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Vital Records of Stamford, Connecticut
Births - Deaths - Marriages
Order item B162
Order item B162.1
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installation instructions are included on the disk. Stamford, Connecticut Lincolnshire furnished more than eighty percent of the
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The original name of Stamford was Rippowam, that's what the
original inhabitants called it and the first European settlers continued the
tradition. The name was later changed to Stamford after a town in Lincolnshire,
England. What does the word Stamford mean? In old English Stamford means stony
ford, and why was the town named for a community in Lincolnshire?
Anglo-Saxons are great believers in established titles. They
have always been anxious to set up records of their transfers of land. Possessed
of this instinct the New England settlers usually began their settlements with
the purchase from the original occupants. The native inhabitants had no concept
of private land ownership. It never occurred to them that people would put up
fences, record deeds, and presume that the land belonged to them in perpetuity.
On the first of July 1640 one Capt. Turner for the New Haven
colony signed a parchment that is considered the deed to Stamford. Signing for
the native inhabitants was Chief Ponus, in return for a tract of land that
extended from the Mianus River on the west to Bedford and Pound Ridge on the
North, Five Mile River on the East and Long Island Sound on the South. Payment
for this land was to be twelve coats, twelve hoes, twelve hatchets, twelve
glasses, twelve knives, four kettles, and four fathoms of white wampum.
Ponus appears to have been the overlord of the entire region.
But it wasn't just Ponus who made the deal. Four family groups dwelt on the land
and they all agreed to the terms of the land purchase. It is however very
doubtful that they fully understood the terms of the deed that they were
signing. This deed was renegotiated a number of times and it wasn't until 1700
that Catoona and Coee, who are believed to be lineal descendants of Ponus and
his family, confirmed all previous grants of territory to the settlers for
considerable and valuable sums of money.
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