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The Settlers emigrating to Connecticut

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In 1633, when the Plymouth colony had determined to commence the work of settlement, they commissioned William Holmes, and a chosen company with him, to proceed to Connecticut. They took with them the frame of a house, which they set up in Windsor. They achieved their object, notwithstanding the threatened opposition of the Dutch at Hartford, where the latter, after learning that the Plymouth people intended to settle on the river, had erected a slight fort.

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Great Events in the History of North and South America
Charles A. Goodrich
Published in 1851
Available from gutenberg.org
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