THE HISTORY OF STRATFORD

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

COLONIAL HISTORY OF PEQUOT SWAMP

Map of land owned by Osborns

From the “History of Fairfield”, Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck.

“Richard Osborn sailed from London in the ship Hopewell, Capt. Thomas Wood master, bound for Barbados 17. Feb. 1634. in 1835, Richard Osborn was one of the company that met with the Rev. Peter Hobart, & drew for a home-lot in the settlement of Hingham, Mass. He was a brave soldier in the Pequot War. his name occurs among the free planters of New Haven in 1639, in which he signed the fundamental agreement, at the gathering of the church on the 4^th of March; shared in the divisions of land in 1643; & took the oath of fidelity before Governor Eaton 1. July 1644. His pew in the church was No., “in the other side of the door.” N.H. Col. Rec. He is probably the same Richard Osborn who removed to F. between 1650 & 1653, & purchased of Thomas Pell a house and home lot lying, between John Cable’s & Thomas Shervington’s. He purchased other places, and finally a house and home lot lying adjoining that of Cornelius Hull’s. he became one of the dividend land holders of the town. “For his good services in the Pequot War,” the General Ct. of Conn. Granted him 80 acres of land, to be taken up in Fairfield, where it did not interfere with other grants, which were set off to his heirs in 17o7, by Capt. Nathan Gold & Judge Peter Burr, he removed to Westchester, & on the 17. of Nov. 1682, he deed to his son John Osborn & to his heirs, all his housing & home lots, orchards, wood & timber in the town of F., together with all his uplands and meadows, his privileged in the undivided commons, & all his right & title to lands in the Colony of Conn. Provided he paid all his debts and dues in F.”

Richard owned a house and land in the center of Fairfield and it is thought that this was his original parcel of land. He received the 80 parcels located at Pequot Swamp and bought another 46 lots. In 1682 Richard moved to Westchester and deeded all of his land to his oldest son John.