Excerpt from The Descendants of Thomas Olcott: One of the First Settlers of Hartford, Ct Thomas Olcott, whose descendants in the male line, to and including the seventh generation - in the female line, to and including the third generation; and in the lines of the female branches from the male lines, to and including the children of each of the first of said branches - are traced in the following pages, was among the first settlers of the town of Hartford, and one of the founders of the trade and commerce of the Colony of Connecticut. From what part of England he emigrated, or what year he arrived in this country, is not ascertained. There is reason to believe he was one of the "goodly company" of men, women and children, who, in June, 1635, left Newtown (now Cambridge), and other settlements on the sea board of Massachusetts, to plant a new colony on "the delightful banks" of the Connecticut. Their route lay through the wilderness, in nearly the present direction of the Western Railroad, 'till they reached the mouth of Chicopee river, and hence down the banks of the Connecticut, to the spot where in the autumn before, the settlement of what is now Hartford, but then called Suckiauge, was commenced. Through the agencies which that company, and others similarly constituted, embraced - from the seed, peculiar and precious, which they scattered over the bosom of the wilderness - what a change has been wrought in the country which they traversed and in the spot where they rested from their pilgrimage, only to enter upon the severer, ever recurring toils and trials of a pioneer life! The forests whose tangled depths they penetrated by day with slow and toilsome progress, and in whose shadow they rested by night, with savage beasts and more savage men, have given place to the cultivated fields, orchards, homesteads and prosperous villages of civilized man. The streams which they forded, and the swamps which they crossed with so much risk and difficulty, are now spanned by arches of stone or bridges of iron. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.