A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

114 HIS TOR Y 0 F
-Of the 1hare ConneCticut has taken, in
common with her fifter colonies, in cooperating
with the Mother-country againft
her natural enemies, it is fuperfluous to
fay· any.;thing here, that being already
fufficie'ntly known. I lhall therefore
proceed to a defcription of the country,
its towns, produCtions, &c. together with
the manners, cuftoms, commerce, &c.
of the inhabitants, interfperfing fuch hifftorical
and biographical anecdotes, as may
occur to me in the relation, and have a
tendency to elucidate matter of fact, or
charaCterize the people.
The dimenfions of ConneClicut, ac­
cording to its prefent allowed extent, are,
from the Sound, on the fouth, to the
Maffachufets line,on the north, about fixty
miles; and from Biram river and New­
York· line, on the weft, to Narraganfet
Bay, Rhode-Wand, and Maffachufets-Bay,
on the eaft, upon an average, about 100
miles.