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

Petition of Zacheus Nonesuch and Others Requesting Permission to Sell Personal Property

To the Honorable General Assembly now in session at New Haven

The undersigned, the sole members of the Niantic Tribe of Indians, respectfully request that all the personal property belonging to said tribe, excepting so much thereof as may be necessary to keep their Indian burial ground in repair, be divided among the members of said tribe according to the rule of division prescribed by the Superior Court for New London County at its January Session 1867.

Zaccheus Nonesuch

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Resolution on the Petition of Zacheus Nonesuch and Others giving the Niantic Tribe of Indians Permission to Sell Personal Property

General Assembly, May Session, A.D. 1868

Whereas all the members of the Niantic Tribe of Indians desire that the personal property belonging to said tribe shall be divided between them therefore,

Resolved by this Assembly, that Learned Hebard, Esqr. be and is hereby appointed a committee to divide said property between the members of said tribe, according to the rule of division established by the Superior Court for New London County at its January Session 1867.                                     

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Nonesuch, John, 1817 - 1870

John Nonesuch was the son of Joshua Nonesuch and Mercy Ann Sobuck, members of the Niantic community of East Lyme, Connecticut.  He married Lucy Rogers and had several children: Jenny Eliza, John B., Frederick H., Scioto, Ann E., and Rosanna.  In 1860, he was a farmer in East Lyme; however, after the sale of the Niantic reservation, the family removed to New London where Nonesuch became a saloon-keeper.
 

Petition of Zaccheus Nonesuch et. Al. of the Niantic Tribe of Indians

To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Connecticut now in session at the City of New Haven

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Connecticut General Assembly Resolve Allowing Sale of the Property of Ann Tantapan

Upon the petition of Sarah Cyrus of Lyme in the County of New London shewing that she is an English woman, and about thirty-five years ago, married Cyrus, an Indian, and son of Cob of the tribe of Indians to whom Thirty Mile Island in Haddam in Middlesex County was reserved in the original grant of said town, that she had two sons by his said husband who died whilst they were very young, that her said husband at the ti

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Petition of Sarah Cyrus

To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Connecticut Now Sitting at New Haven

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Connecticut General Assembly Resolve Granting Liberty to Guilford Selectmen to Sell Land Owned by Ann Tantapan

Upon the memorial of the Selectmen of the Town of Guilford shewing to this Assembly that said town expended a large sum in supporting Ann Tantapan, an Indian squaw, who died entitled to no estate except about two acres of land lying Thirty Miles Island near the Town of Haddam, praying for liberty to sell said land as per memorial dated May 12th 1789.

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