The English named it Saybrook, in honor of lords Say and Brook, who were regarded as the leading English proprietors.

Early the next year the Massachusetts people established a colony at Agawam, now Springfield.

Thus, step by step, the English encroached upon the Dutch, until nearly the whole valley of the Connecticut was wrested from them.
About this time Van Twiller issued a grant of sixty-two acres of land, a little northwest of fort Amsterdam, to Roelof Jansen.

This was the original conveyance of the now almost priceless estate, held by the corporation of Trinity Church.

The directors, in Holland, encouraged emigration by all the means in their power.