The Modern Traveller: a Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, And Topographical, of the ... 1
The Modern Traveller: a Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, And Topographical, of the ... 1
J Josiah Conder
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Winthrop and the patentees, however, confined his exertions to the grounds on Connecticut River, re- quiring him to erect a fort near its mouth, for the lecority of the river and the safety of the planters* The fort was scarcely completed, when a party sent by the Dutch of New York, arrived at the entrance of the river ; but the English, having mounted two can- non, forced them to retire.* The next spring, those who had been compelled by famine to revisit Massa- chusetts, returned to Connecticu...t. They were fol- lowed in June by another company, consisting of about one hundred men, women, and children, headed by their minister, Mr. Thomas Hooker, who, travel- ling through the wilderness, laid the foundation of Hartford.! Attempts had been made, soon after the oolonixatioii of Plymouth, to begin a settlement in the territory to the north of Massachusetts, now called New Hamp- shire, under the patent granted by the Pl)'mouth or New England Company to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason, (two active members of the • The Englteh fort wn called Ssybrook Fort from Lords Say and Seal, and Brook ; and the same name was subsequently given to the town.— D wight, vol.
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