1782--1882 Centennial celebrations in two parts / edited by A.B. Davenport
54 p. 22 cm
This volume is a commemoraton of two contemporaneous 100th anniversary celebrations:
1) the founding of the North Stamford Congregational Church, and
2) the birthday of Mrs. Clarissa Davenport Raymond
The North Stamford Congregational Church was established in 1782 as an offshoot of the original Church Society of Stamford.
http://www.northstamfordchurch.org/history.html
Mrs. Clarissa Davenport Raymond was a descendent of John Davenport, the founder of the New Haven Colony, and was a parishioner of the North Stamford Church.
http://www.stamfordhistory.org/dav_john2.htm
--Part I. An account of the observance of the one hundredth anniversary of the Congregational Church, North Stamford, Conn. June 6, 1882.--Part II. An account of the celebration of the one hundredth birthday of Mrs. Clarissa (Davenport) Raymond, of Wilton
b30792605
F104.S8 Sxx 1882
1814. New London. Pettypaug Point
1 p. l., 6 f. facsim. 4to
50 Copies printed, No. 12, by Paul L. Ford
F104.N7 P48 1881
34023001505959
A boy's adventures in the wilds of Australia : or, Herbert's note-book / by William Howitt
359 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. 17 cm
William Howitt (1792-1879), English poet and author, who with his wife, Mary (1799-1888) collaberated throughout a long literary career. In 1852, William and his two sons sailed for Australia, where they spent two years in the newly discovered goldfields. The trip resulted in three works, this volume, Land, labor and Gold, or Two Years in Victoria (1855), and Tallengetta, The Squatter's Home (1857). In these volumes, Howitt was writing to provide a clearer picture of life in Australia during the gold rush of the early 1850's and was interested in dispelling much of the romantic vision that Australian newspapers were promoting of life in the colony.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howitt
b30886041
DU102 .H83
A brief historical sketch of the Church of Christ, in Chaplin, Ct., : including the confession of faith and covenants, adopted by said church: : also, the names of all persons admitted as members, since its organization. / Published by order of the Church
56 p. 19 cm
The church was established in 1810 by 15 persons from the First Congregational Church in Ashford and the Presbyterian Church in Mansfield. The first pastor was the Reverend Jared Andrus.
The church's website is at :
http://www.chaplinchurch.org/
Information about the town of Chaplin,Connecticut is at :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplin,_Connecticut
Checklist Amer. imprints 40-1359
Includes Biblical references
Officers of the Church."--p. 4-5
"Confession of faith."--p. 7-15
"Covenants."--p. [17]-18
"Catalogue of members."--p. 19-56. Printed lengthwise in the form of a table with names of members printed through part of p. 42, the remainder of the table being ruled for later additions"
1840
F104.C283 C48 1840
34023001507435
A chart history of the civil war, 1861-1865 : with numerous shaded maps showing the progress of the Union armies in different campaigns ... for the use of schools / by J.W. Gibson
117 p. : maps 24 cm
E470 .G44 1893
A historical collection from official records, files, &c., of the part sustained by Connecticut, during the war of the revolution : with an appendix, containing important letters, depositions, &c., written during the war / compiled by Royal R. Hinman
643 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. 23 cm
Includes index
The author of this collection, Royal Ralph Hinman (1785-1868) was an American lawyer and antiquarian who held various public offices in Connecticut, and who wrote on antiquarian subjects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ralph_Hinman
b29214774
E263.C5 H6 1842
A historical sketch of Universalism in Norwich, Conn. : a sermon delivered before the Universalist Society in that place, on the 5th of May, 1844 / by R.O. Williams
32 p. 22 cm
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Norwich began in 1820 as the “Society of United Christian Friends in the Towns of Norwich, Preston and Groton.” The Society erected a church in 1821, but did not have a settled pastor, the pulpit being occupied by temporary ministers. A church was finally organized in 1836, when the “First Universalist Society in Norwich” was established. A new brick church replaced the old one in 1841 on the same site on Main Street, facing Franklin Square. It was enlarged and rededicated in 1848. The church was demolished for the construction of the Chelsea Savings Bank. A new church, later called the Unitarian Universalist Church of Norwich, was erected in 1910 at 148 Broadway. Constructed of random granite ashlar, the church is also known as the Church of the Good Shepherd for the subject of its large stained glass window. The church’s bell, earlier located in the congregation’s Franklin Square church, was one of several bells salvaged from sacked churches after an uprising in Spain in 1833 that were shipped to New York for sale. With a dwindling congregation, the Unitarian-Universalists sold the church in 2009. It then became the Fount of Salvation Missionary Church.
