMES.
     
    Some of the chapters have the names in alphabetical order. There are 704 pages on 9 microfiche.  Most the text is easy to read.
     
    Sample paragraphs:

        In 1756, three sons of Capt. John Fillmore, Jr., viz., Nathaniel, comfort, and Amaziah, were brought before Mr. Justice Huntington, charged with driving the rate-collector from their father's house, armed with clubs and making use of threats and abusive language. Being minors, they were released without penalty, but the record intimates that their father was implicated in the misconduct of his sons. The family were probably Separatists, and refused to pay rates for the support of the regular ministry.
         These lads were between thirteen and seventeen years of age. Nathaniel, the oldest, was subsequently a soldier in the French war, and also in the war of the Revolution. He settled at Bennington, Vt., and was grandfather of Millard Fillmore, thirteenth President of the United States.

    (From Chapter 11)
         No reference to the family of this proprietor has been found at Saybrook. His existence seems not to be recognized any where but in Norwich. From the records of this place we learn that he married Mary Andrews in January, 1656, and that she died at Norwich in March, 1661, and was buried in a corner of her husband's home-lot, as heretofore related.
         She left an infant daughter, Sarah, afterward the wife of Thomas Vincent. Mr. Post married, 2d, Rebecca Bruen, daughter of Obadiah Bruen of New London, Sept 2, 1663. He died in 1701, leaving two sons, Obadiah and Joseph, and two daughters, Mary and Hannah. Obadiah died in 1703, without issue. The daughters died at the age of 70 and upward, unmarried. Joseph, born in 1681, married Mary Post of Saybrook and died in 1749, leaving an only son, Joseph, and seven daughters. Thus, at the end of a century, the male line in this branch of the Post family again commenced with a unit.

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    Backus Bacon Badger Bailey Baird Baker Baldwin Ballou Bangs Banks Banney Baral Barber Bard Baret Barker Barlow Barnes Barre Barrell Barret Barstow Barton Bartow Batchelder Batcheler Bates Baxter Bayard Beardsley Beatty Beaumont Beckwith Belcher Belden Bell Bellamy Bellasize Benedict Benjamin Bentley Berry Best Bill Billings Bingham Bingley Birchard Birge Biron Bishop Bissell Black Blake Blackman Blackmore Blackstone Blinman Bliss Blomley Blosopolis Blunt Blythe Boardman Bolles Bolman Bond Boorman Borden Boswell Botler Bottomly Bourne Bowers Boyer Bradford Bradley Bradstreet Brainerd Bramin Branch Brand Breed Brennan Bresnahen Brewer Brewster Broclwau Bromley Brooks Brown Browne Brownell Bruen Buchanan Buckingham Buddington Bulkley Bull Bunker Burbeck Burdick Burgess Burley Burnett Burnham Burpee Burr Burrows Bush Bushnell Butler Butterfield Butts

    Cabot Cady Caldwell Caliph Calkins Campbell Capron Carew Carleton Carney Carpenter Carrier Carroll Carter Carver Cary Case Cass Cates Cathcart Challenge Champion Champlin Chapman Chappell Charles Charlton Chase Chastellux Chatfield Cheever Cheney Cherry Chesebrough Chester Child Chilton Choate Christie Christophers Church Clark Clay Clement Cleveland Clift Clinton Cogswell Colt Colburne Cole Collier collins Colt Colton Comstock Conklin Converse Cook Cooley Coolidge Copely Copp Corbett Corcoran Corning Cortland Cotterel Cowles Coxe Coy Crane Crary Crawford Crosby Cross Crocker Cryer Cullen Cullum Culver Culverswell Curtice Cushman

    Daboll Daggett Dans Danforth Daniels Darby Darrow Dart Davenport Davis Davison Day Daynes Dean Deblois Decatur Decker Delany Delanoy Deming Dennison Denslow Dennis DePeyster Deshon Destouches Devereux Devotion DeWitt DeWolfe Dickinson Dillon Dimmock Doane Dodge Donelson Dorey Dorr Douglas Dow Dowd Downer Downing Downs Driesbach Dugan Dumont Duneffin Dunke Dutton Dunham Durkie Dwight Dyer

    Eaton Edgecomb Edgerton Edmonds Edwards Ells Elderkin Eldridge Eiliott Ellis Elmore elsingham Elting Ely Emory Emmons England Ensworth Everest Everit

    Fairbanks Fairfax Fales Fanning Fargo Farley Farnsworth Faulkner FenWick Ferry Fessenden Field Filburne Fillmore Fisk Fisher Fitch Flagg Flint Foote Forbes Ford Forsyth Forstner Fosdick Foster Fowler Fox Francis Frasier Freeman Fremont French Frisby Fuller

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    Jacob Jacobs Jackson Jay Jearson Jefferson Jenks Jenner Jennings Jepson Jessup Jewett Johnson Jones Judson

    Kane Keables Kelly Kennard Kennedy Kennely Kerr Key Kimball King Kingsbury Kingsley Kinsman Kinney Kirby Kirtland Knapp Knight Knowlton Knowles Knox

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