Wadsworth; or, The charter oak

William Henry Gocher

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THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ANGELESLOS GIFT OF WADSWORTH OR The Charter Oak BY W. H. GOCHER 'The traditions of a nation are of its existence."part 'Disraeli CONN.HARTFORD, Published W. H. GOCHERby 1904 Copyright, 1904 by William Gocher.Henry PRESS OF WINN k JUDSON CLEVELAND F ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The MansionandTheCharterOak.Wyllys Frontispiece The Wadsworth Inn 41 fromWadsworths 1595 to 1904 53 Oliver Cromwell 75 The Oak in 1830Charter 109 Peters 187Hugh PendrellWilliam 143 of BoscobelThe Oak 151Royal Lane 159Jane IICharles 171 205John Winthrop II theCharles 217(From Charter) First ofEdward Earl Sandwich . . . 237Montague, GovernorsConnecticut 259 AndrosSir Edmund 275 inThe Charter Oak 1847 291 II 299James Butler's TavernMoses 311 ArmsThe Wadsworth 829 inThe Charter Oak 1856 385 Brook Falls 845Weatogue 361BridgeImlay's Mill 373 The Last Scene . . 387 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION HARTFORD Hartford is an old town as dates run in Amer- first sod was turned in sixteenica. The 1636, the landed atafter andyears Pilgrims Plymouth insix after the Puritans located theyears vicinity of what is now known as Boston. On May 31 of that the members of the Rev. Thomasyear Hooker's church at now known asNewtown, of their homes in theCambridge, having disposed of Massachusetts turned their facescolony Bay, towards the Connecticut After avalley.

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• Connecticut

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 11
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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THE LIBRARY
OF
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
ANGELESLOS
GIFT OFWADSWORTH
OR
The Charter Oak
BY
W. H. GOCHER
'The traditions of a nation are of its existence."part
'Disraeli
CONN.HARTFORD,
Published W. H. GOCHERby
1904Copyright, 1904
by
William Gocher.Henry
PRESS OF WINN k JUDSON
CLEVELAND