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came from near one hundred miles north-east of London, not far 

 from Lynn, on the sea coast. Hempstead was settled by a colony 

 from New England, in 1G43, that came from the old town of 

 Hempstead, in Hertfordshire, England, situated on the river Gude, 

 about twenty-three miles from London. While the town of 

 Jamaica was first settled in 1656, by a colony from Milford, Con- 

 necticut, united with a few inhabitants from Hempstead. Newtown 

 was settled in 1651, by a colony of English, from Massachusetts. 

 But the town of Flushing was settled in 1644, by a company 

 of Puritans, who had been residents of Flushing, in Holland. 

 The Huguenots came to this place at the revocation of the edict 

 of Nantes, bringing the Lady apple and the Bell pear tree, and 

 other fruits, which they planted. The Long Island colonists 

 brought many of the red cattle of New England with them, which 

 have been thoroughly crossed on the Dutch cattle, brought in 

 early times from Holland. Tlie first neat cattle brought into 

 Massachusetts, was by Edward Winslow, who came in the ship 

 " Charity," from Plymouth. He brought a bull and three heifers; 

 this was in 1624. Probably these were of the Devon stock. 



The people who first settled Salem, which was in the year 1625, 

 came from Dorchester, in the county of Dorsetshire, England, 

 which is in the south-west of England. Another colony, in 1629, 

 came from Leicestershire, in England, bringing with them one 

 hundred and fifteen head of neat cattle, said to be mostly Leices- 

 tershire stock. Hence we find in the early settlement of Salem . 

 and the adjacent towns, races of Devons and Leicestershire cattle. 

 The inhabitants of the town of Rowley are descendants of York- 

 shire colonists. They came in first from England in 1638, bring- 

 ing with them the old Yorkshire and the old Short-horns, and 

 some of the white Chillingham Park cattle; while the inhabitants 

 of Newbury, Massachusetts, in the same county of Essex, came 

 from the county of Berkshire, in England. This is one of the 

 middle counties in England. This settlement was made in 1634. 

 The race of cattle here are the Middle horns. The people In 

 Bristol county, Massachusetts, as well as those in Rhode Island 

 and the eastern part of Connecticut, many of them came from 

 Bristol, England, and from Wales. Swansea was at one time a 



