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Vermilyea, Peter C., author.

Title Wicked Litchfield County / Peter C. Vermilyea.

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Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2016.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	974.61 VERMILYEA	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	974.61 VER	Check Shelf
Southington Library - Adult	974.61 VER	Check Shelf

Description	137 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-137) and index.
Contents	Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Litchfield County's witches -- 2. Counterfeiting -- 3. Gallows lane: crime and punishment in Litchfield County -- 4. Temperance and intemperance -- 5. Slavery in Litchfield County -- 6. Military malfeasance -- 7. Ministerial misadventures -- Epilogue.
Summary	"Thieves, rumrunners and rapscallions all color the unsavory side of Litchfield County history. Townspeople accused women of witchcraft simply for not bearing enough children in the early days of the region. During the eighteenth and nineteenth cenuries, Owen Sullivan and William Stuart took advantage of the county's isolated stretches and a currency shortage to build counterfeiting empires. In 1780, Barnett Davenport's brutal actions earned him infamy as the nation's firs mass murderer. Small-time speakeasies slowly took hold, and the omnipresence of alcohol-fueled crime led to the birth of the nationwide prohibition movement." --from cover.
Subject	Litchfield County (Conn.) -- History, Local -- Anecdotes.
	Litchfield County (Conn.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
	Criminals -- Connecticut -- Litchfield County -- History -- Anecdotes.
	Crime -- Connecticut -- Litchfield County -- History -- Anecdotes.
Genre/Form	Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
	Biography -- Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423690
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Local history. (OCoLC)fst01411631
Subject	Crime. (OCoLC)fst00882984
	Criminals. (OCoLC)fst00883516
	Connecticut -- Litchfield County. (OCoLC)fst01211989
ISBN	9781467119696
	1467119695

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