. New England; a human interest geographical reader. meal of theoysters himself. A stream which was the original west boundary ofNew London was the scene of a very odd incidenttoward the end of winter in 1646. A young Saybrookcouple wished to be married, and as the magistrate intheir own place was away they sent word to GovernorJohn Winthrop at New London that they would ridethither to have him perform the ceremony. He con-cluded to ride to meet them. Both he and the weddingparty got as far as the boundary stream, and found itin flood and the ice broken up. They could not cross,but the marriag
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. meal of theoysters himself. A stream which was the original west boundary ofNew London was the scene of a very odd incidenttoward the end of winter in 1646. A young Saybrookcouple wished to be married, and as the magistrate intheir own place was away they sent word to GovernorJohn Winthrop at New London that they would ridethither to have him perform the ceremony. He con-cluded to ride to meet them. Both he and the weddingparty got as far as the boundary stream, and found itin flood and the ice broken up. They could not cross,but the marriage took place just the same. The gov-ernor on his side of the stream pronounced them manand wife, and they on the other side promised to love, Along the Connecticut Shore 193 honor, and obey. Since then the stream has been called Bride Brook. Winthrop had a gristmill in a rocky glen near New-London, and on that spot a gristmill still stands witha great waterwheel on the outside of the building. Itis one of the most interesting colonial relics in New. The old grist mill at New London England. This mill w^as erected in 1712, and even nowit continues to grind as of old. New London had a thriving West India trade dur-ing the half century that preceded the cargoes for export mostly came from the regionnorth and west, and this same region absorbed thelarger portion of the imports. Some of the heavywagons that transported the goods to and from the 194 New England town were drawn by oxen, and others by horses. Fouranimals were hitched to each wagon. It was nothinguncommon for a hundred of these big creaking vehiclesto arrive from widely scattered points and pass in pro-cession down the town streets, raising suffocating cloudsof dust. The teamsters were muscular, red-shir tedfellows, each armed with a long whip, which he wouldnow and then flourish in a way to make it snap with areport hke a pistol. The wagons brought wheat and peas in bags, com inbarrels, casks of hams, po
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