Over a period of seven years, more than fifteen hundred manuscript volumes of ecclesiastical, ministerial, state, probate, town, and society records were reviewed by Mr. Cothren in his research for this work. The first one-half of the book is devoted to the history and development of Woodbury, as well as the towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, Oxford, and Middleburg, up to 1854. Chapters include Physical History; History of Indian Purchases; Civil History; Indian History; Ecclesiastical History; Revolutionary History; History of Southbury and South Britain Societies, and the...
Over a period of seven years, more than fifteen hundred manuscript volumes of ecclesiastical, ministerial, state, probate, town, and society records w...
