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Mass., in 1628; went in the first company of settlers to 

 Charleston (1629); went to Dorchester (1630) with the first 

 company of settlers there; joined the church at Scituate 

 (1635), and built a house there; then, probably in the 

 spring of 1636, migrated to Windsor, Connecticut Colony, 

 which he helped found. In 1649 he was granted land at 

 Fairfield, and in 1657 he died at Stamford. Thus in the 

 space of thirty years Simeon Hoyt lived in seven villages 

 in America and was a founder of at least three of them — 

 a truly restless spirit, like many another settler, and the 

 parent of a restless progeny! 



Still another example is that of Hans Jorst Heydt of 

 Strasburg. He fled to Holland when his native town was 

 seized by Louis XIV, married there Anna Maria DuBois, 

 a French Huguenot refugee from Wicres, and came with 

 her to America and settled at New Paltz on the Hudson 

 about 1 7 10. Schismatic dissensions having broken out in 

 the new colony, Heydt, with others, left and settled, about 

 1717, in Philadelphia County, not far from Germantown, 

 where he acquired several hundred acres of land, estab- 

 Hshed a colony, built mills, and entered upon various com- 

 mercial enterprises of magnitude. In 1 73 1 , having acquired 

 a grant of forty thousand acres of land in the Shenandoah 

 Valley, he migrated thither, became known as Baron Hite, 

 and died there in 1760. One of his friends, Van Metre, 

 who originally settled at New Paltz, had moved first to 

 Somerset County, New Jersey, then to Salem County in 

 the same colony; later to Prince George's County, Mary- 

 land, and, finally, to Orange County, Virginia. These are 

 examples, merely, of the restlessness— often enterprising 

 restlessness— of the early settlers, and it persists in their 

 descendants. 



