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THIS IS Is fairfield 1639
1940
ELIZABETH V. H. BANKS
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01880 6247
GC 974.602 F161BA
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THIS IS
Fairfield
1639 1940 ----
Pages from Three Hundred One Years of the Town's Brilliant History by
Elizabeth & H. Banks
ELIZABETH V. H. BANKS
Copyright 1960, by Elizabeth V. H. Banks
Printed in the United States of America by THE WALKER-RACKLIFF COMPANY New Haven 9, Connecticut First Edition
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1639
TOWN OF FAIRFIELD CONNECTICUT
January 21, 1960
This book by Miss Elizabeth V. H. Banks, Recording the Fairfield of Yesterday, is one that should be a must to all peoples and especially the young folks. A record story of Early New England which is Early America written by one who by family background, education, and her sincere interest in this community makes her pre-eminently qualified to undertake such a task.
As Fairfield's First Selectman, I am honored to endorse it and privileged to recommend it.
John Sullivan
John J. Sullivan First Selectman
Dedication To Susan
and to all of the many boys and girls whom I have known, do know, and will know in the future, to help them be reminded of their envi- able heritage here in Fairfield, this book is lovingly dedicated.
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FOREWORD
Jean Jaurès, a French philosopher and orator once said-"take from the altars of the past the fire-not the ashes."
The vital beliefs and good practices of our community rest on the support of historic knowl- edge. There is no basis for our society save that given by experience. There is no personal growth that is not built upon reflection on events of yes- terday. We shall always be indebted to the past. Because the present moment changes as we live it, the past is all we know. By knowing what our forefathers did, we are inspired not only to respect their achievements but to strive to equal their resourcefulness and courage.
Our Town from the beginning has exhibited a zealous and sagacious spirit of liberty tempered with a strong reverence for law and a healthful subordination to the powers that be; so that one rarely finds a more quiet, secure, orderly and law abiding people, than remain here even to this day.
Fairfield has carried its full quota of the bur- dens of acquiring and defending our civil liber- ties and immunities-and considering its extent, it has been distinguished as the abode of illus- trious men, whose soundness of judgment and
patriotism have served the interests of the state and nation, as they have in turn adorned and illumined our halls of legislation and temples of justice.
All of this has made Fairfield what it is today.
We have inherited knowledge, skills, arts, ideas and ideals, of enduring things that we should not willingly give up or take for granted. This is both a challenge and an opportunity for each of us.
We are but temporary tenants of this Town of ours. Let each of us care for that which has been preserved for us and pass it on in as good or better condition than we received it. This is a real trust that has been loaned to us. May we guard it and enrich it so that those who follow us may have even more to be proud of than we.
This book is a very simple presentation of Fairfield's past. May boys and girls and people generally read it and be reminded of what has been done for those who now live here.
These pages contain the fire and not the ashes. September 1, 1960
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Dedication
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Foreword
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
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List of Illustrations
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Chapter I. Before 1639 and the Indians of Fairfield
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II. 1639 - 1660
25-29
IV. 1701 - 1724 45-47
V. 1725 - 1773 48-52
VI. 1774 - 1799 53-81
VII. 1800 - 1860
82-99
VIII. 1860 - 1900
100-120
IX. 1900 - 1940 121-133
X. Town Government 1639 - 1940 134-142
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XI. Schools of Fairfield 1639 - 1940
143-177
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XII. Industrious Fairfield
178-208
22 XIII. Farming Month by Month in 1813
209
XIV. Fin Fish and Shell Fish and their value to the Early Fairfield Families 210-214
XV. Animals 215-221
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XVI. Christmas in Fairfield and Other Holidays 222-226
XVII. Entertainment in Fairfield over the Years 227-236 XVIII. Interesting Notes 237-255
Bibliography
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Index
257-270
III. 1661 - 1700
30-44
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This is Fairfield-Fairfield, Connecticut-a shore town. A town with hills and valleys. A town with rivers and brooks. A town where peo- ple have stood together. A town whose record shows strength. As one reads of the past, again and again you feel that there had to be order and planning and working together and our fore- bears saw to it that it was ever thus. The cost may have been great, but there has always been order in Fairfield.
