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Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of persons of refine-ment and culture, and com-prised many of the oldest andmost valued citizens of theBay colony. They were at-tracted to the valley of theConnecticut by the superioradvantages which it offeredfor the prosecution of the furtrade, and by the great fertil-ity of its soil. They hadno guide but a compass,and their route lay throughan unbroken wilderness. The journey waslong and fatiguing. The emigrants accom-plished scarcely more than ten miles a day,carrying their sick on litters, and makingthe forests ring with their holy hymns. Atlength the site of Hartford, whei e it was pro-posed to establish the settlement, was reached by the first of July. The greaternumber remained there; some went higherup the river and founded Springfield, andthe rest went to Wethersfield, where therewas already a small settlement. In the same year the younger John Win-throp arrived from England, with orders fromLords Say and Brooke to establish a fort atthe mouth of the Connecticut River. Thi^
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JOHN HAMPDEN. he accomplished, naming the new settlementSaybrooke, in honor of the proprietors.The settlements in Connecticut grew rapidly,the excellent soil and pleasant climate attract-ing many emigrants to them. The existence of these settlements wasprecarious, however. The region in which 152 SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. they had been planted was the country of thePequc>d3, who inhabited it in large numbers.They were the most powerful and warliketribe in New England, and could bring nearlytwo thousand warriors into the field. Theyoccupied the southwestern part of Connect-icut, and their territory extended almost tothe Hudson on the west, where it joined thatof the Mohegans. On the east their territorybordered that of the Narragansetts, Both ofthese tribes were the enemies of the Pequodsand the friends of the English. This friend-ship was resented by the Pequods, who werealready jealous of the English because of theiroccupation of the lands along the Connecticut.The tribe bore a bad n

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