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COLONIAL HISTORY OF SOUTHPORT SWAMP
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ALEXANDER JOHNSTON SOUTHPORT SWAMP Colonial History of Pequot Swamp A Brief History of the Pequot War John Mason Narrative COLONIAL INDIAN ARCHIVES Sarah Day Woodward Winthrop’s Journal Johnson's
Wonder-Working Providence of Sions
Savior in New England History
of New England Patriarch To The
Indians Thomas Mayhew
1593-1662 THE INDIANS OF THE
HOUSATONIC AND NAUGATUCK
VALLEYS SAMUEL ORCUTT HISTORY OF THE OLD TOWN OF
STRATFORD Wm. Howard Wilcoxson Establishing Title to the Land FORREST MORGAN Lifestyles,
Government, Religion and War Indian
Titles and Mohegan Land Troubles Sowheag,
Uncas, and Miantonomo THE HOUSATONIC CHARD POWERS SMITH The
Promised Land ALEXANDER JOHNSTON Connecticut's
Colonial & Continental Money |
Original site of John Osborn Jr. Home Kings- Highway West The next generation of Osborns Stephen, Joseph
and Jeremiah lived in the homes they were deeded. Jeremiah died in 1757.
Joseph died in 1776 and left his land to his widow. They had no children and
the land was deeded to Joseph's two nephews Daniel and Jeremiah. Joseph's
widow married Jedadiah Hull with the land deeded to him. Then land then fell in the possession of Daniel
Osborn. In 1811, Daniel Jr. then sold 23 acres to Ebenezer Burr. In 1778, Stephen married Grizzel Osborn. He died in 1822. His widow continued to live at 55 Oxford Rd. with daughters Charity and Betsy. When Charity died in 1879 the property passed to Stephen’s granddaughter Sara Ann Hawkins. Charlotte
Lacey Historical Story of Southport The Pequot Swamp was responsible for the being of
Southport and it is fitting to give it honorable mention in this story. It
was described by one of the participators in the Great Swamp Fight as a
hideous swamp! The fragments of which still exist show a rich black mire
which unquestionably would be very productive under cultivation. Some of the
settlers knew a good thing when they saw it. I found the following on the Town Records. May 15, 1684 Wee, the Town Committee appointed by the town to
exchange lands, have granted unto Mr. John Burr and unto Samuel Ward the
Great Swamp on Ye west side of Mill Hill, as it is already bounded, but the
whole that we have granted to them is 25 acres, they to divide between them
when they please, and it is bounded on all sides by the Common. In
consideration of the premises, the said John Burr returns to ye town his
building and his pasture lot hee had in ye woods. These 25 acres have been drained and utilized so
that now only a few fragments of the great swamp remain. Mrs. John Hawkins
and Miss Emma Hawkins own a portion adjoining or including, the traditional
knoll where the fight took place. Center street passes through this spot. Two
monuments stand to mark the site of this historic encounter. One is of stone
and was erected by the sons of the Colonial Wars. The other is the living
monument, which marks the western end of the swamp and that is the Southport
Park. This tract of woodland, comprising about 12 acres, has undoubtedly
never been other than woodland. In the distribution of the estate of James
Dennie, who died in 1759, about twenty acres of woodland in Sasqua were divided
between his two daughters, Sarah
Dennie Sayre and Eunice Dennie Burr. The greater part of that woodland is now
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