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INSUBORDINATE SPIRIT, A TRUE
STORY OFLIFE AND LOSS IN EARLY
AMERICA, CHRONICLES THE
FASCINATING LIFE OF ELIZABETH
WINTHROP, ONE OF THE FIRST
SETTLERS OF17TH CENTURY AMERICA
WRITTEN BY LOCAL HISTORIAN MISSY
WOLFE WHO JOINS US NOW.
NICE TO HAVE YOU HERE.
THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THIS
TAKES PLACE IN SOUTHERN
1600s.
WHAT WAS DAILY LIFE LIKE THEN?
DAILY LIFE IN THE AREA THAT I
WRTE ABOUT IS SOUTHWESTERN
CONNECTICUT, NEAR THE STAMFORD
AND GREENWICH BORDER.
AT THAT POINT IN TIME, THE DUTCH
HAD ALREADY BEEN HERE IN FORT
AMSTERDAM ON MANHATTAN, AND THEY
IMAGINE THAT THEY HAD UNLIMITED
SOVEREIGNTY UP TO MAIN -- MAINE,
BUT THE ENGLISH ANDED IN BOSTON
AND THEY, TOO, WANTED UNLIMITED
SOVEREIGNTY FROM BOSTON ALL WAIT
SOUTH, SO THE TWO COLLIDED RIGHT
AT THE BORDER OF STAMFORD AND
GREENWICH, WHERE ELIZABETH
WINTHROP MOVED IN THE 1600s.
SHE WAS FONDUER OF GECH BRUT
THEY MOVED RIGHT INTO THE MIDDLE
OF A VIOLENT INDIAN WAR.
LET'S TALK MORE ABUT
ELIZABETH WINTHROP.
SOME OF THE OTHER DETAILS.
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY, WHO
CAME TO BOSTON TEN YEARS AFTER
THE PILGRIMS LANDED ON PLYMOUTH
ROCK, THEY CAME REALLY BECAUSE
THEY DIDN'T LIKE WHAT WAS GOING
ON IN ENGLAND AT THE TIME.
THE RELIGION AS IT WAS IN
TURMOIL OVER.THERE SO THEY CAMEE
AND CREATE A PURE SOCIETY.
PURITANS.
SO HE LANDED IN BOSTON, BUS HIS
SISTER HAD A DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH
WIHROP, AND SO SHE MARRIED
MARRIED EACH OTHER.
AND THEN HER SISTER ALSO MARRIED
THE OTHER SON OF HIS.
COUSINS.
SO JOHN WINTHROP, THE GOVERNOR,
WAS HER FATHER-IN-LAW, AND
OKAY.
HER HUSBAND, HENRY WINTHROP,
SON.
HE DROWNED HIS VERY FIRST DAY
HERE IN AMERICA.
SO SHEHAD A CHILD BY HIM, AND
LIVING CONDITIONS WERE VERY
TIGHT, SO SHE QUICKLY MARRIED A
SECOND MAN, ROBERT FEAKE.
WHO ENDED UP GOING INSE.
WOW, SHE HAD A TOUGH LIFE.
SHE WAS JUST A VERY TYPICAL
TEENAGE INNER LONDON, SHE WORKED
IN HER FAMILY'S PHARMACY OR
APOTHECARY SHOP.
AND THE LIFE THAT HAPPENED TO
HER WAS SO AMAZING, VIOLENT,
TERRIFYING, AND THEN WHAT SHE
AMAZING.
LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW SHE
EVOLVED A LITTLE BIT.
YES.
SHE MARRIED ROBERT FEAKE.
THEY LIVED IN WATERTOWN NINE
YEARS AND LIVED RIGHT NEXT DOOR
TO A MILITARY MAN, DANIEL
PATRICK.
WHO WAS KICKED OUT OF THE BAY
COLONY BECAUSE HE WAS A SERIAL
ADULTERER.
AND DISAGREED WITH JOHN
WINTHROP, HE AGREED WITH ANN
HUTCH INSON, AND I GET INTO THE
REASON FOR THAT.
THEY KICKED HIM OUT OF BAIT.
THEY WERE NEIGHBORS OF THE
FEAKE, AND THE FEAKES AND THE
PATRICKS, EVERYONE HAD HEARD
ABOUT THE BEAUTY AND RICHNESS
THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY AND
NO ONE HAD COME YET, SO THERE
WERE VAST TRACTS OF LAND THAT NO
ONE HAD OWNED, NO ONE PURCHASED
THEM YET OR THE DUTCH HADN'T
ENFORCED THE CLAIM SO THEY
SEEMED AVAILABLE FOR THE TAKING.
PEOPLE QUICKLY MIGRATED OUT OF
BOSTON TO CONNECTICUT, SETTLED
ATEW LONDON, FORMED THE
NEW HAVEN COLONY HERE IN
NEW HAVEN, AND IN HARTFORD IT
WAS CALLED THE CONNECTICUT
COLONY.
ESTABLISHED.
SO THESE PEOPLE, ELIZABETH
WINTHROP FEAKE, MOVED JUST
BEYOND STAMFORD TO GREENWICH,
WHAT WE KNOW NOW TOAY AS
GREENWICH.
DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHICH
JURISDICTION IT WAS BECAUSE THEY
COULDN' LIVE IN STAMFORD
BECAUSE DANIEL PATRICK, THEIR
NEIGHBOR AND FRIENDS, WAS REALLY
A BAD APPLE, A LAYOUT AND A
NASTY GUY.
STAMFORD WOULDN'T HAVE HIM IN
THEIR TOWN, SOTHEY HAD TO MOVE
BEYOND STAMFORD TO GREENWICH.
THERE IS SO MUCH HISTORY IN
OUR LITTLE STATE.
IT'S ALL IN THE BOOK.
AVAILABLE.
THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE ONLINE.
MANY BOOK SHOPS, THE TYPICAL
ONES ONLINE.
WE'RE OUT OF TIME, WE'LL HAVE
TO READ IT.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
MORE KYLE AFTER THE BREAK.