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Title: New England : a handbook for travelers
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : James R. Osgood

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ound and trading with the Indians, until June, 1636, when Thomas Hooker ledhis church from Newtown through the wilderness, and settled here. The ParkRiver afibrded a water-power for a grist-mill, which was speedily utilized, andWindsor and Wethersfield, previously more important, brought their grain hereto be ground. The colony was named for an old Saxon town 21 M. N. of London,derived from the Ford of Harts. Three watch-towers were built, and the menof the colony enrolled in train-bands, two thirds of whom had matchlocks,bandoleers, and rests, while the other third were armed with pikes 10 ft. long, andguarded the standard. These train-bands stormed the breach in the NarragansettFort fight. Wahquimacut, sachem of the river tribes, deeded the lands to thesettlers, and gave them a tribute of beaver-skins and com, in return for their pro-tection against Pekoath, king of the Pequots, and the dreaded Mohawks. Underthe influence of stern Puritan pastors. New Haven enacted the Blue Laws, by
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r t 1) T itt1 £) Et BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 21. 135 ;= vhich the penalty of death was visited for the crimes of idolatry, imchastity,; ^ vitcheraft, blasphemy, murder, man-stealing, rebellion, smiting parents, &c.,!^ vith savage laws against Sabbath-breaking and the use of tobacco. In 1765, ai^ .^tarap-agency was established here, but it was speedily broken up by an irruption(*«■ of 200 armed riders from Windham County. In 1790 -ISOO the town became ani important i)oint on tlie great Atlantic stage-road, and 16 lines of stages centredI lere. De Warville wrote here, In Conn. Nature and Art have displayed all theirI reasures ; it is really the Paradise of the U. S. ; and among other products of( .he State, he speaks enthusiastically of the fair Conn, girls. In December, ■815, the famous Harttord Convention, coinpo.sed of 20 delegates from the States\ -f New England, met here, to deliberate on the course of the general gov-^ .mm^^nt in the war with England, to which war many

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