CENTENNIAL

   

BY

J. H, HAYDEN,

9. Nmrirzm ow WINDSOR, coma‘, %

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UN BINAD STREET GREEN, wmmsuii, i

J"QTL'SZ' "92, lave.

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PUBLISHED BY REQUESCI’.

. HARTFORD :
Pfifitfifi 01+‘ '1‘.E£I£ qasn, LOOKWOOD & mmxmzm commmiz. ~

1876.

ADDRESS.

Ono lmndred years ago today, :1 Windsor soldior in the
city of New York sat clown to write a. letter to his parents.
Two days before, VVosllingt011 had issued an order to the
a.r1ny.,po:*trayi11g tho perilous oouditioll of the ooulltry, and
the momentous interests at otalce in tho imp(31‘.ldiI;g battlle.
Fillcling in thio Ol7‘dl31‘ wlliiit best expresseld hio own soilftimeflto

regfzxrcling the situation, the soldier copied from it until clrum~  

boat called him to lay aside his pen, and resume his muskot.

CAMP NEW YoR.K,Jo1y 4, 1776.

Honored Father and Motfier :

 The time is now near at lmnd which must probably deter-
mine wlu:2tl1e1* A::no1~ica.ns are to be free men or slaves : whether
they are to lmvo any property they can call their own ; wlsctlxer
tl1(‘.iF* houses and farms awe to ho pillagocl and destroyed, and
filmy consigned to :1. state of wrotollodncss from which no hu-
man ofibrto will pr-obalo>Iy clel'n*or them. The fate of 1Zml)0I‘II
millions will xxmv doopoml, ulzdor God, on the courage and
conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrolcilting one-my
leaves us no clmico but a, b1*a;vo rooistance, or the most ahjoot

submission. 'l‘l1is is all we can expect. We have, tlle:~oFo:*e, 
to resolve to ooxxqncr or die. Our oo1u1try’s honor calls upon 

113 for a ‘vigorous and manly ('_‘XQl'll0ll., and if we now slxmno--
fully fail, we shall booomo infmnooo to the whole uFo1'ld. Let

no rely txpon the goodsxoos of our cause, and the aid of tho  

Supreme Boing, in whose llmliils viotory is, to animate arzdoéilé
oourago us to great and ll0l;ll(3 actions. Cl‘l:o eyes of‘ all our
coumzryxnen are now upon us, zmd wo sllmll have their blos-s~

inlgs and pmiaos if, happily, we we the l3ISt1‘l1InO11tS of osavillg  

them from the tyranny moditatcd agollxot them.

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Let us animate and encourage each other, and show to the
whole world that a freeman contending for liberty on his own
ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

The General recommends to the officers great coolness in
time of action, and to l3l1.e.SQl(li4’;31"‘S strict attention and obe»
dience, Witla it becoming firmness of spirit.

The drum heats, and!Nl;_‘y:};1t;st l}q11'_ml‘§}H_()11i‘; with fatigue men and
main guard. ’ Tis, thanks be to God, pretty healthy in the

Your affectionate son,
HEZEKIAH HAJETDEN. 

 lWl1ilel%thislsoldier, to whom we shall again reifexf, sat oopye

 those noble sentiments in New -Yorl:,_John Hancock and

his associates were signing the Declaration of Independence

at Plziladelpliie----a declaration which would have availed

1‘;ot11i1l1g, but for the good right arms of the soldiers who do-
fended it, and the patriotic ‘zeal of those at home, who S1137’
taioed the soldiers. It is fitting that we ‘to-day e1?eyc'all- some‘ of
thecsacrifices and ,services rendered by this mother of towns,

in the aocomplishmentlof‘ the Independence whichthis

great nation celebrates to—day. It is fitting that the children

,o0rr1ei'ortl1 today to l10}'}{)1' the Worthies who one lumdred

years ago Won our independence, -and take lessons in love of
countr , from the story of the past. a
None of the school children before me have ever looked
upon a soldier of the Revolution. Some in middle life have
talked with those Whose memory ran back to 1776, and a. few
of us who have lived more than half a cent_mfy have listened
to the tales of the old soldiers themselves. We will repeat
something from these revolutionary stories, and then turn

.b‘£LCl{ to history to examine briefly what lied been the training

of the generations which preceded them, and which qualified
the people of 1776 to deliberately meet, and brafvely endure,
the fearful trials of that culminating hour in your history,
wliich severed our colonial depexidenoe and gave us Indepozide
ence. ‘ - J ' A

Open hostilities had broken out .be.t-ween‘ .the ypooplgei of

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Massachusetts and the 1110111311 'oo1.111t1ry more tl'1a.11'a,jyoa5.ir be»

fore the sigzzingof the dooloz-2:1tio11.

