Excerpt from A New History of Old Windsor, Connecticut If we are to date the history of Ancient Windsor from the time when it was first visited by Europeans we must start with the year 1614. In that year Adriaen Block, a Dutch sea cap tain, one of the little band that had recently begun the settle ment of New York, started out to explore the northern shore of Long Island Sound. He discovered the Connecticut River, which he named the Fresh River, and sailed up it as far as Windsor where he saw an Indian Village at a point which he recorded as in 41 degrees and 48 minutes north latitude. 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.