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Safe driving placques distributed.
Drinking fountain in back of school
Civic information booklet
Eye-Research Program, Glaucoma Fund
Telebinocular for Eye Tests at the School
Christmas to Southbury Training School
Aid in Dogwood planting in town.
Money to Friends of the Library
Money to Babe Ruth Baseball League
Money to Quaker Farms 4-H Club.
Money to Ambulance Association, Oxford Disaster Association. Welcoming new families to town.
Decoration of Christmas Tree on Green.
Organizing Carol Singing for everyone in town.
House Decoration Contest with prizes
Sponsoring a Blood Bank
Trophy system for basketball competition
Contributions to Cancer Drive
Participation in Valley Health Survey
Liberty Bell ringing on Election day.
Oxford men who have served as President of this Club are:
1. Frederick R. Bice, Jr. 6. Edmund Schade
2. Norman Husted
7. Frank Mason
3. Gerald Boudreau
8. Arthur Hoyt
4. Charles Lubin 9. William Rice
5. Albert Douillet 10. Joseph Prokop
One of the items in the Code of Ethics of the Lions Club gives a good description of what each Lion's Club Member bears in mind.
"Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, and to give to them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor, and means. To build up and not destroy."
CHAPTER 43
SELECTMEN OF OXFORD
SELECTMEN FOR DERBY (INCLUDING OXFORD)
A complete list of the Selectmen for Derby from 1677 to 1798 (when Oxford was incorporated as a town) will be found in the "History of the Old Town of Derby", page 789.
In the year 1680 when Oxford was first settled, they were: Edward Wooster, John Hulls and William Tonlinson.
Who the first selectman for Derby was who lived in Oxford is difficult to say until the year 1762, when we find the name of Capt. Zachariah Hawkins, who continued to serve through the year 1766.
When the incorporation of Oxford became imminent, about 1797, the selectmen for Derby were Capt. Joseph Riggs, Capt. Ebenezer Riggs, and Mr. Reuben Lumm, and in 1798, the actual year of the incorpora- tion, they were: Reuben Lumm, David Hitchcock and Nathan Stiles.
SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF OXFORD
"that selectmen be authorized and impowered to settle controversy in such a manner as they adjudge best for the town"
1798
David Tomlinson Charles Bunnel Caleb Candee
1799
Caleb Candee Charles Bunnell
Isaac Nichols
Joseph Lines Azael Hide
1800
1801
Caleb Candee Charles Bunnel Isaac Nichols Justus Candee Joseph Lines 1802
Joseph Lines Isaac Nichols Justus Candee
1803
Elijah Hawkins Abel Wheeler Justus Candee
Philo Holbrook D. Candee Elijah Hawkins
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1804 D. Candee E. Hawkins Caleb Candee
1806
David McEwen Nathan Tomlinson Daniel Finch Silvester Higgins Ebenezar Riggs
1808 David McEwen Daniel Finch Elijah Hawkins
1810 Elihu Bates Charles Bunnell Job Candee
1812 Charles Bunnell D. Tomlinson Abel Wheeler
1814 Lemuel Beardslee John Bassett Charles Bunnell
1816 Lemuel Beardslee Justus Candee Jared Hawley
1818 Lemuel Beardslee Jared Hawley Chauncey Hatch
1820 Lemuel Beardslee Ira Sherman Chauncey Hatch
1822 Elias Scott Nate Wooster Chauncey Hatch
1805
David Tomlinson Caleb Candee David Candee
1807 David McEwen Daniel Finch= Elijah Hawkins
1809 Elihu Bates Job Candee Philo Beecher
1811
Charles Bunnell D. Tomlinson Abel Wheeler
1813
Abel Wheeler John Fairchild - John Bassett Lemuel Beardslee
1815
