Norwalk

points of personal and political bearing. His mission accomplished, the eminent jurist returned to his Fairfield home in season to meet, on February 26, the red possessors of Norwalk. Just where' Mahackemo and his three braves assembled on that primal day and covenanted with the distinguished Englishman, who was attended by his son Thomas, and Indian servant Adam, it is too late, probably, to determine, but the subjoined in- strument was the result of the conference. INDIAN DEED TO ROGER LUDLOW. Rfaorded in Vol.. I. .Norwalk Land Records. ".1 copic of a t/t'iu/v of > i/i math' by Xorxvalke Indians, unto Master Roger /..",//':■;. /'air Jiehf, its ■ foUoixeth, Jtith Febrnarw ilifii" "An agreement made between the Indians of Norwakc and Roger Ludlowe : it is agreed, that the Indians of Nonvalke, for and in consideration of eight fathoms of wam- pum, sixe coates, tenn hatchets, tenn hoes, tenn knifes, tenn scissors, tenn jew se-harpes, tenn fathom Tobackoe, three kettles of sixe hands about, tenn looking glasses, have granted all the lands, meadows, pasturings, trees, whatsoever their is, and grounds betweene the tvvoe Rivers, the one called Nonvalke, the other Soakatuck, to the middle of sayed Rivers, from the sea a days walke into the country ; to the sayed Roger Ludlowe, and his heirs and assigns for ever ; and that noe Indian or other shall challenge or claim any ground within the sayed Rivers or limits, nor disturb the sayed Roger, his heirs or assignes, within the precincts aforesaid. In witness whereof the parties thereunto have interchangeably sett their hands." Witnesse Tnos. Ludlowe. The mark of VA Adam.* The marke ^Jfc? TOMAKEROO, TOKENEKK, The marke of PkoSEWAMENOS. ROGER LUDLOWE. The marke of Maiiackkmo, Sachem, the marke It will be observed that only a portion of the territory afterwards know n as Norwalk is described in the foregoing deed. The township area was subsequently enlarged by the 'The Ely-Olmstcad covenant of June 19, 1650, was that Ludlow should have a two hundred pound "lott" lor his sons, and that it should "be one of the first loin " to be laid out. The settlers had what they designated us "the £200 lot." (East side of Town Street, it would appear, and in the rear of the Oscar YV Raymond and Mary G. Rider (1896) homesteads.) Conceding this to be the parcel in question, it is possi- ble that Ludlow intended it for his son.s' occupancy, hut after his own and their departure, in 1654, from New England, the tract was otherwise disposed of. The title to the entire Ludlow owneiship, after his leave- taking, lav in the Norwalk settlerV name, as everv thing in Norwalk belonging to its founder was before he quit the country, formally made over to the planters. We find upon the town records however, that there were two purer Is in the eastern and south-eastern portions of the settlement that bore Ludlow's name, and in the absence of any other mention pertaining to them, it is barely possible that the-*- portions marked some Ludlow-transactioii site. *A--in-m,<! to I-udlow by Ma^.iu-]i.iis^tts Court. N O R W A L K . PARTRICK PURCHASE. Daniel Partrick,1 an enterprising Englishman, was one of the one hundred and eight original "townsmen" of Watertown, Mass. He was in that place in 1630. By reason of the depredations of the Pequots, a ferocious savage clan, the Connecticut Colonists were, in 1636-7, kept in a state of perpetual agitation, and it became necessary to wage war against the tribe. Capt. John Mason2 was accordingly chosen commander-in-chief, and Partrick a Capt. in this contest. The conflict resulted successfully to the English, who had pursued the foe from the eastern end of the colony as far west in Connecticut as the pres- ent town of Fairfield, where the last blow was dealt, July 1637. Their connection with the Pequot trouble had made both Ludlow and Partrick familiar with the future Fairfield County, and may have been the cause of their settling subsequently, the one in Fairfield and the other in Greenwich, within the limits of the said County. The Pequot triumph was achieved in 1637, and the year 1639 witnessed the planting of Fairfield by Ludlow, and 1640 the purchase by the same part)-, on February 26th, of a part of Norwalk, and on the 20th of April following, the sale by the Indians of the remaining portion of the town to Partrick, as thus appears : INDIAN DEED Recorded :•; Vol.. I, page 30, to Norwalk CAPT. DANIEL PARTRICK. Land Records. ']! the meadows and uplands adjoining?, lyingc on the -.vest side of Xorivake River. "An agreement betwixt Daniell Patrick and Mahackem, and Naramake and Peme- natc Hewnompom indians of Norwake and Makentouh' the said Daniell Patricke hath bought of the sayed three indians, the ground called Sacunyte napucke, allso Meeanworth, thirdly Asumsowis. fourthly all the land adjoyninge to the aforementioned, as farr up in cuntry as an indian can goe in a day, from sun