A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation
A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation
A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation
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CON NEe TIC U T. ! 63<br />
The KUfGDOM OF CONNECTICOTE<br />
forms two counties, viz. Hertford and<br />
Litchfield, which contain about 151000<br />
houft:s, and 120,000 inhabitants.<br />
The county <strong>of</strong> Hertford excels the<br />
reft in tobacco, onions, grain <strong>of</strong> all [urts,<br />
hay, and cyder. . It contains twenty-one<br />
towns, the chief <strong>of</strong> which I lhall de<br />
{cribe, comparing the reA: to towns near<br />
London.<br />
HER'l'FORD town is deemed the capital<br />
<strong>of</strong> the province: it ftands 40 miles<br />
from Saybrook, and the fame d'iftance<br />
,from N ewhaven, on the weft bank <strong>of</strong><br />
Conneaicut river, and is formed into<br />
{quares. The townlhip is 20 miles from<br />
eall: to weft, and fix in breadth, comprizing<br />
fix parilhes, one <strong>of</strong> which is epifcopaI.<br />
The houfes are partly <strong>of</strong> brick and<br />
partly <strong>of</strong> wood, well built, but, as I have<br />
M 2 obferved
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