Part 24
Visey, Rev. Mr., suppresses the powwow at Stratford, 164.
Voluntown, 135.
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Wallingford, description of, 162.
Warwick, Earl of, his title to the soil of any part of Connecticut disproved, 23-26.
Waterbury, 162.
Weathersfield, description of, 138; singular industry of the females there, 138.
Wentworth, Benning, Esq., grants townships in Verdmont, 104.
Whapperknocker, description of, 182.
Wheelock, Dr. Eleazer, notices concerning, 53, _Note_, 132.
Whippoorwill, description of, 186.
Whitefield, Rev. George, anecdote of, 121; and character, 161; attempts to work a miracle at Saybrook, 128; his character of the people of Norwich, 124; of those of Hebron, 140; of Guilford, 161; of Connecticut in general, 170, 212.
Whitemore, Rev. Mr., joins Church of England, 166.
Will, scandalous concealment of Mr. Grigson’s, 151; of Mrs. Cursette’s, 152.
Willington, 132.
Winchester, 147.
Windham, 129; inhabitants alarmed by frogs, 130.
Windsor described, 139.
Wolcott, Oliver, treacherous embassy of, 258.
Woodbury, 146.
Woodchuck, 183.
Woodstock, 133.
Wooster, General, attacks Dr. Peters, 268; mortally wounded, 259.
Wright, Major, his actions with the Windham mob, 266.
Y
Yale College, account of, 155-161.
York, Duke of, obtains a grant including half of Connecticut, 75.
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Transcriber’s Note:
Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences were added.
Footnotes were renumbered in sequence and moved to the end of the section in which the footnote anchor occurs.
Italic “l.” was used to indicate British pounds throughout the book.
Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged, e.g. Qunnipiack, befal, pateroons, and Massachusets.
In the Rate of Taxation table, the numbers are shown as printed, although the total of 65_l._ is not the correct sum.