http://historicbuildingsct.com/?cat=125
The Universalist Church of America was a Christian Universalist religious denomination in the United States (plus affiliated churches in other parts of the world). Known from 1866 as the Universalist General Convention, the name was changed to the Universalist Church of America in 1942. In 1961, it consolidated with the American Unitarian Association to form the Unitarian Universalist Association.
The defining theology of Universalism is universal salvation; Universalists believe that the God of love would not create a person knowing that that person would be destined for eternal damnation. They concluded that all people must be destined for salvation.
American Universalism developed from the influence of various Pietist and Anabaptist movements in Europe, including Quakers, Moravians, Methodists, Lutherans, Schwenkfelders, Schwarzenau Brethren, and others. Pietists emphasized individual piety and zeal and, following Zinzendorf, as a "religion of the heart." Early followers were most often German in ancestry. The majority of the early American Universalists lived in the Mid-Atlantic colonies, though Rhode Island also had a fair amount of followers.
The Universalist Church of America involved itself in several social causes, generally with a politically liberal bent.
Universalists, along with various other denominations, vigorously opposed slavery as immoral. They also favored postbellum legislation such as the Fifteenth Amendment and the Freedman's Act to enfranchise all American citizens.
Like many American religions, Universalism has generally been amenable to church-state separation. In New England, Baptists, Universalists, and Quakers provided some of the loudest voices calling for disestablishment of the government sponsored churches of the standing order.
On June 25, 1863, Olympia Brown became one of the first women in the United States to receive ordination in a national denomination, Antoinette Brown having been the first when she was ordained by the Congregational Churches in 1853.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalist_Church_of_America
1844
F104.N93 W55 1844
34023001507641
A letter from the Rev. Thomas Hooker of Hartford : in answer to the complaints of Gov. Winthrop of Massachusetts, against Connecticut
18 p. 22 cm
John Winthrop (1587 – 1649) was a wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in New England after Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of migrants from England in 1630, and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years of existence. His writings and vision of the colony as a Puritan "city upon a hill" dominated New England colonial development, influencing the governments and religions of neighboring colonies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Winthrop
Thomas Hooker (1586 – 1647) was a prominent Puritan colonial
leader who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and a leader of universal Christian suffrage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hooker
http://josfamilyhistory.com/stories/hooker.htm
The letter discusses a disagreement between the Hooker and Winthrop regarding a proposed confederation of the colonies in 1637.
From the first volume of the collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, now in press.
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b30838186
F97 .H66 1859
A souvenir of Old Home Week August 30th to Sept. 7th, 1903, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Issued by the Souvenir Committee Department of publicity
F104.B757 Sxx 1903
F104.B757 Sxx 1903
A Virginia girl in the civil war, 1861-1865 being a record of the actual experiences of the wife of a confederate officer collected and ed. by Myrta Lockett Avary
x, 384 p. 20 cm
The reminiscences of a Confederate officer's wife as told to the author "over teacups...at my fireside". This book is included in Richard Barksdale Harwell’s "In Tall Cotton: The 200 Most Important Confederate Books for the Reader, Researcher and Collector" (Jenkins Publishing Co., Austin, 1978). http://stonewall.hut.ru/best_books.htm
Myrta Lockett Avary was the author of A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865 and Dixie After the War and jointly edited the 1905 edition of Mary Boykin Chestnut's A Diary from Dixie. For infromation on her papers, see:
http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/index.php?p=core/search&creatorid=1645
E487 .A94 1903