Excerpt from The Illustrated Commercial, Mechanical, Professional and Statistical Gazetteer and Business-Book of Connecticut, for 1857-8, Vol. 1: Compiled With Great Care, From Actual Canvass of the State, and the Most Reliable Sources, to Be Revised and Published Annually But before we proceed with the civilized history of our State, we propose to give some account of its original occupants. 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.