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WINDSOR , a township of Hartford county, Connecticut, U.S.A., on the Connecticut and Farmington rivers, adjoining the city of Hartford on the N. Pop. (1890) 2954; (1900) 3614, 596 being foreign-born; (1910) 4178. Area about 27 sq. m. It is served by the New York
Springfield
paper , canned goods, knit and woollen goods, cigars and electrical supplies.'In 1633 Captain William Holmes, of the Plymouth Colony, established near the mouth of the Farmington river a trading post, the first settlement by Englishmen in Connecticut; a more important and a permanent settlement (until 1637 called New Dorchester) was made in 1635 by immigrants from Dorchester, Massachusetts, led by the Rev. John Wareham, Roger Ludlow and others. In 1639 representatives from Windsor, with those from Wethersfield and Hartford, organized the Connecticut Colony. Among the original
' In the township of Windsor Locks (pop. 1910, 3715), immediately north, cotton
thread , silk, paper , steel and machinery are manufactured.U. S. Grant and Admiral George Dewey; and Captain John Mason (16001672), the friend of Miles Standish, was one of its early citizens. It was the birthplace of Roger Wolcott, of the older Oliver Wolcott (17261797),. of Oliver Ellsworth (whose home is now a historical museum), and of Edward Rowland Sill. Windsor has been called " The Mother of Towns " ; it originally included the territory now constituting the present township, and the townships of East Windsor (1768), Ellington (1786), South Windsor (1845), Simsbury (167o), Granby (1786), East Granby (1858), Bloomfield (1835) and Windsor Locks (1854). See H. R. Stiles, Ancient Windsor (2 vols., New York
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