<div2 type="chapter"> <pb n="184"/> <head>CONNECTICUT.</head> <p>There was no press in this colony until 1709; and, I <lb/> believe, not more than four printing houses in it before <lb/> 1775.</p> <div3 type="section"> <head><smcap>New London</smcap>.</head> <p>The first printing done in Connecticut was in that town; <lb/> forty-five years before a press was established elsewhere <lb/> in the colony.<ref target="n4.1"><sup>1</sup></ref> <!-- note 1 here --> </p> <p><smcap>Thomas Short</smcap> was the first who printed in Connecticut. <lb/> He set up his press in the town of New London in 1709.<ref target="n4.2"><sup>2</sup></ref> <!-- note 2 here --> He <lb/> was recommended by Bartholomew Green, who at that <lb/> time printed in Boston, and from whom he, probably, <lb/> learned the art of printing.</p> <p>In the year 1710,<ref target="n4.3"><sup>3</sup></ref> <!-- note 3 here --> he printed an original work, well <lb/> known in New England, by the title of <i>The Saybrook Plat- <lb/> form of Church Discipline</i>. This is said to be the first book <lb/> printed in the colony. After the <i>Platform</i> he printed a <lb/> number of sermons, and sundry pamphlets on religious <lb/>