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Highlights:
• 1630s English migration which King Charles I caused by his unlawful ship tax, forced worship, and a bad economy
• The continued influence of the Bible, the Magna Carta, resistance to “taxation without representation”
• 1680s Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut • Indian and French-Indian Wars • Two Great Awakenings
• Revolutionary War: causes; first person accounts; Marquis de Lafayette; Rochambeau’s troops
• Life in South Britain: Journals of David Hickok and his daughter Hannah (Smith)
• U.S. Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, 13th–16th Amendments
• Advocates for girls’ education: Sarah Pierce and Emma Hart Willard
• Anti-Slavery effort: William Lloyd Garrison; Hannah Smith and daughters; La Amistad
• Abby Smith’s eight letters to her second cousin Mary Ann Eldred Austin
• A woman’s right to vote: Stanton, Anthony, Stone, Mott, Burr, Kelley
• Abby and Julia Smith of Glastonbury, CT: taxes, cows, and a woman’s right to vote
Book Features: 320 images (color interior); 1680s land deeds; detailed maps; 1769–1891 journals and letters;
original newspaper accounts and book excerpts; 330-year timeline and family trees; 14 pages of endnotes;
index with over 1,500 people, places, and events
Chapters
Chapter 1: The First Four Hickok Ancestors—William, Joseph, Benjamin, Justus, 1635–1770
Chapter 2: Shillings, Scholars, Linen, and Pecks—David Hickok's Journals, 1769–1775
Chapter 3: Ticonderoga and Crown Point—The Hickoks and the Revolutionary War, 1775–1783
Chapter 4: Books, Conversations, and Chocolate—Hannah's Journal, 1784–1786
Chapter 5: Farewell to South Britain—The Hickok First Cousins, 1790–1800
Chapter 6: Reading, Writing, and Responsibilities—Five Smith Daughters, 1800–1816
Chapter 7: Rugged Wilderness Living—Hannah Hickok in Lumberland, 1812–1818
Chapter 8: Caring, Visiting, and Teaching—The Smiths, 1817–1824
Chapter 9: Hannah Marries James—Lumberland, New York, 1825–1827
Chapter 10: The Heinous Sin—The Smiths and the Abolitionists, 1830s
Chapter 11: Canals and Freshets—The Eldreds and Austins of Lumberland, 1830–1850
Chapter 12: Intelligent, Industrious, and Caring—Hannah Smith and Her Daughters, 1840s
Chapter 13: Highland and Glastenbury—The Austins and the Smiths, 1850–1854
Chapter 14: The Excursion—Abby and Laurilla Meet Mary Ann, 1854
Chapter 15: Affectionate Friend and Cousin—Abby's Letters to Mary Ann, 1854–1869
Chapter 16: Taxed Twice—Glastenbury, Fall 1869
Chapter 17: Flowers of the Field—Abby, Julia, and Mary Ann, 1870–1871
Chapter 18: Taxation without Representation—Abby and Julia Smith, 1872–1878
Chapter 19: College and Financial Difficulties—Emma and the Austins, 1872–1878
Chapter 20: Faithful Friend—Abby Hadassah Smith, 1797–1878
Chapter 21: Cease Your Weeping—Mother Dear-Edith Emogene Austin, 1879
Chapter 22: No Night There—Julia Evelina Smith, 1792–1886
Chapter 23: Old Home on the Hill—Mary Ann Eldred Austin, 1880–1906