History of Fairfield County, Connecticut : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 118

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) comp. cn
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1572

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Another family of almost equal antiquity, but who, unlike the preceding, usually dispense with first letter " d" in their namc, are derived from John de Sanford, Lord of Great Homede, eounty Hertz, whose name is met with in 1199 and 1220 in ancient records. He was father of Gilbert de Sanford, Lord of Great Ho- mede, and chamberlain of Queen Eleanor, the wife of King Henry III., and daughter of Raimond Berenger, the last Count of Provence.

The former of these families are undoubtedly the ancestors of the Connecticut Sanfords. Thomas San- ford, sometimes spelt Sampford or Samford in the records, came to Boston about 1631. He first appears in Dorchester, Mass., in 1634, and went to Milford, Conn., in 1639, and died there in 1681. His name

* Contributed by H. G. Sanford.

Josiah Sanford

Fred Sanford

(OLD HOMESTEAD ) RES. OF F. SANFORD, NEWTOWN CONN.

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appears among those who first organized the town. His eldest son, Ezekiel, and daughter, Sarah, were born in Massachusetts.

Record as follows :

Thomas Sanford, born -; died October, 1681. Sarah (maiden-name unknown to writer), born -; died 1681. Children : Ezekiel Sanford, born about 1635; married Rebecca Wickla, April 25, 1665 ; died 1683. Sarah Sanford, born 1637; married Richard Shute. Mary Sanford, born Jan. 16, 1641; unmar- ried. Samuel Sanford, born April 30, 1643 ; married Hannah Brinson. Thomas Sanford, born December, 1644; married Elizabeth Payne. Ephraim Sanford, born May 17, 1646 ; married Mary Powell. Elizabeth Sanford, born Aug. 27, 1648; married Obadiah Al- lyne.

Ezekiel Sanford,* born 1635 ; died 1683. Rebecca Wiekla, born -; married April 25, 1665. Chil- dren : Sarah Sanford, born March 5, 1666; married Cornelius Hull. Ezekiel Sanford, Jr., born March 6, 1668; married Rebeeea --. Mary Sanford, born April 3, 1670; married Theopilus Hull. Rebeeea Sanford, born Dee. 13, 1672 ; married John Seeley. Thomas Sanford, born May 2, 1675. Martha Sanford, born June 29, 1677. Elizabeth Sanford, born Sept. 6,1679.

Cornelius Hull, born -. Sarah Sanford, born Mareh 5, 1666.

Ezekiel Sanford, Jr., born March 6, 1668; died March, 1729; married Rebecea (name not known to writer), born -. Children: Joseph Sanford, born about 1697 ; married Catharine Fairchild. Lemuel Sanford, born Dec. 16, 1699; married Rebecca Squires. Zachariah Sanford, born Nov. 24, 1701; married Ann Hull. Ezekiel Sanford (3), born July 27, 1704. Samuel Sanford, born Feb. 20, 1707 ; mar- ried Sarah Meaker. Ephraim Sanford, born Feb. 12, 1708 ; married Elizabeth Mix. Rebecca Sanford, born Nov. 21, 1710. Abigail Sanford, born Ang. 29, 1714. Elnathan Sanford, born Sept 1, 1717.

Joseph Sanford, born about 1697. Catharine Fair- child, born -; married Feb. 11, 1725. Children : Nehemiah Sanford, born March 10, 1726. Elnathan Sanford, born Oet. 11, 1727. Phebe Sanford, born Nov. 11, 1729. Ann Sanford, born Feb. 15, 1732. Timothy Sanford, born Feb. 8, 1734. Joseph San- ford, born June 20, 1736. Nathan Sanford, born Ang. 15, 1738. James Sanford, born Dee. 14, 1740. Stephen Sanford, born July 16, 1743.

