Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-04

machines for the day follows: w. E 1 Baldwin, w H. Dat, L. L. Chapman I Peter CiccareIIi, L. M. Crandall, k. D | Donohue, c. DelCarlO, The William l FrisweI Co.,, A. Chester Brown, Chas | Hagberg. Gilbert L. Hewitt, William l F. Hill, ElItin Smith, Mayor A. l. | Brown, F. c. Warner, The Household | Frank Hall, Charles A. KeubleT Co. l s. J. Kehoe, c. E. Lane. A. D. Lathrop w. F. Lester, E. c. LiIlibridge, George 1 H. Loring, Gus E. Lambert A. R. Man ming, w. B. Manning, Murphy S Nc Garry, Charles w. Pearson, c. V. Pen dletan, Plaut-Caden Co.,, Preston Bros, R. w. Perkins, Charles S. Peck ham, Thomas A. Robinson, E. l.. Root, Schwartz Bros, H. Schwartz, Ambrose Sullivan, Shea x Burke, A. s. SpaIding, Julian L. Williams
 At the powwow will be the Pequots of New London, the MOhegans of Nor wich. the Quinebaugs of DanielsOn, the WabaqUassets of Putnam, the Will limantiCs of the west, the SeneXets of Southbridge, the Nipmuclls of Webster, with braves from all the tribes of Connecticut.
 The squaws will watch the wigwam and the papoOse The braves will lay aside the tomahawk and the warpaint and gather at the pOwWOw with the sachems of their tribes. All will join in the ghOst dance when the MOEegans
  If the WabaQuasset or the Williman- tic or other mighty chief has warrior willing to defend the valOr of his peO- pie, let him tell the sagamOre and a Nipmuck will accept the gage.
 The Boundary Fishing Place.
 The first settlers had hardly grown familiar with Plymouth and with BOs- ton before stories of fair lands and of a great lake came to win the restless 1E,1-, Meeting Place. The Indian trails w hich the white man afterwards fol- lowed led to it's borders and it's re freshing waters.
 In later years C6S6p it's fair lands became New Oxford and a refuge for the HuguenOts after the revocation of the EdiCt of Nantes. These French own Vilcn-lId hills, and on the plains of .hC Plantation of Oxford labOred to reproduce the Tefnements of their loved la belle France. Tradition states the plantations were cultivated with such care and taste that the whole settlement was one beautiful garden. Vineyards, orchards and adeliCate shrubbery were there, hut the wilder ness about harbOred the Indians and trouble
 The story of these gentIe-bred refu- gees in the new land, striving to re- build their lives, is one of the inter esling stories of New England
 Down in sunny South Carolina. others of these people colOnized. The his tory of old Charleston, like the history of this fair country is one of tender thoughts of a people who loved con science more than ancestral home and whose love of flowers, gardens and vineyards pictures the soul they pos ScSscsd.
 Somehow mingled memories Of Acadia and of Plymouth come back as the visitor gathers the story of OK ford and of Charleston.
 The lake and these Oxford plains were a part Of the great Nipmucz country. South of the lake were the and the PeQuOts: to the west. the MOhiCanS. History tells Us the name means the fishing place of the boundary" The old QuOnehticut path or great trail of the Indians skirt ed the west shore and other trails led to it's borders. The lake is still the boundary place, for Rhode Island. Con necticut and Massachusetts meet near it's southern shores.
 The NipmucL Trail from Norwich.
 In 1880 (the year Boston was set tled) an Indian brought the story of the great trail to Boston. In 1883 John Oldham traVeled it from Boston to the Connecticut river above Hartford Att
  Woodstock the great trail was inter seCted by the Nipmuck trail from Nor wich and the Providence path of the Narragansetts. Later (1675) history defines the great trail when Ephraim Curtis conducted Uncas and his six men from Boston home. T conducted (them) safy while I com in sight of Webquesesne new planting felde; first to Natauck, from thenc to Marelbor- row, theme to EsnemisCo (Grafton), theme to MumchOgg (OxfOrd) theme to Chabanagonkomug Gan old spelling of the lake name), theme to Maveneclzet, thene over the river to Seneksig, while we cam here to Wabaquasesn wher they were willing that wee should leve them" These Indian villages are easily traced, for the Indian usually by lake or other good water.
 Last of the Mohicans.
 Tn after years Uncas and his people were given undying fame in The Last of the Mohicans."
 Tradition has it that the big inland lake was the neutral ground of many Indian tribes their fishing and water ing place. Its peculiar formation of peninsulas, islands, little bays and rugged shores, its clear waters. it's sandy beaches for bathing it's forests Tor hunting and nutting, amply justify the legends that come down to the yCOpl0 O4 IOudy. Iu0y COuIQ lore ] gather and be alone, though other tribes were at the waters, and none need be restricted in the joys of the wild life
 Joseph Dudley, William Stoughton, Robert Thompson and the Oxford -peo- pie, with John Gore as their surveyor. became great landed proprietors of the about the lake. The Dutch were at Hartford. Roger Williams at Providence, and New York was in the distance down the Nipmuck trail to Norwich, thence to New London and along the shore. Oxford was north ward of the lake and Boston east of Oxford. The great meeting ground, while still perhaps the neutral fishing and watering place of the red man, was a garden in the wilderness where weary white travellers likewise met and were refreshed. Statesmen, settlers. adventurers and Indians, as time marched down through the, years, plod- led the rule and treacherous trails and 'ested on the Chargoggagogg shores.
 But though the lands were sold by he Indians, the lake was not released: Black James still reserved for his tribe he lands on the west where Webster l LOW stands. The name Chargoggago l nanchauga ggchaubuna gungamaug is wrapped sin some mystery. Early set