Description: Description Title: The Old Mount Carmel Parish: Origins & Outgrowths Author: George Sherwood Dickerman Description: Inscribed by author on ffep. Tan papered boards. Light wear to ends of spine. Typed note affixed to front paste-down, which describes the owner's relationship with the author and their family connections. Several leaves have dampstains along edges (not touching any text or images). Foldout map made from a 1889/1890 survey and which shows the location of about 25 country residences with names, plus 14 illustrations on plates. x, 220 pages. 9.25 x 6 inches. Pioneer history of the Mount Carmel locality in Connecticut, located a few miles north of New Haven, near the town of Hamden. Inscribed to Warren Huntington Bolles (1899-1996) who met Rev. Dickerman, who happened to be his great-uncle, while attending divinity school at Yale in 1928. Contents: [1] The Cruise of the Onrust. [2] The Quest for Beaver.[3] New Netherland and New England. [4] Pioneer Communities. [5] Quinnipiac Lands. [6] Land Apportionments. [7] Scattered Homesteads. [8] Mills, Roads, Fords, and Bridges. [9] Parish and Church. [10] The Ministry and Its People. [11] Revolutionary Times. [12] Change from a State-Church to Free Churches. [13] Farms as Schools of Pioneering. [14] Migrations to Litchfield, Berkshire, and Vermont. [15] Susquehanna Frontier. [16] Cabins in New York Woods. [17] Up the Mohawk and Beyond. [18] Personal Recollections. [19] Canal, Railroad, and Factories. Index. Rev. George Sherwood Dickerman (1843-1937) graduated from Yale in 1865 and received his divinity degree three years later from the Yale Divinity School. His pastorates included First Congregational of West Haven (1870-1874), Pine Street Congregational of Lewiston, Maine (1874-1883), and Second Congregational at Amherst, Massachusetts (1883-1891). Binding: Hardcover Condition: Very Good– Jacket Condition: None Publisher: Published for the New Haven Colony Historical Society by Yale University Press Place: New Haven Year: 1925 Keywords: history, Hamden, Wallingford, New Haven, CT, Connecticut, New Haven County, Shipping We ship all items within one business day. Domestic orders are shipped via USPS Media Mail. Other shipping options are available to meet your needs.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New Haven
Signed: Yes
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Subject: History
Year Printed: 1925
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Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated, Inscribed
Author: George Sherwood Dickerman
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Historical