The Town Meeting Minutes have been my primary guide in developing this story of 301 years, but many, many other sources have been put at my disposal by as many people. This is not a complete history. No history is ever com- plete, but here are pages from Fairfield's past -really a collection of many of the yesterdays of our Town.
It is difficult to single out all of those who have helped to make this book possible, for so many people have assisted me with it that I like to think of it as a genuine community effort. Many have shared their memories with me while others have let me use their treasured family possessions. It has been a very joyous experience for Fairfield means a great deal to many people and the strong will for organization and co- operation of our forebears is still most evident. To each of these people I shall always be grate- ful. The list is long. Throughout this writing I have endeavored to stress the human side-the real people-and their lives and I have been able to do this only because of the kindness and willingness of all of these wonderful folks. My personal thanks go to each one. Mrs. John For- syth, Curator of the Fairfield Historical Society; Mrs. Richard H. MacDonald; Mr. and Mrs. Homer Sturges; Mrs. Margaret Farquhar; Mrs. Grace Donaldson and the entire Staff of the Pequot Library; Mrs. Lottie Burr; Seabury Lyon; Clyde S. Buckingham; Mrs. Ada Jen- nings; my aunt Miss M. Elva Banks; Fairfield County Agent LeRoy Chapman; Neeley Turner, Entomologist at the Connecticut Agriculture Ex- perimental Station; Mrs. Margaret Buedinger; Mrs. Robert Bryan of the Fairfield Library ; Mrs. George W. Polk; Mrs. Harold Bullard; Mrs.
Henry Williams; Samuel Glover, our Town Clerk for many years and President of the Fairfield Historical Society; my Dad, Clifford S. Banks; the Staff of the Connecticut State Library in Hartford; Mr. and Mrs. David Osborne; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lobdell; R. H. Shumway, Seeds- man, Rockford, Illinois.
William Sherwood; Miss Amelia Wallenta of the New Haven Colony Historical Society; the Staff of the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford; Walter Jennings; Dr. William J. Ed- gar, Superintendent of the Fairfield Schools; my sister, Miss Marjorie G. Banks; Mrs. Maud Wilson Ayres; William McGarry; Mrs. Edna F. Elwood; Arthur W. Pearce of The Town Crier; Charles M. Ames; Mrs. Leora Wilson Pratt; Mrs. Nathan Porter; Mrs. Robert Logan; Mrs. Robert Lampe; Mrs. Arthur Colepaugh; Charles Abraham; Charles D. Coxe; Harry Disbrow; Mrs. Martin Haller; J. F. Kelly; Mrs. J. Tans- ley Hohmann, Jr .; Mrs. Joseph T. Betts; Miss Nell McGarry; Mrs. Allison Hull; Miss Grace Bulkley; Miss Mary Flanagan; Andrew G. Sterne; Robert P. Shelton; Mrs. Harold Ship- pey; Miss Bertha Beecher; Miss Mary Smith.
