Some Early Records And Documents Of And Relating To The Town Of Windsor Connecticut 1639 1703

Author : Connecticut Historical Society
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Registers of births, etc
ISBN : 9780806351308

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Some Early Records and Documents of and Relating to the Town of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639-1703 by Connecticut Historical Society Pdf

Windsor, Connecticut was one of the three towns that united to form the Colony of Connecticut in the 17th century. A great deal of data concerning Windsor's early inhabitants can be garnered from this work, which is based on records in the possession of the Connecticut Historical Society. By far the largest source transcribed for this publication is the Matthew Grant, or "Old Church," Record, 1639-1681. Comprising the first half of the volume, the Matthew Grant Record consists of several thousand births, marriages, and deaths for Windsor families throughout much of the 17th century. Though not an "official record" of the town, it nonetheless is one of the most important sources of Windsor "vital records" in existence. Various addenda to the Matthew Grant Record are appended to the back of the book. The balance of the volume is made up of a variety of records, each of which has the virtue of placing a particular colonist in Windsor during the 17th or early 18th century, namely: (1) Town Votes, which speak loudly on the methods of town governance and the persons who were assigned to carry out tasks; (2) Lists of Freemen, 1669, 1703; (3) Documents Relating to the Church Controversy of 1669-1679, which affected towns throughout Connecticut; and (4) A Ratable List of Persons and Estates, 1686, representing the second longest record in the volume and disclosing the real and personal property (with the assessed values) for each property owner in town.

Author : Connecticut Historical Society,Matthew 1601-1681 Grant
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015093361

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Some Early Records and Documents of and Relating to the Town of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639-1703 by Connecticut Historical Society,Matthew 1601-1681 Grant Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Registers of births, etc
ISBN : OCLC:49721007

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Some Early Records and Documents of and Relating to the Town of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639-1703 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Judith McGhan
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 2456 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Connecticut
ISBN : 9780806310305

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Genealogies of Connecticut Families by Judith McGhan Pdf

Author : Richard S. Ross III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476666488

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Before Salem by Richard S. Ross III Pdf

Decades before the Salem Witch trials, 11 people were hanged as witches in the Connecticut River Valley. The advent of witch hunting in New England was directly influenced by the English Civil War and the witch trials in England led by Matthew Hopkins, who pioneered "techniques" for examining witches. This history examines the outbreak of witch hysteria in the Valley, focusing on accusations of demonic possession, apotropaic magic and the role of the clergy. Although the hysteria was eventually quelled by a progressive magistrate unwilling to try witches, accounts of the trials later influenced contemporary writers during the Salem witch hunts. The source of the document "Grounds for Examination of a Witch" is identified.

Author : John Putnam Demos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199884063

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Entertaining Satan by John Putnam Demos Pdf

In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new Preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.

Author : Donald G. Southerton
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780595799558

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The Filleys by Donald G. Southerton Pdf

The Filleys: 350 Years of American Entrepreneurial Spirit provides snapshots into American entrepreneurship history for a broad readership through a series of biographic essays. These stories, centering on the accomplishments of one family, provide vivid insights into entrepreneurialism in America, spatially across the country and temporally over three centuries. Author Don Southerton guides the reader through multiple generations of the Filley family beginning in 17th century Puritan New England. The saga includes the rise of the Yankee trader, land speculation, and the development of American manufacturing. The Filley business endeavors represent a slice of the American entrepreneurial experience. Moreover, this experience was shared by many thousands of other Americans whose families can be traced to colonial times. Together, they raised families, embraced capitalism, and built this country. The portraits of people and events in this saga provide us with a revealing and instructive glimpse into times long gone, and allow us to connect vicariously to a part of our collective past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0828012199

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Prophetic Faith of our Fathers Vol 3 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300139228

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The Brittle Thread of Life by Mark Williams Pdf

The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark Williams’ microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers, proprietors, and officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These people—often disrespectful, disorderly, presumptuous, insistent, and defiant—were drawn to the ideology of the Revolution in the 1760s and 1770s that stressed equality, independence, and property rights. The backcountry settlers pushed the emerging nation’s political culture in a more radical direction than many of their leaders or the Founding Fathers preferred and helped put a democratic imprint on the new nation. This accessibly written book will resonate with all those interested in the social and political relationships of early America.

Author : Monica D. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478786

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Puritans Behaving Badly by Monica D. Fitzgerald Pdf

Examines the sins and confessions in church disciplinary records to argue that daily practices created a gendered Puritanism.

