The fathers of New England; a chronicle of the Puritan commonwealths . in ion we do not know, hv said afterwards that it the people who removed, be iey aot want to go away without a frame of govern - agreed on beforehand and did not want to rnize any claymes of the Massachusetts on over them b of Patent. tly the people going to Connecticut ed to get as far away from Massachusetts with their commission, in the summer ofmembers of vn church to the ^ite^ulh^i^^&M orii lo noiJoalloo srfl nl .gniinmq luni^i-io adt \q vqoD Hooker, their pastor, and Samuel Stone, tant, made a famous pilgrimage
The fathers of New England; a chronicle of the Puritan commonwealths . in ion we do not know, hv said afterwards that it the people who removed, be iey aot want to go away without a frame of govern - agreed on beforehand and did not want to rnize any claymes of the Massachusetts on over them b of Patent. tly the people going to Connecticut ed to get as far away from Massachusetts with their commission, in the summer ofmembers of vn church to the ^ite^ulh^i^^&M orii lo noiJoalloo srfl nl .gniinmq luni^i-io adt \q vqoD Hooker, their pastor, and Samuel Stone, tant, made a famous pilgrimage under aer skies through t :y between husetts and the Co Bear- »g Mrs. Hooker i> them, tr and cl d Har already oc< d there in ihose wly an ^ime, . icting. THE WORK OF SETTLEMENT 61 from similar motives, took the same coursewestward, but instead of continuing down theConnecticut River, as the others had done,stopped at its banks and made their settlement atAgawam (Springfield), where they built a ware-house and a wharf for use in trade with the lower settlements, Hartford, Wethersfield, andWindsor, became agricultural communities; butSpringfield, standing at the junction of Indiantrails and river communication, was destined tobecome the center of the beaver trade of the region,shipping furs and receiving commodities throughBoston, either in shallops around the Cape or onpack-horses overland by the path the emigrantshad trod. Pynchons settlement was one of thetowns named in the commission and, for the firstyear after it was founded, joined with the othersin maintaining order in the colony. The commission government came to an endin March, 1637, and there is reason to think thatduring the last month, an election of committeesto
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