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By the deed of August 26, 1674, the Tunxis Indians conveyed a large tract of land in Mattatuck (Waterbury)-to the whole of which territory they laid claim-to the first white settlers of that town. This deed is signed by the "universal Nesaheagun," John a Compowne and twelve other Indians.
In 1890 a happy chance brought to light among the ancient records stored away in one of the oldest houses in Waterbury, the original deed of December 2, 1684, by which another tract of Mattatuck land was transferred to the English settlers, and the grant of 1674 was confirmed. "with all and singular rode timber rocks quorys broocks rivers swamps mcdows" the same to be discharged from all "former bargins sales, titles morgages, leases fins fes joynters dowrys suts or encumbrans whatso- ·ever.' "
In this deed 1684 the name Compound stands first in the list of ·signatures.
Could romance itself conjure up a group of names more picturesque than these of the original owners and proprietors of Mattatuck: John a Compound, Hacketousuke, Atumtoco's mother Jemse dafter (daughter)
*Extract from "Compounce." Published by Miss Alice J. Norton, 1902.
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by Cockoeson's sister, Abucket, Spinning Squaw, Mantow, Cocoeson's sister's Patucko's squaw, Warun-Compoun Nesaheg's son, Atumtockco, Cockeweson's sister's dafter, all of whom "parsonally aperd" (before John Wadsworth * * * ist) "and acknoleged this Instrument to be their free and volentery act."
One looks upon this ancient document, rescued from the oblivion of over two centuries, with a sentiment of profound veneration, and pictures to himself the group of swarthy faces as, to the names written, the Indians added with their own clumsy fingers, each, his or her in- dividual "marck" or totem. This deed is valuable not only for its In- dian signatures, but for the autographs of men famous in the early history of Connecticut; Thomas Judd and John Standly, Benjamin Judd and John Wadsworth, Timothy Standly and John Hopkins, "freemen of farmentowne" and most of them among its eighty four proprietors.
A wide field of speculation regarding the chief, Compound, opens before us as we contemplate these records.
Nesaheagun was the Sachem who with others signed away to the white settlers much of the territory of Farmington and Waterbury, and thousands of acres in Simsbury, Windsor, Wethersfield and Middletown. Warun-Compound is described as Nesaheagun's son, but it is John a Compound whose name stands second to that of Nesaheagun in the deeds of 1673 and 1674 and first in the deed of 1684.
Quoting from Orcutt's history of Derby,-"This fact suggests that John a Compound, whose name stands next to Nesaheagun's may have been an elder son of the same chief."
According to another authority (Rev. Joseph Anderson-History of Waterbury), he may have been a nephew or brother, and as such succeeded Nesaheagun in the sachemship, as among some tribes the succession of chiefs was through a brother or nephew instead of a son.
However, that may be he was a "native prince" and identified with the Indians who from time to time occupied the territory of Mattatuck.
"The name Compound," says one historian (Mr. Anderson) "al- though not of English origin, has been forced into a strange resemblance to English. There is reason to suspect it as an Indian name in disguise, or possibly that the Indian proprietor who here comes before us, may
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have been named from the 'other side falls,' wherever these may have been. At all events, acompwn-tuk would mean the 'falls or water on the other side.'" It is therefore not improbable that his name was a place-name, and derived from his connection with the water or lake 'on the other side" of the mountain .*
For the tragic story of the chieftain's fate we are indebted to tradi- tion, which tells us that his home was the cave near the shore, and that while crossing the lake in an iron kettle he was drowned, finding his grave beneath its waters. Various additions have been made in recent years to this brief but graphic tale, but all such are utterly without foundation, and detract from the simple pathos of the traditional story.
A singular coincidence in connection with the legend, is that Com- pound's mark, as seen in some of his signatures, resembles the outline of a kettle, which suggests the pleasing fancy that this may have been his device or emblem.
As to his personality, we may have seen that he had influence and standing among the native tribes, and there is nothing in history or tradition to prove that he was other than a noble specimen of his race such an one as the imagination loves to associate with the "beautiful glacial lake that he owned."
