"At a town meeting held March, 1672, it was agreed that the first of April following should be taxed of all persons and young cattle and horses, unless it be such as are wrought, and that they henceforward should goe out on the first of April, and whatsoever person hath not his fence up by that time shall forfeit five shillings a rod."

"28th January, 1673, the general court ordered that the bounds between Greenwich and Rye is to be from the mouth of Byram

Rye Rec b Hart. Rec. vol. viii. p. 13.

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river, to run up the river one quarter of a mile above the great stone lying on the cross path by the said river, and from thence the sayd commons upwards, between Stamford bounds and the colony line, is to be equally divided between them by a parallel line with Stamford, and to Norwalk to the end of their bounds up in the country, &c."^

Robert Treat, ■ , , Jonathan Sellicke,

- '_ * - Peter Disbrow.

This settlement was confirmed June, 2lst, 1696, by the general court sitting in Hartford, May 8ih, 1693.

" Upon the 28th November, 16S0, the town made choice of Peter Disbrow, Hachaliah Brown, Robert Blomer, and Thomas Merritt, for to go with the Indians to view some land lying between the Blind brook and Biram river, and to make a thorow bargain with them if they shall see it best."

The result of this interview was a sale of land under the Indian sachem Marunaking, "of all that certain tract of land lying by a brook, commonly called Blind brook, which tract of land is called by the Indians Eauketaicperciisoii/' bounded as followeth :