Preface

Chapter 1      Toby the Indian and Colonel Ebenezer......................... 1

Chapter 2      The Lexington Alarm Marks the Coming of the Revolution....... 11

Chapter 3      The Rev. Mansfield, 1724-1820................................ 32

Chapter 4      General William Hull......................................... 41

Chapter 5      Tories and Patriots-The Wooster Family of Old Derby.......... 42

Chapter 6      Commodore Isaac Hull......................................... 54

Chapter 7      David Humphreys.............................................. 59

Chapter 8      The Merino Sheep and Valley Industry......................... 62

Chapter 9      Captain John Holbrook of Great Hill.......................... 67

Chapter 10     Three Revolutionary Veterans Form Trinity Church in Seymour.. 71

Chapter 11     The Rev. Elijah Woolsey, Methodist Circuit Rider in 1814..... 80

Chapter 12     Mrs. Ann S. Stephens......................................... 91

Chapter 13     The Civil War in the Valley.................................. 92

Chapter 14     John Lyman Chatfield; An Oxford Boy Who Became a Colonel..... 97

Chapter 15     Col. John W. DeForest, A Seymour Native, Serves His Country.. 103

Chapter 16     Some Area Men Who Served in the Civil War.................... 107

Chapter 17     Edmund Day, Local Business Leader............................ 113

Chapter 18     Business and Economic Development in The Valley.............. 119