Frontier 1684-1710, 1684-1987

File — Box: 37, Folder: 23

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: 1684-1987

Creator

From the Collection: Warner, Truman A. 1920-1997 (Person)

Access Restrictions

Open for research without restrictions.

Extent

From the Collection: 63.5 Linear Feet (, 64 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Sub-Series: English

Additional Description

General note

Research notes covering 1697-1712. Overland routes in Colonial period, agricultural subsistence, agrarian technology/economics, Freemen, proprietors, Freehold Land, tenure, Puritan Corporate Community, and Halfpenny Court 1662. Focus on Danbury, "the known area," settlement patterns, energy and technology, original families' genealogy, churches and local government. Comments on expansionism, land speculation, and settler dispersal to Newtown, Ridgefield and New Milford. See also: Chapter 2, Frontier 1684-1695. .