Nepash, Betty
Betty Nepash was a member of the Wangunk-Tunxis communities, most likely related by birth or marriage to the 17th Century Tunxis leader Nepash of Farmington, Connecticut. It is also unclear how she is related to soldiers Joseph (c. 1746) or Daniel Nepash (1758, 1761).
It has been suggested that she is the "Young Betty" who signed the December 1732 and March 1749 Wangunk reservation deeds. From the allotment of Tunxis common land in 1777, she received the largest individual allotment of the thirty-seven lots at 10-acres.nnAs late as the 1810s, as "Old Betty", she lived in a hut on Pequin Hill or "Betty's Hill" in Portland, where she was often visited annually by other Wangunk. Known for her cooking, she would prepare meals from fish and game for the gatherings.
"The Wangunk Native Americans of Middletown," The Bridge, October 26, 2010, Ives, Wangunk Ethnohistory,57, 60. Beers, History of Middlesex County, Connecticut, 496.
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