Re: Abel Holmes

["W. Hugh Tucker" <htucker@stny.rr.com>]

My wife's ancestor, Joseph Easton, was one of the Hooker group that settled
Hartford. The Easton family history states:
"On May 31, 1636 the colonists, after due consideration, started on their
exodus
to Connecticut, where the previous year a delegation had gone to procure a
location and purchase land from the Indians. Our ancestor, as one of the
original
proprietors, owned shares in what we would call today a syndicate."

Hooker's group was quite affluent for the day and moved a considerable
amount
of livestock across the hundred miles of wilderness between Boston and
Hartford.
They moved 160 head of cattle plus swine and sheep.


>  http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/chistory/section3.htm
>
> He mentions a sizeable exodus in 1836 of Newtown (it was renamed Cambridge
> in 1638 in honor of Harvard becoming a college after John Harvard's
bequest)
> people to Hartford, Conn.  1836 is the same year as many Dorchester people
> moved to Windsor, Conn.  What convinced both those groups to move in that
> year?
>


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