A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

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ereCl:ed a fort on the fpot .where Hertford
now ll:ands.
A party of Brorumifls, who, in J619,
are faid to have obtained a grant of land
from the Virginia Company, fet fail on
the 6th of September, in the following
year, for Hudfon's river; but making, on
the nth of November, the harbour of
Cape Cod, inftead of the place of their
deftination, and finding themfelves not-in
a fit condition to put to rea again at fuch a
late feafon of the year, they ranged along
the coall: till a commodious fituation
prefented itfelf, where they difembarked,
and founded tlie colony of New Plymooili.
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Seven years afterwards, a party of Puritans
procured a grant of the lands fro'm
Merrimack river to the fouthemmoft part
of Maffachufets-Bay. They made their
firfi: {ettlement at Naumkeak, by them
new named Salem j and a {econd at
Charlefi:own. Great numbers of the Puritanic
feet followed their brethren to
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