NORWICH, a city of south-eastern Connecticut, U.S.A., situated at the confluence of the Yantic and the Shetucket rivers to form the Thames. It is served by the Central Vermont ana the New York, New Haven and Hartford railways and steamers to New York. Pop. (1920) 22,304 (26% foreign-born white) ; by 1930 it grew to 23,021. It is the seat of a State hospital for the insane and a State tuberculosis sanatorium. Under a monu ment in Sachem street is buried the Mohegan chief Uncas, a friend to the early settlers; and in the eastern part of the city is a monument to Miantonomo, a Narragansett sachem who was put to death here. The channel of the Thames is 14 ft. deep to Norwich. Its manufactures are varied, including cotton and woollen goods, velvets, fire-arms, thermos bottles, locks, leather and rubber goods, buttons, trunks, boilers and many kinds of machinery. The aggregate output in 1925 was valued at $20,908, 609. Norwich was settled in 1659 by colonists from Saybrook,
led by Capt. John Mason, who had crushed the Pequots in 1637, and the Rev. James Fitch, who became a missionary to the Mohe gans. The land was bought from three Mohegan chiefs, and until 1662 the settlement was called Mohegan. It was the home of the Huntington family, which furnished many leaders in the civil and military affairs of the Colony, the State and the nation; and the birthplace of Benedict Arnold, Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney and Donald G. Mitchell ("Ik Marvel"). Before and during the Revo lution the people of Norwich were ardent Whigs, boycotting Eng lish goods in 1767, ostracizing a schoolmaster (1770) who con tinued to drink tea, and disregarding the Stamp Act in 1776. The town was chartered as a city in 1784. The Courier, a newspaper established in 1796, is still published.