EAST HARTFORD

This 1879 narrative contains a wealth of information for anyone interested in seventeenth eighteenth and nineteenth century history and lifestyles Beginning with histories of the various local Indian tribes it continues with the early white settlement in 1635 recording the names of the settlers and the establishment of meeting houses and businesses It describes voting the care of the poor the pest house and inoculation public houses and sale of liquors burying grounds church history industries schools forts whipping posts roads bridges and ferries military affairs old houses and customs and laws including bachelors not tolerated excess in apparel forbidden and a case of witchcraft The author researched DeForests History of the Indians of Connecticut the published volumes of the Colonial Records of Connecticut manuscripts and files of the State library and records in the Town Clerks offices in Hartford and East Hartford