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Excerpt from Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Vol. 14 The English settlement of Hartford, Conn., was made by settlers from "the New Towne," now Cambridge, Mass. As early as 1633 the region was visited by a few adventurers and traders from the Bay. In 1635 a settlement was begun at "Newtowne," the name being changed to Hartford two years later. The great exodus hither was in the spring of 1636, when the settlement was firmly established by the coming of the. Rev. Thomas Hooker and his party. About that time the lands were purchased by the settlers from the Indians. A confirmatory deed given in 1670, the original deed having been lost, states that it was given to "Mr. Samuel Stone and Mr. William Goodwin, in the behalf of the present proprietors and owners of the lands belonging to the township of Hartford." The proportional ownership of these lands, as stated at a meeting of the Proprietors in February 1671/2, was "according to the rate for diffusion of lands agreed upon entered In the Town book dated 3 Jan 1639" [i.e. 1639/40], "according to which proportion they payed for the purchase of the Sayd lands." The proportions of these Proprietors varied from one hundred sixty acres for John Haynes down to six for William Pratt and others. In addition to these were a number of settlers who were "Granted lotts to have onely at The Townes Courtesie," sometimes spoken of as proprietors by courtesy, whose proportions were from six to three acres each. The township was divided into two parts by the "riveret" which flowed eastward and emptied into the Connecticut river. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.