Norwalk

Wheareas Aashowshack and Chachoamer, Indians, are the survivinge propriators of the Land lyinge on the other side of Norwake River, whith sayed Land was fullie bar- gained for, and sold unto Captaine Patricke of Greenwich, and whereas the sayed Aashow- shake and Chachoamer, doe testifie and affirme, with other Indians, that their was left unpayed by the sayed Captaine Patricke twoe Indian coates, and fowre fathom of wampam, now these are to certifie, that I Annanupp, Alias Parrott, so named and knowen to the English, have by order and Appoyntment of the Aashowshake and Chachoamer, received of Mstr. Stephen Goodier, of new Haven, marchant, the sayed two coates, and fowre fathom of wampam ; and doe by their order and in their names, hereby acquitt and discharge the sayed Mstr. Stephen Goodier, of all dues or demands or any claims to be made by us, or any Indians what soever, unto any farther thinge or things in or about the sayed purchase S s r it h it /• /■: km r. HAl l.inKII ill tl'^KI'll AMI MAIIV ic I I I K-IOShl rmim ANI* WIKK III- JIIIIN tASSllV*' (II- NUKW A I K. NORW ALK 13 of Lande made firmely by Captaine Patricke, and now hereby confirmed unto the sayed Mstr. Goodier, and his heirs, and assignes : in witness where of I the sayed Annanupp, Alias Parrott doe hereby sett my hand the first day of July, 1650. Witnesse Joshua Attwater. the marke Y^of Annanupp. Thomas Kimberlie. r the marke • of Anthitunn. V Memorandum. Their is a counterpart of the aforesayed written artickles and agree- ment and subscribed, by Nath'n EH and Rithd Olmested. The above is a curious bit of Norwalk history. Stephen Goodyear, was one of the "first principal" founders of New Haven, and one of that opulent Colony's staunch sup- porters. The purchase, however, of one-half of Hartford - acknowledged - and - belonging 'Although Mr. Goodyear himself may have had no other than an official "confirmation" connection Norwal It-wise, still the influence of the great New Haven merchant's descendants in this town, has been a power. His daughter Hannah married, Oct. 29th, 1656, Rev. Samuel, son of John Wakernan, treasurer of the New Haven Company. Rev. Samuel and Hannah (Goodyear) Wakernan had a daughter Mary, who married Michael Cluckstone of Fairfield, who had Mary, who married (3d wife) Joseph Perry, of "The Osborn House," Fairfield, who had Esther, who married John Cannon, Sr., of Norwalk. This John Cannon (" Commodore,") was the son (see will of Andrew Cannon, Jr., 1761*) of John and Jerusha (Sands) Cannon of New York. He was a brother of LeGrand Cannon, the Stratford settler, who was the ancestor of Harriet, the mother-superior of the Protestant Episcopal Sisterhood of St. Mary, New York. Mrs. John Cannon, Sr., of Norwalk, was of the fourth generation from Richard Perry, the 1649 Fairfield settler. Her grandmother was Hester, (Mrs. Nathaniel Perry) daughter of Richard Lyon, whose home embraced the well known Fairfield "Bar- low Plain." Her uncle, Samuel Cluckstone (son of Michael of Fairfield and, 1737, Norwalk Church-war- den) gave herself and husband the generous acreage, on the crest of which is now built the stone residence of Col. Frederick St. John Lockwood, in Norwalk. In the meadow fronting this home stood, until Tryon's invasion, the John and Esther Cannon house. The Cannon well, in which the family silver was secreted during the Tryon raid, is still marked, but every trace of the golden Cannon fruitage has finally disappeared. After her husband's decease, in 1796, Mrs. Cannon was faithfully attended by Miss Azubia Hitchcock, who successfully plead with Tryon for the preserv- ation of the Thomas Belden house. She died at the residence of her son Samuel, (home in 1896 of Miss Julia A. Lockwood,) and was buried in the Cannon vault in St. Paul's churchyard, her young grand- children, in memory - respect to their ancestress, wearing white at her funeral and surrounding her open grave. Mrs. Cannon's father died August 9th, I753- Her mother, after marrying, second, Captain Thomas Edwards of Stratford, died Nov. 8th, 1773, at the age of 75. Her uncle, by marriage, was Gov. John Talcott, and her great-nephew, Ebenezer Wake- man, was that " prominent civilian," the son of whom was, because of his father's standing, put at the head of his class by the Yale College faculty. (See Dex- ter's Yale Biographies, Vol. I, page 231.) Esther Perry (Mrs. John Cannon, Sr.) had a brother Michael, who married, Dec. 8, 1742, Grace, daughter of Peter Sturges of Fairfield. Michael and Grace Perry had a son David, bap. Oct. 4, 1747, who was the father of Nehemiah Perry, Sr., M. D. of Ridge- field, and grandfather of Nehemiah Perry, M.D., of that same town, who married Emily, daughter of the late Augustus Jennings of Southport, Conn. A younger nephew of Mrs. John Cannon, Sr., Sturges, born March 17, 1754, son of Michael and Grace Perry, married Sept. 18, 1779, Sarah, born Oct. 15, 1756, daughter of Ebenezer and Ruth Church of Norwalk. Sturges