A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

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CO :N :N :E: C TIC UT. 179 ce of London, and to let him know, that I' though his licence be lawful, and may If impower one of. his curates to marry in " England, yet it is not fo in America; I, and if fines would not curb them in " this point, imprifonment {bould." The fecond county. in the kingdom of ConnOClicote, and the moft' mountainous in the whole province, is Litchfield; which produces abundance of wheat, butter, cheefe, iron orc, &c. and has many ironworks, founderies, and furnaces. It contains the following 14- towns: Litchfield is watered by two [rna:!l rivers. An elegant meeting, and a decent Court - ooufe, with fteepIes and bells, ornament the {quare, where three roads meet. The beft flreet is one mile long. It refembles Dartford. The townlhip is J 2 miles klnare, and forms five pa:rilhes, one of which is epifcopal. . Tho' Litchfield it! the youngdl: county N 2 of • ...
180 HIS TOR Y 0 F ofConneCticut, yet. in 1766, it fet an example to the refl: worthy of imitation. The province had always been greatly peficred by a generation of men called quacks, who, with a few Indian noftrum!', a lancet, a gliller-pipe, rhubarb, treacle-water, mixed with Roman bombaft of vena cava and vena porta, attacked fevers, nervous diforders, and broken bones, and, by the grace of perfeverance, fubclued nature, and helped their patients to a paffage to the world of fpirits before they were ready. The furgeons and phyficians, who were not quacks, formed themfelves into a fociety, for the enc.ouragement of literature and a regular and wholefome praCtice. But their laudable endeavours were difcountenanced by t.he General Affembly, who refufed to comply with their follicitation for a charter; becaufe the quacks and people faid, " Ifthe charter were granted, the .learned men would become too rich by
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