Chapter C: Canaan, 147

Cansey American Indians enjoy liberty in perfection, 110.

Canterbury, 135.

Caterpillars ravage the border of Connecticut River, 131.

Chandler, the Rev. Thomas Bradbury, where born, 133.

Charter, petitioned for privately, 66;
obtained, 68;
claim founded upon, and prevarications concerning it, 36;
powers conferred by, 83, 84;
strengthens notions of independence, 86;
formally surrendered by the colony to Sir Edmund Andros, 89;
regained by a mob, hid in a tree, and reassumed, 90;
violated by George II., 102.

Chatham, 139.

Church of England, the first erected in Connecticut, 163;
professors of the, number of, in 1770, 168, 169;
reason of their great increase, 166;
their zeal, 170;
measures adverse to, 171.

Clergy, Episcopal, in Connecticut, morality of, 171;
one punished for not observing the Sabbath agreeably to the notions
of Sober Dissenters, 213;
acquire immortal honour by adhering to their ordination-oaths, 260;
immoral, anti-episcopal, and rebellious conduct of some of them in
the southern provinces, 172-174.

Colchester, 141.

Colden, Lieutenant-Governor, of New-York, grants lands in Verdmont, 105.

Coldness of the winter in Connecticut accounted for, 176.

Comic Liturgy, acted in Connecticut on occasion of the Stamp-act, 231.

Commerce of Connecticut, 191.

Company for Propagating the Gospel in New-England, charter obtained for
the, and abuse of it, 52, _Note_.

Connecticote, his kingdom, 135;
his conduct toward the settlers, 53;
his death, 57.

Connecticut, its latitude and longitude, 175;
whence named, 15;
three parties of English adventurers arrive in, 16;
right to the soil of, considered, 31-35;
civil and religious establishments and proceedings of the first
English settlers, 37;
forms a confederacy with New-Plymouth and Massachusets-Bay, 62;
obtains a charter of incorporation, 68;
divided into counties, townships, &c., 83;
sketch of its religious-political free system since the Charter,
97-100;
half the territory of, granted to the Duke of York, 75;
its consequent loss of territory, 77, 101;
dimensions of, as at present allowed, 114;
description of, at large, 115;
treatment English travelers met with then from landlords, 111;
proceedings of, in regard to the Stamp-act, 229-245;
to the Tea-act, 251;
to that for shutting the port of Boston, 253;
commits the first overt act of high treason, 254.

Connecticut River, description of, 115;
astonishing narrows in it, 115, 116.

Contingencies, extraordinary allowance for, 198;
of what sort some are, 220.

Convention, grand continental, of dissenting ministers at Newhaven,
notices concerning, 160.

Cooper, the Rev. Miles, LL.D., narrowly escapes the fury of the mob
in New-York, 258.

Cornwall, 147.

Cotton, the Rev. Mr., notices relating to, 50;
_Note_, 138.

Council of Plymouth, their grant, 12.

Courts, instituted in Connecticut, 83, 84;
cruelty of the ecclesiastical, in New-England, 128.

Coventry, 132.

Cuba, description of an animal so called, and extraordinary qualities
of male and female, 183.

Cursette, Mrs., surprising discovery of her will, 153.

Customs of the people, 211;
borrowed of the Indians, 223.

Cutler, the Rev. Dr., joins the Church of England, 166.