By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2016 Subscribe to receive every issue! Historian Bruce Daniels’s The Connecticut Town: Growth and Development 1635 – 1790 (Wesleyan University Press, 1979) is a terrific resource for understanding how Connecticut came to consist of 169 independent towns. The geographic pattern of settlement by the English (greatly … Continue reading Connecticut’s Brand of Colonial Town