A new compilation of historical records and interpretive essays that reveals what life was like in Connecticut at the birth of our nation.

Published by

The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences

In the first decades after winning independence from Great Britain, Americans sought to describe their new republic both to themselves and to others. To gather information for that effort, the newly chartered Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences sent a questionnaire to the state's 107 towns in 1800.
Collected together for the first time, their stories reveal the conditions in which these newly self-governing citizens lived, and the methods they used to improve conditions.

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