Nehemiah Sanford, born March 10, 1726; aged ninety ; died November, 1815. Elizabeth Morehouse, born -; married Mareh 5, 1747; died July 31, 1810. Children: Gershom Sanford, born Ang. 26, 1748 ; died early. Liffe Sanford, born Aug. 30, 1750; died Dee. 3, 1815. Phebe Sanford, born Aug. 20, 1752 ; single; died early. Ann Sanford, born Oct. 2, 1755; died Jan. 8, 1846. Catharine Sanford, born

Oct. 31, 1759; died Nov. 17, 1843. Nehemiah San- ford, born October, 1762; died Dec. 26, 1844.

Liffe Sanford, born Ang. 30, 1750; died Dec. 3, 1815. Huldah Blackman, born -; married 1785. Children : John B. Sanford, born January, 1788; died 1856. Jerusba Sanford, born January, 1790; died 1825. Joseph Sanford, born April 12, 1792; died 1864. Laura Sanford, born April, 1794; died 1857. Glover Sanford, born March, 1797 ; died 1878.

John B. Sanford, born January, 1788; died 1856. Rebecca Clark, born -; married 1812. Children : George Sanford, born 1814. Harriet R. Sanford, born -; died carly. Julia E. Sanford, born -; died early.

Joseph Sanford, born April 12, 1792; married Maria Young 1830; died 1864. Children: Jane E. Sanford, born Sept. 22, 1832. Martha Ann Sanford, born June 11, 1835. Rebecca M. Sanford, born Feb. 18, 1844.

Bushnell Bostwiek, born -; married, 1821, Laura Sanford, born April, 1794. Child: Julia E. Bost- wick, born July 20, 1823.

Glover Sanford, born March, 1797. Betsey Lake, born Children : Charles H. Sanford, born March 24, 1823. Homer B. Sanford, born Jnne, 1824. Frederick S. Sanford, born February, 1826. Edwin G. Sanford, born May, 1832. Charlotte E. Sanford. born May, 1838.

Lemuel Sanford, born Dee. 16, 1699, son of Ezekiel Sanford, Jr. ; married Rebecca Squires, May 12, 1730. Children : Hezekiah Sanford, born March 1, 1731. Rebecca Sanford, born Oct. 29, 1732. Sarah Sanford, born Sept. 11, 1734. Anna Sanford, born Oct. 19, 1736; died Dec. 4, 1743. Lydia Sanford, born May 19, 1738. Lemnel Sanford, born April 18, 1740. Ezekiel Sanford, born June 30, 1742. Anna Sanford. born Oct. 7, 1744. Euniee Sanford, born Sept. 10. 1746. Rhoda Sanford, born Feb. 20, 1749.

Samuel Sanford, born Feb. 20, 1707, son of Ezekiel Sanford (3); died Nov. 6, 1768 ; married Sarah Meaker, Jan. 11, 1733. Children: Daniel Sanford, born Feb. 25, 1734; married Esther Hull. Seth Sanford, born Ang. 18, 1735; married Rebecca Burr. Mary Sanford, born Feb. 16, 1738 ; married Timothy Sanford. David Sanford, born Nov. 16, 1739. Abigail Sanford, born Jan. 16, 1743; married John Hawley. Samnel San- ford, Jr., born April 24, 1745 ; married Sarah Olm- stead. Sarah Sanford, born May 6, 1747. Esther Sanford, born April 9, 1749. Ezra Sanford, born Feb. 26, 1751. Rachel Sanford, born Feb. 2, 1753. Peter Sanford, born May 18, 1756; married Abigail Keeler.

Ephraim Sanford, born Feb. 12, 1708; married Elizabeth Mix, Oet. 7, 1730. Children : Elizabeth Sanford, born July 1, 1731. Rachel Sanford, born July 23, 1733; married Stephen Mead. Abigail Sau- ford, born May 10, 1735; married Daniel Jackson. Hannah Sanford, born March 3, 1737 ; married David Lyon. John Sanford, born April 26, 1739. Oliver

* Ezekiel settled in Fairfield, Conn., and died there.

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Sanford, born Sept. 17, 1741; married Rachel Coley. Lois Sanford, born Sept. 14, 1743; married Joseph Lyon. Tabitha Sanford, born Feb. 28, 1746. Hul- dah Sanford, born April 25, 1748. Ephraim Sanford, Jr., born May 25, 1750. Augustus Sanford, born July 12, 1753; died 1788. Esther Sanford, born April 24, 1755; died early.

