. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . hus described the Narragan-sett country in 1634: The country on thewest of the bay of Narragansett is all champainfor many miles, but very stony and full of champain we may read, a flat, open country, fitfor farming, and the description is good to-day, exceptfor the absence of the red savages. The ancient landsof those aboriginal Americans, who gave their name tothe country, extended from Greenwich Bay to PointJudith, and from Narragansett Bay westward to thecountry of the fierce Pequots. At a late
. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . hus described the Narragan-sett country in 1634: The country on thewest of the bay of Narragansett is all champainfor many miles, but very stony and full of champain we may read, a flat, open country, fitfor farming, and the description is good to-day, exceptfor the absence of the red savages. The ancient landsof those aboriginal Americans, who gave their name tothe country, extended from Greenwich Bay to PointJudith, and from Narragansett Bay westward to thecountry of the fierce Pequots. At a later day the termNarragansett Country designated little besides SouthKingstown. All the fierce boundary disputes between RhodeIsland and Connecticut, quarrels that occupied theEnglish courts for many years, hinged upon the mean-inof of a sincfle name. The Rhode Island men heldthat when the Narragansett River was mentioned intheir charter, the stream referred to was the Pawcatuck,that had its rise in Wardons Pond, near the greatswamp ; but the Connecticut party contended that the 218. The Narragansett Country 221 western arm of the great bay itself was the intendedboundary. As the Connecticut claim would havewiped nearly the whole of Rhode Island from the map,the dispute was naturally an exceedingly warm one. The most interested and most vehement parties tothe discussion were two great land companies, the firstheaded by John Hull, the Boston goldsmith and mint-master, and the other by Humphrey Atherton. Thereal peopling of the country began in 1657 with whatwas known as the Pettaquamscutt purchase, made byJohn Hull and his companions. All of these, exceptthe leader, are said to have been actual settlers. Theother party, formed two years later, anticipated some ofthe great land speculators of after-days and was not inany way beneficial to the infant Colony. Miss Caroline Hazard, in her valuable study of earlyNarragansett life, says that the Atherton companyseems to have been a specu
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