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Excerpt from Manual of the Congregational Church, Wethersfield, Conn: Comprising Historical and Biographical Memoranda, Chronological Catalogue, Confession of Faith, Covenant and Standing Rules, and Present List of the Church
Riches of this Indian Paradise. His favorable report led to the erec tion of a trading house, near the mouth of Tunxis river at W'indsor, under the sanction of the Plymouth colony, as early as October, 1633; and a similar one had been erected, by the Dutch from Manhattan, at Hartford, a short time before but neither of these establishments seems to have been intended as the nucleus of a settlement. In Sep tember of the same year, Rev. Thomas Hooker, who had been driven into exile from England, for non-conformity, in 1630, accompanied by Samuel Stone, his assistant, followed and rejoined his old parishioners at Newtown, Mass, who, soon after his excision from his ministry, had ?ed to America under a mutual pledge of reunion. The crowded state of the settlement, where they met, led them to cast about for room and the Connecticut valley, being at that moment the favorite.
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