The history of Waterbury, Connecticut - citizen hylbom blog

HISTORY OF WATEEBUKY. 63
on Fcarmington bounds, the line running from the rock called
the " Ordinary " south to Beacon Hill Brook, or Milford, or
New Haven bounds, south on Beacon Hill Brook and Paugasset,
west on Pootatuck and Pomperaug.
The tract of land here conveyed, it will be noticed, is tlie
same, with a little more definite limits, as that granted in the
deed of 1674. It was common in those times for the native
proprietors to make claims to the lands wliich they had once
sold, on the ground that they had been inadequately paid, or
that they did not understand the import of their acts.
Feb. 28th, 1684, (1685, new style,) Conquapatana (sagamore,)
Awawas, Curan, Cocapadous, Tataracum, Kecasahum, Wenuntacum,
Cocoeson, "Wechamunck and Werumcaske (Cocoe-
sen's sister,) Arumpiske (Curan's squaw,) Notanmnck (Qur-
an's sister,) twelve in number, of the Paugasset or Milford tribe
of Indians, as I suppose, deeded to Thomas Judd and John
Stanley, " per order and in the name and behalf of the pro-
prietors of Mattatuck," " for divers causes and considerations
thereunto moving and for the sum of six pound in hand,"
twenty parcels of land, " nine parcels on the east side of Naiiga-
tuck River southward from Mattatuck town, which comprises
all the land below, betwixt Beacon Hill Brook and the hither
end of Judd's meadows, called by the name of Sqontk, and
from Naugatuck Piver eastward to Wallingford and New
Haven bounds, with all the low lands upon the brook formen-
tioned; and eleven parcels on the west side of the first parcel,"
having certain relations not easy to understand, to Cedar
Swamp, the middle of Toamtick Pond, Qnasepaug Pond, and
"Woodbury bounds ; at the north part, butting east on " Nau-
gatuck or Mattatuck Eiver," and at the south part, east on the
lands fii-st mentioned. These twenty parcels of land seem to
have been contiguous tracts, each having a distinct Indian
name given in the deed, and lying in the southern and south-
western parts of the township. They are included, it will be
observed, in the first and third purchases from the Farmington
Indians ; but were also claimed, it appears, by the Derby
Indians. Without inquiring very particularly into the justice
of the claim, it was thought expedient to extinguish it by pur-
chase.