At the same time, the settlers started developing their community, platted according to plans they had made in Boston.
American settlers did not start moving into the area in large numbers until the mid-1780s.
With the fort and troops, other American settlers started to come into the area in greater number.
By 1639 these settlers had started new towns in the surrounding areas.
There, early settlers started draining the land to use it for agriculture.
By then, the settlers had already started building up and over the first city.
Many settlers from northern Italy moved there and started their commerce.
The settlers even started using the Indian currency of wampum.
Norse settlers from Iceland started it, about the year 980.
Chinese settlers started mining for tin in the state during his time.