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Info below from Saybrook Chamber Site!
OLD SAYBROOK, located at the the mouth of the Connecticut River, was the home of Algonquin Nehantic Indians for years before Europeans arrived. These were peace loving Indians who farmed the area and had village at Saybrook Point. Around 1590, the peaceful Nehantic and other gentle Algonquin tribes living inthe Connecticut River Valley were conquered by the Pequots, a warlike tribe from the north.

The first European to sail up the Connecticut River was Adrian Block who, in 1614, was sent by the Dutch West India Company in New Amsterdam on an expedition to explore, map and claim the eastern cost of "New Netherlands" for the Dutch.

At about the same time the Dutch were exploring this area, the English decided to do the same. In 1620, King James I created the Plymouth Colony (also known as Council for New England) and thereafter, no English Settlement in New England was allowed without the Council's permission.

The Dutch were primarily interested in the fur trade with the Indians along the Connecticut River Valley, and initially only established trading posts for that purpose at several spots along the river, including what is now Hartford, Middletown and Old Saybrook. In 1623, fearing English competition, the Dutch deposited a small group of Dutch men and women at Saybrook Point to establish a permanent colony.

In 1631, the Earl of Warwick, president of the Council for New England, signed a unique deed of conveyance, called the Warwick Patent, to eleven of his closest friends and/or relatives, including the Viscount Saye and Sele and Lord Brooke. A year or so later, four more gentlemen became patentees, including Colonel George Fenwick. Saybrook Point was included in this patent that gave the 15 lords and gentlemen a vast segment of New England stretching from the Narragansett River along the coast line south to about Greenwich, and west from these two point to the Pacific Ocean.

In 1632, the Dutch Governor Van Twiller of New Amsterdam, sent Captain Hans Eechuys to Saybrook Point to formally purchase the point from local Indians. He then contructed a small fur trading post at the Point and named it Kievets Hook. The following year, the Company established a very successful trading post up-river called the House of Hope at the present site of Hartford.

In 1635, the Warwick patentees commissioned John Winthrop, Jr. as the first Governor of the river Connecticut territory. In 1635 Winthrop, learning that the Dutch were planning to permanently occupy Saybrook Point, sent a small vessel with 20 men with orders to seize control of the point. Arriving on November 24, 1635, the Englishmen quickly put ashore two cannons to ward off any attack by the Dutch or the Indians.

Earlier in 1635, Governor Winthrop, Jr. had engaged Lieutenant Lion Gardiner to build a fort and lay out a town, with suitable homes for the gentlemen patentees. In March of 1636, he sailed to Saybrook Point along with supplies and 12 men to build the fort. A month later, Governor Winthrop arrived in Saybrook and shortly thereafter named the settlement Say-Brook in honor of Viscount Saye and Sele and Lord Brooke. While not the oldest town in Connecticut, it has the oldest English town name.

While the local Indians welcomed the settlers, their Pequot conquerors strongly resented them and were intent on driving them away. As a result, Fort Saybrook was in a constant state of siege and when the settlers needed to tend their crops, armed soldiers had to accompany them.
THE Pequot's and Foxwoods Past,Future and Today POOR History! 
Mullane has a notebook 10 inches thick, stuffed with newspaper stories, editorials, and studies about the impact of the casino on his town and the state, which he eagerly shares with a visitor. They chronicle everything from the inconvenience of increased traffic to alarming tales of bankruptcy, prostitution, suicides, and murder - all because of the casino, according to Mullane. "They call it a resort and casino," Mullane says with a sneer. "But it's a gambling hall and a bar." Just a few miles from Foxwoods is the village of North Stonington, a small collection of wood-framed colonial houses with a mill pond in the village center. It is one of three towns that border the Pequot reservations, and for the past decade, it has been ground-zero in the local fight against Foxwoods and casino expansion in Connecticut. Since the casino opened in 1993, Nicholas Mullane, the town's first selectman, has watched the flow of cars and busses clog the winding, two-lane roads; he has complained bitterly that more police, emergency services, and road maintenance cost North Stonington an extra $600,000 a year, but because the casino is on a reservation, it pays no property taxes to the town 

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SOME HISTORY BELOW OF THE TERROR THE PEQUOTS DID THREWOUT NEW ENGLAND NOW THE OWNERS OF FOXWOODS!!



MAJOR JOHN MASON
Born 1600 in England
Migrated to New England in 1630
A founder of Windsor, Old Saybrook and Norwich
Magistrate and Chief military officer of the Connecticut colony
Deputy Governor and Acting Governor
A Patentee of the Colonial Charter
Died 1672 in Norwich
This Monument erected at Mystic in 1889
By the state of Connecticut
Relocated in 1996.
BELOW IS PHOTO OF MAJOR JOHN MASON!
WHO HELPED DEFEND THE PEOPLE OF WETHERSFIELD FROM
THE PEQUOT TRIBE OF CT AFTER THEY MURDERED,BEAT,KIDNAPPED
THE PEOPLE AND VILLAGE OF WETHERSFIELD!LINK TO WETHERSFIELD SITE http://www.weblo.com/property/city/Wethersfie ld/66365/

Pequots keep Old Saybrook under ATTACK NON STOP!
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Link to Norwich CT site!
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Link to Norwich England site!
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John Mason, Puritan, Co-Founder of Norwich 1660

The early life of John Mason in England (born circa 1600-1001) is obscure. A puritan, he served as an officer  under Sir Thomas Fairfax in the Netherlands against Spain.  He made the 63 day passage to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with Reverend Wareham's party in 1630. One of the few experienced military men, he was elected captain at Dorchester, and eventually helped found Windsor, CT., where the Connecticut River Indians had invited settlement.

In 1636 the first Pequot war began in New England, between Indians and the English. The colony had but a few hundred English inhabitants. Mason commanded a contingent of 90 solders, and with the principal aid of Uncus and the Mohegans, he defeated the powerful Pequot nation in 1637.   Disobeying orders, he made strategic decisions on his own, which helped gain victory over a more numerous enemy.  He lost 2 dead and 20 wounded. Mason said of Uncus... "He was a great friend and did great service."

Major Mason was the chief military officer in the colony for 35 years.  He was magistrate and major at Windsor for 8 years.  He married his second wife, Anne Peck, after the death of his first wife, and had altogether 8 children.  A son John Jr., was mortally wounded in King Phillip's war (another English/Indian struggle) in 1675.  For the next 12 years he was placed in charge of a fort in Saybrook. In 1660 with his son-in-law, the Rev. James Fitch, he founded Norwich.  During the first 8 years he was made deputy governor and for two years was acting governor while Gov. Winthrop was in England seeking Connecticut's charter from King Charles.  He died January 30, 1672.

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