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The River Towns of Connecticut: A Study of Wethersfield, Hartford, and Windsor (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science) - Softcover
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This informative work covers three main areas: early settlement of the towns, the land system, and the inhabitants. The Connecticut River area lay as undisputed territory between the English settled in Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, and the Dutch settled in New Amsterdam and Fort Orange until the mid 1630s when both groups noticed the potential wealth of the land. The English moved quickly to establish a sturdy little trading house which seventy Dutchmen contested with an "exhibition of bluster. [all of them] girt about with... the panoply of war...." But the English were unmoved and the Dutch withdrew. By 1653, all three towns were in varying degrees of settlement: Hartford had "a Dutch fort of doubtful permanency," Windsor had "a strong well-established palisaded block-house," and "in the meadows of Westersfield" about thirty English planters had set up residence. All of this was "in the midst of half friendly and hostile Indians." In the end, it was the English who permanently settled the river country. The land-system section describes dealings with the Indians; grants by the General Court, early town allotments, individual grants, proprietors' commons, the common meadow, and the evolution of the new towns. And the final section discusses the inhabitants: freemen, householders, and proprietors; the growth of the official system; constables; town meetings; and rates and fines. The time period covered by this work concentrates on the 1600s but also covers the early 1700s in some areas. A new every-name index provides easy access to individuals mentioned in the text
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- PublisherHeritage Books
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 1556134096
- ISBN 13 9781556134098
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages128
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The River Towns of Connecticut, Seventh Series VII-VIII, IX: A Study of Wethersfield, Hartford, and Windsor [Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science]
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