1 I need not tell those school 1:1oys'of P3111 Rover-o’s11*i<Io to
rouse tho people to resist the iB1*iotish s1;1l1§l1o1~s 111110 wo1'e“ 1oo1v-
i11gBosto11 to destroy the militzwy stores :11; Co11oo1*d, or the

,resista.111oo they 111ot;: ’The1‘o- wmss no ’i‘o1.og1':1phio oo1111m.miooa.—-

tiou to ‘say to tho pooplo of Co1111ooti1o1‘1£;1on that 19th day of

.Ap1‘i1, 1775,-Wh€Lt VVELS being done at IfJoxi11_o;t<)11 11.1111 Co11oor1:1.

But wI1o11 those “ RG11-coats” 112111 li1oo11 poltorjl hook: to .B(".)StO11,

1tl1o1'o wont forth oou1*ie11*s to sp1*oz1d 1;11o 111111111 tI11'o11g}1 New

E11g1a11d. ’:[‘l1o d:1y1a{'to1*, on tho ‘;'2’.0tl1 of’ A.'1’_)1‘i1., the people of
this part of Wi11dso1* were 11.tto111ili11g‘ 1.119. I’1‘111o1f:i1.1 of tlxoir I;’os-

tor, Rev. M1‘. R11sso11. 1Wl1i1o ‘filmy woro o11g;o.goc1 in those

_so1*1?iCoo, oitl1o1* at theiir oh111'o113 11r'11iol111;l1o11 sizood ot ‘tho no1‘t'!1

ond of tides: g1'e<~31-1, o“ 1’11i1sso11'1l1Io{l z1.1'o1o1121:l 1113 open g1*::u:o, 21
r%do.1' <}row11phis p£mi:i11;__g; Stoocl, £11111 tolzzl of ‘tlxo Batixlo of
I.;oox’i11gto11‘. The f1121o1fo1 somrioos o11(.1o<i1., 1':’:1o111 }‘111'1*,1*ied tot11oi1°
I1o31‘1o1~‘s and seized filfiii.’ 1'1'11"1sl1;oi;<:1; tho 1‘.%1‘o111l131,‘1 war 111.111 come.

In i1nita.tio11 of P5111} R.ovo1'o, 11.11o1;l1or *rie;1o1* on o.fros11 horse
=oi.111g]1t up the show}.

‘L “ And :1 1111171-y of hoofs in 1:1 vi1‘l.z1§g;o Stt'€Gt” soon o£11‘rio1ii tho
dispotclx to S1.1Ffie1d, 111111 1111113 I'1'o1'11 town to town op1*o1:1.d the
“.Lexi11'1gt;o11 1112111111.” "E11111; 11'i_1;'l1t wz1.s ono of [:111'op111'z1tio11,
Mzmy £1, woifo or 1;11otl1o1' toiled t1;1‘o11g11 the 111ig11t, to equip 11
1e1o1dio1'} :ro:.1dy to go f'ortl1o11 the 111o1*1'1;)w. W111311 1;1111sto1'od

on tlmt 21st do of A:11'i1 17'?5 thoro 1.-rizood " 5:?» W 1111:1301‘ mono
Y 1 :1 :1

with Co.ptai11 Na,t1111,11io1 I‘I:1oydo11 at ‘t11oi1- 111:~o<jI, who :11; once
took up their nmro1'1 toxvorélss Boston. '£'i11ro11g11 all that; sum-
xnor and the oo1x1i11g wi111;o1', Wi11{Iso1- moo W1-:1-o o11listi11g into
the army, and 11111311 J 111y i<;Ltl1, 1'1’ 76, 1;1r:1.s 1'oa.o11od, Windsor
Was; almost depleted of her :1b1o~‘i1o1j1io11 moo. Tlzo little
lxoigllboxfixood of Pi11o111oa,dow, now Wizzdsor L'ooks1, ootzsiotocl

-of nine ;fami1ios,---tlxo }1o£1c1 of 1111 b111,.» o11o~of those foznilios,

was in the away. The I3rit;isl1 Izod 11oo11 d1'ivon 0111‘: <1fBosto11,
and were now odva11oi11g on New York, 111111 it W113 of mo»
mo11to1:1s ixnportamoe to7tl1o colonies t11:;1t New York: be held‘.
110.3000 Oormeotiout soldiers wexjo in New York in A1.1g11st$

