0He TRAVELERS INSVRANCE COMPANY 1863 1913
0he TRAVELERS INSVRANCE COMPANY 1863 1913 \.';\' C)00 11. 0 THE EVOLUTION OF A BUILDING LOT • \ (· ' ( \ .-~ TilE NEW HOME OFFICE BUILDING llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll I ~ 111 1 ~1111111111111 1111111111 T3.he ~11111111 11111111111111\ 111 I fvoluiz'on ifa 1 I J}uzldilljJ hot ~ll u11111111111 11111111111 111111 11111111111111111 1111 • lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ll • TltE • TRAVELERS INSURANCE ~G G0MPANY 8.54o I} .(;., etb JC( ,, 0 THE LATE JAMES G. BATTERSON, FOUNDER OF ACCIDENT INSURANCE IN AMERICA AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY • .~,.~~ROM the day, two hundred and seventy ~~ - f six years ago, when Sachem Sunckquasson deeded the land where Hartford now stands ~ ~~..£1ij) to Samuel Stone, William · Goodwin and 1 others, the history of the site upon which the addition_ to the Travelers building stands can be definitely traced, and .the events which have occurred thereon are written in both local and. American history. It was early in June, 1636, that the Rev. Thomas • Hooker and his congregation, . following "The Adven turers" who had preceded them the year, before, ~et forth from Newton (Cambridge), Mass., not as· individual settlers, but as an ecclesiastical and political organiza tion. After an arduous journey with their household goods and cattle they reached the Connecticut near the mouth of the Chicopee. River, and traveling down the eastern bank beheld across the river the:wide m·eadows and the w~oded uplands of their future home. • Along the western bank were the wigwams of the Indian town of Suckiage, while hidden by the forest about a mile to the south, where the ,Little river joins the Connecticut, lay the small · Dutch fort of Huys de Hoop (the House of Hope) built of brick and timber, and a few houses surrounded by cherry trees.
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