Housatonic

He declined both, to become in 1750 pastor of the church in Stockbridge and a missionary to the Housatonic Indians.

At eleven he began a novel, the scene of which was laid in the Housatonic Valley, because that name sounded grand and romantic.

Between 1720 and the middle of the century, settlement crept up the Housatonic and its lateral valley into the Berkshires.

Principal river valleys: Thames, Connecticut and Housatonic.