What to see in America . The Ancient Gristmill at New London Connecticut In the autumn of 1633, men in a little vessel fromPlymouth sailed up the Connecticut and built a trading-house at Windsor. Within two years settlements had beenstarted at both Windsor and Wethersfield, and a fewmonths later Hartford was founded by a party of sixty^ men, women, and children who marched overland from thevicinity of Boston, driving their cattle and swine beforethem. About this time Lieut. Lion Gardiner with thirtymen built a wooden fort and some houses at the mouthof the river, and called the settlement Sayb
What to see in America . The Ancient Gristmill at New London Connecticut In the autumn of 1633, men in a little vessel fromPlymouth sailed up the Connecticut and built a trading-house at Windsor. Within two years settlements had beenstarted at both Windsor and Wethersfield, and a fewmonths later Hartford was founded by a party of sixty^ men, women, and children who marched overland from thevicinity of Boston, driving their cattle and swine beforethem. About this time Lieut. Lion Gardiner with thirtymen built a wooden fort and some houses at the mouthof the river, and called the settlement Saybrook. TheLidians went on the warpath in the autumn of 1636 andcaptured two Saybrook men who had gone out huntingwildfowl, and the cows sometimes returned from pasturewith arrows sticking in their sides. The fort was be-leaguered through the winter. In April the Pequots killedE 49 50 What to See in America. Knlkujr iSAYBKooK Point Light % nine of the Eng-Ush at Wethers-field, and carriedaway two maid-ens captive. Thisroused the colony,,^ to send ninetymen against thefoe. The forcewas accompa-nied by seventyfriendly Mohe-gans who madea foray at Saybrook and brought in five gory Pequot headsand one wretched prisoner. The Mohegans killed theirprisoner that night and ate him while they danced and sanground a large fire they had kindled. The expedition went by water to Narragansett Bay andobtained the help of two hundred local warriors. Then itreturned by land to where four hundred or more of the enemywere in a palisaded fort on what is still known as Pequot Hillnear the Mystic River. A night attack was made, and theassailants swarmed into the fort and set fire to the the Indians except seven were killed or burned. Therest of the tribe concluded to emigrate beyond the traveled along the shore in order to get a daily supplyof food by digging shellfish, and the English f
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