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PREFACE |
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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER |
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1639
- 1650 - DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT |
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- Discovery of Uncoway
- Its natural advantages
- Roger Ludlow's commission to settle Pequonnock
- Indians of the country
- First purchase of Indian lands
- Character of the country
- Samp-mortar Rock
- Pequot Swamp
- Named Fairfield
- Ludlow's companions
- First five home lots
- Ludlow fined
- His apology
- Settlements of Stamford and New Haven
- Fear of an English governor
- Connecticut patent
- Indian purchases and privileges
- Laws
- Constables
- State archives
- Courts
- Ludlow lays out the town
- Additional planters
- Ludlow purchases Norwalk
- Spring of 1640
- Lludlow a judge of the General Court
- Colony prison
- Mere-stones
- Tobacco
- First town and school-house
- Planters of 1640
- Home Industry
- Improvements of lands.
- Trade
- Pipe-staves
- Fencing
- Hides
- Flax
- Penquonnock bounds
- Uncoway Indian tribute
- Sumptuary laws
- Imports and exports
- Shipping
- Truthfulness
- Trouble with the Dutch
- Creditors and Debtors
- Ludlow deputy-governor
- Indian troubles
- Militia called out
- Condition of the planters in 1642
- Assistants and Deputies of 1643
- Arms forbidden the Indians
- Jurors
- Confederation of the colonies
- Grand-jurors
- Marriages
- Plantations guarded
- Governor Stuyvesant
- Indians rise at Stamford
- General combination of the Indians
- General Court laws for town courts, merchandise, liquors, inns, land,
fences, town clerks, and trade with the
Indians
- Mills
- Long Island Indians
- Bequest of William Frost to Christ's Church
- Maintenance of ministers and students at Harvard College
- Herdsman
- Herdsmen
- Marks of private cattle, etc.
- Magistrates and Deputies of 1645
- Training days
- Colony fair
- General tax for purchasing Saybrook fort
- War between Uncas and the Narragansetts
- War declared against the Narragansetts
- Peace established in August
- Assistants and Deputies of 1645
- Jury trials
- Criminals not allowed to vote
- Governor Haynes to visit the Indian reservations
- Dutch and Indian troubles
- Tobacco
- Guards for the Sabbath and lecture days at Fairfield
- Seaside annual tax
- Whaling
- Magistrates and Deputies of 1648
- Salary of governor and deputy-governor
- Bankside farmers
- Stratford ferry
- Uncoway Creek mill
- Military laws
- Indians of Stamford
- Uncas sent to Stamford
- Thomas Newton leaves Fairfield
- Connecticut patent
- Cambridge platform
- Death of Charles I. |
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1650 -
1660 - WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS
- PARTIAL |
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- Original plats of
Fairfield and Pequonnock
- Planters and heads of families
- Assistant and deputies of 1650
- General laws
- Election sermons
- Ludlow a commissioner
- Witchcraft
- Trial and execution of Goodwife Knap
- War between England and Holland
- Trouble with Indians
- Dutch vessel seized
- Supposed plot of the Dutch and Indians
- Fears of a general massacre
- Preparations for war
- England sends arms and ammunition
- Ludlow chief military officer
- Pirates
- Commissioners at Boston
- Agents sent to England for assistance
- Preparations at New Amsterdam
- Severity of colonial laws
- Invitation to Charles II. to come to America
- Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England
- John Underhill
- Two Dutch war vessels enter Black Rock harbor.
- Death of Governor Haynes
- A fast
- Fairfield declares war against the Dutch
- Ludlow leaves the country
- His detention by New Haven
- Sails for Virginia
- English fleet arrives at Boston
- Peace proclaimed between England and Holland
- War declared against the Indians
- Six men to join the army from Fairfield
- General training day
- List of estates
- General Thanksgiving
- Major Willard's course
- Pequots awarded land
- Care of arms and ammunition
- Trouble with the Indians
- Pits for wolves
- Military laws for Indians
- Games
- Lotteries
- Town limits extended
- Efforts to pacify
- Indians
- General fast
- Great morality
- Probate Judges
- Colony tax
- Custom-house duties
- Temperance laws
- Commissioners
- Law for magistrates
- Thanksgiving |
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1660 -
1670 - PROGRESS OF FAIRFIELD |
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- Prosperity of
Fairfield
- Military laws
- Change in the Constitution for the election of governors
- Pequonnock Indians
- First cavalry force of Fairfield
- Thanksgiving
- Patent desired
- Affairs in England
- Fairfield's acknowledged allegiance to Charles II.
- Annual tax
- Sasqua lands
- Rate of dividend
- Town officers
- James Beers
- Freemen
- Indian deed of Sasqua
- Assistants and deputies of 1661
- Norwalk and Stratford bounds
- Schools
- Efforts to obtain charter
- Tax
- Wolves
- Leather sealers
- Assistants and deputies of 1662
- Corn and tobacco
- Cavalry drill
- Fence committee
- Richard Ogden's mill
- The charter
- Stamford
- Captain John Youngs
- Salary of troopers
- Free trade
- Burning fields
- Trouble with New Haven
- John Adams
- Assistants and deputies of 1663
- Particular Courts at Fairfield
- Boundary
- Watchmen
- Indians forbidden to enter towns at night
- New Haven and New Amsterdam
- Rights of town officers
- Henry Rowland, tavern keeper
- Thomas Pell's purchase of Westchester, etc.