Mrs. Dorothy Costlow; J. Robert Beecher; Mrs. Ada Jennings; Edward P. Bullard, III; Rodney S. Merwin; Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Over- baugh; Miss Olive Pease; Miss Frances Pease; John W. Suter, Jr .; William B. Ely, III; R. H. Leach; Miss Phyllis Kihn; Mrs. Luin B. Switzer; Frank V. Damtoft; Vernon L. Brown, Curator, Museum of Moneys of the World, the Chase Manhattan Bank, New York; Miss Judith Sem- ple; Edward Coffey; Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Banks, Jr .; Ralph Lane; Mrs. Frank Judson; Mrs. Ralph Wells; Mrs. Robert MacQuarrie; Miss Martha Dixon; Mrs. C. S. Mercer; Miss Mabel Sherwood; Miss Elva Sherwood; Charles C. Lacey; Jules Sebestyen of the Bridgeport Post; H. Edgar Riker; Mrs. Elsie Brown; Eric L. Peterson; John Fanton; Mr. and Mrs. Her- bert B. Sherwood; Miss Barbara D. Simison, at the Yale University Library; Mrs. Carleton Wei- denhammer; E. H. McNeill; Mrs. Frederick H. Bormann; J. Lawrence Hughes; Donald A. Fra- ser and many others who have encouraged me on.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN ORDER OF THEIR APPEARANCE
GROUP I
Map showing Long Lots Town Meeting Minutes-January 3, 1661 Pot hole-Samp Mortar Rock Indian Caves-Samp Mortar Rock Main Street-Fairfield, 1790
Twenty-one mile Stone Twenty-two mile Stone Franklin mile Stone-Twenty-three miles
Swamp Fight Memorial Monument White's Rock-Southport
Fairfield County Court House-1720
Harbor Road-Southport-1890 Town Hall-1870 First Apparatus-Southport Fire Department Early Road Equipment Snake Hill Road-1890 Maritime Court Notice-1782 Powder House-1814
GROUP II
The Center of Town-1779 Fairfield's Village Green-1830 Map showing early Businesses-1811 Early Map-Mile of Common 150th Anniversary of Greenfield Hill Congregational Church
Original Southport Fire House Washington Hall Arbor Day 1894-Pequot School
Voters of Hulls Farms-1874 Southport Fire Department-1894 Lady Washington Tea Party-1890 Horsefeet Picnic-1899 Sunday School Picnic-1910 July 4th Water Sports-Southport Harbor 1890 "The Ada"-Market Boat at Dock Main Street-Southport-looking toward Harbor Mesnick's Ice House Voting List-1886 Singing School Entertainment-1890
GROUP III
Hope Chapel-1887 Christmas-Southport-1894 Mill Plain Drum Corps-1897 Map of Fairfield Center-1880 Greenfield Country Club Fair-1903 Republican Clambake -- 1912 Liberty Bond Rally-1918
First Hose Wagon-Fairfield Fire Department Liberty Chorus-1917
Greenfield Grange Fair-1936 First Grange Hall-1897
Greenfield Grange Fair-1941
Greenfield Grange Fair-1939
Greenfield Grange Fair-1939
Fairfield Tercentenary Parade-1939
"Uncoway"-Connecticut Tercentenary-1935 Connecticut Tercentenary Barbecue-1935
GROUP IV
Staples Free School-1783 Teaching Certificate-1800 Cyphering Book-1805
GROUP V
Middle District School (Sherman School)-1884 Wilson's Mills School-1899
Middle District School-1890 Banks North School Account Book-1893
District Map-Fairfield-1867 Southport District School-1892
Southport District School Class-1892
Greenfield School and School Bus-1897
First Greenfield School-1725
William Burr and Oxen-1898
Mill Plain School Class Wilson's Mill School
Wilson's Mill School-1899
Post Road-Blizzard 1888
Red Cross Headquarters-World War I
Middle District School
Bath Houses-Fairfield Beach
GROUP VI
Brush Pasture School Banks South School Greenfield School-1885
Hoyden's Hill School
Bulkley's District School Hulls Farms School-1893
First Burr's District School Deerfield School Greenfield School-1913 Greenfield School-1887 Silliman School First High School Washington School Bancroft School
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Mill Plain District School Burr's District School Teacher's Monthly Salary Receipt-1890 Brown House-First High School Mill Plain School-1890 Banks North School-1894 Banks North School-1903 Dwight School Wagon-1919
GROUP VII
Gould's Saw Mill-1867 Aluminum Foundry-1910 Carey's Corner-Southport Perry's Mill-1898 Tide Mill-Southport Henry Bradley's Store Lane's Wagon Shop Isaac Smith's Carpet Shop Wilson's Mill Ice House Warehouses-Southport Harbor E. W. S. Pickett's Store
Frank H. Wade-first Milk Wagon McGarry's Blacksmith Shop "Ice Cold Soda" M. B. Lacey's Carriage Shop-Plattsville Main Street-Southport Bill head-William Fallon
