Committee Report on the Distribution of Tunxis Land into Lots

Whereas we, the subscribers, were appointed by the Honorable General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the State of Connecticut at their sessions at Hartford in May A.D. 1777 a committee to make a just and equitable distribution and division of the lands lying said Farmington belonging to the Tunxis Tribe of Indians and in which said tribe have an interest in common, having respect to expenses paid by individuals, which ought to have been defrayed by the tribe at large to each proprietor in said tribe and to make their report, etc.
 
Whereupon, we began with the grant on the west side of Pequabuck Meadow, containing two hundred acres belonging to said tribe and laid the same into three tiers of lots and began at the north end of westermost tier as followeth, viz.
 
                                                      
 
Acres
Roods
Rods
1 Lot
5
2
35
2 Lot
5
2
35
3 Lot
5
2
35
4 Lot
5
2
35
5 Lot
5
2
35
6 Lot
5
2
35
7 Lot
4
3
33
8 Lot
4
3
33
9 Lot
4
3
33
10 Lot
4
3
33
Part of the 11 lot
1
1
20
 
In the Second Tier
 
 
 
Acres
Roods
Rods
Part of the 11 lot
 James Cronnick   
2
2
16
12 Lot
4
1
16
13 Lot
4
1
16
14 Lot
4
1
16
15 Lot

Lois Curricomp

 4
1
18
16 Lot
4
1
11
17 Lot
4
1
21
18 Lot
 Solomon Mossuck
4
3
29
19 Lot
4
0
0
20 Lot
5
0
0
21 Lot
4
3
20
22 & 23 Lots
 Ruth Robins and
 
 
 
 
 Hannah Robins, undivided  
9
3
0
24 Lot
5
3
6
25 Lot
5
3
22
26 Lot
5
3
25
27 Lot
5
1
14
28 Lot
5
3
3
 
 
The Third Tier
 
 
 
Acres
Roods
Rods
29 Lot
5
3
0
30 Lot
5
3
0
31 Lot
6
0
0
32 Lot
7
0
0
33 Lot
5
2
40
34 Lot
6
0
0
35 Lot
6
0
0
36 Lot
7
2
0
37 Lot
10
0
0
 
 
Lands in Farmington, purchased by Colonel John Strong and Deacon Bishop1 at New Haven for the Indians called the East Haven Proprietors, distributed as follows (viz.):  Twenty-one acres in the 49th lot in the Northwest Division
 
                                                       
 
Acres
Roods
Rods
1 Lot
 Samuel Adams
4
0
32
2 Lot
4
0
32
3 Lot
4
0
32
4 Lot
4
0
32
5 Lot
4
0
32
 
Land at a place called Fort Hill, five acres & 3 rood twenty rods
 
    Acres Roods Rods
  To John Adams, South Side 1 3 33
  To Sarah Deliverance, a dowable right 3 3 26
 
 
Lands purchased by the committee appointed by the General Assembly to lay out the money received for the Indian Neck land, viz., twenty-one acres in the 49th lot in the Northwest Division South Side and the whole of the 50th lot in said division, containing nineteen acres and half and sixteen rods, distributed to the Indians called the Indian Neck Proprietors as follows (viz.)
 
                                                     
 
Acres
Roods
Rods
1 Lot
 Solomon Mossuck
2
1
0
2 Lot
 Eunice Mossuck 
2
1
13
3 Lot
 Ruth Adams  
1
3
3
4 Lot
 Abigail Curricomp 
1
3
3
5 Lot
 Solomon Adams  
1
3
3
6 Lot
 Ruth & Hannah Robbins
1
3
3
7 Lot
 James Wawowos 
2
3
3
8 Lot
 Thomas Curricomp 
1
3
3
9 Lot
 Abigail Shilling
1
3
3
10 Lot
 Abigail Sanchuse 
1
3
33
11 Lot
 Sarah Adams  
1
3
35
12 Lot
 Katherine Quichick 
2
1
3
13 Lot
 Andrew Curricomp 
2
1
3
14 Lot
 Charles Wampey   
2
2
3
15 Lot
 James Cronnick 
3
2
3
16 Lot
 Hannah Robbins  
2
2
0
17 Lot
 Sarah Wampey   
2
2
20
 
Elijah Wampey, Samuel Adams, and John Adams, called proprietors of said Indian Neck lands, have money in their hand more than equal to their whole rights, so have none distributed to them.
 
 
Legislative Action:
The foregoing is accepted and approved and ordered to be recorded in the Secretary’s Office in this State and also in the Town Clerk’s Office in said Town of Farmington at the expense of the memorialists.  Test, Andrew Adams, Clerk / Concurred in the Upper House.  Test, George Wyllys, Secretary
Cataloguing:
199 a / 199 b
 
 
  • 1. Samuel Bishop
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