Excerpt from Centennial History of Cleveland A Brief notice of some facts connected with the early history of Connecticut is necessary in order to better appreciate and understand the history of Cleveland, therefore we turn back to the time when Gov. Wins-low, of Plymouth Colony, visited Connecticut in the year 1631 with a commission from Lord Say and Seal, Lord Brook and several other noblemen interested in the Connecticut patent, for the purpose of erecting a fort on the Connecticut River. He was, undoubtedly, the first white man to view the scenery along that beautiful river. 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.