Acknowledgments
Introduction: Connecticut Emigration 1750-1830
A PEOPLE IN MOTION
#1 Late eighteenth-century newspaper observations about emigration
"Civis," from the Litchfield Monitor, September 18, 1793
"Communication," in Connecticut Journal, March 19, 1795
"Whitestown, N.Y.," in Norwich Packet, June 5, 1795
#2 James Kirke Paulding, Letters from the South…(1817)
WELLSPRINGS OF CONNECTICUT EMIGRATION
#3 "Observer" from Connecticut Courant in New England Palladium, January 3, 1817
#4 "To James Hillhouse," in Hartford Times, March 25, 1817
#5 "Causes of Emigration," Boston Independent Chronicle and Patriot, September 13, 1817
#6 A.B. Johnson, "Thoughts on Population," New-York Literary Journal, September 15, 1820
#7 Samuel Goodrich, Peter Parley's Own Story (1864)
THE PROCESS OF TRANSPLANTING NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY
Planning a new settlement
Public authorization and its consequences:
#8 "The Querist, III," Connecticut Courant, March 23, 1795
#9 Resolutions of the General Assembly for selling the western lands, May 30, 1795
#10"Plain Man," in Connecticut Courant, March 31, 1797
Connecticut Land Co
#11 Letter from a Gentleman…in New Connecticut, July 5, in Connecticut Courant, August 22, 1796
#12 Milton Holley's Journal about running the line between Pennsylvania and the Western Reserve, July 7-23, 1796
#13 Seth Pease, Journal of Seth Pease 1797
Promotional Descriptions of the Land
#14 Commodifying Land
Uriel Holmes in Carlisle [Pa] Gazette, March 1798, Lands of New-Connecticut [Evans #33565]
#15 Letter from a gentleman in Ohio, October 13, 1804 in Connecticut Courant, January 2, 1805
#16 James Tongue, A Letter…giving a short Account of the Country (1807)
#17 "New Connecticut," in Connecticut Herald, December 5, 1815 reprinted in the Times, April 8,1817
The Experience of Removal
#18 Joseph Badger, Diary (1802)
#19Margaret Dwight, A Journey to Ohio (1810)
#20 Joel Baker, A Sermon occasioned by the Expected Removal of a number of Families (1811)
CONSEQUENCES OF EMIGRATION
Demographic impact
#21 Analysis of Census of 1800 in Salem Register, October 24, 1803
#22 John Melish, Travels through the United States (1812), II, 294-96
Economic impact
#23 "Calculator" in Albany Gazette, September 30, 1803
#24 John L. Tomlinson, "Discourse on Agriculture," Connecticut Journal, March 24, 1818
Social and Political impact
#25 The Wasp July 17, 1802
#26 "To the Republicans," in Bridgeport Herald, April 3, 1816
#27 Oliver Wolcott, Speech to the Legislature, in Connecticut Courant, May 20, 1817
RESPONSES
Domestic remedies
#28 David Humphreys, A Discourse on the Agriculture of the State of Connecticut (1816)
#29 Oliver Wolcott, Jr., "Taxation", in Republican Farmer, Bridgeport, June 16, 1819
Anti-emigration sentiment
#30 "The Brief Remarker," in Connecticut Courant, January 14, 1817
#31 "A Connecticut Farmer," in Connecticut Journal, July 29, 1817
#32 William H. Hand, "'Tother Side of Ohio (1818)
#33 "Emigration Hard Times," in Connecticut Mirror, July 26, 1819
Response to Anti-immigration Sentiment
Political Responses
#34 "Horrors of a Revolution," in The Times, April 8,1817
#35 "Emigration" in New-York Columbian, October 13, 1819
Attempts to transmit Connecticut's Culture
#36 Legislative acts and resolutions pertaining to Western Missions (1792, 1798, 1802)
#37 Thomas Robbins, Diary (1804)
#38 Timothy Dwight et al., An Address to the Emigrants from Connecticut (1817)
MEASURES OF SUCCESS AND FAILURE
#39 John Melish, Travels through the United States (1812), II, 257-297 passim
#40 John F. Schermerhorn & Samuel J. Mills, A Correct View (1814)
#41 "Revival of Religion in Trumbull Co," in Christian Watchman, Nov. 11, 1820
#42 Zerah Hawley, Journal of a Tour (1822)
#43 D. Griffiths, Two Years' Residence in Ohio (1835)
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