General History of Connecticut, from Its First Settlement Under George Fenwick to its Latest Period of Amity with Great Britain

by Samuel Peters

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• Canaan, [147].
• Cansey American Indians enjoy liberty in perfection, [110].
• Canterbury, [135].
• Caterpillars ravage the border of Connecticut River, [131].
• Chandler, the Rev. Thomas Bradbury, where born, [133].
• Charter, petitioned for privately, [66];
  • obtained, [68];
  • claim founded upon, and prevarications concerning it, [36];
  • powers conferred by, [83], [84];
  • strengthens notions of independence, [86];
  • formally surrendered by the colony to Sir Edmund Andros, [89];
  • regained by a mob, hid in a tree, and reassumed, [90];
  • violated by George II., [102].
• Chatham, [139].
• Church of England, the first erected in Connecticut, [163];
  • professors of the, number of, in 1770, [168], [169];
  • reason of their great increase, [166];
  • their zeal, [170];
  • measures adverse to, [171].
• Clergy, Episcopal, in Connecticut, morality of, [171];
  • one punished for not observing the Sabbath agreeably to the notions of Sober Dissenters, [213];
  • acquire immortal honour by adhering to their ordination-oaths, [260];
  • immoral, anti-episcopal, and rebellious conduct of some of them in the southern provinces, [172]-174.
• Colchester, [141].
• Colden, Lieutenant-Governor, of New-York, grants lands in Verdmont, [105].
• Coldness of the winter in Connecticut accounted for, [176].
• Comic Liturgy, acted in Connecticut on occasion of the Stamp-act, [231].
• Commerce of Connecticut, [191].
• Company for Propagating the Gospel in New-England, charter obtained for the, and abuse of it, 52, [Note].
• Connecticote, his kingdom, [135];
  • his conduct toward the settlers, [53];
  • his death, [57].
• Connecticut, its latitude and longitude, [175];
  • whence named, [15];
  • three parties of English adventurers arrive in, [16];
  • right to the soil of, considered, [31]-35;
  • civil and religious establishments and proceedings of the first English settlers, [37];
  • forms a confederacy with New-Plymouth and Massachusets-Bay, [62];
  • obtains a charter of incorporation, [68];
  • divided into counties, townships, &c., [83];
  • sketch of its religious-political free system since the Charter, [97]-100;
  • half the territory of, granted to the Duke of York, [75];
  • its consequent loss of territory, [77], [101];
  • dimensions of, as at present allowed, [114];
  • description of, at large, [115];
  • treatment English travelers met with then from landlords, [111];
  • proceedings of, in regard to the Stamp-act, [229]-245;
  • to the Tea-act, [251];
  • to that for shutting the port of Boston, [253];
  • commits the first overt act of high treason, [254].
• Connecticut River, description of, [115];
  • astonishing narrows in it, [115], [116].
• Contingencies, extraordinary allowance for, [198];
  • of what sort some are, [220].
• Convention, grand continental, of dissenting ministers at Newhaven, notices concerning, [160].
• Cooper, the Rev. Miles, LL.D., narrowly escapes the fury of the mob in New-York, [258].
• Cornwall, [147].
• Cotton, the Rev. Mr., notices relating to, 50; [Note], [138].
• Council of Plymouth, their grant, [12].
• Courts, instituted in Connecticut, [83], [84];
  • cruelty of the ecclesiastical, in New-England, [128].
• Coventry, [132].
• Cuba, description of an animal so called, and extraordinary qualities of male and female, [183].
• Cursette, Mrs., surprising discovery of her will, [153].
• Customs of the people, [211];
  • borrowed of the Indians, [223].
• Cutler, the Rev. Dr., joins the Church of England, [166].