1776. 1 1

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i tWl1i1eth_encen were bearing arms to uphold the Declare.-4

tiou, the women took up the implements‘ of husbandry, and
toiled in fields. ‘ Many a sunburnt girl who took up the work
of a brother, or father, to supply the necessities of the family,
tookup that work with a patriotic zeal equal to that of the
soldier whose place she filled, and many at doting mother, or
loving wife, put forth heroic efforts to feed the children at
home, and the soldiers at the front. Then there came a time,
when the stern law of necessity required from every barn. in
Wi1adso1', all the grain tl1ere found, above a giveii amount for
each meinber of the household depending upon it. And again
the constituted authorities went forth in search of Lead for
loulletsflt “ V‘
I was once told by Mr. Roswell Miller, whom some of you
remember, that there came a time when. not a clock was
running in Windsor; the lead weights of the last one had‘
been run into bullets. '
We smile when we think of a people submitting to such
exactions, a people who were periling everything in resistance
to the exactions of King George, and the maintenance of the
Declaration of Independence. There wereithose who failed
to see the corresponding good. Mr. Eliakim l\Iather, who
lived on the street nearly a mile north of the old church,
declared the taking of his clock weights to be an illegal and
arbitrary act, and tool: an oath (a familiar practice with hini),
that his clock should stand without weights, until tl1c authority
which tool: them away, returned them. Through all the long
30 years of the old man’s after life, the old clock: was to him
an unmoved witness to his persevering observance of his oath;
and when, at the age of 84, he looked for the last time upon
the face of" his clock, it still gave no sound.
' We now return to the army at New York. From July 4th,
1776, there was great activity in preparing for the coming
struggle. On the 27th of August, was fought the disastrous

lit?“ Lead delivered to the Town’s Men, 1776. Clock weight 109.1.” Capt.
Stoughton, 18 lbs. Capt. E.llSW0l'Ill, 30 lbs. Rev. Mr. llinsdale, 13 lbs. Josiah
Allen, 28 lbs. David Ellsworth, Jr._, 24 lbs. Daniel Hayden, 24 lbs., and.John
Allen, 14 lbs.-—-I 'ou.-12 Records. ' -

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battle of Long Island. . Washington had met the ssemy
where the city of Brooklyn now stands. and was driven back
with great loss. A dark ‘11igl1t smcl fo§gjgy1no1~11i11g ‘enabled
Gen. Waslzingtoo to :*etros.t back to N. Y. I lmvs listened
to the recital of an old soldier* who stood guard to prevent
ovo1'loadingtl1o boats which pliodwitlx moflsd oars between
B1"o0k1y1'1 and N. Y., all that Illgllt, and until late next morn»;
ing. When the last boats C01ltfl.ll’1l1‘1g‘tl10S(3 who had stood
gosrd, pushed from the shore, tho fog lifted, and revealed
‘their: situation to 3. Regiment of British Horse, who were
cautiously approaching to discover the Am.ori.so,2i army, all too
late to arrest their flight. Amolig the prisoners taken by the
Bi-itish, during that battle, were several Windsor men, who
were thrust into the old Jersey Prison ship. Amonghtllcm
Woro Capt. Bissoll, Cornet Russell, Hosolziali Hayden, N atlxan-»
iel Ls.n:1bori:on, ands Wm. Parsons. The lost three died s.
lingoriiigg death by starvation. Russell barely survived, and
was never after able to speak above :3. whisper. Capt. Biissell
survived some years to tell of the ho1'rors of the Jersey Prison
Ship.

Then some tho retreat from N. Y. It was 3. motley crowd.
Citizens who were committed to the America}: cause with
such vo1ua.bles as they could csr1‘y with tlxsm; soldiers in
regiments, colnpanios, squads and, in single file. Many of
the soldiers paid little 3:eg'a.rd to WIIOSG company they were in
so they were in lo. company Well advanced. In that crowd

was the wife of Major, afterWa.rds, G-on. Nowberry, in 3. car» 7

riagoshe had driven from Windsor to core for her sick 11118-
band. At one point; her cam-iago was disabled, and they
likely toffs-.11 into the hands of their enemies. She pleaded
unsuccessfully with the sick man to suzfifos the badges of his
offico to be removed,o.ndl1e escaped with them on. Jobez Has»

. kcll who had succeeded in b1~i1i1ging off a nmnber of sick

Windsor men as far as Kings Bridge, was ohallongcl bylthe
gua._rd at that point, and his pass demanded. Charging Bay-
onet,lie slxozited: “ Hore’s my pass, stand out of the Way,”
and his invalid corps Was soon beyond pursuit. ‘l Ono VVind-4

ii" Phineas Pickett.

