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THE HISTORY OF STRATFORD
SAMUEL ORCUTT
Golden Hill Indians
The Housatonic
The Wepawaug
Cupheags and
Pequannock
Weantinock
Goodyear's Island
Indian Slaves
Indian Remnants
Indian Troubles
New Indian Papers
A HISTORY OF THE
OLD TOWN
OF DERBY
SAMUEL ORCUTT
1 Deed from the Paugasuck Indians. " Twenty
parcels of land, by their names distinguished as follows:
Wecobemeus, that land upon the brook, or small
river that comes through the straight [Straitsville] northward of Lebanon,
and runs into Naugatuck river at the south end of Mattatuck bounds, called
by the English Beacon Hill Brook, and Packawackuck, or Agawacomuck, and
Watapeck, Pacaquarock, Mequnhattacke, Musquauke, Mamusqunke, Squapmasutte,
Wachu, which nine parcels of land lie on the east side of Naugatuck River
southward from Mattatuck town, which comprises all the land below, betwixt
the forementioned river, Beacon Hill Brook and the hither end of Judd's
meadows, called by the name Squontk, and from Naugatuck River eastward to
Wallingford and New Haven bounds, with all the lowlands upon the two brooks
forementioned.
And eleven parcels on the west side; the first
parcel called, Suracasko; the rest as follows: Petowtucki, Wequarunsh,
Capage, Cocumpasuck, Megenhuttack, Panooctan, Mattuckhott, Cocacoko,
Gawuskesucko, Towantuck, [the only name that has survived], and half the
cedar swamp, with the land adjacent from it eastward; which land lies
southward of Quasapaug pond; we say to run an east line from there to
Naugatuck river; all of which parcels of land forementioned lying southward
from said line, and extend or are comprised within the butments following;
from the forementioned swamp, a strait line to be run to the middle of
Towantuck Pond or the cedar swamp, a south line which is the west bounds
towards Woodbury, and an east line from Towantuck pond, to be the butment
south, and Naugatuck river the east butment, till we come to Achetaqupag,
or Maruscopag, and then to butt upon the east side of the river upon the
forementioned lands,—these parcels of land lying and being within the
township of Mattatuck, bounded as aforesaid, situate on each side of
Naugatuck and Mattatuck rivers."
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THE INDIANS OF THE
HOUSATONIC
AND NAUGATUCK
VALLEYS
SAMUEL ORCUTT
THE HOUSATONIC
CHARD POWERS SMITH
The
Promised Land
Heathen
in the Land
The
Lord's Scouts
The Land
and The Lord
The Next
Seven Tribes
THE HISTORY OF STRATFORD
Wm. Howard Wilcoxson
Stratford Indians
Trouble with the Indians
Establishing Title to the Land
Indian Deeds and Relics
White Hills Purchase
FORREST MORGAN
Lifestyles, Government, Religion and War
Indian Titles and Mohegan Land Troubles
Sowheag, Uncas, and Miantonomo
COLONIAL DAYS
WILBUR F. GORDY
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THE HISTORY OFCONNECTICUT
BENJAMIN TRUMBULL
The
Perfect Savages
Government
Language
Religion
Marriage
Wampum
Red Ochre
New Haven
Colony
ALEXANDER JOHNSTON
Connecticut Indian History
The Pequot War
At New Haven a number of
Indians were killed in a skirmish or battle, and the same in Stratford
where the fugitives were joined by the Pequannock Indians and finally the
flying Indians took refuge in a swamp, now located a little north of the
village of Southport, where they were surrounded, and after hard fighting
some escaped with their lives.
History of Connecticut
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JOHN MASON
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
PEQUOT WAR
PHILIP VINCENT
A TRUE RELATION OF THE LATE BATTELL
FOUGHT IN NEW ENGLAND
LION GARDENER
GARDENER’S NARRATIVE
CAPTAIN JOHN UNDERHILL
NEWS FROM AMERICA
SOLDIERS OF THE PEQUOT WAR
SOUTHPORT SWAMP
Great Swamp Fight
Incident at Mill River
Colonial History of Pequot Swamp
COLONIAL INDIAN ARCHIVES
Stratford Colonial
Land Deeds
Fairfield Colonial
Land Deeds
Derby Colonial
Land Deeds
Patriarch To The
Indians
Thomas Mayhew
1593-1662
Johnson’s
Wonder-Working
Providence
1628-1651
Connecticut's Colonial &
Continental Money
A NARRATIVE
HISTORY OF KING PHILIP’A WAR
And the
Indian
Troubles in New England
RICHARD MARKHAM
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WINTHROP’S
JOURNAL
THE HISTORY OF NEW
ENGLAND
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John
Gallop, with one man more, and two little boys, coming from Connecticut in
a bark of twenty tons, intending to put in at Long Island to trade, and
being at the mouth of the harbor, were forced, by a sudden change of the
wind, to bear up for Block Island or Fisher's Island, lying before Narragansett,
where they espied a small pinnace, which, drawing near unto, they found to
be Mr. Oldham's (an old planter,1 and a member of Watertown congregation,
who had been long out a trading, having with him only two English boys, and
two Indians of Narragansett). So they hailed him, but had no answer; and
the deck was full of Indians, (fourteen in all,) and a canoe was gone from
her full of Indians and goods. Whereupon they suspected they had killed
John Oldham, and the rather, because the Indians let slip and set up sail, being
two miles from shore, and the wind and tide being off the shore of the
island, whereby they drove towards the main at Narragansett. Whereupon they
went ahead of them, and having but two pieces and two pistols, and nothing
but duck shot, they bear up near the Indians, (who stood ready armed with
guns, pikes, and swords,) and let fly among them, and so galled them as
they all gate under hatches. Then they stood off again, and returning with
a good gale, they stemmed her upon the quarter and almost overset her,
which so frightened the Indians, as six of them leaped overboard and were
drowned. Yet they durst not board her, but stood off again, and fitted
their anchor, so as, stemming her the second time, they bored her bow
through with their anchor, and so sticking fast to her, they made divers
shot through her, (being but inch board,) and so raked her fore and aft, as
they must needs kill or hurt some of the Indians; but, seeing none of them
come forth, they gate loose from her and stood off again. Then four or five
more of the Indians leaped into the sea, and were likewise drowned. So
there being now but four left in her, they boarded her; whereupon one
Indian came up and yielded; him they bound and put into hold. Then another
yielded, whom they bound. But John Gallop, being well acquainted with their
skill to untie themselves, if two of them be together, and having no place
to keep them asunder, he threw him bound into [the] sea; and, looking
about, they found John Oldham under an
1 John Gallopp and John
Oldham, heretofore described as adventurous sailors and traders along the
coast, stand now as the prominent figures at the outset of the Pequot war.
old
seine, stark naked, his head cleft to the brains, and his hand and legs cut
as if they had been cutting them off, and yet warm. So they put him into
the sea; but could not get to the other two Indians, who were in a little
room underneath, with their swords. So they took the goods which were left,
and the sails, etc., and towed the boat away; but night coming on, and the
wind rising, they were forced to turn her off, and the wind carried her to
the Narragansett shore.
(Winthrop’s Journal July 1636)
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EARLY NEW HAVEN
Sarah
Day Woodward
FAIRFIELD ANCIENT AND MODERN
FRANK SAMUEL CHILD
An Old New
England Town
FRANK
SAMUEL CHILD
GUIDE TO PUTNAM MEMORIAL CAMP
NEWGATE PRISON
ITS INSURRECTIONS,
ITS MINES,
IMPRISONMENT OF THE TORIES
DURING THE
REVOLUTION
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