The Newtown bee., 1889-03-22
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It is difficult for one unused to wild erness to form a correct opinion of New town as it lay in it's savage desolation. A few Indians hunted and fished by the Housatonic and Pootatuck and in Taun- ton lake, but this region lay in the desolating track of the dreaded Mohawk, whose hunting and war parties swept across this section from the valley of the Hudson. Therefore, Indian settle ments were not safe nor Indian wigwams thick here, nor were there fierce Pequots, as in Eastern Connecticut, for the set tiers to subdue. The hills were generally wooded, the river banks and many of the swamps covered with pine, except such open glades as Indian fires kept open for the growth of coarse. luxuriant grass; bog hay, we call it now, but the first settlers esteemed it highly before they had cleared their meadow lands and divided the bogs between them as a choice portion. Through the woods roamed the bear, panther, deer and other denizens- of the forest; through the waters swan schools of fish, salmon. shad and trout, now shut out by dams of masonry, poisoned by factory debris and chased to death by sportsmen; through the air flew millions of wild pigeons, whose flights are even yet re- membered and ducks, geese, quail, par fridge and feathered flock unnumbered.
 There were two Indian names for the territory now called Newtown, but one of which, unfortunately, has been pre- served. The territory west from the Pootatuck was first bought of the Indi- ans in 1705 and the records show that its Indian name was Quannopage or Quan- uporg. MT Peck says that this was the aboriginal name for Taunton lake and it is pity that it did not retain the title, Quanuporg. The eastern part of the town was bought in l724 and was known as the Pootatuck purchase, the single Irdian name which has survived.
 The General Court or Legislature of the early Connecticut colony was accus- toned to vote particular persons grants of land in the unoccupied parts of the colony as recompense for loss or injury or as a reward for services rendered. Thus we find that in 1878, Richard Hub bell of Stratford, for the loss of finger was granted 100 acres''where it may not prejudice any former gnant to a plan tation or particular person." Richards sons, Richard and John, located this 100 acres in Newtown and sold it to their brother-in-law, John Glover, a prom inent figure in early Newtown, in ITO, 3s years after the original grant. Sim liar grants were made to Capt John Minor of Woodbury, to men of Milford, Stratford, Stratfield, Fairfield and of bother plantations. These grants were often held for speculation, as Solomon Glover and other Newtown men after ward speculated in Virginia lands on which they never settled.
 The first recorded purchase of New town as a tract from the Indians was July ?, I705. It was made by William Jeanes and Samuel Hawley, Jr, of Strat- ford and Justice Bush, who is described as mariner of New York. The pur- chase was probably a speculation in land and the price given was four guns, four broadcloth and four other coats, blankets, four kettles, 10 shirts, 10 pairs of stockings, 10 pounds of pow der and 40 knives. The Indians of whom they bought, ,Mauquash, Massumpas, Nun. nawauk, represented eight others. whose signs, with theirs, were affixed to the document. September F, 1705, the three principal Indians to the bargain appeared at Pootatuck before Justice John Minor, probably of Woodbury, ir the presence of two Ebenezer Johnsons as witnesses and made oath that tht sale was their own voluntary act. The land which they sold was eight miles long by six broad and was 'sbutted anC bounded as followeth :'' South by Pine , swamp and land of Mir Sherman anC MT Rossiter; southwest by Fairfield bounds northwest by bounds of Danbu ry; northeast by land purchased by Mil
 ford men at or near Osantenock (Housa
 tonic 2? southeast by land of Nunneway
 an Indian, s'the line running two mile
 from ye river right against Poutatuck.'
 Pine swamp, referred to in the bounda ries, still bears the name below Botsford The Mir Sherman referred to was Samu
 el Sherman of Stratford and MT Rossite
 was Josiah Rossiter of Guilford. son-in
 law of MT Sherman. The Sherman farm ], which was mile square, is described a : lying westerly of Stratford CHousatonic ]. river, about three miles below Potatucl at place called Cowamps. Rossite
 had 100 acres of land laid out to him b,
 John Mitchell and John Sherman O ? Woodbury adjoining his father-in-law' farm in November, 1706, the year afte
 the purchase of Jeanes, Bush and Flaw i, ley and the many grants and numerou
 transfers made the actual occupants C the soil no end of trouble before the t
 ties were all cleared up.
 BRIDGEPORT.
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