| Contents |
3
- 5 |
| Preface To First
Edition |
6 -
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| Preface to
Second Edition |
7
- 8 |
| CHAPTER I. |
9-16 |
| -
Containing a Concise History of Events which Led to the Sale
and Settlement of the Township |
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| CHAPTER II - |
17-20 |
| - An
Account of the Measures Proposed and Executed for the Sale
and Settlement of Township |
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| CHAPTER III.
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21-30 |
-
Incorporation of the Town
- First Town Meeting
- List of Officers Chosen
- Settlement of Rev. Peter Pratt
- First Meeting House
- Alarming Sickness |
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| CHAPTER IV |
31-37 |
| - Indians in Sharon |
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| CHAPTER V |
38-49 |
- Ecclesisastical Affairs
- Deposition of Mr. Pratt
- His Subsequent Career
- Litchfield County when Organized
- Settlement of Mr. Searle
- Ellsworth Society
- Rev. Mr. Knibloe
- Dismission of Mr. Searle |
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| CHAPTER VI.
|
50-54 |
| - A History of the
Moravian Missions in Sharon |
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| CHAPTER VII. |
55-64 |
- Rev. Cotton Mather
Smith
- Census
- Church of England Missions
- Organization of the Episcopal Parish
- New Meeting House
- Rev. George Whitfield |
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| CHAPTER VIII |
65-76 |
| - Events of the
Revolutionary War |
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| CHAPTER IX |
77-86 |
- Incidental Events
- Disastrous Fire in Sharon Valley
- Small Pox
- Casualties
- Shays' Rebellion
- Excise Duties |
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| CHAPTER X |
87-92 |
| - Methodist Society in
Sharon |
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| CHAPTER XI |
93-106 |
| - History of the
Ecclesiastical Society Continued |
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| CHAPTER XII |
107-112 |
| - The War
of the Rebellion |
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| CHAPTER XIII |
113-173 |
| -
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES - Family Sketches,
Genealogies, Etc. |
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APPENDIX A. |
177-179 |
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- Form of Deeds Given by the
Government's Committee to the Purchasers of Rights to the
Common Land in Sharon |
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APPENDIX B. |
180-183 |
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- Patent of the Town of Sharon |
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APPENDIX C. |
184-187 |
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- Patent of the Town of Sharon |
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APPENDIX D. |
188-189 |
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- Copy of the Deed by which the Indians
Conveyed Away their Last Claim of Title to Lands in Sharon |
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APPENDIX E. |
190- |
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- List of Names of Soldiers of the
Revolution, belonging to the Town of Sharon, who served in
1776, taken from the Controller's Books, in Hartford |
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APPENDIX F. |
191-194 |
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- Narrative of Adonijah Maxam |
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APPENDIX G.
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195-196 |
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- Graduates of Yale College who have
been Citizens of Sharon |
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APPENDIX H.
|
195-196 |
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- Names of the Children of the Rev.
Cotton Mather Smith, with the dates of their decease. |
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APPENDIX I. |
198-203 |
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- Roll of the Representatives from the
Town of Sharon to the General Assembly |
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APPENDIX J. |
204-206 |
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- Town Officers |
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APPENDIX K. |
207 - |
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- Hymn composed by the Hon. John Cotton
Smith, and sung at the Celebration of the One Hundredth
Anniversary of the First Town Meeting. |
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