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y should revert to the towns that gave them.
In 1636, Mr. Hooker and his congregation moved to Hartford;
At first called Newtown.Boston recovered her Muddy River ground, but Watertown did not getnow is Windsor, passing up the river above an already established Dutch fort at the point where Hartford stands.
A month or two earlier John Oldham, the trader (of whom more anon), and three companecticut, just north of the Dutch stockade, naming their settlement at first Newtown, afterwards Hartford. During the summer the smaller settlements above and below were increased by the emigration of ix hundred pounds. Plymouth ordered a levy of forty men. Connecticut raised ninety men at once,—Hartford furnishing forty-two, Windsor thirty, and Weathersfield eighteen,—who were placed under the comndians under the command of Uncas, a Mohegan chief, taking the Rev. Mr. Stone as chaplain, left Hartford in three small vessels.
Reaching the fort at the river's mouth he was there joined by Captain
l, maternal ancestors of, 97 n. 3.
Hammond: Ephraim, 95; Jonathan, 90, 95; Deacon Thomas, 71, 95.
Hancock, John: votes cast for him for Governor, 105.
Hardy's Pond, 81 n. 1.
Harold, son of Earl Godwin, 66; received Waltham (Eng.)from Edward the Confessor, 67.
Harrington: Amos, 87; once the richest man in town, 88 n. 1; Benjamin, 93; Josiah, 71; Samuel, 96.
Harrington, George, killed. 61.
Harrington, Robert, bought half of Oldham Farm, 39, 61 n. 6.
Harrington Tavern, 88.
Hartford first called Newtown, 35 n. 1, 40; Dutch fort at, 35; 42.
Harvard College, 44 n. 3, 49, 58 n. 1, 77, 117, 119, 123.
Harvests, scanty, 33.
Hastings, Lt., Eliphalet, and others indicted for riot, 105; Joseph, 70
Hawkins, Tim, whipped and branded, 60.
Hay of Mr. Phillips and others burnt, 17.
Hay-scales, lofty, 84.
Haynes, John, first Governor elected by ballots, 34.
Hell's mouth, poor-house of 1750 at, 96.
Hemp, better than the English, grows at the Connecticut, 35.