Indian graves have also been discovered upon a small wooded island surrounded by a swamp on the land of the late Stephen Bouton, now owned by his nephew, Joseph Webster, a short distance north-west of the road leading from Ridgefield to Bedford. In the vicinity of Aaron O. Wakeman's, quite close to the Connecticut line on the east, is a curious aboriginal relic called the " Indian well," which is above six feet deep and almost perfectly round, hollowed out from the solid granite rock either by the action of water or the tools of the Aborigines ; in this receptacle they probably cooked their food after a wholesale fashion

a Schoolcrofl'9 Oneota or the Red Rose of America, pp. 17, 18.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

as there are many large cobble stones lying around which abundantly attest the action of fire.

The "Pequot Mills," located in the woods directly west of Stephen Hoyt's residence on " Smith's Ridge," was undoubtedly a favorite resort of the Indians. Here are the remains of several ancient circular basins or mortars in which the Indian women were wont to grind their corn, salt or the stone material with which they tempered the clay for the ancient Akeek, or cooking vessel ; and here, also, about five hundred feet above tide water mark, there is a spring of pure water which is said to be perpetual. Near the " Pequot Mills" on the west side of Pudding Lane near its junction with the New Canaan road, there was once to be seen a mound of stones which covered the remains of an Indian chief. Another spot in this vicinity said to have been the scene of a terrible massacre of the Pequot Indians, in the early colonial times, is called " Mount Misery." The Asproom Mountains, in the northern part of the town, and bordering on Lake Wepuc, were favorite hunting grounds of the great sachems Catoonah and Tappornuck in the olden times; stone arrow and spear heads, axes and gouges are constantly found on the farm of Alfred S.