History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . ONNE^CTICTST \N MASSKCHUSETTS. WmCiNG THE COUNTiES OF/MANKUM. J(AMFSHIEK &^ffAMPDm V r p, ENGRAVED EXPRESSLV FOR THIS WORK ., \ y~^ n\ \ jAdamertlli. /\ HISTORY OF THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY IN MASSACHUSETTS. BY NATHANIEL BARTLETT 8YLVESTER. CHAPTER I. SCOPE OF THE WORK. Around the valley of the Connecticut* River, where, in itscourse from the mountains to the sea, the stream crosses theState of Massachusetts,! clusters an untold wealth of his
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . ONNE^CTICTST \N MASSKCHUSETTS. WmCiNG THE COUNTiES OF/MANKUM. J(AMFSHIEK &^ffAMPDm V r p, ENGRAVED EXPRESSLV FOR THIS WORK ., \ y~^ n\ \ jAdamertlli. /\ HISTORY OF THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY IN MASSACHUSETTS. BY NATHANIEL BARTLETT 8YLVESTER. CHAPTER I. SCOPE OF THE WORK. Around the valley of the Connecticut* River, where, in itscourse from the mountains to the sea, the stream crosses theState of Massachusetts,! clusters an untold wealth of historicmemories. The long history of this valley—long for the New World—begins, strictly speaking, with the story of the building, byJohn Cable and his companion John Woodcock, in the sum-mer of 1635, of a solitary hut on the old Indian muck-cos-quH-faj, meadow, or corn-planting ground, called Ag-a-wam,which lay along the southern bank of the Ag-a-wam River, ahalf-mile above its mouth, on the west side of the Quo?i-eh-ti-cui, nearly opposite what is now the city of Springfield. Or,in a wider sense, it may be said, the history of the Connecti-cut Valley, in Massachusetts, begins with the planting ofSpringfield itself, near Us-quaiok, on the east bank of theQuon-eh-ti-ciitRiver, ov
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