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| 223 Notes Introduction 1. Bell, ‘‘Connecticut’s Historic Contexts,’’ 101–19. The geomorphic regions used in this book, and on which the population statistics in the appendix are based, are those developed in 1990 by the Connecticut Historical Commission. The regions reflect a combination of bedrock geology and surface ecology, and are considered to correspond more closely to subsequent human activity than manmade divisions such as counties or planning regions, imposed on the landscape. See Connecticut Historical Commission, Historic Preservation, 63. 2. Bell, Face of Connecticut, 145–70. 3. Keegan, Archaeology of Connecticut, 2–6; Moeller, ‘‘Indian Lifeways,’’ 257. 4. Oberg, Uncas, 25; Bragdon, Native People, 55–79. 5. Precontact population estimates for New England vary considerably. However, sources agree that the large majority of this population lived in the coastal regions of southern New England from the Merrimac basin to the Connecticut shore. 6. Bragdon, Native People, 25; Oberg, Uncas, 19. The spelling of Ninnimissinuwock is taken from Oberg. 7. Johnson, Ninnuock, 52–69. 8. Spiess, Connecticut circa 1625. 9. Johnson, Ninnuock, 52–70. 10. Bragdon, Native People, 92; Oberg, Uncas, 137. 11. Cronon, Changes in the Land, 85–86. 12. Ibid., 90. 13. Ibid. 14. Bradford, Bradford’s History, 387. 15. Ibid., 388. 16. Gradie, Connecticut Path, 25; Salisbury, Manitou and Providence, 218. 17. Cronon, Changes in the Land, 162. 18. Ibid., 56. 19. Ibid., 56–57. 1. Colonial Connecticut 1. Daniels, Connecticut Town, 18. 2. Ibid., 10–34. Connecticut today contains 169 incorporated towns. The latest incorporation was the town of West Haven in 1921. 3. u.s. Department of Commerce, Historical Statistics, Z1–23. 4. For details on the governance of the Connecticut colony, see Daniels, Connecticut Town, 74–90, and Taylor, Colonial Connecticut, 20–48. 224 | notes to pages 20 – 35 5. Daniels, Connecticut Town, 41. For a discussion of the economic and spiritual requirements of Puritan society that produced this pattern of town founding see Martin, Profits in the Wilderness. 6. Mitchell, Roads and Road Making, 7–8. 7. Ibid., 6–7; Gordon, ‘‘Travel,’’ 171. 8. Garvan, Architecture and Town Planning, 67. 9. Records of the Colony, 14:80 (1773). 10. Mitchell, Roads and Road Making, 8–9. 11. Ibid., 20. 12. Ibid., 11. 13. Ibid., 10. 14. Friends of the Office of State Archaeology, member newsletter, spring 2009, 7–8. 15. Records of the Colony, 1:71 (1641), 1:174 (1648); Records of New Haven, 1:165. 16. Mitchell, Roads and Road Making, 17–18. 17. Whittlesey, Crossing and Recrossing, 42, 39. 18. Records of the Colony, 1:174 (1648), 1:281 (1656), 1:310 (1658) and 1:394 (1663); Whittlesey, Crossing and Recrossing, 47. 19. Records of the Colony, 4:155 (1695), 4:248 (1698); Mitchell, Roads and Road Making, 18–19. 20. Mitchell, Roads and Road Making, 14; Records of New Haven,1:61; Gordon, ‘‘Travel,’’ 1; Records of the Colony 1:164 (1648), 1:225 (1651), 1:417 (1663), 3:50 (1680), 4:80 (1692). 21. Clouette and Roth, Connecticut Historic Highway Bridges, 3. 22. Jaffe, The King’s Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America 12, 16–17; Jenkins, Old Boston Post Road, 1–2. 23. Jenkins, Old Boston Post Road, 3. 24. Robbins, ‘‘On the Boston Post Road,’’ 22; Records of the Colony, 2:242–44 (1674). 25. Postal History Society of Connecticut, Journal, spring 1975, 16. 26. Jenkins, Old Boston Post Road, 7–8. The shoreline route was preferred since the Winthrop family, including the current governor of Connecticut, Fitz Winthrop, had moved from Hartford to New London. See Jaffe, King’s Best Highway, 35. 27. Gradie, Connecticut Path, 28; Spencer, Journey of Benjamin Wadsworth, 16. 28. Records of the Colony, 4:246 (1698). 29. Knight, Journal, 26–29, 30–33. 30. Ibid., 61. 31. Daniels, Connecticut Town, chap. 6; Rosenbury, Migrations from Connecticut Prior to 1800. 32. Daniels, Connecticut Town, chap. 7. 33. Mitchell, Roads and Road Making, 20, 23–24. 34. Ibid., 20; Warren, ‘‘Clearing the Trail,’’ 197. 35. ‘‘New London c. 1812,’’ 1:364. 36. Prager, Autobiography of John Fitch, 28–29. 37. Mitchell, Roads and Road Making, 29; Acts and Laws, 1796, 198; Records of the .242.203] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 08:18 GMT) notes to pages 36 – 52 | 225 Colony, 12:236 (1764). Rates varied from ferry to ferry, and at each crossing depending on the load carried. See Acts & Laws of the State of Connecticut in America, 1791, 198...