Mohegan

To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Connecticut to Be Holden at New Haven  on the First Wednesday of May A.D. 18501

State of Connecticut
General Assembly
May Session A.D. 1869

An act in addition to an act entitled “An Act for the protection of Indians, and the preservation of their property.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly Convened:

Tribes

Fielding, Mary Tracey, 1840 - 1919

Mary Tracey Fielding was the daughter of Francis Fielding and Rachel Hoscott of the Mohegan Tribe in Montville, Connecticut.  In 1856, she married Charles Cooper, a Mohegan mariner.  Upon his disappearance at sea, she became the wife of William Thomas Storey three years later.   The couple had ten children: William Thomas, Alice Melinda, Mary Estelle, Laura Melinda, William (2), Eva S., Harriet Slocum, Edith B., Herbert Valentine, and Delana E. Storey.

Fielding, William, 1822 - 1899

William Fielding was the son of Francis Fielding and Rachel Hoscott of the Mohegan community at Montville, Connecticut and the husband of Fidelia A. H. Smith in 1853.  He was mariner on at least two whaling voyages on the Bark Alert (1853) and the Bark Dove (1857). He was listed as a farmer in the Civil War Draft Register (1863-1864) and went back to the sea in 1864, sailing on the schooner Cornelia.  After 1870, he returned to farming.

Wyyougs, Joseph

Joseph Wyyougs was a Mohegan Indian who had rights at the Western Pequot reservation.  In 1750, he complained about encroachments there.  Fifteen years later, Ben Uncas accused him of threatening assault.   IP 2.1.12, 13, 51-58, 258. Eva L. Butler, "Some Early Indian Basket Makers of Southern New England," in Frank Speck, Eastern Algonquian Block-Stamp Decoration (Trenton, NJ: The Archeological Society of New Jersey, 1947), 43.