Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . d Weathersfield, Windsor, and Hartford, and in1639 adopted the name of the Connecticut colony and drew up a written consti-tution, the first ever framed by a body of men for their own government. Othersettlements were made and Saybrook united with them. The most eventful incideut in the historv of Connecticut was the war with 60 SETTLEMENT OF THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES. the Pequot Indians, who were a powerful tribe in the e
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . d Weathersfield, Windsor, and Hartford, and in1639 adopted the name of the Connecticut colony and drew up a written consti-tution, the first ever framed by a body of men for their own government. Othersettlements were made and Saybrook united with them. The most eventful incideut in the historv of Connecticut was the war with 60 SETTLEMENT OF THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES. the Pequot Indians, who were a powerful tribe in the eastern part of the tried to persuade the Narragansetts to join tlieiu, but Roger Williams, wholived among them, persuaded Canonicus, their chief, to refuse. Then the Pequotscommitted the fatal mistake of going to war alone. The settlers, fully roused totheir danger, assailed the Pequot stronghold with fury, one summer morning in1637, and killed all their enemies, sj^aring neither women nor children. Thusa leadijig tribe of Indians were blotted out in one day. THE NEW HAVEN COLONY. The New Haven colony comprised the townships already referred to as lying. PRIMITIVE MODE OF GRINDING CORN. on Long Island Sound. It was settled in 1638 by a company of English immi-grants, who were sufficiently wise and just to buy the lands of the towns were settled, and in 1639 the group took the name of the NewHaven colony. Neither of the colonies had a charter, and there was muchrivalry in the efforts to absorb the towns as they were settled. The majoritypreferred to join the Connecticut colony, for the other, like Massachusetts, wouldpermit no one not a member of church to vote or hold office. THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT. What is known in the history of England as the Commonwealth, established THE CHARTER OAK. 6J by Cromwell, came to an end in 1660. Charles II. ascended the throne, andWiuthrop, governor of the Connecticut colony, which had now grown to be thestronger of th
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