One sees how naturally the term "Compound's" became in time Compounce and the early records give us the musical "Compounce Pond Water" transformed now into Lake Compounce.
The torture of the white man by the Indians (not of the Compounce tribe) has been a tradition of this neighborhood from the earliest times'
An old Indian trail, later the first traveled road between Farming- ton and Waterbury, passed through the borders of the neighborhood. Here have been found traces of an Indian encampment and burying ground, and the frequent finding of arrow-heads, pottery and rude
BIRCHES AT LAKE COMPOUNCE.
*"The oldest families north of Compound Lake had the traditions certainly 100 years ago (1775) that the Indians that visited there came from over the mountain west."- Timlow's History of Southington,
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stone implements in the past, testifies that here in this little valley were their hunting and camping grounds, and here were buried their dead.
An authentic story has traveled down the years, of the recollection of a family of Indians, that, about the year 1760, lived in a wigwam in the woods east of the lake. They tarried only a summer and then disappeared.
Thus vanished from the land the last remnant of this ancient race, leaving only the memory and the magic of a name.
Before the coming of the white man, who diverted the streams to other channels, Lake Compounce was one of the sources of the Quin- nipiac river. Cuss Gutter brook ran into it through the valley above, and a small stream below connected it with Cold brook, a tributary of the Quinnipiac. White and gold fish, now extinct, lived in its waters. and wild ducks and geese, the loon and other water birds found here the solitude they loved.
On the distribution of the Southington division in 1722, the lake and adjacent land became the property of Samuel Steel and Thomas Orton, both men of prominence among the proprietors of Farmington.
The property appears to have frequently changed owners until December 7, 1787, when it was purchased from the estate of Daniel Clark, of Wallingford, by Ebenezer Norton (grandfather of the late Gad Norton), whose adjoining property had descended to him through several generations, from his ancestor John Norton, also one of the Farmington proprietors.
The lake property is referred to in the earlier deeds as "a parcell in that division of land lying between Panthorn and Watterbury, bounds. not yet surveyed and layd out;" and in the deed of 1787 as "one certain Piece or Parcel of land situate in Southington at a Place called Com- pound's Pond."
The oldest inhabitant remembers Lake Compounce as a lonely place, scarcely known beyond the limits of the town, frequented only by an occasional hunter or fisherman, and the neighboring children who went there to padddle about in the old dug-out, hewn from a chestnut log, which had replaced the birch-bark canoe of the Indians.
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This Chart was prepared by the late ROSWELL ATKINS with great care and shows the original division of the land in Bristol.
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BRISTOL IN 1721
Mr. Atkins made the following statement in connection with the chart which he prepared :
"On account of the mutilated condition of the original records, I have been obliged, in preparing the accompanying chart, to depend, to a great extent, upon such memoranda as I could find among the papers of county surveyors, and deeds of transfer of lots and parts there- of, covering a period of seventy-five years immediately following the layout.
"For the highways running north and south I have had to depend, to ascertain the width, entirely upon the descriptions to be found in recorded deeds.
"No two perambulations agree as to the position of the boundary line on the north. I have, therefore, placed this boundary at five miles and fifty-three rods from the boundary line on the south, and indicated the line on the map by a dotted line.
"The reservation for the Indians, Bohemia and Poland, is indicated by two sets of dotted lines in the first tier of lots, No. 17. The southern parallel line and the broken western line are fixed by means of a survey recorded in 1723, and include a tract of one hundred fifty-two and one- half acres. This record, however, is not sufficiently full to determine positively the exact location. The parallel lines are fixed by means of memoranda of Tracy Peck, County Surveyor made in 1808 from a copy in the hands of Noah Byington, County Surveyor.
"There are undoubtedly some errors in the chart, but, in the main, I think it is correct."
