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THE HISTORY OF STRATFORD

SAMUEL ORCUTT

 

Golden Hill Indians
The Housatonic
The Wepawaug
Cupheags and Pequannock
Weantinock
Goodyear's Island
Indian Slaves
Indian Remnants
Indian Troubles
New Indian Papers

 

THE HISTORY OF STRATFORD

Wm. Howard Wilcoxson

 

Stratford Indians

Trouble with the Indians

Establishing Title to the Land

Indian Deeds and Relics

White Hills Purchase

 

FORREST MORGAN

Lifestyles, Government, Religion and War
Indian Titles and Mohegan Land Troubles
Sowheag, Uncas, and Miantonomo
Owenoco, the Son of Uncas

 

 

THE  HOUSATONIC

CHARD POWERS SMITH

 

The Promised Land
Heathen in the Land
The Lord's Scouts

The Land and The Lord

      The Next Seven Tribes

 

ALEXANDER JOHNSTON

 

Connecticut Indian History

    The Pequot War

 

 

 

 

 

Samuel Orcutt

The History of Stratford

   Indian History under whatever circumstances found, excites a melancholy sympathy, which partakes of an extreme loneliness as if one were lost in an indeterminable wilderness from which there could be no escape by the ingenuity or power of man. As we pass over the site of their ancient wigwams, although not a stick or a stone is left to mark the place, we seem to be traveling amid the ruins of some ancient Persian or Egyptian city, long celebrated for its beauty and magnificence and from which, although the glory has all faded, or crumbled to dust, we hesitate to depart, as though expecting still to see the forms of the long departed coming forth to newness of life, to exhibit the wonders of ancient days. Occasionally we discover about traditional localities, some stone implement, arrowhead, pestle or axe, that seems as a spirit resurrected by enchantment to portray the marvelous wildlife that wrought it, for the severest needs of earth, which is like the recovery of some long lost painting of kingly banquet or national pride and glory. The hatchet, although of stone, was the Indians ensign of renown; the bow and arrow, his national flag of wild but unconquerable liberty, and his tent, because it was not immovable, declared an inheritance in a vast continent rather than a few circumscribed acres of walled distributions. Sometimes the rolling waters of a mighty river, or the heights of immense mountain ranges barred his progress for a time, but no mountain was too high and no valley too low for the unwearied feet of the Red man in the greatness of his freedom and the inexhaustible resources of his physical strength. Nothing but the mighty ocean ever stayed his wandering footsteps, until the white man took possession of the rocky and sandy shores of the Algonquin country, afterwards called New England; when "the poor Indian" fled the inland wilderness as if pursued by a devastating pestilence; not has yet, after nearly three hundred years, found a sure resting place. To him the shores of Long Island Sound were an enchanted country, in the abundance it gave to supply his wants, and the beauty of its climate and scenery reminding him of the native tropical clime of his ancestors. Here on these shores he had dwelt many ages, when the glittering sails of the white man came bearing the pilgrim planters to their new life of freedom. In the winter many of them had retired to the sheltered valleys of the inland wilderness, where they secured their daily food by the hunter's sport, and then in the spring they returned to their old seaside haunts, just as their white successors now, in the same season of the year, flee from the hot breath of the inland valley to valleys to the cool breezes of the New England coast. These "children of the wilderness" have been called "Red men", "wild Indians", and "savage beasts," but with all, they have exhibited a manliness of character and rectitude of life, according to the instructions received, that leaves no room for boasting by those who now inhabit the same beautiful country. To these red inhabitants the pilgrim immigrants were rather unceremoniously introduced, and to them in turn they gave a cordial welcome, not knowing what the final result would be. And now, after the lapse of ages, the pen of the historian is importuned for some memorial record, which, although inadequate to the object sought, shall be as a brief epitaph to commemorate the greatness of those, of whom there is now nothing but ashes and fragments left.

 

 

 

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THE HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT

BENJAMIN TRUMBULL

 

The Perfect Savages

Government

Language

Religion

Marriage

Wampum

Red Ochre

New Haven Colony

 

ALEXANDER JOHNSTON

Connecticut Indian History

The Pequot War

SOUTHPORT SWAMP

Great Swamp Fight

Incident at Mill River

Colonial History of Pequot Swamp

 

GUIDE TO PUTNAM MEMORIAL CAMP

COLONIAL INDIAN ARCHIVES

 

Stratford Colonial Land Deeds

Fairfield Colonial Land Deeds

Derby Colonial Land Deeds

 

 

THE HISTORY OF GUILFORD

Hon. Ralph D. Smith

 

 

A HISTORY OF THE TOWNS

OF HADDAM AND EAST HADDAM

David D. Fields

 

EARLY NEW HAVEN

         Sarah Day Woodward

 

Winthrop’s Journal

 

 

 

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