Settled in 1680 and established as the township of Enfield in 1683, this area had been part of the Springfield Plantation granted by the Massachusetts General Court to William Pynchon and others. Although Springfield was settled in 1636, no effectual grants were made here until after King Philip's War of 1675-1676. In 1679 John Pease and his brother Robert of Salem, Massachusetts, visited the land and spent the winter alone in a hut on the hillside of the present Enfield Street Cemetery. The following spring they brought their families, along with those of their father John Pease, Sr., and Elisha Kibbe, to Freshwater Plantation, and within three years thirty more families from Salem and the surrounding area joined them. In 1688 the settlers bought from the Indian sachem Nottatuck, for twenty-five pounds sterling, all lands from the Asnuntuck or Freshwater Brook to the Umquatuck at the foot of the falls and extending eight miles east. The Springfield Committee governed Enfield until 1693, when the town began to manage its own affairs. In 1749 Enfield became part of Connecticut by seceding from the royal government of Massachusetts Bay and joining the charter government of Connecticut, a change rooted in a boundary error made in 1642 by the surveyors Woodward and Saffery, who set a line between the colonies running southwestward nearly to the site of Windsor.