Author: Samuel OrcuttPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
Book Description
The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880
Author: Samuel OrcuttPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
Book Description
The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880
Author: Samuel OrcuttPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282500511
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Excerpt from The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880: With Biographies and Genealogies History is the record of experiences in the ages that are past; and experience, while varying through the changing of circumstances, is a teacher worthy to be carefully studied, and to whose voice it is wise to listen. The person who is indifferent to the past is too selfish to be of much benefit to the world in the present, and too heedless of wisdom to accomplish much for human good in the future. One object sought in the writing of this book has been the promotion of reflection on the past, which would result, it is believed ln careful consideration of what shall be the life of the future, for it would be un pardonable to give a book to the world without some high motive of good, in the mind of the author. How well or poorly the purpose may have been attained is not a question now, the existence of the motive is the only fact of which we can be certain. 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.
The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880
Author: Samuel OrcuttThe History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880; with Biographies and Genealogies Volume 2
Author: Samuel OrcuttPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230048765
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...that came with the clay and the dust; But add--as you may perhaps--to the verse, For his having lived in it, the world was no worse." STEPHEN N. SUMMERS, A native of Trumbull, Conn., and one of the first settlers in Birmingham, began the journey of life with no equipments except his head and hands. When only fifteen years of age he hired to a farmer for $6.00 per month, and at the end of seven months took the farmer's note for $40.00. He then earned $12.00 and used them for expenses during the winter while attending school. The next spring he hired to another farmer for $10.00 per month, which in time amounted to $70.00, $60.00 of which he placed at interest, and then, having $100.00 at interest, he claims to have been "the richest day of his life." Soon after he went to Bridgeport and learned his trade, keeping his $100.00 at interest until he was twenty-one. At the age of twenty-three he came to Derby with a capital of about $400.00, and after being here six or eight months a kind farmer from Huntington advised him to build such buildings as he needed, and offered to lend him the amount of money he might desire in so doing, which offer was accepted, and a dwelling, warehouse and shop were erected in the autumn of 1835, into which he removed from Derby Narrows in the spring of 1836. His dwelling-house was the sixth put up in Birmingham. When these buildings were completed he had drawn on the farmer Perry for $700 00, for which he offered security on the property, but this Mr. Perry declined, saying, he preferred security in a man rather than a house. This act of friendliness is spoken of by Mr. Summers with great appreciation, and the principle of security advocated by farmer Perry commends itself to all classes of...
HIST OF THE OLD TOWN OF DERBY
Author: Samuel 1824-1893 OrcuttPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781371947453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
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HIST OF THE OLD TOWN OF DERBY
Author: Samuel 1824-1893 OrcuttPublisher:
ISBN: 9781371947422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
HIST OF THE OLD TOWN OF DERBY
Author: Samuel 1824-1893 OrcuttPublisher:
ISBN: 9781363027699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1641-1880
Author: Samuel OrcuttPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Derby (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
History of the Old Town of Derby, 1642-1880
Author: Samuel OrcuttPublisher:
ISBN: 9780832800016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 843
Book Description
Taming Lust
Author: Doron S. Ben-AtarPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced to the same punishment. Prior to these criminal trials, neither Massachusetts nor Connecticut had executed anyone for bestiality in over a century. Though there are no overt connections between the two episodes, the similarities of their particulars are strange and striking. Historians Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown delve into the specifics to determine what larger social, political, or religious forces could have compelled New England courts to condemn two octogenarians for sexual misbehavior typically associated with much younger men. The stories of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn are less about the two old men than New England officials who, riding the rough waves of modernity, returned to the severity of their ancestors. The political upheaval of the Revolution and the new republic created new kinds of cultural experience—both exciting and frightening—at a moment when New England farmers and village elites were contesting long-standing assumptions about divine creation and the social order. Ben-Atar and Brown offer a rare and vivid perspective on anxieties about sexual and social deviance in the early republic.