The following are the Newtown Sanfords, most of them descended from Samuel Sanford, second son of Thomas and Sarah Sanford, of Milford, Conn. :

Samuel Sanford, born April 30, 1643; died 1691. Hannalı Brinson, born -; married April 16, 1674. Children : Hannah Sanford, born Feb. 2, 1675; mar- ried James Right (as spelled in the record). Thomas Sanford, born Sept. 29, 1678; died Mareh 3, 1679. Samuel Sanford, born Mareh 12, 1680; married Eas- ther Baldwin, daughter of Nathaniel Baldwin, and sister to Ester Baldwin, who married his eousin, Samuel Sanford, of Milford. Sarah Sanford, born July 10, 1682. Mary Sanford, born April 16, 1685; died Feb. 2, 1703. Thomas Sanford, born May 4, 1687 ; married Rebeeea Barry, of Farmington; died 1730. (See will in New Haven, probated Nov. 4, 1730.)

Samuel Sanford, born Mareh 12, 1680; married Easther Baldwin, 1683; went to Newtown in 1711. Children : Nathaniel Sanford, born Dee. 3, 1702; mar- ried Elizabeth Sceley ; died April 14, 1768. Samuel Sanford, born April 1, 1704; died May 7, 1750. Ebon- orer Sanford, born Feb. 22, 1705; died Aug. 2, 1713. Esther Sanford, born Feb. 10, 1707. John Sanford, born Oet. 17, 1709; dicd April 14, 1785. Daniel San- ford, born Nov. 1, 1711. Stephen and Moses Sanford, born 1713. Job Sanford, born Jan. 10, 1715. Han- nah Sanford, born Jan. 6, 1717. Rachel Sanford, born June 13, 1720; married Eben Booth.

Nathaniel Sanford, born Dee. 3, 1702; married Elizabeth Seeley, Oct. 16, 1728; died April 14, 1768. Children : Nathan Sanford, born Sept. 8, 1729. Abel H. Sanford, baptized March 25, 1733. Ruth Sanford, baptized May 12, 1737. Esther Sanford, baptized May 27, 1744.

Samuel Sanford, born April 1, 1704; married Han- nah Gilbert, June 16, 1731; died Mareh 7, 1758. Children : Thomas Sanford, born Mareh 3, 1732. Amos Sanford, born Oet. 18, 1733. Mary Sanford, born 1735. James Sanford, born 1736. Hannalı San- ford, born 1740; died Mareh 4, 1758. Sarah Sanford, born 1738; married Jonah Platt. Samuel Sanford, born 1743 ; married Abiah Dunning, and seeond wife, Charity Bristol. Lois Sanford, born 1750; married Samuel Stevens.

Amos Sanford, born Oct. 18, 1733. Mary Clagston, born -; married Jan. 13, 1757. Children : David Sanford, born Nov. 9, 1757. Betsey Sanford, born March 23, 1759. Caleb Sanford, born Aug. 22, 1761. Ezra Sanford, born May 8, 1763. John Sanford.

Samuel Sanford, born 1743; died Nov. 26, 1817; married, Aug. 19, 1765, Abiah Dunning, born -.

Children : Annett Sanford, born Mareh 12, 1766. Isaac Sanford, born Feb. 2, 1768; married Anna Bristol. Josiah Sanford, born Sept. 6, 1769; died 1780. Betsey Sanford, born Sept. 26, 1771; married - Downs. Sarah Sanford, born July 26, 1773; married Thomas Lyon. Joel Sanford, born March 23, 1775. Ruah Sanford, born 1777; died 1779. Ruah Sanford, born Dee. 1, 1779; married James Bennett. Azubah Sanford, born June 3, 1781 ; married Andrew Winton. Artimisia Sanford, born 1783; married Eli Winton. Abigail Sanford, born 1785; died 1792.

