| Meet the Daggetts -- a real family who lived in northeastern Connecticut during the mid-1700s: |
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 Samuel |
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 and wife, Anna |
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 his daughters, Asenath |
 and Tabitha |
 his son, Isaiah |
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The Daggetts lived on a farm in the town of Coventry, Connecticut. Unlike other New England towns, it did not have a town center or village green, but was made up of farms scattered across the countryside. Mills, craft shops and taverns were located on people's farms.
Many people in this community were from families who had come from Massachusetts. They wanted to establish farms in an area where most of the land had not already been settled by earlier generations of colonists. Religion played an important role in many New England colonial communities. People from Coventry, together with people from the neighboring towns of Hebron and Lebanon, attended the First Congregational Church of Andover. |
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Daggett's actual account
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