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ecome Dingley Falls set up their Dutch posts along the
Connecticut River from New Amsterdam to Plymouth
Colony and trafficked in the exchange of trinkets for
animal skins. They were pursued by the English. Later
the Irish came, and later still, French Canadians. Then
the Italians and Russian Jews, finally the descendants of
African slaves and Spanish speakers. Connecticut grew
crowded and rich among the states. Maynard Henry's
people had made their homes here since the days of the
Royal Charter. They had never been rich, and they had
felt increasingly crowded. They were periodically
resentful. Maynard himself had no specific knowledge
of his American heritage, would not have known his
grandmother's maiden name, or cared, or taken
particular pride in learning by how many generations his
family had been native-born. Yet it might be said that
his blood insisted on his prior rights by rising up against
the crowding trespasses of all later invaders than those
pre-Revolutionary War ones who had spawned him.
And this prejudice was in direct proportion to the
chronology of the immigrants' intrusion: he had only the
mildest instinctive antipathy to Joe MacDermott,