Bill head-C. O. Jelliff
Bill head-Mohican Spring Water
Label-Mohican Spring Water
B. F. Bulkley-Sasco Lake Ice B. F. Bulkley-Ice Wagon
Bulkley and Elwood Meat Wagons
Christopher Wells-first R. F. D. Carrier Toll Gate Rates Moses G. Betts Store-1825
Benjamin Betts Store-1890 The Waterfront-1890
GROUP VIII
Brazilla Banks' General Store Steamboat-C. H. Northam-1890 Elwood's Store-1890
1871-Handbook and Business Directory-N. Y. and New Haven Railroad The Mary Elizabeth
Jennings Brothers-Japanese Paper Ware-1870 Fairfield's Business Section-1909
"The Cowbell Express" Harbor Road-1890
Yankee Pedlar-Tercentenary Parade-1935 Switzer's Drug Store Sidewalk Superintendents-1885 Southport Harbor H. B. Sherwood's Ice Wagon
Southport-1885 Memorial Fountain-Fairfield Center
Mercurio's First Store
Fairfield Rubber Company
GROUP IX
Pulpit Rock Old Oak Tree on Bronson Road Mill River Bridge-1890
Early Trolley
John Dimon taken prisoner-Revolutionary War
Fred Disbrow's Market-1894
Fred Disbrow's Delivery Wagon
Load of Seaweed Ash Creek Bridge Summer Trolley Southport Yellow Globe Onion-1959
Dedication-Southport Fountain-1903
St. Mary's By The Sea
Grange Float-Connecticut Tercentenary Parade- 1935 D. A. R .- Connecticut Tercentenary Parade-1935 Tally-ho-Connecticut Tercentenary Parade-1935 Gold Dragoons -- Connecticut Tercentenary Parade -1935
St. Mark's Hotel Hobart Store-Post Office & Groceries-1849 Southport Clampett's Corner
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CHAPTER 1
BEFORE 1639 AND THE INDIANS OF FAIRFIELD.
H AD Adrien Block, a Dutch navigator, stopped in at the spot which was later to become Fairfield as he sailed along the shores of Connecticut in his newly made small boat, the Onrust (Restless), in the spring of 1614 search- ing for favorable trading sites, he would have seen a continuous forest overspreading the en- tire landscape embellishing both the hills and the valleys with its majestic verdure-an un- mapped wilderness. Those grand old forest lands were filled with animals-some were suitable for food, others were valuable because of their fur and still others were beasts of prey. Thickets were unknown through those endless woods for the inhabitants kindled fires each year to sweep away any choking vines or bushes. Winding paths led through the wooded areas and man and beast travelled on them single file. Bears, pan- thers, wolves, and wildcats were an ever present fear. Wild turkeys, herons, quail and partridge were abundant. Shell fish were scattered in seem- ingly exhaustless profusion along the shores of the sound and the rivers were filled with fish in multitudes. The soil too, was rich and good for corn. Those early inhabitants were Indians and several hundred resided within the bounds of Fairfield.
Much has been written about the Pequots who were Mohicans and who had come from both sides of the Hudson River, below Albany. Their warriors alone numbered more than seven hun- dred. Sassacus, their chief Sachem, had 26 sa- chems of smaller tribes under him and from whom he collected tribute. They believed that Sassacus was all one god and that no one could kill him. Their government was absolute; they never forgot an injury and they would hold a grudge for years. The Pequots were not only the most numerous and most warlike, but they were also the fiercest and the bravest of all of the tribes in Connecticut. They were a continuous menace to all of the settlements. They were very fond of war and believed it to be the most glori- ous of any human occupation. They fought their
way east from the Hudson, overcoming the river tribes as they moved along and claimed the land by conquest. Their name, Pequot or Pequatoog, translated means "destroyers of men".
In 1631 Wahginacut, the Chief of the Po- dunks, hoping to diminish the problem of con- tinuous subjugation, went to the leaders of the Massachusetts and Plymouth Colonies to ask them to come to live in the Connecticut Valley. He told of the abundance and beauty of the land and promised that if the English would come, the Indians would supply them with corn and give them eighty skins of beaver each year. We all know that they came in 1635 to establish our State.