The following table shows first, the number of lot numbered from Simsbury line; second in parenthesis, the width of lot from north to south in rods and feet, e. g. by 84.04 is meant, 84 rods, 4 feet; and third, the name of owner:
First or Eastern Tier of Lots.
No. 11 (127.08). Daniel Porter, Mr. Newton, James Bird, Widow
Orvis.
No. 12 (132.15). John Clark, John Woodruff, John Smith, Mathew Woodruff. No. 13 (186.12). Thomas Gridley, John Langton, Samuel Gridley, Richard Brownson, Thomas Barnes, Moses Ven- John Norton, Thomas Orton, Captain Lewis,
John Root, Sen. No. 14 (172.06). trus, John Brownson, Jr. No. 15 (289.10). Isaac Moore. No. 16 (112.06). Widow Smith.
John Thompson, John Steel, Jobanah Smith,
No. 17 (97.10). Zachariah Seymour, Samuel Steel, Sen., Abraham
Andrus, Thomas Richardson. (30.02). Indian Reservation. No. 18 (145.04). Robert Porter, John Porter, Samuel Cowles, John Cole. No. 19 (176.09). Obadiah Richards, John Scovil, Joseph Hecox, Mr. Haynes. No. 20 (54.00}). Samuel Steel, Jr., Benoni Steel, David Carpenter, John Carrington. ) 1 No. 21 (105.09). Thomas Thompson, Richard Seamour, Samuel North, Thomas Hancox.
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Second Tier of Lots.
No. 43 (63.13), John Langton; No. 44 (29.11), John Steel; No. 45 (26.15}), James Bird; No. 46 (17.13}), Jonathan Smith; No. 47 (32.06), Thomas Bull; No. 48 (69.04}), Thomas Orton; No. 49 (28123), Thomas Hancox; No. 50 (9.10), Benoni Steel; No. 51 (25.09), Samuel North; No. 52 (29.14}), Isaac Brownson; No. 53 (71.09), John Norton; No. 54 (9.10}), Samuel Steel, Jr .; No. 55 (54.11), Thomas Barnes; No. 56 (53.12}), Daniel Porter; No. 57 (63.13), William Judd; No. 58 (33.05), Mcses Ventrus; No. 59 (15.01), John Porter; No. 60 (42.06), John Andrus; No. 61 (27.06), Thomas Thompson; No. 62 (45.01), Thomas Judd; No. 63 (22.13}), John Brownson, Jr .; No. 64 (33.05), Thomas Porter, Jr.
No. 65 (38.04), Joseph Woodford; No. 66 (18.11}). Obadiah Rich- ards; No. 67 (31.00}), Widow Smith; No. 68 (25.09), John North, Jr .; No. 69 (75.11), John Root; No. 70 (57.14}), Isaac Moore; No. 71 (23.00}), Abraham Brownson; No. 72 (44.03), John Lee; No. 73 (41.00), Mathew Woodruff; No. 74 (33.12}), John Clark; No. 75 (33.11), Thomas Judd, Jr .; No. 76 (20.01}), John Carrington; No. 77 (16.14}), Joseph Hecox; No. 78 (72.00), Mr. Howkins; No. 79 (48.05), Stephen Hart, Jr .; No. 80 (30.09}), John Stanley, Jr .; No. 81 (14.10), David Carpenter; No. 82 (44.03), John Warner; No. 83 (85.04), Captain Lewis; No. 84 (15.01), Phillip Judd.
Third Tier of Lots ..
No. 43 (131.15), Mr. Hooker; No. 44 (20.05), John Carrington; No. 45 (24.07), Thomas Gridley; No. 46 (44.13), John Lee; No. 47 (21.04), Zachariah Seymour; No. 48 (41.09), Mathew Woodruff; No. 49 (33.12), John Thompson; No. 50 (48.15}), Stephen Hart, Jr .; No. 51 (54.07}), Daniel Porter; No. 52 (28.02}), Widow Orvis; No. 53 (60.15), Stephen Hart, Sen .; No. 54 (72.15), Mr. Howkins; No. 55 (30.04), Isaac Brown- son; No. 56 (12.00), John Root, Jr .; No. 57 (48.00), Capt. Thomas Hart: No. 58 (30.04), Jacob Brownson; No. 59 (18.15}), Obadiah Richards.
