Goshen Connecticut

Author : Grant Powers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333947613
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book An Address Delivered to the People of Goshen, Connecticut, at Their First Centennial Celebration, September 28, 1838 (Classic Reprint) written by Grant Powers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Address Delivered to the People of Goshen, Connecticut, at Their First Centennial Celebration, September 28, 1838 But in 1631, eleven years after the settlement of Plymouth, Wah - quimaceet, a Sachem of the Connecticut valley, came to the Plymouth colony, and thence he went to Boston, soliciting the governors of these colonies, to make settlements in the Connecticut valley, promising as an inducement, to supply the colonies with corn, annually, and he would make them a pres ent of eighty beaver-skins. The governor of Massachusetts declined the proffer, but Mr. Winslow, the governor of Ply mouth, came on in a ship, discovered the river and the adja cent parts, and learned the true cause of the Sachem's solicitude for an English settlement in the valley. He was expecting an invasion from the terrible Pequots, at New Lon don, and he thought he might find his safety from an English settlement in his territory. The next year, I632, the people of Plymouth made still further discoveries, and fixed a spot for a trading-house and this was in Windsor, a little below the entrance of the Farmington river into the Connecticut. In 1633, John Oldham, of Dorchester, and three others in com pany with him, came through the wilderness to Connecticut, the first Europeans who ever performed this tour. They were hailed by the Sachem with joy, and received 'a present in beaver. Oldham found Indian hemp growing on the mead' ows spontaneously, and in great abundance, and on trial, found it to. Be superior to the hemp of European growth. The same year, William Holmes of Plymouth, prepared a frame for a trading-house, at Windsor, and putting it on board a vessel, with materials for covering it, sailed for the Connecti cut river, but did not arrive till September. In the mean time, as early as June of that year, the Dutch from New York entered the Connecticut river, purchased of a Pequot captain, twenty acres of land in Hartford, built a fort, and mounted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.