Canterbury, Connecticut, USA
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Where is Canterbury, Connecticut, USA? Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut, USA
The area was first settled in the 1680s as Peagscomsuck, consisting mainly of land north of Norwich, south of New Roxbury, Massachusetts (now Woodstock, Connecticut) and west of the Quinebaug River and the Plainfield Settlement. In 1703 it was officially separated from Plainfield and named as the Town of Canterbury.
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"A Quaker abolitionist and teacher, Prudence Crandall bravely defied prevailing patterns of racial discrimination when she opened one of the first schools for African American girls in Connecticut in 1833...
Born in Hopkinton, Rhode Island on September 3, 1803 to farmers Pardon and Esther Carpenter Crandall, Prudence Crandall moved with her family to Canterbury, Connecticut when she was ten years old. She attended the New England Friends’ Boarding School in Providence, where she studied arithmetic, Latin and science – subjects not typical for women but embraced by Quakers who believed in equal educational opportunities. She taught briefly in Plainfield, and in 1831 opened a private girl’s academy in Canterbury, where she initially taught daughters from the town’s wealthiest families. Ranked as one of the state’s best schools, her rigorous curriculum provided female students with an education comparable to that of prominent schools for boys..."
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Old Prudence Crandall School, Canterbury, Conn.
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Canterbury Green, Main St. Looking North.
Canterbury, Connecticut, USA
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1703 - First settled as a part of Plainfield in the late 1600s, it was officially separated and named Canterbury in 1703, becoming the state’s 38th town.
connecticuthistory.org/ towns-page/ canterbury
connecticuthistory.org/ towns-page/ canterbury
1819 - Canterbury
Canterbury is a post township, 40 miles east from Hartford; bounded on the north by Brooklyn, on...Read MORE...
Canterbury is a post township, 40 miles east from Hartford; bounded on the north by Brooklyn, on...Read MORE...
1831 - (Canterbury, CT) - In 1831 Prudence Crandall opened a private school for girls but when she allowed—and then focused exclusively on—education for young African American women, informal and legal protests began.
A mob attack forced the school’s closure in 1834.
connecticuthistory.org/ towns-page/ canterbury/
A mob attack forced the school’s closure in 1834.
connecticuthistory.org/ towns-page/ canterbury/
1833 - June 27 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Connhistoryorb.com
June 27, 1833
1859
CANTERBURY, a township of Windham co., in the state of Connecticut, 12 m. N or Norwich. On the E it ...Read MORE...
CANTERBURY, a township of Windham co., in the state of Connecticut, 12 m. N or Norwich. On the E it ...Read MORE...
1869 - Wore suit for more than 50 yearsAn old man in Canterbury, Conn., seventy-five years of age, died recently and was buried in a suit...Read MORE...
1916
Canterbury, kan'ter-ber-e, a post-village of Windham co., Conn., in Canterbury township (town), on...Read MORE...
Canterbury, kan'ter-ber-e, a post-village of Windham co., Conn., in Canterbury township (town), on...Read MORE...
Ancestors Who Were Born Here
 
Elizabeth ADAMS
(25 July 1705, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA - , )
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Sarah BACKUS
(5 April 1711, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA - , )
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Orelia BUTTS
(1795, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA - 17 January 1876, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (North Amherst) (South Amherst))
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Bethiah CARTER
(9 February 1707, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA - , )
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John CARTER
(24 February 1709, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA - 26 August 1776, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA)
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Aaron CLEVELAND
(3 June 1730, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA - 26 March 1778, , Connecticut, USA)
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Festus FOSTER
(1777, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA - 30 April 1846, Brimfield, Massachusetts, USA)
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Samuel HUNTINGTON
(16 October 1723, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA - 20 March 1797, East Haddam, Connecticut, USA)
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Margery PELLET
(1770, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA - 11 May 1847, Ware, Massachusetts, USA)
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John PIKE
(23 July 1707, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA - , )
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Lydia PIKE
(3 April 1748, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA - April 1850, Greene, New York, USA)
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Ancestors Who Died Here
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Ancestors Who Were Married Here
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John PIKE (23 July 1707 - ) &
Sarah BACKUS (5 April 1711 - )
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Isaiah WILLIAMS (15 October 1721 - 15 August 1793) &
Abigail KNIGHT (12 January 1723 - 9 August 1813 )
married 5 May 1744 |
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Cemeteries in Canterbury, Connecticut, USA
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