Tyringham

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Excerpt from Tyringham: Old and New It is noticeable that within only thir teen years after the landing of the Pil grims at Plymouth Rock, the whites had spread out over the land seeking home steads until the fertile valley of the Con necticut was reached and settled. But the steep and rugged hillsides of the Berkshires boldly defied the frontiers man. Not once in all that first century following the landing is there record of a white man's attempting to settle amid the well-nigh impenetrable forests that clothed our hills. In 1676 a band of warriors pursued their red antagonists to the very banks of the Housatonic, but nearly twenty years later when Ben jamin Wadsworth, not then president of Harvard university, crossed on a mission to Albany with a guard of soldiers hedescribed the journey as most frightful and returned through Connecticut. Berkshire, as it is now constituted, was in fact the last county in the state to be settled. The territory was originally a part of Old Hampshire county which latter was still further divided into Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden in 1811-12. Berkshire county was incor porated as it now exists in 1761, one year only prior to the incorporation of Tyringham as a town. The long delay in its settlement had probably a three fold cause - its inaccessibleness from the other New England settlements, the fear of Indian incursions from the north, the unpleasant relations with the Dutch of New York State, with whom Massa chusetts had more than one matter in dispute. 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.