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Connecticut
One of the original thirteen English-American colonies, was probably first discovered by a European, Adriaen Block (q. v.), at the mouth of the Connecticut River, in 1613.
That stream the Dutch called Versch-water (freshwater) River; the Indians called it Quanek-ta-cut, long river.
The Dutch laid claim to the adjoining territory by right of discovery, while the English made a counter-claim soon afterwards, based upon a patent issued by the King to English subjects.
The agent overnment for it was established.
Governor Winthrop's son, John, came from England and assumed the office of governor of the colony in the Connecticut Valley in 1636, with instructions to build a fort and plant a colony at the mouth of the Connecticut River.
A dispute with the Plymouth people arose about the right of emigrants from Massachusetts in the valley, but it was soon amicably settled.
A constitution for the government of the colony in the valley was approved by a general vote of the
Deerfield,
A town on the west bank of the Connecticut River, in Franklin county, Mass.; notable as having been twice the victim of a foray by French and Indians.
During King Philip's War a terrible slaughter occurred a mile from the town, Sept. 18 (O. S.), 1675.
The Indians had burned Deerfield and murdered some of the inhabitants.
The survivors fled, leaving about 3,000 bushels of wheat in stacks in the field.
Capt. Thomas Lothrop, commanding part of a force at Hadley, was sent with eighty men to secure this grain.
As they approached Deerfield they fell into an Indian ambush, and the captain and seventy-six men were slain.
They sold their lives dearly, for ninety-six of their assailants perished in the fight.
The stream near which the scene occurred has been called Bloody Brook to this day. A rude monument was erected on the spot forty years afterwards, and in 1838 another—an obelisk of white marble—was put up there.
Late in February, 1704, a party of French and Indians,
Dummer, Fort.
In the war against the Norridgewock Indians (1723) repeated attempts were made to engage the assistance of the Mohawks, but they were unsuccessful, and Massachusetts was advised, with justice, to make peace by restoring to the Indians their lands.
The attacks of the barbarians extended all along the northern frontier as far west as the Connecticut River.
To cover the towns in that valley Fort Dummer was erected on the site of what is now Brattleboro, in Vermont, the oldest English settlement in that State.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), French domain in America . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gardiner , lion 1599 -1829 (search)
Gardiner, lion 1599-1829
Military officer; born in England in 1599; was sent to America in 1635 by the proprietors for the purpose of laying out a city, towns, and forts at the mouth of the Connecticut River.
He built the fort which he called Saybrook after Lord Saye and Sele and Lord Brooke.
In 1639 he purchased Gardiner's Island, at the extremity of Long Island, then known by the Indian name of Manchonat, and at first called Isle of Wight by Gardiner.
He secured a patent for the island, which made it a plantation entirely distinct and separate from any of the colonies.
It contains about 3,300 acres, and has descended by law of entail through eight lords of the manor, the last being David Johnson, who died in 1829.
From him the property was passed through the hands of his two brothers and two sons.
This is believed to be the only property in the United States which has descended by entail to its present holders (see entail of estates). The manor house built in 1775 is stil
Hadley, attack on.
At Hadley, on the Connecticut River, the Indians in the absence of the little garrison, attempted the destruction of life and property, Sept. 1, 1675.
The inhabitants were in the meeting-house, it being fast-day.
The men seized their arms to defend themselves, their wives, and their little ones from the savages.
Just as the latter seemed about to strike a destructive blow, and the men, unskilled in military affairs, felt themselves almost powerless, a man with a long, flowing white beard and military air suddenly appeared, drew his sword, and, putting himself at the head of the armed men, filled them with courage and led them to victory.
The Indians fell back and fled, when the mysterious leader as suddenly disappeared, none knowing whence he came or whither he went.
It was Col. William Goffe (q. v.), the regicide, who was then concealed in the house of Mr. Russell, at Hadley.
Hartford,
Consolidated city and town of Connecticut, port of entry, and capital of the State; on the Connecticut River and several lines of railroads and steamers.
It is one of the wealthiest cities in the United States for its size, and the greatest insurance city in the world.
Among its noteworthy buildings are the State Capitol, Trinity College, Hartford Theological Seminary, Wadsworth Atheneum, American School for Deaf Mutes, Colt Memorial Church, State Armory, and many elegant residences.
The State library, in the Capitol, contains pictures of the governors of the colony and State, and in the park are statues of General Putnam and Dr. Horace Wells, one of the alleged discoverers of anesthesia, and a Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch.
The city is noted also for the extent and variety of its manufactures, which include machinery, bicycles, fire-arms, motor vehicles, silk goods, drop-forgings, metal castings, cyclometers, envelopes, etc.
English emigrants from Cambri
New Connecticut.
Sixteen of the newly formed townships on the eastern side of the Connecticut River, wishing to escape the heavy burden of taxes imposed by the Revolutionary War, applied to isolated and independent Vermont to be received as a part of that State.
They were adopted (1779) under the pretence that, by Mason's patent of New Hampshire, that State extended only 60 miles inland, and that those towns were west of that limit.
As Vermont yet hoped to be admitted to the Union, and the Continental Congress, disapproving of the proceeding, sent a committee to inquire into the matter, the connection with the New Hampshire towns was very soon dissolved.
An ineffectual attempt was then made (June, 1779) by the towns on both sides of the river to constitute themselves into a State, with the title of New Connecticut.
New Hampshire retaliated by renewing her old claim to the territory of Vermont as the New Hampshire Grants (see New Hampshire). Very soon Vermont began to act o