Hidden history of colonial Greenwich / Missy Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfe, Missy, author.

Contributor:

Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greenwich (Conn.)--History--17th century.

Greenwich (Conn.).

Physical Description:

191 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2018.

Summary:

Greenwich in the seventeenth century was a lost world with tythingmen and meeting warners, wild horse hunters, herdsmen, townsmen, pounders and planters. Faced with an ever-changing environment, citizens set many new-world boundaries. Farmers created common fields along the coast and redesigned wilderness. They balanced religious and civic authority, private and common interests and financial inequities across communities. The first comers found it more challenging to please their own than it was to please their God. Their departure from the past fashioned an idealized yet still imperfect, new society the Puritans proudly called the Greenwich Plantation. Author Missy Wolfe details the strategies and setbacks of creating community in colonial America's First Period. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Groenvits at First 13

2 A Political Pawn 24

3 The Great Massacre 33

4 Colony Control 44

5 Local Governance Begins 50

6 Growing Pains 67

7 Creating the Town 76

8 Old Greenwich Designs Western Greenwich 91

9 Expansion West of the Mianus River 103

10 Byram and Pemberwick 125

11 Seventeenth-Century Animal Management 135

12 Working the Waterways 143

13 Mandated Ministers Prove Divisive 150.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.

ISBN:

9781467138574

1467138576

OCLC:

1004251217

Publisher Number:

99976753568