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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ministers, at their head, startedon their journey. They were about ten days in the woods, travellingin that time something less than a hundred miles. They drove beforethem a hundred and sixty cattle; wagons carried the old and feeble ;these and tents were a sufficient shelter at night. The forest wasbeautiful with the abundant flowers of June and with the tender foliageof the young summer; the woods were vocal with the music of birds, John Winthrop, the younger. 652 NEW ENGLAND COLONIES. (Chap. XXL in that month always in clearest and fullest song; the rains of springhad passed; the heats of the later season had not come; and so, with-out hardship, almost without fatigue, the emigrants traversed the wil-derness, as happy, in their ten days journey, as a modern church-partythat picnics for a day in a suburban grove.They left nothing behind them to regret ;before them the future was rosy with hope.The one touch of sombre color, which, how-ever, took nothing of in-terest and even of ro-
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Hookers Emigration to Connecticut. mance from the scene, was the figure of Mrs. Hooker, who, feeblefrom illness, was carried in a litter. Hartford was the end of this pleasant journey ; then so named in honor of the Rev. Mr. Stone, who was a native of Hartford in England. Wethersfield, and Windsor also, received their names this Towns named in summcr, as Sufficient numbers followed in the path of the Connecticut. i c • i i • JNewtown people, to make them worthy oi special designa-tion ; and higher up the river, Pynchon, one of the earliest of theplanters, and a member of* the original Council in London, begana settlement, with a few others, which soon came to be called Spring-field. At the end of the year there were about eight hundredpeople in the valley of the Connecticut, which, though governed atfirst by commissioners from Massachusetts, was soon an establishedautonomy. But this swarming of the hive was by no means the most agitatingexperience of Massachusetts during this peri

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