was then a remote region. For many years it 

 was a well known and perhaps rather notorious 

 place, but the cabins fell to pieces long ago and 

 , trees are now growing in the cellar holes. Of 

 this settlement now contained in this forest and 

 properly marked the historian Barber says : 



"A little more than a mile south of this place 

 (Hitchcockville now Riverton) a few of the last 

 remnants of the Narragansett Indians have a 

 location, they came here about the year 1779 and 

 purchased about 200 or more acres of land. 

 Their houses or rather cabins are along side of 

 the road, there are about 20 souls that make their 

 constant residence here, though at times they 

 number as many as 30 persons." : 



The cellar holes and beds of lilies, and nearby 

 graves may still be seen. At the time of the 

 pageant dedicating this forest in 1924 a woman 

 of the neighborhood and her two children 

 attended, who showed plainly the Indian features 

 inherited from these Narragansetts. 



DISTRIBUTION OF LAND AND SURVEYS 



The beginning of distribution of land in Bark- 

 hamsted dates back to 1732. On September 7th 

 of that year the proprietors of Windsor called a 

 meeting to decide what should be done w r ith the 

 "Western Lands" so-called, of Barkhamsted, 

 then in Hartford County. The meeting was 

 adjourned until the first Monday in January, 

 1733. 



1 Connecticut Historical Collections by John Warner Barber, 

 New Haven, 1836. 



