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Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., March 19, 1627-8. (search)
), and three companions went overland to the Connecticut, lodging at Indian towns on their way, and brought back some beaver and hemp, which grows there in great abundance, and is much better than the English, and some black lead, whereof the Indians told him there was a whole rock. The Blessing of the Bay had been sent southward to trade, visited Long Island, the mouth of the Connecticut River, and the Dutch plantation on Hudson's River, called New Netherlands, where they had showed the Governour (called Gwalter Van Twilly) their comission, which was to fignify to them, that the King of England had granted the river and country of Connecticut to his own subjects; and therefore desired them to forbear to build there. Probably to give this warning was the main object of the Blessing's voyage. From the reports of these visits, and the intelligence that came from time to time of the great fertility of the since famed Connecticut Valley, arose the desire of many of the Colonists