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Show 64 TUOMAS] CONNECTICUT'S POLICY TOWARD THE INDIANS 615 miles east of Quinnipiak river and 5 miles west of it, and included all the lands in the ancient limits of the old towns of New Haven, Branford, and Wallingford, " and almost the whole contained in the present [ISIS] limits of those towns and of the towns of East-Haven, Woodbridge, Cheshire, Hamden, and North-Haven " ' Wopowageand Menunkatuck (Milford and Guilford) were purchased in 1G30. These lauds, as also those in New Haven, were purchased by the principal men, in trust, for all the inhabitants of the respective towns. Every planter, after paying his proportionate part of the expenses, drew a lot, or lots of land in proportion to the amount he had expended iu the general purchase. Most of die principal settlers were from Weathersfleld. "They first purchased of the Indians all that tract which lies between New Haven and Stratford river, and between the sound on the south and a stream line between Milford and Derby. This tract comprised all the lands within the old town of Milford and a small part of the town of Woodbridge. The planters made other purchases which included a large tract on the west side of Stratford river, principally in the town of Huntington." The purchasers of Guilford required the Indians to move off the lauds they had obtained from them; which agreement they carried out in good faith. Mr Ludlow aud others who settled Fairfield purchased a large tract of the natives. " Settlements," says Trumbull, " commenced the same year at Cupheag and Pughquonnuck, since named Stratford. That part which contains the town plat, and lies upon the river, was called Cupheag, aud the western part bordering upon Fairfield Pughquonnuck.'' HJ says the whole township was purchased of the natives, but at first Cupheag and Pughquonnuck only, the purchase of the township not being 'ompleted until 1072. The following general statement by the same authority' indicates very clearly the just and humane policy of the settlers of this colony: After the conquest of the Pequots, iu consequence of the covenant maile with Uncas, in 1638, and the gift of a hundred Pequots to hiiu, he became important. A considerable number of Indians collected to him, so that he became one of tho principal sachems in Connecticut, and even in Now-Euglaiid. At some times he was able to raise four or five hundred warriors. As the Pequots were now conquered, aud as he assisted in the conquest, and was .i, Pequot himself, he laid claim to all that extensive tract called the Moheagan or Pequot country. Indeed, it seems ho claimed, and was allowed to sell some part of that tract which was the principal seat of the Pequots. The sachems iu other parts of Connecticut, who had been eouquorod hy the Pequots, and made their allies, or tributaries, considered themselves, by the conquest of this haughty nation, as restored to their former rights. Thoy claimed 'Trumbull, History of Connecticut, vol. I, , p. 99. "Vol. i, pp. 110,1 18 ETII, PT 2 7 |