Connecticut Historical Collections

ISlillenanans, .... Mineral Springs, Stafibrd, Mission, Moravian, Kent, IMissiun School, Foreign, Cornwall Mohei^ans, present slate of, Mood us Noises, East liaddam, Mauler at Washington, . Murder of Weaseopano, . ooIJ Sandcmaninns, account of, 30') Satan's Kingiloni, New Hartford, . 37G Saybrook i'lalfoi in, . . . . 52(;jScataeook Indians '1-2 Scpii rales at Noith Sionington, 41(J^Sh;.kcrs, in Euhuld, list Society, llrst m N. England, 401) .Ship seen m the air, 531 {sickness at Somers, . . . . 555iSickness, distressing, at Eetlilein, 470:Si]k manufacture, Mansfield, . 4()'/:Silliinan,Ceneral, capture ()1, . 33H'Silvei mine, t)iange, 5'JOjSun.sbury, burning of, by Indians, . 4i)b|Slave, murder bv a, . . . 74|Slaves, Mr. Mal'bone's, iSiiow storm, account of, by Winthroj lOOSunthport, Fairlield, 137;So\vhcag, Sachem at I\Tiildleto\vn, . KIHlSjialdinu', J. and the Indians, . ir.DuSteamhuat, Fifli's, . . . . ll.-);Stee|. Ruck, Washington, '27.'! Stoningtuii, attack on, 285 Storm of wind, hail and rain, Bozrah J 01 .Storm, violent, explosion, &c., Derby ld7|S\vanip light, Narragansells, of, New and Old Lights^ New Haven Conslitu New Haven, invasim Ne\\' Haven Planters Newinglon, history t)f, New London, burning of. New London, queries cuiicernin Newspaper, first in New Haven, Nicknames, .... Nuble, John, first settler. New Milford, 47(;j Noise, remarkable, heard in the air, 4'2blTariirville, Simsburv, iTendv-etMiamtain, North Branford Occum, Sampson, an account of, 339, .'i44'Thanksi;i\ ing defeiied, . Oyster Huts, on Milford Point, . iJoSJTheafei-, Jlartford, . Theulogical Jnstilute, East Wind Perfectionists, ...... 240 Periodical publications. New Haven, list o|-, . . . . ..- . 180 31 -J Jb) 4fci4 ■ri Pe(juols, expedition agaiiLst, Plymouth Hollow Pock, Kine, discovered, &c. Podunk Indians, account of, .. Powder, explosion, Norwich, . Printer, (irst in Connecticut, . Pristni, Newgale, CJranbv, Pi isnu,S!:ue, Weill. •rslirld, . Pri.->on ship, Shelliehfs aLCounl uf, . Punishment of the wouden horse, I'utiiam, CJen. esca])e of, at J loise Necli Putnam, General, monument, . Putnam and the wolf. Thom[JsoiiV'ille, Enlield, . Tin ware, first mannlactured in Conn. Tryon's Letter to Sir Henry Clinton, Type fouiulery, Buell's, . % uack, cancer, epilajdi on, (poetry,) uackery in Willington, • Records, Hartford town, extracts, Ptccords, New Haven, Records, Norwich, town of. Records, Wetherslield, do. . . PJl Red Hill Indians, Glasienbury, . 55!! Regicides, Golfe and Whalley, 150, ^CI) Retreat for the Insane, . . . 3(i Robbery at Bethany, . . . 18(1 Robl.iery at Bethlem, . . . 402 Rocky Hill, Hartford, . . . 3!) Ilogeriiies, .... 271), 347 Sachem's Head, origin of the name, 21(; Salisbury, Mr., account of, . . 480 Salisbury, remarkable occurrences in, 489 Samp Mortar rock, .... 351 Uncas and Miantonimoh, Uncas' burial ground, Norwich, 202' Uncas, stratagem of, 283 j 01 Vessel built by Col. Ha Isev, • ill 'jsr, \Vad>\voiili, Capl. and Col. Flcteher, aliiW^adswoith s Tu\\ er, 3Mi:Washingtoii College, 4101 Washington, pioceedingson the death 13a of, in Hartlord, .... Well, ancieni. East Windsor, . 20H Well, caving in of, Manchester, 05is Wellcr, Lieut. Thomas, death of, Weslevan University, Middletown, Westbruok, in Saybrook, _ 10-J! Western Reserve, .... 207!AVesimorelanil, town of, . I'nf;c. 301) 47:j 530 471 311 84 101 554 402 552 374 247 102 548 410 , 281 350 507 427 81 408 315 , 3U2 , 203 101 210 305 50 81 , o(; 171 532 205 204 Whaling Song, bv Doct. Osborn, . Wheeler, Mis. Mercy, remarkable healing of, . . . • . Whitelield, preaches in Sharon, Whitneyville, Hamden, . Wilkinson, Jemima, New Mill'oid,^ Windsor settlers, names of, Winsted, 111 Winchester, Witch slojy. East Haven, Wolcuttville, 'I'orrington, , Yale College, history ol', . Yellow fever in New London, 38 5H 00 510 535 28 511 435 ■ 403 2ro 478 127 115 2«8 !(' i 1: ^ i i I '; nHHJf;j<jja«f»Jy<H*4.J».-J«e^lia !l '-< rr FH:-t::i —f:ff-^^^^ I «■;■ r;:;^.,^ , ^ -J- / If ^\A-7' 7''f . ,. :- V .r.,, ; vx v-'-^-A' ' \ ■' L iK'i y'^" rrv Kv.r-"x/i V/^ -. ■^' K'V W-i ' ly^ h -. :„. •'.» N \> • ^ VJi I 41 V f VI' ^> '• '; ^^ '-^'v'^-v': \ /ll s '> " :i-1-'1/f :;';/:: j;.>':;-;. . i' .%' * ,^' !