Seeond marriage: Samuel Sanford, born 1743; married widow Charity (Foot) Bristol. Children : Abiah Ann Sanford, born Feb. 10, 1790; died Mareh 13, 1861. Josiah Sanford, born June 9, 1793; died July 26, 1851. Philo Sanford, born July 11, 1796; died Feb. 23, 1873.

Jonathan Sanford settled on Walnut Hill, in New- town or Sand Hook; he was grandson of Ephraim Sanford, son of Thomas and Sarah Sanford, of Mil- ford. The following is the record.

Ephraim Sanford, born May 17, 1646; married Mary Powell, daughter of Thomas Powell, New Haven, Nov. 18, 1669. Children : Mary Sanford, born Sept. 28, 1670. Samuel Sanford, born Jan. 26, 1672; died early. Samuel Sanford, born May 9, 1674. Ephraim Sanford, Jr., born May 11, 1677; died April 17, 1728. Thomas Sanford, born Jan. 29, 1679; died April, 1713. Nathaniel Sanford, born Oet. 10, 1682; died 1747. Zachariah Sanford, born Mareh 14, 1686; died 1713.

Samuel Sanford, born May 9, 1674; married Ester Baldwin, born Nov. 14, 1676, eldest daughter of Na- thaniel Baldwin. Children : Hannah Sanford, born June 28, 1696; married Joseph Gunn. Samuel San- ford, born May 29, 1698 ; married Abigail Holbrook. Joseph Sanford, born July 5, 1701; married Mary Clark; settled in Litchfield. Mary Sanford, born July 5, 1702; married Jonah Northup. Jonathan Sanford, born July 13, 1704 ; married Hannah Platt; settled in Newtown. Stephen Sanford, born Nov. 20, 1706. David Sanford, born May, 1708; died 1708. David Sanford, born Sept. 8, 1709; married Rachel Strong ; died Jan. 16, 1751. Esther Sanford, born Nov. 9, 1711 ; married Samuel Bristol. Abigail Sanford, born Oct. 14, 1714; married - Pierson. Elizabeth San-

ford, born Dee. 13, 1716.

Jonathan Sanford, born July 13, 1704, settled in Walnut Hill, Sandy Hook, Newtown; married Phebe Platt, July 8, 1725. Children : Phebe Sanford, born Aug. 1, 1726. Hannah Sanford, born Aug. 27, 1827.

Seeond marriage; Jonathan Sanford, born July 13, 1704; married Hannalı Platt, born 1705, died July 8, 1775. Children : Jonah Sanford, born --; died Sept. 8, 1788. Solomon Sanford, born -; died Feb. 23, 1784. Jonathan Sanford Jr., born Mareh 20, 1737; died May 1, 1807.

Jonathan Sanford, Jr., born Mareh 20, 1737. Chil- dren : Salmon Sanford, Huldah Sanford.

Lemuel Ch. Camp

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Solomon Sanford; married Mehitable Northup. Children : Amos Northup Sanford. Olive Ann San- ford. Josiah Sanford. Jerusha Sanford.

D. C. GATELY.

Dennis C. Gately, superintendent of the New York Belting and Packing Company, situated at Newtown, Conn., was born in Roxbury, Mass. (now a part of Boston), Aug. 12, 1816, in the same house where Gen. Joseph Warren, who was killed at Bunker Hill, was born. Dennis was about twelve years of age when his father died, and the mother being left with a large family Dennis was taken into the family of Supply C. Twing, a commission merchant of Boston, with whom he remained three years, attending school and doing errands, and was commended for his faithfulness, which in later years was testified to by his early benefactor, whom he always reverenced. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to Louis A. Lauriatt, a noted French chemist, but, preferring a more active life, a year later he chose the trade of housewright. He served till he was twenty-one with the firm of James Sinclair & Co. Being slight of physique he often labored beyond his strength, but persevered and learned the trade in all . its details, finishing up all the nice work, and often retained till after the family moved in. As he was careful and painstaking he made many friends among the owners of fine estates about the city of Boston. " Brookline," the fine house of Gen. Lyman, he helped to build, and was the last man to leave the premises.

