[3] Young’s “Chronicles of Massachusetts,” p. 396.
[4] Winthrop’s “Journal,” by Savage, vol. i., p. 111.
[5] “Ordained over the First Church, Nov. 5, 1632.”—Eliot’s tomb in Roxbury.
[6] “Memorial History of Boston,” vol. i., p. 403.
[7] Though the Williamses did not settle permanently in Woodstock till some years after the first settlement, the family was most prominent in Roxbury, and one of its representatives visited the grant officially in 1686.
[8] Drake’s “Town of Roxbury” and “Memorial History of Boston,” vol. i., pp. 401-422.
[9] De Forest’s “Indians of Connecticut,” and Palfrey’s “History of New England,” and Miss Ellen D. Larned’s “History of Windham County.”
[10] Also “called the Wabbaquassett and Whetstone country; and sometimes the Mohegan conquered country, as Uncas had conquered and added it to his sachemdom.” Trumbull’s “History of Connecticut,” vol. i., 31.
[11] September.
[12] Winthrop’s “Journal,” by Savage, vol. i, 132. Palfrey’s “Hist. of New England,” vol. i., 369. The same year (Nov. 1633), “Samuel Hall and two other persons travelled westward into the country as far as this [Connecticut] river.” Holmes’ “Annals,” vol. i., 220.