Lemuel Beardslee John Bassett Justus Candee
1817
Lemuel Beardslee Jared Hawley Chauncey Hatch
1819 Lemuel Beardslee Nathan Wooster Chauncey Hatch
1821 Lemuel Beardslee Ira Sherman Elias Scott
1823 Elias Scott Nathan Wooster Charles Bunnell
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1824 Chauncey Hatch Abijah Hyde John Coe
1826 Samuel Wire Ira Sherman Wait Bassett
1828 Samuel Wire Ira Sherman Sheldon Clark
1830 Hiram Osborn Lewis Chatfield
Reuben Curtiss
1832
Lewis Chatfield Hiram Osborn Reuben Curtiss
1834
Roswell Cable Alfred Harger Sheldon Bristol
1836
Roswell Cable Alfred Harger Sheldon Bristol
1838 N. Wilcoxson I. Hyde Clark Botsford
1840 Clark Botsford Elias Scott David Clark
1842 David Clark John Hull William Gillett
1825
N. Fairchild Ira Sherman Samuel Wire
1827
Samuel Wire Ira Sherman Wait Bassett
1829
Hiram Osborn I. Hyde Reuben Curtiss
1831
Hiram Osborn Lewis Chatfield
Roswell Cable
1833
Roswell Cable Reuben Curtiss Alfred Harger
1835
Roswell Cable Alfred Harger Sheldon Bristol
1837
Sheldon Bristol Alfred Harger N. Wilcoxson
1839 Levi Candee Clark Botsford N. Wilcoxson
1841 Russel Wooster Eli Tyler Ira Hawkins
1843 David Clark William Gillett Alfred Harger
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1844
Alfred Harger William Gillett Sheldon Church
1846 Burritt Davis Samuel Wire Ira Hyde
1848 Nathan Fairchild Alfred Harger Everett Booth
1850 Nathan Fairchild Lewis Davis Robert Wheeler
1852 Nathan Fairchild Lewis Davis Henry Bidwell
1854
Robert Wheeler James Buckingham Benjamin Nichols
1856 Joel Osborn Lewis Davis Ephraim Smith
1858 Joel Osborn Lewis Davis Ephraim Smith
1860 Joel Osborn Benjamin Nichols Burritt Davis
1862 Joel Osborn Benjamin Nichols Burritt Davis
1845
Alfred Harger Sheldon Church Burritt Davis
1847
Burritt Davis Joel White Nathan Fairchild
1849
Nathan Fairchild Robert Wheeler George W. Morgan
1851
Nathan Fairchild Lewis Davis Robert Wheeler
1853
David Clark Benjamin Nichols Robert Wheeler
1855
Joel Osborn Lewis Davis Ephraim Smith
1857
Ephraim Smith Lewis Davis Joel Osborn
1859 Joel Osborn Burritt Davis Benjamin Nichols
1861 Joel Osborn Benjamin Nichols Burritt Davis
1863 Benjamin Nichols Robert Wheeler Wm. Church
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1864 Benjamin Nichols Robert Wheeler John Davis
1866 Joel Osborn Luther Fowler B. Davis
1868 Joel Osborn Benjamin Nichols Egbert Warner
1870 Benjamin Nichols R. B. Limburner Joel Osborn
1872 Wm. H. Davis Robert B. Limburner Wm. O. French
1874 Robert Limburner
James H. Bartlett
Lewis B. Perkins
1876 Orlando C. Osborn Robert Limburner James Bartlett
1879 James Bartlett John B. Pope George R. Baldwin
1881 James Bartlett John B. Pope George R. Baldwin
1883 Frederick C. Candee Clark A. Lum George Baldwin
1865
Joel Osborn Luther Fowler B. Davis
1867 Joel Osborn George Lum Charles Perkins
1869
Joel Osborn Albert D. Carrington George Lum
1871
R. B. Limburner Joel White George R. Baldwin
1873 Robert Limburner James H. Bartlett David E. Riggs
1875 Robert Limburner James H. Bartlett
Lewis B. Perkins
1877
James Bartlett Lewis B. Perkins John B. Pope
1880 James Bartlett John B. Pope George R. Baldwin
1882
George R. Baldwin John B. Pope Lewis B. Perkins
1884 Frederick C. Candee Clark A. Lum George Baldwin
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1885 James Bartlett Robert Limburner Clark A. Lum
1887 James Bartlett Clark A. Lum Wooster B. McEwen
1889 Glover Cable James H. Bartlett Wooster McEwen
