Chronicles of a Connecticut Farm, 1769-1905
Title | Chronicles of a Connecticut Farm, 1769-1905 PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Elizabeth Perkins |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Genealogy |
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Tapestry
Title | Tapestry PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | 190 |
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Tapestry, a Living History of the Black Family in Southeastern Connecticut
Title | Tapestry, a Living History of the Black Family in Southeastern Connecticut PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Rose |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | African American families |
ISBN | 9780806352145 |
"The first half of Tapestry consists of a historical overview of African Americans in southeastern Connecticut from 1680 to 1865. The authors focus on the arrival of blacks in Connecticut, the African-American family, and the role played by African Americans in the Revolutionary and Civil wars. Much of the action takes place in the towns of Groton, East Haddam, New London, Chatham, and Hebron. In the second part of the volume, Dr. Rose and Mrs. Brown produce, as illustrations, genealogical sketches of the following African-American families: Beman, Boham, Bush, Freeman, Hallan, Hyde, Jacklin, Jackson, Lathrop, Magira, Mason, Moody, Peters, Quash, Rogers, and Wright. While readers will discover information in a number of these genealogies that is repeated in Brown and Rose's Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut, 1650-1900, researchers should check the accounts in Tapestry for embellishments"--Publisher website (December 2008).
The Publishers Weekly
Title | The Publishers Weekly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1892 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | American literature |
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Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Title | Bulletin of the New York Public Library PDF eBook |
Author | New York Public Library |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 712 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Bibliography |
ISBN |
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Monthly Book List
Title | Monthly Book List PDF eBook |
Author | Connecticut Public Library Committee |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 446 |
Release | 1904 |
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Revenge of the Pequots
Title | Revenge of the Pequots PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Isaac Eisler |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 2002-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803267459 |
The Mashantucket Pequots have had a long and proud history, enduring for centuries even after colonists and historians believed them to have been exterminated by the British in 1637. By the early 1970s, however, the legacy of their generations rested on the shoulders of a single elderly woman, upon whose death the Pequots' reservation would fall into government hands. Her grandson, Richard "Skip" Hayward, and other relatives responded to her pleas and kept alive the tribe and its land by coming to live on the reservation. Journalist Kim Isaac Eisler tells in riveting detail how Hayward and others skillfully manipulated laws, court decisions, and political connections to permit the Mashantucket Pequots to found the Foxwoods Resort and Casino in 1992. Located in Ledyard, Connecticut, Foxwoods today is arguably the world's most profitable casino complex, grossing over one billion dollars annually. The Mashantucket Pequots have become staggeringly rich, their tribal membership has swelled, and they are now an influential force in national politics. Their triumph has not been without controversy: Eisler also examines the volatile issue of racial identity among the Pequots and looks at the negative impact of Foxwoods on those who also make their home in the Connecticut woods.