In April, 1846, a gentleman by the name of John Haskins (an early inventor in rubber), knowing Den- nis from his having worked on his house eight years previous, recommended him to the superintendency of a small rubber factory in Roxbury. After a few months this company failed, and he was placed as keeper till a new company was formed, called the "Boston Belting Company," under the firm of Tap- pan, McBarney & Cheever, as principal agents. From a beginning with fifteen men he continued with them till they employed one hundred and forty men. Dur- ing this time, by careful savings, he built himself a house, where he placed his mother, who cared for him till he married. At the age of thirty-five he was mar- ried to Oline F. Perkins, daughter of William Curtis Perkins, of Maine. His mother lived to be nearly ninety-two years of age, and was tenderly cared for by Dennis, who was the only surviving child but one of nine children. April, 1856, ten years after the " Bos- ton Belting Company" was organized, Mr. Cheever retired from the firm and went to New York. Mr. Gately received and accepted a liberal offer from the "New York Belting and Packing Company." It was with reluctance that he left Roxbury, where he had been identified so long, to begin anew among those who looked with suspicion upon all he did.

The intention of the New York Company was to retain Mr. Gately in New York City, where a special

part of the business was to be carried forward in the manufacture of the lighter articles of rubber goods, but difficulties arising at Newtown among the work- men and between the former superintendent and the senior member of the company, made it necessary for Mr. Gately to take the factory at Newtown in charge, and the old factory burning down the first season, the business, after rebuilding, was transacted wholly at Newtown.

As the years passed on Mr. Gately made several val- uable inventions, which have contributed largely to the advantage of the company in the manufacture of their goods. The company now employ nearly three hundred operatives, doing the largest business of the kind in the United States.

Mr. Gately's business career and his present busi- ness and social standing are eminently worthy of con- templation, showing, as they do, what persistent atten- tion to details will do. His entire success is due to this characteristic. What he did was well done, fin- ished, and properly finished. Genial, kind, and unassuming, this same considerate and painstaking phase of Mr. Gately's character, during twenty-five years' residenee in his adopted town, has seeured to lim the esteem of its citizens, and has conspired in all the degrees and relations of life, whether as son, father, husband, friend, or citizen, to seeure to him respect and affection.

His children are six,-viz. : Caroline Ryder, Ella Catherine, Curtis Perkins, Sarah Dennis, Charles Lincoln, and Harry Grant.

LEMUEL FAIRCHIILD CAMP.

Lemuel Camp (1), the great-great-grandfather of Lemuel H. Camp, came to Newtown; it is supposed, from old Milford about the time of the first settle- ment (1807). He had nine children,-viz. : Joel (2), John, Samuel (who died in the French war), Silas, Julins, Phebe (Mrs. Sirenas Hard), Heppie (Mrs. Amile Peek), Allie, or Alice (Mrs. Sims), and Clarisa (Mrs. Josiah Blaekman).

Joel Camp (2) was born Oct. 20, 1734, and died October, 1779. He married Ellen Jackson, by whom he had eight children,-viz. : Deborah (Mrs. Mathew Sherman), Lemuel (3), John, Susan (Mrs. Joseph Wheeler), Jacob, Phebe, Silas, and Samnel.

Lemuel Camp (3), in addition to his occupation as a farmer, was a school teacher and surveyor. A man of probity and intelligence, he won the confidence of his neighbors, and was a general peacemaker as well as arbiter of disputes in the neighborhood. He mar- ried Sarah, daughter of Samuel Dibble, by whom he had ten children,-Joel Trowbridge (4), Cyrus, Dibble, Polly (Mrs. Sammel Fairchild), Adah (second wife of Beers Fairchild), Maria (Mrs. John Smith), Beach, Hiram, Sarah Ann (Mrs. Zacharia Clark), and Mary Ann.

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Joel Trowbridge Camp (4) was born March 1, 1794, and was married to Polly, daughter of Zadoc Fair- child, April 13, 1819. His children are Lemuel Fair- child (5), Lucia (Mrs. John R. Smith), Edwin, and Samuel Burtis.