1891 Robert Limburner Wooster McEwen Cornelius C. Ryder
1893 Robert Limburner Robt. J. Sanford Wm. O. Davis
1895 Robert Sanford Wm. O. Davis Wallace G. Tomlinson
1897 Robert Sanford John B. Pope Chas. B. Johnson
1899 John B. Pope Charles B. Johnson Robert I Sanford
1901 John B. Pope Frank H. Downs Wm W. Hughes
1903 Wm O. Davis John B. Pope Wooster McEwen
1886
James Bartlett Robert Limburner Clark A. Lum
1888
James Bartlett Clark A. Lum Wooster B. McEwen
1890
John B. Pope James Bartlett Robert Limburner
1892
Robert Limburner Wooster McEwen Cornelius C. Ryder
1894
Smith C. Wheeler Wm. W. Hughes Wm. O. Davis
189 6 Wm. O. Davis Charles B. Johnson Gordon Crofut
1898
William O. Davis Robert I. Sanford Charles B. Johnson
1900 John B. Pope Frank B. Andrew Robert I. Sanford
1902
Wm. O. Davis John B. Pope Wooster McEwen
1904 John B. Pope Charles B. French Wooster McEwen
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1905 John B. Pope Chas. B. French Chas. B. Johnson
1907
John B. Pope Glover Cable Eugene A. Wyant
1909 Eugene A. Wyant John B. Pope Charles B. French
1911 Wallace A. Tomlinson Frederick W. Hubbell Chas. B. French
1913
Wallace A. Tomlinson Frederick W. Hubbell Nelson M. Cable
1915 Frederick W. Hubbell Nelson M. Cable Frank B. Andrew
1917 Frank B. Andrews Frederick W. Hubbell Nelson M. Cable
1919 Robert I. Sanford Frederick W. Hubbell Albert K. Pope
1921 Thomas Schreiber William Hubbell Nelson Cable
1923 William Hubbell Charles Pope Nelson Cable
1906
Wooster McEwen John B. Pope Chas. B. French
1908 John B. Pope Nelson M. Cable Eugene A. Wyant
1910 John B. Pope Frederick W. Hubbell
Wallace A. Tomlinson
1912
same
1914
Nelson M. Cable Wallace A. Tomlinson John D. Crofut
1916 Frederick W. Hubbell Nelson M. Cable Albert K. Pope
1918
Nelson M. Cable Frederick W. Hubbell Albert K. Pope
1920 Hubert Wells Wallace Tomlinson Nelson M. Cable
1922 William Hubbell Knud Olsen (Christ) Nelson Cable
1924 Oscar Tilquist William Hubbell Charles Pope
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1925 Nelson Cable Oscar Tilquist William Hubbell
1927 Jos. Lineweber Chas. Pope Wm. Hubbell
1929 W. Hubbell Edward Rowland Charles Pope
1931 Jos. Lineweber H. Leslie Tomlinson Chas. Pope
1933 Charles Pope William Curtiss Robert Sanford
1935 Clarence Roberts William R. Curtiss Charles Pope
1937 Benjamin Tilquist Charles Pope Clarence F. Roberts 1939
same
1941
same
1943
same
1945
same
1926
O. Tilquist W. Hubbell N. Cable
1928 Robert Sanford Wm. Hubbell Chas. Pope
1930 Edward Rowland Charles Pope
1932 Richard C. Jacobs Charles Pope H. Leslie Tomlinson
1934
Clarence Roberts William R. Curtiss Charles Pope
1936
Benjamin Tilquist Charles Pope Clarence F. Roberts
1938
same
1940 R. Harold Treat Benjamin Tilquist Charles Pope
1942 same
1944
same
1946 Fred R. Bice Jr. Charles Pope Benjamin Tilquist
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1947 same
1949 Fred R. Bice Jr. Justus Booth Gerald Boudreau
1951 Gerald Boudreau Demitri Dytko Fred R. Bice, Jr.
1953 same
1955-56
Fred R. Bice Jr.
Norman W. Husted Joseph Bailey
1959-60 Norman W. Husted David T. Schreiber W. Wilson White
1948
Fred R. Bice, Jr. Edward U. Miles Charles Pope
1950
same
1952 Fred R. Bice Jr. Justus Booth Gerald Boudreau
1954
same
1957-58
Fred R. Bice Jr.
Norman W. Husted
William C. Kennedy
CHAPTER 44 TOWN CLERKS, JUDGES OF PROBATE, POSTMASTERS
TOWN CLERKS
"Present built on past hard work, faith, goodwill of generations gone by."
