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The Charter Oak was an unusually large White Oak Tree growing, from around the 12th or 13th century until 1856 , on what the English colonists named Wyllys Hill, in Hartford, Connecticut , USA . EARLY HISTORY The Dutch explorer Adrian (or Adriaen) Block described, in his log in 1614 , a tree, at the future site of Hartford, understood to be this one. In the 1630s , a delegation of local Indians is said to have approached Samuel Wyllys, the early settler who owned and cleared much of the land around it, encouraging its preservation and describing it as planted ceremonially, for the sake of peace, when their tribe first settled in the area. |
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