and Ruth Perry had a daughter Elizabeth, born in New York on Friday morning, Nov. 30, i78r, who married Richard Camp of Norwalk, and had Sarah Elizabeth (Eliza); Margaret; Esther Ann; Ruth Church and Samuel R. P. * For information us to this will, the author is under obligation to E. N. Sbeppard, genealogist, of New York City. (4 NOR W ALK Norwalk is. through Partrick default in the premises, confirmed to the distinguished New Haven representative and 1650 Deputy Governor, who, unlike Ludlow, made no after transfer whatever of the lands conveyed. It is even more curious that Partrick, the principal in the original transaction, should also have been remiss in the same particular. Xevertheless, it may here be added that as early as 1672, at least, "it was apparently Court-determined that the purchase of Capt. Partrick was included in the limits of, and rightly belonged to, the township of Norwalk." There remained, in 1651, lands and islands "adjoyninge" and adjacent to the Lud- low and Partrick purchases (within the latter evidently) which came later to be known as the "division of Rooaton and the islands." These were deeded to the Norwalk pioneers by a Sachem of southwestern Norwalk. who. uniting with several of his fellows, executed an instrument known as the DEED FROM RUNCKINGHEAGE. This Indenture made the 15th of February 165 r , Between Runckinheage, Piamikin, and Magise, and Towntom, and Winnapucke, and Magushetowes, and Concuskenow, and Wampasum, and Sasseakun, and Runckenunnett, and Pokessake, and Shoakecum, and So- anamatum, and Prodax, and Matumpun, and Cockeno-de-Long-Island, Indians, of the one Partie.and Richard Web, Nathaniel Eli, Matthews Marvin, senr., Nathaniel Richards, Isacke More, Thomas Fitch, Thomas Hales, Richard Holmsted, Richard Seamcr, Ralph Keeler, Matthew Marvcn, junior, Nathaniel Haies, Edward Church. Joseph Fitch, Planters of Nor- wake, for the use and behalfe of said Town, Witnesseth, that the said Runckinheage, and Piamikin, '&c. &c.) * * * * Have, and in and for the consideration of Thirtie Fathum of Wampum, Tenn Kettles, Fifteen Coates, Tcnn payr Stockings, Tenn Knifes, Tenn Hookes, Twenty Pipes, Tenn Muckes, Tenn needles, to them in hand paid, Have, and Every of them, for themselves and their heyers. Granted, Bargained, Sold, assigned, Enfeoffed, and con- firmed ; and by these Presents doth Bargain, grant, sell, enfeoffs, assignc, sett over, and confirme, unto the said Richard Web, (&c. &c.) * * * all their lands called and known by the name of Runckinheage, Rooaton, or by whatsoever name or names the same is called or known, Lying and bounded on the East upon y land purchased of Captain Patriarke, so called, on the West bounded with the Brook called Pampaskeshanke, which said Brook and passage, the Bounds West, Extendeth up into the Country by marked Trees ; and so far as the said Runckinheage, and the rest above mentioned, hath any Right and proprietie ; and the aforesaid Land bounded with the Brook called as afore- said Pampaskeshanke, from the aforesaid passage and path down along to the Sea. And the aforesaid Land bounded on the South with the Sea ; and on the North the Moehakes Country ; with all the islands, Trees, pastures, mcadinge, water, water courses, Rights, members, and Appurtenances whatsoever, To HAVE AND TO HOLD, and quietly and peaceably injoy, all the aforesaid lands, &c. * * * unto the aforesaid Richard Web, &c. * * * and to their heyers forever. And the aforesaid Runckinheage and Piamikin, and Magise, and Townetom, Winnepucke, Magushetowes, Conkuskenow, Wampasum, Sassea- XORWALK. 15 kun, Runckenunnutt, Pokessake, Shoakecum, Soanamatum, Prodax, Matumpun, Cockenoe- de-Longe-Island, Do by these presents, acknowledge to have received the aforesaid Thirtie fathum of Wampum, &c. * * * in full satisfaction. In witness whereof the above said parties have for themselves, and every of them, sett to their hands, the day and year above written to this present Indenture. Signed and delivered in the presence of Stephen- Beckwith, Samiell Lcmes, Samuel Ely. his Runckin heage, marke. Piamikin Conkus kenoe, If, Sasse O a kum, mark. his Warn passum, mark. Sassa kun, mark. Recorded February y° 24th, 1708-9. Rune ' his Magi marke. his Winna "'7 pucke, mark, his Towne Tom, mark. Pro his mark. his Pokassake, kemunutt. Pr. John Copp, Recordr. The " Courte " action of June 26, 1650, (see page 12) was succeeded by the decree bearing date September n, 1651, and running : — i6 NORWALK "ORDERED, That Norwauke shall bee a Tonne, and that they provide an inhabi- tant, according to order, who shall seasonably be tendered to take the oath of a Con- stable." On the 6th day of the next month the demand came from Hartford that " Norwaack shall bee rated this p'sent yeare in • • • proporcon, according to the rule of rating in the Gauntry, for ■ ■ • cattle, and other visible estate, and that Norwaack shall present to Mr. Ludlow • • ■ one inhabitant to bee su orne Constable."