But should a log hut and a few straggling soldiers seal a territory against other emigrants ?"[5] Thus solicited, families from Watertown and Roxbury commenced a settlement at Wethersfield in the year 1635.

Some emigrants, from Dorchester, established themselves just below the colony of the Plymouth people at Windsor.

This led to a stern remonstrance on the part of Governor Bradford, of Plymouth, denouncing their unrighteous intrusion.
"Thus the Plymouth colonists on the Connecticut, themselves intruders within the territory of New Netherland, soon began to quarrel with their Massachusetts brethren for trespassing upon their usurped domain." In November of this year, Governor Winthrop dispatched a bark of twenty tons from Boston, with about twenty armed men, to take possession of the mouth of the Connecticut.

It will be remembered that the Dutch had purchased this land of the Indians three years before, and, in token of their possession, had affixed the arms of the States-General to a tree.

The English contemptuously tore down these arms, "and engraved a ridiculous face in their place." The Dutch had called this region, Kievit's Hook.