New Britain herald., 1924-01-25

ties to have been the son of a London
 tailor. while John Harvard. for whom Harvard University is named. was the son of a London butcher. The father
 of William Brewster. immortal lead -
 CT of the Puritan band that landed at | Plymouth in 1920, was postmaster
 and bailiff of the little village of 1 Scrooby in Nottinghamshire. seventy miles north of Northamptonshire William Bradford, who succeeded
 John Carver of Nottinghamshire as governor of the Plymouth colonists came from Austertield, Yorkshire, | four miles from Scrooby. Indications are that he was also of English yeo-
 man stock.
 Gcosraph, and Genealogy
 This part of northwest England, from which came the families of so
 many staunch American leaders is that part of the island in which the waves of early invasions melted one into the other. The Saxons and the Angles landed along this west coast. fought, conquered and then inter- married with the native Britons. In 870 the Danes overran these rolling grass plains repeating the cycle.
 Then, in 1o66. came the Normans of Viking stock transplanted to France. They did their best to inn press the French customs and French language on the conquered people. Instead out of the welter of antagon- ism between Norman lord and native serf came a new language, the Eng fish language and new people, the English people, drawing from the component races, but hearing detin- ite flavor and individuality unrelated to continental civilization.
 Robin Hood and the PuTitans
 This new racial fusion asserted itself in the very country from which America drew heavily to found the re public. In Nottinghamshire's Sher- wood Forest, Robin Hood became the popular hero representing the. native classes successfully challenging the Norman lords. He was a legendary ideal yeoman, ono Of the class destin- ed to steal kingly prerogatiVe bit by bit to make the institutions of demo- cratic government,
 In Northampton in 12l5 the barons gathered 10 oppose King John and forced the signing of the Magma Carta at Runnymede. It has also been the meeting place Of many par liaments. Throughout this region were stroneholds of the Puritan reNo- lution led by Cromwell. The heritage of independence was brought 10 Am erica by families from this region,
 some Famous Ncrmonters
 "President Coolidge was born at Plymouth. Vermont, Daniel Willard ot the Baltimore and Ohio railway, was born in the neighboring village of Hartland, IS miles from the Coolidge homestead.
 "President Arthur and senator George F. Edmunds were born m tho north part of the state not far from Mrs. Coolidgos biu hplace. Bur Iincton. Ethan Allen, famous Rero- lutinnary hero. though born in Conn | aciicut, livkd at Bennington, Ills ccur- ge led to the drawing np oi con- ,titution at Windsor. fifteen miles | from the Coolidge home, under which | Vermont was q free and independent | state for fourteen years. George liar yoy, former ambassador to Eng land was born at Feacham. Brigham Young at wittingham, Admiral Dew ,v at Montpelier and Admiral Clark | of the famous oregon cruise at some Q miles north of Plymouth. RudFard kipling married | Caroline Balestier at Brattleboro, liN" Ing four years in this city which is .brer-bour drive from tho Coolidge arm. Not far rom Brattleboro lives ,orofby CanAold Fisher, the novelist ybn is A Vcrmontcr by adoption