Excerpt from Cascades and Courage: The History of the Town of Vernon and the City of Rockville, ConnecticutConnecticut's Seal bears three vines representing the first three towns - Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield. Emigrants from Massachusetts, these pioneers were subject for the first year of their residence to the General Court of Massachusetts, but when they came to Connecticut they promptly desired to form a govern ment according to their own ideas.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.