The English, Roger Ludlowe and seven other men who had been commissioned to govern the new colony, together with the additional group members, had barely been in Connecticut a year when trouble between them and the war loving Pequots seemed inevitable. Several dreadful acts had been perpetrated by the Pequots. The friend- liness of the new families towards the river tribes aroused the jealousy and hatred of the Pequots toward the English.
Roger Ludlowe, who had been acting as gov- ernor, summoned a group of the colonists to a session of the General Court at Hartford on May 1, 1637 and after considerable deliberation on the first and only important business, a war of extermination was planned.
It is ordered that there shall be an offensive war against the Pequots, and that there shall be 90 men levied out of the three Plantations, Hartford, Weth- ersfield and Windsor, (viz.) out of Hartford 42, Windsor 30, Wethersfield 18: under the command of Capt. John Mason and in case of death or sick- ness, under the command of Robt. Seely Leift .: and the eldest srgeant or military officer surviving, if both these miscarry.1
Hartford was ordered to send fourteen men in armor and Windsor six. It was required that a hogshead of good beer should be provided for
1 Col. Rec. of Conn. I. 9.
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the Captain and gentlemen and the sick men,- in case there were only three or four gallons of strong water and two gallons of sack (strong, light colored wine). Windsor also was to pro- vide sixty bushels of corn-Wethersfield, thirty- six bushels and Hartford eighty-four bushels. If it could be done, one half of the total amount of the corn was to be baked into biscuits and the rest was to be supplied as ground meal. Wethers- field was allowed ten bushels on account; Hart- ford was also expected to provide three firkins (1 firkin = 1/4 of a barrel) of suet, two firkins of butter, four bushels of oatmeal, two bushels of peas, five hundred fish and two bushels of salt. Wethersfield was assigned one bushel of Indian beans and Windsor fifty pieces of pork, four cheeses and thirty pounds of rice. Every soldier was ordered to carry one pound of pow- der, four pounds of shot, and twenty bullets. One barrel of powder and a light gun were to be taken from the River's mouth. Mr. Pynchon's shallop was employed to assist with the trans- portation.
The men who sat in this historic first "Gen- eral Court" were as magistrates-Roger Lud- lowe, Mr. Wells, Mr. Swaine, Mr. Steele, Mr. Phelps and Andrew Warde of Wethersfield and as committees or representatives-(three from each town) Mr. Whiting, Mr. Webster, Mr. Williams, Mr. Hull, Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Talcott, Mr. Hosford, Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Sherman.
The decision of the General Court meant a great deal to Uncas, Chief of the Mohicans, who had originally been a Pequot, but because of his personal strength and ambition had rebelled against Sassacus, the Chief of the Pequots, and in due time had organized the Mohicans and made himself Chief. He wanted to become the supreme leader of all of the Indians in Southern New England and he thought this might become a reality with the aid of the English. He believed them to be courageous like himself thus he offered Captain Mason his services together with eighty of his men. Uncas knew the land and the whereabouts of the Pequots. The English did not, so his offer was accepted.
Now with the additional assistance, the little group set out from Hartford "in one pink, one pinnace, and one shallop" about May fifteenth, 1637.
The first encounter and the true defeat took place at Pequot Harbor, now New London, where the Indians' fort was burned. The dangers for the English were ever present for they were still
in Pequot territory and Sassacus and his three hundred remaining warriors were more furious than before. Some, with their families, had al- ready started westward across the State, but travel was slow as they had to gather their food as they moved and too, the little children were not able to go along very fast. Captain Mason and his group, aided by one hundred and twenty new members from the Massachusetts Colony, continued to pursue them. Roger Ludlowe had recently been ordered by the General Court in Hartford to accompany Captain Mason.
Wequash, a Pequot Sachem who had revolted from Sassacus, was the principal and faithful guide of the English. He gave information re- specting the distance that the forts of the Indians were from each other and the distance they were from that of the chief sachem. He later became the first Christian convert in Connecticut.
The march continued over land through Cup- heag, Pequonnock and Uncoway until they came to a swamp (Southport) where the Indians were hiding. The swamp surrounded a hill thirty feet high. The Indians had disappeared into the thick growth of the swampy ground.
