History of Redding, Connecticut
From Its First Settlement to the Present Time, with Notes on the Early Families
Charles B. Todd
Format: Library Binding, 248pages
Format: Hardcover - First Edition / Dust Jacket
Publisher: John A. Gray Press
Associated Dealer: Pondview Books
Condition: engraved frontispiece New York 1880 HardCover First Edition very good+, no dj, elaborate Victorian binding, green cloth 248 pgs, Tight, slightly warped. 1881 name fr endpapers. Frontis is portrait Joel Barlow, engraved by A. Smith after Robert Fulton
The History of Redding Connecticut from its First Settlement to the Present Time, with Notes on the Adams, Banks, Barlow, Bartlett, Bartram, Bates, Beach, Benedict, Betts, Burr, Burritt, Burton, Chatfield, Couch, Darling, Fairchild, Foster, Gold, Gorham, Gray, Griffin, Hall, Hawley, Heron, Hill, Hull, Jackson, Lee, Lyon, Lord, Mallory, Meade, Meeker, Merchant, Morehouse, Perry, Platt, Read, Rogers, Rumsey, Sanford, Smith, Stow, and Strong Families
Joel Barlow From a family portrait, never before engraved.
Physical History.
"Reading, 60 miles south-west of Hartford, about 5 miles long by 6 1-2 wide, with an area of 32 square miles. The Saugatuck River crosses it through the middle, north and south; and the Norwalk River is in the west part. The forest trees are oak, nut trees, etc. Population in 1830, 1686. "United States Gazetteer, 1833."Like many of the New England villages, it is scattered, and beautifully shaded with elms, maples, and sycamores."--Lossing, Field-Book of the Revolution. "The geological character of the town, as throughout Western Connecticut is metamorphic. Granite and porphyritic rocks, and especially micaceous schists, predominate. The minerals are such as are familiar in such rocks--hornblende, garnet, kyanite, tremolite, etc. In the western part of the town are deposits of magnesian limestone (or dolomite), much of which is quite pure, though some of it contains tremolite and other impurities. The other mineral features of the town are not specially noteworthy, or of general interest. The soil is probably, in the main, the result of the disintegration of the underlying rocks."--Notes of Rev. John Dickinson.
Chapter I Preliminary Settlement
Chapter II Redding as a Parish
Chapter IV Revolutionary History and Incidents
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