- Grant to the Duke of York
- Captain John Scott
- Public fast
- Fleet from England to reduce the Dutch
- Surrender of the Dutch
- Ecclesiastical liberties
- Union with New Haven colony
- War between England and Holland
- Pounds
- Rev. Samuel Wakeman
- List of estates
- Superior Courts at Hartford
- The Kings favors Connecticut
- Bankside farmers
- Fairfield county
- Property taken for debts
- Bears
- Fairfield to prepare troops, militia and vessels for the war.
- Peace between England, France and Holland
- Public thanksgiving
- Strangers not to live in Fairfield
- Town notes
- County prisons
- Grant of land to Major Nathan Gold
- County troops
- Ecclesiastical assembly and committee
- Assistants and deputies of 1669
- Riding pace
- Lawful measures |
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1670 -
1680 - AN INTERESTING DECADE |
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- Social customs
- Assistant and deputies of 1670
- New Milford
- Sheep raising
- Weights and measures
- Minister at Rye
- Church and School lands
- Richard Osborn
- East and west dividends
- Assistant and deputies of 1672
- Rye and Norwalk committees
- John Wheeler's grant
- War between England and Holland
- Nathan Gold commander-in-chief of Fairfield county
- Colony laws
- Grant of lands to Jehu Burr and Rev. Samuel Wakeman
- Published laws
- Postal route
- News of the English capture of New Amsterdam
- Action of the General Assembly
- Contemplated reduction of the Dutch
- Weapons of warfare
- Town improvements
- Prizes taken by the Dutch
- War tax
- Vigilance of Fairfield
- Peace between England and Holland
- Rev. Eliphalet Jones sent to Rye
- General training at Fairfield
- Overland mail between New York and Boston
- The Duke of York claims all Connecticut
- Governor Andros in New York
- General fast in Connecticut
- Indian outrages
- Troops disbanded
- Acts for religious duties in families
- To Christianize the Indians' marriages
- Sabbaths |
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1680 -
1690 - THE DECADE OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION |
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- Claim of John Wampus
- First prison on Meeting-house green
- Magistrates of 1680
- Trade and Navigation
- Indian troubles
- Fairfield troops
- Bedford
- Edward Randolph, deputy for New England
- Henry Wakeley
- Branding
- Ship building
- Purchase of Old Indian Field
- Court of admiralty
- Fairfield estates
- Meeting-house repairs
- Military colors
- Blight of crops, and great sickness
- Sign post
- Non-residents
- Pirates
- Silver coins
- Connecticut boundary line
- Major Gold sent to New York
- Danbury
- Death of Charles II
- James II. proclaimed King
- Fairfield patent
- Royal letters
- Writs of Quo Warranto
- Edward Randolph
- Highway across Golden-hill
- Petition to the King
- Governor Dongan
- Sir Edmund Andros
- Boundary between
- Fairfield and Norwalk
- Nathan Gold, Jehu Burr and John Banks disfranchised
- William Whiting
- Danbury made a town
- Governor Andros assumes command of Connecticut
- The Charter Oak
- Governor Andros' Council
- John Perry postman
- French and Indians
- Major Gold and Jehu Burr reinstated
- Oppressive laws of Andros
- Andros' proclamation
- Rev. Increase Mather
- Abdication of James II.
- William and Mary
- Andros imprisoned
- Connecticut magistrates restored to office
- William and Mary proclaimed in New England towns
- Address to the King and Queen
- Major Gold ambassador to New York
- Connecticut troops sent to New York
- French and Indian depredations
- Rev. Increase Mather's success in England
- Preparation for war with the Canadians and Indians |
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1690 -
1700 - CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, GOVERNMENT |
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- Prosperity of the
town
- French and Indian war
- Loss at Schenectady
- Military rule
- Fairfield troops at Albany
- Military tax
- Matthew Sherwood, captain of dragoons
- John Burr, captain of militia
- Embargo on grain and provisions
- Agent to England
- First colonial congress in America
- Magistrates of 1690
- Expedition against Quebec
- Tyranny of Leisler
- Friendship of the Mohawks
- Fugitive slaves
- Fairfield village and school
- Salt manufactories
- Connecticut charter
- Latin schools
- Fairfield village church and members
- Rev. Charles Chauncy
- Death of Rev. Samuel Wakeman
- Rev. Joseph Webb, third pastor of Christ's church
- Grover's hill
- Town acts
- Witchcraft
- Men and Indians sent to defend Maine and Massachusetts
- Military claims of Col. Fletcher
- Major Winthrop sent to England
- Fairfield taxed
- Fairfield village and parish
- Postal laws
- Powder money
- Agents sent to the Five Nations
- Death of Queen Mary
- Parish records of Fairfield and church covenant
- Piracy and Captain Kidd
- Value of Silver
- Maintenance for ministers
- Expedition to New Foundland
- The Earl of Bellomont
- County courts
- Epidemic of 1698
- The king's highway and postal routes
- College in Connecticut
- Magistrates of 1699
- Counterfeiting
- Laws for Fairfield village
- Official fees
- Preservation of forests
- Founders of Yale college |
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