History of Danbury, Conn. 1684-1896

Date: 1684 to 1896
Location: Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Other: Connecticut Sources

Contents 1 History of Danbury, Connecticut. 1684-1896 1.1 Available online at these locations: 1.2 Table of Contents 1.3 Errata 1.4 Citation Formats

History of Danbury, Connecticut. 1684-1896

From notes and manuscript left by James Montgomery Bailey.

• compiled with additions by Susan Benedict Hill (1836-1898)
• published by Burr Printing House, New York, 1896
• 583 pages
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Available online at these locations:

• https://books.google.com/books?id=rF4EAAAAYAAJ
• https://archive.org/details/historyofdanbury00baila
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009586257
• https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/14807/

Table of Contents

• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• James Montgomery Bailey
• Chapter I. Page 1
  • The Colony of Connecticut
  • Report of British Commission in 1794
  • Miltia and Forts
  • Principal Towns
  • Commodities
  • Early Settlements
  • Religion and Churches
• Chapter II. Page 5
  • Name and Topography
  • Surrounding Districts
  • Curious Names of Places
  • Indians
  • Route Taken by First Settlers
  • Indian Name
  • Beantown
  • Abstracts of Early Wills
  • Early Wars
• Chapter III. Page 19
  • Danbury's first historian
  • Parentage
  • Anecdote of Paternal Grandfather
  • Preaches in Brookfield
  • Accepts Teacher's Position in Danbury
  • Delivers Address on Death of Washington
  • Extracts from Diary
  • Retirement from active Life
  • Death
• Chapter IV. Page 24
  • Century Sermon of Thomas Robbins
• Chapter V. Page 33
  • Century Sermon (concluded)
• Chapter VI. Page 39
  • Danbury Was Made A Town
  • Judge Brewster's Search Work
  • Extracts from Colonial Registers
• Chapter VII. Copy of the town patent
• Chapter VIII. Record of marriages of the first settlers, and births of their children
• Chapter IX. In the first hundred years
• Chapter X. Danbury in the revolution
• Chapter XI. The attack on Danbury
• Chapter XII. The British in Danbury
• Chapter XIII. The burning of Danbury
• Chapter XIV. The retreat and pursuit
• Chapter XV. The fight in Ridgefield
• Chapter XVI. General Wooster's Death
• Chapter XVII. After the Fire
• Chapter XVIII. Legislative Action
• Chapter XIX. Some Incidents of the raid
• Chapter XX. A Danbury spy
• Chapter XXI. The Execution of Anthony and Adams
• Chapter XXII. To the end of the century
• Chapter XXIII. The first borough charter
• Chapter XXIV. Christening ideas of our fathers
• Chapter XXV. Old Danbury
• Chapter XXVI. Main Street in 1815-20
• Chapter XXVII. From 1820 to 1840
• Chapter XXVIII. The early merchants and the newspapers of Danbury
• Chapter XXIX. How Danbury went away and got back
• Chapter XXX. Reminiscences and incidents
• Chapter XXXI. Extracts from Francis history of hatting in Danbury
• Chapter XXXII. Other manufactures
• Chapter XXXIII. Danbury's railways
• Chapter XXXIV. Ecclesiastical History- First Congregational Church
• Chapter XXXV. Educational history
• Chapter XXXVI. History of the bar of Danbury, Conn.
• Chapter XXXVII. Medical history
• Chapter XXXVIII. Civil War
• Chapter XXXIX. Monuments
• Chapter XL. Wooster Cemetery association
• Chapter XLI. Town libraries
• Chapter XLII. Danbury's charities
• Chapter XLIII. Banks
• Chapter XLIV. The "Danbury news" a country newspaper that achieved a national reputation
• Chapter XLV. Water supply-agricultural society-board of trade
• Chapter XLVI. Danbury a city
• Chapter XLVII. Fire department*
• Chapter XLVIII. Societies
• Chapter XLIX. Taverns, ancient and modern
• Chapter L. Old burial-grounds
• Chapter LI. Danbury of to-day
• Chapter LII. Bethel
• Chapter LIII. Members of the Connecticut house of representatives from Danbury from 1776 to 1895 inclusive
• Chapter LIV. Chronological Record from Earliest Settlement to The Present Day
• Index, Page 567

Errata

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Citation Formats

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