" Upon the petition of the people of the Hop ground, this court doth grant them the privilege of a plantation and do order that the name of the town be henceforth called Bedford, and this court doe appoint Joseph Theall to be the present chief military officer for the train band of Bedford, and Abraham Ambler is also empowered by this court to grant warrants, to swear officers and witnesses, and to joyne persons in marriage according to law, and they doe free the sayd towne of Bedford from county rates, for the space of three years next ensuing. 6

In 1683, Catoonah Sagamore and other Indians, convey to the proprietors of Bedford the land and meadow of Kohamong, lying Southwest of the " Hop ground."

INDIAN DEED.

Witness these present that we Katoonah, Saggarnore and Papiag his son Tadaquid, Queranoy and Chickhoag, we proprietors of the land and middow at Koamong have for ourselves and for the rest of ye Indians which are proprietors of the said land and middow at Koamong Commonly so-called have sold and by these presents doe sell, alienate, assign and set over from us and every one of us, and in the name and behalf of the rest of the proprietors of ye land and middow at Koamong and all our heirs executors, administrators and assigns forever unto the proprietors of the town of Bedford, in the colony of

•Address of Joseph Barrett, July 4, 1876. Copied from the Recorder, Katonah, July Ttn. b. Cour. Col. Kec. Hartford vol. ill., fol. 131--134.