Derby was the birthplace of General David Humphreys, aide-de-camp to General George Washington who accepted the British colors at the surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, and of Commodore Isaac Hull, commander of the frigate Constitution, "Old Ironsides," which destroyed the British frigate Guerriere in the first great naval battle of the War of 1812. Many men and women from Derby also served or gave their lives for their country in all wars in which the United States has engaged. In 1642 John Wakeman established the first trading post in the Naugatuck Valley at the confluence of the Naugatuck and Housatonic Rivers, and Edward Wooster, a Milford pioneer, became the first permanent settler in 1654. Originally called Paugassett for the native Paugasuck Indians, the land was granted rights of a plantation and in 1675 named Derby after Derby, England, former home of some of the settlers. It once included what is now Ansonia, Seymour, and parts of Oxford and Beacon Falls. Shipbuilding and agriculture made Derby a major foreign and domestic seaport until the early 1800’s. In 1833 Sheldon Smith began a manufacturing center between the two rivers, and industries flourished in iron, copper, organs, pins, silver, bolts, typewriters, harness, hoop skirts, tools, and wheels. The first trolley car in New England ran here in 1888, and in 1893, with its present boundaries, Derby became a city and remains an industrial center of great diversity.