No. 60 (72.08), John North, Sen .; No. 61 (23.01}), John Brownson; No. 62 (59.01}), Richard Brownson; No. 63 (25.14), Samuel North; No. 64 (33.12), Capt. John Hart; No. 65 (15.04), Phillip Judd; No. 66 (46.10), John Brownson, Sen .; No. 67 (9.11}), Benoni Steel; No. 6S (23.01}), John Welton; No. 69 (32.13), Thomas Bull; No. 70 (44.13}), John Warner; No. 71 (17.01), Mr. Newton; No. 72 (16.023). Abraham Andrus; No. 73 (17.01), Joseph Hecox; No. 74 (84.08), Mr. Wadsworth; No. 75 (64.10}), John Langton; No. 76 (43.06}), Samuel Cowles; No. 77 (21.11}), Daniel Warner; No. 78 (38.05), John Woodfuff; No. 79 (37.03) Thomas Judd, Sen .; No. 80 (76.10), John Root, Sen .; No. 81 (23.01}), Thomas Porter, Jr .; No. 82 (31.14), John Judd; No. 83 (33.05), Abraham Brownson; No. 84 (44.09), Samuel Steel, Jr .;
Fourth Tier of Lots.
No. 43 (30.00), John Steel; No. 44 (18.06), John Scovel; No. 45 (28.02), Widow Orvis; No. 46 (31.11). Thomas Porter, Sen .; No. 47 (58.10), Isaac Moore; No. 48 (23.01), John Brownson; No. 19 (46.10), John Brownson, Jr .; No. 50 (20.05), Daniel Andrus; No. 51 (9 10), Benoni Steel; No. 52 (60.11), John Stanley; No. 53 (55.06), Thomas Barnes; No. 54 (21.04), Zachariah Seymour; No. 55 (60.15), Stephen Hart, Sen .; No. 56 (64.10), William Judd; No. 57 (38.12), Joseph Wood- ford; No. 58 (23.01), Samuel Hecox; No. 59 (77.09), Mr. Wyllis; No. 60 (18.15), William Higason; No. 61 (45.11), Thomas Judd, Jr .; No. 62 (31.06), Mr. Wrotham; No. 63 (33.12), John Thompson.
No. 64 (16.02), Abraham Andrus; No. 65 (121.08), Mr. Haynes; No. 66 (12.00), John Root, Jr .; No. 67 (24.07), Thomas Gridley: No. 68 (44.09), Samuel Steel, Sen .; No. 69 (44.13), John Lee: No_ 70 (84.08), .
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Mr. Wadsworth; No. 71 (25.14), Samuel North; No. 72 (29.01), Thomas Hancox; No. 73 (15.04), John Porter; No. 74 (20.05), John Carrington; No. 75 (76.10), John Root, Sen .; No. 76 (72.15), Mr. Hawkins; No. 77 (23.01), John Welton; No. 78 (30.15), John Stanley; No. 79 (46.15), John Andrus; No. 80 (32.13), Thomas Bull; No. 81 (17.01), Mr. Newton; No. 82 (38.05), John Woodruff; No. 83 (14.12), David Carpenter; No. 84 (9.11), Samuel Steel, Jr.
Fifth or Western Tier of Lots. 6 Al
No. 42 (15.04), Phillip Judd; No. 43 (33.11), Thomas Porter, Sen. No. 44 (28.02), Widow Orvis; No. 45 (33.11), Moses Ventrus; No. 46 (17.01), Joseph Hecox; No. 47 (18.05), Obadiah Richards; No. 48 (23.01), Samuel Hecox; No. 49 (121.06), Mr. Haynes; No. 50 (29.01), Benjamin Judd; No. 51 (23.05), Abraham Brownson; No. 52 (51.11), Robert Porter; No. 53 (46.10), John Brownson, Sen .; No. 54 (60.11), John Standley; No. 55 (16.10), Jobanah Smith; No. 56 (18.16), William Higason; No. 57 (31.06), Mr. Wrotham; No. 58 (9.11), Samuel Steel, Jr .; No. 59 (25.14), John North, Jr .; No. 60 (48.00), Thomas Hart; No. 61 . (9.11), Benoni Steel; No. 62 (14.12), David Carpenter; No. 63 (77.10), Thomas Newell.
