Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-06

prevented euein iIoIn coming ons shore.
 The settlement was started. and in compliment to it's two noble patrons It was called Saybrook.
 Saybrook was settled in the autumn | The following winter proved to be one inhabitants of the colonies farther up the valley were suffering not only if pm the cold but from hunger. Benumbed with cold, about seventy came down the river, hoping to meet the vessel coming from England with their pro- visions. Saybrook welcomed them and gave them shelter. About twenty miles above the fort, they found the vessel cut her loose, and those who went home reached their destination after a tiresonle and dangerous voyage. The few that remained in Saybrook return ed home in the spring. The Pequot Indians had been uneasy during the settling of Connecticut, though they had not yet seriously harmed any of the settlers. This was not to last very much longer, for ot more than two years after the settle- 1 ment of Saybrook was made the Pe- quot war began. The Pequot India as cruelty massacred not only men but helpless women and children. This was not a war so much as an inhuman slaughter of innocent lives. Saybrook suffered the hardships and privations of this war, which threatened the i prosperity and happiness of this you ag 1 settlement. During this struggle Say- ! brook was often surrounded by the l savages and was in constant danger and peril. But through all these difE- 1 culties Saybrook was kept through the perseverance and bravery of Lion 1 Gardiner
 Fenwick as Governor.
 i After the Pequot war, Col George 1 Fenwick arrived and acted as governor | xsz1- one of the patentees and figures in his- i tory as one of the judges of the unfor- , tunate King Charles the First. He ] was accompanied by his wife. Lady l Alice Boteles, daughter of an English l nobleman. She left behind in England i in the English upper class and came l here to share all the hardshipS of the i wilderness. She died in 1648, nine i years after her arrival Her grave
 was marked by monument erected in her honor. Fenwick began to build new houses and to have the land more ex-
 tensively cultivated. He changed Say brook from a mere fort or settlement I into a town.
 Saybrook was once laid out, with 1 streets and squares. a park, public mart, and wharyes for the shipping. l The colonists began to whisper of the
 arrival of distinguished strangers. l Cromwell, Pyna, Hasselrig and Hamp- | den were expected, but for some un- 1 known reason they abandoned their 1 project. The colonists were disappoint- ed and the city lots were left to return
 Bought by General Court. to their original barrenness.
 T In December, 1644, the General Court Il of Connecticut purchased from Fen wick and those he represented the fort, the adjoining lands and buildings and every claim to the surrounding coun- try. The agreement was that Fenwi K 1 was to have the use of the houses aud
 that duty should be paid to him on all beaver, grain, and biscuit exported ] from the river for ten years.
 The General Court began at once to repair the fort and to make some other 1 Improvements. They requested Fen l wick to be their agent to England in order to obtain an enlargement of the patent and to secure other advantages.
 Lyme Game Later.
 ti About thirty years after the settling of Saybrook settlement was made on the other side of the Connecticut river.
 This was known as East Saybrook. Three years afterwards it was granted d the privileges of town and was
 known as Lyme, after a small seaport
 in Dorsetshire. This is now noted as
 an artist colony and is the home of - many retired sea captains.
 AtSthe same time trouble was arising
 over the boundaries of New York. The
 Dutch had ceded to England New
 Netherland, or New York, as it WAS
 afterwards called. Sir Edmund Andros
 was appointed governor.
 Within a short time, Andros sent
 word to Hartford that in accordance
 with the patent given to the Duke of
 York all the land lying west of the Connecticut river was under his legal
 authority.
 ! As the boundaries of Connecticut had been fixed ten years before this, Con-
 necticut paid no attention to it.
 Trouble Over Boundaries. i Later on. when Andros set sail to
 Connecticut to confirm his authority,
 the authorities at Hartford sent Major Bull with a company of men to Say =
 brook His orders were to receive
 Major Andros with great courtesy, but
 to be firm in all cases concerning the I Boundaries"
 When Andros arrived he was re-
 eetyed with great ceremony and tae
 officers met each other as if they agreed OR all points. He ordered his
 clerk to read his pretended authority. i but theS Connecticut officers would not
 listen, and stood firm in their determi- nation to resist this assault upon the rights Of the colony, and Andros found himself unable to maintain his claim. They parted with outward courtesy, a guard of honor escorted him to the water. and his vessel passed the fort saiutes were fired on both sides SaYbrook was really-the mother of Norwich. because in 1859 Rev James Fitch, Capt. John Mason, the Hunting tons and others came here to settle This was a great loss to the colony Yale college had it's birth in Say brook and the first fifteen commence rnents of the institution were held here before it's removal to New Haven. In the autumn of 1TG8 a convent ,r of Puritan ministers assembled whicf :. | ado pted the Sayhrook platform and fo1 more than two hundred years the Con- 5 i aregatioral churches have stood by s the form adopted in Saybrook by theil ' forefathers.
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