The Newtown bee., 1880-07-14
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past" what they can tell us about the car iv history of our own continent and country. especially the portion of 1t we inhablt.
 Ike Creator was in no haste to people his new realm. As ages tor in- definite periods called days) had elapsed between the beginning and end of crea- tion, so he decreed that ages should in- tervene between tho completion of his work OH this continent and in this town, and It's occupancy and enjoyment by man. We know not when or how the descend ants of Noah after the dispersion at Ba- be-. found their way to America; perhaps by vessels which, driven out of their course, were waited to this continent i; perhaps across Behring Strait, but we may believe they did como over from the Old World to the New in some way. They were here developed by climatic and oth- CT causes into the Mexican and Indian ra- .ces which once overspread our land and whose memorials In the form of temples and mounds, theso "foot-prints of van ished race" still exist. One of these tribes lived in this vicinity and doubtless kindled their camp fires ou this very hill,
 nd here they and their kindred tribes hunted, and iished, and wOrshipped the Great Spirit till the so-called discovery of America in 1903. This date may startle some, who, recalling the familiar dates of geographies and histories, remember La ha n above all other years for the rcdiscovery of what had already been discovered by the aborigiues, the contemporaries 1t may be, of Job Or Moses. But after careful research and study, and a comparison of all accessible facts and data relating to tho subject, am convinced that some Venturesome voyagors from Iceland, un- der the command of one ThOrwald Fries son, tor as some say, Lief and Biorn,) came to this continent in the year 1003 and then returned to Iceland, bringing back, on q return voyage to this country, others of their couutrymen.
 It is supposed that these men built the famous old tower at Newport, R. l., and their annals record that party sailed down the Sound and met some Indians in this vicinity, C. Q. on this part of the present Connecticut coast, by whom their leader was killed. Traditions of this dis eovery floated down the centuries to the time of Columbus, and 50 nearly five cen turies afterward he set sail and confirmed the tradition. When the past has fully told It's story and has answered all the questions asked, believe we shall read m our histories and text books, not as now: America was discovered in 1492 by Christoph but America was discovered in 1903 by Thorwald Ericsson. Icelardic chronicles relate that a settle ment was first made in Greenland; that the voyage and return occupied five years. and that 2.600 lbs. of walrus teeth formed the annual tax of the new colony all this was long before 1892.
 The attention of the old world having thus been called to the new, emigration at once set In, but very slowly. The coast was first occupied: Boston, Providence, New Haven, Stratford and New York took their places on the rude maps of the time, and then, (as the tide of human beings still rolled in) it swept up the streams back into the country and on to the hills away from the coast.
 PURCHASE SETTLEMENT or NEwTowK.
 Thus 1t came to pass that a company of men from the then important settle ments of Stratford and Milford bought a tract of land of the Indians, living on a stream called the Pootatuck, which soon after was incorporated us Q town, and in distinction from the old town, Stratford, from which it was taken, called Newtown. This town then, from the time of it's cre- ation, waited for its name, and so its nominal existence, 5000 years at least but during all this time it was an object of care to Him who created it, and with whom a thousand years are but as one day.
 The original deed of sale is preserved in Stratford; 1t Is dated July 9, 1705, which may therefore be considered the birthday of the town. It Is signed by h. dian chiefs who bear the euphonious names of Manquash, Massumpas, Nunna- wauk, otc., and they testify by their sig natures or marks that in consideration of four guns, four coats. four blaokets, forty pounds of lead. ten pounds of powder, and few other comparatively valueless arti- cles they do give tract of land eight miles long and six broad. more or less, bounded by what is called tho Great Riv- or. to Wm. Junos. of Stratford, Justice Bnch, of New York and Samuel Hawley, Jr., of Stratford. Real estate must have been low shen, Ut least those who have recently paid more for one acre or less of this same land than was originally paid Tor the whole town will be inclined to think so. The town was formally settled in l7O9-the first nucleus of a village be- ing, as am told, on the plain near Mr. Philo Clark's residence, but afterward changed to this hill. (On Vol. I, page 90. of the Town Records is a plan of the orig 1 tnal "A home lots onMain st., each lot 16 X | 40 rods. with the names of the original | owners.) On Dec. 19, 1710, Wm. Junos and Mir. Bush sold their share for e22 10 shillings (about s100) to thirty-seven men named in the deed. Among these thirty-seven names find the following | names of families still residing in the | town: Hawley. Prindle, Nichols, Curtiss, | sherman and Judson ;Freegrace Adams Is also named; but most of them have no descendants or representatives of their name living among us. In tho next year is.. in I'll. a grist min was erected by vote of tho town on Pond Brook and af- terward another on Pootatuck Brook; in 1717 the first school house was built: 1t was 25 feet square and stood nearly op- posite this church; 1t was used also as U