Niantic, Western

Niantic, Western

Western Niantic Tribe

Variant Names

Nehantic, Nayantaquit, the Seaside Indians

Meaning

People of the “point of land on a tidal river” (Trumbull, Indian Place Names, 36)

Location

Between the Thames and Connecticut Rivers, mostly at the mouth of the Connecticut River, around Niantic Bay and Niantic River, and in parts of modern East Lyme and Waterford, Connecticut

Language

Algonquin. Y-dialect similar to the Pequot, Mohegan, Narragansett, and Montauk

Traditional Villages

Niantic, Old Lyme, and Oswegatchie

Inter-Tribal Affiliations

Mohegan, Wangunk, Quinnipiac

Report of the Joint Standing Committee on the Petition of Zacheus Nonesuch, et. al, for Leave to Sell Land

General Assembly, May Session A.D. 1866

The Joint Standing Committee on Sale of Lands, to whom was referred Petition Number 2 being the petition of Zaccheus Nonesuch and others for sale of lands as per petition on file, beg leave to report that they have had said petition under consideration and by agreement of the parties recommended the passage of the accompanying resolution.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

Tribes

Niantic, Western

Resolution on the Petition of Zacheus Nonesuch, et. al, for Leave to Sell Land

General Assembly, May Session 1866

Resolved by the Assembly,

Tribes

Niantic, Western

Report of the Joint Standing Committee on the Petition of Zacheus Nonesuch, et. al, for Leave to Sell Land

General Assembly, May Session, A.D. 1865

The Joint Standing Committee on the Sale of Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Zaccheus Nonesuch et. al. praying for leave to sell lands, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration, and recommend that the same be continued to the next session of the General Assembly.

All which is respectfully submitted.

Edmund Holcomb, Chairman

Tribes

Niantic, Western

Nonesuch, Mercy Ann , 1822 - 1915

Mercy Ann Nonesuch (February 12, 1822-1915) was the daughter of Joshua Nonesuch and Mercy Sobuck of the Western Niantic community in East Lyme, Connecticut. She was bound out at age seven to Mrs. Ethelinda Caulkins Griswold, the widow of Thomas Griswold of in the Giant's Neck neighborhood. Mercy Ann went to Lyme to work for several white families when she was 18. She became a member of the East Lyme Baptist church in 1841. Five years later, she married Henry Matthews on March 30, 1846.