. The student's American history . itory as a No-Mans Land or ? LordsWaste, which any Englishman had the right to seize. Actingin this spirit. Captain William Holmes of Plymouth sailedboldly up the Connecticut, pushed past the Dutch fort (1633),and set up a ready-made rival trading-house where Windsornow stands. The next year (1634) emigrants from Watertown,near Boston, built a few log huts at Wetherstield, — the oldesttown in Connecticut. Soon afterward (1635) about half theinhabitants of Dorchester, Massachusetts, moved to the vicinityof Captain Holmess trading-house. They, too, had a hanker
. The student's American history . itory as a No-Mans Land or ? LordsWaste, which any Englishman had the right to seize. Actingin this spirit. Captain William Holmes of Plymouth sailedboldly up the Connecticut, pushed past the Dutch fort (1633),and set up a ready-made rival trading-house where Windsornow stands. The next year (1634) emigrants from Watertown,near Boston, built a few log huts at Wetherstield, — the oldesttown in Connecticut. Soon afterward (1635) about half theinhabitants of Dorchester, Massachusetts, moved to the vicinityof Captain Holmess trading-house. They, too, had a hanker-ing mind after the rich river meadows of Windsor. But the chief emigration took place the following year(1636), when the Reverend Thomas Hooker, the Light ofthe Western Churches, led the greater part of his Cambridge conirregation to theConnecticut. Thecolonists found theirway through theprimeval forests bythe use of the com-pass. After twoweeks journeyingthey reached theConnecticut, crossed Spn^ilfieKTV-^-* lJrvH>kfield ^. I, 6°>* ^
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