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sor man who was struck by it spent ball so inoxeosedyllis:
speed as to leave ollthis oon:11*ads_hel1ind."* Windsor made‘
. strenuous effort to keep her quota, of men in the field during:

all the "war. Nearly every able-bodied lnan at some time be-
came a soldier. Bounties were paidyand heavy taxes bur-.
denod the people. y _

Alamns called forth Volunteers from time: to time, when the
enemy threatened some portion of our own state. The “ Dons-
bory_Alarm. ’’ Was responded to by Mr. Daniel Pl1elps,,.a. manof:

more than three score years and ten? (graxzdfatlxer of the late_:

Dee. Roger Phelps,,) and the late Mr. Daniel G~il1ett,land

probably otl1srs. Each was mounted and carrying a Inusket-L

hastened fo1'wsrd only tomeet the retnxsningo‘volunteers, "svho'
told of the burning of Dnnbur-y, and the retreat of the Brits

ish. The old men siglzed that he could not get “ one shot at;
the Red-Costs.” But tm=ning_; back he reached 2, feruvy Wherie:
nn111bers of impatient riders were ‘Waiting their turn who
with one consent declared tlmt their rule should not apply to.
the old men, and the old 1nsn’s plea. took his companion with

him. Late that night they reached the house of 3. friend;,
Where the weamy old soldier, in utter e::;:l1a,usti.on, laid him
doom and died, and the young soldier returned to his l1ome<
alone. l =

Hayden Station, it nzum of iron nerve, was asked to take the

perilous office of :3. Spy. Weslxingtoxa had asked fora. suit-A

able man, Daniel Bissoll was named, and he accepted the
position, received his instructions, and like his pr-edeoessor,:
*9‘ the Marty}: Halo,” he passed within the lines of the Brit—.

Mr. DaniolBissoll,J1*.,Wl1o lived half a, mile this side at

fish. The thrilling story of his experiences Within the lines,
and his final escape from tlnem, is too long to tell here. In.

my early ehildnood,%in nearly every second house north of

the -iiyer, there lived en old man srlxo had been ex soldier in

the war of the Reoolution, and fl". doubt not, this side of the
riyet*,ya.11d tln-ou.gl1 Poquonoolz tl1e same evidences of patri~f-

-*’*'It was such a retro.-1t as an undisciplined army almost necessarily makes. If
any one is present who psrti::ip:a.ted in the first battle of Bull Run, “ he knows‘
how it was himself.” T " ” ' ' ' ‘ l‘ “

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etisre were equally rnehifeet. More than heif a. century after
the close of the war the pension rolls shew more than fifty
Wi 1'1 deer peneio11e1'e;

After the War was over there was at great Work to be czhme
to establish over the whole country the system of govermnent
ee long; lgrefere oatgenized in N ew England. After ‘twelve yem-s,
(teem the date at’ the c1ee1:1re,tio:1§) of ineffieient geve1'1hm1e31t
zmder the Ceazfedereey, our glerieus Oenetitutien wee 1*'re.:ee<;,l
amd ELdf}[f)"C€i('].. A eietingtzislzed citizen ef VViz.;dee2é, Oliver
Ei}eWer1;h., teek 23. prominent part in the eemreixtien whieh
f'r:m3ed it, <:11*e.t('ti1ee;g tlhieertielee }’t31€tt'iI1-,f._?; te the Jtxdieiary.

T Time Ihrhide further 1-eferenee to c1ete;i1e.ef the war ef the
1'ev01uti011, or later W£t1“S, 01' the daily life and 1;)1*egI'ees ef’ the
ce11tL11'y between us axed the days we Imve been e<:n1side1'ing,
end we have only epa.ee for a brief’ e1*eI'e1-e11ce to the ee11i.1.1ry
éllld at half p'recedi1'1g the :v'eV01ut'i0n————the discipline of whEch
11edpL-epaxecl our f'e.the1-e for the 11eh1e1:)m'*tt11<s:y aC‘.'tE5t1._,€tl:C1
the tze:1ig;leztyi11fl1;1e11ee they exerted in founding 2:1. Republic which
is new the edmix-etioe ef the World. The seed tphimte:;i here

by the ?ilg1*i111 Fathers of New Englzmd was the g1'ewLl1 01'

i'em:1e::~ eee.1tiv:3.tier: Witlzin their church e2?g‘e.:e.i2:etie:1. They
had there leemned and put in preetiee their theory of the
equality of G0d’e people.