Author : Malcolm Gaskill
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780593316580

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The Ruin of All Witches by Malcolm Gaskill Pdf

A gripping story of a family tragedy brought about by witch-hunting in Puritan New England that combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology. “The best and most enjoyable kind of history writing. Malcolm Gaskill goes to meet the past on its own terms and in its own place…Thought-provoking and absorbing." —Hilary Mantel, best-selling author of Wolf Hall In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics and the community becomes tangled in a web of distrust, resentment and denunciation. The finger of suspicion soon falls on a young couple with two small children: the prickly brickmaker, Hugh Parsons, and his troubled wife, Mary. Drawing on rich, previously unexplored source material, Malcolm Gaskill vividly evokes a strange past, one where lives were steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in omens, curses and enchantments. The Ruin of All Witches captures an entire society caught in agonized transition between superstition and enlightenment, tradition and innovation.

Author : Ronald C. White
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812981254

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American Ulysses by Ronald C. White Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidents Winner of the William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography • Finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Book Prize In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leaders.” But the battlefield commander–turned–commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the twentieth century. In American Ulysses, Ronald C. White argues that we need to once more revise our estimates of him in the twenty-first. Based on seven years of research with primary documents—some of them never examined by previous Grant scholars—this is destined to become the Grant biography of our time. White, a biographer exceptionally skilled at writing momentous history from the inside out, shows Grant to be a generous, curious, introspective man and leader—a willing delegator with a natural gift for managing the rampaging egos of his fellow officers. His wife, Julia Dent Grant, long marginalized in the historic record, emerges in her own right as a spirited and influential partner. Grant was not only a brilliant general but also a passionate defender of equal rights in post-Civil War America. After winning election to the White House in 1868, he used the power of the federal government to battle the Ku Klux Klan. He was the first president to state that the government’s policy toward American Indians was immoral, and the first ex-president to embark on a world tour, and he cemented his reputation for courage by racing against death to complete his Personal Memoirs. Published by Mark Twain, it is widely considered to be the greatest autobiography by an American leader, but its place in Grant’s life story has never been fully explored—until now. One of those rare books that successfully recast our impression of an iconic historical figure, American Ulysses gives us a finely honed, three-dimensional portrait of Grant the man—husband, father, leader, writer—that should set the standard by which all future biographies of him will be measured. Praise for American Ulysses “[Ronald C. White] portrays a deeply introspective man of ideals, a man of measured thought and careful action who found himself in the crosshairs of American history at its most crucial moment.”—USA Today “White delineates Grant’s virtues better than any author before. . . . By the end, readers will see how fortunate the nation was that Grant went into the world—to save the Union, to lead it and, on his deathbed, to write one of the finest memoirs in all of American letters.”—The New York Times Book Review “Ronald White has restored Ulysses S. Grant to his proper place in history with a biography whose breadth and tone suit the man perfectly. Like Grant himself, this book will have staying power.”—The Wall Street Journal “Magisterial . . . Grant’s esteem in the eyes of historians has increased significantly in the last generation. . . . [American Ulysses] is the newest heavyweight champion in this movement.”—The Boston Globe “Superb . . . illuminating, inspiring and deeply moving.”—Chicago Tribune “In this sympathetic, rigorously sourced biography, White . . . conveys the essence of Grant the man and Grant the warrior.”—Newsday

Author : David M. Powers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781630877613

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Damnable Heresy by David M. Powers Pdf

Misunderstandings between races, hostilities between cultures. Anxiety from living in a time of war in one's own land. Being accused of profiteering when food was scarce. Unruly residents in a remote frontier community. Charged with speaking the unspeakable and publishing the unprintable. All of this can be found in the life of one man--William Pynchon, the Puritan entrepreneur and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636. Two things in particular stand out in Pynchon's pioneering life: he enjoyed extraordinary and uniquely positive relationships with Native peoples, and he wrote the first book banned--and burned--in Boston. Now for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive account of Pynchon's story, beginning in England, through his New England adventures, to his return home. Discover the fabric of his times and the roles Pynchon played in the Puritan venture in Old England and New England.

Author : Hillyer G. Norment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89082588625

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Descendants of John Hillyer of Windsor, Connecticut by Hillyer G. Norment Pdf

John Hillyer and his wife, Ann, were living in Windsor, Connecticut by 1637. They had nine children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia, Kentucky and Ohio.

Author : Jackson Turner Main
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400857715

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Society and Economy in Colonial Connecticut by Jackson Turner Main Pdf

A pioneer in American social history, Jackson Turner Main presents the first continuous and detailed picture of the economic and social structure of an American colony from its founding up to the Revolution. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.