'How shall we proceed', asked one of the officers. Many opinions were expressed and this caused con- fusion and disagreement. Some advised building a wall about the swamp, which was equally opposed, while others advised forcing the swamp, as it was then but three o'clock. Still others urged that they surround the swamp as closely as possible, fill in the spaces between the men with bushes through which no one could pass, and thus secure the Indians until morning when further action might be taken.
While waiting for agreement on a plan of action, Captain Mason ordered that the narrow neck in the swamp should be cut across, to make it easier to sur- round the hidden Pequots.
For the English to force their way into the swamp and fight among the trees would mean the destruc- tion of many Indian women and children, and to avoid this outcome, Thomas Stanton offered his services to go into the swamps and treat with the Pequots.
It was a brave and daring suggestion, and was opposed as too dangerous a mission for him to un- dertake. He was a man well acquainted with the Indian language and customs, without fear, and in spite of opposition he disappeared through the thick growth of trees and bushes.
For his companions, it was an anxious hour of waiting, but at last he came back, just as darkness fell, leading two hundred old men, women and child- ren who delivered themselves to the mercy of the English.
All night the English surrounded the swamp as best they could (about twelve feet apart). Half an hour before the break of day with a great noise ac- cording to their custom at such times, the Indians
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tried to break through the section where Captain Patrick was stationed. They were beaten back, but again and still again they renewed their efforts while the Captain held his ground.
The noise was heard throughout the region. It was repeated and grew louder. Mason in alarm raised the seige on his side of the swamp and rushed towards the point of attack. While on his way, at a turn in the swamp, he saw the Indians forcing them- selves toward him and sent them back by rounds of shot.
He halted to wait for a second effort, when the Indians turned about, violently pressed upon Cap- tain Patrick, broke through his line, and some sixty or seventy succeeded in making their escape.
The swamp was searched, but none were found alive and but few slain. The captives taken amount- ed to one hundred eighty, who were divided among their conquerors as servants. "Thus did the Lord scatter his enemies with a strong arm."
The fleeing Pequots became a prey to all Indians. Those who captured any were glad to do so, send- ing the heads to Hartford or to Windsor where they were received almost daily.
In due time there came from the Mohawks the head of Sassacus himself, as a token of friendship and as a proof that no enemy of the English could find refuge among them.
The surviving Pequots themselves at last grew weary of being hunted, and sent their. chiefs to the English offering to become subjects to the white men if their lives might be spared. Their plea was granted.1
There were still about two hundred Pequots alive. Eighty of these were given to Uncas of the Mohicans; eighty were given to Miantonamo of the Narragansetts; and twenty to Ninigret the Niantic.
When the victorious soldiers returned to their homes, a day of Thanksgiving was proclaimed in the colonies of Plymouth, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Those of us who live in Fairfield are well aware of the monument in Southport just off and to the south of the Boston Post Road which marks the spot where the battle took place. The monument reads:
"The Great Swamp Fight Here Ended The Pequot W.ar July 13, 1637"
Even within the past hundred and fifty years stone tomahawks, arrow heads and other relics of the Pequots have been found in this Indian retreat and the story goes further to say that even grownups of that period were afraid to go near the swamp after dark, such was their fear of
the red man.
In searching for materials for this work one finds the Lord's Prayer in the Pequot tongue. It is included here along with its translation for as barbarous as they were proclaimed, the trans- lation of the prayer is beautiful. A few Pequot words are also included here.
Lord's Prayer, in the Pequot Tongue.
"Co shunöngone the suck cuck abot. Na naw ūi e coom shaw ims nuskspe coue so wūnk. Kuck sudamong peamook. Ecook Aiootoomo- mon ukkee tawti ee ook ungow. A geescuck mee se nam eyew kee suck askesuck mysput es hone- gan. A quon to mi nun namat to ōmp pa wön ganuksh no. Awe ah goon to mi nad macha. Chook quoe a guck, ah greead macon jussūon mattum pau oon ganuck puk kqueaw hus nawn woochet. Matchetook kee kucks sudamong cumme ekē go wonk, ah kōont seek coomsako oh woonk. Mackeeme, mackeeme Eeats."
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