No. 64 (48.15), Stephen Hart, Jr .; No. 65 (38.05), John Woodruff, No. 66 (17.01), Mr. Newton; No. 67 (58.10), Isaac Moore; No. 68 (76.10) : . John Root, Sen .; No. 69 (21.11), Daniel Warner; No. 70 (20.05), Daniel Andrus; No. 71 (30.04), Isaac Brownson; No. 72 (22.10), Richard Sey- mour; No. 73 (60.15), Stephen Hart, Sen .; No. 74 (31.06), Widow Smith; No. 75 (23.01), John Brownson; No. 76 (31.06), John Warner, Jr .; No. 77 (72.08), John Newton; No. 78 (23.01), Thomas Porter, Jr .; No. 79 (39.11), Edmond Scott; No. 80 (41.09), Mathew Woodruff; No. 81 (30.15), John Standley, Jr .; No. 82 (45.11), Thomas Judd, Jr .; No. 83 (72.15), Mr. Howkins; No. 84 (30.00), John Steel.
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BRISTOL
AN ADDRESS, Prepared by Roswell Atkins aud Epaphrodius Peck.
Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the incorporation of the Town of Bristol, Connecticut, June 17, 1885, by Epaphroditus Peck.
ISTORY is but fragmentary at best. We say, "Bristol is a hundred years old to-day," but these hills and valleys are many centuries old. Men and women had their homes, and insti- tutions, and rude manufactures here, for how many centuries we can hardly guess; but their savage lives left no record, except the rude weapons or tools which they casually dropped, and which we casually find.
The Indian tribe of this neighborhood was the Tunxis. But their sparse population, and their indolent natures, prevented any attempt to. subdue, these rugged forest-covered hills. Along the river at. Farming- ton, where the soil was level and mellow, they had their principal village ; in the open fields, which are now Plainville, they had another settlement : but these. woods-the "Great Forest" they called it-were more valuable to them as a hunting-ground, stocked with all manner of game and fish, than they could have been as a village site. The ledge of Cotton-
The Pierce Homestead, built by Ebenezer Barnes, the central third in yes, the north and south wings later upon the marriage of a son and daughter. Bought by the Pierce Family in 1797, in whose hands it still remains, and is at present the residence of Mrs. Julius E. Pierce. A remarkable fact that, although nearly two hundred years old, it has only been oxned by tivo families
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The James or Gad Lee place,later known as the "MUZZY PLACE.' Residence of L. O. Norton,
Stone, running along the crest of this hill, they discovered, and put to practical use; and the vessels, finished and unfinished, together with the still evident traces of work on the ledge itself, show that a quarry of considerable importance was located there. Vessels from this quarry are said to be found in many parts of the state.
Without doubt, the Indians who came here to work this quarry, or to hunt in the "Great Forest," built wigwams for their temporary use; and there were certainly a few isolated Indians who lived here permanently.
The name of Cochipianee, who lived on the hill to the northwest, has come down to us in the name of Chippin's Hill: Morgan Swamp, on Fall Mountain, preserves the name of another Indian, who died, and is said to have lived there; the claims of Bohemia and Poland to their land in the Stafford district were respected by the whites in the layout of 1721; there was probably an Indian wigwam near the James Lee. house, and a group of them near the Compounce cemetery. But the tribal center was at Farmington, and there was nothing within our limits which could be called even a village.
