Among the Mohegan Indians Bedford formed a portion of the sachemdom of Rippowam, which extended eighteen miles north of Stamford, on the " Manunketesuck," or Sound, also eight miles east and west of the same.

"Within this territory," we are informed, "were traces of at least four distinct clans." "On the west side, with his seat not far from where the line now separates Stamford from Greenwich, was the bold and warlike Mayaro, with his vindictive band of warriors, already experienced in the conflict, both with the savage and civilized foe. Whence they had come, or how many they might count, we shall never know."

Further to the east, with his princely residence overlooking both the bays which enclosed the finest headland of Rippowam, was WasGussue, Lord of Shippan. Not so spirited as Mayaro, he seemed to linger with a handful of his tribe, in a sort of princely repose upon the fair field which his more youthful arm had won, unwilling to leave the charming heritage, which in his sadness he saw now for the first time seriously invaded.

Still farther towards the rising sun and beyond the lovely Noroton bay, was the empire of Piamikin, whose deed of alienation makes him

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sagamore of Roatan, and whose jealous eye guarded the territory and fishing grounds, away out to the waters of the babbling Ro .valton (Five Mile River).

On the north of these sea-washed domains lay the more extended realms of Ponus. From his ancestors he had received the wooded hills and brook-washed vales that stretch far away to the north until they are lost in the forests, even among the Mohawk tribes, which even the red men did not claim -- a wild border ground between the eastern and western tribes, and he hoped to hand them all over to hie idol, Powahag, the bright-faced son of his first born Onox.