Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography: Genealogical Memorial, Representative Citizens On first arriving in America, Abraham Tourtellotte joined the Narragansett colony and was among those who were victimized by the unscrupulous Atherton Company; after untold sufferings, the French settlers were finally forced to re linquish their holdings at Narragansett, where they were innocently occupying lands of which they supposed themselves the owners, but which had been, years before, granted by duly constituted gov ernmental authority to other persons. The Huguenot families who had there settled had expended considerable of the moneys brought with them from France for barns, fences and buildings, and on relinquishment of their holdings lost everything they had invested in addition to their right to occupy the soil. Some removed to New Rochelle; some to New York; others again have been completely lost sight of; Abraham Tourtellotte and his family were among seven of the colo mists with families who removed to Bos ton. The stay of the Tourtellotte family at Boston was not long, and thence they removed to Roxbury, Massachusetts, where Monsieur Tourtellotte's first two children were born: Gabriel, September 24, 1694, and Esther, June 12, 1696. The latter married, on January 19, 1716, Israel Harding, son of John Harding. 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.