Mr. Camp is now living with his son Lemuel F., at the advanced age of eighty-seven. He has been a man of great industry, following farming and making upon his own farm the implements required. Very fond of the retirement of his home he lias never been on a railroad car and never farther from home than Hartford.

Lemuel Fairchild Camp, the subject of this sketch, was born Dec. 8, 1820. His youth was that usual to the New England farmers' boy, working upon the farm and attending the district school. When twenty- one years of age he was quite desirous of going West, but, his father strongly opposing the step. he decided to content himself among the rocky hills of his native town. His father purchasing the place of his present residence about this time, Lemuel was put in charge. April 4, 1855 he was united in marriage to Sarah Jane, daughter of Amos and Mary Ann Lake. Since this time, by the safe and sure way of industry and good management, affairs have prospered with Mr. Camp. The old house on the place at the time of purchase has been torn down and a new one erected, comfortable barns have been built and orchards planted. Fond of home, like the most of the old New Englanders, Mr. Camp is happy in the society of his family. Possessed of a taste for stock, of which he is a fine judge, he gives considerable attention to buying and grazing cattle for the markets, and it is not often that superior stock cannot be found upon his premises. In politics Mr. Camp is a Republican, is a member of the Episcopal Church, and, as might be expected, is a director of and stockholder in the Danbury Agri- cultural and Manufacturers' Fair Association,-the only stockholder, by-the-bye, in Newtown.

His children are Carrie Amelia (deceased), Alma Medora, Mary Alice, Amos Trowbridge, and Sarah Annie.

WILLIAM PLATT.

Among the original thinkers and progressive fruit- growers of Newtown none outrank William Platt, Esq., a view of whose residence appears upon another page. Mr. Platt is a native of Litchfield County, but for thirty years he has been a resident of New- town, and in the several capacities of manufacturer, farmer, and fruit-grower he has been decidedly suc- cessful.

Inasmuch as Mr. Platt entertains peculiar religious views, and employs the local press as a mediumn to impress others with his belief in well-written and forcible paragraphis, he is termed the "Newtown Philosopher." It is a practice of Mr. Platt to prepare at frequent intervals short articles,-sometimes ap- peals, sometimes protests ; these he posts in manu-

script at the public places in the village. It will per- haps be interesting in the town's history to insert at least one of these characteristic paragraphs, which we clip from the Danbury News :

"Nothing is right that is not fair." "Platform lectures are never fair, and they are in direct opposi- tion to Christ's plain teaching." "Go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone. A person will re- ceive a reproof with thankfulness from another when the two are alone, which if administered in the pres- ence of a third person or a crowd would excite anger ; and further, the party reproved may have con- sciousness that his actions were not subject to censure, and he justly deems himself mistreated when repri- manded by a hireling, before whom he can make no explanation or vindication without being an offender of the common law. If platform preaching or lec- tures were ever allowable, they are not needed now, for the printer has placed the lectures of Him 'who spake as never man spake' in the hands of all." "No toll-gates on the way to Heaven." Mr. Platt is an industrious, cultivated, and useful citizen, frank and courteous in his manner.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

NORWALK.

Geographical-Topographical-The First Purchase-First Indian Deed to Roger Ludlow-Indian Dced to Capt. Patrick-The Ludlow Agree- ment-Confirmation of Patrick's Purchase-Assignment by Ludlow- Deed from Runckinghenge-The Patent-The Pioneers-Original Grants of Home-Lots-Plan of Ancient Settlement.

NORWALK is a coast town, and is bounded as fol- lows: On the north by New Canaan and Wilton ; on the east by Westport; on the south by Long Island Sound; and on the west by Darien and New Canaan. The surface of the town is uneven and its soil fertile.

To the intrepid and talented Roger Ludlow, whose history is interwoven with the pioneer events in this section of the State, is due the honor of having made the first purchase of lands of the Indians within the bounds of the present town of Norwalk. This pur- chase was made on the 26th of February, 1640, and embraced that portion of the town lying between the Saugatuck and Norwalk Rivers. On the 20th of the following April a subsequent purchase was inade of the central portion of the town by Capt. Daniel Pat- rick. The western portion of the town was not pur- chased until 1651.