A strife in the e111'istiam church had for 22.. century divided
Europe into two ‘great pm-titee, neither of which severed the
e1mre11 from the State. In Eng1a.11él, from the days of Edward
6th, there had been a. stmggle Within the {311I;l1‘f_".11()'f Eixglelxd ;
the one party eoxxtellding; right leyally for her rites and
eerexnenieeg the 0ther(gehere11y a. meagex-111h1o1'ity), as Ieyelly
etteelxed te her cloetrineeg but p(~31‘SiSt811t1_Y and from g;ex1e1-a.ti011
te gez1ere.tien, pleediztzgg fer “ freedom to worship God.” ’i.‘he
government of Exhglexxd, in eeeerdence With the e;::i1-it and
almost ‘universal preetiee of the age ineieted upon unifiarmity
in public Worship. “ Let everytlxing be done with decency
and in mrcler,” Those who dissented, the Pm-itezeze, exgetzzizeti
ir1de'peuc3.ent ehurehee and had meeteixxge in secret pieces fer
1'e1igi0ue service. When thus met, shut out f’1"(|}}'IlI1 the worici,
they read “One is your xneeter even Olzfiet, end all ye are

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brethren.” Notable aniong these churches because of their
after fame, was the little conipany who for 3, long time met in
the liesrt of England Within the old Manor House of Elder

Brewster, and from thence fled, on being discovered, to

Holland, where, sori-oiiiidecl by strerigers of it strange speech,
their very necessities still enililmsized the text, “ and sllye
are bretliren.”

Twelve years they liveé in Eollemti, and We next find them
signing the CC>I_‘1”1péZL(3t on board the Msyflowe1' in Cope Cod her»-
bor, and settling; tlieir church encl state at Plymouth. E;§s’.iZl‘E5111€
measures were instituted in Eiiigjleiid egairist nonconformity,
and the Purito.ns wjere liecomiiigj more and more restiee under
their <;lisebi.lities. Ten years experience at Plymouth had
provetl the possibility of fi1"1Cll1'10' suhsisteiice in the wilds of
New Eiigleod, and in the sonimer of 1630 neegrly 12,000 of
these people came over froxn England and settled in and
around Boston. And new it become necessary so to extencl
the local government of the one town of Plymouth as to cover
a community of terms, and the one restriction in their fro,n-
chise, whicli has been stigmatized as illiberel, was simply the
one restriction which enabled them to make all else free. In
their churches all were equal, all were brethren, and when
the suffrage of the civil state was confined to the members of
their churches, there appeared no reason Why their theory of
church government should not also pre“voil in their civil o;ffs.irs.
The citizens of Dorchester, Newtown, and "We.tert0Wn,l1ad

participated in the organizzetion oi’ the government at the Bay,

anal Wlien they came here and settled at Windsor, Hartford,

and Wetliersfield, they rernoived that one restriction and inede.
their oivil governrnent as free as their olnirch. “He when

brought us over will sustain us.” Five years after their ar-
rival here a Constitution was fr-emecl and adopted: the first

written Constitution defining and limiting the powers of the

governnzient which the World -had ever seen. The compact of
the Pilgrimilisthers simply provided for a goyernntient to be

orgenizectl by a. majority of the people. The majority could. i i

have p1e.cer_l all the power in the hencls of theirworthy leader,
Elder Brewster. Connecticut made 3, Constitution which was

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afte1‘wa.rde largely embodied in the elxerter of (Jhe1*1es' II,
-which was gmnted 22- years 1eter———e, eha::-ter Which, with the
exception of the period of A1"1c11*es;’e usu1'*pet‘ien in Zl;‘67"‘8‘——

