Connections with other colonies were neither frequent nor important.
Roads were poor, ferries dangerous, bridges few, and transportation
even from town to town was difficult and slow. 

The importance of Connecticut lay in the men that it nurtured and
the forms of government that it established and preserved.  Few
institutions from the Old World had root in its soil.  In their
town meetings the people looked after local affairs; and matters
of larger import they managed by means of the general assembly to
which the towns sent representatives.  They made, their own laws,
which they administered in their own courts.  Their rules of
justice, though sometimes peculiar, were the same for all.  They
did what they could to educate their children, to uphold good
morals, to help the poor, and to increase the prosperity of the
colony.  Though they could not entirely prevent England from
interfering in their affairs, they succeeded in reducing her
interference to a minimum and were well content to be let alone.
Yet when called upon to furnish men in time of war, they did so
generously and, in the main, promptly.  They became a vigorous,
strong, determined community, and though unprogressive in