Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Connecticut as a Colony and as a State, or One of the Original Thirteen, Vol. 2
Democratic Republicans - Second Electoral College - Jona than Trumbull elected Speaker of the House of Representa tives - Oliver Wolcott becomes Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Ellsworth selected for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court - Third Electoral College - First breach of Decorum in American Congress - Troubles with F rance - Fourth Electoral College - Roger Griswold becomes Secretary of War - Jonathan Trumbull elected Governor - Population of Connecticut in l8oo - Stonington the most Populous Town - Hartford and New Haven the Chief Centres - Establish ment of Turnpikes - Earthquakes, Storms, Droughts, and Epidemics - The Frogs of windham-dark Day of 1780 - Amusements Multiplied - Bundling - Pack Horse and Stage Coach relics of the Past - Ancient barbarities con demned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
