THE CONNECTICUT TOWN Growth and Development 1635-1790

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"Detailed and convincing.... This is a necessary purchase for the colonial and urban collections of undergraduate libraries." - Choice

"The Connecticut Town is a benchmark in Connecticut historiography. ... It will certainly be an indispensable tool for any student investigating the origins or forms of communities and of democratic local institutions in early Connecticut." - The Journal of American History

"The Connecticut Town will be indispensable for students searching into the complexity and diversity of early community life. Well researched, well thought out, and well written, it points out obvious comparisons with Middle Colony towns which all underwent political, religious, social and economic specialization and diversification." - New York History

"Where The Connecticut Town differs from other local works is in the scale of study; Daniels eschews the usual intensive focus on one, a few, or even a dozen communities and looks instead at all one-hundred and one towns that comprised the Connecticut colony. It is a substantial task, and the author has carried it out with unquestionable diligence." - Canadian Journal of History

"A model of organization, clarity and economy. In subject and scope remarkably compact, yet it does not sacrifice depth and comprehensiveness to superficiality. The body of the text is enhanced by appropriate and useful maps, graphs and tables; and the extensive appendices reflect the thorough documentation of the study." - Early American Social History

Bruce C. Daniels is associate professor of history at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, and coeditor of the Canadian Review of American Studies. He is the author also of Connecticut's First Family: William Pitkin and His Connections and the editor of Town and County: Essays on the Structure of Local Government in the American Colonies.

CONTENTS:

• Introduction
• The Process of Town Settlement and Formation
• The Growth and Distribution of Population
• The Evolution of Town-Meeting Government
• The Growth and Government of Church Societies
• The Proliferation of Local Institutions
• The Emergence of Central Places
• Urbanization and Early New England Society
• Appendices
  • Appendix I Towns Incorporated, 1635-1675
  • Appendix II Towns Incorporated, 1686-1734
  • Appendix III Towns Incorporated, 1737-1766
  • Appendix IV Towns Incorporated, 1767-1790
  • Appendix V Land Types by Town
  • Appendix VI Number of Town Officers in Relation to Land Size and Population in 1775
  • Appendix VII Freemanship and Towns
  • Appendix VIII Artisanal Activity and Population
  • Appendix IX Physicians in Connecticut in 1763
  • Appendix X Residential Density
  • Appendix XI Individual and Family Dominance among General Assembly Deputies, 1700-1780
  • Appendix XII Officeholding Patterns of Deputies to the General Assembly, 1700-1780
• Notes
• A Brief Note on Sources
• Index

Along with local historians, this book would be of interest for genealogy/genealogists.

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