A History of the Plantation of Menunkatuck and of the Original Town of Guilford, Connecticut

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Comprising the Present Towns of Guilford and Madison, Written Largely from the Manuscripts of the Hon. Ralph Dunning Smyth Among the author's grandfather's papers "were considerabl e collections of materials he had intended to use for a history of the town of Guilford. ...Owing to the extensive materials at hand, it is believed the work is, to a considerable degree, exhaustive and complete." The book opens with the settlement of Guilford and a biographical sketch of the Rev. Mr. Whitfield. Numerous excerpts from original documents augment this narrative, including a 1639 Covenant, the 1639 land purchase treaty agreement between Henry Whitfield and the squaw sachem Shaumpishuh, and several subsequent land purchase agreements. Other topics include: the signers of the Covenant; early division of lands, with listing of owners and descriptions of their lots; the Guilford Indians; Rev. John Higginson; the Plantation Court; Dr. Rossiter and the union with Connecticut; the Regicides; Rev. Joseph Elliot; Rev. Thomas Ruggles; later settlers in Guilford; town meetings and records; later land purchases and boundaries; Madison; North Guilford; Faulkner's Island; Leete's Island; churches; cemeteries; education; physicians; the Revolutionary War; the Civil War; biographical sketches of significant Guilford men; secret societies; town officials and more. An index to names, places and subjects complete this work. Bernard Christian Steiner (1897, 2000), 2015, 5.5" x 8.5", paper, indices, 538 pp.ISBN: 9780788414428 101-S1442 Show more