1798 Eben Wooster 1860 Nathan Wilcoxson
1800 Hosea Dutton
1866 Burr Beecher
1803 Abel Wheeler (pro tempore) 1867 John Lounsbury
1812 Hosea Dutton 1868 Lewis Barnes
1826 Noah Stone
1900 George Hoxie
1829 Thomas Dutton
1905 John B. Sanford
1830 Noah Stone
1833 Nathan Wilcoxson
1846 Nathan Fairchild
1859 Lewis Barnes
1920 David Fairchild (re- signed 1941)
1941 Richard Nyberg
1948 Arthur Hoyt
JUDGE OF PROBATE (SINCE June 4, 1846)
1. To admit wills to probate.
2. To grant intestate estates of persons died domiciled in their dis- tricts.
3. To call executors, administrators, Trustees, Guardians and Con- servators to account for estates entrusted to their charge.
1846 Nathan Wilcoxson 1914-18 David Fairchild (acting)
1848 Noah Stone 1918 Edgar Harger
1858 Nathan Wilcoxson 1936 Edward P. Rowland
1866 Joel Osborn 1942 Eldridge Seeley
1867 Nathaniel Walker 1948 Michael Sheehy (acting for Derby)
1872 Lewis Barnes 1950 Aurin M. Ripley
1895 Walter Perry
1956 Ruth Ripley
1897 George Hoxsie 19 58 George Wesley
1908 John Sanford
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POSTMASTERS IN OXFORD CENTER
List of Postmasters in Oxford Center, New Haven County, Connecti- cut, (from the records of the U. S. Post Office Dept. in Washington, D.C.)
The Post Office was established shortly before January 1, 1807 and was discontinued on July 7, 1903.
Names of Postmasters
Date of Appointment
Walker Wilmot
Jan. 1, 1807
David Cande
Apr. 25, 1810
George N. Candee
March 1, 1833
Henry C. Atwood
Oct. 30, 1834
Samuel Wire
April 18, 1835
Charles S. Scott
May 24, 1841
Harvey W. Upson
October 23, 1841
Samuel Wire
December 21, 1844
Ransom Hudson
February 4, 1847
Nathan J. Wilcoxson
November 11, 1847
Albert B. Dunham
June 20, 1861
Samuel P. Sanford
December 19, 1862
Nathan J. Wilcoxson
October 2, 1867
Charles H. Butler
August 4, 1869
Kate E. Butler
December 17, 1884
Charles H. Butler
June 18, 1889
Kate E. Butler
December 8, 1890
Charles H. Butler
July 17, 1895
Thomas S. Osborn
Sep. 8, 1898
John B. Sanford
March 10, 1903
After July 7, 1903, there was no post office in Oxford Center until the "Oxford Rural Post Office Station" was opened on February 2, 1959 with Mrs. Joseph J. Steinecker as Postmistress.
POSTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF 1873. SEC. 34
"No post-office shall be located in a bar-room, or in any room directly connected therewith; nor must any mail be opened, or any mail-matter delivered, in any room in which liquor is sold at retail."
Mr. Xenophon P. Smith, Librarian, Post Office Dept. Library, Washington, D.C. says in a letter dated March 20, 1959, that this is the first mention of prohibition of post offices in places where liquor is sold.
CHAPTER 45
THE OXFORD AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC.
On the eleventh of October, 1954, a group of people including select- men of the town, delegates from the American Legion, Lions Club, Cen- ter, Quaker Farms, and Riverside Fire Departments met in Oxford to talk about the possibility of getting and maintaining an ambulance for the care of people of the town. Those present were Selectman Frederick R. Bice, Gerald Boudreau, Charles De Bisschop, William Yagovane, Joseph Prokop, Arthur Hoyt, F. R. Sanford, Jesse Booth, Henry Mozijko, Eugene DuPaul, William Fox Jr. and Charles Lyons. Leonard Gendler of the Southbury Ambulance Society explained the steps of organization.
The Town of Beacon Falls had offered a used ambulance to Oxford for the sum of $1. So the Oxford Ambulance Association was started and the name given to the newly acquired ambulance was The Oxford Community Ambulance. It opened active membership to any male resident 18 or more years of age, who held a valid first aid certifi- cate. At that meeting, it was found that only three of those present held a valid first aid card.
