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32 NORWALK. [1650.
AGREEMENT OF MR. LUDLOW WITH THE PLANTERS OF
NORWALK.
A copyie of tlie agreement and articles made between
Roger Ludlow, of Fairfield, and Nathaniel Eli, and
Rithard Olmested, with the rest, for the settlinge and
plantinge of Norwalke.
Articles of agreement made between Roger Lud-
LowE of Fairfield, esquire, of the one parte, and Nathaniel
Eli of Hartford, in the River of Connecticut,
Rithard Olmsted of the same, in the behalfe of themselves,
and Rithard Webb, Nathaniel Rithards,
Mathew Marvin, Rithard Seamer, Thomas Spencer,
Thomas Hales, Nathaniel Ruskoe, Isacke
Graves, Ralph Keeler, John Holloway, Edward
Church, John Ruskoe, and some others about plantinge
Norwalke, over the 19th day of June, 1650.
Inprimis, the sayed Nathaniel Eli and Rithard
Olmested, doe covenant and promise and agree, that
they will set upon the plantinge of the sayed Norwalke,
with all convenient speed ; will mowe, and stacke some
hay upon the sayed Norwalke this winter, to the end
that they may, in the spring nest at the farthest, breake
up some ground to plante the next season, foUowinge
and that then they will begin to build and inhabite
their-with some considerable companie, and to invite an
orthodoxe and approved minister with all convenient
speede that they maybe ;
and that the plantation shall
not be taken up under thirtie approved families, in a
short time to be settled their, and so to continue ; and
that, or the like considerable companie ;
and that they
will not receive in, any that they be obnoxious to the
publique good of the Commonwealth of Connecticut.
And upon that consideration the sayed Roger Ludlowe