THE TOWN OF POUNDRIDGE. IO5 



sented themselves with others at Fort Amsterdam, April 6th, 1644.* In 

 1655, occurs the following agreement between the inhabitants of Stam- 

 ford and the Indian Sachem Ponus, &c. : — 



"Our agreement made with Ponus, Sagamore of Toquams, and with Onox, his 

 eldest son. Although there was an agreement made before with the said Indians 

 and Captain Turner, and the purchases paid for, yet the things not being clear, 

 and being very unsatisfied, we come to another agreement with Onox and Ponus 

 for their land from the town plot of Stamford north about sixteen miles, and 

 then to a marked white oak tree with ST, and from that tree we went towards 

 the Mill river side, we marked another white oak tree with ST, and from that tree 

 west we were to run four miles eastward, and from this east and west line we were 

 to have further to the north, for our cattle to feed, full two miles further, the full 

 breadth only, the said Indians reserve for themselves liberty for their planting 

 ground, and the above said Indians, Ponus and Onox, with all other Indians that 

 be concerned in it, have surrendered all the said land, &c, for and in consideration 

 hereof, the said town of Stamford is to give the said Indians four coats which the 

 Indians accept of as full satisfaction for the aforesaid lands although it was paid 

 before. Hereby all Ponus's posterity is cut off from making any claim or hav- 

 ing any right to any part of the aforesaid land, «fcc, the said Ponus and Onox his 

 son, having this day received of Richard Lane, four coats, acknowledging them- 

 selves fully satisfied for the aforesaid land. 



Witness the said Indians hands this fifteenth day of August, A.D. 1655. 

 Witness William Newman, Ponus j^ his mark, 



Richard Lewis. Onox o his mark." 



Upon the 7th of January, 1667, Taphance, son of Ponus, and Pow- 

 hag or Pinaghag, son of Onox, confirmed to the people of Stamford the 

 agreement of 1655. By these sales Poundridge became a part of Stam- 

 ford township, within Fairfield county. 



On the 26th of May, 1685, the General Court of Connecticut, issued 

 the following patent to the inhabitants of Stamford, embracing all those 

 lands. 



' ' Bounded on the south west by ye five mile brook, between Stamford afore- 

 said and Norwalk, from the mouth of the said brook, till it meet with the cross- 

 path, that is, where the county road crosses the said river, and from thence to 

 run up into ye country till twelve miles be run out upon the same line, that is be- 

 tween Stamford and Fairfield, and upon the west, to Totomak brook, where the 

 lowermost path or road that now is to Greenwich, east by ye said brook, and 

 from thence to run in a straight line to the west end of a line drawn from the falls 

 of Stamford mill river, which line is to run a due west point towards Greenwich 

 bounds, a short mile, and from the west end at the said fine, to run due north, to 



a The Wappinga were probably engaged "in the great battle fought between the Dutch and 

 Indiana in that part of Uorseneck called Strickland's plain, now included in the town of 

 Greenwich, Connecticut." O'Callahan s Hint. N. N., 302. 



