The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences

VOICES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC
Connecticut Towns 1800-1832
Volume I: What They Said

CHRISTOPHER P. BICKFORD, Editor

CAROLYN C. COOPER and SANDRA L. RUX, Associate Editors

Table of Contents

Foreward
Acknowledgements
Note on Text, Annotations and Maps
Solicitation Letter January 1, 1800

Introduction: Taking the Measure of Human Happiness: The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Statistical Account Project, Christopher P. Bickford

The Town Reports, Grouped by County and County Reports

FAIRFIELD COUNTY
Ridgefield, 1800, Samuel Goodrich
Stratfield, 1800, Philo Shelton

HARTFORD COUNTY
East Windsor, 1806, David McClure
Farmington, c. 1810, John Treadwell and others
Wintonbury, 1802, William F. Miller

LITCHFIELD COUNTY
Bethlem, 1812, Azel Backus
Cornwall, 1800 and 1801, Elijah Allen
Cornwall, 1812, Oliver Burnham
Goshen, 1812, Lewis M. Norton
Kent, 1812, Barzillai Slosson
Litchfield County Report 1815, James Morris
  Litchfield
  South-Farms parish
  Northfield parish
  Milton parish
  Norfolk, facts by Ammi R. Robbins
  Washington, facts by Ammi R. Robbins
Sharon, 1807, John Cotton Smith
Washington, 1800, Daniel N. Brinsmade
Watertown, 1801, Chauncey Prindle
Winchester, 1813, Eliphaz Alvord
Winsted, 1813, anonymous author

MIDDLESEX COUNTY
Haddam, 1808, Levi H. Clark
Middlesex County Report, 1819, David Dudley Field
  Introductory and General Observations
  Middletown
  Chatham
  Haddam
  East Haddam
  Saybrook
  Killingworth
  Durham
Saybrook Third Society,1800, John Devotion

NEW HAVEN COUNTY
Cheshire, 1803, John Foot
Guilford and Madison, 1832, David Dudley Field
Milford, 1816, Erastus Scranton
New Haven, 1811, Timothy Dwight
Wallingford, 1811 and 1812, George W. Stanley

NEW LONDON COUNTY
Franklin, 1800, Samuel Nott
Lisbon (Hanover), 1800, Andrew Lee
Lisbon (Newent), 1801, David Hale
New London, c. 1812, anonymous author
Preston, 1801, Levi Hart

TOLLAND COUNTY
Bolton (North), 1800, Ebenezer Kellogg
Coventry, 1806, Joseph Strong
Coventry, 1809, Jesse Root
Tolland, 1804, Nathan Williams
Union, 1803, Solomon Wales
Willington, 1805, Samuel Dunton

WINDHAM COUNTY
Canterbury, 1801, Hezekiah Frost
Lebanon, 1800, Elkanah Tisdale
Pomfret, 1800, Aaron Putnam
Windham, 1800, Hezekiah Ripley

Appendices
Population 1790-1830 of Towns That Responded
Maps
Biographical Sketches of Authors, Sandra L. Rux
Biographical Sketches of Editors
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Index to Volumes I and II

Volume I: What They Said ISBN 1-878508-24-5
493 pp., cloth, 8.5 x 11, illus., $31.95
Volume II: What We Think ISBN 1-878508-25-3
338 pp., cloth, 8.5 x 11, illus., $31.95