when it slept in the hezwt of the ehertex‘ oak--—-—Was the ehe1'ter_

of our liberties down to and through the “War of the RBVOILX"
tien, and for 42 years after the Dee1e1:e,tie11 had severed us
tfrerxa the authority of the mether ee1mtry,, and when our pres»-
ent Cone-ti,t11tin11 wee lmmecl in 1-818. .A.1e:xe11der Weleett, a.
delegate to the c:0nventio11 from Midailletown, though 21 citizen
of VViI1dsae:r until his eppeiI11t1ne11t to the eu£;t0111 house, there
cuppeeeéi its; edoptieim, declaring it “ a, mere embociiment of
fliing Che.1*le:’s OI:e:'i;ez*.”'*' That Written Censtitutiezz of 16%‘,
the model of the Ceeetitution Of the Union end. of 80 many
Smetee of the Union, was largely the Work: of Roger Ludle,
one of the fix-st eettlers of Wi11deo1~, whose house ‘lot was a.
little ec)u'th «:>f‘11e, within the eouncl of my voice. R0g;e1- Lud-
le '21s the first Deputy Governor ulxiiler t].1atfiI*et Conetitm
tiee_., mxcii helped to eete.bIisl1 the first precedeiits in legisletien
mzder it. As at at later day, Oliver Ellswmrth of ‘Wizacleor, in
the e::Lp:Le'it_y of Senate:-, aided in eh::Lpi11g the first legislation
under the O::'mstituti0I1 of the United States. And as Chief
Justice, presided over its Supreme Court, the rules of which
Cfourt er-2 said to Imve been largely eopiecl from the Rules 0?
the Gemixectieut Courts. t

I have thus attempted to trace the erigin of Republicanism
in New E:‘1g1a.1:<:1, and the ixxfluenee of it threugll fem’ or five
ge11e.m,ti0ns, in molding the ehe,r:e.ete.r of those who fought
the battles of the revolution, and elxanged their a,11egia.nce
from the King of Eng1a,11d, to the Ame1'iea.n Republic, with-
out e1e1e11g;i.1*1g the fo1*m or spirit ei‘ their civil govemment.

The tewn meetings of Windsor, at the present day, are
gevemed hy the Same rules em: fathers lled, and have no
more power, and are no mere free, than they were we eentu-
rice ago. ‘

I must say a. Word of that first ge11er'a.ti011 of W0rthies“who

plautedthis town. Their homes in Engmnd had been seat %

tered eves: the counties of Deve:1, Dereet, and See:1e1*eetshi1*e,

t **J0hJ:1 M. Niles in Stiles’ History.

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and of their WOi'tl1 it is said that ‘‘ threel counties were sifted
for so goodly a, emnpa.ny.”. A3 befere said, they emrixrecl at
Derelzester, Ma,ss., 1.630, where they Suffered many p1*ivetiez1s,
and they were llamdly more tl1e.11 comfortably settled there,
when the fame of the rich open nueedews on the Cem1eetieut
river led them hitller. The Pioneers of the D€)1‘Cl1€SlI€1“ Ge.
reaehecl here, We thinlc, as early as tl1e.micldle of June,
185353 and about the first of July, and before the Der»
elixesster men llxzlcl cleeidecl just where to locate, §'}§i_1* Rebert Sal»
tem3l:ell’s vessel, with anetlier party arrived to iuake provisicm
for the a.eeen::modati01'1 of ee.1*tai11 Lords and C-lent"leme1l1 in
England, who then antieipeltecl setizlixlzg en the lssmlie of the
CGI‘11’l€CflC1.1l3.

“Within a year of the set1t.le1:t:1ent of l-Besten, £1. Witlclser lt1-
dial’: went down to Boston and Plyz‘n<mt;le: i12xr.iti:1;§t1'mf1e am

settlenueniz. Plymeutlx accepted the i1‘1VllT:i‘i,l7lf)}1 amtl sent Capt.

Holmes in the fall of 1633, with l'1']ELl1(;‘.l‘li1l 1111- :11.‘ ’l§‘1':1diu;_;;' l*~l0use,
wllieh line set up and fortified cm the west mm}: of the Gene
neetieut, below the mantle: of the ’l‘m‘:xis.-f