The first officers elected were
Joseph Prokop, President F. R. Sanford, Secretary
Charles DeBisschop, Vice President Arthur Hoyt, Treasurer
The Center Fire Co. houses the ambulance and a private phone and extension has been placed in the Oxford House for calls. Great credit goes to Mrs. James DeMaio who records the request for aid and gets three active members for drives to the hospital. Men sign for night or day driving. This means that townspeople get immediate response when they call for help.
Drives for money to support the organization began in Oxford as an annual event. Sustaining membership means the payment of $1. annually. First aid classes for members have been given each year and lectures with picture slides have been arranged with officers of the State Police Training School.
So in an extraordinary short time, Oxford had for its own an or- ganization to equip, house, maintain, and operate an ambulance with- out profit to be used as transportation for the sick, injured or dis- abled, at no cost for the individual. The Association was incorporated March 14, 1956.
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The following are drivers for the ambulance (1960) :
F. R. Sanford
Stian Christensen
Henry Mozejko
Joseph Prokop Arthur Hoyt Frank Duda
Edward Oczkowski
John Vander Laan
Joseph Duda Frank Ladyko John Magda Joseph Magda
Walter Magda Eugene Du Paul
Charles De Bisschop
Albert Arcuri
Robert Moselle
Walter Karwacki
Harold Woolard
Eric Tallberg
Ernest Santerre Edwin Pfeilschifter
The very first call, October 9, 1954, was to take home from Griffin Hospital Mrs. Matilda Hricko of Oxford Road with Joseph Prokop and William Fox Jr. as drivers. Calls have increased to the extent that in 1959, the ambulance answered 260 requests.
Oxford is proud of this free service which is handled by such a capable and devoted group. The adult population of Oxford is about 2150. In 1960, 629 or only 34.2% of these townspeople responded with support which makes this service possible.
CHAPTER 46
BOY SCOUTS
Oxford Boy Scouts, Troop 1 was organized in 1933, with Rev. Henry S. Douglas, pastor of the Episcopal churches in Oxford as Scoutmaster, with Randall K. Minor as Assistant.
The first boys in the troop were:
Edwin Cassidy
Walter Magda
Blair Clark
Richard Miles
Clement Clark
Joseph Makunias
Edgar Clark
Michael Moskwa George Renker
Ray Douillet
Albert Douillet
Raymond Renker
Walter Gray
Edwin Robinson
Milton Larson
Stanley Rzesutek
Warren Liebscher
Andrew Tuzik
Arnold Liebscher
Joseph Tuzik John Tuzik
Joseph Magda
The Oxford Troop Committee in 1933 consisted of:
William J. Houlihan
Cyrus J. Shelton
Edward P. Rowland
Charles P. Pope
Atwater Treat
The boys were fortunate to have Rev. Douglas as their first leader. He held the Eagle Scout Badge, the Hornaday Medal, the Silver Beaver Award and the 25 year Veteran recognition for his devotion to Scout- ing. He exemplified the words in the Scout's promise:
"On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout law: To help other people at all times; To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight."
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CROFUT'S INN.
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A BIT OF OXFORD THAT IS GONE
On the west side of the Southbury Road, (Route 67), between Gov- ernor's Hill Road and the present Oxford House, for many years there stood three houses, all of which are now gone. These are shown on a map of Oxford Center, as an insert on a map of Naugatuck published in 1868. The first house north of Governor's Hill Road was that of the Rev. Mr. Chamberlyn, at that time pastor of the Oxford Congregational Church. The second belonged to Nathan J. Wilcoxson, the first Judge of the Oxford Probate Court, and the third house was owned by his daughter, Mrs. Egbert Z. Warner.
Judge Wilcoxson's second wife was Maria Louisa McEwen, daughter of David J. McEwen, who conducted a boarding school in his house on Hog's Back Road. After the Judge's death, in 1882, Mrs. Wilcoxson turned her house into a small inn, running it for some years, (possibly until her death in 1892). She is said to have been famous for her din- ners. Then the inn was taken over by Mr. George B. Crofut and he named it "Crofut's Inn." He was followed by Mr. Patrick J. Mahony of Ansonia, who ran the inn until his death in 1931.
