Includes bibliographical (pages 191-243) references and index.
ch. 1. Native settlers -- ch. 2. In the shadows of New Haven -- ch. 3. The rise of self-sufficiency -- ch. 4. Challenge to permanence -- ch. 5. Growing pains -- ch. 6. Testing the limits of authority -- ch. 7. On the eve of Revolution -- ch. 8. Crisis of allegiance -- ch. 9. Dire sense of expectancy -- ch. 10. The war comes home -- ch. 11. From saints to citizens -- ch. 12. Dreams of our fathers