New Britain herald., 1916-06-09

8e auspices of the Chamber of Com $erce, which has been in progress Sr several months, was brought to a Bose this afternoon, when the com &ittee consisting of G. c. Atweu, C.. ! Steel and Mrs. w. F. Brooks, the Edges formally announced the win ers in the High school and the grade #hool contest.
 & First honors in the High school Sntest went to Miss Hazel Dohren- Eend of 139 Lincoln street. daughter "a MT. and Mrs. F. H. Dohrenwend. e is a member of the freshmen bss, having graduated last year pm the Camp school where she was nsidered one of the brightest schol- in the class. William Humason of 238 High & eet was adjudged the winner in grade school contest. Master mason has just passed fourteen hrs of age, and is a member of & graduating class of St. Mary's rochial school this year.
 j The essays of the successful stu nts show careful thought and are dence of what close application to dy will do. The contest is the ond of it's kind held by the cham and the large number of com itors bespeaks of the growing in est the children in the public ools are manifesting in it.
 The essays of the winners follow: Early History Of New Britain.
 (By Hazel Dohrenwend)
 has been claimed that the title he territory occupied by the early lers of Connecticut was obtained : h from the English and the h. Ens, the grant of Robert, Earl of rwick, to Viscount Say and Seal, per Lord Brooke and others, dated rch, nineteenth, sixteen hundred thirty-one, old style, if having au- -ity, conveyed the territory of necticut and included Pennington,
 Britain and Berlin. About the 8 e time this grant was made, hginnacut, as sachem supposed to living near the site of Hartford, other Indians visited the Massa- Betts colony to urge the English to | e settlements in the valley of the | necticut river. Though this invi- l n was declined, Sowheags Cor l in). known as the "Sachem of | hang" and the "Sachem. of Matta- l ett," sold Pyquang (Wethersfeld) 1 other land to the English. he first settlers of New Britain farmers with such limited edu- &n as could be obtained in that Nearly all had some property, 1 h by frugality and industry was based after they had occupied l new homes. In the eastern part l he parish, commencing at the i nern boundary, there were suc- l lon of farms-some large, and l ts comprising but a few acres. hding south erly, first on the Stan Road and then on both Stanley ] East streets, to the southern l S of the parish. On the north l west, at irregular intervals, were | & ar farms, extending from Stan | uarter and the Pennington Road, l Horse Plain to Pond River and ource of the Quinnipiac, westerly souther1y to Hart Quarter and to the Blue Hills in Kensington. e north part of Stanley Quarter, East street and in Hart Quarter,
 
 and at or about the time of the aporation of the New Britain so-
 in seventeen hundred and fifty most of these farms were pro-
 with comfortable frame houses but buildings. Upon the less fre- ted roads, and near the borders Ne place, were a few log cabins urnbernen's huts. Next to Stan Quarter, East street was. the most Ny settled part of the parish.
 ge center of the society, or that bn of New Britain which con- led the borough in eighteen hun
 and fifty to eighteen hum
 and seventy, and which now Irises the most thickly settled and
 business part of the city, was occupied until some years after ley Quarter. East street and
 quarter had been occupied by Ny farmers and were becoming 3enters of social life. About sev- 3n hundred and forty-six, nearly A years after the settlement at 3tian Lane was commenced, and Hast part of New Britain was oc- Nd, Nathan Booth, the eldest son Robert Booth of Great Swamp, a clearing and built his house Sa the South church now stands. Lad inherited some property from hther and he became a large ah older. and one of the wealthiest inf the society.
 however, the residents of Stan Bstreet and East street, as
 north as tho home of
 min Tvdd had for several
 been petitioning for liberty to
 preaching in the part of the h within the limits of New Brit
 md then for separate society;
 s petition for the latter pur-
 bearing the same date as the 8n of Nathan Booth and others,
 presented to the same General
 ply, the inference was strong,