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. But the old patriarch of his wasting tribe, saw his warriors fade and perish as if touched with the power of his own decay, and he yielded gracefully to the stern necessity. He lived, as we shall see presently, to sign with his own hand the deed which forever alienated from himself and heirs, "all the uplands, meadows, and grass, with the rivers, and trees," that had once been his rejoicing and his pride.*

Upon the ist of July, 1640, Nathaniel Turner, agent, in behalf of the people of Quinipiacke (New Haven), "bought of Ponus, sagamore of Toquams, and of Wascussue, sagamore of Shippan (the other Indians consenting thereto), all the ground belonging to the said sagamores, except a piece of ground which Ponus reserved for himself and the other Indians to plant upon." This purchase embraced all the land sixteen miles north of the Sound. The Indian name of the tract was Rippowams.f

"The consideration was twelve coats, twelve hoes, twelve hatchets, •twelve glasses, twelve knives, two kettles, and five fathoms of white wampum." The liberty of hunting and fishing on the land was reserved by the Indians.^ The above sale was confirmed to the inhabitants of Stamford on the nth of August, 1655, by Ponus, and Onox his eldest son: "extending sixteen miles north of the town plot of Stamford and two miles still further north for the pasture of their cattle ; also eight miles east and west, (the same as paid for before); and as a further recompense, four coats of English cloth was given them.j This grant, which embraced nearly the whole township of Bedford, "was offered by the New Haven Colony (the same year) to a company of dissatisfied men at Weathersfield, Conn., who, looking about for a new home; but