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One more fact deserves to be remembered in connection with
Saybrook. Yale College was organized there in 1701 as the
"Collegiate School" of the Connecticut Colony, and was not
removed to New Haven until sixteen years later. Its site in
Saybrook is marked now by a granite boulder with a tablet and
inscription. About half a mile west of this monument are two old
millstones which are said to have been in use in the gristmill
belonging to the first little fort at Saybrook, the "Fort on the
River," which was built and defended by the "Brave Lieutenant
Lion Gardiner."
[Illustration: SIGNATURE AND SEAL OF LION GARDINER]
REFERENCES
1. Winthrop, John.,
History of New England.
Edited by James Savage. Boston, 1825.
2. Gardiner, Curtiss C. "Papers and Biography of Lion Gardiner,"
in
Lion Gardiner and his Descendants. A. Whipple.
St. Louis, 1890.
3. Orr, Charles.
History of the Pequot War. (Accounts of
Mason, Underhill, Vincent and Gardiner.) The Helman-Taylor Co.
Cleveland, 1897.
4. Newton, Arthur Percival.
The Colonizing Activities of the
English Puritans. Yale University Press. New Haven, 1914.
5.
Saybrook Quadrimillenial, November 27, 1885.
Hartford, 1886.
THE FROGS OF WINDHAM
Once, in the days of Indian attacks on the small English
settlements in Connecticut, a family of children had a narrow
escape from capture by the savages. A party of Indians on the
warpath passed near their home while their father and elder
brothers were away working in the fields with the neighbors.
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