risinge to sun settinge ; and twoe Islands neere adjoining to the sayed carantenayueck, all bounded on the west side with noewanton 011 the east side to the middle of the River of Norwake, and all trees, meadows, waters and naturell adjuncts thereunto belonginge, for him and his forever ; for whith Lands the sayed indians are to receive of the sayed Daniell Patricke, of wampum tenn fathoms, hat- chetts three, howes three, when shipps come ; sixe glasses, twelfe tobackoe pipes, three knifes, tenn drills, tenn needles ; this as full satisfaction for the aforementioned lande, and 1 Daniel Partrick (possibly Kirk-Patrick or Kirk- Parti-ick, N. Y Gen. Record, Vol. XI, No. 4, p. 169! was not a Norwalk resident. His family consisted of himself, wife and one son. He was murdered in his own house in Greenwich, in January, 1644. His wid- ow and son left Greenwich for Long Island, hut it appears that his son returned after his father's death, to Greenwich, and laid claim to the territory, hut was bought off. This son's name was DaniJ. He married Dinah Yates, probably of lower Westchester Counlv. N. Y., where, with his step-brother James Feake, he owned Castle Hill Neck. He died in 1721, leaving a widow and one son, Daniel. JThis famous Old and New England soldier, was the father-in-law of James, brother of Thos. Fitch, Sr., of Norwalk. .1 Seemingly the name of an Indian elan. NORWALK. 9 for the peaceable possession of which the aforementioned mahachemill doth promise and undertake to silence all opposers of this purchase, if any should in his time act, to witnesse which, on both sides, hands are interchangeably hereunto sett, this 20th of Aprill, 1640.1 marke naromake. marke. Less than three months after the elate of this document, July 16, 1640, this same plucky adventurer, Daniel Partrick, accompanied by a fellow Watertown, Mass. proprietor, Robert Feake, set foot on Greenwich Point, and not two days elapsed before Owenoke, son of Ponus, was consulted, and Greenwich was bargained for. Norwalk was born in the brain of Ludlow, but that its genesis-prologue was hardly the conviction of any immediate existence-necessity, by reason of numbers-insistence would appear to be true, from the fact that while Fair6eld and Stamford were no sooner projected than possessed, Norwalk's ownership and occupancy-interval, on the contrary, covered a period of a full decade. A sort of prudence-policy led, possibly, to the town's first conception. Ludlow3 was not only far-sighted but quick-sighted. "He saw everything at a glance." It was a day of ministerial changes, and the colonists' foreign fears may have constrained to make the organization-argument as strong as possible. In addition to this, "The day before this transaction, viz : April 19, 1640, Ponus or his successors, had granted to the Dutch West India Company all the lands from Nor- walk west to the Hudson River. It should be borne in mind that the Partrick purchase extended on the west to Five Mile River, and that the Runckinheage lands lay within this purchase. Probably the terri- *Born 1622, son of James Feake, a London goldsmith and a nephew of Robert and Henry Feake, who came to New Eng- land about 16,19. ThisTobi Feake married Mrs. Daniel Partrick after her husband's sudden death. He had a sister who married Sergeant William Palmer of Yarmouth, Mass., with which sis- ter he resided at 17 years of age. The two seem to have had a lease of Lheir father's property 011 Lombard Street, London. Lieut. Robert Feake, in New England, " gentleman," arid " Ser- geant Wm. Palmer " executed attorney-power to their maternal uncle, Tobias Dixon of London, to dispose of James Feake's property in London. Of Robert Feake, uncle of Tobias, and who united with Partrick in his purchase of Greenwich, it is reL'ord^d that these rioted Stamford settlers, Rev. John Bishop, tory covered by the Partrick deed was originally the domain of Naramake »st, a predecessor of Naram- ake who signed the Partrick paper. This second Naramake returned finally, it is believed, to the Mo- hawks. 2For Ludlow character traits, see Ludlow article in Stiles' History of Windsor. Hon. Richard Law and Francis Bell, testified to his " heavenly mindedness." His wife was the widow of Henry Winthrop, a son of Gov. Winthrop, His nephew, Tobias, must have been younger than Daniel Partrick's widow, whom he married. She, says Gov. Winthrop, was " comely, a good Dutch woman." Her maiden name was Annetje Aelbreghts (Alberto) Van Beyeren, a daughter of Albert Bastieusen Van Beyeren, residing at The Hague, in Holland, where, presumably, she married Partrick, who, before coming to America, served under the command of the Prince of Nassau, in Holland. After Tobias Feake's mar- riage to the widow Partrick, he removed to Flushing, Long Island, where he became a prominent official. He subsequently entered the naval service of England and was deceased in 1669. 10 NORWALK.