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Blockade.
In May, 1813, the British proclaimed a formal blockade of New York, the Delaware, Chesapeake Bay, Charleston, Savannah, and the mouth of the Mississippi.
On June 11, the United States, Macedonian, and Hornet, under the command of Decatur, blockaded in the harbor of New York, attempted to get to sea through the East River and Long Island Sound, but off the Connecticut shore they were intercepted by a British squadron and driven into the harbor of New London.
The militia were called out to protect these vessels, and the neighborhood was kept in constant alarm.
The British blockading squadron, commanded by Sir Thomas Hardy, consisted of the flag-ship Ramillies, of the Orpheus, Valiant, Acasta, and smaller vessels.
The commander-in-chief had won the respect of the inhabitants along the coast because of his honorable treatment of them.
The blockade of New London Harbor continued twenty months, or during the remainder of the war. In the spring of 1814, all hopes of their
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield , James Abram 1831 -1881 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Haven colony. (search)
New Haven colony.
After the destruction of the Pequods in the summer of 1637, and peace was restored to the legion of the Connecticut, there was a strong desire among the inhabitants of Massachusetts to emigrate thither.
Rev John Davenport, Theophilus Eaton, Edward Hopkins, and others of less note, had arrived at Boston.
They heard from those who had pursued the Pequods of the beautiful country stretching along Long Island Sound, and in the autumn (1637) Mr Eaton and a small party visited the region.
They arrived at a beautiful bay, and on the banks of a small stream that entered it they built a log hut, where some of the party wintered.
The place had been called by Block, the Dutch discoverer of it, Roodenberg— Red Hills — in allusion to the red cliffs a little inland In the spring of 1638, Mr. Davenport and some of his friends sailed for the spot where Eaton had built his hut. They named the beautiful spot New Haven Under a wide-spreading oak Mr. Davenport preached on the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oblong, the (search)
Oblong, the
In 1731 the long-disputed boundary between New York and Connecticut seemed to be settled by mutual concessions.
A tract of land lying within the claimed boundary of Connecticut, 580 rods in width, consisting of 61,440 acres, and called from its figure The Oblong, was ceded to New York as an equivalent for lands near Long Island Sound surrendered to Connecticut.
That tract is now included in the Connecticut towns of Greenwich, Stamford, New Canaan, and Darien.
This agreement was subscribed by the respective commissioners at Dover, then the only village on the west side of the Oblong.
The dividing-line was not run regularly, and this gave rise to a vexatious controversy, which was settled in 1880.
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