The great Indian settlement of this town was called "Nanichiestawack," which occupied the southern spur of "Indian Hill," sometimes called the "Indian Farm," and "Stony Point or Hill," stretching toward die north-west. There is a most romantic approach to the site of mountain fastness, by a steep, narrow, beaten track opposite the Stamford cart path, as it was formerly denominated, which followed the old Indian trail called the "Thoroughfare." There is a tradition current in the neighborhood that the south side of this hill was the scene of a bloody fight between the early settlers and the aboriginees. Mrs. Martha Holmes, an aged inhabitant of Bedford, living in 1848, remembered as far back as 1765 to have seen several mounds at the foot of this hill, a little south of the old school house, which were pointed out to her as the graves of those who fell in the conflict ; while another tradition says that a stream of blood ran down on the south side of the hill, and many bones were afterwards interred there. The truth is that a bloody fight actually took place here between a hundred and thirty Dutch troops, led by the redoubtable Capt. John Underhill (who had fought under Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, in the Low Countries), one full moonlight night in February, 1644, and a tribe of the Sinaroys Indians, on which occasion seven hundred of the latter perished amidst the flames and surroundings of " Nanichiestawack."\

It appears that "the campaign of 1644 was opened by an expedition