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with you in ye division, that you may make unto each proprietor, that is, that 

 we may be allowed a whole share when in ye division that you make of that land ; 

 and we having no hope of being quieted by our patent-right, desire we may not 

 be put out of our improvements on said land and we shall be ready to submit to 

 ye orders and determinations of your town and proprietors and be at equal share 

 of all charges that have or may arise by any disturbance that may be given to 

 you or us, in ye quiet possession and improvement of said land and in granting 

 of which you will oblige, Your very humble servants, 



William Truesdale, 

 Ridgefield, Deo. 20, 1728. Solomon Tuttle. 



To this petition the following reply was made : 



"The above application and request having been laid before the propreitors of 

 Ridgefield at a lawful meeting held in Ridgefield, Dec. 20th, 1728. After mature 

 and deliberate consideration thereof, the proprietors, by their major vote, do 

 agree to admit ye said petitioners, Mr. William Truesdale and Mr. Solomon 

 Tuttle, to an equal share and interest in any division or divisions of land that 

 shall from time to time be laid out by order of said proprietors, upon ye land 

 contained within the bounds and limits hereafter described, viz. : Beginning at 

 ye place where ye twenty mile line goes down ye west mountain (a portion of the 

 asproomhills) cross between ye pond and Stamford or Canfield's mill river, keep- 

 ing upon said mountain near ye east side continuing northerly to Tappornuck's 

 purchase running up between ye twenty mile line and Tappornuck's purchase, 

 northerly by ye long pond from thence by Tappornuck's purchase line continuing 

 by said line to ye road of our bounds and westward by said line to ye twenty 

 mile line, that is to say the said Trusdale and Tuttle, their heirs and assigns 

 shall have ye one and thirtieth part of said land as it shall fall to them by 

 division provided they give an instrument under their hands to said proprietors 

 (therewith to be recorded) to fulfil and execute every clause, condition and ar- 

 ticle hereupon named &c.« 



From all this it is apparent that although Trusdale and Tuttle had 

 obtained a patent, as they claimed, for a portion at least, of the Oblong, 

 from the Connecticut authorities, yet the proprietors of Richfield had 

 determined to enter upon and take possession of the entire "Oblong 

 Division," 6 as they termed it, in virtue of their patent in 17 14. 



A partition of the " Oblong Division" must have taken place early in 

 1729, for on the 31st of March of that year we find the Proprietors of 

 Ridgefield coveying to James Brown, one of their number one hundred 

 acres of land in the Oblong as appears by the following : 



"March 31st, 1729, at a proprietors meeting held in Ridgefield (at above date) 

 they did give and grant to James Brown, of Norwalk, and to his heirs and 



a Ridgefield Rec. vol. 7, pp.67-68. 



b At a proprietors meeting held in Ridgefield, Dec. 8th, 1729, it was agreed " that ye Oblina 

 Division go upon record in ye great book." Thomas Hawley, Register, Ridgfield, Rec. vol. T 

 p. 82. 