The house just north of Governor's Hill Rd. burned down, and the Inn and the house north of it were torn down at the time that the high- way was widened about the time of Mr. Mahony's death.
From the style of the architecture of the building, as shown in the illustration, it is likely that the main building was erected about 1820- 1830 and that the piazza was added some time between 1882, when it became an inn, and 1892 when Crofut took it over. The swinging sign which hung from the second story is now in the possession of the Con- necticut Historical Society of Hartford, whose Asst. Director, Mr. Wm. H. Warren supplied the photograph. It will be noted that the sign shows a crow and a foot, thus spelling out pictorially the name "Crofut." It also shows a house with a lean-to running all the way across the end of the main building, and no piazza.
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EPILOGUE
In the foregoing pages we have traced the progress of the town from its beginning as a community of small farmers and settlers, through periods of foreign commerce and small industries, returning again to small produce farming until the coming of the automobile and electric power made dairy farming possible. Now only a few dairy and poultry farms remain in Oxford, but the general trend is toward a community whose bread earners work in a factory in some other town. But the town still retains much of its natural beauty and serves as a peaceful and delightful home for its inhabitants. May it long remain so!
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APPENDIX
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF APPENDIX
Indian Deeds 297-301
Oxford Tax List, 1792. 302-306
Interesting Documents on file 307-315
Errata (1967). 318
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INDIAN DEEDS
In an earlier chapter we have referred to certain tracts of land deeded by Indians, as Tracts A, B. C. & D. The boundaries of these tracts are as follows:
TRACT A
"This Indentar made this sixt day of August in ye year of our lord christ one thousand Six hundred eighty & Seaven and in the third year of the Reign of our Soveraign James the Second of england Scotland france & Ireland King defender of the faith &c; Betwen: cockopatonce; John bankes Jack chebrook; stasteckam. suskaquene; meshilling; tackamore; passekes; & mamosen; cockapotane; wamunka; wecalops; indians proprietars of wesquantack & pattatuck & of the Land in the great Neck at Derby in the county of Newhaven & Collony of Conecticut in Newengland one the one parties; & lieute: Ebenezer Johnson, edward woster & Abell Gunn agents for the town of Derby in the county & collony aforesd in Newengland witnesseth that we cockapotonce John banks; &c: the indians above sd for & in consideration of twenty one pound in good indian pay att Mr Nicholes Campes att Milford within six months from the date where with we doe confes, our selves fully satisfied contended & paid; have sold & by these presents have frely, clearly & absolutely Bargained & sold to the sd lieut eb: Johnson ed: Woster & Abell gunn together with the inhabetants of Derby propritors with them; one parcell of land being & liing in the great Neck; at derby:
Boundedlon the Southeast with the four mile Brook & another little Brook yt fals into the littel River & Bounded North & North east with the little river that Runs into nagatack River; & Bounded north west & west with the eight mile Brook & Bounded west & South west with the west channel of puttatuck River & woodberry path from the six mile Brook to the four mile Brook; All this above mentioned land the above Said cockapatonce John Banks; &c indians & proprietares of the sd land doe fully frely Absolutely & clearly Sel & alienate to the sd in- habitants of Derby to gether with all its Rights priveliges, Apurte- nances belonging to the premises or to any part or parts of them be- longing or in any wise apertaining to them ther heirs executors admistrators or asignes for evere; & we the sd indians aforesd do bind our selves our heires & asignes to warrand aquit & forever de- fend the sd lieut Johnson &c & the inhabitants of derby & there heires & assignes from all other demandes; person or persones or indian layeing clayme to the premises; by from or under us; or by from or
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under ours: & all & every other person or persons: claym or pretend- ing clame to the above sd land & shall & will, for ever rattify there right & titell as witness our hands & seals. c cockapotonce: John Bakes his X mark (seal)
witness by us
Joshua Lee Jack his mark (seal)
John Sristen ther not being Rome for signing doe signe on this side
to the within deed
Cockapotany
tackamore
witness
his X marke (seal)
his X mark (seal)
Nanoques
mesheling
Chebrook
his x mark
his ) mark (seal)
(his mark (seal)
Carer
Stastoskhan
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