"' Jenn.r.lmn B1'ew£_~'.ter, who wrote from the ’_l.‘r:u.'ling Irlanse, of the :u'1'iv:1,l of
the .Dercl1esterA people t:u:1£le1* {late of July 6, 1636, “ for the flrsst: Co. Imd well
nigll stervetl, had it not been for l'.l1lS,llOt‘lSB, for wum; of vir;-.tunl$s, I being f01'e¢-zrl
to supply twelve men fer nine clays t(3getl1e1*, and those Wl'll(;‘.ll cmue last I (miner-
izainecl as best we could, helping both them (:u'u'l 1:l1e catllers.) with cunt;-es n.m'l
gjtxicles. They got me to go with them to tl‘1eI)1l1tc:I§11W;c) see if tlley ('.<’.)l1](l p1'm:u1'e
st.m1e of them to have quiet settling ne::1r tl1(a11'I.—-—§::l‘1'1e l':l:11'tl‘m'(I people }m.(.l nor,
:1r1'ive§3l Alec I gave their goods lttense morn :Lcconling to tzlwir en.rnc::st 1'uque:at.,
and what trouble and cl1z11'ges I slmll be furtiher at I know not, f'm- tl1e_~_v are com-
ing daily, anti I expect these hawk again from belmv wI1ithe1' tlxey l1:1Vt;'. gone to
View the c01111t:r;.r.” Aml the Sa.lt:onst::1ll pzmzy who werntecl the 1L)cn'clu.=2sste1' pa.1-lzy
to give way and let them lmve the l:.1-ml :Ll)out the '.l."'un:«:_is, smtetl in tl1o..Ir confi-
plnint the next year tlmt when they mrivetl, the D0rc.l'1estc:r men 11nd not re-.t.1n'1.1v::cl

from viewing the land “above the falls,” 2.’. e.l1ac1 r1otac:tue.lly t:'Ll;e11 up the:

grolmd.

’r’I‘11e l’lymeutl1 people reI;ainec1 possession ef tlmir Tmcling I-Iomle and luncls
adjacent, two years l)efo1'e amcl three years after the arrival of the I)e1'el1e:-st.er and
Sultenstnll people. They were m'nena.ble he the jm'is¢:liel;i<m of the GrL‘.}‘i!el*12.l
Court, [See Colonial Reeorcls, vol. I, pa.;._:;e 16.] ’l‘l1ei1:1a.n£ls were entezresl 021 the
town 1'ec._01*r'ls with the lands of the Olillcl‘ settlers; they’ s1m_1'e<.l their Inrlimz tille
with the Dorellester people for a. valuable collsicleretion, 1'et;tinin;;; one-elxteenah
part; tl1e1'cof, whic:11 alnemltecl in meadow l%¥..fl€l to 43% aeree which xme set. to t1':em
ameutlud their 'l‘rading House, and tlzey eezltinzzetl 11;} ¢ac{;u;_:s;s,v it a full y§3a,1*a.ft;e1‘

13

’.§_‘i_1(:: l',:<)::*a:}s<. and Ge1L1t1e.m(m of Sa1st01‘1s‘tal'1’.*5' pawty, fixzclirzg
praspect 0!‘ m“;~.1i::af f"r<:>n1J t}1u:i:* climlailitiesat 1“s0:11e, amgzciazzed

Ti;l1ei1‘"pl:L1: of e1‘I1ig;1‘a1:i0‘11.3 and ma find Mr. Fralzcis Sti'1e.% ::1,:i‘€.i

the meu1111de1*I1is clxamge ;~3}1a1~i1ag with the Dp:*che>;stc1* men
in L119 first clisstribtxtioxx of iand, 16%}; at which time all the
lzmd an the mmgl from ‘Elm Little or ’[[‘m1xi:3 river to ‘?i’n:x.
fEI.:x.yr;1c::*1’:is 101:, Hay(1e11 St::1ti0n3 w2;1.s laid out in lgmiiding 1<3i:a;*"
011 ‘£21.19 :-3m.11:l1 side: of the 1"ivc3a1‘., the 1*<:):.1d mu fI‘tj)1'II the i‘c31r1*y‘ to
the }:sresc=mt 1'es%idm1c:e of David Row1a,:;c1, tiimxce south is
the mizzt wlzercr. it nmv if.11:-5:13 west. On this mm“1 xxrmfe the
}‘1<>:k£aess ef f"o11:;' prmnimaut se.tt1(—:1's. Tim mzxcl ran: :30 f.:u' xverst
as to rr3a.<;:h the uplamfl :2l><mt the mesexzt i:r:u;:t of the 1‘z1,ikma.d,,
‘WI’1€§11ittl}i'.11(-Ed stzmth, fellowing the :.1pIa,11d, }:>1~<;1i:2a,'i)ly bclaw
the. p1;*ese111;1*c.>:u:1, he the islzmal, crc)s&;i13.g omr amd d0w.11 the
island, zmd c)z1.1:%l1:*m1,<;3,*l1 the znazufloxm to _13Ia1*t[“():'cI. F1'o11ti11g.;
on this 1*c>:1<:l, and the littié 1‘x1ea,d<;:w, were nilxa or firm. H011:-;:‘(:&3‘,
b€3tWG(:3I'_} the 1*:_:’ms of £123 1.m1'n<3<f1 mill and thc: point xvIm1*e the
mm Cil*C}i:§’SGd to the island, and on the ‘ialaud weave located :3<::ver:;>.1
S£3tt1(3l'S. .B1*0iLLd St. was not then {)pe11ed., 1%;2ut the 1'r:;a,d from
the mill :::uins comixatxed west to the Di.:at:*ict E3cl:m1%fIouse3
and t1'1eI1<::é3 cm to the “' Old Mill,” :}J.1d h0y01'1(i. In 1311i{~5 Vi{:_§;>.—-
ity :3ever:.11 families settled, and it fmv yeam la,te1* five 1‘21mi.1i%e:a
set;t;1cc;l in P<)qum1::>ck to cultivate the 1'i"18i1.dOVVS{'118I‘(’3.