FIRST INDIAN DEED.

The following is a copy of the first deed from the Norwalk Indians to Roger Ludlow :

INDIAN DEED TO CAPT. PATRICK.

" An agreement betwixt Daniell Patrick and Mahackem, and Nara- make and Pemenate Hewnompom indians of Norwake and Makentonh, the said Daniell Patricke hath bought of the sayed three indians, the ground called Sacunyte napucke, allso Meeanworth, thirdly Asumsowis, fourthly all the land adjoyninge to the aforementioned, as farr up in the

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cnntry as an indian can goe in a day, frem sun risinge to sun settinge; and twoe Islands neere adjoining to the sayed carantenayneck, all beunded on the west side with noewanton on the east side to the middle of the River of Norwake, and all trees, meadows, waters and naturell adjuncts thereunto belonginge, for him and his forever; for whith Lands tho sayed indians are to receive of the sayed Daniell Patricke, of wam- pum, tenn fathoms, hatchetts three, howes three, when shipps come ; sixe glasses, twelfe tobackoc pipes, three knifes, tenn drills, tenn needles ; this as full satisfaction, for the aforementioned Innde, and for the peace- able possession of which the aforementioned mahachemill doth promise and undertake te silence all opposers of this purchase, if any should in his time act, to witnesse which, on both sides, hands are interchangeably hierennto sett, this 20th of Aprill, 1640.

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THIE LUDLOW AGREEMENT.

The following is a copy of the agreement of Mr. Ludlow with the planters of Norwalk :

" A copyie of the agreement and articles made between Reger Ludlew, of Fairfield, and Nathaniel Eli, and Rithard Olmested, with the rest, for the settlinge and plantinge of Nerwalke.

" Articles of agreement made between Roger Ludlowe, of Fairfield, esquire of the ene parte, and Nathaniel Eli, of Hartford, in the River of Counecticut, Rithard Olmsted of the same in the behalfe of themselves and Rithard Webb, Nathaniel Rithards, Mathew Marvin, Rithard Seamer, Themas Spencer, Thomas IIales, Nathaniel Ruskoe, Isacke Graves, Ralph Keeler, Jolin Holloway, Edward Clurch, John Ruskoe, and seme ethers about plantinge Nerwalke, over the 19th day of June, 1650.

" Imprimis, the sayed Nathaniel Eli and Rithard Olmested, doe cove- nant, and premise, and agree, that they will set npen the plantingo of the sayed Norwalke, with all convenient speed ; will mowe and stacke seme hay npen the sayed Norwalke this winter, to the end that they may, in the spring next at the farthest, breako up some ground to plante the next season followinge ; and that then they will begin to build and in- habite theirwith some considerable companic, and to invito an orthodoxe and approved minister with all convenient speede that they may be ; and that the plantation shall not be taken np under thirtie approved fami- lies, in a short time to be settled their, and so to continuo; and that, er the like considerable companie; and that they will net receive in any that they be obnoxious to the publiquo good of the Commonwealth of Connecticut. And upen that consideration the sayed Roger Ludlowe is willinge and doe agree to surrender the purchaso of the sayed Norwalke, whith he bought of the Indians, of the sayed Norwalke, some years since; which cost tho sayed Reger Ludlowe fifteen pounds, some years since, as by the purchase will appeare ; whith sayod fifteen pounds is promised to be payed to the sayed Reger Ludlowe or tis assignes by the sayed Eli and Olmested their assignes, shortly after the first plantinge thiercof, with consideration for the sayed fifteen pennds from the dis- bursinge thereef uuto that time; as also that the sayed Roger shall havo a convenient Lett laied out for his sonnes, according to the vallne of 2001b. in the proportion of Rates as they goo by themselfes ; and that it

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History of Fairfield County, Connecticut : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 118

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) comp. cn Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co. Number of Pages: 1572

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) comp. cn
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1572