■ >£Vf V. " CONNECTICUT. OUTLINE HISTORY. The precise time when the country now comprising Connecticut* was first visited hy lOuropeans, cannot now be ascertained. It is probable, however, it was (irst visited by tlie Dutch, soon after ihey began their settlement at New Amsterdam, now New York, in 16 15. Whether tlie Dutch at New Netherlands, or the people at New Plymouth, first discovered the river Connecticut, it is not now known. Both the Dutch and English claimed to be the first discoverers, and both purchased and made a settlement of the lands upon it nearly at the same time. In 16:J3, William Holmes and others of the Plymouth colonists, having prepared the frame and other materials for erecting a house, put them on board a vessel and sailed for Connecticut. When he came into the river, he found that the Dutch had got in before him, proceeded up the river, made a light foit, and planted two pieces of cannon on Dutch Point in Hartford. ^Vlthough the Dutch threatened to fire upon him, Holmes procecd(;d up the river, landed on the west side of the Con- necticut, near the mouth of the little river in Windsor. Here he erected his house, and fortified it, being it is said (he first house erected in Con- necticut. In 1G35, a number of people from Massachusetts came into Con- necticut, and made preparations for settlements at Windsor, Hartford, and Wetherslitjld. In October of the same year, about sixty men, women and children, came through the wilderness from Massachusetts to Connecticut river, and arrived at the places of their destination on the 9th of Novcndier.f after a journey of fourteen days. In Novem- ber, Mv. John Winthrop, who had a commission from Lord Say ancjl* Seal, Lord Brook and others, sent a party of twenty men, in a small ves- sel of about 30 tons, from Massachusetts, took possession of the mouth of the Connecticut, and thus prevented the Dutch from ascending the river. The first court in Connecticut was holden at Hartford, April 26th, 16-3G. It consisted of Roi^^er Ludlow, Esq., Mr. John Steel, Mr. Wm. Swaim, Mr. Wm. Phelps, Air. Wm. Wcstwood, and Mr. Andrew Ward. Mr. Ludlow hud, in 1631, been chosen lieutenant "[overnor of Massa- ♦ Conneclicut diTives ils mime iVom tlie river by which it is intersected, called by the nalives (Jiiniiic/.f<;i u/. ; (riu3-l's Indian Wai's, vV'c p. i'.T) Tlu^ wiud, accdrding la sunie, signilics ///,• /,>(/;• rin r ; it has, houover, \u-x\\ si.iicd by nihci^, ihal ihe mean- ing,'ci' Hie word is, /.•,nriif Putcs, iuallusi.in to the (uicsis of pines lliat lornici ly slood t l^r. llawes' Centennial Address, 1835. 2 10 OUTLINE HISTORY. chusetts colony. The Connecticut planters at first settled under the general government of Massachusetts, but they lield courts of their own, which consisted of two principal men from each town. On great occa- sions, these were joined with committees, (as they were called,) con- sisting of three men from each town. These courts had tlie power of transacting the connnon affairs of the colony ; they also had the power of making war and peace, and forming alhances with the natives within the colony.* There were three courts held in \Chi6 ; the principal business done in them related principally to their military alTairs, as " their circum- stances were such, that it was judged necessary for every man to be a soldier." The first court was held in Hartford, as has been related ; the second was holden at Windsor, June 7th; the third at Weihersfield, on the 1st of Se|)tember. In the month of June, ]6'36, IMessrs. Hooker and Stone, with their company, came through the wilderness to Hartford. 'J'here were, at the close of this year, says Dr. Trumbull, about two hundred and fifty men in the three towns on the river, and there were twenty men in the garrison at the entrance of it, under the con)mand of Lieut. Gardiner. The whole consisted, probably, of about 800 ])ersons, or of one hundred and sixty or seventy families. Tiie year IG-'H is memorable in the history of Connecticut, on ac- count of the Peijuot war and the destruction of that warlike tribe. In the year 163'] a number of Indians, in confederacy with the Pequots, murdered Capt. Stone and Capt. Norton, with the whole of their crew, consisting of eight men, and plundered and sunk the vessel. Captain Stone was from the West Indies, and came into Connecticut river, with a view of trading at the Dutch House. In ]G:3G, Capt. Oldham was killed at Block Island, where he w^ent to trade : several of the murder- ers fled to the Petpiots and were protected by them, and were there- fore considered as the abettors of the murdrr.