,1}: 0%!-135311;; let 1116 cc>:1g1‘:2,t11‘1o,te the citiicens of this I€[ist0:*ic
’J.‘cnw11, on tim ricsll i1111ez.*%it:«.mce y<m1m,ve. Cherish the virtm=:s.,
:_1,n<:l c:r1'11*11at%;g,A:%‘f1:110 11(.21'<:)i<:: c1e(3ds<:i»f izhosse Wm“; lmve precetgled
ym1,——-wh.o {l.:11mmt:i and rqiuicecl. Appxmziate the 1.>1e5.as~
ingéts 01' thcs: lot: God h:1,.=s given ymt, as did ‘t1m.te111i11ent st2ztes~
1113,11 zmd jzrwist, tlmt“. g'e11i:,Ll 11e'ig11l;)01'a11d f'1‘icmd of our %1"21tI1m*s,

...._...w.. u... . W ......_.

tiwy wcrcs zne.r;_geci in Fm} fifllloxvship with the ‘Wi'ndsm‘ pcargzlu, smd win-3:: zrzey sold

tlmirr zzlfiztdisxv in 16:28, they salt} “ Izmda, lzouses, set-v::,‘:1t.e;, goods and cIm.I;te1s.,”-‘-—
1}1£:re, &‘Vr~;‘:5 no 1n*e:Ll<, 1)<3t\s*ee11 the scshlcxnerzt of the Plyrnouth penple. and the 1:301-~
(:}n:s;t::1‘ jmc.:plL1. "I

 I!vI”.z9. Imzntzis Stiles’ hc>mc1ot: coveracl the site of the Cihief‘ Justice E11:3worLh
pitzczta. Ail iihu f}(}iiS{*.S xvcre at first set an t}'m east; side <31’ the ¥“€}£3.d, 01": the 1)1‘{}\\?

-:21!‘ the I\@Imuf{mv 1:313, {mm whaxmstr. £Im_v 12911111 f)Vl;'.l’I()()1§ Llléil‘ c11Itiv:Lm3.¢1 huuls. All

<3l,e513.xv::.sm1 unh1'o1<t.3:1. fu:'esi'.. The czttwes and ::1':;§k:s in £}1:;1,t: mad, the beatm
t'.m<:k ofwfris.-.11 seven g;enex'::'t.i0z‘as lmvaa i'::)}1mv:3a:1, were made, 120 caxwy the 1*0a.d to
¥.hs;: imnzsc uf cmzh uf‘ the first s<3:tt1<31's. '

14%

L_E11\.SW.01'th:,L -W110, 1.19211“ the c1os§:.:.~:;;f‘__'1%i_ié 1ife¥;1btféd;.t0%15e§‘

 peat, Air}. Allis 0WI:3;terse %‘1a,ng1mge,* as V the %resu1ts.Qf% his

1ifVee§:perie21;:e: V ~ % - % .

j “I llafike tljaweled through Sm-'e1“a;l_ cO_ Li11t1?i'és%%; I_% lbve 

own the best. I have txmreled t11ro11g1:ia;11 ft11e%Sta.tes of our

‘Uniong I p1'ef'er GOI'1.11(3CtiC311f» be°Fm‘e any otller. Windsor is %

the p1ea.=3a,11test town in C01111e0tic11t, and I have the p1easa11t-
est place in Windsor. I am co11tent, perfectly content, to die
on the banks GE t11e%C‘0%nuecticut.’r’