Trime, " in a southeasterly direction, is a granite rock, imbedded in the ground, on the upper surface of which is the apparent impress of a human foot. The figure is as perfect and distinct as would follow from the pressure of the left foot upon some cohesive substance, except being deficient in a toe ; a deficiency no.t at first sight apparent, and discernable only by inspection. No artist could have chiselled a more perfect resemblance. The impression is still fresh, and without the least appearance of injury from time. There are two other tracks less perfect and distinct. The one in the Indian field, and the other west of Fort Pond. The heel of the foot is towards the east in all of them, as though formed in passing to the west. Excepting that they are the footsteps of the evil spirit, no record or tradition pretends to give their story. They existed at the first settlement by the whites, and were a subject of pawwa to the Indians."*1 Perhaps they are in some way mysteriously connected with " Satan's toe " and the " stepping stones " off Throckmorton's Neck, by which the evil spirit made good his retreat when worsted by the Mohegans, or enchanted Wolf tribe of Indians, during some unknown period of the stone age.

Within a short distance of the village was situated the estate of the late Col. John R. Hayward, Esq., who in 1846 represented this county in Assembly. His son is the present Robert Hayward, of Rye. Col. Hayward purchased the property of the executors of the late Richard ohute. In 167 1 James Eustice and others were appointed to layout land for Richard Shute (ancestor of the before-mentioned Richard), near Rattlesnake Creek.