William Filley
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William Filley was one of the founders of Windsor, Connecticut, USA,[1]. He helped establish a trading post on the Connecticut River near present-day Hartford despite Dutch threats. The local tribe of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans resented the location of the townsite as they considered the ground it stood on to be sacred. However, the tribe remained somewhat friendly for a time as the settlement served as a buffer against the more war-like Pequots and Mohawks.[2]
Filley fought in the Pequot War. All of the children Filley had with his wife Margaret survived to adulthood, an unusual circumstance in the 17th Century.[2]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ "William Filley". http://mysite.verizon.net/marcinia/id9.html. Accessed 7 July 2007.
- ^ a b "The Filley Family from Great Britain to America". www.thebigdeacon.com. [1]. Accessed 7 July 2007.
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