Greenwich, History of the Town of
- Author: Spencer P. Mead
- SKU: 1348
- ISBN: 0897250796
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$69.95
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GREENWICH, Connecticut, Historie of the Town of. By Spencer P. Mead. 862 pp. 5½x8½. 42 port., illus,Indian signatures, maps; dj; index of over 9,000 persons; place & subject indexes, printed endsheets. Hard cover. 1992 (1911).
"History is composed of thousands of bits and pieces of arduous research which, when fitted together, begin to produce a coherent picture of our culture and society as they have evolved over the centuries. Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich is a fine example of the art, long lost and now beautifully reproduced." -- The Greenwich Time.
"Popular with (Greenwich) residents, and invaluable for researchers." - The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich.
Greenwich, Connecticut, so well known to students of modern corporate America, is also one of Connecticut's earliest and most interesting towns. The land was purchased from the Indians on 18 July 1640, and settlement by the initial ten families was begun immediately.
Spencer P. Mead (1863-1935), a graduate of New York Law School in the class of 1883, based his extremely comprehensive history on the 1857 history of Greenwich published by Daniel M. Mead. Spencer Mead included the customary history of the town's religious, business and military organizations and their activities.
He has also included a list of all landowners in town from 1640 to 1752; a list of the town's twenty-seven landowners in 1672 and fifty-two landowners in 1688; the complete 1697 tax list; a reproduction of surveyor Charles Webb's 1757 and 1773 maps of the township of Greenwich (which indicate the locations of all buildings then in existence); complete transcripts of many of the original deeds including the 1640 and 1686 Indian purchases, 1697 town patent, etc. Mead's coverage of military affairs is quite comprehensive. Mead includes the early Indian conflicts, King George's War, the French and Indian War, the American Revolution; the War of 1812; and the Civil War. Mead's coverage of the incidents of the American Revolution is particularly thorough.
This comprehensive history includes a massive 215 page genealogical section with detailed genealogies of early Greenwich families. Not only those working on Greenwich, but also those working on other early Connecticut towns will want to own this book.