The same causes which determined the choice of the Indians, oper- ated also upon the early white settlers of New England, and tracts of arable land, lying near water-courses, were everywhere first chosen for settlement. So when the Massachusetts settlers began to think of colonizing the wilderness around them, and heard from the friendly In- dians of the fertile and open valley of the Connecticut, Wethersfield, Windsor, and Hartford, on the riverbank, became the first village sites. So again in 1639, when the river towns had sent out a committee to explore the surrounding country for the most inviting spot for settle- ment, they selected, as the Indians had done, the fields along the Farm- ington River, and began there the settlement of our mother town in the next year.
Thirty-seven of the Hartford settlers received a charter from the
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General Assembly, and also bought from the Tunxis Indians the right to settle on the land included therein. Among these proprietors we find the familiar names of Hart, Lewis, Barnes, Brownson, and Wil- cox. In 1672 the Assembly fixed the length of Farmington at fifteen miles, and its width at eleven miles, extending west from the Hartford line. The western boundary thus fixed is now the western line of Bristol.
As the Farmington settlers in turn began to push beyond their. original location, the level land along the Pequabuck attracted their attention, and in 1663 the town granted to John Wadsworth, Richard Brumpson, Thomas Barnes, and Moses Ventruss, a tract described as "fforty acors of meddow Land Lying att the place we comonly Call Poland." Twenty acres more were granted to John Langton and George Orvis in 1664. This Thomas Barnes was an ancestor of our townsfolk of that name, and the sixty acres then granted lay on both sides of the west branch of the Pequabuck River, extending nearly as far west as to the rolling-mill. These two grants seem to have exhausted the arable land in this direction, and no settlement was made upon them.
In 1672, the Farmington proprietors, then eighty-four in number, took formal possession of the territory which had just been assigned to them by the General Assembly. They laid out a parallelogram a little over eight miles long, and four wide, for the home settlement, and called it "the reserved land." The remaining land they divided among themselves in proportion to their assessment lists, giving to Mr. Hooker, the minister, a double portion. The actual survey of the western land was not made until 1721. Six tiers of lots were laid out, each three hundred and five rods wide, and about eleven miles long, with reserva- tions between for twenty, thirty, and forty rod highways; so that each "division," with its adjacent highway, was a little over a mile wide. The first two of these tiers were each divided into twenty-one lots, and each lot assigned to four proprietors; the last, or westerly, four were each divided into eighty-four lots, and assigned to individual owners; so that each Farmington proprietor had a lot, or an undivided quarter-lot, in each division. The widest of these lots were one hundred and thirty- one rods, four feet wide, and the narrowest nine rods, ten and a half feet; each one, of course, being three hundred and five rods long. These allotments were made to the men, and in the proportions, which had been fixed by the vote of 1672, and most of them were actually taken by the heirs of the men in whose names they were allotted. Narrower highways were reserved, running across the divisions, and a reservation of about one hundred and ninety acres was made to the Indians, Bohemia and Poland. The westerly five of these divisions now constitute the towns of Burlington and Bristol .*
The actual settlement was begun six years later by Daniel Brown- son of Farmington. He bought the seventy-first lot in the fifth division in November, 1727, and in that year, or early in the next, built a house at Goose Corner, so called. This house has long been gone, and Mr. Brownson seem's to have left the village very soon.
The second settler, and one in whom we feel more interest, because both his house and his family still remain, was Ebenezer Barnes, a descend- ant of the Thomas Barnes already mentioned. He built, in 1728, the house, which, having since been added to at both ends, is now the central part of Julius E. Pierce's residence in East Bristol. In the same year. Nehemiah Manross of Lebanon, the ancestor of our present Manrosses. built a house north of Ebenezer Barnes, and on the west side of the road Perhaps in this year, Abner Matthews built a house on the East Fall Mountain road.
During the next score of years a little group of houses was built on the East Bristol road, north of the Barnes and Manross houses, another hamlet on Chippin's Hill, a still smaller one on Red Stone Hill, and isolated houses stood on Fall Mountain, in the present Stafford district, and in the centre of the town.
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