CONNECTICUT PAUGAUSSETT INDIANS

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The Indians, at their first settlement, performed many acts of kindness towards them, (the settlers). The Indians instructed them in the manner of planting and dressing the Indian corn. They carried them upon their backs, through rivers and waters; and, as occasion required, served them instead of boats and bridges. They gave them much useful information respecting the country, and when the English or their children were lost in the woods, and were in danger of perishing with hunger and cold, they conducted them to their wigwams, fed them, and restored them to their families and parents. Benjamin Trumbull, History of Connecticut

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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." 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

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 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

WINTHROP’S JOURNAL THE HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND Homepage 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 ^1John 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) 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